The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages: Practices of Reading and Writing (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 38)

Annotations in modern books are a phenomenon that often causes disapproval: we are not supposed to draw, doodle, underline, or highlight in our books. In many medieval manuscripts, however, the pages are filled with annotations around the text and in-between the lines. In some cases, a 'white space' around the text is even laid out to contain extra text, pricked and ruled for the purpose. Just as footnotes are an approved and standard part of the modern academic book, so the flyleaves, margins, and interlinear spaces of many medieval manuscripts are an invitation to add extra text. This volume focuses on annotation in the early medieval period. In treating manuscripts as mirrors of the medieval minds who created them - reflecting their interests, their choices, their practices - the essays explore a number of key topics. Are there certain genres in which the making of annotations seems to be more appropriate or common than in others? Are there genres in which annotating is 'not done'? Are there certain monastic centres in which annotating practices flourish, and from which they spread? The volume thus investigates whether early medieval annotators used specific techniques, perhaps identifiable with their scribal communities or schools. It explores what annotators actually sought to accomplish with their annotations, and how the techniques of annotating developed over time and per region. Annotations In Modern Books Are A Phenomenon That Often Causes Disapproval: We Are Not Supposed To Draw, Doodle, Underline, Or Highlight In Our Books. In Many Medieval Manuscripts, However, The Pages Are Filled With Annotations Around The Text And In-between The Lines. In Some Cases, A 'white Space' Around The Text Is Even Laid Out To Contain Extra Text, Pricked And Ruled For The Purpose. Just As Footnotes Are An Approved And Standard Part Of The Modern Academic Book, So The Flyleaves, Margins, And Interlinear Spaces Of Many Medieval Manuscripts Are An Invitation To Add Extra Text. This Volume Focuses On Annotation In The Early Medieval Period. In Treating Manuscripts As Mirrors Of The Medieval Minds Who Created Them -- Reflecting Their Interests, Their Choices, Their Practices -- The Essays Explore A Number Of Key Topics. Are There Certain Genres In Which The Making Of Annotations Seems To Be More Appropriate Or Common Than In Others? Are There Genres In Which Annotating Is 'not Done'? Are There Certain Monastic Centres In Which Annotating Practices Flourish, And From Which They Spread? Abbreviations -- List Of Illustrations -- Introduction / Mariken Teeuwen And Irene Van Renswoude -- Scholars And Their Books : Practices And Methods Of Annotating -- Voices From The Edge : Annotating Books In The Carolingian Period / Mariken Teeuwen -- Technical Signs In Early Medieval Manuscripts Copied In Irish Minuscle / Evina Steinová -- A Peregrinus's Vade Mecum : Ms Bern 363 And The 'circle Of Sedulius Scottus' / Giorgia Vocino -- The Making Of The De Praedestinatione Of Ratramnus Of Corbie (including The Identification Of A New Personal Manuscript) / Warren Pezé -- The Making Of A Tenth-century Self-commentary : The Glosses To Atto Of Vercelli's Perpendiculum And Their Sources / Giacomo Vignodelli -- Textual Scholarship By Means Of Annotation -- The Earliest Anonymous Exposition Of Priscian : Two Manuscripts And Their Glosses / Franck Cinato -- Source Marks In Scholia : Evidence From An Early Medieval Gospel Manuscript / Markus Schiegg -- Tironische Tituli : Die Verwendung Stenographischer Marginalien Zur Inhaltlichen Erschliessung Von Texten Des Frühen Mittelalters / Martin Hellmann -- Glossen Aus Einem Einzigen Buchstaben / Andreas Nievergelt -- Space As Paratext : Scribal Practice In The Medieval Edition Of Ammianus Marcellinus / Justin A. Stover -- The Margin As Editorial Space : Upgrading Dioscorides Alphabeticus In Eleventh-century Monte Cassino / Erik Kwakkel -- Making Notae For Scholarly Retrieval : A Franciscan Case Study / Alberto Cevolini -- Private Study And Classroom Reading -- Reading And The Lemma In Early Medieval Textual Culture / Sinéad O' Sullivan -- Reading Between The Lines Of Virgil's Early Medieval Manuscripts / Silvia Ottaviano -- Notker Labeo's Translation, Commentaries : Changing Form And Function Over Time / Anna Grotans -- Transmitting Knowledge By Text And Illustration : The Case Of Ms Leiden, Ub, Vlo 15 / Ad Van Els -- Monastic Practices Of Shared Reading As Means Of Learning / Micol Long -- Reading Horace Alongside Other Classics : Ms British Library, Harley 2724 / Paulina Taraskin -- Annotating Orthodox And Heterodox Knowledge -- The Censor's Rod : Textual Criticism, Judgment, And Canon Formation In Late Antiquity And The Early Middle Ages / Irene Van Renswoude -- Text And Context : The Annotations In Ms Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare Xxii (20) / Luciana Cuppo -- Studying Jerome In A Carolingian Monastery / Janneke Raaijmakers -- Deux Témoins D'ambroise Sur Le Psaume 118 Et Leur Ancêtre / Pierre Chambert-protat -- The Annotation Of Patristic Texts As Curatorial Activity? The Case Of Marginalia To Augustine's De Genesi Ad Litteram In Late Antiquity And The Middle Ages / Jesse Keskiaho -- Reading The Catholic Epistles : Glossing Practices In Early Medieval Wissembourg / Cinzia Grifoni -- Theological Issues And Traces Of Controversies In Manuscripts Transmitting Works Of The Church Fathers / Patrizia Carmassi -- Epilogue -- The Search For Glossed Clauses : An Autobiographical Account Of A Corbie Study / David Ganz -- Indices. Edited By Mariken Teeuwen And Irene Van Renswoude. International Conference Proceedings. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. In English, With One Contribution In French And Two In German. Front Matter ("Contents", "Abbreviations", "List of Illustrations"), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. 1 Mariken Teeuwen, Irene Van Renswoude https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115015 Section I: Scholars and Their Books: Practices and Methods of Annotating Voices from the Edge: Annotating Books in the Carolingian Period, p. 13 Mariken Teeuwen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115016 Technical Signs in Early Medieval Manuscripts Copied in Irish Minuscle, p. 37 Evina Steinová https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115017 A Peregrinus’s Vade Mecum: ms Bern 363 and the ‘Circle of Sedulius Scottus’, p. 87 Giorgia Vocino https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115018 The Making of the De praedestinatione of Ratramnus of Corbie (Including the Identification of a New Personal Manuscript), p. 125 Warren Pezé https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115019 The Making of a Tenth-Century Self-Commentary: The Glosses to Atto of Vercelli’s Perpendiculum and Their Sources, p. 157 Giacomo Vignodelli https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115020 Section II: Textual Scholarship by Means of Annotation The Earliest Anonymous Exposition of Priscian: Two Manuscripts and Their Glosses, p. 199 Franck Cinato https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115021 Source Marks in Scholia: Evidence from an Early Medieval Gospel Manuscript, p. 237 Markus Schiegg https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115022 Tironische Tituli: Die Verwendung stenographischer Marginalien zur inhaltlichen Erschließung von Texten des frühen Mittelalters, p. 263 Martin Hellmann https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115023 Glossen aus einem einzigen Buchstaben, p. 285 Andreas Nievergelt https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115024 Space as Paratext: Scribal Practice in the Medieval Edition of Ammianus Marcellinus, p. 305 Justin A. Stover https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115025 The Margin as Editorial Space: Upgrading Dioscorides alphabeticus in Eleventh-Century Monte Cassino, p. 323 Erik Kwakkel https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115026 Making notae for Scholarly Retrieval: A Franciscan Case Study, p. 343 Alberto Cevolini https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115027 Section III: Private Study and Classroom Reading Reading and the Lemma in Early Medieval Textual Culture, p. 371 Sinéad O'Sullivan https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115028 Reading between the Lines of Virgil’s Early Medieval Manuscripts, p. 397 Silvia Ottaviano https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115029 Notker Labeo’s Translation / Commentaries: Changing Form and Function over Time, p. 427 Anna Grotans https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115030 Transmitting Knowledge by Text and Illustration: The Case of ms Leiden, ub, vlo 15, p. 465 Ad Van Els https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115031 Monastic Practices of Shared Reading as Means of Learning, p. 501 Micol Long https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115032 Reading Horace alongside Other Classics: ms British Library, Harley 2724, p. 529 Paulina Taraskin https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115033 Section IV: Annotating Orthodox and Heterodox Knowledge The Censor’s Rod: Textual Criticism, Judgment, and Canon Formation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, p. 555 Irene van Renswoude https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115034 Text and Context: The Annotations in ms Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare XXII (20), p. 597 Luciana Cuppo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115035 Studying Jerome in a Carolingian Monastery, p. 621 Janneke Raaijmakers https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115036 Deux témoins d’Ambroise sur le Psaume 118 et leur ancêtre, p. 647 Pierre Chambert-Protat https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115037 The Annotation of Patristic Texts as Curatorial Activity? The Case of Marginalia to Augustine’s De Genesi ad litteram in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, p. 673 Jesse Keskiaho https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115038 Reading the Catholic Epistles: Glossing Practices in Early Medieval Wissembourg, p. 705 Cinzia Grifoni https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115039 Theological Issues and Traces of Controversies in Manuscripts Transmitting Works of the Church Fathers, p. 743 Patrizia Carmassi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115040 Epilogue The Search for Glossed Clauses: An Autobiographical Account of a Corbie Study, p. 767 David Ganz https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.115041 Back Matter ("Indices"), p. 773 Free Access