Remember the Hand: Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia

by Catherine Brown

Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence--scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits. While marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature of medieval manuscripts, rarely do scribes make...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823298914
• ISBN13: 9780823298914
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"