β Scribed by Anette Hagan (editor)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This volume explores different aspects of the production, reception and collection of incunabula in six European nations between 1450 and 1950. The contributors are almost all hands-on professionals in the areas of curation, description and conservation of early printed books.
Contents
Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Continental Case Studies
Chapter 1 Early Printing along the IJssel: Contextualising Deventerβs Success as a Centre of Incunabula Production
Chapter 2 Jacques Le Forestier, Thomas Le Forestier and Early Medical Printing in Rouen
Chapter 3 The Quaderneto of Padua: A 1480 List of Incunabula for Sale
Part 2 Incunabula as Objects
Chapter 4 Hungarian Bookbindings of the Incunabula Period
Chapter 5 Bindings and Provenance: Evidence from Contemporary Oxford Bindings on the Early Printed Books of the Last Monks of Durham
Chapter 6 βAn Imperfect Copyβ: Avicennaβs Canon de medicinae in the University of Aberdeen
Part 3 Collecting
Chapter 7 Incunabula from a Sixteenth-Century Donation to Lincoln College, Oxford: Reconstructing a Private Library and Its Afterlife
Chapter 8 The Place of Incunabula in Early Modern Scottish Libraries
Chapter 9 Augustus De Morganβs Incunabula
Chapter 10 An Astronomerβs Incunabula: The Library of Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills
Chapter 11 The National Library of Scotlandβs Acquisitions of Incunabula during World War II
Figure Credits
Cumulative Bibliography
Index
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