Books and scrolls: Navigating the bible

Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies

Volumn 9780812204711, Issue , 2011, Pages 42-79

  Stallybrass, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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References (68)

1. Colin H. Roberts and T. C. Skeat, The Birth of the Codex (London: Oxford University Press, 1983).
2. (Roberts and Skeat, The Birth of the Codex, 24).
3. Harry Y. Gamble, Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 63-81.
4. Malachi Beit-Arie, Hebrew Manuscripts of East and West: Towards a Comparative Codicology, the Panizzi Lectures 1992 (London: British Library, 1993), 11-12.
5. Irven M. Resnick's important article, "The Codex in Early Jewish and Christian Communities", Journal of Religious History 17.1(1992):1-17.
6. Gamble, Books and Readers, 210-11.
7. Joseph Mede, "The Apocalyptic Type", The Key of the Revelation, trans. Richard More (London: Philip Stephens, 1643).
8. Malcolm Parkes, Scribes, Scripts and Readers: Studies in the Communication, Presentation and Dissemination of Medieval Texts (London: Hambledon Press, 1991), particularly chpt. 3
9. "The Influence of the Concepts of Ordinatio and Compilatio on the Development of the Book";
10. Mary A. Rouse and Richard H. Rouse, Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991);
11. Saenger, "The Impact of the Early Printed Page on the History of Reading", Bulletin du Bibliophile 2(1996):237-301.
12. Saenger's Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), which is a marvellous analysis of word separation and the construction of navigable texts (see, for instance, 257-61).
13. Lloyd W. Daly, Contributions to a History of Alphabetization in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Collection Latomus, vol. 90(Brussels: Latomus, 1967), particularly 69-84.
14. William Byrd, Gradualia, ac Cantiones Sacrae (London: Richard Redmer, 1610), STC 4244.
15. Lotte Brand Philip, The Ghent Altarpiece and the Art of Jan van Eyck (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1971)
16. Otto Pacht, Van Eyck and the Founders of Early Netherlandish Painting., trans. David Britt (London: Harvey Miller, 1994)
17. and Elisabeth Dhanens, Hubert and Jan van Eyck (New York: Alpine Fine Arts, n. d.).
18. John Harthan's Books of Hours and Their Owners (London: Book Club Associates, 1982).
19. Jan van Eyck, Virgin and Child with the Chancellor Rolin (the Louvre) and Annunciation (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.);
20. Hugo van der Goes, Maria Portinari with Daughter and Saints (Uffizi);
21. the Edinburgh altarpiece (National Gallery of Scotland); Bruges Master of 1499, Diptych of Virgin and Child and Christian de Hondt (Koninkhjk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp);
22. Geertgentot Sint Jans, Holy Kinship (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam);
23. Master of the Retable of the Reyes Catolicos, Christ Among the Doctors (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.);
24. Master of Frankfurt, St. Anne with the Virgin and Child (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.).
25. The Missal in Latin and English (London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1958).
26. David M. Robb, The Art of the Illuminated Manuscript (New York: A. S. Barnes, 1973), 331
27. and, more generally, Andrew Hughes, Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office: A Guide to Their Organization and Terminology (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982).
28. Patrick Collinson, "The Coherence of the Text: How It Hangeth Together: The Bible in Reformation England", The Bible, the Reformation, and the Church, ed. W. P. Stephens (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), 84-108.
29. The First and Second Prayer Books of Edward VI (London: J. M. Dent, 1949), 2-5.
30. Judith Maltby, Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 26. Maltby's book is invaluable on the importance of the Book of Common Prayer in the period.
31. the calendars in The First and Second Prayer Books of Edward VI, 9-20 and 335-46.
32. The First and Second Prayer Books of Edward VI, 20 and 346.
33. George Herbert, The Temple (Cambridge: Thomas Buck, 1633), STC 13183, 102.
34. Herbert, "The Bunch of Grapes", The Temple, 120-21.
35. John Locke, A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul (London: A. Betterworth and C Hitch, 1733 [1707]), vi-vii.
36. Herbert, "The H. Scriptures II.", The Temple, 50;
37. Collinson, "The Coherence of the Text", 105.
38. John Donne, "A Sermon Preached at the funeral of Sir William Cokayne Knight, Alderman of London, December 12.1626", Selected Prose, ed. Evelyn Simpson, Helen Gardner, and Timothy Healy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), 281.
39. Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton, "'Studied for Action': How Gabriel Harvey Read his Livy", Past and Present 129(1990):30-78;
40. Lisa Jardine and William Sherman, "Pragmatic Readers: Knowledge Transactions and Scholarly Services in Late Elizabethan England", Religion, Culture, and Society in Early Modern Britain, ed. Anthony Fletcher and Peter Roberts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 102-24;
41. and John Kerrigan, "The Editor as Reader: Constructing Renaissance Texts", The Practice and Representation of Reading in England, ed. James Raven, Helen Small, and Naomi Tadmor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 102-24.
42. R. C. Bald, John Donne: A Life (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), 457-64.
43. William W. E. Slights, "The Edifying Margins of Renaissance English Books", Renaissance Quarterly 42.4(1989):682-716
44. and his "'Marginall Notes that spoile the Text': Scriptural Annotation in the English Renaissance", Huntington Library Quarterly 55(1992):254-78;
45. Evelyn B. Tribble, Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993)
46. especially chpt. 1; James J. Kearney, "Glossing the English Reformation: Scriptural Annotation and The Shepheardes Calender" (M. Phil, thesis, Cambridge University, 1995);
47. Monique Hulvey, "Not So Marginal: Manuscript Annotations in the Folger Incunabula", Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America 92.2(1998):159-76;
48. William H. Sherman, "'The Book Thus Put in Every Vulgar Hand': Impressions of Readers in Early English Printed Bibles", The Bible as Book: The First Printed Editions, ed. Paul Saenger and Kimberly van Kampen (London: the British Library, 1999), 125-33
49. and his "What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books?" (in this volume) and "Life in the Margins" (unpublished ms.);
50. Steven Zwicker, "Reading the Margins: Politics and the Habit of Appropriation", Refiguring the Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution, ed. Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 101-15
51. and "Consuming Passions: Habits of Reading and the Creation of Early Modern Literary Culture" (unpublished ms.);
52. Stephen Orgel, "Marginal Materiality: Reading Lady Anne Clifford's Mirror for Magistrates" (unpublished ms.).
53. "Matters of the Book: The Incarnate Text in the English Renaissance" (Ph. D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2001).
54. The holie Bible (Bishops') (London: R. Jugge, 1568), STC 2108.
55. John Earle, The Autograph Manuscript of Microcosmographie (Leeds: Scolar Press, 1966), 117;
56. Earle, Micro-Cosmographie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), 87;
57. cited in Collinson, "The Coherence of the Text", 107 n. 55.
58. John Foxe, Actes and Monuments (London: R. Day, 1596), STC 11226, p. 1125.
59. Foxe's account is largely drawn from John Bale's Thefirste examinacyon of A. Askew (Wesel, 1546)
60. and The lattre examinacyon (Wesel, 1547).
61. Elaine Beilin, The Examinations of Anne Askew (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
62. "Anne Askew's Dialogue with Authority" in ed. Marie-Rose Logan and Peter L. Rudnytsky, Contending Kingdoms (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991), 313-22
63. and her "Anne Askew's Self-Portrait in the Examinations", in ed. Margaret P. Hannay, Silent but for the Word (Kent: Kent University Press, 1985), 77-91.
64. Ed. W. Grinton Berry, Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Grand Rapids: Spire, 1998), 331.
65. M. H. Black, "The Printed Bible", The Cambridge History of the Bible: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day, ed. S. L. Greenslade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963), 408-75, 436, 442.
66. Gerald Hammond, The Making of the English Bible (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1982), 6ff;
67. and, on the relation of the English to the French Geneva Bible, Basil Hall, "The Genevan Version of the English Bible: Its Aims and Achievements", The Bible, the Reformation, and the Church, ed. W. P. Stephens (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), 124-49;
68. and Elizabeth Ingram, "Dressed in Borrowed Robes: Religious Discipline and the Making and Marketing of Catholic Bibles in France, 1550-1600" (unpublished ms.).