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LEADER: 02546nam a22003258a 4500
001 2009031402
003 DLC
005 20090811103432.0
008 090729s2009 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2009031402
020 $a9780521888479 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $ae-it---
050 00 $aPQ4075$b.R53 2009
082 00 $a850.9/003$222
100 1 $aRichardson, Brian$q(Brian F.)
245 10 $aManuscript culture in Renaissance Italy /$cBrian Richardson.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2009.
263 $a0910
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"Even after the arrival of printing in the fifteenth century, texts continued to be circulated within Italian society by means of manuscript. Scribal culture offered rapidity, flexibility and a sense of private, privileged communication. This is the first detailed treatment of the continuing use of scribal transmission in Renaissance Italy. Brian Richardson explores the uses of scribal culture within specific literary genres, its methods and its audiences. He also places it within the wider system of textual communication and of self-presentation, examining the relationships between manuscript and print and between manuscript and the spoken or sung performance of verse. An important contribution to a lively area of the history of the book, this study will be of interest both for the abundance of new material on the circulation of texts in Italy and as a model for how to study the cultures of manuscript and print in early modern Europe"--Provided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Preface; 1. The contexts and characteristics of manuscript circulation; 2. Handwriting and the work of copyists; 3. The manuscript circulation of lyric and burlesque poetry; 4. The manuscript circulation of prose; 5. Authors and their readers: dedications and other paratexts; 6. Orality, manuscript and the circulation of verse; Conclusion; Index of manuscripts; Bibliography; General index.
650 0 $aItalian literature$y15th century$xCriticism, Textual.
650 0 $aItalian literature$y16th century$xCriticism, Textual.
650 0 $aTransmission of texts$zItaly$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aTransmission of texts$zItaly$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0 $aManuscripts, Renaissance$zItaly.
650 0 $aAuthors and readers$zItaly$xHistory$y15th century.
650 0 $aAuthors and readers$zItaly$xHistory$y16th century.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/88479/cover/9780521888479.jpg