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Production and Provenance

Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula
Buch | Hardcover
448 Seiten
2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-68984-8 (ISBN)
229,95 inkl. MwSt
By examining a wide range of copy-specific features of individual books, the volume showcases how books were produced in incunabula period, and subsequently used and transformed during their long journeys till they fell into their current owners’ hands.
The aim of this volume is to re-evaluate some of the temporal, intermedial and geographical boundaries built around the long-established discipline, the study of incunabula.

This volume starts by setting out the past and future landscapes of incunabula studies, looking particularly at copy-specific features. The following chapters use research on specific editions or subjects in order to engage with the two key themes: production and provenance of early books.

By examining a wide range of copy-specific aspects of individual books, the volume showcases how printed books were produced in the fifteenth century and subsequently used and transformed by readers and owners during their long journeys till they fell into their current owners’ hands.

John Goldfinch was formerly Curator of Incunabula at the British Library. He worked on the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) from 1985, and has published on the history and provenance of the historic collections at the British Library. Takako Kato, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University. Recent publications include ‘Lost, Burned and Recovered: Tracing the Provenance History of a Copy of Caxton’s Golden Legend in the John Rylands Library’, The Library, 7th ser., 23 (2022); and ‘Manuscript and Print: Discontinuity and Continuity in the Transmission of Arthurian Tales, in A. Putter, C. Ferlampin-Acher and R. Radulescu (eds.), Late Arthurian Traditions in Europe (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020). Satoko Tokunaga, PhD, is Professor of the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Tokyo. She has been working on the manuscript and print cultures in late medieval England. She is a co-editor of Caxton’s Golden Legend, EETS o.s. 355, 357 (Oxford University Press, 2021–22).

List of Colour Plates, Figures and Tables


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Introduction: Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula


 Takako Kato





Part 1: Perspectives of Incunabula Studies


1 Unique Features in Early Printed Books


 Lotte Hellinga





2 Incunabula in Our New Book Historical Landscape


 David Pearson





Part 2: Aspects of Early Printing


3 A Succession of Uncertainties: Dating the Buxheim Saint Christopher


 Edward Potten





4 Coping with Blank Space for Music in Incunabula


 Mary Kay Duggan





Part 3: Early Journeys and Producers


5 Illuminators of English and Continental Incunabula in England, c.1455–1500


 Holly James-Maddocks





6 Tracking Changes: Decoration, Binding, and Annotation in Incunabula Imported to England


 Suzanne Reynolds





7 The First Printed Books to Arrive in Scotland: Fifteenth-Century St Andrean Owners of Fifteenth-Century Books


 Daryl Green





Part 4: Later Journeys and Provenances


8 From Mainz to Manhattan: the Morgan Library’s Three Gutenberg Bibles


 John T. McQuillen





9 Context Specifics and the History of Collecting Ulrich Zel’s 1466 Chrysostom


 Eric Marshall White





10 Perfecting and Completing Caxton’s Golden Legend: the Stratigraphy of Non-homogeneous Copies


 Takako Kato





Part 5: Provenances and Collections


11 ‘There ys in this olde Book many a good sayinge and Lesson’: Copy-Specific Discoveries from the Glasgow Incunabula Project


 Julie Gardham





12 Durham Priory Library: Recent Initiatives towards the Reconstruction of a Medieval Cathedral Library


 Sheila Hingley

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World ; 123
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10 90-04-68984-2 / 9004689842
ISBN-13 978-90-04-68984-8 / 9789004689848
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