The Gutenberg Bibles that Survive as Binder’s Waste

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of contents VII
4. Abbreviations and Short Titles XI
5. Introduction 1
6. The Beginnings of Printing
7. Copy-specifics in the Printing Shop 9
8. The Gutenberg Bibles that Survive as Binder’s Waste 21
9. Painted Decoration
10. The First Experiments in Book Decoration at the Fust-Schöffer Press 39
11. Information from Illumination: Three Case Studies of Incunabula in the 1470s 51
12. Producing, Buying and Decorating Books in the Age of Gutenberg. The Role of Monasteries in Central Europe 65
13. Colour Plates 83
14. Manuscript Annotation
15. Pomponio Leto’s Unpublished Commentary on Sallust: Five Witnesses (and more) 135
16. Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ in a Marginal Note in a Cicero Incunable 151
17. Bookbindings
18. Links between a Fifteenth-century Printer and a Binder 177
19. The German Database of Historical Bookbindings (EBDB): Aims and Perspectives of a Cooperative Research Tool 191
20. Bookbindings on Incunabula in American Library Collections: a Working Census 205
21. Distribution and Provenance
22. The Venetian Booktrade: a Methodological Approach to and First Results of Book-based Historical Research 219
23. Private Libraries in Sixteenth-century Italy 229
24. Quatre siècles d’histoire de la bibliothèque Vettori: entre vénération et valorisation 241
25. The ‘Biography of Copies’: Provenance Description in Online Catalogues 269
26. The Later Use of Incunabula
27. Creating a Better Past: Collectors of Incunabula in the Late Eighteenth Century 281
28. Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Detecting and Interpreting Sophisticated Copies 291
29. Methodological Aspects
30. The Idea(l) of the Ideal Copy: Some Thoughts on Books with Multiple Identities 307
31. The Importance of the Copy Census as a Methodology in Book History 321
32. Appendix
33. Contributors 331
34. Index of Names and Places 335
35. Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula 345
36. Table of Illustrations 361