In that vein, Theresa Gross-Diaz's chapter on "Manuscripts and mise-en-page," in her
_The Psalms Commentary of Gilbert of Poitiers_ (Brill, 1996), may be of interest to
you. Her notes cast a wide net too.
Nell Gifford Martin
http://www.cyberpsalter.org
James R Ginther wrote:
> | I wonder if some of the research on manuscript layouts can be helpful
> | here? Ares there, for instance, some valid conclusions to be drawn about
> | the "psychology" of exegesis based on how these manuscripts were
> | assembled. Martin Irvine's "The Making of Textual Culture" has some
> | interesting material on the variations in how these manuscripts and
> | commentaries were assembled. It may be that to look, quite literally, at
> | the texts as they were "formatted" to use a computer term, would be
> | useful. THat or I have been hanging around with codicologists too much.
> | Regards, Terry
>
> Interesting point. Ann Matter gave a paper on this subject (or
> alluded to it) at Kzoo a few years back. I don't know if she has
> published it yet. The main objection (and it is not really a major
> problem) I have had to these approaches is that they often only focus
> on one filter for exegesis, one of many (the Gloss, canon law,
> liturgy, etc). Given the complexity of these issues, this is not a
> defect; I suppose I just want someone to give a guide for bringing
> these issues together. God help us, if that is left up to me. :-)
>
> I should also say thanks to Steven Cartwright for his bibliographical
> suggestions on this topic.
>
> Cheers
> Jim
>
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