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Historical Evolution of Fore-edge Paintings [PDF]
Journal of Library and Information Studies, 2019 Fore-edge Painting is a type of book decoration. Germinating in the 10th century in Europe, it revived and prospered during the second half of the 18th century, when a number of books with foreedge paintings emerged.
Fuying Peng
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The History of Book Ciphers [PDF]
, 2007 You can do a lot with a book, besides read it! In fact, we know that by 1526 — some 70 years after Gutenberg printed his first Bible — at least one of out forebears, Jacobus Silvestri, was thinking of how a book might be used for cryptographic purposes.
Albert C. Leighton, Stephen M. Matyas
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Book History in the Nordic Countries [PDF]
Mémoires du livre, 2022 What characterizes Nordic book history? This was the first thing on our minds when we considered the present special issue of Mémoires du livre – Studies in Book Culture. Setting out on the project and distributing the call for papers we hoped to come up with some sort of answer to our question.
Hansen, Poul Henning Gustaf +1 more
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World Wide Book: A Digitalização e o Livro
MatLit, 2014 Brief presentation of seven archives containing digitized representations of bibliographic collections or reflections on digital and post-digital forms of the book: Codices Electronici Sangallenses, Digital Scriptorium, Artists' Books Online, Tipo.PT ...
Sandra Bettencourt, Manuel Portela
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Między lekturą a notatnikiem. Noty rękopiśmienne w książce drukowanej jako materiał badawczy
Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi, 2022 The subject of the article is the phenomenon of handwritten notes on the pages of old prints. Due to their astonishing variety, these notes constitute source material with great research potential, well beyond the history of reading and the history of ...
Beata Gryzio
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Documents and New Studies on the History of the Book in Ferrara in the Eighteenth Century
TECA, 2022 The presentation of two recent studies which explore the history of printing in Ferrara from the 16th to the 18th century (Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara, 9 November 2022) is the starting point for debating about methodology, especially in ...
Maria Gioia Tavoni
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Book prices and monetary issues in Renaissance Europe
JLIS.it, 2018 The difficulties associated with the creation of a large database of book prices include giving effective answers to questions such as how prices were formed during the various steps of the production process (sedimentation of production costs, costs ...
Francesco Ammannati
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Janus.net, 2022 This dossier gathers articles by five graduates from the Master in International Studies, based at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon.
Giulia Daniele, Luís Nuno Rodrigues
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