A guide for the perplexed -- Paper and related materials -- The structure of documents -- Producing texts -- Analysis and evidence -- Making variants -- Setting conditions -- Last words
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"Focusing on documents from the late sixteenth and early mid-seventeenth century, the author explains the complex process of viewing documents as artefacts, showing readers how to describe documents properly and how to read their physical properties. This helpful guide demonstrates how we are to use this information, together with an understanding of the processes of production and modification, as a tool for studying the transmission of literary documents." --Book Jacket
Bibliography, Critical
Codicology
Early printed books-- 16th century, Bibliography-- Methodology
Early printed books-- 17th century, Bibliography-- Methodology
Manuscripts, European-- History-- 16th century
Manuscripts, European-- History-- 17th century
Transmission of texts-- Europe-- History-- 16th century
Transmission of texts-- Europe-- History-- 17th century