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Material restoration : a fragment from eleventh-century Echternach in a nineteenth-century Parisian codex
- Title
- Material restoration : a fragment from eleventh-century Echternach in a nineteenth-century Parisian codex / by Carmela Vircillo Franklin.
- Author
- Franklin, Carmela Vircillo.
- Publication
- Turnhout : Brepols, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | Z6620.L9 F73 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 242 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map, music; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Cursor Mundi is a publication series of inter and multidisciplinary studies of the medieval and early modern world, viewed broadly as the period between late antiquity and the Enlightenment. Like its companion, the journal Viator, Cursor Mundi brings together outstanding work by medieval and early modern scholars from a wide range of disciplines, emphasizing studies which focus on processes such as cultural exchange or the course of an idea through the centuries, and including investigations beyond the traditional boundaries of Europe and the Mediterranean.
- Material Restoration follows the journey of a parchment bifolium, which was first used in the binding of a manuscript produced in Echternach around the year 1000, and then removed from its original container-codex after it was appropriated by the French during the Napoleonic wars. By tracing the creation, interpretations, and migratory life of the parchment until its eventual incorporation within a nineteenth-century codex, this analysis presents the bifolium as an illustration of ̀new philology', and as an essential material and cultural element of the different codices that contained it. Material Restoration also analyses the texts inscribed on the bifolium, which include a charter, two poems, and verbal and musical glosses. By considering these texts within the context of the networks that produced and used them, the book offers an intriguing insight into the monastic and literary communities of eleventh-century Echternach. Material Restoration is a riveting and satisfying scholarly detective story that combines both erudition and new discoveries, and adheres to the standards of both classical and new philology. --Book Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Cursor mundi ; v. 7
- Uniform Title
- Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 7.
- Subject
- Kloster Echternach (Echternach, Luxembourg)
- 1800-1899
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Luxembourg > Echternach
- Scriptoria > Luxembourg > Echternach > History > Sources
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Conservation and restoration > History > France > Paris > 19th century
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Scriptoria
- Latijnse handschriften
- Restauratie
- France > Paris
- Luxembourg > Echternach
- Echternach
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-236) and indexes.
- Contents
- The modern age. The fragmentation of modern scholarship ; Dispersal and restoration in the nineteenth century -- The beginnings (900-1000). The charter ; The poems and the glosses : edition and translation -- Salue abba mitissime : two kinds of spiritual food -- O sacrata dies : poetry as lectio divina -- The glosses -- Habent sua fata libelli.
- ISBN
- 9782503529097
- 2503529097
- OCLC
- ocn656596765
- 656596765
- SCSB-9069184
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library