1st Edition

Writing for Third Parties. Commercial Manuscript Production Queeste, volume 2025, volume 32-1

190 Pages

by Amsterdam University Press

Description

The practice of writing for third parties, often done on commission and/or for profit (pro pretio ), remains a largely neglected aspect of late medieval manuscript culture. Although professional scribes and book artisans played a central role in the production and circulation of manuscripts, evidence of their economic activities is sparse and fragmented, leaving our understanding of the financial... Read more

Writing for Third Parties

Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages: Introduction

Patricia Stoop

Entering the Commercial Scriptorium

History of the Book at the Cross Section of Codicology and Textual Scholarship

Herman Brinkman

Assessing the Nature or Status of Individual Medieval Manuscripts.

Four Oppositions in Manuscript Production: Formal — Informal, For Private Use — For the Market, Commercial — Non-Commercial, and Professional — Non-Professional

Jos A.A.M. Biemans

Diebold Lauber’s Workshop in Alsace

Manuscripts at the Beginning of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction A study of the debates on European stages during the late Middle Ages

Gabriel Viehhauser

The Production of Charters and Other Documents by Commercial Scribes

Some Examples from the Low Countries

J.W.J. Burgers

Specification for a Bestseller:

Notes on the Production of a Book of Hours

Ed van der Vlist

Book Commissions in the Noble Women’s Chapter of Sainte-Waudru’s Collegiate, Mons (Hainaut)

The Case of London, British Library, MS Egerton 2569