Early printed books as material objects / proceedings of the Conference Organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Munich, 19-21 August 2009 ; edited by Bettina Wagner and Marcia Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (2009 : Munich, Germany)

Contributor:

Wagner, Bettina.

Reed, Marcia.

IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts section.

Series:

IFLA publications ; 149.

IFLA publications, 0344-6891 ; 149

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--History--Congresses.

Books.

Printing--History--Congresses.

Printing.

Early printed books--Congresses.

Early printed books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface / Griebel, Rolf

Table of contents

Abbreviations and Short Titles

Introduction / Wagner, Bettina

The Beginnings of Printing

Copy-specifics in the Printing Shop / Needham, Paul

The Gutenberg Bibles that Survive as Binder's Waste / White, Eric Marshall

Painted Decoration

The First Experiments in Book Decoration at the Fust-Schöffer Press / Ikeda, Mayumi

Information from Illumination: Three Case Studies of Incunabula in the 1470's / Armstrong, Lilian

Producing, Buying and Decorating Books in the Age of Gutenberg. The Role of Monasteries in Central Europe / Beier, Christine

Colour Plates

Manuscript Annotation

Pomponio Leto's Unpublished Commentary on Sallust: Five Witnesses (and more) / Osmond, Patricia J.

Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' in a Marginal Note in a Cicero Incunable / Schlechter, Armin

Bookbindings

Links between a Fifteenth-century Printer and a Binder / Bolton, Claire

The German Database of Historical Bookbindings (EBDB): Aims and Perspectives of a Cooperative Research Tool / Marburger, Ulrike

Bookbindings on Incunabula in American Library Collections: a Working Census / Husby, Scott

Distribution and Provenance

The Venetian Booktrade: a Methodological Approach to and First Results of Book-based Historical Research / Dondi, Cristina

Private Libraries in Sixteenth-century Italy / Nuovo, Angela

Quatre siècles d'histoire de la bibliothèque Vettori: entre vénération et valorisation / Mouren, Raphaële

The 'Biography of Copies': Provenance Description in Online Catalogues / Scheibe, Michaela

The Later Use of Incunabula

Creating a Better Past: Collectors of Incunabula in the Late Eighteenth Century / Jensen, Kristian

Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Detecting and Interpreting Sophisticated Copies / Ford, Margaret Lane

Methodological Aspects

The Idea(l) of the Ideal Copy: Some Thoughts on Books with Multiple Identities / Undorf, Wolfgang

The Importance of the Copy Census as a Methodology in Book History / Pearson, David

Appendix

Contributors

Index of Names and Places

Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula

Table of Illustrations

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613430168

9781283430166

1283430169

9783110255300

3110255308

OCLC:

723945619