In recording such practical information along with the more literary contents of his book, Hanson reflected a stage not only in the transition from an oral to a scribal
culture, but also in the formation of a burgeoning "public" for painting (especially portraiture and wall painting), and for the associated genres of heraldry and calligraphy.
xxv) Author: John Suckling (amateur) Includes dramatis personae list Manuscript type: scribal
presentation copy (1637-8) Play type: professional (King's Men) Source: Greg 1931, 332-3
Indeed, her treatment of formularies in the contexts of literacy, orality, and scribal
activity makes the book methodologically useful for anyone concerned with the production and reception of texts before printing.
This passage highlights the logic of a scribal
The colophon is another aspect of the codex that clearly stands in a scribal
tradition inherited from India.
But was Eisenstein really so blind to the points the present writers are malting about the limitations of print and the continuity of scribal
and oral promulgation of texts in the period?
Over half of the manuscripts are thought to be written in the poets' own handwriting (Astell, Burghope, Palmer, Roper, Seager, Ley [partial], Walsh, and Wroth), and the remaining six are in scribal
hands (Cavendish, Hutchinson, Philips, Pulter, Southwell, and Sidney).
Most impressively, the volumes show the connectivity between oral and scribal
forms of the literatures of this pan-African world.
omissions as well as damaged or lost text that is impossible to restore" (9), is confusing.
Ong documents the shift from the largely oral/aural modes of communication, consciousness, and culture associated with scribal
culture, and towards an increasingly more dominant visualism.
When a judge's discretion is infringed upon, it makes it difficult to do that because with new laws, there's a lot of scribal
errors,'' she said.
Doyle confirms the same scribal
hand in The Prick of Conscience and the B text of Piers Plowman.