Material restoration : a fragment from eleventh-century Echternach in a nineteenth-century Parisian codex

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Label

Material restoration : a fragment from eleventh-century Echternach in a nineteenth-century Parisian codex

Title remainder

a fragment from eleventh-century Echternach in a nineteenth-century Parisian codex

Statement of responsibility

by Carmela Vircillo Franklin

Creator

• Franklin, Carmela Vircillo

Subject

• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Conservation and restoration -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Luxembourg | Echternach
• Kloster Echternach (Echternach, Luxembourg)
• Scriptoria -- Luxembourg | Echternach -- History -- Sources

Genre

• Sources

Language

eng

Summary

• Cursor Mundi is a publication series of inter and multidisciplinary studies of the medieval and early modern world, viewed broadly as the period between late antiquity and the Enlightenment. Like its companion, the journal Viator, Cursor Mundi brings together outstanding work by medieval and early modern scholars from a wide range of disciplines, emphasizing studies which focus on processes such as cultural exchange or the course of an idea through the centuries, and including investigations beyond the traditional boundaries of Europe and the Mediterranean. --
• Material Restoration follows the journey of a parchment bifolium, which was first used in the binding of a manuscript produced in Echternach around the year 1000, and then removed from its original container-codex after it was appropriated by the French during the Napoleonic wars. By tracing the creation, interpretations, and migratory life of the parchment until its eventual incorporation within a nineteenth-century codex, this analysis presents the bifolium as an illustration of ǹew philology', and as an essential material and cultural element of the different codices that contained it. Material Restoration also analyses the texts inscribed on the bifolium, which include a charter, two poems, and verbal and musical glosses. By considering these texts within the context of the networks that produced and used them, the book offers an intriguing insight into the monastic and literary communities of eleventh-century Echternach. Material Restoration is a riveting and satisfying scholarly detective story that combines both erudition and new discoveries, and adheres to the standards of both classical and new philology. --Book Jacket

Member of

• Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium), v. 7

Cataloging source

UKM

Dewey number

091.094935

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• music

Index

index present

LC call number

Z6620.L9

LC item number

F73 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cursor mundi

Series volume

v. 7