Journal article
Pedant’s revolt: Dissent in the hierarchy of scripts
- Abstract:
- Scholars of later medieval English manuscripts understand that scribes shared a 'hierarchy of scripts' which let them choose different scripts for different purposes. Palaeographical evidence, chiefly taken here from Bodleian MS e Musaeo 76, but also in other codices, shows that during the fifteenth century different book producers could disagree over the relative formality of particular letter-forms. The hierarchy of scripts did exist, but it was a living, variable system rather than a stencil.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Pace University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of the Early Book Society More from this journal
- Volume:
- 22
- Pages:
- 269-280
- Publication date:
- 2019-12-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-06-15
- ISSN:
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1525-6790
- ISBN:
- 9781935625421
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2019-06-25
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- Copyright holder:
- Daniel Sawyer
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Pace University Press.
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