Title & Author:

Bibliography and the study of 15th-century civilisation : papers presented at a colloquium at the British Library, 26-28 September 1984 / organised in conjunction with the Warburg Institute of the University of London ; edited by Lotte Hellinga and John Goldfinch.

Publication:

London ; Wolfeboro, N.H. : British Library, 1987.

Description:

xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

British Library occasional papers ; 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / J.B. Trapp -- Introduction / Lotte Hellinga -- The historian's interest in early printing / Denys Hay -- Searching the ISTC on BLAISE-LINE / John Goldfinch -- How could ISTC help to integrate the study of medieval manuscript and printed books / A.I. Doyle -- ISTC as a tool for analytical bibliography / Paul Needham -- Incunable catalogues and the historian : some observations on recent work / F. Barbier -- Bibliography, books and readers / Ursula Altmann -- Universities and early printing / Severin Corsten -- Diplomacy and the spread of printing / Martin Lowry -- Cataloguing the incunabula of the Bibliothèque Nationale : problems of text identification / Ursula Baurmeister -- The history of art and the history of the book at the time of the transition from manuscript to print / Eberhard König -- Seeking the Renaissance Vergil / Mario A. Di Cesare -- If cows had gods / Michael Reeve -- Copy-specific features of the printed book : what to record and why / Richard Rouse -- ISTC and provenance / Felix B. de Marez Oyens -- ISTC, the literary historian and the editor / A.S.G. Edwards -- The computer search as a guide to subject cataloguing in incunabula / James J. Murphy.

Summary:

Papers from a colloquium held at the British Library to demonstrate the Incunable Short Title Catalogue, a machine-readable information system developed by the British Library and to test the system by experiment and discussion between historians, academic librarians, book-dealers and specialist incunabulists.

ISBN:

071230049X (pbk.)
9780712300490 (pbk.)

Subject:

Incunabula Bibliography Methodology Congresses.
Civilization, Medieval Sources Congresses.
Bibliography as Topic methods.
Incunabula as Topic
Incunables Bibliographie Méthodologie Congrès.
Civilisation médiévale Sources Congrès.
Civilization, Medieval Sources
Civilization, Medieval
Incunabula Bibliography Methodology
Incunabelen.
Bibliografie.
Incunables Recueils d'articles.
Incunabula Bibliographic control.

Form/genre:

Conference proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Hellinga, Lotte.
Goldfinch, John.
Warburg Institute.
British Library occasional papers ; 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 13714
Call No.: Z240.B592 (ID:87-B15058)
Status: Available