Personalization in Manuscripts and Printed Books: Ownership Marks, Annotations, Emendations

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Early Book Society

Organizer Name

Martha W. Driver

Organizer Affiliation

Pace Univ.

Presider Name

Alexandra Barratt

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Waikato

Paper Title 1

Deciphering the Amateur Personalizations of an Unpublished Trecento Book of Hours

Presenter 1 Name

Caroline Koncz

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Ohio State Univ.

Paper Title 2

Visualizing a 'Personal' Relationship with God: Portraiture and Directed Figural Engagement in Select Late Medieval Manuscripts

Presenter 2 Name

Gamble L. Madsen

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Monterey Peninsula College

Paper Title 3

The Anglo-Saxon Glossary of Richard D'Ewes

Presenter 3 Name

Dabney A. Bankert

Presenter 3 Affiliation

James Madison Univ.

Start Date

11-5-2018 3:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 211

Description

Personalization in MSS and Printed Books: Ownership Marks, Annotations, Emendations

This session will look at the range of ways readers make MSS and printed books their own. Provenance and records of ownership can say much about both book and owner, giving insight into reception of texts at various points in the past. Papers discuss owner autographs, drawings of heraldic emblems, devices or use of mottoes, bindings, emendations or annotations by readers, and other forms of readerly intervention to recover histories of reading and reception. -Martha W. Drivr