Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 11660
Author(s): Dutton, Elisabeth.
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Title : Textual Disunities and Ambiguities of "mise-en-page" in the Manuscripts Containing "Book to a Mother" ["Book to a Mother" is a compilation text in which a son discusses prayers and various teachings of the Church. It is frequently accompanied by other devotional pieces in its four surviving manuscript copies. Dutton presents a brief codicological analysis of the four manuscripts emphasizing scribal practices in handling divisions within texts and separations between texts. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History , 6., ( 2003): Pages 149 - 159.
Year of Publication: 2003.

2. Record Number: 4243
Author(s): Beach, Alison I.
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Title : Claustration and Collaboration Between the Sexes in the Twelfth-Century Scriptorium [the author compares the book production practices of two German double houses; Admont valued women's learning and the abbot worked with nuns to write down his Biblical commentaries; Schäftlarn did not train women in writing nor allow them access to books, but women who could already write were put to work in the scriptorium].

Source: Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society. Essays in Honor of Lester K. Little. Edited by Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein . Cornell University Press, 2000. Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History , 6., ( 2003): Pages 57 - 75.
Year of Publication: 2000.