Texts in transit : manuscript to proof and print in the fifteenth century / by Lotte Hellinga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hellinga, Lotte.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Library of the written word ; volume 38.

Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 38. The handpress world ; volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--Europe--History--Origin and antecedents.

Printing.

Proofs (Printing)--History.

Proofs (Printing).

Transmission of texts--Europe--History--To 1500.

Transmission of texts.

Criticism, Textual--Case studies.

Criticism, Textual.

Printing--Origin and antecedents.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Case studies.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 452 pages ; b illustrations ; c 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Contents:

Press and text in the first decades of printing

The text in the printing house : printer's copy

List of printer's copy used in the fifteenth century

Proofreading and printing in Mainz in 1459

Augustinus, De civitate Dei, printed at Subiaco in 1467

Poggio's Facetiae in print

Poggio Bracciolini's Historia fiorentina in manuscript and print

The first book printed in Oxford

Two editors, three printers : M.T. Cicero, Orationes printed in Venice, 1471-1480

From Poggio to Caxton : early translations of some of Poggio's Latin Facetiae

The travels of Marco Polo and Gheraert Leeu

The history of Jason : from manuscripts for the Burgundian court to printed books for readers in the towns of Holland

Nicholas Love's mirror in print

Wynkyn de Worde and The book of St Albans

William Caxton and the Malory manuscript.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9004277161

9789004277168

OCLC:

881318236

Publisher Number:

99960171571