Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley

With a Catalogue of Early Printed Books Containing Anglo-Saxon 1566–1705

Peter J. Lucas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

708 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-51697-7 (ISBN)

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Who were the leading promoters of printing Anglo-Saxon in the Renaissance and why? In what manuscripts did Old English scholars find their print-design models? This book traces the history of printing Anglo-Saxon in its cultural context alongside developments in scholarship.

This book offers something new, a full-length study of printing Anglo-Saxon (Old English) from 1566 to 1705, combining analysis of content and form of production. It starts from the end-product and addresses the practical issues of providing for printing Anglo-Saxon authentically, and why this was done. The book tells a story that is largely Cambridge-orientated until Oxford made an impact, largely thanks to Franciscus Junius from Leiden. There is a catalogue of all books containing Anglo-Saxon, with full details of their use of manuscript or printed sources. This information allows us to see how knowledge of Anglo-Saxon grew and developed.

Peter J. Lucas, M.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (1973) Leeds University, presently Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, is Emeritus Professor of Old and Middle English (University College Dublin). His publications include Exodus (Liverpool3, 2020), and numerous studies on Medieval English, medieval manuscripts, and early printing.

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Tables

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Tables 1 and 2: Anglo-Saxon Type-Designs

Part I

Chapter 1Anglo-Saxon and its Uses

Chapter 2 The Parkerian Great Primer Anglo-Saxon Type-Design

Chapter 3 The Parkerian and Lambardian Pica Anglo-Saxon Type-Designs

Chapter 4 Anglo-Saxon Type-Designs in the Seventeenth Century to 1705

Chapter 5 Continental Anglo-Saxon Type-Designs

Chapter 6 The Use of Sources, Scholarship and the Social Intellectual Network

Part II

Glossary of Printing, Book-description and Type-description Terms

List of Type-Designs

Abbreviations

Library Abbreviations

Catalogue of Early Printed Books containing Anglo-Saxon 1566–1705

Part III

List of Punchcutters

List of Printers and Booksellers/Publishers, also Draughtsmen/Engravers

Bibliography

General Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World ; 105
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1410 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-51697-2 / 9004516972
ISBN-13	978-90-04-51697-7 / 9789004516977
Zustand	Neuware