The Bodleian's incunable catalogue describes the Library's fifteenth-century western printed books to the same standards expected in the best modern catalogues of medieval manuscripts. It records and identifies all texts contained in each volume, and the detailed analysis of the textual content is an innovative feature. Further information about authors, editors, translators, and dedicatees is given in an extensive index of names, complete with biographical and other information; this index will be of interest to textural scholars from the classical period to the renaissance. The detailed descriptions of the copy-specific features of each book (the binding, hand-decoration and hand-finishing, marginalia, and provenance) form another important contribution to scholarship. The provenance index will be of great value to all those interested in the history of the book from the 1450s to the present day.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Fuller than any other catalogue of its kind, "Bod-inc" provides more details of the contents of fifteenth-century printed books than any other large catalogue. David McKitterick, Times Literary Supplement
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Höhe: 276 mm
Breite: 219 mm
Dicke: 236 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-19-951373-4 (9780199513734)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Preface; List of Organisations and Individuals who sponsored cataloguing project; List of Members of the Cataloguing Team; List of Academic Advisers; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical abbreviations; General abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; (a) Historical introduction; (i) acquisition of incunabula; (ii) housing of incunabula; (iii) cataloguing of incunabula; (b) The form of the entries in the Catalogue; THE CATALOGUE; (a) Blockbooks; (b) Western incunabula, A-Z; (c) Lisf of Hebraica; INDEXES; (a) Authors, Translators, Editors, Dedicatees; (b) Owners and Donors; (c) Printers and Publishers; APPENDICES; (a) Items recorded by L. A. Sheppard, but not included in the Catalogue; (b) Items included in ISTC, but excluded from the Catalogue; (c) List of items in Schreiber 'Woodcuts from Books of the XVth Century'
