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Who Uses Rare Books and What For [PDF]

open access: yes, 1957
published or submitted for ...
Goff, Frederick R.
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Caxton's Afterlife in Manuscript (c.1475‐c.1500)

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Place of Rare Books in a College or University Library [PDF]

open access: yes, 1940
published or submitted for ...
Adams, Randolph G.
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TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610)

open access: yesHistory 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
wiley   +1 more source

Incunables at the University Library of Pavia and the Exihibition ‘All’alba della stampa’

open access: yesTECA
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]

open access: yes, 2009
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

open access: yes, 2009
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

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 22, Issue 8, August 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Romantic objects, Victorian collections: Scribal relics and the authorial body

open access: yesLiterature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1-3, January-March 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

«Кафский логос» Шильтбергера / “Caffa’s logos” of Schiltberger

open access: yesМатериалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

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