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The aesthetics of fragments: reading pastedowns in context or, late medieval bookbinders, readers, and their choices

Abstract:

Fragments become material and visual signifiers in their own right when worked into bindings as pastedowns. The potential of pastedowns – musical or otherwise – to create meanings in the perception of users attuned to such messages is investigated through four case studies. Understood emphatically as metatexts, pastedowns, by virtue of their material, visual and semantic qualities, not only may reflect binders’ and patrons’ aesthetic strategies and intentions but also have the potential to co...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1515/9783110717884-009

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Music Faculty
Oxford college:
Wadham College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Music Faculty
Role:
Contributor
ORCID:
0000-0002-6995-9960
Publisher:
De Gruyter Publisher's website
Host title:
Disiecta Membra Musicae: Studies in Musical Fragmentology
Series:
Studies in Manuscript Cultures
Series number:
21
Pages:
205-240
Publication date:
2020-12-07
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9783110717884
ISBN:
9783110717228
Language:
English
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Chapter
Pubs id:
1150136
Local pid:
pubs:1150136
Deposit date:
2020-12-18

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