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2010-11-24 |
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In this chapter, I coin the term 'casting off blanks' to refer to a procedure often
used in manuscript construction in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the practice
of leaving several pages of a manuscript blank in order to create distinct sections
into which to copy an as yet undecided number of texts. I describe the types of manuscript
in which blank casting off tends to occur, the main forms it takes and methods for
detecting it. In the second half of the article, I examine specific manuscripts in
which blank casting off seems to have been used, often without the knowledge of modern
editors and critics, focusing in particular detail on Anne Southwell's 'commonplace
book' (Folger Shakespeare Library MS Vb.198. I conclude with some suggestions about
the directions future research on this topic might take. |
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Gibson, Jonathan (2010). Casting off blanks: hidden structures in early modern
paper books. In: Daybell, James and Hinds, Peter eds. Material Readings of Early
Modern Culture: Texts and Social Practices, 1580-1730. Early Modern Literature
in History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 208–228. |
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Gibson, Jonathan (2010). Casting off blanks: hidden structures in early modern paper
books. In: Daybell, James and Hinds, Peter eds. Material Readings of Early Modern
Culture: Texts and Social Practices, 1580-1730. Early Modern Literature in History.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 208–228. |
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Casting off blanks: hidden structures in early modern paper books |
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