Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780199519057
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century Now in the Bodleian Library
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780199519057
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books, Printed and in Manuscript, Bequeathed by the Late Thomas Glazebrook Rylands... to the Library of University College, Liverpool
Author: University College, Liverpool. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A Catalogue of Upwards of One Thousand Forms of Blank Precedents Published by Shaw and Sons, Law Printers and Publishers ..
Author: Shaw and Sons (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Pre-1500 Western Manuscript Books at the Newberry Library
Author: Paul SaengerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226733500
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Newberry Library in Chicago possesses one of the most distinguished collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in North America. Based on two major private collections of the late nineteenth century—those of Henry Probasco and Edward E. Ayer—and scrupulously added to in this century, the holdings include late medieval bibles and breviaries, books of hours and books of homilies, and seminal texts on astronomy. Some of the books, such as those from the libraries of Philip the Good and Anne of Brittany, are beautifully illuminated. But the collection also includes an unusual array of "typical" medieval books, chosen not for their beauty but for their paleographical, codicological, and textual interest. Such codices include an eleventh-century Carthusian monk, and numerous books of hours adapted for feminine use. Paul Saenger has painstakingly identified the text, illumination, physical structure, and provenance for each of the more than 200 books in the collection to provide an exemplary guide to literate culture in the late Middle Ages. This catalogue, carefully researched and handsomely illustrated, will be an invaluable resource for historians, art historians, paleographers, bibliographers, and collectors.
Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Library (BMC). Part XIII: Hebraica
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004475311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum (British Library), generally referred to as BMC, is a monument in the history of the book. BMC followed on from the rearrangement of the Museum's incunabula begun by Robert Proctor on the basis of the comprehensive survey of printing types and presses of the fifteenth century that he had published in 1898 as an 'Index' of the incunabula in the Museum and the Bodleian Library. The Index represented a working-out of the system he had developed for the identification of printers of the incunabula period on the basis of typographical material. The volumes of BMC extend Proctor's principles by providing full descriptions of the incunabula in the collections of the British Museum and making revisions where necessary. The first part appeared in 1908, prepared by A.W. Pollard after Proctor's death in 1903. The most recent part was published in 1985.
List of Catalogues of English Book Sales, 1676-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Item forms a comprehensive list of the British Museum, Department of Printed Books collection of catalogues of books sales and auctions held between 1676, the first time books were sold at aution in England, until the end of the ninteenth century.
The Bookworm
Author: Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum: Germany: Leipzig-Pforzheim. German-speaking Switzerland and Austria-Hungary
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Piety in Pieces
Author: Kathryn M. RudyPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783742364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. These activities accelerated in the fifteenth century. Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer. Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blanks ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts—that they were custom-made luxury items—even when the production had become impersonal. Owners consequently purchased books made for an open market and then personalised them, filling in the blank spaces, and even adding more components later. This would give them an affordable product, but one that still smacked of luxury and met their individual needs. They kept older books in circulation by amending them, attached items to generic books to make them more relevant and valuable, and added new prayers with escalating indulgences as the culture of salvation shifted. Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of parchment). By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. Rudy shows how increased modularisation of book making led to more standardisation but also to more opportunities for personalisation. She asks: What properties did parchment manuscripts have that printed books lacked? What are the interrelationships among technology, efficiency, skill loss and standardisation?
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