In Praise of Scribes
Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 July 1998
- ISBN 9780198184713
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages339 pages
- Size 255x198x24 mm
- Weight 945 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 103 reproductions of 17th-century manuscripts and printed texts 0
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Short description:
In Praise of Scribes is a major contribution to manuscript studies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With case studies ranging from anonymous scribes to Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, and Katherine Philips, this profusely illustrated book shows what wide-ranging use can be made of material evidence, and helps to define the nature of manuscript culture in this period.
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In Praise of Scribes is a major contribution to the field of manuscript studies in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This profusely illustrated book argues for the significant role played by clerks and scriveners both in contemporary society and in the transmissional history of literary texts. Specific case studies are offered of a remarkably industrious contributor to the ferment of ideas leading to the Civil War (the so-called 'Feathery Scribe'), as well as of the notorious 'Captain' Robert Julian in the Restoration period. Other case studies exemplify the wide-ranging empirical use which is to be made of material texts, and shed new light on works by Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, and Katherine Philips, writers who flourished in a manuscript culture. The book explores questions about the nature of that culture vis à vis print culture, about constructions of authorship, and about the complex nature of texts themselves in an evolving society and changing readership.
exemplary scholarly performance... an essential guide for students of seventeenth-century written culture
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
In praise of scribes
`It shall not therefore kill itself; that is, not bury itself': Donne's Biathanatos and its text
The Feathery Scribe
`Hoping they shall only come to your merciful eyes': Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth and its transmission
`The virtuous Mrs Philips' and 'that whore Castlemaine': Orinda and her Apotheosis, 1664-1668
Appendix I. Seventeenth-century characters of clerks and scriveners
Appendix II. Manuscripts by the Feathery Scribe
Appendix III. Catalogue of papers in Ralph Starkey's study
Appendix IV. Manuscript texts of Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth
Appendix V. Katherine Philips's letter to Lady Fletcher
Appendix VI. John Taylor's verse satire on Katherine Philips
Index of manuscripts cited
Bibliography
General Index
