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Incunabula classicorum : Wiegendrucke der griechischen und römischen Literatur
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ISBN: 9025606547 9789025606541 Year: 1973 Publisher: Amsterdam Hakkert


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Grasping the donkey's tail
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ISBN: 9780857013101 0857013106 9781848193512 1848193513 Year: 2017 Publisher: London Philadelphia

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What is a book?
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ISBN: 0268201439 9780268201432 9780268026097 0268026092 Year: 2012 Publisher: Notre Dame, Indiana

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This work is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Using his own bibliographic interests as a guide, the author selects illustrative examples primarily from fifteenth-century books, books of particular interest to students of English literature, and books central to the development of Anglo-American bibliography. It covers the basic procedures of printing and the parts of the physical book, size, paper, type, illustration; as well as the history of book-copies from cataloging conventions and provenance to electronic media and their implications for the study of books. The author begins with the central distinction between a "book-copy", the particular, individual, physical book, and a "book", the abstract category that organizes these copies into editions, whereby each copy is interchangeable with any other. Among other issues, he addresses such basic questions as: How do students, bibliographers, and collectors discuss these things? And when is it legitimate to generalize on the basis of particular examples? He considers each issue in terms of a practical example or question a reader might confront: How do you identify books on the basis of typography? What is the status of paper evidence? How are the various elements on the page defined? What are the implications of the images available in an online database? And, significantly, how does a scholar's personal experience with books challenge or conform to the standard language of book history and bibliography?


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Incunabula in transit : people and trade
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ISBN: 9789004340350 9004340351 9789004340367 900434036X Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Almost half a million books printed in the fifteenth century survive in collections worldwide. In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores how and where they were first disseminated. Propelled by the novel need to market hundreds of books, early printers formed networks with colleagues, engaged agents and traded Latin books over long distances. They adapted presentation to suit the taste of distinct readerships, local and remote. Publishing in vernacular languages required typographical innovations, as the chapter on William Caxton’s Flanders enterprise demonstrates. Eighteenth-century collectors dislodged books from institutions where they had rested since the sales drives of early printers. Erudite and entertaining, Hellinga’s evidence-based approach, linked to historical context, deepens understanding of the trade in early printed books.


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La fabbrica del codice : materiali per la storia del libro nel tardo medioevo
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ISBN: 8885669751 9788885669758 Year: 1999 Volume: 14 Publisher: Roma : Viella,


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Catálogo de incunables de la biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense
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ISBN: 8489784450 Year: 1998 Publisher: Madrid Ed. Complutense

Buchkultur im Mittelalter
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ISBN: 3110189224 9783110189223 9786612195297 1282195298 3110201534 9783110201536 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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Der Sammelband gilt der europäischen Buchkultur der Vormoderne im Hinblick auf materielle Erscheinungsweisen von Handschrift und Frühdruck, auf deren Inhalte und Gebrauchsformen sowie auf die damit verbundenen Vorverständnisse. Berücksichtigt werden auch Beziehungen und Abgrenzungen gegenüber Nachbarkulturen wie der islamischen Welt. Das Buch profiliert sich dabei in seiner Eigenschaft als singulärer, von bestimmten Ausstattungsformen geprägter Textträger ebenso wie in seinen je spezifischen Kontexten: Erörtert werden Überlieferungstraditionen, Besonderheiten des Gebrauchs und der Aufbewahrung, rituell-symbolhafte Funktionen sowie die Nähe und Distanz zu Bildmedien und Formen der Performanz. Die versammelten Beiträge bieten zu den genannten Themen Überblicksdarstellungen und am Detail orientierte Fallstudien.


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A companion to the early printed book in Britain 1476-1558
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ISBN: 9781843843634 9781782042099 9781843845362 1843843633 1843845369 1782042091 Year: 2014 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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The history of the book is now recognized as a field of central importance for understanding the cultural changes that swept through Tudor England. This companion aims to provide a comprehensive guide to the issues relevant to theearly printed book, covering the significant cultural, social and technological developments from 1476 (the introduction of printing to England) to 1558 (the death of Mary Tudor). Divided into thematic sections (the printed booktrade; the book as artefact; patrons, purchasers and producers; and the cultural capital of print), it considers the social, historical, and cultural context of the rise of print, with the problems as well as advantages of the transmission from manuscript to print. the printers of the period; the significant Latin trade and its effect on the English market; paper, types, bindings, and woodcuts and other decorative features which create the packaged book; and the main sponsors and consumers of the printed book: merchants, the lay clientele, secular and religious clergy, and the two Universities, as well as secular colleges and chantries. Further topics addressed include humanism, women translators, and the role of censorship and the continuity of Catholic publishing from that time. The book is completed with a chronology and detailed indices. Vincent Gillespie is J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford; Susan Powell held a Chair in Medieval Texts and Culture at the University of Salford, and is currently affiliated to the Universities of London and York. Contributors: Tamara Atkin, Alan Coates, Thomas Betteridge, Julia Boffey, James Clark, A.S.G. Edwards, Martha W. Driver, Mary Erler, Alexandra Gilespie, Vincent Gillespie, Andrew Hope, Brenda Hosington, Susan Powerll, Pamela Robinson, AnneF. Sutton, Daniel Wakelin, James Willoughby, Lucy Wooding


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Early printed books as material objects : proceedings of the conference organized by the IFLA Rare books and manuscripts section, Munich, 19-21 August 2009
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ISSN: 03446891 ISBN: 9783110253245 3110253240 9786613430168 3110255308 1283430169 9783110255300 Year: 2010 Volume: 149 Publisher: Berlin : de Gruyter,

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The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and reception. Books printed in Europe in the 15th and 16th century still had much in common with manuscripts. They are not mere textual sources, but also material objects whose physical make-up and individual features need to be taken into account in library projects for cataloguing and digitization.

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