Spotlights on Incunabula

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68136-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 118, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 721 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

The five hundred years from the 1450s to the 1950s represent an extraordinarily rich quarry for evidence of incunabula sales, collecting, and use. What book lists reveal about publishing and reading habits in late-fifteenth-century Venice, how a Scottish librarian went about acquiring incunabula during World War II, and the international workshop connections glimpsed through early Hungarian bindings are among the topics explored in this volume. Library professionals aim spotlights on French plague tracts, Deventer as a printing place, the use of incunabula in learned societies in the nineteenth century, and incunabula collecting by monks and universities in England and Scotland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagan, Anette

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

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

Figure Credits

Cumulative Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.