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Is it too early to put it on your Xmas list?
I just ran accross an announcement for a new publication. and thought many of you would be interested:
A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Alan Coates, Kristian Jensen, Cristina Dondi, Bettina Wagner and Helen Dixon.
6 vols.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Price: £600.00 (Hardback)
ISBN 0-19-951373-2
Publication date: 7 July 2005
3088 pages, 276 mm x 219mmmm
Description
INTRODUCTORY OFFER £600
Represents a major contribution to the study of the history of the book
Catalogues the world’s fifth largest collection of fifteenth-century western printed books
Includes a valuable provenance index
Compiled to the highest modern standards
The Bodleian’s incunable catalogue describes the Library’s fifteenth-century western printed books to the same standards expected in the best modern catalogues of medieval manuscripts. It records and identifies all texts contained in each volume, and the detailed analysis of the textual content is an innovative feature. Further information about authors, editors, translators, and dedicatees is given in an extensive index of names, complete with biographical and other information; this index will be of interest to textural scholars from the classical period to the renaissance. The detailed descriptions of the copy-specific features of each book (the binding, hand-decoration and hand-finishing, marginalia, and provenance) form another important contribution to scholarship. The provenance index will be of great value to all those interested in the history of the book from the 1450s to the present day.
Readership: Scholars and students of the history of the book from the 1450s to the present day; textual scholars from the classical period to the renaissance
Contents
R. P. Carr, Director of University Library Services and Bodley’s Librarian: Preface
List of Organisations and Individuals who sponsored cataloguing project
List of Members of the Cataloguing Team
List of Academic Advisers
Acknowledgements
Bibliographical abbreviations
General abbreviations
INTRODUCTIONAlan Coates:
(a) Historical introduction
(i) acquisition of incunubala
(ii) housing of incunabula
(iii) cataloguing of incunabula
(b) The form of the entries in the Catalogue
THE CATALOGUE
(a) Nigel Palmer: Blockbooks
(b) Western incunabula, A-Z
(c) Silke Schaeper: Lisf of Hebraica
INDEXES
(a) Authors, Translators, Editors, Dedicatees
(b) Owners and Donors
(c) Printers and Publishers
APPENDICES
(a) Items recorded by L. A. Sheppard, but not included in the Catalogue
(b) Items included in ISTC, but excluded from the Catalogue
(c) List of items in Schreiber ‘Woodcuts from Books of the XVth Century’
Authors, editors, and contributors
Alan Coates, Assistant Librarian, Rare Books, Dept of Special Collections & Western MSS, & Head of Incunable Cataloguing Project, Bodleian Library, Oxford,
Kristian Jensen, Head of British & Early Printed Collections, The British Library, London,
Cristina Dondi, J. P. R. Lyell Research Fellow in the History of the Early Modern Printed Book, University of Oxford,
Bettina Wagner, Head of Incunable Cataloguing, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany,
Helen Dixon, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, The Warburg Institute, University of London
