Permeable Boundaries: Manuscript and Print in Concert in Early Modern Sweden
Abstract
This article intends to show how manuscript and printed texts
continued to co-exist during the first centuries following the
invention of the printing press. The two media depended on
and nourished each other in various ways. The handwritten
text usually precedes the print, but often the print also becomes
a model for handwritten copies. Furthermore, there are
texts – and books – which were never intended to be printed
due to their personal character, or which could not be printed
due to their particular or provocative contents. Variations
within this concomitance of printed and handwritten material
are discussed on the basis of a number of manuscript books
from Skara Stifts- och Landsbibliotek. The examples include
authors’ originals, miscellanies, study compendia, interfoliated
and annotated prints, and books that display manuscript and
printed text items bound together. The creation of apographs
by Swedish war prisoners during their Siberian captivity is
referred to as a case where sheer necessity brought about
manuscript book production in the early eighteenth century.
Publisher
LIR. journal
Collections
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Date
2011Author
Nyström, Eva
Keywords
manuscript
autograph
apograph
miscellany
interfoliation
annotated print
Skara Stifts- och Landsbibliotek
Publication type
article, peer reviewed scientific
Language
eng