Incunabula and their readers : printing, selling, and using books in the fifteenth century / edited by Kristian Jensen.

Title & Author:

Incunabula and their readers : printing, selling, and using books in the fifteenth century / edited by Kristian Jensen.

Publication:

London : British Library, 2003.

Description:

x, 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
"The British Library organized a conference entitled 'Incunabula and their readers' which took place at the University of London's Senate House"--Page vi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Temporary matrices and elemental punches in Gutenberg's DK type / Blaise Agüera y Arcas -- Tradition and renewal : establishing the chronology of Wynkyn de Worde's early work / Lotte Hellinga -- Illustrations in Parisian Books of Hours : borders and repertoires / Mary Beth Winn -- Books of Hours : the development of the texts in printed form / Cristina Dondi -- Reading liturgical books / Mary Kay Duggan -- Hand illumination of Venetian Bibles in the incunable period / Lilian Armstrong -- Printing the Bible in the fifteenth century : devotion, philology and commerce / Kristian Jensen -- 'Volentes sibi comparare infrascriptos libros impressos ..." : printed books as a commercial commodity in the fifteenth century / John L. Flood -- Orations crossing the Alps / Holger Nickel -- Mixing pop and politics : origins, transmission, and readers of illustrated broadsides in fifteenth-century Germany / Falk Eisermann -- Libri impressi bibliothecae monasterii Sancti Emmerammi : the incunable collection of St. Emmeram, Regensburg, and its catalogue of 1501 / Bettina Wagner.

Summary:

The contributions to this volume address important issues about books and their users in the fifteenth century. A unifying theme is the complex relationships between producers, be they authors, printers or decorators, the economic conditions of book distribution, and the requirements of readers or other users of books.

ISBN:

0712347690
9780712347693

Subject:

Incunabula Europe Bibliography Congresses.
Book industries and trade Europe History To 1500 Congresses.
Books History 1450-1600 Congresses.
Books and reading Europe History To 1500 Congresses.
Books History 1450-1600.
Printing History.
Book industries and trade History.
Livres Histoire 1450-1600.
Imprimerie Histoire.
Livres Industrie Histoire.
Livres Histoire 1450-1600 Congrès.
Printing
Book industries and trade
Books
Books and reading
Incunabula
Incunabelen.
Leesgewoonten.
Books History 1400-1600 Congresses
Europe

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings
History
Incunabula.

Added entries:

Jensen, Kristian, 1954-
University of London.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250970
Call No.: BIB 180462
Status: Available

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