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Caxton's Afterlife in Manuscript (c.1475‐c.1500)
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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The Place of Rare Books in a College or University Library [PDF]
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Adams, Randolph G.
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TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610)
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’
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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Manuscriptorium Digital Library and ENRICH Project: Means for Dealing with Digital Codicology and Palaeography [PDF]
Codicology and palaeography in the digital age can be developed both through adapting existing methods and using information and communication technologies.
Knoll, Adolf, Uhlíř, Zdeněk
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The National Library of Argentina: exhibiting astronomy-related rare books
Astronomical and cosmological knowledge up to the dawn of modern science was profoundly embedded in myth, religion and superstition. Many of these inventions of the human mind remain today stored in different supports: medieval engravings, illuminated ...
Alejandro Gangui, Gangui
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The Good Death in Early Modern Europe
ABSTRACT The inevitability of death does not change its variability. In The Hour of Our Death (1981), Philippe Ariès positioned the sudden, unexpected, mass death of epidemics (especially from the Black Death) against the personalized, domesticated death for which one had time to prepare. The domesticated death, so he argued, appeared during a specific
Cynthia Klestinec, Gideon Manning
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Romantic objects, Victorian collections: Scribal relics and the authorial body
Abstract Over the course of the nineteenth century, literary manuscripts came to be seen as tangible evidence of the creative process and as a key to the personality of the author. The material traces of writing were understood to outlive their creators and promise to resurrect the authorial body through the magic of the relic.
Tim Sommer
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«Кафский логос» Шильтбергера / “Caffa’s logos” of Schiltberger
This article makes a comparative analyses of the Caffa's description in the manuscripts of Hans Schiltberger’s essay and incunabula. Here were reviewed the Heidelberg’s, Baden’s, and Munich’s manuscripts from the late 15th century, and also three ...
A.G. Emanov
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