Used books marking readers in Renaissance England /
From the Publisher: In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an...
| Основен автор: | Sherman, William H. |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008.
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| Серия: |
Material texts
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Съдържание:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Part 1: Of Marks And Methods
- 1: Introduction: Used books
- 2: Toward a history of the manicule
- 3: Reading the matriarchive
- Part 2: Reading And Religion
- 4: Book thus put in every vulgar hand: marking the Bible
- 5: Uncommon book of common prayer
- Part 3: Remarkable Readers
- 6: John Dee's Columbian encounter
- 7: Sir Julius Caesar's search engine
- Part 4: Renaissance Readers And Modern Collectors
- 8: Dirty books? attitudes toward readers' marks
- Afterword: Future of past readers
- List of abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.