At 09:31 28.09.98 -0700, you wrote:
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>>This is very down-to-earth stuff compared to the list`s more literary
>>topics. I hope it is of interest to some of you and that I can bombard
>>with you awkward questions at some point. The only question I have at the
>>moment is about the reminders, in the shape of a pointing hand, (a sort of
>>medieval book-mark) in the margins of medieval and renaissance
>>manuscripts. I don't know what they are called and where I can read about
>>their development and about the use of similar symbols in medieval
>>Italian scripts. I'm just reading Petrucci's marvellous Writers and
>>Readers in Medieval Italy, 1995, but have no definite clue.
>
>
>A. C. de la Mare has done some work on these symbols, I believe; you might
>try looking at her _The Handwriting of Italian Humanists_.
I believe the technical term is "maniculae" ('little hands'). In addition
to the work quoted by Steven, you could try Lilian M. C. Randall, _Images
in the margins of Gothic manuscripts_, Berkeley [et al.]: Univ. of
California Press, 1966 (= California studies in the history of art, 4);
Randall deals with marginal drawings/illuminations of a different kind,
esp. animals, but might eventually have something on marginal pointers,
too, because these were sometimes elaborate pictures showing a full person
or a monkey pointing at the passage in the text). And there is Jocelyn C.
Griffin, _Pointing gestures in medieval miniatures: a study based on
illustrated manuscripts of the Terence comedies_, Diss. New York Univ.,
1991, viii+219+xxix pp.
Best,
Otfried
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