Early Printed Books as Material Objects
Proceeding of the Conference Organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Munich, 19-21 August 2009
1st Edition
Published on 23. December 2010
XII, 367 pages
978-3-11-025530-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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"Insgesamt bietet der vorliegende Band einen eindrucksvollen Überblick über aktuelle Forschungsgebiete und -tendenzen im Bereich der Inkunabel- und Frühdruckforschung. Die Aufsätze bewegen sich überwiegend auf hohem wissenschaftlichem Niveau und bieten trotz ihrer zum Teil sehr spezialisierten Fragestellungen stets auch befruchtende Anregungen zur Methodik der Buchgeschichtsforschung."Oliver Duntze, in: LIBREAS.Library Ideas, Jg. 8, H. 1 (20) "The volume presents a very useful conspectus of the kind of new directions in incunable research that will bear fruit in the future."Medium Aevum LXXX (2011) "Nicely illustrated with colour plates and black and white reproductions, this volume is a rich and stimulating collection for anyone interested in the burgeoning study of books as material objects."Jonathan Harrison in: CILIP Rare Books Newsletter 91 (2012)More details
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Early Printed Books as Material Objects
Proceeding of the Conference Organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Munich, 19-21 August 2009
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12/2010
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Bettina Wagner | Marcia Reed
Early Printed Books as Material Objects
Proceeding of the Conference Organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Munich, 19-21 August 2009
Book
12/2010
1st Edition
De Gruyter Saur
€149.95
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Bettina Wagner, Abteilung für Handschriften und Alte Drucke Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Abbreviations and Short Titles
- Introduction
- The Beginnings of Printing
- Copy-specifics in the Printing Shop
- The Gutenberg Bibles that Survive as Binder's Waste
- Painted Decoration
- The First Experiments in Book Decoration at the Fust-Schöffer Press
- Information from Illumination: Three Case Studies of Incunabula in the 1470s
- Producing, Buying and Decorating Books in the Age of Gutenberg. The Role of Monasteries in Central Europe
- Colour Plates
- Manuscript Annotation
- Pomponio Leto's Unpublished Commentary on Sallust: Five Witnesses (and more)
- Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' in a Marginal Note in a Cicero Incunable
- Bookbindings
- Links between a Fifteenth-century Printer and a Binder
- The German Database of Historical Bookbindings (EBDB): Aims and Perspectives of a Cooperative Research Tool
- Bookbindings on Incunabula in American Library Collections: a Working Census
- Distribution and Provenance
- The Venetian Booktrade: a Methodological Approach to and First Results of Book-based Historical Research
- Private Libraries in Sixteenth-century Italy
- Quatre siècles d'histoire de la bibliothèque Vettori: entre vénération et valorisation
- The 'Biography of Copies': Provenance Description in Online Catalogues
- The Later Use of Incunabula
- Creating a Better Past: Collectors of Incunabula in the Late Eighteenth Century
- Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Detecting and Interpreting Sophisticated Copies
- Methodological Aspects
- The Idea(l) of the Ideal Copy: Some Thoughts on Books with Multiple Identities
- The Importance of the Copy Census as a Methodology in Book History
- Appendix
- Contributors
- Index of Names and Places
- Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula
- Table of Illustrations
