A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford / Alan Coates ... [and others] ; with the assistance of Carolinne White and Elizabeth Mathew ; blockbooks, woodcut and metalcut single sheets by Nigel F. Palmer ; an inventory of Hebrew incunabula by Silke Schaeper.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Coates, Alan (Alan Edward)
• Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
• Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Bodleian Library.
• Incunabula--England--Oxford--Catalogs.
• Bodleian Library--Catalogs.
• Incunabula.
• England--Oxford.

Genre:

• Catalogs.

Physical Description:

6 volumes (lxxxvii, 2,165 pages) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

The Bodleian's incunable catalogue describes the Library's fifteenth-century western printed books to the same standards expected in the best modern catalogues of medieval manuscripts. It records and identifies all texts contained in each volume, and the detailed analysis of the textual content is an innovative feature. Further information about authors, editors, translators, and dedicatees is given in an extensive index of names, complete with biographical and other information; this index will be of interest to textural scholars from the classical period to the renaissance. The detailed descriptions of the copy-specific features of each book (the binding, hand-decoration and hand-finishing, marginalia, and provenance) form another important contribution to scholarship. The provenance index will be of great value to all those interested in the history of the book from the 1450s to the present day.

Contents:

• v. 1. Blockbooks ; woodcut and metalcut single sheets ; A
• v. 2. B-C
• v. 3. D-H
• v. 4. I-O
• v. 5. P-S
• v. 6. T-Z ; Hebraica, indexes, and appendices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

• Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
• Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

• 0199513732
• 9780199513734
• 0199519056
• 9780199519057
• 0199519064
• 9780199519064
• 0199519072
• 9780199519071
• 0199519080
• 9780199519088
• 0199519099
• 9780199519095
• 0199519102
• 9780199519101

OCLC:

57431533

Online:

• Publisher description
• The Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund Home Page
• The Rosengarten Family Fund Home Page