![]() ![]() This approach complements the work of the so-called French post-structuralists, in particular Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes, in its search for evidence within the unwritten as well as the written text. Both these media strive to create an information-based hyper-reality, but can never replace the intimate relationship between a reader and a real manuscript or incunable (early printed book).ĭuring the 1950s the work of François Masai and Bob Delaissé established the interpretation of the book as an object through codicology-the study of the manuscript book from its parchment and script to the social and economic implications of its use, decoration and dissemination. ![]() All of them build on a recent history of the study of illuminated manuscripts that has grown in momentum in tandem with the age of post-analogue reproduction to become the world of the modern facsimile and digital database. ![]() Three are catalogues and represent the collaborative effort of a large number of scholars, curators, conservators and scientists two are demonstrations of personal erudition gained after a lifetime of meticulous and ground-breaking investigation and one is a traditional coffee-table book. These six books carry a considerable weight of scholarship, which also amounts to a 15kg load over nearly half a metre of bookshelf. ![]()
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