IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1103: Margins: From Manuscript to the Early Printed Book
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Judith Kogel, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Marlène Helias, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris |
| Paper 1103-a | Libri rationum in the Margins of Books of Hours (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Social History |
| Paper 1103-b | On the Margins of the Popes: Notes, Glosses, and Marginalia in the Manuscripts of the Roman Liber Pontificalis, 8th-11th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1103-c | Margins in the Livre Velu of Libourne: Memory and Identity of Both a Community and a Family (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Genealogy and Prosopography |
| Paper 1103-d | The Use of Margins in the Giustiniani Edition of the Sefer Ha-Shorashim (Venice, 1547) (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Semitic, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Printing History |
| Abstract | Marginal annotations are at the crossroads between the text and its reception. The study of marginalia also concerns the material aspect of the book and comparative analysis of books from all geographical and cultural areas. The spaces left empty around the text become a receptacle for notes, drawings, and scholia that participate in its history. Whether we are considering manuscripts or printed books, or texts ranging from practical writings to liturgical books, including scientific and legal texts, these additions, contemporary or later ones, tell us how a book was used and who used it. They can be analysed in such a way as to give an account of editorial practices (headings, headlines, references, iconography), reading practices and the use of transmitted texts (annotations, glosses, comments), but they also include adventitious additions (mentions of names, lists of books, accounts). Among the issues to be addressed are the function and the utility of the margins, the various system of indexing, the use of the marginalia in teaching or preaching contexts, the status of the annotator, and the relationship - linguistic or explanatory - between the marginal additions and the text. |