IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 233: Challenging Manuscript Boundaries, I: Re-Centring the Edges of Manuscript Production
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Johanna Green, Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute, University of Glasgow |
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Moderator/Chair: | Colleen Curran, Faculty of English Literature & Language, University of Oxford |
Paper 233-a | Just the Knife Tip: Pricks and Pricking in Lombard Law-Books in the 10th and 11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 233-b | Reading between the Lines: Overlapping Prick Marks in Two Quires of University of Glasgow Special Collections, MS Hunter 96 (T.4.13) (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Technology |
Paper 233-c | Points of Law: Pricking in Statuta Angliae Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | Pricking of the parchment during quire production forms an integral part of preparing the page for writing, guiding the position of the ruling lines laying out the page. Such pricks can appear marginal in many ways, literally appearing at the edge of the page, and, as small holes may be concealed amongst the grain and marginal textures of erratic parchment edges. Analysis of pricks and pricking strategies reveal the fundamentals of manuscript production, selection of materials, and adaption to irregularities and the unexpected. Pricks in the page's border reveal the knife's edge - or point! - between re-writing and materials. |