Typographorum emblemata : the printer's mark in the context of early modern culture / edited by Anja Wolkenhauer and Bernhard F. Scholz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolkenhauer, Anja, editor.

Scholz, Bernard F., editor.

Series:

Schriftmedien ; Bd. 4.

Schriftmedien = Written media, 2364-9771 ; Band 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printers' marks--History.

Printers' marks.

Early printed books--Europe--History.

Early printed books.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xi, 429 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Saur, [2018]

Summary:

This collection of specially commissioned articles aims to shed light on the Early Modern printer's mark, a very productive Early Modern word-image so far only occasionally noted outside the domain of book history. It does so from the perspectives of book history, literary history, especially emblem scholarship, and art history. Special care was taken to account for the similarities and differences in different regional and cultural contexts.

Contents:

Part A. Beginnings and provenances. Sisters, or mother and daughter? : the relationship between printer's marks and emblems during the first hundred years / Anja Wolkenhauer

Ekphrasis and printer's signets / Andreas Bássler

Beastly devices : early printers' marks and Their Medieval Origins / Luuk Houwen

From Nameplate to Emblem : The Evolution of the printer's device in the Southern Low Countries up to 1600 / Hubert Meeus.

Part B. Regions and places. Heraldic and symbolic printer's devices of Greek printers in Italy (15th-16th century) / Konstintinos Sp. Staikos

Jewish printers' marks from Poland (16th-17th centuries) / Anna Jakimyszyn-Gadocha

Fama typographica : in search of the emblem form of printer's devices : the iconography and emblem form of printer's devices in 16th- and 17th-century Poland / Joanna A. Tomicka

Pallas nostra salus : early-modern printer's marks in Leiden as expressions of professional and personal identity / Paul Hoftijzer

Early modern Munich printer's marks (and related issues) / Dietmar Peil

The printer's mark in early modern Sweden / Kristina Lundblad

Iceland's lack of printer's devices : filling a functional and spatial void in printed books during the sixteenth century / Silvia Hufnagel.

Part C. Concepts, historical and systematic. The truth of printer's marks : Andrea Alciato on 'Aldo's anchor', 'Froben's dove' and 'Calvo's elephant' : a closer look at Alciato's concept of the printer's mark / Bernhard F. Scholz

The legal significance and humanist ethos of printers' insignia / Valérie Hayaert

The transition of the printer's device from a sign of identification to a symbol of aspirations and beliefs / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba

Mottos in printers' devices : thoughts about the Hungarian usage / Judit Vizkelety-Ecsedy

European printers' and publishers' marks in the 18th century : the three C's : conformity, continuity and change / Melinda Simon

In place of an afterword : notes on ordering the corpus of the early modern printer's mark / Bernhard F. Scholz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-412) and index.

ISBN:

9783110439199

3110439190

OCLC:

1023604341

Publisher Number:

9783110439199