Production and Provenance : Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula (Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World)

Goldfinch, John (EDT)/ Kato, Takako (EDT)/ Tokunaga, Satoko (EDT)

Brill（2024/07発売）

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 448 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9789004689848

Full Description

The aim of this volume is to re-evaluate some of the temporal, intermedial and geographical boundaries built around a long-established discipline, the study of incunabula.

This volume starts by setting out the past and future landscapes of incunabula studies, looking particularly at copy-specific features. Subsequent chapters use research on specific editions or subjects in order to engage with the two key themes of the book: production and provenance of early printed books.

By examining a wide range of copy-specific aspects of individual books, the volume showcases how printed books were produced in the fifteenth century and subsequently used and transformed by readers and owners during their long journeys till they fell into their current owners' hands.

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Introduction: Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula

Takako Kato

Part 1: Perspectives of Incunabula Studies

1 Unique Features in Early Printed Books

Lotte Hellinga

2 Incunabula in Our New Book Historical Landscape

David Pearson

Part 2: Aspects of Early Printing

3 A Succession of Uncertainties: Dating the Buxheim Saint Christopher

Edward Potten

4 Coping with Blank Space for Music in Incunabula

Mary Kay Duggan

Part 3: Early Journeys and Producers

5 Illuminators of English and Continental Incunabula in England, c.1455-1500

Holly James-Maddocks

6 Tracking Changes: Decoration, Binding, and Annotation in Incunabula Imported to England

Suzanne Reynolds

7 The First Printed Books to Arrive in Scotland: Fifteenth-Century St Andrean Owners of Fifteenth-Century Books

Daryl Green

Part 4: Later Journeys and Provenances

8 From Mainz to Manhattan: the Morgan Library's Three Gutenberg Bibles

John T. McQuillen

9 Context Specifics and the History of Collecting Ulrich Zel's 1466 Chrysostom

Eric Marshall White

10 Perfecting and Completing Caxton's Golden Legend: the Stratigraphy of Non-homogeneous Copies

Takako Kato

Part 5: Provenances and Collections

11 'There ys in this olde Book many a good sayinge and Lesson': Copy-Specific Discoveries from the Glasgow Incunabula Project

Julie Gardham

12 Durham Priory Library: Recent Initiatives towards the Reconstruction of a Medieval Cathedral Library

Sheila Hingley