Script as Image: Visual Acuity in the Script of Poggio Bracciolini
Philippa Sissis
The fact that the graphic substance of writing oscillates between text and image is a potential which carries in itself from very beginning. Every trace on manuscript page relates to conventions time way determined by scribe. This becomes particularly tangible when are deliberately systematically broken replaced new ones basis concrete concept. By introducing humanistic minuscule, script developed historical model Carolingian Poggio Bracciolini his mentors friends Coluccio Salutati Niccolò Niccoli, created philologically revised copies texts classical authors what they called littera antiqua, old script. paper wants show how conscious incorporation elements manuscripts their transformation into specifically product makes use graphical mise-en-page order translate discourse SchriftBild.
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