... composition process manuscript drafts • • “Better, as in the Geneva”: The Role of the Geneva Bible in Drafting the King James Version...

... translation will only be able to appreciate if they expand their horizons beyond national boundaries and look at Latin sources alongside vernacular ones. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Greek Septuagint King James Bible English biblical translation manuscript annotation John Bois...

... beginning Ho- ­in the extant manuscript of the first dictionary of Old English, Laurence Nowell’s Vocabularium Saxonicum (compiled before 1567), strongly suggests that Nowell’s previous draft had Considine / Cutting and Pasting Slips  489 been on loose sheets, one...

...Jeffrey Todd Knight This essay explores the long genealogy of sewing in books from the stab-stitched quartos and octavos in early modern bookshops to the sewn-in corrections, repairs, and embellishments of manuscript pages in the Middle Ages. Broadening the default chronology of book and literary...

... Laramie, Wyoming Esther Inglis (1571–1624), the miniaturist, embroiderer, calligrapher, trans- lator, and self-described “writer,” produced nearly sixty known calligraphic manuscripts bound as small, usually miniature, books. These books fre- quently consist of a central pious text placed within...

..., translation, and textual format, and how they reworked these in literary and cultural production. Working with Latin and vernacular translations, contributors to this volume rethink the cultural role of the Bible using a wide range of material evidence, including manuscript notes, defacement, graffiti...

... news headlines, in case he would burn the draft and claim that he burned a perfected manuscript. Seeing that many passages of the letter are written in the margins, it is not clear that this passage ought to be excised from the text, but Vergerio assumes that, since the poem was not burned, the passage...

...William Sherman; Heather Wolfe It is now a commonplace that texts were malleable in early modern England regardless of their manuscript or print origins; but the publications of Thomas Milles strain these categories—and the vocabularies used to describe them—to the breaking point. Between 1599...

... empty? Much scribbling was simply a function of the mundane need for notepaper.9 Yet when readers’ marks actually engage the biblical text and paratext, the scholars who study them are often inclined to follow at least something of Sixtus’s line of thought — that manuscript anno- tation is our...

...: first, through the language, symbols, charts, and figures featured in the genre itself; second, in the manuscript notes that typically accompany almanacs; and, third, through the many references to almanacs and their users in contemporary literature.2 Examining, particu- larly, the almanac’s...

..., national identities, the introspective subject, and historical consciousness itself.2 Yet, as de Grazia argues, the “modern divide” paradoxically misrepresents the his- torical consciousness of the very “early modern” period that is drafted to inaugurate it, a period that characterized itself...

... manuscripts (about fifty) attest to the relative popularity of De itinere Terre Sancte.7 Other medieval pilgrims read it, too, including the Dominican pilgrim-writer Felix Fabri.8 We cannot be sure that the most complete Latin version edited by Ferdinand Deycks was the original work. Two German translations...

...Adam Smyth This article explores the production of Gospel harmonies at Little Gidding in the 1630s. By drawing on rarely examined archival letters, documents, and drafts contained in the Ferrar Papers at Magdalene College, Cambridge, the article examines the production processes behind the biblical...

... playful understanding of how to read music. English Renaissance music manuscripts visual notation decorative elements performance culture As a graphic form musical notation occupies the uneasy hinterland between the visual and the sonic, never quite one or the other but always haunted...

... . Translated by Milton T. Walsh. Cistercian Studies Series, vol. 284. Athens, Ohio: Cistercian Publications; Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2022. 816 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Maestlin, Michael. Michael Maestlin's Manuscript Treatise on the Comet of 1618: An Edition and Translation of Manuscript WLB...

... a heretofore ignored lyric, the paradoxical “Tale of Ryght Nought.” This essay reads the poem as a playful but important response to the manuscript in which it is found and the culture that produced it. The essay touches upon issues ranging from the drive for material gain to the fear of social demotion...

... in the early twelfth century, and a number of Anglo-Saxon manuscript illuminations, produced in the monastic scriptorium at Winchester in the tenth century. A careful examination of these works of art reveals that the makers of the portal at Vézelay, in a triangular process of creation, drew on the earlier...

... spiritual writ- ings by this close associate of Teresa of Ávila.] Andrew, Malcolm, and Ronald Waldron, eds. The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Fifth edition revised. Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Exeter: University of Exeter Press...

... introduction to the study of manuscripts. “It is difficult not to get lost. Bibliographically the age is hazy gray, conjuring up mystical and enticing promise, as in the half-light moments just preceding dawn.”7 Here, specialization crooks an enticing finger through what...

... and themselves in real time. The letter book triggered a reflexive mechanism—an iterative feedback loop—that operated between the drafting of the letters and the copying of them into the letter book (see fig. 2 ). Figure 2. The Consistory's communication feedback loop. Diagram created by author. Figure...