Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 57: a witness to the early stages of the Benedictine reform in England?
Mechthild Gretsch
Manuscripts can be studied, first, and most obviously, as objects of material culture. Such study may provide valuable information concerning the parchment, arrangement quires, type script, letter forms, decoration, so on. also studied witnesses to intellectual preoccupations scholars who compiled copied them: such are apparent in selection glossing texts which manuscripts from various periods transmit. There is yet a third class gleaned, some at least, by combined both their physical appearance they contain: this pertains time when, place where, reasons why collection (which preserved only later book) was first put together. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 57 manuscript invites an approach. The book, its (including numerous additions), it presents, way used late Anglo-Saxon England have been thoroughly competently studies invaluable for what I shall attempt do here: uncover ambience ultimate exemplar used, reason into fashion appears there.
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