Customised books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400-1700 / edited by Christopher D. Fletcher, Walter S. Melion.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fletcher, Christopher D., editor.

Melion, Walter S., editor.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 86.

Intersections: interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 86 - 2024

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Europe--History.

Books.

Books--America--History.

Books--Provenance.

Printing--History.

Printing.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 777 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

Summary:

"Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400-1700 examines the form, function, and meaning of alterations made by users to the physical structure of their book, through insertion or interpolation, subtraction or deletion, adjustments in the ordering of folios or quires, amendments of image or text. Although our primary interest is in printed books and print series bound like books, we also consider selected manuscripts since meaningful alterations made to incunabula and early printed books often followed the patterns such changes took in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century codices. Throughout Customised Books the emphasis falls on the hermeneutic functions of the modifications made by makers and users to their manuscripts and books. Contributors are B. Boler Hunter, T. Cummins, A. Dlabacova, K.A.E. Enenkel, C.D. Fletcher, P.F. Gehl, P. Germano Leal, J. Kilianczyk-Zieba, J. Koguciuk, A. van Leerdam, S. Leitch, S. McKeown, W.S. Melion, K. Michael, S. Midanik, B. Purkaple, J. Rosenholtz-Witt, B.L. Rothstein, M.R. Wade, and G. Warnar"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Kinds and degrees of customisation in early modern book production and reception / Walter S. Melion

The customising mindset in the fifteenth century : the case of Newberry Inc. 1699 / Christopher D. Fletcher

A late medieval multi-text manuscript and its printed precedents / Britt Boler Hunter

Reforming Hrabanus : early modern iterations of In honorem sanctae crucis / Kelin Michael

A customized housebook of repurposed prints : the Liber quodlibetarius, c. 1524 / Stephanie Leitch

How to talk about Burgundian books you could not read / Bret L. Rothstein

Customizing for the community : The Wiesbaden manuscript (Hauptstaatsarchiv 3004 B 10) and the late medieval church / Geert Warnar

A medical anthology customised "for the consolation of the sick" in a Brussels convent / Andrea van Leerdam

Custom made by Antonio Ricardo : Peru's first printer and his illustrations in Jerónimo de Oré's Symbolo Catholico Indiano (1598) / Tom Cummins

From proud monument to ill-marked tomb : Tommaso Schifaldo in a Sicilian Humanist miscellany / Paul F. Gehl

Customization of a Latin emblem book by a vernacular owner: unknown German poems to a copy of Vaenius's Emblemata Horatiana (first edition, 1607) / Karl A.E. Enenkel

Picture bound : customized books of prints and the Myth of the ideal series / Shaun Midanik

Customizing an emblem book as an album amicorum : Valentin Ludovicus' entry in the Stammbuch of Christian Weigel / Mara R. Wade

A play of continuity and difference: a book of fortune-telling adapted from the Kingdom of Poland to Southeastern Europe / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba

Shifting perspectives: changing optical theory in the printed works of Jean-François Niceron / Brent Purkaple

Venice as a musical commodity in early modern Germany : a frontispiece collage, c. 1638 / Jason Rosenholtz-Witt

Vaenius in Ireland : an eighteenth-century customization of the Emblemata Horatiana / Simon McKeown

Frames, screens and urns: customisation and poetics in the 1495 Aldine Theocritus painted by Albrecht Dürer for Willibald Pirckheimer / Jakub Koguciuk

Compiled compositions : The Kattendijke Chronicle (c. 1491-1493) and late medieval book design / Anna Dlabačová

Interpolated prints as exegetical meditative glosses in a customized copy of Franciscus Costerus's Dutch New Testament / Walter S. Melion

"By the genius of the Indians" : the customization of Nieremberg's De la diferencia in Guarani (Loreto, Juan Bautista Neumann et alii, 1705) / Pedro Leal.

Notes:

"This volume consists of essays redacted from papers originally delivered at the colloquium, Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400-1700, held at Emory University on October 14-16, 2021."--Acknowledgement (page IX).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9789004680555

9004680551

OCLC:

1419940623

Publisher Number:

9789004680555