Social Science Libraries: Interdisciplinary Collections, Services, Networks (International Federation Of Library Associations And Institutions) 9783110232141, 9783110253245, 9783110255300, 3110232146

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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Pomponio Leto’s Unpublished Commentary on Sallust: Five Witnesses (and more)......Page 147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

Social Science Libraries: Interdisciplinary Collections, Services, Networks (International Federation Of Library Associations And Institutions)
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