DOCSLIB.ORG

The Origin of Printing in England

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Origin of Printing in England u. -S THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES GIFT OF 'alter Hothman ORIGINTHE O F PRINTING. IN TWO ESSAYS: L The Subftance of Dr. Middle ton's DifTertation on the Origin of Printing in England. II. Mr. M eer man's Account of the Invention of the Art at Harleim, and its Progrefs to Mentz. WITH OCCASIONAL REMARKS; AND AN APPENDIX. THE SECOND EDITION: With Improvements. LONDON: Printed for W. BOWYER and J. NICHOLS, in Red-Lion- Paifage, Fleet-Street. M D C C L X X V I. z <?*- [ iii ] ADVERTISEMENT. E original intention of the Editors of this work THwas merely to have re-publifhed Dr. Middle- ton's Diflertation on Printing, with occafional Re- marks on fome Miftakes of that learned and ingenious Author. This leading into a wider field of enquiry, the plan was naturally extended : and the Doctor's Diflertation forms only the First Part; with obferva- tions on it in the form of Notes, to diftinguifh them from the paflages they are intended to illuftrate. The Second Essay, though not pretended to be a complete Hijiory of the Origin of the Art, they venture to aflfert, gives a clearer account of it than any book hitherto publifhed in this kingdom. It con- tains, in as concife a manner as poffible, the fubftance of the Origines Typographies of the very learned and ingenious Mr. Gerard Meerman, Penfionary of and be confidered as the outlines Rotterdam ; may of that curious publication, with fupplementary Notes on fome interefting particulars. Mr. Meerman very clearly fixes the firft rudiments of the arc toLAUREN- at Harleim the of it to tius, , improvement Geins- fleich fbrnor and his brother Gutenberg, Anglics Good-hill, (ailifted by the liberality of John Fust) at Mentz ; and the completion of the whole to Peter Schoef;-er, in the fame city. The claim of Strafburgh is confidered, and evidently overthrown. a 2 On iv ADVERTISEMENT. On the whole, they by no means agree with Dr. Middleton in the point of Caxton's priority to the Oxford Book, or in the arguments adduced by the in of his Doctor fupport opinion ; any more than in the other point, of the place where the art was firft invented and practifed abroad. They are of opi- nion, that the Oxford prefs was prior to Caxton's ; and think that thofe who have called Mr. Caxtojj " the firft printer in England," and Leland in par- ticular, meant that he was the firft who practifed the " art with fufile types, and confequently firft brought " it to perfection :" which is not inconfiftent with Corsellis's having printed earlier at Oxford with feparate cut types in wood, the only method he had learnt at Harleim. The fpeaking of Caxton, as the firft Printer in England, in this fenfe of the expreilion, is not irreconcileable with the ftory of Corsellis. But, the facts and opinions being laid before the Reader, he will judge for himfelf how far the former are fupported by evidence, and thence will determine what dep-reeO of aflent the latter are entitled to. Of the Appendix, they will only fay, that in the former edition the affiftance of two valuable Friends contributed to make it interefting : and though they have fince had reafon to lament the lofs of one of them, the prefent publication is benefited by frefh inftances of his learned labours. The communi- cations of feme other ingenious Gentlemen have been attended to anc not ; ; they hope, improperly mace ule cr. C O N- [ v ] CONTENTS. I. The Subftance of Dr. Middleton's Difler- tation on the Origin of Printing in England. P- '~55 Caxton conftantly fuppofed by our Hiitoiians to have intro- duced Printing into England. t This fuppofition rendered doubtful, by the appearance of a book at Oxford (Expojicio Sanfli Hicronymi in Symholum dated - Apiftolorum *), 1468. 2 The Oxford printer named Frederick Corsellis, proved a record Mr. Atkyxs on the from publifhed by f fubjec"r. 3 in A remarkable particular this record confirmed by Mr. Meermam. Dr. M. difputes its authenticity. 7 17 The Doctor's objections anfwered, in notes C. D. E. F. G. H.I. K.i ibid. Dr. M. fuppofes the Oxford book to have been printed with as feveral a wrong date, have been in other places, either by miftake or deiign. 22 24 A remarkable inlbnce of an erafure, in an edition of Bar- de tholom.Us proprietatibus rerum, detected bv Mr. Meerman. - 21 All books with an earlier date than 14^7 may be pronounced forgeries. 22 * be feen in A fpecimen of the tvpesmay Ames, p. 437. f Mr. Granger, contrary to his ufual accuracy, has confounded this of Atky.ns with Palmer's of Sec publication Hiitory Printing. vol. iv. 8vo. p. 75. t This point i^ a^ain treated of, p. 163, 164. The vi CONTENTS. * The Chinefe mode of Printing invented in 930. ty Dr. M. fupports his opinion by the miftake of a numeral iri - a book printed at Cambridge in 1734. 24 " Curious remarks on that paffage, from The Weekly Mif- " cellany." ibid. Account of the firft ufe of Signatures. 27 In which Dr. M. is miftaken. - - ibid. Dr. M. fuppofes further, that the date of the Oxford book is a falfe one, as no other appeared from that prefs for eleven years. 29 This interval probably accounted for. ibid. A lift of books printed at Oxford before 1500. 30 The date of one by Theodoric Rood, computed by Olympiads. 31 Dr. M's remarks on the Olympiads and Luftrums of the Romans. 32 in which he is miftaken. ibid. As he is alfo in the interpretation or part of the colophon in this book. 36 38 Two Printers in London mueh earlier than our writers have imagined. 39 Printing very early practifed by the School-mailer of St. Alban'sf. 40 A mif- ;;i " An Enquiry into the Origin of Printing in Europe, by a Lover "of Art, 1751," Svo. relates principally to the Wooden Blocks ufed in Linen and to an in printing ; improvement made that branch by Mr. Jackson of Batterfea, who had ftuclied at Venice the works of the mofl: celebrated Artifts. f In Palmer's Hiftory of Printing, p. 327, mention is made of a Book in the full leaf is of Mijcellanies ; of which an account of two hooks the printed at St. Alban's, viz. Book in which the obfeivarions arc writ- ten and the Bohs and deferibed ; of Haukjng Huntyng, hereafter, p. 42. Thefe observation, Mr. Palmer has printed; and adds at the end, * Thus far we have copied from my Lord's manufcrint notes." Mr. J. remarks " MEERMAN (vol. p. 142.) on this parage, Re penitus " varia examinata, funt, quae eandem narrationem plufquam fufpecfam^ " iino falfam reedant. Primum eft, quod ipfa annotatio evincar, earn " deberi non peritiliimo Fcmbroki/e Comiti, ut perfuaderc Lctoribus a " Palmerius CONTENTS.. vii A miftake of Mr. Strype's pointed out by Dr. M. 41 the flrft Printer Further proofs of Caxton's being in Eng- land. 4* This not irreconcileable with the ftory of Corsellis. 43 Caxton's firft book was the Recule of the Hi/iorics of Trqye. 47 He is fuppofed to have been an affiftant in the printing of de rerum at in BARTHOLOMiEus proprictatibus Cologn The date in this book a falfe one. ibid. - He was an apprentice to a mercer. 50 ibid. Spent 30 years beyond feas in merchandizing. Employed in a public capacity by Edward IV. ibid. His books were printed in Wellminfter Abbey, under the patronage of Abbot M/lli ng, not (as has been fuppofed) of Islip. " 52 Mr. M.accufesEcHARD of a miftake, in fixing the beginning of Edward the Firft's reign. ^3 The Hiitorian vindicated. ibid. Caxton laid to have purfued bufinefs till 1494. 54 No longer than 1 49 1 . ibid. he for Edward and VII it Though printed IV, Henry ; does not appear that he was a fworn fervant and printer to the - crown. 5 In the year 1504, however, we find that title aUlimcd-by Pynson. ibid. As it had before been by William Fanque. ibid. " Palmerius voluit, fed alii cuidam anonymo (quippc tamper in tertiu " a <le Comite e. as peifon Pembroke loquitur, g. may be feen in my " Lord's books, itemque the nuhich my Lord alio has), quern ego ipfum '* Palmerium, infignem, dum viverct, impoftorem, inque axlibus Pem- " brokianis familiarem faille fufpicor." 1 have been informed that an afiiftant with Palmer in this work was Psalmanazar, an impoftor by his own cor.fcfiion. That he had connexions with Palmer, appears the from particulars of his Life, written by himfeif, and printed fince his death. W. B. 1766. II. Mr. VI11 CONTENTS. II. Mr. Meerman's Account of the the Firft Inven^ tion of the Art at Harleim, and its Progrefs to Mentz, &c. all accounts of its The obfcurity attending former origin. 56 Whence it arifes. ' ibid. The honour of the invention claimed by Harleim, Mentz, and Strafburgh. 7 ibid. To be afcribed, in fome meafure, to each. The Teitimony of Hadrian Junius. ibid. Some account of Nicolaus Galius andQuiRi nius Ta- les ius, from whom Junius learned what he has related, ibid. Critical obfervations on the name of Faustus. 9 Account of the two famous editions of Tully's Offices. ibid. An error of Sen Mini us pointed out. 60 Another of Mai tt aire's, with Dr, Taylor's remarks on it. 61 A remarkable particular in Duke Lauderdale's Bible. ibid. M. De Bure's account of thefe editions of Tully.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Dutch Press of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
    jps * ' " »*- T* ^ J"* T<- W y 1* "ft. « I * I ^mm if iO^^pIt* mmlSI * * * 4- ! * * * * * . 4 . * ,4 W0m^ 4- * . *- * 4 * $ v 4 * ^ #' ^ * * . §ft *~ # * * 4 * * . * I 4 ||| l|lpi§| * ********** * * = * ay ; i^g^^^fe^- . 4^-4- ******** * * * > * * * * * * * * ' * # * * *•**.* * * § * * * ' ^ *.- ^iv * . * ^ * * * * *3^ ' * * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Of * * * * * * •*» * * -:|P^»ip - * * * * * * * - - "* '* - ?* * *- * *. % . * 4^ ^ * *« * *^ H - *- * * * * I -^^^^^ l o^^^ ^Fp^l^l I -•*- ;V&- # * I * -* * * . *- * ^ * * * p || * * * * ilk.'' * % . *. * 4 * * * * * # * * * * *, *, * 4 * * * * * * + * * * * . * * # * 4 4. *- ^ f * * ** % * * * * * * *jk * ^ * * ** * * * it •* --4k. * * ' * * »*» * ^» * * * * * % * * * * f, * * + •*.*****% *"*•********•* *. - - "* * * * 4- *(, ,.. «|s. l^ ^K^y * * * IK * *. * * *V ^ * 4k * *< * *- 4 til®! I * * * * * * -fe * Ipiilp ** * * * * * * lllp * * Nfc ** *- * * * * * ; ;'.^^^ * || # % # ^=/;^: ^^r * * * * * * % * ^^fe^^^lfe^P^ ^ * ' l * * * * * * * * *> ^ *- * * * * * *- * * * . * * * * * * * * •* *- *- * * * * * * «fc *. * *? /. ' l^^fe^, * ^ * ^ * * *.. * * l^^^^p^^^^^^ ' *- - . * * * ^ * * * * * * * . * * ' - * * * * * * * 4 % 4- ^ 4* * * * " ^ ' pfc * ^ * * * ^tr ' ^ ' ^ ^ ajk, * * + * * * * * •* * * * + -* ' "-^ ^ % ; 4 ^ ^ * # ^ * * ^ * * * * * ^. *. ^ ^ -- *- # * * * * # #- ^ * ^ - ^- ^ * ^ * ^ * 4,- *^ Ik * *, * |> * -Hfe * * ik *• * ^ -* ^ • *. - ^^^^•^^^*^^^***^^*^.* IK * * * * * * # ^ * * * ^- ^- I % ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ |j # % ^ Hfe : / * * I m * # ^ S i^^^^^P^^p; I ^^^^ * ^ * * * * 4- - * * * ^ * * *
    [Show full text]
  • Reflections on William Caxton's 'Reynard the Fox' N.F
    REFLECTIONS ON WILLIAM CAXTON'S 'REYNARD THE FOX' N.F. Blake-University of Sheffield Caxton's Reynard the Fox (RF) is a translation of might imply it was at her request or command that he the prose Die Hystorie van Reynaert die Vos printed went to Cologne to learn printing. However, there is by Gerard Leeu at Gouda in 1479. This prose version no evidence that merchants were employed in this is itself based on the earlier poetic Reinaert II from way by members of the nobility like Margaret, and as the fourteenth century. Caxton's version follows the there is evidence that Caxton was governor until at Dutch text fairly closely and narrates how Reynard is least 1470, there isllttle time for him to have been in summoned to Noble's court to answer charges Margaret's servicisince he had arrived in Cologne by brought against him and how he manages to outwit June 1471. In addition, the use of such words as 'ser­ his opponents; RF has consequently always appeared vant' to describe his relations with Margaret does not the odd man out among Caxton's printed books. It imply that he was in her service, for words like that does not fit in with the courtly and religious material were employed then·· as marks of deference-as was emanating from the press, because it is regarded as still true until recently, for example in letters which the only work which is comic and satirical; and it might end 'your obedient servant'. Even so the does not fit in with the translations from French for dedication of History of Troy to Margaret does in­ it is the only book translated from Dutch, and Dutch dicate that Caxton was aware of the presence of the was not such a courtly language as French.
    [Show full text]
  • Münster Monographs on English Literature
    Book Value Categories and the Acceptance of Technological Changes in English Book Production Münsteraner Monographien zur englischen Literatur Münster Monographs on English Literature Herausgegeben von / Edited by Bernfried Nugel und / and Hermann Josef Real Bd./Vol. 42 Münsteraner Monographien Simon Rosenberg zur englischen Literatur Münster Monographs on English Literature Herausgegeben von / Edited by Bernfried Nugel und / and Hermann Josef Real Book Value Categories and the Acceptance of Technological Changes Bd./Vol. 42 in English Book Production Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress Zugl.: Münster (Westfalen), Univ., Diss., 2013 Cover illustration: Münsteraner Schloss. By courtesy of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster. Supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Münster. Printed by CPI books GmbH, Leck. D 6 ISSN 0934-0300 ISBN 978-3-631-80426-1 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-631-82738-3 (E-PDF) E-ISBN 978-3-631-82739-0 (EPUB) E-ISBN 978-3-631-82740-6 (MOBI) DOI 10.3726/b17293 . This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © Simon Rosenberg, 2020 Peter Lang – Berlin • Bern • Bruxelles • New York • Oxford • Warszawa • Wien. This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Acknowledgement internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de.
    [Show full text]
  • Netherlands Spain England
    NETHERLANDS GOFF AUTHOR TITLE IMPRINT: NETHERLANDS CALL # J-293 Johannes Chrysostomus De providentia Dei. Alost: Thierry Martens, 22 Mar. 1487/88 7028 Colloquium (copy contains only Isidorus Hispalensis, Dialogus J-55 Jacobus de Gruytrode sive synonym) [Antwerp: Mathias van der Goes, between 14 Feb. 1487 and 21 May 1490] 06000c B-425a Bernardus Claravallensis Psalterium beata Virginis Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 8 Oct. 1491 B-115 Delft: Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer and Mauricius Yemantszoon, 10 Jan. B-648 Bible. Old Testament, Dutch. 1477. Vetus Testamentum. Vol. 1 1477 B-147 Delft: Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer and Mauricius Yemantszoon, 10 Jan. B-648 Bible. Old Testament, Dutch. 1477. Vetus Testamentum. Vol. 2 1477 B-147 id00218200 Diogenes Cynicus Epistolae [Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, between 9 Aug. 1490 and 7 Aug. 1496] 7021 G-704 Guillermus Postilla super epistolas et evangelia Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 1498 6817 A-1252a Augustinus, Aurelius Confessiones Deventer: Richardus Pafraet, 1483 6700 B-296 Beets, Johannes Commentum super decem praeceptis decalogi Louvain: Aegidius van der Heerstraten, 19 Apr. 1486 6834 J-450 Johannes de Verdena Sermones 'Dormi secure' de tempore [Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, between 8 Apr. 1476 and Nov. 1477] 7023 R-61 Regimen sanitatis Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum [Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, between 1477 and 1483] 6803 Epitoma primae partis Dialogi de haereticis a Guilielmo de H-53 Henricus de Zoemeren Ockam composti Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 1481 6335 A-1242 Augustinus, Aurelius De civitate Dei Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 18 Sept. 1488 06064a A-1347 Augustinus, Aurelius De trinitate Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 24 Dec.
    [Show full text]
  • Printers and Typography As Agents of Cultural Exchange in Fifteenth- Century Europe
    Movable Type, Movable Printers: Printers and Typography as Agents of Cultural Exchange in Fifteenth- Century Europe Jacob A. Gibbons S1433725 Book and Digital Media Studies MA Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Erik Kwakkel Second Reader: Prof. Paul Hoftijzer Date of completion: 28 July, 2014 Word Count: 19.896 1 Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Chapter 2: Typographic Exchange within Cities 15 Chapter 3: Intra-regional Typographic Exchange 25 Chapter 4: Trans-European Typographic Exchange 36 Chapter 5: Conclusions and Looking Forward 46 Works Cited 52 2 Chapter 1: Introduction From its birth in Mainz in the 1450s, printing and the printers who implemented it spread rapidly through Europe, reaching Italy by 1465, Paris in 1470, the Low Countries by the early 1470s1, Poland by 1473, and by way of Flanders England in 14762. Printing was immediately a highly desirable technology, able to meet the fifteenth century’s growing demand for books of all kinds3 by mass-producing the codex form and all that could be included between its two covers. There already existed international markets in Europe for other goods that were traded abroad by merchants, but print functioned differently as a commodity. Whereas wool could be brought to the nearest port for export overseas and simply sold there, handed off to the merchant who would then travel to the next port and sell the product there, a printing press or a fount of type were not simply exchanged for a sum of a money in fifteenth-century Europe4. Printing entailed a crucial difference: its novelty required a very specific and very rare expertise, which meant that those who exported print from its home in Germany very often went with it to its new home in a new culture.
    [Show full text]
  • The Ty of Crafts JP/Mntafy Being Some Account Of
    T H ' T Y O F C R A F T S j P/ mntafy B 'I NG S O M ' AC C O ' NT O F A 'O ' R N 'Y T O T H ' C O ' RT O F T H ' PR I NT 'R S ’ G ' I L D Told éy A member of the AM'RI CAN INSTI T'T' OF GRA PH I C ARTS of what he saw and heard there, and the printers he talked with illustrated by pictures with a lan tern at a meeting of the Institute on the evenin o fWednesda Februar I I 22 g y, y 5 , 9 New York American Institu te of Graphic Arts 1 9 2 2 I N 1 2 1 the summer of 9 while in London , the writer “ ' of the City of Crafts one day, while sauntering down Charing Cross Road, chanced to see in the window of one of the many book-sellers in that l street, a litt e pamphlet The Court of the ’ . u Printers Guild, written by W Loft s Hare and decorated by the late Lovat Fraser . The pamphlet had been issued some seven or eight years ago , primarily to advertise the Cran ford Press, which is the trade name of George Pul £5 man Sons , a firm of London printers , but the decorations by Fraser, whose untimely death is so generally deplored, soon made it sought for , and copies are not now easy to come upon . Issued origin “ at ally a shilling, the present writer paid seven and ' six for his copy, and glad to get it at that .
    [Show full text]
  • New Fragments of an Alsatian Copy of Jordan of Quedlinburg's Sixty-Five
    New Fragments of an Alsatian Copy of Jordan of Quedlinburg’s Sixty-Five Articles on the Passion The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Hamburger, Jeffrey. New Fragments of an Alsatian Copy of Jordan of Quedlinburg’s Sixty-Five Articles on the Passion. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42674266 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA New Fragments of an Alsatian Copy of Jordan of Quedlinburg’s Sixty-Five Articles on the Passion Jefrey F. Hamburger ordan of Quedlinburg is hardly a household name, yet in his own day (ca. 1300–1380, or possibly 1370) and right up until the time of the Reformation, J he was among both the most prolifc and popular preachers and spiritual authors of the later Middle Ages.1 Like Luther, he was an Augustinian monk who had profound infuence on subsequent generations. Along with Luther, he also spent a formative part of his career (1327–1333) at the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt, where he lectured at the university. During his studies, he also spent time at the universities of Bologna (1317–1319) and Paris (ca. 1319–1322). Active as an administrator as well as a teacher and preacher, he was perceived by his contemporaries as combining in ideal measure the balance of the active and the contemplative life to which his order aspired.
    [Show full text]
  • Irecoro of Bibliograpbg Anb Xibran? Xiterature. Downloaded From
    IRecoro of Bibliograpbg anb Xibran? Xiterature. Downloaded from Early English Printing, a series of facsimiles of all the types used in England during the fifteenth century, with some of those used in the printing of English Books abroad. With an introduction by E. Gordon Duff. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tribner, &• Co., 1896, fol. Imprint. Oxford, printed by Horace Hart, at the Clarendon Press, with types cast from http://library.oxfordjournals.org/ matrices given to the University by Bishop Fell before 1687. Pp. 3d., with forty collotype plates. Price £1 as. net. STUDENTS of the early history of printing in England have had to wait •a long time for Mr. Gordon Duffs portfolio of facsimiles, but their con- fidence that it would be worth waiting for has not been misplaced. The forty collotype plates which it contains are admirable specimens of repro- duction, and the brilliancy of the printing in red deserves special praise. The only fault that can be found is that the excessive glaze which has been given to the paper, in order to increase the brilliancy of the repro- ductions, makes it difficult to handle in the present, and in the future is at Stockholms Universitet on July 15, 2015 not unlikely to destroy it altogether. This is a matter of importance, and we are surprised that the Clarendon Press, with all its resources, was not able to find a paper which should have been free from these dangers without offering too intractable a surface to the printer. But the difficulty is no new one; unfortunately both in England and France the temporary advantages of highly glazed paper seem to be winning for it greater favour every year.
    [Show full text]
  • Vernacular Books and Reading Experiences in the Early Age of Print
    International conference Vernacular Books and Reading Experiences in the Early Age of Print Leiden University, The Netherlands / online 25-27 August 2021 Convenors: Dr Anna Dlabačová (Leiden University, [email protected]), Andrea van Leerdam MA (Utrecht University, [email protected]) In the first 150 years of European printed book production, between c. 1450 and 1600, the new medium of print evolved from its indebtedness to manuscript culture into a full-grown means of communication and articulation. The development of print culture added new impulses to the dynamic relations between Latin and the vernaculars. While initially the majority of titles were printed in Latin, the vernaculars gained ground as languages of arts and sciences, commerce, religion, and literary expression. This conference explores how reading experiences were shaped both by producers and users of vernacular books. We approach reading as an embodied, material practice that is affected both by texts and their presentation, with a particular interest in the interplay between language, form and content, and between intended and actual readers. By adopting an international and interdisciplinary perspective (combining book history, literary history, art history, religious studies, and history of knowledge) during the conference and within the foreseen volume, we aim to contribute to the next step towards a comparative study of printing strategies and users’ practices in the first 150 years of printing vernacular books in Europe. Placing studies of (reader’s responses to) books in various languages and with a variety of texts (scientific, literary, religious) next to each other, we hope to reach a transregional view and an interdisciplinary interpretive framework of the early printed vernacular book.
    [Show full text]
  • Provenance and CERL
    Provenance and CERL Wroclaw, Early printed books and their owners Marieke van Delft, 29 September 2016 Provenance and CERL Van Delft, 29 September 2016 Provenance Generally, the history of successive custody of a particular item or collection. DCRM(G): Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics), p. 207 Provenance and CERL Van Delft, 29 September 2016 Sources PHYSICAL Bindings: armorial; branded; dedication; monogrammed; presentation. Labels: binders’ tickets; bookplates; booksellers’ labels Markings: annotations; marginalia; mottos, stamps, shelfmarks EXTERNAL Auctioncatalogues Presentation copies Prize books Provenance and CERL Van Delft, 29 September 2016 Ik zie waer ik my keer of wende / Daer sijn gebreken sonder ende Bezie de werelt int geheel / D’ondeugden hebben ’t grootste deel. De werelt is vol druk en pijn / Ik tragt daer van ontlast te sijn: ’t genaden loon van ’t nakent goet / Dat maekt dit bitter wonder soet. Ghetyden van onser liever vrouwen. Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer, 19 juli 1484, f. [1]r. (Den Haag, KB 167 G 57). Provenance and CERL Van Delft, 29 September 2016 Jacobus de Voragine. Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 1478, voorwerk, f. [4]v- [5]r. (Den Haag, KB 170 E 17). Provenance and CERL Van Delft, 29 September 2016 Cerl and Provenance Research Books and their owners – National Library of Scotland 2004 David Pearson: Provenance and rare book cataloguing: its importance and its challenges. James Knowles: Towards a national provenance project?: The database of book owners and collectors in Early Modem Scotland. Marianna Czapnik: Provenance research as a method for the reconstruction of historical collections.
    [Show full text]
  • A Guide to the Exhibition in the King's Library Illustrating the History Of
    THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES British Museum A GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION IN THE KING'S LIBRARY ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF PRINTING, MUSIC-PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES 1913 Price Sixpence. A GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION IN THE KING'S LIBRARY British Museum A GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION IN THE KING'S LIBRARY ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF PRINTING, MUSIC-PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES 1913 Art Library INTRODUCTION THE Library of Printed Books consists of over three million volumes, acquired partly under the provisions of the Copyright Act, which give the Trustees of the British Museum a right to a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom, partly by purchase, and partly by donation or bequest. Among the most important collections which have been presented or be- queathed are : the printed books of Sir Hans Sloane, forming part of his private museum, the offer of which to the nation, at about one-fourth of its value, brought about the Act of Parliament of the British Museum the 1753, constituting ; printed books in the Old Royal Library presented by George u. in 1757, containing books collected by English Sovereigns from the time of Henry vii. the Thomason Civil Tracts ; War purchased in. and in the rare by George presented 1762 ; books, including many fine specimens of binding, bequeathed by the Rev. C. M. Cracherode in 1799; the library of Sir Joseph Banks, consisting principally of works on natural history, received 5 827827 6 INTRODUCTION in 1820; the magnificent library formed by King George in., and presented to the Museum by his successor, in accordance with an arrangement with the Treasury, in 1823; and the choice collection bequeathed by the Right Hon.
    [Show full text]
  • Lost Incunabula
    Part 1 In the Beginning: Lost Incunabula ∵ Falk Eisermann - 9789004311824 Downloaded from Brill.com09/27/2021 12:53:41AM via free access <UN> Falk Eisermann - 9789004311824 Downloaded from Brill.com09/27/2021 12:53:41AM via free access chapter 2 The Gutenberg Galaxy’s Dark Matter: Lost Incunabula, and Ways to Retrieve Them Falk Eisermann In Memory of Dieter Mertens and Jochen Bepler After almost four hundred years of bibliographical effort, it seems safe to say that the Gutenberg Galaxy is a comparatively small clump of stars.1 The overall figure of surviving incunabula editions known today is only slightly bigger than the estimate given in 1972 by German librarians Karl Dachs and Wieland Schmidt, who by way of a simple calculation concluded that the number of fifteenth-century books and broadsides preserved in at least one copy stands around 27,000.2 However, when it comes to counting incunabula there is a range of uncertainties. Many early editions cannot be dated much more accu- rately than ‘circa 1500’ and may belong to either side of the incunabular water- shed; others, formerly described as incunabula, have since been dated to the sixteenth century. Not all ghosts and duplicate descriptions in the various rep- ertories have yet been identified, and there are forgeries and bibliographical hoaxes waiting to be discovered.3 Bibliographers also tend to find differing, 1 Earlier versions of this paper were presented in a Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture, 17 April 2012, to the Bibliographical Society, London, and to audiences at the Centres for Medieval Studies at the Universities of Göttingen and Greifswald.
    [Show full text]