Trends in statistical codicology /

Trends in statistical codicology / edited by Marilena Maniaci. - 1 online resource (ix, 770 pages) : illustrations, charts, facsimiles, maps. - Studies in manuscript cultures, volume 19 2365-9696 ; . - Studies in manuscript cultures ; v. 19. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Statistical codicology. Principles, directions, perspectives / Forms and typologies. The structure of Atlantic bibles / The miniaturisation of Bible manuscripts in the 13th century: a comparative study / Making a count of hagiographic books. Quantitative aspects of the production and dissemination of Latin hagiographic literature (2nd-15th centuries) / Materials and tools. Parchment in Byzantine manuscripts of the 11th and 12th centuries: characteristics and use / Watermarks galore. Observations on the number and homogeneity of papers used in manuscripts and incunabula / An experiment in dating documents through the analysis of watermarks: The letter 'P' in incunabula of the low countries / Quiring in manuscripts of the late Middle Ages / The art of not quartering skins: techniques employed for the subdivision of bifolia in Byzantine manuscripts / The arithmetic properties of lineation in humanistic manuscripts / The 'Non-unitary' Greek codex: typologies and terminology / The third dimension of the book: codicological aspects of multi-textuality / Layout and text formatting. Canons and 'recipes' for the layout of the medieval book: new observations and verifications / Divergences between the East and the West in the construction and management of the written space: general principles and specific solutions / A medieval puzzle. The 'architecture' of the page in manuscripts and incunabula of the Codex justinianus / Words within words: layout strategies in some glossed manuscrips of the Iliad / At the end of the line: text continuity and the division of words in Byzantine manuscripts / Scripts and scribes. The rhythm of the scribe: a serial analysis of the density of writing in the gospels of Henry the lion / The scribe's gesture and its 'Shadow': an essay on the 'Modular ration' of scripts / Quantitative codicology and scientific paradigms. A typology of Latin formulae in the colophons of Western manuscripts / Concerning the (re)discovery of French Scriptoria: the contribution of the 'Catalogue of dated manuscripts' / Marilena Maniaci -- Marilena Maniaci ; Chiara Ruzzier ; Michel Trigalet -- Marilena Maniaci ; Ezio Ornato ; Ezio Ornato -- Paola Busonero ; Marilena Maniaci ; Denis Muzerelle ; Marilena Maniaci ; Denis Muzerelle and Ezio Ornato -- Marilena Maniaci ; Marilena Maniaci ; Luciana Devoti ; Marilena Maniaci ; Marilena Maniaci -- Frank M. Bischoff ; Denis Muzerelle ; Lucien Reynhout ; Denis Muzerelle. Introduction. Manufacturing techniques.

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Codicology--Statistical methods.


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