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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolkenhauer, Anja, editor.

Scholz, Bernard F., editor.

Series:

Schriftmedien / Written Media, 2364-9771 ; Band 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printers' marks--Europe--History.

Printers' marks.

Book ornamentation--Europe--History.

Book ornamentation.

Book industries and trade--Europe--Heraldry--History.

Book industries and trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Saur, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

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. The various contributions to the volume address issues such as those of the adoption of printer's devices in the place of the older heraldic printer's marks as a symptom of the changing self-image of the representatives of the Early Modern printing profession, of the mutual influence of emblems and printer's marks, of the place of Classical learning in the design of Humanist printer's marks, of the economic factors involved in the evolution of Early Modern printer's marks, the pictorial topics of the Early Modern printer's mark, and the printer's mark as a result of the 'Verbürgerlichung' of the device of Early Modern nobility. Special care was taken to account for the similarities and differences of the printer's marks produced and used in different regional and cultural contexts. The printer's mark thus becomes visible as a European phenomenon that invites studying some of the most significant shared aspects of Early Modern culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface / Wolkenhauer, Anja / Bernhard, Tübingen

Part A: Beginnings and Provenances

Sisters, or Mother and Daughter? The Relationship between Printer's Marks and Emblems during the First Hundred Years / Wolkenhauer, Anja

Ekphrasis and Printer's Signets / Bässler, Andreas

Beastly Devices: Early Printer's Marks and Their Medieval Origins / Houwen, Luuk

From Nameplate to Emblem. The Evolution of the Printer's Device in the Southern Low Countries up to 1600 / Meeus, Hubert

Part B: Regions & Places

Heraldic and Symbolic Printer's Devices of Greek Printers in Italy (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries) / Staikos, Konstantinos Sp.

Jewish Printers' Marks from Poland (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries) / Jakimyszyn-Gadocha, Anna

Fama Typographica. In Search of the Emblem Form of Printer's Devices. The Iconography and Emblem Form of Printer's Devices in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Poland / Tomicka, Joanna A.

Pallas Nostra Salus. Early Modern Printer's Marks in Leiden as Expressions of Professional and Personal Identity

Early Modern Munich Printer's Marks (and Related Issues) / Peil, Dietmar

The Printer's Mark in Early Modern Sweden / Lundblad, Kristina

Iceland's Lack of Printer's Devices: Filling a Functional and Spatial Void in Printed Books during the Sixteenth Century / Hufnagel, Silvia

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 / Scholz, Bernhard F.

The Legal Significance and Humanist Ethos of Printers' Insignia / Hayaert, Valérie

The Transition of the Printer's Device from a Sign of Identification to a Symbol of Aspirations and Beliefs / Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Justyna

Mottos in Printers' Devices - Thoughts about the Hungarian Usage / Vizkelety-Ecsedy, Judit

European Printers' and Publishers' Marks in the Eighteenth Century. The Three C's: Conformity, Continuity and Change / Simon, Melinda

In Place of an Afterword: Notes on Ordering the Corpus of the Early Modern Printer's Mark / Scholz, Bernhard F.

Part D: Research Bibliography and Index

Research Bibliography: The Early Modern Printer's Mark in Its Cultural Contexts

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 28, 2018).

ISBN:

9783110430363

3110430363

OCLC:

1024044013