Franciscan books and their readers : friars and manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy

The book explores the manuscripts written, read, and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in Northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership. The ideal is studied through the regulations that determined what manuscripts should aim for. Space refers to the development and role of Franciscan libraries. The form is revealed by the assessment of the physical configuration of a set of representative manuscripts read, written, and manufactured by the friars. Finally, the study of the readership shows how Franciscans were skilled readers who employed certain forms of the manuscript as a portable, personal library, and as a tool for learning and pastoral care. By comparing the book collections of Padua?s reformed and unreformed medieval Franciscan libraries for the first time, this study reveals new features of the ground-breaking cultural agency of medieval friars.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9463729518 ; 9789463729512
• Dimensions: 24 cm
• Extent: 238 Seiten
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Illustrationen

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Allgemeines, Wissenschaft ; Handschriften, seltene Bücher
• Keyword: Franziskaner ; Franziskaner ; Observanten ; Franziskaner ; Geschichte 1400-1500 ; Handschrift ; Gelehrsamkeit ; Lehre ; Predigt ; Leser ; Ordensregel ; Buch ; Illuminierte Handschrift ; Buchproduktion ; Liturgische Handschrift ; Reform ; Bibliothek ; Buch ; Leser ; Padua ; Padua

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Amsterdam
• (who): Amsterdam University Press
• (when): 2022
• Creator: Hernández Vera, René

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/125829737X/04
• Rights: Bei diesem Objekt liegt nur das Inhaltsverzeichnis digital vor. Der Zugriff darauf ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 11.06.2025, 1:46 PM CEST