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Bibliomania in the Middle Ages

Chapter 41: Transcriber's Notes
By F. Somner Merryweather
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About This Book

The book surveys the culture of manuscript collecting and study in the Middle Ages, presenting portraits of scribes, illuminators, collectors, Bible students, and the monastic officers who cared for libraries from early medieval centuries to the introduction of printing. Drawing on rules, catalogues, and anecdotes, it explains how monasteries organized, preserved, repaired, bound, and loaned volumes, and how cloistered routines and institutional regulations encouraged intense book-collecting and scholarship. Interwoven sketches illuminate manuscript production, library administration, and the personal passions that sustained textual transmission before print.

Transcriber's Notes

1. Footnotes 293, 386 are not anchored in the page image. A best guess has been made as to their anchor point.

2. Refer to the image for the black letter poems as the yogh/ezh & thorn/h characters are difficult to distinguish. Other internet sources show vastly different interpretations for the text of 'A Plaie called Corpus Christi'.

3. Hyphenation has been left as printed, inconsistencies are:

  • bookloving, book-loving
  • booklover, book-lover
  • bookworms, book-worms
  • goodwill, good-will
  • halfpenny, half-penny
  • protomartyr, proto-martyr
  • reread, re-read

4. Punctuation, particularly in footnotes has been standardised.

5. Spelling inconsistencies between proper names in the text and index entries have been standardised. The original spelling has been noted. Inconsistencies in the spelling of proper names within the text have been left as printed.

6. The remaining corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will appear.