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Incunabula and their readers : printing, selling, and using books in the fifteenth century / edited by Kristian Jensen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Incunabula--Europe--Bibliography--Congresses.
- Incunabula.
- Book industries and trade--Europe--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Book industries and trade.
- Books--History--1450-1600--Congresses.
- Books.
- Books and reading--Europe--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Books and reading.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Library, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The contributions to this volume address important issues about books and their users in the 15th century. A unifying theme is the complex relationships between producers - be they authors, printers or decorators - the economic conditions of book distribution, and the requirements of readers or other users of books. Two contributions focus on technical aspects of the production of books, essential for our understanding of how texts met their readers. Such engaged and informed openness towards other disciplines is necessary for students of books to understand why the European invention of printing was successful - of why books became the first successful mechanically mass-produced marketable product.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- TEMPORARY MATRICES AND ELEMENTAL PUNCHES IN GUTENBERG'S DK TYPE'
- TRADITION AND RENEWAL ESTABLISHING THE CHRONOLOGY OF WYNKYN DE WORDE'S EARLY WORK
- ILLUSTRATIONS IN PARISIAN BOOKS OF HOURS BORDERS AND REPERTOIRES
- BOOKS OF HOURS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEXTS IN PRINTED FORM'
- READING LITURGICAL BOOKS
- THE HAND ILLUMINATION OF VENETIAN BIBLES IN THE INCUNABLE PERIOD
- PRINTING THE BIBLE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY DEVOTION, PHILOLOGY AND COMMERCE
- 'VOLENTES SIBI COMPARARE INFRASCRIPTOS LIBROS IMPRESSOS ... 'PRINTED BOOKS AS A COMMERCIAL COMMODITY IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY'
- ORATIONS CROSSING THE ALPS
- MIXING POP AND POLITICS ORIGINS, TRANSMISSION, AND READERS OF ILLUSTRATED BROADSIDES IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY
- LIBRI IMPRESSI BIBLIOTHECAE MONASTERII SANCTI EMMERAMMI THE INCUNABLE COLLECTION OF ST EMMERAM, REGENSBURG,AND ITS CATALOGUE OF 1501
- NOTES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- "The British Library organized a conference entitled 'Incunabula and their readers' which took place at the University of London's Senate House"--P. vi.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7123-6361-0
- OCLC:
- 700415329
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