Identifying offcut zone parchment in medieval manuscripts
| dc.contributor.author | Lahey, Stephanie J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-13T22:10:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-13T22:10:09Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2019 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Medieval European book artisans sometimes recruited offcuts—flawed, irregular, lower-quality parchment scraps created as by-products of the parchment-making process—as writing support. Given the less desirable traits of these ‘seconds’, attention to how they were used might shed light on concealed aspects of medieval book production and readership, such as informal or downmarket copying. Yet investigating offcut use first requires a reasonably reliable strategy for identifying offcuts. This paper summarizes a novel, biochemically informed, corpus-based study which evaluated 21 features specified in the existing literature on offcuts, ultimately establishing a preliminary set of diagnostic traits via linear regression analysis. | en_US |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. | Cette recherche a été financée par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lahey, S. J. (2019). Identifying offcut zone parchment in medieval manuscripts. Proceedings of ManuSciences, Franco-German spring school organized by EphéNum – Digital Humanities, 68-70. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/14665 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | ManuSciences | en_US |
| dc.subject | Parchment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Offcuts | en_US |
| dc.subject | Statistical modelling | en_US |
| dc.subject | Linear regression | en_US |
| dc.title | Identifying offcut zone parchment in medieval manuscripts | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |