IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 241: Reading the Medieval and Early Modern Codex: Scribes, Readers, and Book Producers in Action, II
Monday 6 July 2026, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | Mainzer Buchwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz / Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) / Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
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| Organiser: | Ad Putter, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
| Moderator/Chair: | Janne van der Loop, Abteilung Buchwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Paper 241-a | Mirror, Mirror on the Manuscript: Trinity College Dublin, MS 103 (Language: English) Index terms: Bibliography, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | For the study of the history of book production and the history of reading practices in the later Middle Ages and the sixteenth century, we must learn to read the clues that books from this period themselves can offer us. In this three-session strand, the speakers teach us how to analyse the traces left by the earliest owners and readers of books, and they explore the choices that book producers made regarding mise-en-page, illustration, and other aspects of book design. Session I examines the evidence left by the earliest readers of late medieval books; session II explores how owners of early books ‘personalised’ their books and made them expressive of their own interests and concerns; session III examines how conventions and technologies of book design and compilation changed in the new age of printing. |