Miniaturing as Emendation: I–II Cnut in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 383

Gobbitt, Thomas

doi:10.1484/j.nml.1.102440

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“…Against this stands the complicated stratigraphy of the manuscript's production and emendation: the phases where the hand 3 scribe imitated the main scribe predate the miniaturing, which was itself entwined with the production phases of the main scribe's work. 44 The different and changing manuscript contexts that were being produced by the different contributors and users in the early phases therefore must have happened in conjunction with each other, and must consequently be taken as indicating that not only was the copying of Anglo-Saxon law important in the early twelfth century, but that its meaning and use was being actively discussed, emended and focused to suit the requirements for which the manuscript was being produced.…”

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The twelfth-century rubrication of Anglo-Saxon legal texts in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS. 383

Gobbitt

2013

Hist Res

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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS. 383 is an English collection of Anglo‐Saxon legal texts produced in the late eleventh century or early years of the twelfth century, possibly at or for St. Paul's cathedral, London. This article focuses in particular on the scribal strategies and mise‐en‐page of the rubrics and emendations made to the manuscript by a scribal hand of the first half of the twelfth century. Developments in the concept and technology of the book were used by the scribes who emended and updated the manuscript to facilitate and direct (potential and actual) readers' interactions with the legal texts and allow intellectual interests in the continued role of Anglo‐Saxon law into the twelfth century to be discerned.

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Section: Ll 10-20mentioning

confidence: 99%