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Hebrew incunabula in public collections : a first international census
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ISBN: 9060044045 9789060044049 Year: 1990 Volume: 47 Publisher: Nieuwkoop De Graaf


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Abstractions of evidence in the study of manuscripts and early printed books
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ISBN: 9780754665014 9781315263472 9781351961141 9781138251496 Year: 2009 Publisher: Aldershot [etc.] Ashgate

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In this book, Joseph Dane critiques the use of material evidence in studies of manuscript and printed books by delving into accepted notions about the study of print culture. He questions the institutional and ideological presuppositions that govern medieval studies, descriptive bibliography, and library science. Dane begins by asking what is the relation between material evidence and the abstract statements made about the evidence; ultimately he asks how evidence is to be defined. The goal of this book is to show that evidence from texts and written objects often becomes twisted to support pre-existing arguments; and that generations of bibliographers have created narratives of authorship, printing, reading, and editing that reflect romantic notions of identity, growth, and development. The first part of the book is dedicated to medieval texts and authorship: materials include "Everyman", Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women", the "Anglo-Norman Le Seint Resurrection", and Adam de la Halle's "Le Jeu de Robin et Marion". The second half of the book is concerned with abstract notions about books and scholarly definitions about what a book actually is: chapters include studies of basic bibliographical concepts ("Ideal Copy") and the application of such a notion in early editions of Chaucer, the combination of manuscript and printing in the books of Colard Mansion, and finally, examples of the organization of books by an early nineteenth-century book-collector Leander Van Ess. This study is an important contribution to debates about the nature of bibliography and the critical institutions that have shaped its current practice. Several chapters or parts of this book appeared elsewhere.


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Als die Lettern laufen lernten : Medienwandel im 15. Jahrhundert ; Inkunabeln aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München ; [Ausstellung 18. August - 31. Oktober 2009]
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ISBN: 9783895006999 3895006998 Year: 2009 Volume: 81 Publisher: Wiesbaden Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag

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Summary: Aus den reichen Inkunabelbeständen der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, die mit über 20.000 Exemplaren weltweit eine Spitzenposition einnimmt, werden etwa 90 Objekte gezeigt. In der Schatzkammer sind die berühmtesten Wiegendrucke zu sehen, darunter die "Gutenberg-Bibel" und der "Türkenkalender" von 1454, ein Unikat der Münchener Sammlung. Sie geben Einblick in die Vielfalt der drucktechnischen Innovationen in der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts und zeigen, wie der Buchdruck allmählich die Handschriften verdrängte. Ausstellung: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München, 19.8.-31.10.2009.

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