Title Pages in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Icelandic Manuscripts: The Development and Functions of Print Features in Manuscript Form

Silvia Hufnagel
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Abstract:This article analyses the influence of the printing press on Icelandic handwritten manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Iceland has a particularly rich and long-lasting manuscript culture that did not cease until the early twentieth century. Many post-medieval manuscripts include paratextual features that are more commonly connected with printed books, such as title pages which were a true innovation of the printing press but which are found in manuscripts, too. The earliest Icelandic title pages are found in manuscripts that were written for or by highly educated men and that contain the same textual genres that were printed, too, although references to print are rare. Title pages appear frequently in hymn manuscripts and various scribal strategies can be detected, from strict copies of their printed exemplars to emulating title pages of learned works. Often the medium of reception, or more precisely, singing is mentioned. Title pages appear very seldom in saga manuscripts, a popular genre that was restricted to the handwritten medium at that time. These title pages show much more decoration than hymn title pages and are full of stylistic and rhetorical elements of Baroque literature, such as alliteration and accumulatio. Similar to hymn title pages, the medium of reception, of reading and listening to, is stated. This analysis proves that title pages in manuscripts derived from printed books but that they developed their own specific characteristics, depended on several factors: printed models, generic traditions, the medium of reception, and individual choices of scribes and patrons.
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16和17世纪冰岛手稿中的标题页:手稿形式中印刷特征的发展和功能
摘要:本文分析了16、17世纪印刷术对冰岛手抄本的影响。冰岛拥有特别丰富和持久的手稿文化,直到20世纪初才停止。许多后中世纪的手稿包含了通常与印刷书籍相关的副文本特征,例如标题页,这是印刷机的真正创新,但在手稿中也可以找到。冰岛最早的扉页是在手稿中发现的,这些手稿是为受过高等教育的人写的,或者是由受过高等教育的人写的,其中包含的文本体裁也与印刷的相同,尽管很少提到印刷。标题页经常出现在赞美诗手稿中,可以发现各种各样的抄写策略,从严格复制他们的印刷范例到模仿学术作品的标题页。通常会提到接受的媒介,或者更准确地说,是歌唱。标题页很少出现在传奇手稿中,这是一种流行的体裁,当时仅限于手写的媒介。这些扉页比赞美诗扉页有更多的装饰,充满了巴洛克文学的风格和修辞元素,如头韵和累加。类似于赞美诗的标题页,接受的媒介,阅读和听,是说明。这一分析证明,手稿中的标题页源自印刷书籍,但它们发展出了自己的特定特征,这取决于几个因素:印刷模式、一般传统、接受的媒介以及抄写员和赞助人的个人选择。
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