ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book looks particularly at the shift from manuscripts to the physical book, while taking into account the medieval book as not only as a source of information, but also as an aesthetic experience, a status symbol, and a shrewd investment. Tracing the rise of the book in the ninth and tenth century, this insightful study looks at the way in which the scribes eased the shift from manuscript to book through additions such as running titles and chapter numbers. A rich and intriguing history, Turning over a New Leaf examines how readers and the reading experience shape books, and vice versa.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Erik Kwakkel is associate professor in paleography at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and principal investigator of the research project Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
List of Figures and Plates
Abbreviations

Introduction: Gerard Isaac Lieftinck
_____ J. P. Gumbert
Glossaries and Other Innovations in Carolingian Book Production
_____ Rosamond McKitterick
Biting, Kissing and the Treatment of Feet: The Transitional Script of the Long Twelfth Century
_____ Erik Kwakkel
The Place of Germany in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Books, Scriptoria and Libraries
_____ Rodney Thomson

Bibliography
Notes on the Authors
Colour Plates
Graphs
Index of Manuscripts
General Index