A Catalogue Of Books Printed In The Fifteenth Century Now In The Bodleian Library

by Coates, Alan; Jensen, Kristian; Dondi, Cristina; Wagner, Bettina; Dixon, Helen; White, Carolinne; Mathew, Elizabeth; Palmer, Nigel F.; Schaeper, Silke

• ISBN13: 9780199513734
• ISBN10: 0199513732
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Bodleian's incunable catalogue describes the Library's fifteenth-century western printed books to the same standards expected in the best modern catalogues of medieval manuscripts. It records and identifies all texts contained in each volume, and the detailed analysis of the textual content is an innovative feature. Further information about authors, editors, translators, and dedicatees is given in an extensive index of names, complete with biographical and other information; this index will be of interest to textural scholars from the classical period to the renaissance. The detailed descriptions of the copy-specific features of each book (the binding, hand-decoration and hand-finishing, marginalia, and provenance) form another important contribution to scholarship. The provenance index will be of great value to all those interested in the history of the book from the 1450s to the present day.

Table of Contents

Preface, R. P. Carr, Director of University Library Services and Bodley's Librarian

List of Organisations and Individuals who sponsored cataloguing project

List of Members of the Cataloguing Team

List of Academic Advisers

Acknowledgements

Bibliographical abbreviations

General abbreviations

Introduction Alan Coates

Historical introduction

acquisition of incunubala

housing of incunabula

cataloguing of incunabula

The form of the entries in the Catalogue

The Catalogue

Blockbooks, Nigel Palmer

Western incunabula, A-Z

Lisf of Hebraica, Silke Schaeper

Indexes

Authors, Translators, Editors, Dedicatees

Owners and Donors

Printers and Publishers APPENDICES

Items recorded by L. A. Sheppard, but not included in the Catalogue

Items included in ISTC, but excluded from the Catalogue

List of items in Schreiber `Woodcuts from Books of the XVth Century'

Concordance

Bodleian shelfmarks with Catalouge [Bod-inc.] numbers

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