Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400-1700 / / edited by Christopher D. Fletcher and Walter S. Melion.

"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, amend...

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Superior document:Intersections Series ; Volume 86
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, [2024]
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Year of Publication:2024
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Intersections (Series) ; Volume 86.
Physical Description:1 online resource (777 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Introduction
  • Kinds and Degrees of Customisation in Early Modern Book Production and Reception / Walter S. Melion
  • The Customising Mindset in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Newberry Inc. 1699 / Christopher D. Fletcher
  • Part 2. Customisation across Media
  • A Late Medieval Multi-Text Manuscript and Its Printed Precedents / Britt Boler Hunter
  • Reforming Hrabanus: Early Modern Iterations of In honorem sanctae crucis / Kelin Michael
  • A Customized Housebook of Repurposed Prints: the Liber Quodlibetarius, c. 1524 / Stephanie Leitch
  • Part 3. Communal Customising
  • How to Talk about Burgundian Books You Could Not Read / Bret L. Rothstein
  • Customizing for the Community: The Wiesbaden Manuscript (Hauptstaatsarchiv 3004 B 10) and the Late Medieval Church / Geert Warnar
  • A Medical Anthology Customised 'for the Consolation of the Sick' in a Brussels Convent / Andrea van Leerdam
  • Custom Made by Antonio Ricardo: Peru's First Printer and His Illustrations in Jero´nimo Ore´'s Symbolo Catholico Indiano (1598) / Tom Cummins
  • Part 4. Individual Customisers
  • From Proud Monument to Ill-Marked Tomb: Tommaso Schifaldo in a Sicilian Humanist Miscellany / Paul F. Gehl
  • 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
  • Picture Bound: Customized Books of Prints and the Myth of the Ideal Series / Shaun Midanik
  • Customizing an Emblem Book as an album amicorum: Valentin Ludovicus' Entry in the Stammbuch of Christian Weigel / Mara R. Wade
  • Part 5. Editorial Customisation
  • A Play of Continuity and Difference: A Book of Fortune-telling Adapted from the Kingdom of Poland to Southeastern Europe / Justyna Kilian´czyk-Zie?ba
  • Shifting Perspectives: Changing Optical Theory in the Printed Works of Jean-Franc¸ois Niceron / Brent Purkaple
  • Venice as a Musical Commodity in Early Modern Germany: A Frontispiece Collage, c. 1638 / Jason Rosenholtz-Witt
  • Vaenius in Ireland: An Eighteenth-Century Customization of the Emblemata Horatiana / Simon McKeown
  • Part 6. Visual Customisation
  • Frames, Screens and Urns: Customisation and Poetics in the 1495 Aldine Theocritus Painted by Albrecht Du¨rer for Willibald Pirckheimer / Jakub Koguciuk
  • Compiled Compositions: The Kattendijke Chronicle (c. 1491-1493) and Late Medieval Book Design / Anna Dlabac?ova´
  • Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus's Dutch New Testament / Walter S. Melion
  • By the Genius of the Indians: The Customization of Nieremberg's De la Diferencia in Guarani (Loreto, Juan Bautista Neumann et alii: 1705) / Pedro Germano Leal.