Abstract:

This article examines the efforts of Matthew Parker and his scholarly circle to understand the medieval books that he collected as archbishop of Canterbury. It argues that Parker made sense of his books by connecting them to what amounted to an emerging history of the book. That is, Parker began to piece together the formal features of different medieval books into a rough but increasingly refined timeline of the history of book production in order to contextualize any given manuscript. The evidence can be found scattered throughout Parker's library, in the form of annotations, transcripts of passages, copied illustrations, and printed books that offer a wealth of information about how Parker's team understood the books they handled. This documentation reveals how they combined scribal knowledge with textual information, to powerful ends. By connecting Parker's practices to contemporary developments in other areas of knowledge production, from alchemy to conjectural emendation, this article offers a new way forward for scholarly analysis of the early modern study of older books, especially for our analysis of early modern practices and paradigms that do not fit modern definitions of paleography and codicology.

摘要：

本文探讨了马修·帕克和他的学术界为理解他作为坎特伯雷大主教收集的中世纪书籍所做的努力。它认为帕克通过将他的书与这本书的新兴历史联系起来来理解它们。也就是说，帕克开始将不同中世纪书籍的形式特征拼凑成一个粗略但日益完善的书籍生产历史时间表，以便将任何给定的手稿置于语境中。这些证据散布在帕克的图书馆各处，包括注释、段落抄本、复印插图和印刷书籍，这些形式提供了有关帕克团队如何理解他们处理的书籍的大量信息。该文档揭示了他们如何将抄写知识与文本信息结合起来，以达到强大的目的。通过将帕克的实践与当代其他知识生产领域的发展（从炼金术到猜想修正）联系起来，本文为对旧书的早期现代研究的学术分析提供了一条新的前进方向，特别是对于我们对早期现代实践和范式的分析不符合古文字学和法典学的现代定义。