Early printed books as material objects : proceedings of the conference organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Munich, 19-21 August 2009 / edited by Bettina Wagner and Marcia Reed.

Early printed books as material objects : proceedings of the conference organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Munich, 19-21 August 2009 / edited by Bettina Wagner and Marcia Reed.

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Saur, ©2010.

xii, 367 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm

IFLA publications, 0344-6891 ; 149

In English; one entry in French.

"Pre-conference on 'Early printed books as material objects--Principles, problems, perspectives', which was held as a satellite meeting to the annual congress of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Milan, Italy"--P. v.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preface /
Rolf Griebel
Introduction /
Bettina Wagner
Copy-specifics in the printing shop /
Paul Needham
The Gutenberg Bible that survives as binder's waste /
Eric Marshall White
The first experiments in book decoration as the Fust-Schöffer Press /
Mayumi Ikeda
Information from illumination :
three case studies of incunabula in the 1470s /
Lilian Armstrong
Producing, buying and decorating books in the age of Gutenberg :
the role of monasteries in central Europe /
Christine Beier
Colour plates
Pomponio Leto's unpublished commentary on Sallust :
five witnesses (and more) /
Patricia J. Osmond
Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' in a marginal note in a cicero incunable /
Armin Schlechter
Links between a fifteenth-century printer and binder /
Claire Bolton
The German database of historical bookbindings (EBDB) :
aims and perspectives of a cooperative research tool /
Ulrike Marburger
Bookbindings on incunabula in American library collections :
a working census /
Scott Husby
The Venetian booktrade :
a methodological approach to and first results of book-based historical research /
Cristina Dondi
Private libraries in sixteenth-century Italy /
Angela Nuovo
Quatre siècles d'histoire de la bibliothèque Vettori :
entre vènèration et valorisation /
Raphaële Mouren
The 'biography of copies' :
provenance description in online catalogues /
Michaela Scheibe
Creating a better past :
collectors of incunabula in the late eighteenth century /
Kirstian Jensen
Deconstruction and reconstruction :
detecting and interpreting sophisticated copies /
Margaret Lane Ford
the idea(l) of the ideal copy :
some thoughts on books with multiple identities /
Wolfgang Undorf
The importance of the copy census as a methodology in book history /
David Pearson.

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