Colard Mansion : incunabula, prints and manuscripts in medieval Bruges / editors, Evelien Hauwaerts, Evelien de Wilde and Ludo Vandamme ; with contributions by Renaud Adam [and 46 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adam, Renaud, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Hauwaerts, Evelien, editor.

Wilde, Evelien de, editor.

Vandamme, Ludo, editor.

Groeningemuseum, host institution.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belgium--Bruges.

Mansion, Colard, active 15th century--Exhibitions.

Mansion, Colard.

Mansion, Colard, active 15th century.

Publishers and publishing--Belgium--Bruges--History--15th century--Exhibitions.

Publishers and publishing.

Incunabula--Belgium--Bruges--Exhibitions.

Incunabula.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Belgian--Belgium--Bruges--Exhibitions.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Belgian.

Illumination of books and manuscripts--Belgium--Bruges--Exhibitions.

Local Subjects:

Incunabula--Belgium--Bruges--Exhibitions.

Illumination of books and manuscripts--Belgium--Bruges--Exhibitions.

Publishers and publishing--Belgium--Bruges--History--15th century--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

253 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

[Ghent] : Snoeck, [2018]

Summary:

In the fifteenth century Bruges was a cosmopolitan, dynamic city, famous for its book production. Luxury books held a central place in international trade and the broader Burgundian culture. In the middle of this book world stands the figure of Colard Mansion, producer of luxury books. Initially, Mansion was the man of beautiful manuscripts, but he quickly switched over to the brand-new medium of the printed book. Mansion created the most magnificent incunabula of his time, in an unprecedented typography and very specially illustrated. He primarily printed French texts that had never been published before. This unprecedented beauty of Mansion's printed oeuvre is a main focus of the exhibition and the accompanying. Incunabula from the Public Library of Bruges and the Bibliothèque nationale de France are supplemented by volumes from libraries all over the world. Never before has such a large number of Mansion's incunabula been assembled. Colard Mansion's work integrates tradition and innovation and includes prints, manuscripts and miniatures, but also illustrations. The exhibition and the publication will acquaint you with the studio practices of Colard Mansion and those of copyists, printmakers and other artists and artisans. Exhibition: Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium (01.03. - 03.06.2018).

Contents:

Foreword / Renaat Landuyt, Leen Speecke, Till-Holger Borchert

Introduction / Evelien de Wilde, Evelien Hauwaerts and Ludo Vandamme

Colard Mansion : a biography without beginning or end / Ludo Vandamme

A vulnerable knowledge economy : printers and the urban economy of fifteenth-century Bruges / Peter Stabel

Colard Mansion and the Bruges Guild of book producers and merchants (1457/58-1484) / Paul Trio

Printing books in Bruges in the fifteenth century / Renaud Adam

William Caxton and Colard Mansion / Lotte Hellinga

Mansion's incunables / Nathalie Coilly

Mansion's manuscripts / Evelien Hauwaerts

Experiments in illustration : Mansion and printmaking / Till-Holger Borchert

Innovating the Boccaccio / Evelien de Wilde

French literary culture in the Burgundian Netherlands / Scot McKendrick and Lieve De Kesel

Shifting audiences for luxury books / Hanno Wijsman

Book consumption : Colard Mansion and his readers / Anna Gialdini and Ludo Vandamme

Mansion's 'Métamorphose' as the printed epitome of aristocratic taste in the Burgundian Low Countries / Evelien Hauwaerts

The 'calamités et misères' of Colard Mansion's last years in Bruges / Jelle Haemers

Epilogue : the impact of Colard Mansion : tradition and innovation in Bruges in an era of radical change / Evelien Hauwaerts

Reference list of Colard Mansion's incunables.

Notes:

Catalog of the exhibition "Haute lecture by Colard Mansion: innovating text and image in medieval Bruges," held at the Groeningemuseum, Bruges, March 1-June 3, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-248) and indexes.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9789461614391

946161439X

OCLC:

1031439287