Early Modern English Manuscript Letters as Data: Distinguishing Between Holograph and Scribal Writing

2017 ◽  
pp. 39-134
Author(s):  
Imogen Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
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.

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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