Texts in Transit

Manuscript to Proof and Print in the Fifteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27716-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 890 g

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

After Gutenberg’s Bible had appeared in print in 1455, other early printers found different ways to solve problems set by the new technique. Survival of printer’s copy or proofs permits rare views of compositors and printers manipulating a text before it emerged in its new form. Versions were corrected to be fit for purpose, and might be adapted for a much enlarged readership, especially if the language was vernacular. The printing press itself required careful measuring and fitting of texts. In twelve case-studies Lotte Hellinga explores what is revealed in printer’s copy and proofs used in diverse printing houses, covering the period from 1459 to the 1490s, and ranging from Rome and Venice to Mainz and Westminster.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hellinga, Lotte

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).