Printing R-evolution and society 1450-1500. Fifty years that changed Europe

Venice, Palazzo Ducale, 19-21 Sept. 2018

 

Full playlist: https://youtu.be/hDDkjuN0vKo

 

DAY ONE: THE COST OF LIVING AND THE COST OF BOOKS IN 15TH-CENTURY EUROPE

[1^st session] https://youtu.be/hDDkjuN0vKo

Welcome: Direttore Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia (Dott.ssa Gabriella Belli); Direttore Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (Dott. Stefano Campagnolo); Segretario Generale Fondazione Cini (Prof. Pasquale Gagliardi)

Introduction: Cristina Dondi

Chair Monica Viero, Biblioteca del Museo Correr, Venezia

Paper 1 Isabella Cecchini, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Setting the context. A reconstruction of the cost of living in late 15th century Venice

Paper 2 Paola Pinelli, Università di Firenze, La compravendita di libri nella contabilità dei mercanti fiorentini: un confronto coi prezzi dei generi di prima necessità e col potere d’acquisto dei salariati nella seconda metà del 15o secolo

Questions

[2^nd session] https://youtu.be/7w5YL8xWvZQ

Chair Mario Infelise, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Paper 3 Cristina Dondi, 15cBOOKTRADE, From the Corpus Juris to ‘psalterioli da puti’, on parchment, bound, gilt … The price of any book sold in Venice 1484-1488

Paper 4 Neil Harris, Università di Udine, Costs we don’t think about: rubrication and illumination. An unusual copy of Franciscus de Platea, Opus restitutionum (1474)

Paper 5 Sara Mansutti, Università di Udine, “Con un altro piccolo indice in 4° bislungo”: un inventario di libri conservato dentro il Zornale di Francesco de Madiis

Paper 6 Ester Peric, Università di Udine, La lista di libri di Antonio Moretto (Padova, 1480)

Paper 7 Lorenz Böninger, Firenze, Da Venezia a Firenze, Lucca e Genova: il commercio librario di Leonardo Donà e Franz Renner, c. 1477-1487 [no recording]

[3^rd session] https://youtu.be/OpatdbYXxFE

Chair Dorit Raines, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Paper 8 Claire Bolton, Oxford, The Memmingen book network

Paper 9 Monique Hulvey, Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, Sellers and Buyers of the Lyon book market in the late fifteenth century 

Paper 10 J. Antoni Iglesias Fonseca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Tra il libro manoscritto e l’edizione a stampa in Catalogna nella seconda metà del 15 secolo (1450-1500) [no recording]

[4^th session] https://youtu.be/gY4pApswfg0

Chair Marian Lefferts, Executive Manager, CERL

Paper 11 Elena Gatti, Università di Bologna, Heredes de Plauto stampadore deno avere infrascritte robe e dinari: consumo del libro, prezzi e mercato librario a Bologna. Uno caso di studio

Paper 12 Paolo Tinti, Università di Bologna, Emptus Ferrarie. I prezzi del libro nella città estense fra Quattro e primi del Cinquecento

Questions and Discussion

[5^th session] https://youtu.be/YbCevgTl80k

Martin Stokhof, Vice-President ERC (Social Sciences and Humanities), lectio magistralis

Questions

 

DAY TWO: THE TRANSMISSION OF TEXTS IN PRINT AND THE DISTRIBUTION AND RECEPTION OF BOOKS

[1^st session] https://youtu.be/idwhKxamT5w

Chair: Henry Woudhuysen, Rector of Lincoln College Oxford

Paper 1: Kristian Jensen, The British Library and Chairman of CERL, Establishing and recording provenance, from the Bodleian Library Catalogue of Incunabula to MEI

Paper 2 Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, 15cBOOKTRADE, Printing the Law in the 15^th century, with a focus on Corpus Juris Civilis and the works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato

Paper 3 Geri Della Rocca de Candal, 15cBOOKTRADE, Printing in Greek before Aldus Manutius

[2nd session] https://youtu.be/h_5xai7gL4c

Chair Andrea De Pasquale, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma

Paper 4 Sabrina Minuzzi, 15cBOOKTRADE, Printing Medicine in the 15^th century, with a focus on the distribution and use of Materia Medica books

Paper 5 Alessia Giachery, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia, La formazione delle raccolte marciane. I cataloghi storici

Paper 6 Elisabetta Sciarra, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia, Acquisizioni ed esportazioni alla caduta della Repubblica

[3^rd session] https://youtu.be/ZDAPqa5mipA

Chair Paul Needham, Scheide Library, Princeton University

Paper 7 Eric White, Princeton University Library, Patterns of Non-Survival among the Earliest Mainz Editions

Paper 8 Falk Eisermann, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendruke Berlin, “Did you mean incurable?” Searching and Finding Incunabula in the World Wide Web

Paper 9 John Lancaster, US MEI Editor, Bringing American collections into MEI

[4th session] https://youtu.be/_7VJkrVePCo

Chair Martin Davies, London

Paper 10 Pasqualino Avigliano, Andrea Cappa, Andrea De Pasquale and Marina Venier – Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Cristina Dondi – CERL, Adalbert Roth – Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, To protect and research the incunabula collections of the libraries annexed to National Monuments: Santa Scolastica at Subiaco – A Polonsky, National Library of Rome, and CERL collaboration

Paper 11 Edoardo Barbieri, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, ll contributo del CRELEB e della Regione Lombardia alla catalogazione in MEI: descrizione, risultati, problemi aperti

 

Paper 12 Viktorija Vaitkevičiūtė and Agnė Zemkajutė, Vilnius, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Lithuanian importation of foreign editions, especially from Italy

Paper 13 Marco Bertagna, The distribution and use of Hebrew early printed books in Europe. Hebrew incunabula in Italy

Paer 14 Rahel Fronda, The distribution and use of Hebrew early printed books in Europe. Hebrew incunabula in the UK [no recording]

Paper 15 Alexander Gordin, 15cHEBRAICA, The distribution and use of Hebrew early printed books in Europe. The National Library of Israel Evidences

 

DAY THREE: ILLUSTRATION AND DIGITAL TOOLS

[1^st session] https://youtu.be/Py5dBSO2Q9I

Chair William Stoneman, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Paper 1: Lilian Armstrong, Wellesley College, The Decoration and Illustration of Venetian Incunabula: From Hand-Illumination to the Design of Woodcuts

Paper 2 Susy Marcon, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia, Incunaboli marciani miniati

Paper 3 Matilde Malaspina, 15cBOOKTRADE, and Abhishek Dutta, Visual Geometry Group University of Oxford, The use and reuse of printed illustrations in 15th century Venetian editions

Paper 4 Ilenia Maschietto and Ilaria Andreoli, Fondazione Cini Venezia, The Essling project: the census and the copies

[2^nd session] https://youtu.be/NtxVdjyZF54

Chair Claudia Fabian, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Paper 5 Marieke van Delft, Royal Library of The Hague , CERL’s Provenance Digital Archive

Paper 6 John Goldfinch and Karen Limper-Herz, The British Library, The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC): Past, Present and Future

Paper 7 Alex Jahnke, DCG University of Göttingen, MEI – Beyond the Interface

Paper 8 Gregory Prickman, Folger Shakespeare Library Washington, Mapping the ISTC: Visualization and the Material History of Data

Conclusion

The Catalogue of the Exhibition can be purchased via Blackwell’s Rare Books, Oxford.

Short video and images of the exhibition Printing Revolution 1450-1500. Fifty Years That changed Europe, by Studio Visuale.

INSTAGRAM #printing_revolution

15cBOOKTRADE (HEBRAICA): Research project – National Library of Israel, Jerusalem

University of Oxford, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages – ‘The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance’.

The Faculty are seeking to engage an independent consultant to undertake a discrete research project on Hebrew incunabula.  It is anticipated that the consultant will be based in Jerusalem, Israel, and that the work will be completed between 1 December 2017 and 31 July 2018.

The full project will be paid at £18,000, which we envisage will be paid in regular instalments on production of invoices and a satisfactory progress update.

This project has been created as part of a grant received from the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe by the international project 15cBOOKTRADE, specifically to catalogue Hebrew incunabula into the database Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI). The 15cBOOKTRADE is a five-year project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), it is directed by Dr Cristina Dondi. The project team consists of the PI, the project administrator, 3 postdoctoral researchers (based in Oxford, the British Library, and Venice), and 1 Oxford doctoral student. The team is supported by IT units at the Bodleian Library, the University of Göttingen, and works with visual engineers and the e-research centre of the University of Oxford. The team also coordinates the contribution of several European and American libraries. The researcher will also work with the directors of the ‘Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place’ Project which is tracking the movement of early Hebrew printed books.

The researcher will work closely with National Library of Israel staff. Responsibilities include cataloguing the collection of Hebrew incunabula into MEI with special attention to the copy specific elements (former ownership, decoration, binding, manuscript annotations, etc.), according to the standards of the 15cBOOKTRADE Project.

Under the supervision and with the support of an Advisory Board, the researcher will map the presence of Hebrew incunabula in other Israeli libraries using the conventional tools of 15th-century bibliography and specialist literature; will assess the existence, or otherwise, of copy specific information, whether in manuscript, print, or electronic; will prioritise a plan to examine books with no copy specific data attached; will plan the most efficient inclusion of existing copy specific data into the MEI database; finally the researcher will also plan for the ingest of provenance data gathered into the Footprints database.

Applicants must have completed a Humanities Doctoral degree or demonstrable equivalent experience. Excellent Hebrew language and Hebrew palaeographical and codicological expertise, expertise in early continental bibliography, knowledge of Jewish history and culture, and awareness of the concept of the transmission of knowledge from the Classical to the early modern period are essential, as well as fluency in English and a good knowledge of Latin. Knowledge of other classical and modern languages (Italian, German, Yiddish) will be an advantage, as well as some expertise in European continental Palaeography and Codicology and familiarity with IT and the digital humanities. Effective organisational and written and verbal communication skills are also essential.

Potential consultants should apply by sending a CV, a covering letter, and the name of a referee to Dr Birgit Mikus at birgit.mikus@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.

Closing Date: 30 October 2017

Latest time for the submission of applications: midday.

Interviews may be held. Date: 15 November 2017

 

15cBOOKTRADE (HEBRAICA): Research project – Weston Library, Oxford

University of Oxford, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages – ‘The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance’.

The Faculty are seeking to engage an independent consultant to undertake a discrete research project on Hebrew incunabula. It is anticipated that the consultant will be based in Oxford, UK, but will be required to undertake travel which will be planned in advance and reimbursed.

It is anticipated that the work will be completed between 1 December 2017 and 31 July 2018.

The full project will be paid at £18,000, which we envisage will be paid in regular instalments on production of invoices and a satisfactory progress update.

This project has been created as part of a grant received from the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe by the international project 15cBOOKTRADE, specifically to catalogue Hebrew incunabula into the database Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI). The 15cBOOKTRADE is a five-year project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), it is directed by Dr Cristina Dondi. The project team consists of the PI, the project administrator, 3 postdoctoral researchers (based in Oxford, the British Library, and Venice), and 1 Oxford doctoral student. The team is supported by IT units at the Bodleian Library, the University of Göttingen, and works with visual engineers and the e-research centre of the University of Oxford. The team also coordinates the contribution of several European and American libraries. The researcher will also work with the directors of the ‘Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place’ Project which is tracking the movement of early Hebrew printed books.

The researcher will work closely with Weston Library staff. Responsibilities include cataloguing the collection of Hebrew incunabula into MEI with special attention to the copy specific elements (former ownership, decoration, binding, manuscript annotations, etc.), according to the standards of the 15cBOOKTRADE Project.

Under the supervision and with the support of an Advisory Board, the researcher will map the presence of Hebrew incunabula in other UK and possibly other northern European libraries using the conventional tools of 15th-century bibliography and specialist literature; will assess the existence, or otherwise, of copy specific information, whether in manuscript, print, or electronic; will prioritise a plan to examine books with no copy specific data attached; will plan the most efficient inclusion of existing copy specific data into the MEI database; finally the researcher will also plan for the ingest of provenance data gathered into the Footprints database.

Applicants must have completed a Humanities Doctoral degree or demonstrable equivalent experience. Excellent Hebrew language and Hebrew palaeographical and codicological expertise, expertise in early continental bibliography, knowledge of Jewish history and culture, and awareness of the concept of the transmission of knowledge from the Classical to the early modern period are essential, as well as fluency in English and a good knowledge of Latin. Knowledge of other classical and modern languages (Italian, German, Yiddish) will be an advantage, as well as some expertise in European continental Palaeography and Codicology and familiarity with IT and the digital humanities. Effective organisational and written and verbal communication skills are also essential.

Potential consultants should apply by sending a CV, a covering letter, and the name of a referee to Dr Birgit Mikus at birgit.mikus@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.

Closing Date: 30 October 2017

Latest time for the submission of applications: midday.

Interviews may be held. Date: 15 November 2017

 

15cBOOKTRADE (HEBRAICA): Research project – National Library of Rome, Italy

University of Oxford, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages – ‘The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance’.

The Faculty are seeking to engage an independent consultant to undertake a discrete research project on Hebrew incunabula. It is anticipated that the consultant will be based in Rome, National Library, Italy, but will be required to undertake travel which will be planned in advance and reimbursed.

It is anticipated that the work will be completed between 1 December 2017 and 31 July 2018.

The full project will be paid at £18,000, which we envisage will be paid in regular instalments on production of invoices and a satisfactory progress update.

This project has been created as part of a grant received from the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe by the international project 15cBOOKTRADE, specifically to catalogue Hebrew incunabula into the database Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI). The 15cBOOKTRADE is a five-year project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), it is directed by Dr Cristina Dondi. The project team consists of the PI, the project administrator, 3 postdoctoral researchers (based in Oxford, the British Library, and Venice), and 1 Oxford doctoral student. The team is supported by IT units at the Bodleian Library, the University of Göttingen, and works with visual engineers and the e-research centre of the University of Oxford. The team also coordinates the contribution of several European and American libraries. The researcher will also work with the directors of the ‘Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place’ Project which is tracking the movement of early Hebrew printed books.

The researcher will work closely with National Library of Rome staff. Responsibilities include cataloguing the collection of Hebrew incunabula into MEI with special attention to the copy specific elements (former ownership, decoration, binding, manuscript annotations, etc.), according to the standards of the 15cBOOKTRADE Project.

Under the supervision and with the support of an Advisory Board, the researcher will map the presence of Hebrew incunabula in other Italian and possibly other southern European libraries using the conventional tools of 15th-century bibliography and specialist literature; will assess the existence, or otherwise, of copy specific information, whether in manuscript, print, or electronic; will prioritise a plan to examine books with no copy specific data attached; will plan the most efficient inclusion of existing copy specific data into the MEI database; finally the researcher will also plan for the ingest of provenance data gathered into the Footprints database.

Applicants must have completed a Humanities Doctoral degree or demonstrable equivalent experience. Excellent Hebrew language and Hebrew palaeographical and codicological expertise, expertise in early continental bibliography, knowledge of Jewish history and culture, and awareness of the concept of the transmission of knowledge from the Classical to the early modern period are essential, as well as fluency in English and a good knowledge of Latin. Knowledge of other classical and modern languages (Italian, German, Yiddish) will be an advantage, as well as some expertise in European continental Palaeography and Codicology and familiarity with IT and the digital humanities. Effective organisational and written and verbal communication skills are also essential.

Potential consultants should apply by sending a CV, a covering letter, and the name of a referee to Dr Birgit Mikus at birgit.mikus@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.

Closing Date: 30 October 2017

Latest time for the submission of applications: midday.

Interviews may be held. Date: 15 November 2017

BROADCASTING (2 Sept. 2017) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv0rr

When the fifteenth century German entrepreneur Johannes Gutenberg pioneered the printing press, he made an indelible mark on the history of communication. Here was a way to print pages in high quality and high quantities, using methods more efficient than had ever been seen before.

Rajan Datar and guests explore the story of how the printing press was born, and how it changed our world – from the birth of the modern book to the rise of the information society, and the transformation of fields including scholarship and religion.

Rajan Dattar is joined by art historian Hala Auji (American University of Beirut), publisher Michael Bhaskar, scholar Cristina Dondi and the writer John Man.

Oxford University Website: News & Events: European Research Council Anniversary (video; 16 Mar. 2017)

http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/european-research-council-anniversary

 

Humanities Division Website: Announcements: ERC 10^th Anniversary Week (14 Mar. 2017)

http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/article/erc-10th-anniversary-week-15cbooktrade

 

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages Website: Latest News (15 Mar. 2017)

http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/

The History of the Book and Cultural History, History of Art, Classics, Economics, Manuscript studies, Theology, and Law

Oxford, Weston Library, Visiting Scholars’ Centre (VSC) – Hilary Term, Fridays 2.15

Convenor: Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College and 15cBOOKTRADE)

PODCASTS AVAILABLE HERE https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/history-book-2017

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Cultural History (20 January): Prof. Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford: The Italian Trade with the Frankfurt Book Fair around 1600

History of Art (27 January): Dr Louis-Gabriel Bonicoli, Paris: Parisian Early Printed Book Illustration (around 1500)

Classics (3 February): Prof. Stephen Oakley, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University: Incunabular Stemmatics

Economics (10 February): Dr Jeremiah Dittmar, Department of Economics, London School of Economics: The Price of Books in Early Modern Europe: An Economic Perspective

Manuscript Studies (24 February): Dr David Speranzi, Firenze, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento:  Greek Script and Type in the Fifteenth century. Demetrius Damilas between Milan and Florence

Theology (3 March): Dr Paul Needham, Scheide Library, Princeton University Library: The Gutenberg Bible in the Context of Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Bibles

Law (10 March): Prof. Rodolfo Savelli, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Università di Genova: Printing the Corpus iuris civilis in the Sixteenth Century

Nuove tecnologie per lo studio degli incunaboli. I databases MEI e TEXT-inc

creleb_Seminario_MEI_Apr. 16

Milano, Univ. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Via Nirone 15, Aula NI110, ore 14.30-17.30

http://www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/Summer-School-History-of-Libraries

 

Cristina Dondi will present the new catalogue Incunaboli a Siracusa, edited by Lucia Catalano, Rosalia Claudia Giordano, Marco Palma, Anna Scala, Marzia Scialabba, Salvatrice Terranova, Rosalba Tripoli, with the collaboration of Giuseppe Greco and Anna Reale, Rome, Viella, 2015

Accompanied by the exhibition “Itinerari bibliografici a Siracusa. Gli incunaboli”, Noto, Biblioteca comunale (Palazzo Nicolaci).