Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400-1700

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-68055-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 86, 778 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1624 g

Reihe: Intersections

Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400-1700 examines the form, function, and meaning of alterations made by users to the physical structure of their book—through insertion or interpolation, subtraction or deletion, adjustments in the ordering of folios or quires, amendments of image or text. Although our primary interest is in printed books and print series bound like books, we also consider selected manuscripts since meaningful alterations made to incunabula and early printed books often followed the patterns such changes took in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century codices. Throughout Customised Books the emphasis falls on the hermeneutic functions of the modifications made by makers and users to the structure of meaning of their manuscripts and books.

Autoren/Hrsg.

D Fletcher, Christopher

Melion, Walter S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

Part 1: Introduction

1 Kinds and Degrees of Customisation in Early Modern Book Production and Reception

Walter S. Melion

2 The Customising Mindset in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Newberry Inc. 1699

Christopher D. Fletcher

Part 2: Customisation across Media

3 A Late Medieval Multi-Text Manuscript and Its Printed Precedents

Britt Boler Hunter

4 Reforming Hrabanus: Early Modern Iterations of In honorem sanctae crucis

Kelin Michael

5 A Customized Housebook of Repurposed Prints: the Liber Quodlibetarius, c. 1524

Stephanie Leitch

Part 3: Communal Customising

6 How to Talk about Burgundian Books You Could Not Read

Bret L. Rothstein

7 Customizing for the Community: The Wiesbaden Manuscript (Hauptstaatsarchiv 3004 B 10) and the Late Medieval Church

Geert Warnar

8 A Medical Anthology Customised ‘for the Consolation of the Sick’ in a Brussels Convent

Andrea van Leerdam

9 Custom Made by Antonio Ricardo: Peru’s First Printer and His Illustrations in Jerónimo de Oré’s Symbolo Catholico Indiano (1598)

Tom Cummins

Part 4: Individual Customisers

10 From Proud Monument to Ill-Marked Tomb: Tommaso Schifaldo in a Sicilian Humanist Miscellany

Paul F. Gehl

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)

Karl A.E. Enenkel

12 Picture Bound: Customized Books of Prints and the Myth of the Ideal Series

Shaun Midanik

13 Customizing an Emblem Book as an album amicorum: Valentin Ludovicus’ Entry in the Stammbuch of Christian Weigel

Mara R. Wade

Part 5: Editorial Customisation

14 A Play of Continuity and Difference: A Book of Fortune-telling Adapted from the Kingdom of Poland to Southeastern Europe

Justyna Kilianczyk-Zieba

15 Shifting Perspectives: Changing Optical Theory in the Printed Works of Jean-François Niceron

Brent Purkaple

16 Venice as a Musical Commodity in Early Modern Germany: A Frontispiece Collage, c. 1638

Jason Rosenholtz-Witt

17 Vaenius in Ireland: An Eighteenth-Century Customization of the Emblemata Horatiana

Simon McKeown

Part 6: Visual Customisation

18 Frames, Screens and Urns: Customisation and Poetics in the 1495 Aldine Theocritus painted by Albrecht Dürer for Willibald Pirckheimer

Jakub Koguciuk

19 Compiled Compositions: The Kattendijke Chronicle (c. 1491–1493) and Late Medieval Book Design

Anna Dlabacová

20 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus’s Dutch New Testament

Walter S. Melion

21 ‘By the Genius of the Indians’: The Customization of Nieremberg’s De la Diferencia in Guarani (Loreto, Juan Bautista Neumann et alii: 1705)

Pedro Leal

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Melion, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, is the author of three monographs and a critical edition of Karel van Mander’s Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting, co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of more than twenty-five volumes, and has published more than ninety articles.

Christopher D. Fletcher, Assistant Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library, is a historian of public engagement and book history before 1800 whose work has appeared in articles, book chapters, gallery exhibitions, and digital resources.