Recent Books

Abstract

The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages: Practices of Reading and Writing. Ed. By Mariken Teeuwen and Irene van Renswoude. (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 38.) Turnhout: Brepols. 2018. xii + 783 pp. €140. isbn 978 2 503 56948 2. A collection of essays exploring annotation and scholarly practice in early medieval manuscripts. Includes: Mariken Teeuwen, ‘Voices from the Edge: Annotating Books in the Carolingian Period’; Evina Steinová, ‘Technical Signs in Early Medieval Manuscripts Copied in Irish Minuscule’; Giorgia Vocino, ‘A Peregrinus’s Vade Mecum: MS Bern 363 and the “Circle of Sedulius Scottus”’; Warren Pezé, ‘The Making of the De praedestinatione of Ratramnus of Corbie (Including the Identification of a New Personal Manuscript)’; Giacomo Vignodelli, ‘The Making of a Tenth-Century Self-Commentary: The Glosses to Atto of Vercelli's Perpendiculum and their Sources’; Franck Cinato, ‘The Earliest Anonymous Exposition of Priscian: Two Manuscripts and their Glosses’; Markus Schiegg, ‘Source Marks in Scholia: Evidence from an Early Medieval Gospel Manuscript’; Martin Hellamann, ‘Tironische Tituli: Die Verwendung stenographischer Marginalien zur inhaltlichen Erschließung von Texten des frühen Mittelalters’; Andreas Nievergelt, ‘Glossen aus einem einzigen Buchstaben’; Justin Stover, ‘Space as Paratext: Scribal Practice in the Medieval Edition of Ammianus Marcellinus’; Erik Kwakkel, ‘The Margin as Editorial Space: Upgrading Dioscorides alphabeticus in Eleventh-Century Monte Cassino’; Alberto Cevolini, ‘Making notae for Scholarly Retrieval: A Franciscan Case Study’; Sinéad O’Sullivan, ‘Reading and the Lemma in Early Medieval Textual Culture’; Silvia Ottaviano, ‘Reading between the Lines of Virgil's Early Medieval Manuscripts’; Anna Grotans, ‘Notker Labeo's Translation / Commentaries: Changing Form and Function over Time’; Ad Van Els, ‘Transmitting Knowledge by Text and Illustration: The Case of MS Leiden, UB, VLO 15’; Micol Long, ‘Monastic Practices of Shared Reading as Means of Learning’; Paulina Taraskin, ‘Reading Horace alongside Other Classics: MS British Library, Harley 2724’; Irene van Renswoude, ‘The Censor's Rod: Textual Criticism, Judgment, and Canon Formation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’; Luciana Cuppo, ‘Text and Context: The Annotations in MS Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare XXII (20)’; Janneke Raaijmakers, ‘Studying Jerome in a Carolingian Monastery’; Pierre Chambert-Protat, ‘Deux témoins d’Ambroise sur le Psaume 118 et leur ancêtre’; Jesse Keshiaho, ‘The Annotation of Patristic Texts as Curatorial Activity? The Case of Marginalia to Augustine's De Genesi ad litteram in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages’; Cinzia Grifoni, ‘Reading the Catholic Epistles: Glossing Practices in Early Medieval Wissembourg’; Patrizia Carmassi, ‘Theological Issues and Traces of Controversies in Manuscripts Transmitting Works of the Church Fathers’; David Ganz, ‘Epilogue. The Search for Glossed Clauses: An Autobiographical Account of a Corbie Study’.