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The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland

The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 1, Part IFrom the Earliest Times to 1707 – Foundations, Production and Expansion

Edited by Daryl Green, Alastair J. Mann, Joseph Marshall and Emily Wingfield

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£175.00

About this book

Showcases cutting-edge research into the earliest history of the making of books in Scotland

  • Discusses the earliest books to be made in Scotland, both in manuscript and in print
  • Establishes the long and intertwined history of manuscripts and the printed book in Scotland through the newest research on the making of manuscripts, printed books and the book arts in Scotland across the medieval and early modern periods
  • Provides cultural context in which books, manuscripts and printed materials were made, circulated and used

Over two parts, 69 leading scholars, librarians and archivists come together to analyse the development of the book in Scotland from the early seventh century BCE to the 1707 Union, from depictions of books in carved stone monuments to the printing presses of Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow producing pamphlets and receipts used for everyday business at the end of the seventeenth century.

Part I: Foundations, Production and Expansion establishes the overall boundaries of manuscript and printed book history in Scotland across this millennium and sets the making of books within the wider cultural contexts at play, both at home and abroad. Scots were highly mobile across this one-thousand year period, moving for education and religious reasons, establishing businesses abroad and bringing home new styles and technology. This focused study adds to the narrative of an outward-facing emergent nation, rich in the written word and in a culture of reading, authorship and art.

Reviews

Ranging across manuscript, print, text, paper, word and image, this ambitious collection sites the early Scottish book trade in its expansive multilingual and internationalist contexts. A phenomenal achievement.
By drawing together expertise across a wide chronological period and on subjects including textual languages, the production of books and manuscripts, key individuals and groups, and broad cultural contexts, the editors have produced an enduring and indispensable volume.
Table of contents

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Series Preface by Bill Bell

Introduction: Foundations, Production and Expansion
Daryl Green, Alastair Mann, Joseph Marshall and Emily Wingfield

Section 1. From Manuscript to Print
The Emergence of Scottish Book Culture: Political and Cultural Contexts up to the Eleventh Century
Victoria Thompson Whitworth
The Relationship between Manuscript and Print in Scotland
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards
Profile: The Asloan Manuscript
Ralph Hanna
Manuscripts in Scots and Latin to 1500
Emily Wingfield
Gaelic Manuscripts: A Survey
Ronald Black
Profile: The Bannatyne Manuscript c.1568
Lucy Hinnie
Single-author Manuscripts in the Vernacular 1500–1603
Priscilla Bawcutt
Single-author Manuscripts in Seventeenth-century Scotland
David J. Parkinson
‘Beginning with a king and ending with a king’: The Early Press of Scotland
Alastair J. Mann
Book Culture and the Union of 1707
Laura I. Doak

Section 2. Production, Publication and Selling
Scribes and Notaries Public
Margaret Connolly and Rachel Hart
Profile: A Twelfth-century Augustine Opera – from the Scriptorium of the Priory of St Andrews
Norman H. Reid
Illuminations and Miniatures
Bryony Coombs
Parchment and Paper: The Material of the Word
Alastair J. Mann
Profile: Walter Chepman and Andro Myllar
Lucy Hughes
Scottish Typography
Kelsey Jackson Williams
Scottish Illustrated Books
Sebastiaan Verweij
Profile: The Press of Andro Hart
Alastair J. Mann
Government Policy and Regulation of the Scottish Book Trade
Alastair J. Mann
Censorship by the State in Pre-modern Scotland
Alastair J. Mann
Copyright in Scotland before 1710
Alastair J. Mann
Scottish Bookbinding before c.1700
Joseph Marshall
Profile: Determining ‘Ordinary’ Scottish Bookbinding Practices of the Seventeenth Century: A Survey
Elizabeth Quarmby Lawrence
The Emergence of Booksellers in Pre-modern Scotland
Adam Fox
Profile: Agnes Campbell, Royal Printer
Alastair J. Mann

Section 3. Cultural Contexts
Medieval Scottish Authors
Katherine H. Terrell
Imported Printings: Scottish Authors, 1560-c.1700
Brian Hillyard
Foreign Books in Scotland to c.1603
Nicola Royan
The Scottish Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Book-historical Perspective
Alasdair A. MacDonald
Anglicisation in Scottish Printed Texts
Derrick McClure
The Debate Over Literacy
Alastair J. Mann
The Significance of the Gaelic Corpus to c.1700
Ronald Black

Section 4. Geographies of the Book: Domestic and International
4.1. Trade and Travel: Books Abroad
Imported Manuscripts in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Bryony Coombs
Book importing into Scotland before 1560
Daryl Green and Ulrike Hogg
Profile: Archbishop William Scheves (c. 1440-97)
Daryl Green
The Circulation of Scottish Books in Europe to c. 1700
Alessandra Petrina
4.2. Centres of Book-making
Book-making Influences from Neighbouring Cultures, c.600 to c.1000
Victoria Thompson Whitworth
The Early Book in Perth
Mark A. Hall
‘Prentit at sanct Androus’: A Provincial Press Reappraised
Elizabeth Henderson
The Book Trade of Aberdeen and the North-east before the Eighteenth Century
Iain Beavan
The Book in Glasgow and the West
Michael Moss
The Press of Restoration Edinburgh
Alastair J. Mann

Contributors
Secondary Bibliography
Index

About the contributors

Daryl Green

Daryl Green is Associate Director for Heritage Collections and Co-Director of the Centre for Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh. Daryl has worked professionally with manuscripts and early printed books at York Minster Library, the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), the University of St Andrews and Oxford. He has published on early Scottish book ownership, the history of science communication and on professional topics such as exhibition theory and image rights.

Alastair J. Mann

Alastair Mann in Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. Previous books include The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720 (John Donald, 2000) and James VII: Duke and King of Scots, 1633-1701 (John Donald, 2014). He was co-editor of the three-volume The History of the Scottish Parliament (EUP, 2004-2010).

Joseph Marshall

Joseph Marshall is Director of Collections Management at the National Library of Scotland. He trained as a rare books librarian and was Head of Special Collections at Edinburgh University Library for five years. His research interests include the writings of King James VI & I and he co-edited the edition published by Ashgate in 2003. His professional interests include digitisation, preservation and metadata.

Emily Wingfield

Emily Wingfield is Professor of English and Older Scots Literature at the University of Birmingham. She specialises in Older Scots romance, manuscript culture, and women’s literary culture, with key publications including The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature (2014) and the Saltire-shortlisted Scotland’s Royal Women and European Literary Culture 1424-1587 (2023). She is now working on an Anglophone critical edition and translation of the writings of Mary, Queen of Scots.

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