English Manuscript Studies 1100‐1700, Volume 13 New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts20081Edited by Peter Beal. English Manuscript Studies 1100‐1700, Volume 13 New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts. London: British Library 2007. 363 pp., ISBN: ISBN 978‐0‐7123‐4977‐2 hardback £45.00

2008 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
Louise Ellis‐Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Manuscript Studies ◽  
British Library ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
English Manuscript

scholarly journals Transparently Hierarchical

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-30
Author(s):  
Jacob Thaisen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Principal Function ◽  
Structural Hierarchy ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Text Types ◽  
English Manuscript

The three scribes of a mid-seventeenth-century collection of medical recipes resemble each other in how they have punctuated the recipes, although they did not work simultaneously. They draw on similar repertoires of marks and they mark similar functions, but they do not use the same marks for the same functions. The principal function is the global one of indicating where the constitutive elements of the recipes begin and end. This function of indicating a text’s structural hierarchy goes back centuries and can seem old-fashioned for an Early Modern English manuscript produced when grammarians had started to discuss whether punctuation should mark syntactic units. A key observation is that recipes stand out among text-types by having a fixed, transparently hierarchical structure. This feature of them facilitates the researcher’s appreciation of how the punctuation functions and dismisses any impression of the scribes having deployed the marks haphazardly.

Airy Forms

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-63
Author(s):  
Katherine R. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
British Library ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Dynamic Interplay

This chapter probes the lexical slipperiness of “song” in relation to the dynamic interplay between early modern lyric production and musical practice. It also activates the resonances at play within the equally elusive notion of “form” further to animate song as an embodied genre straddling the boundary between poetic and musical expression. Larson considers the implications these taxonomical reflections hold for an analysis of the anonymous settings of Mary Sidney Herbert’s translations of Psalms 51 and 130, preserved in the British Library. These pieces offer an opportunity to bring a musical approach to lyric form to bear on psalm translations that are typically studied and taught from a visual, rather than an acoustic, perspective. Reading the psalms in terms of sung performance transforms our understanding of Pembroke’s experimental translations and of women’s broader engagement with the genre in the early modern English context.

scholarly journals Early Modern English Scientific Manuscripts in the Hunterian Collection: A Physical Description of Gul, MS Hunter 135

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Romero-Barranco
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Physical Description ◽  
The Third ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Manuscript Production ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
English Manuscript ◽  
Shed Light

RESUMEN: El presente artículo ofrece un análisis codicológico y paleográfi co del manuscrito Hunter 135, un volumen del siglo XVI que contiene cinco tratados de los cuales el segundo y la mitad del tercero son objeto de estudio (chirvrgia libri, ff. 34r-73v; y medica qvaedam, ff. 74r-121v). La descripción física no solo ha permitido aportar la posible fecha de composición del manuscrito sino que también ha hecho posible el análisis de las técnicas en la producción de manuscritos en el Periodo moderno temprano (1500-1700).ABSTRACT: The present article provides a codicological and palaeographic analysis of MS Hunter 135, a sixteenth-century volume containing fi ve treatises, the second and approximately half the third being the object of study (chirvrgia libri, ff. 34r-73v; and medica qvaedam, ff. 74r-121v). The physical description has not only shed light on the likely date of composition of the witness but also on the different practices in early Modern English manuscript production.

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