Early Printed Books as Material Objects : Proceeding of the Conference Organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Munich, 19-21 August 2009 / Bettina Wagner, Marcia Reed.
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Introduction -- Beginnings of Printing -- Copy-specifics in the Printing Shop -- Gutenberg Bibles that Survive as Binder's Waste -- Painted Decoration -- 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 The Role of Monasteries in Central Europe -- Colour Plates -- Manuscript Annotation -- Pomponio Leto's Unpublished Commentary on Sallust: Five Witnesses (and more) -- Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' in a Marginal Note in a Cicero Incunable -- Bookbindings -- Links between a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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Idea(l) of the Ideal Copy: Some Thoughts on Books with Multiple Identities -- Importance of the Copy Census as a Methodology in Book History -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index of Names and Places -- Index ofManuscripts and Incunabula -- Table of Illustrations.
Summary
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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