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Production and Provenance
Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 123
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 123
The aim of this volume is to re-evaluate some of the temporal, intermedial and geographical boundaries built around a long-established discipline, the study of incunabula.
This volume starts by setting out the past and future landscapes of incunabula studies, looking particularly at copy-specific features. Subsequent chapters use research on specific editions or subjects in order to engage with the two key themes of the book: production and provenance of early printed books.
By examining a wide range of copy-specific aspects of individual books, the volume showcases how printed books were produced in the fifteenth century and subsequently used and transformed by readers and owners during their long journeys till they fell into their current owners’ hands.
This volume starts by setting out the past and future landscapes of incunabula studies, looking particularly at copy-specific features. Subsequent chapters use research on specific editions or subjects in order to engage with the two key themes of the book: production and provenance of early printed books.
By examining a wide range of copy-specific aspects of individual books, the volume showcases how printed books were produced in the fifteenth century and subsequently used and transformed by readers and owners during their long journeys till they fell into their current owners’ hands.
John Goldfinch is a former Curator of Incunabula at the British Library. He worked on the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) from 1985, and has published on the history and provenance of the historic collections at the British Library.
Takako Kato, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University. Recent publications include ‘Lost, Burned and Recovered: Tracing the Provenance History of a Copy of Caxton’s Golden Legend in the John Rylands Library’, The Library, 7th ser., 23 (2022); and ‘Manuscript and Print: Discontinuity and Continuity in the Transmission of Arthurian Tales, in A. Putter, C. Ferlampin-Acher and R. Radulescu (eds.), Late Arthurian Traditions in Europe (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020).
Satoko Tokunaga, PhD, is Professor at the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Tokyo. She works on the manuscript and print cultures of late medieval England. She is a co-editor of Caxton’s Golden Legend, EETS o.s. 355, 357 (Oxford University Press, 2021–22).
Takako Kato, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University. Recent publications include ‘Lost, Burned and Recovered: Tracing the Provenance History of a Copy of Caxton’s Golden Legend in the John Rylands Library’, The Library, 7th ser., 23 (2022); and ‘Manuscript and Print: Discontinuity and Continuity in the Transmission of Arthurian Tales, in A. Putter, C. Ferlampin-Acher and R. Radulescu (eds.), Late Arthurian Traditions in Europe (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020).
Satoko Tokunaga, PhD, is Professor at the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Tokyo. She works on the manuscript and print cultures of late medieval England. She is a co-editor of Caxton’s Golden Legend, EETS o.s. 355, 357 (Oxford University Press, 2021–22).
List of Colour Plates, Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction: Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula
Takako Kato
1 Unique Features in Early Printed Books
Lotte Hellinga
2 Incunabula in Our New Book Historical Landscape
David Pearson
3 A Succession of Uncertainties: Dating the Buxheim Saint Christopher
Edward Potten
4 Coping with Blank Space for Music in Incunabula
Mary Kay Duggan
5 Illuminators of English and Continental Incunabula in England, c.1455–1500
Holly James-Maddocks
6 Tracking Changes: Decoration, Binding, and Annotation in Incunabula Imported to England
Suzanne Reynolds
7 The First Printed Books to Arrive in Scotland: Fifteenth-Century St Andrean Owners of Fifteenth-Century Books
Daryl Green
8 From Mainz to Manhattan: the Morgan Library’s Three Gutenberg Bibles
John T. McQuillen
9 Context Specifics and the History of Collecting Ulrich Zel’s 1466 Chrysostom
Eric Marshall White
10 Perfecting and Completing Caxton’s Golden Legend: the Stratigraphy of Non-homogeneous Copies
Takako Kato
11 ‘There ys in this olde Book many a good sayinge and Lesson’: Copy-Specific Discoveries from the Glasgow Incunabula Project
Julie Gardham
12 Durham Priory Library: Recent Initiatives towards the Reconstruction of a Medieval Cathedral Library
Sheila Hingley
Abbreviations
Introduction: Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula
Takako Kato
Part 1: Perspectives of Incunabula Studies
1 Unique Features in Early Printed Books
Lotte Hellinga
2 Incunabula in Our New Book Historical Landscape
David Pearson
Part 2: Aspects of Early Printing
3 A Succession of Uncertainties: Dating the Buxheim Saint Christopher
Edward Potten
4 Coping with Blank Space for Music in Incunabula
Mary Kay Duggan
Part 3: Early Journeys and Producers
5 Illuminators of English and Continental Incunabula in England, c.1455–1500
Holly James-Maddocks
6 Tracking Changes: Decoration, Binding, and Annotation in Incunabula Imported to England
Suzanne Reynolds
7 The First Printed Books to Arrive in Scotland: Fifteenth-Century St Andrean Owners of Fifteenth-Century Books
Daryl Green
Part 4: Later Journeys and Provenances
8 From Mainz to Manhattan: the Morgan Library’s Three Gutenberg Bibles
John T. McQuillen
9 Context Specifics and the History of Collecting Ulrich Zel’s 1466 Chrysostom
Eric Marshall White
10 Perfecting and Completing Caxton’s Golden Legend: the Stratigraphy of Non-homogeneous Copies
Takako Kato
Part 5: Provenances and Collections
11 ‘There ys in this olde Book many a good sayinge and Lesson’: Copy-Specific Discoveries from the Glasgow Incunabula Project
Julie Gardham
12 Durham Priory Library: Recent Initiatives towards the Reconstruction of a Medieval Cathedral Library
Sheila Hingley
Scholars and students at all levels of book history and provenance studies, studies of fifteenth-century books, including incunabula, woodcuts and manuscripts, bibliography; university and research libraries; antiquarian book enthusiasts and collectors.