Maniaci - Trends in Statistical Codicology

Marilena Maniaci has edited an open access volume entitled Trends in Statistical Codicology, which is a helpful compendium of codicological articles on medieval Greek and Latin manuscripts. The contents include:

Contents

Marilena Maniaci

Introduction: Statistical Codicology. Principles, Directions, Perspectives

Forms and typologies

Marilena Maniaci

The Structure of Atlantic Bibles

Chiara Ruzzier

The Miniaturisation of Bible Manuscripts in the 13th Century: A Comparative

Study

Michel Trigalet

Making a Count of Hagiographic Books. Quantitative Aspects of the Production

and Dissemination of Latin Hagiographic Literature (2nd–15th Centuries)

Materials and tools

Marilena Maniaci

Parchment in Byzantine Manuscripts of the 11th and 12th Centuries:

Characteristics and Use

Ezio Ornato

Watermarks Galore. Observations on the Number and Homogeneity of Papers

Used in Manuscripts and Incunabula

Ezio Ornato

An Experiment in Dating Documents through the Analysis of Watermarks: The

Letter ‘P’ in Incunabula of the Low Countries

Manufacturing techniques

Paola Busonero

Quiring in Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages

Marilena Maniaci

The Art of Not Quartering Skins: Techniques Employed for the Subdivision of

Bifolia in Byzantine Manuscripts

Denis Muzerelle

The Arithmetic Properties of Lineation in Humanistic Manuscripts

Marilena Maniaci

The ‘Non-Unitary’ Greek Codex: Typologies and Terminology

Denis Muzerelle and Ezio Ornato

The Third Dimension of the Book: Codicological Aspects of Multi-

Textuality

Layout and text formatting

Marilena Maniaci

Canons and ‘Recipes’ for the Layout of the Medieval Book: New Observations

and Verifications

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Divergences between the East and the West in the Construction and

Management of the Written Space: General Principles and Specific

Solutions

Luciana Devoti

A Medieval Puzzle. The ‘Architecture’ of the Page in Manuscripts and

Incunabula of the Codex Justinianus

Marilena Maniaci

Words within Words : Layout Strategies in Some Glossed Manuscripts of the

Iliad

Marilena Maniaci

At the End of the Line: Text Continuity and the Division of Words in Byzantine

Manuscripts

Scripts and scribes

Frank M. Bischoff

The Rhythm of the Scribe: A Serial Analysis of the Density of Writing in the

Gospels of Henry the Lion

Denis Muzerelle

The Scribe’s Gesture and its ‘Shadow’: An Essay on the ‘Modular Ratio’ of

Scripts

Lucien Reynhout

Quantitative Codicology and Scientific Paradigms. A Typology of Latin

Formulae in the Colophons of Western Manuscripts

Denis Muzerelle

Concerning the (Re)discovery of French Scriptoria: The Contribution of the

‘Catalogue of Dated Manuscripts’

HT Agade