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“The sum of All in All”: the miniature book and the nature of legibility
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The preface to a mid-seventeenth century edition of Verbum Sempiternum declares that 'though the Volume and the Work be smal,/Yet it containes the sum of All in All.'; A miniaturised devotional work, Verbum Sempiternum uses its size to frame a tension between human and divine scale: in this case, smallness is made to articulate ontological implications, showing how a human form might attempt to comprehend a limitless divine reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates the way in which all kind...
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- Publication status:
- In press
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature
- Chapter number:
- 1
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
- EISBN:
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9781108993296
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subtype:
- Chapter
- Pubs id:
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1262944
- Local pid:
- pubs:1262944
- Deposit date:
- 2022-06-10
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- Notes:
- Accepted for publication in Small Things in the Eighteenth Century, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
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