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Title

Reading and shaping medieval cartularies : multi-scribe manuscripts and their patterns of growth : a study of the earliest cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindores Abbey / Joanna Tucker.

Author

Tucker, Joanna, 1990-

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, 2020.

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Description

xiv, 315 pages : illustrations, plates (colour), facsimiles (colour); 25 cm.

Summary

"Medieval cartularies are one of the most significant sources for a historian of the Middle Ages. Once viewed as simply repositories of charters, cartularies are now regarded as carefully curated collections of texts whose contents and arrangement reflect the immediate concerns and archival environment of the communities that created them. One feature of the cartulary in particular that has not been studied so fully is its materiality: the fact that it is a manuscript. Consequently, it has not been recognised that many cartularies are multi-scribe manuscripts which 'grew' for many decades after their initial creation, both physically and textually. This book offers a new methodology which engages with multi-scribe contributions in two cartulary manuscripts: the oldest cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindores Abbey. It integrates the physical and textual features of the manuscripts in order to analyse how and why they grew in stages across time. Applying this methodology reveals two communities that took an active approach to reading and shaping their cartularies, treating these manuscripts as a shared space. This raises fundamental questions about the definition of cartularies and how they functioned, their relationship to archives of single-sheet documents, and as sources for institutional identity. It therefore takes a fresh look at the 'genre' of medieval cartularies through the eyes of the manuscripts themselves, and what this can reveal about their medieval scribes and readers."--

Series Statement

Studies in Celtic history, 0261-9865 ; XLI

Uniform Title

Studies in Celtic history ; 41.

Subject

• Glasgow Cathedral (Glasgow, Scotland)
• Lindores Abbey (Lindores, Scotland)
• Cartularies
• Paleography, Latin
• Scribes > Scotland
• Diplomatics, Latin > Scotland > Glasgow
• Manuscripts, Medieval > Scotland > Glasgow
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Codicology
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Note

• A critical study of the Registrum vetus of Glasgow Cathedral and of the cartularies of Lindores Abbey.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Cartulary studies -- Analysing a multi-scribe cartulary -- The creation and growth of the Glasgow RV -- The creation and growth of Lindores Caprington -- Understanding the patterns of growth in multi-scribe cartularies -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Contents of the two cartularies by 'series'.

Call Number

JFE 21-2504

ISBN

• 9781783274789
• 1783274786

LCCN

2020288466

OCLC

1142944057

Author

Tucker, Joanna, 1990- author.

Title

Reading and shaping medieval cartularies : multi-scribe manuscripts and their patterns of growth : a study of the earliest cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindores Abbey / Joanna Tucker.

Publisher

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in Celtic history, 0261-9865 ; XLI

Studies in Celtic history ; 41.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 21-2504