H-25. Fifteenth-Century Books in Print & Manuscript - Advance Reading List

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  • This is a list of useful readings for our course. None is compulsory, but they cover a wide variety of the topics we will discuss. For further reading about medieval manuscripts, you should be aware of Albert Derolez’s indispensible The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2003); and Barbara Shailor’s useful The Medieval Book: Illustrated from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Medieval Academy, 1988; and reprints, etc.).

  • Articles

    Ker, Neil R. “From ‘Above Top Line’ to ‘Below Top Line’: A Change in Scribal Practice,” in Books, Collectors and Libraries: Studies in the Medieval Heritage, ed. Andrew G. Watson (Hambledon Press [1985]), 71–74.

    Needham, Paul. “ISTC as a Tool for Analytical Bibliography,” in Bibliography and the Study of 15th-Century Civilization, edited by Lotte Hellinga & John Goldfinch, (London, 1987), 39–54.

    Needham, Paul. The Bradshaw Method: Henry Bradshaw’s Contribution to Bibliography. The Seventh Hanes Lecture (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1988).

    Needham, Paul. “Prints in the Early Printing Shops,” in The Woodcut in Fifteenth-Century Europe, ed. Peter Parshall (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), 39–91.

    Needham, Paul. “Copy Specifics in the Printing Shop,” in Early Printed Books as Material Objects: Proceedings of the conference organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Munich, 19-21 August 2009, edited by Bettina Wagner & Marcia Reed (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Saur, 2010), 9–20.

    Needham, Paul. “The Paper Stocks of Blockbooks: Allan H. Stevenson and Beyond,” in Blockbücher des 15. Jahrhunderts: eine Experimentierphase im frühen Buchdruck, ed. Bettina Wagner (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013), 35–58.

    Needham, Paul. “Book Production on Vellum and Paper in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” in Papier im mittelalterlichen Europa: Herstellung und Gebrauch (Munich: De Gruyter, 2015), 247–74.

    White, Eric. “Binding Waste as Book History: Patterns of Survival Among the Early Mainz Donatus Editions,” in Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500. Fifty Years that Changed Europe, ed. Cristina Dondi (Venice: Edizione Ca’ Foscari, 2020), 253–277.