Spotlights on Incunabula

Anette I. Hagan, MTh, PhD, National Library of Scotland, is Rare Books Curator for early printed collections to 1700, chapbooks, and pre-1900 Gaelic and Scots collections. She has published monographs, co-edited volumes and articles in philology, theology and book history.

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Introduction


 Anette Hagan





Part 1: Continental Case Studies


1 Early Printing along the IJssel: Contextualising Deventer’s Success as a Centre of Incunabula Production


 Laura Cooijmans-Keizer





2 Jacques Le Forestier, Thomas Le Forestier and Early Medical Printing in Rouen


 Elma Brenner





3 The Quaderneto of Padua: A 1480 List of Incunabula for Sale


 Ester Camilla Peric





Part 2: Incunabula as Objects


4 Hungarian Bookbindings of the Incunabula Period


 Andrea Vilcsek





5 Bindings and Provenance: Evidence from Contemporary Oxford Bindings on the Early Printed Books of the Last Monks of Durham


 Sheila Hingley





6 ‘An Imperfect Copy’: Avicenna’s Canon de medicinae in the University of Aberdeen


 Jane Pirie





Part 3: Collecting


7 Incunabula from a Sixteenth-Century Donation to Lincoln College, Oxford: Reconstructing a Private Library and Its Afterlife


 Sarah Cusk





8 The Place of Incunabula in Early Modern Scottish Libraries


 Elizabeth Henderson





9 Augustus De Morgan’s Incunabula


 Karen Attar





10 An Astronomer’s Incunabula: The Library of Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills


 Sian Prosser





11 The National Library of Scotland’s Acquisitions of Incunabula during World War II


 Robert L. Betteridge





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