Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 1

Dr. Alastair Mann is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Stirling. Sally Mapstone is Fellow and Senior Tutor in Medieval English Language and Literature at St Hilda's Collge, Oxford. She is author of Scots and their Books in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 1996); co-editor, with Helen Cooper, of The Long Fifteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 1997) and editor or co-editor of several books on Medieval and Renaissance Scotland.

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsChronologySeries Preface by Bill BellIntroduction: Foundations, Production and ExpansionDaryl Green, Alastair Mann, Joseph Marshall and Emily WingfieldSection 1. From Manuscript to PrintThe Emergence of Scottish Book Culture: Political and Cultural Contexts up to the Eleventh CenturyVictoria Thompson WhitworthThe Relationship between Manuscript and Print in ScotlandJulia Boffey and A. S. G. EdwardsProfile: The Asloan ManuscriptRalph HannaManuscripts in Scots and Latin to 1500Emily WingfieldGaelic Manuscripts: A SurveyRonald BlackProfile: The Bannatyne Manuscript c.1568Lucy HinnieSingle-author Manuscripts in the Vernacular 1500–1603Priscilla BawcuttSingle-author Manuscripts in Seventeenth-century ScotlandDavid J. Parkinson‘Beginning with a king and ending with a king’: The Early Press of ScotlandAlastair J. MannBook Culture and the Union of 1707Laura I. DoakSection 2. Production, Publication and SellingScribes and Notaries PublicMargaret Connolly and Rachel HartProfile: A Twelfth-century Augustine Opera – from the Scriptorium of the Priory of St AndrewsNorman H. ReidIlluminations and MiniaturesBryony CoombsParchment and Paper: The Material of the WordAlastair J. MannProfile: Walter Chepman and Andro MyllarLucy HughesScottish TypographyKelsey Jackson WilliamsScottish Illustrated BooksSebastiaan VerweijProfile: The Press of Andro HartAlastair J. MannGovernment Policy and Regulation of the Scottish Book TradeAlastair J. MannCensorship by the State in Pre-modern ScotlandAlastair J. MannCopyright in Scotland before 1710Alastair J. MannScottish Bookbinding before c.1700Joseph MarshallProfile: Determining ‘Ordinary’ Scottish Bookbinding Practices of the Seventeenth Century: A SurveyElizabeth Quarmby LawrenceThe Emergence of Booksellers in Pre-modern ScotlandAdam FoxProfile: Agnes Campbell, Royal PrinterAlastair J. MannSection 3. Cultural ContextsMedieval Scottish AuthorsKatherine H. TerrellImported Printings: Scottish Authors, 1560-c.1700Brian HillyardForeign Books in Scotland to c.1603Nicola RoyanThe Scottish Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Book-historical PerspectiveAlasdair A. MacDonaldAnglicisation in Scottish Printed TextsDerrick McClureThe Debate Over LiteracyAlastair J. MannThe Significance of the Gaelic Corpus to c.1700Ronald BlackSection 4. Geographies of the Book: Domestic and International4.1. Trade and Travel: Books AbroadImported Manuscripts in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesBryony CoombsBook importing into Scotland before 1560Daryl Green and Ulrike HoggProfile: Archbishop William Scheves (c. 1440-97)Daryl GreenThe Circulation of Scottish Books in Europe to c. 1700Alessandra Petrina4.2. Centres of Book-making Book-making Influences from Neighbouring Cultures, c.600 to c.1000Victoria Thompson WhitworthThe Early Book in PerthMark A. Hall‘Prentit at sanct Androus’: A Provincial Press ReappraisedElizabeth HendersonThe Book Trade of Aberdeen and the North-east before the Eighteenth CenturyIain BeavanThe Book in Glasgow and the WestMichael MossThe Press of Restoration EdinburghAlastair J. MannContributorsSecondary BibliographyIndex

Ranging across manuscript, print, text, paper, word and image, this ambitious collection sites the early Scottish book trade in its expansive multilingual and internationalist contexts. A phenomenal achievement.