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Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700 (Intersections, 86)

✍ Scribed by Christopher D. Fletcher (editor), Walter S. Melion (editor)

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2024
Tongue
English
Leaves
817
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700 examines the hermeneutic functions of the modifications made by makers and users to the structure of meaning of their books.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Kinds and Degrees of Customisation in Early Modern Book Production and Reception
Chapter 2 The Customising Mindset in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Newberry Inc. 1699
Part 2 Customisation across Media
Chapter 3 A Late Medieval Multi-Text Manuscript and Its Printed Precedents
Chapter 4 Reforming Hrabanus: Early Modern Iterations of In honorem sanctae crucis
Chapter 5 A Customized Housebook of Repurposed Prints: the Liber Quodlibetarius, c. 1524
Part 3 Communal Customising
Chapter 6 How to Talk about Burgundian Books You Could Not Read
Chapter 7 Customizing for the Community: The Wiesbaden Manuscript (Hauptstaatsarchiv 3004 B 10) and the Late Medieval Church
Chapter 8 A Medical Anthology Customised ‘for the Consolation of the Sick’ in a Brussels Convent
Chapter 9 Custom Made by Antonio Ricardo: Peru’s First Printer and His Illustrations in Jerónimo de Oré’s Symbolo Catholico Indiano (1598)
Part 4 Individual Customisers
Chapter 10 From Proud Monument to Ill-Marked Tomb: Tommaso Schifaldo in a Sicilian Humanist Miscellany
Chapter 11 Customization of a Latin Emblem Book by a Vernacular Owner: Unknown German Poems to a Copy of Vaenius’s Emblemata Horatiana (first edition, 1607)
Chapter 12 Picture Bound: Customized Books of Prints and the Myth of the Ideal Series
Chapter 13 Customizing an Emblem Book as an album amicorum: Valentin Ludovicus’ Entry in the Stammbuch of Christian Weigel
Part 5 Editorial Customisation
Chapter 14 A Play of Continuity and Difference: A Book of Fortune-telling Adapted from the Kingdom of Poland to Southeastern Europe
Chapter 15 Shifting Perspectives: Changing Optical Theory in the Printed Works of Jean-François Niceron
Chapter 16 Venice as a Musical Commodity in Early Modern Germany: A Frontispiece Collage, c. 1638
Chapter 17 Vaenius in Ireland: An Eighteenth-Century Customization of the Emblemata Horatiana
Part 6 Visual Customisation
Chapter 18 Frames, Screens and Urns: Customisation and Poetics in the 1495 Aldine Theocritus painted by Albrecht Dürer for Willibald Pirckheimer
Chapter 19 Compiled Compositions: The Kattendijke Chronicle (c. 1491–1493) and Late Medieval Book Design
Chapter 20 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus’s Dutch New Testament
Chapter 21 ‘By the Genius of the Indians’: The Customization of Nieremberg’s De la Diferencia in Guarani (Loreto, Juan Bautista Neumann et alii: 1705)
Index Nominum

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