Social Science Libraries: Interdisciplinary Collections, Services, Networks (International Federation Of Library Associations And Institutions)
9783110232141, 9783110253245, 9783110255300, 3110232146
This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon
Table of contents : Preface......Page 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 7 Abbreviations and Short Titles......Page 11 Introduction......Page 13 The Beginnings of Printing......Page 19 Copy-specifics in the Printing Shop......Page 21 The Gutenberg Bibles that Survive as Binder’s Waste......Page 33 Painted Decoration......Page 49 The First Experiments in Book Decoration at the Fust-Schöffer Press......Page 51 Information from Illumination: Three Case Studies of Incunabula in the 1470s......Page 63 Producing, Buying and Decorating Books in the Age of Gutenberg. The Role of Monasteries in Central Europe......Page 77 Colour Plates......Page 95 Manuscript Annotation......Page 145 Pomponio Leto’s Unpublished Commentary on Sallust: Five Witnesses (and more)......Page 147 Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ in a Marginal Note in a Cicero Incunable......Page 163 Bookbindings......Page 187 Links between a Fifteenth-century Printer and a Binder......Page 189 The German Database of Historical Bookbindings (EBDB): Aims and Perspectives of a Cooperative Research Tool......Page 203 Bookbindings on Incunabula in American Library Collections: a Working Census......Page 217 Distribution and Provenance......Page 229 The Venetian Booktrade: a Methodological Approach to and First Results of Book-based Historical Research......Page 231 Private Libraries in Sixteenth-century Italy......Page 241 Quatre siècles d’histoire de la bibliothèque Vettori: entre vénération et valorisation......Page 253 The ‘Biography of Copies’: Provenance Description in Online Catalogues......Page 281 The Later Use of Incunabula......Page 291 Creating a Better Past: Collectors of Incunabula in the Late Eighteenth Century......Page 293 Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Detecting and Interpreting Sophisticated Copies......Page 303 Methodological Aspects......Page 317 The Idea(l) of the Ideal Copy: Some Thoughts on Books with Multiple Identities......Page 319 The Importance of the Copy Census as a Methodology in Book History......Page 333 Appendix......Page 341 Contributors......Page 343 Index of Names and Places......Page 347 Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula......Page 357 Table of Illustrations......Page 373