Abstractions of evidence in the study of manuscripts and early printed books
By: by Joseph A. Dane.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780754665014
Subjects: Bibliography -- Methodology; Incunabula -- Bibliography -- Methodology; Early printed books -- Bibliography -- Methodology; Manuscripts, Medieval -- Catalogs; Literature, Medieval -- Criticism, Textual; Bibliography, Critical; Transmission of texts; Editions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The calculus of calculus : W.W. Greg and the mathematics of Everyman editions; title: The notions of text and variant in the prologue to Chaucer's Legend of good women, MS Gg lines 127-38; title: Two studies in early medieval dramatic texts and performances; title: Myths of the Wakefield master; title: "Ideal copy" vs. "ideal texts" : the application of bibliographical language to facsimiles; title: Two studies in bibliographical identification and identity; title: The 1476 Boccaccio of Colard Mansion : note on a note by Seymour De Ricci; title: What is [a] Caxton? : from book to text; title: Leander Van Ess and the panzerization of early books and history; title: Conclusion : parody, irony, and the search for books of mass destruction.