Met onder meer: Open Access Text and Paratext in the Early Medieval Book Continuities and Innovations Author: Rosamond McKitterick Download PDF https://brill.com/view/journals/qua/55/2/qua.55.issue-2.xml

Leuven University Press has published the volume Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion, edited by Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, Raf Van Rooy. Written by a diverse group of specialists from across Europe and the US, this book explores the various technical and practical aspects involved in reading, interpreting, and editing student notes, while also demonstrating how these sources can enrich various areas of historical research. paperback, 264 pp. Open Access ebook Download the Open Access ebook > You can find more information on this webpage >  

The Distribution of Prints via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp Pages: 404 p. Size:220 x 280 mm Illustrations:170 col., 8 tables b/w. Language(s):English Publication Year: 2025 € 150,00 EXCL. VATRETAIL PRICE ISBN: 978-1-915487-07-0 Hardback Forthcoming (Jun/25) This is an essential, novel study of the distribution networks, pricing standards, and astounding volume of sales that characterized a vital component of the European print trade in the Early Modern Period, as revealed by the exceptional records of the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp. The European print trade is an evocative topic. Not only art historians, but social, cultural, and economic historians all agree that it…

This book studies the early modern phenomenon of the increasing production and consumption of blue-hued paper, a material used widely in Italy as a drawing, writing and printing support as well as an ephemeral wrapping. Until recently researchers overlooked blue paper as an object of curiosity and worthy of study, often judging that, because of its assumed less refined fabrication and mottled colour compared to the finest contemporary white papers, it was a poor-quality product of lowly function and no particular interest. Close looking, a method of visual examination used regularly by a wide range of professional disciplines, is used…

Studies and Texts 234; Judaism in the Medieval and Early Modern World 4 • xxvi, 554 pp. plus 8 colour plates • ISBN 978-0-88844-234-5 • Cloth • $150 This is the first book-length study of how the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (1568–1573) was made. The Antwerp Polyglot has long been recognized as one of the most ambitious typographical enterprises of the sixteenth century. Upon completion, it was the most elaborate Bible ever printed, a library of biblical erudition with editions of the ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, and Latin versions together with new scholarly instruments necessary to study and compare them….

https://brill.com/view/journals/qua/55/1/qua.55.issue-1.xml  Trading Incunables Colard Mansion, William Caxton and Cambridge University Library Author: David McKitterick Pages:  3–16 Online Publication Date:  23 Sep 2024 Download PDF Restricted Access Friendship, Calm, Justice, and Peace Re-reading the Heber-Serrure Manuscript (Ghent, UL, Ms. 1374) in Its Historic Context Author: Mike Kestemont Pages:  17–42 Online Publication Date:  23 Sep 2024 Open Access Modelling the Middle Dutch Prayer Book (c. 1380–1550) The PRAYER Data Model for Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Authors: Anna Dlabačová  and  Irene Van Eldere Pages:  43–75 Online Publication Date:  11 Feb 2025 Download PDF Notes Restricted Access New Light on Old Fragments in Dutch Collections Reconstructing an…

Discover 50 of the world’s most magnificent hidden libraries – each with a unique and uplifting story to tell – featuring a foreword by librarian, bestselling author, and literary critic Nancy Pearl. Book swap your latest read in a cool 1950s style fridge in New Zealand or hike through the ethereal woodlands of Eas Mor in Scotland where a hidden library in a small log cabin awaits. Each entry shares the library’s mission and impact on the local community and offers fascinating stories from its resident caretaker. Inside Hidden Libraries: 50 enchanting, obscure and astounding libraries from around the world Fascinating insider…

La naissance de l’histoire littéraire en France dans la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle. Sous la direction de S. Geonget, S. Menegaldo et T. Uetani Après un demi-siècle de combat pour la langue française, la France du dernier quart du XVIe siècle voit émerger une conscience de sa littérature nationale. Ainsi s’élabore, en particulier avec les travaux de Claude Fauchet, d’Étienne Pasquier, de La Croix du Maine et de Du Verdier, un discours sur la littérature française, ses origines, son histoire et ses spécificités ; de Jean de Meun à Pierre de Ronsard, des auteurs tendent à devenir constitutifs d’un patrimoine…

How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of their contents? The handwritten and printed missionary books produced in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages in order to efficiently teach religious doctrine to local communities unfamiliar with European culture and religion. This volume considers these missionary books as physical and social objects and illuminates how a variety of factors determines their physical appearance, structure, and form, which in turn shape and guide the interpretation…

Ter ere van Boris Rousseeuw  zal op 26 februari 2025 Obrigado Boris verschijnen, een exclusieve uitgave met oorspronkelijke teksten en illustraties van Manu van der Aa, Steven Van Ammel, Benno Barnard, Luc Boudens, Arnon Grunberg, Tom Lanoye, Léon Lemahieu, Filip Marsboom, Natacha Michiels, Bavo Overlaet-Michiels, Bart Peeters, Peter Pelckmans, Elisa Pesapane, Arie Pos, Vic van de Reijt, Boris Rousseeuw, Maria-Frederika Rousseeuw, Isabelle Vandenabeele, Johan Vanhecke, Rudy Vanschoonbeek, Bruno Vekemans, Nick ter Wal, Gerard van Winkelhoff, Arie Pos en met de fondslijst van De Carbolineum Pers. De teksten worden gezet uit de Epicene en gedrukt op 140 grams houtvrij getint offset…