Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of their Texts
Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)
The essays in this collection demonstrate that much can be learned from studying features such as word-division, printer’s type, and spelling conventions. These features – termed «accidentals» by W. W. Greg – typically receive little attention when editors discuss how a text became actualized in a particular medieval manuscript or early modern print. To study these features, it is essential to consider a text in the context of the manuscript or print housing it, rather than a modern edition. The texts discussed range in genre from religious (, and the and ) and literary (Chaucer’s ) to scientific (), while their material bearers range in date from the late Old English period into the Early Modern English one.weiterlesen
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