Texts in Transit

Lotte Hellinga, Litt. D. (1974) University of Amsterdam, was Curator (later Deputy Keeper) at the British Library, 1976-1995. Recent publications include The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. III (co-editor and author, 1999), the catalogue of English incunabula in the BL (‘BMC xi’, 2007) and William Caxton and early printing in England (2010).

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction

1 Press and Text in the First Decades of Printing
2 The Text in the Printing House: Printer’s Copy
3 List of Printer’s Copy Used in the Fifteenth Century
4 Proofreading and Printing in Mainz in 1459
5 Augustinus, De civitate Dei, Printed at Subiaco in 1467
6 Poggio’s Facetiae in Print
7 Poggio Bracciolini’s Historia fiorentina in Manuscript and Print
8 The First Book Printed in Oxford
9 Two Editors, Three Printers: M.T. Cicero, Orationes Printed in Venice, 1471–1480
10 From Poggio to Caxton: Early Translations of Some of Poggio’s Latin Facetiae
11 The Travels of Marco Polo and Gheraert Leeu
12 The History of Jason: From Manuscripts for the Burgundian Court to Printed Books for Readers in the Towns of Holland
13 Nicholas Love’s Mirror in Print
14 Wynkyn de Worde and The book of St Albans
15 William Caxton and the Malory Manuscript

Subject Index: Text in Printing Houses
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Books Printed before 1501
Alphabetical Index