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Scrollwork: Visual Cultures of Musical Notation and Graphic Materiality in the English Renaissance
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 347–377.
Published: 01 May 2023
... music. This form of notation was not a transcription for future performance but rather a provocation to performance. As a result, musical notation frequently “leaked” into decorative margins. The musical pages of this period display evident delight in melding, blending, and blurring the distinction...
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Needles and Pens: Sewing in Early English Books
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 523–542.
Published: 01 September 2015
...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...
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Midwifery Anatomized: Vesalius, Dissection, and Reproductive Authority in Early Modern Italy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Jennifer F. Kosmin Although Vesalius, like his contemporaries, had only extremely limited opportunities to examine or dissect the human gravid uterus, it is the image of the anatomist laying bare the (un)pregnant female body and revealing its secrets that graces the title page of the 1543 edition...
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Building Paper Embassies: A Prehistory of The Compleat Ambassador
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 541–564.
Published: 01 September 2020
... d’Anjou and negotiations that followed the abandonment of those marriages, as discussed in letters written in 1569–73 and 1581 by Francis Walsingham, Thomas Smith, Henry Norris, and others, often in correspondence with Lord Burghley. The title page describes the Ambassador as having been “Faithfully...
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Collage, Architectural Inscription, and the Aesthetics of Iconoclasm in Jacques Perret's Des fortifications et artifices (1601)
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 573–594.
Published: 01 September 2015
... churches during episodes of iconoclastic purification. The same pages feature Calvinist Psalms and pious sayings that were once chanted and sung by French Protestants, as well as inscribed and layered in abundance on the walls of their churches and homes. In this mixed verbal-visual form, the medium...
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Montaigne's Noble Book: Book History and Biographical Criticism
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 417–434.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of the title page was intended to demonstrate that it was the book of a gentleman, a “noble book.” This displayed nobility supported Montaigne's moral and pedagogical purpose, it served as the basis of his social authority and literary authorship, and, last but not least, this noble status ensured the success...
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Travel in Time: Local Travel Writing and Seventeenth-Century English Almanacs
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 419–443.
Published: 01 May 2013
... arrangement of the almanac page as well as the almanac’s integration of spatial and temporal systems of measurement produced a distinctive style of travel notation. Both the form and content of these marginalia, I suggest, highlight an additional, understudied discourse of mobility in the early modern period...
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Fashions of Friendship in an Early Modern Illustrated Album Amicorum : British Library, MS Egerton 1191
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 619–641.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Margaret F. Rosenthal The album amicorum , or album of friends, is a singular visual example of early modern travelers' fascination with swiftly changing fashions, regional customs, family lineage, and manuscript decoration. A type of souvenir scrapbook, the album amicorum preserves in its pages...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 7. Johannes von Paltz, Celifodina (Erfurt, 1502). Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 4 P. lat. 945, title page. Source: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00010550-1.
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How Not to Look at a Printed Flower
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 345–371.
Published: 01 May 2008
.... 3 and 4, and fig. 10 below).
At the moment of their first emergence, printers’ flowers were a
visual innovation that spoke to, and from, the new optical and cognitive
work of reading a printed page. They also represented an early instance of
the mass mechanical reproduction of designs...
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First Words and Second Thoughts: Margaret Cavendish, Humphrey Moseley,and “the Book”
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 101–124.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Randall Ingram © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.1-05-Ingram.101-124 12/21/99 4:33 PM Page 101
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Marking and Remaking a Bishops' Bible in Seventeenth-Century England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 599–607.
Published: 01 September 2017
... lacks all the printed preliminaries, as well as the concluding
pages of Revelation (after the eighteenth chapter). The current binding can
be dated to at least the late seventeenth century, although the spine has
been rebacked and the clasps have been lost. The bible was used by several...
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The Department of Hybrid Books: Thomas Milles between Manuscript and Print
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 457–485.
Published: 01 September 2015
... book. For example, a copy of The custumers alphabet and
primer (STC 17927) at the Huntington is inscribed by Milles to the Earl of
Northampton, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, with whom Milles would
have worked closely. A copy of the same work at the Folger is inscribed on
the title page...
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Materializing Authorship in Esther Inglis's Books
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 469–491.
Published: 01 September 2002
... covers of Inglis’s own
making and introduced by a variety of materials including a title page, self-
portrait, and dedication to someone of rank, including Elizabeth I, James
VI, Prince Henry, and Lucy Harington, Countess of Bedford. In the late
sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England...
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In the Middle
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 547–574.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Catherine Brown © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.3-07.Brown 9/1/00 5:05 PM Page 547
In the Middle
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 157–182.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Michael Cornett © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.1-07-Books.157-182 12/30/99 5:16 PM Page 157
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 175–210.
Published: 01 January 2001
...Michael Cornett © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.1-08 Books 2/26/01 7:04 PM Page 175
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 409–440.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Michael Cornett © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.2-07 Books 4/30/01 9:40 AM Page 409
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Making History: The Rhetorical and Historical Occasion of Elizabeth Tudor's Coronation Entry
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 251–282.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Sandra Logan © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.2-02 Logan 4/30/01 9:34 AM Page 251
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Cutting and Pasting Slips: Early Modern Compilation and Information Management
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 487–504.
Published: 01 September 2015
... on a single sheet
of paper. Once they have been sorted, the slips can be pasted onto large
sheets of paper, so that their arrangement is fixed and several of them can
be viewed at once. These sheets may be the pages of a blank book, although
pasting slips onto pages that have already been bound makes...
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