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"In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of a Netherlandish book of hours made in 1500. Image, Knife, and Gluepot painstakingly reconstructs the process by which this manuscript was created and discusses its significance as a text at the forefront of fifteenth-century book production, when the invention of mechanically-produced images led to the creation of new multimedia objects. Rudy then travels to the nineteenth century to examine the phenomenon of manuscript books being pillaged for their prints and drawings: she has diligently tracked down the dismembered parts of this book of hours for the first time. Image, Knife, and Gluepot also documents Rudy's twenty-first-century research process, as she hunts through archives while grappling with the logistics and occasionally the limits of academic research. This is a timely volume, focusing on questions of materiality at the forefront of medieval and literary studies. Beautifully illustrated throughout, its use of original material and its striking interdisciplinary approach, combining book and art history, make it a significant academic achievement. Image, Knife, and Gluepot is a valuable text for any scholar in the fields of medieval studies, the history of early books and publishing, cultural history or material culture. Written in Rudy's inimitable style, it will also be rewarding for any student enrolled in a course on manuscript production, as well as non-specialists interested in the afterlives of manuscripts and prints."--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliographical Note
• A Note on Images
• Introduction: Hybrid Books in Flux. 1. Cut, Pasted, and Cut Again: The Fate of 140 German and Netherlandish Single-Leaf Prints at the Hands of a Limburg Franciscan and a Modern Connoisseur ; 1.1. The Beghards of Maastricht and their Commercial Pursuits ; 1.2. Israhel's Roundels ; 1.3. The Logic of Accession Numbers ; 1.4. The Knife as a Tool for Creativity ; 1.5. Silhouettes and Doubles ; 1.6. The Thin Red Line ; 1.7. Foliation ; 1.8. A Group of Woodcuts, Possibly Netherlandish ; 1.9. Appropriating German Engravings ; 1.10. Painted Prints from the Circle of Israhel van Meckenem ; 1.11. Monogrammist A ; 1.12. Attributions ; 1.13. Recapitulation ; 1.14. Book Production ; 1.15. A Sheaf of Drawings ; 1.16. Revolutionary Upheavals and the Dispersal of the Prints ; 1.17. The Missing Images: In Paris? ; 1.18. Rothschild ; 1.19. Tross, Again ; 1.20. Holes and Patterns ; 1.21. Conclusions
• 2. A Novel Function for the Calendar in Add. Ms. 24332. 2.1. Calendars and the Principle of Interchangeable Parts ; 2.2. Book Technologies and Social Networks ; 2.3. A Book for Children ; 2.4. Jan van Emmerick ; 2.5. Conclusions ; 3. The Beghards in the Sixteenth Century. 3.1. Another Hoard of Prints From Maastricht ; 3.2. The Calendar of Add. 31002 ; 3.3. Similarities Between Add. 24332 and Add. 31002 ; 3.4. 25 Years Later ; 3.5. Dating the Later Manuscript ; 3.6. Israhel van Meckenem ; 3.7. Conclusion: Changes Over Three Decades ; 4. Manuscripts with Prints: A Sticky Idea. 4.1. Patterns ; 4.2. Hiding in Plain Sight: Prints from Another Drugulin Manuscript ; 4.3. The Dregs in Paris ; 4.4. Berlin ; 4.5. Bleeding into a Chalice ; 4.6. Manuscripts Still Intact ; 4.7. Israhel van Meckenem as a Master of Self-Promotion ; 4.8. Conclusions: Some Assembly Required
• List of Illustrations
• E-figures
• Bibliography
• General Index
• Index of Manuscripts and Prints.

Author/Creator:

Rudy, Kathryn M. , author

Contributors:

Open Book Publishers , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Royal Society of Edinburgh , sponsor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/spn

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Image, knife, and gluepot: early assemblage in manuscript and print [by Rudy, K.M.]

Subjects:

Meckenem, Israhel van, -1503

Catholic Church — Prayers and devotions

Books of hours — Netherlands — History

Books — History — 1450-1600

Codicology

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Medieval — History and criticism

Material culture — Research

Catholic Church

1450-1600

Books

Manuscripts, Medieval

Material culture

Books of hours

Netherlands

Genres:

Prayers and devotions

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

"This work was supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh"--Back of title-page.
Includes bibliography (pages 339-353) and index.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages) : 137 colour illustrations.

Call Numbers:

Z8.N4 R839 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781783745180 (pdf)
9781783745197 (epub)
9781783745203 (mobi)
9781783747252 (XML)

OCLC Numbers:

1110486874

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: xb27062545