IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 803: Materiality of Manuscripts, IV: Boundaries

Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00

Organisers:	Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet N Yavuz, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet
Moderator/Chair:	Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America, Massachusetts
Paper 803-a	Points of Law: Pricking in Statuta Angliae Manuscripts (Language: English) Stephanie Jane Lahey, Department of English, University of Victoria, British Columbia Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 803-b	'Above Top Line' to 'Below Top Line' in Manuscripts from the German-Speaking Lands (Language: English) Matthew L. Holford, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Index terms: Bibliography, Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 803-c	Associative Ordering: Borders and Connections in Late Medieval Miscellanies (Language: English) Lucie Doležalová, Faculty of Humanities Index terms: Bibliography, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	The last of the sessions on the materiality of manuscripts is devoted to the production of borders in medieval manuscripts. Lahey examines prick marks across the Statuta Angliae corpus from c. 1280 - c. 1480 with an eye to what feature consistency and variability might reveal about both production of legal manuscripts and methods of pricking in para-professional contexts. Holford focuses on a fundamental, but still little-studied change in the layout of the written page by charting the shift to writing 'below top line' in manuscripts from the German-speaking lands. Doležalová explores the manuscript transmission of brief texts (e.g., verses, notes, comments) from late medieval Bohemia and discusses the often vague borders between individual texts.