Reading the Margins: Investigating Reading Practices in Early Sixteenth-century Scotland

这项研究的中心目的是了解读者是如何与16世纪上半叶印刷的书籍互动和阅读的：更具体地说，-早期现代苏格兰的读者如何与他们拥有的和/或通过他们手中的书籍互动和阅读他们拥有的和/或通过他们手中传递的书籍？该项目将就人文主义学习、经典文本的版本以及读者通过注释表现出的兴趣提出这个问题。为了回答这些问题，我将研究带有页边空白的印刷书籍，从古代学的角度寻找不同读者在研究方法和兴趣上的模式。此外，利用古文字学来研究边注，将有助于研究者准确地确定这类书籍在哪里以及何时被研究和阅读，并有助于我们理解人文斜体文字在近代早期英国的出现。我将考察和研究的读者类型与我通过初步目录研究确定的文本类型有关。目录研究使用关键字“Margalia”，并根据它们的收藏和历史选择特定的图书馆(Durkan和Ross，1961)：爱丁堡大学、苏格兰国家图书馆、阿伯丁大学、格拉斯哥大学、圣安德鲁斯大学和Innerpeffray图书馆；在找到手写边缘的书籍后，我确定了主要有两个主题的书籍：古典文本和神学。考虑到考虑到的具体时期，这显然并不令我们惊讶，最终的论文很可能是关于苏格兰有学问的读者，因为这些人拥有阅读和评论这类文本的智力工具。(Petrina和Johnston，2018年)

The central aim of this research is to understand how readers interacted with and read books printed in the first half of the 16th century: more specifically, - how did readers in early modern Scotland, interact with and read the books, printed between 1500 and 1550, that they owned and/or that passed through their hands? The project will ask that question in relation to humanist learning, to editions of classical texts, and to the interests that readers manifest through their annotations. To answer these questions, I will study printed books with marginalia using a palaeographic perspective to find patterns in study methods and interests from different readers. Moreover, using palaeography to study marginalia will help the researcher in pinpointing where and when such books have been studied and read, as well as contribute to our understanding of the emergence of the humanist italic script in early modern Britain.The kind of readers that I will examine and study are connected to the type of texts that I identified through initial catalogue research. The catalogue research was conducted using the key-word "marginalia" and selecting specific libraries, chosen because of their collections and history (Durkan and Ross, 1961): Edinburgh University, National Library of Scotland, Aberdeen University, Glasgow University, St Andrews University and Innerpeffray library; after finding books that have handwritten marginalia, I identified books that have mostly two topics: classical texts and theology. This clearly does not surprise us, considering the specific period taken in consideration, and it is highly likely that the final dissertation will be about Scottish learned readers, because these individuals had the intellectual tools to read and comment on such texts. (Petrina and Johnston, 2018)