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Beyond Benjamin. «The Technological Reproduction of Writing» and the Distrust of Priting in Fifteenth-Century Europe

TECA, 2021
The essay offers a critical rereading of one of the most famous works by Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, published in 1936. The interpretation of printing proposed by the German philosopher, also if not
Wolfgang Schmitz
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Stanisław Lisowski and the Restitution of Incunabula of Monastic Provenance under the Treaty of Riga (1921)

Kwartalnik Historyczny
The Treaty of Riga is considered one of the most important documents of the first half of the twentieth century for Eastern Europe. Few studies, however, address the question of the restitution of library and archive collections.
Dorota Pietrzkiewicz
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Codex Fragments Detached from Incunabula in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Fragmentology, 2021
This article presents the results of a study of 32 manuscript fragments detached from incunables in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Fanni Hende
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The census of bookbindings

Knjižnica, 2003
The beginnings of the library of the Franciscan monastery of Kostanjevica in Nova Gorica date back to the middle of the 17th century, but in its collection one can also find incunabula and prints from the 16th century.
Blanka Avguštin Florjanovič
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The Slavic books in the 16th century: between manuscripts and printings

Knjižnica, 2011
Purpose: The article explores the Slavic typography in the Renaissance with special emphasis on the Cyrillic incunabula and on the complex process of building national languages in the Slavic regions, which are also related to the position of Christian ...
Neža Zajc
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Caxton's Afterlife in Manuscript (c.1475‐c.1500)

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 274-292, April 2026.
Abstract At least thirty‐five manuscript copies of Caxton's prints have been found so far. This article explores the implications of such manuscript copies of Caxton's prints and, interrupting the linear history of the book, considers Caxton's appeal beyond print in manuscript.
Aditi Nafde
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Tommaso Giustiniani, wealthy of books

JLIS.it, 2021
The article seeks to examine the book collection which Tommaso Giustiniani (1477-1528) brought with him in Holy Hermitage (Eremo) of Camaldoli from Venice when the Venetian nobleman became a Camaldolese monk in 1510 with the name of Paolo.
Piero Scapecchi
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TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610)

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 92-108, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In 1610, a Tagalog printer named Tomás Pinpin published a Spanish grammar in Tagalog that was intended to help natives avoid errors and misunderstandings in their interactions with Spanish colonizers. This article attempts to clarify the book's genesis and to contextualize it within the global expansion of Spanish. Pinpin exemplifies a pattern
ALAN DURSTON
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Incunables at the University Library of Pavia and the Exihibition ‘All’alba della stampa’

TECA
The paper briefly describes the book exhibition All’alba della stampa. Itinerari tra gli incunaboli della Biblioteca Universitaria di Pavia, set on display at the Salone Teresiano of the University Library of Pavia between March 4 and May 24, 2024.
Davide Martini
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Francesco Griffo in Padua. From Goldsmith to 'Grammatoglypta' (1470-1480)

TECA, 2021
The essay outlines the state of knowledge on Francesco Griffo from Bologna and presents new and valuable archival evidences found in the State Archive of Padua.
Chiara Reatti, Paolo Tinti
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