Early Printed Books as Material Objects – Conference Papers

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Early Printed Books as Material Objects (Proceedings of the Conference organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Munich, 19-21 August 2009), edited by Bettina Wagner and Marcia Reed, IFLA Publications 149, De Gruyter Saur, Berlin/New York, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-11-025324-5
The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and reception. Books printed in Europe in the 15th and 16th century still had much in common with manuscripts. They are not mere textual sources, but also material objects whose physical make-up and individual features need to be taken into account in library projects for cataloguing and digitization.

The Beginnings of Printing
–  Copy-specifics in the Printing Shop by Paul Needham
– The Gutenberg Bibles that Survive as Binder’s Waste by Eric Marshall White
Painted Decoration
– The First Experiments in Book Decoration at the Fust-Schöffer Press by Mayumi Ikeda
– Information from Illumination: Three Case Studies of Incunabula in the 1470s by Lilian Armstrong
– Producing, Buying and Decorating Books in the Age of Gutenberg: The role of Monasteries in Central Europe by Christine Beier
Manuscript Annotation
– Pomponio Leto’s Unpublished Commentary on Sallust: Five Witnesses (and more) by Patricia J. Osmond
– Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” in a Marginal Note in a Cicero Incunable by Armin Schlechter
Bookbindings
– Links between a Fifteenth-century Printer and a Binder by Claire Bolton
– The German Database of Historical Bookbindings (EBDB): Aims and Perspectives of a Cooperative Research Tool by Ulrike Marburger
– Bookbindings on Incunabula in American Library Collections: a Working Census by Scott Husby
Distribution and Provenance
– The Venetian Booktrade: a Methodological Approach to and First Results of Book-based Historical Research by Cristina Dondi
– Private Libraries in Sixteenth-century Italy by Angela Nuovo
– Quatre Siècles d’histoire de la bibliothèque Vettori: entre vénération et valorisation by Raphaële Mouren
– The “Biography of Copies”: Provenance Description in Online Catalogues by Michaela Scheibe
The Later Use of Incunabula
– Creating a Better Past: Collectors of Incunabula in the Late Eighteenth Century by Kristian Jensen
– Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Detecting and Interpreting Sophisticated Copies by Margaret Lane Ford
Methodological Aspects
– The Idea(l) of the Ideal Copy: Some Thoughts on Books with Multiple Identities by Wolfgang Undorf
– The Importance of the Copy Census as a Methodology in Book History by David Pearson

Table of Contents online at:
http://www.degruyter.de/files/pdf/9783110253245Contents.pdf

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