The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century

8vo (24.5 cm), xxi, 203 pp., 160 plates. Publisher's laminated wrappers (minor shelf wear). Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 9. Widely regarded as the standard modern reference on Gothic book scripts, and the first comprehensive synthesis of all Gothic book hands employed in Western and Central Europe from the twelfth to the early sixteenth century (excluding Humanistic script). Written by the distinguished Belgian palaeographer Albert Derolez (b. 1938), long associated with the manuscript collections of the Ghent University Library and internationally recognized for his contributions to codicology, manuscript studies, and the history of libraries, the work fills a major gap in palaeographical scholarship by establishing a new and more objective classification of Gothic scripts, substantially revising and expanding the influential Lieftinck system. Drawing upon an exceptionally large corpus of securely dated manuscripts--particularly the evidence assembled in the Catalogues of Dated Manuscripts--Derolez provides a systematic survey of the evolution and regional varieties of Gothic script between c.1100 and c.1530. The ten chapters examine the medieval manuscript book; the Carolingian heritage; Praegothica; Northern Textualis; Southern Textualis and Semitextualis (with separate treatment of Italy, Iberia, southern France, and other regions); cursive scripts in general; Cursiva Antiquior, including Anglicana; Cursiva; Hybrida and Semihybrida; and Gothico-Antiqua together with scripts falling outside the expanded Lieftinck framework. An extensive appendix discusses majuscule forms, punctuation, abbreviations, special signs, and orthographical practices. Richly illustrated with 160 plates, and supplemented by bibliography, indexes of manuscripts, and a general index, the volume has been praised as both an authoritative reference work and an exceptionally practical training manual for the identification and classification of medieval scripts. It remains an indispensable resource for palaeographers, codicologists, manuscript cataloguers, medieval historians, and scholars of the book.…