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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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Published/Copyright: 2010
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Volume 149 | IFLA Publications

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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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Bettina Wagner, Abteilung für Handschriften und Alte Drucke Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München

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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)

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Preface

    V
    Rolf Griebel
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    Table of contents

    VII
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    Abbreviations and Short Titles

    XI
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    Introduction

    1
    Bettina Wagner
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  • The Beginnings of Printing
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    Copy-specifics in the Printing Shop

    9
    Paul Needham
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    The Gutenberg Bibles that Survive as Binder’s Waste

    21
    Eric Marshall White
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  • Painted Decoration
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    The First Experiments in Book Decoration at the Fust-Schöffer Press

    39
    Mayumi Ikeda
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    Information from Illumination: Three Case Studies of Incunabula in the 1470s

    51
    Lilian Armstrong
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    Producing, Buying and Decorating Books in the Age of Gutenberg. The Role of Monasteries in Central Europe

    65
    Christine Beier
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    Colour Plates

    83
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  • Manuscript Annotation
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    Pomponio Leto’s Unpublished Commentary on Sallust: Five Witnesses (and more)

    135
    Patricia J. Osmond
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    Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ in a Marginal Note in a Cicero Incunable

    151
    Armin Schlechter
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  • Bookbindings
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    Links between a Fifteenth-century Printer and a Binder

    177
    Claire Bolton
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    The German Database of Historical Bookbindings (EBDB): Aims and Perspectives of a Cooperative Research Tool

    191
    Ulrike Marburger
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    Bookbindings on Incunabula in American Library Collections: a Working Census

    205
    Scott Husby
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  • Distribution and Provenance
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    The Venetian Booktrade: a Methodological Approach to and First Results of Book-based Historical Research

    219
    Cristina Dondi
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    Private Libraries in Sixteenth-century Italy

    229
    Angela Nuovo
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    Quatre siècles d’histoire de la bibliothèque Vettori: entre vénération et valorisation

    241
    Raphaële Mouren
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    The ‘Biography of Copies’: Provenance Description in Online Catalogues

    269
    Michaela Scheibe
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  • The Later Use of Incunabula
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    Creating a Better Past: Collectors of Incunabula in the Late Eighteenth Century

    281
    Kristian Jensen
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    Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Detecting and Interpreting Sophisticated Copies

    291
    Margaret Lane Ford
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  • Methodological Aspects
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    The Idea(l) of the Ideal Copy: Some Thoughts on Books with Multiple Identities

    307
    Wolfgang Undorf
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    The Importance of the Copy Census as a Methodology in Book History

    321
    David Pearson
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  • Appendix
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    Contributors

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    Index of Names and Places

    335
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    Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula

    345
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    Table of Illustrations

    361
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December 23, 2010
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367
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255300
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Frühdruck
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