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"This work is a study on the very first spread of printing in Florence, the privileged production site of manuscript books. The study is based on the perusal and analysis of ancient inventories, catalogues and book lists that describe the ownership of numerous libraries throughout the city between 1470 and 1520. The main reason for this investigation is that Florence can be considered, for all intents and purposes, a book history capital owing to the variety and number of printed volumes produced in the first two decades of the sixteenth century. After an introduction to the objectives and criteria chosen, the research then goes on to cover various fields of investigation, including a purely quantitative and statistical analysis accompanied by a qualitative study of the form and vocabulary used by those who compiled the sources for the description of printed books, as well as a reflection on the information derived from the documents compared to other exemplary establishments in Italy. This is followed by the Repertory which describes the mentioned sources in more detail and offers an analysis criterion that scrutinises the book document in each of its specific sections. The second part consists of the Catalogue of authors and editions of the printed copies described by the sources. Unpublished book sources are shown in the Appendix. The work concludes with a rich bibliography and indexes."--

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