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In this paper, I discuss the fate of six 15th-century books from the collection of Polish bishop and bibliophile Józef Andrzej Załuski (1702–1774). I aim to trace the migrations of incunabula in the 18th century before the mass movements of books in response to the suppressions of religious convents. An analysis of unexploited provenance materials, such as ownership and reading marks, will make it possible to determine the methods of the bishop-bibliophile and the ways by which he acquired valuable collections for the Załuski Public Library (one of the largest in Europe at the time), which he co-managed with his brother. I will moreover answer the question of what factors caused these volumes to survive to this day, unlike most of volumes from Załuski's book collection, which were burnt shortly after the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The words τὸ πρῶτον in Heraclitus B1 have been subjected to competing construals, yet this dilemma, and its stakes, are almost never discussed. We argue that the common translation of ἀκούσαντες τὸ πρῶτον , 'when once they have heard it', faces insurmountable philosophical, stylistic, and linguistic objections. We make a new case for the alternative construal, 'after they have heard it for the first time'. This yields a linguistically better account of the Greek, and a philosophically more satisfying one in the broader context of B1 and Heraclitus' thought. Finally, we examine the larger programmatic implications of the small phrase τὸ πρῶτον for Heraclitus' book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the important artillery manuals of the 15th century is the Feuerwerkbuch. The treatise was one of the first European didactic technical texts, intended for both artillerymen and their employers. After circulating in manuscript copies for over a hundred years, the text was first printed in 1529. By 1619 it had been published thirteen times in total, making it exceptional among military manuals published in Central Europe at that time. The content of the work has been studied by various medievalists and codicologists to date, but they were not usually concerned with later transformations of the publication. The aim of this paper is to characterise the changes in this work between the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Thirty Years' War and to trace its publication history and its publication relationship to other educational texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Shomotsu, insatsu, hon'ya: Nitchūkan o meguru hon no bunkashi" is a comprehensive volume of essays that explores the historical study of commercial publishing in pre-1900 East Asia, with a focus on Japan. While the majority of contributors concentrate on Japan, the volume aims to create space for Japanese-speaking scholars to engage with Chinese, Korean, and Japanese book histories. The book examines the history of "bookshop editions" published by commercial print shops and bookstores in Tokugawa Japan, Song-Qing China, and Chosŏn Korea, highlighting the diversity and interconnectedness of the commercial book in premodern East Asia. However, readers should be aware that the volume devotes more pages to Japan than to China or Korea. Overall, the book provides a valuable resource for researchers interested in East Asian book history and encourages comparative studies across the region. [Extracted from the article]

This article, titled "Introduction," explores the interaction between manuscript and print in late imperial China. The essays included in this issue focus on case studies in drama, fiction, and morality books, examining how different texts were transmitted and received in various media. The authors highlight the variability of ideological messaging and the transformative effects of different textual producers and patrons. The essays demonstrate that the transmission of texts during this period was complex and cannot be easily categorized, suggesting that it was an age of convergence culture. [Extracted from the article]

In the second half of the sixteenth century, the Jesuits considered the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth a missionary territory. This perception was linked to the exceptional writing and publishing activity. The Jesuits not only had about seven hundred editions of their writings published before 1620, they also established their own printing presses. This article identifies the main purposes of Jesuit publishing activity, demonstrates the Society's proficiency with various printed media and reflects on their role in the dissemination of printing craft throughout the Commonwealth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introductory article employs the Scottish Jesuit John Hay as a starting point for a wider exploration of the relationship between Jesuits and print, the theme of this special issue. Hay demonstrates how important print could be to a Jesuit's self-worth and identity. In this, as contemporary catalogs of Jesuit publications attest, he was not alone, but he was a controversial outlier. Hay's superiors prevented him from continuing a vociferous polemical exchange and appeared to guide him towards a more suitable subject: translations of missionary reports. Hay's career in print points to the importance of geography and context in shaping Jesuit publications, and to the conflicts between individual authorial projects and institutional restraints. His example shows above all that the commonplace equation of Jesuits with print requires urgent historical investigation. The essays presented here seek to remedy this oversight by paying attention to Jesuits as authors, printers, and readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes and analyzes the methods of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place , a digital humanities contribution to book history. Footprints collects and aggregates information about the movement of copies of Hebrew books and books of Judaica in other languages printed in the early modern period (roughly corresponding to the hand-press era) and follows evidence of their movement into the twenty-first century. It stores this information in a relational database in which users can run specific queries and delivers the results in a number of visual representations for analysis and interpretation. Footprints undertakes two concurrent and more open-ended aims: (1) the on-going assemblage of a dataset about post-print mobility based on evidence other than the printed text (e.g. marginalia, catalog records, archival letters, other printed texts); and (2) the creation and iterative refining of a scholarly instrument to analyze the dataset through computational methods and modes of representation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This note studies the 1650 edition of Hugo Grotius's De iure belli ac pacis. Using online and card catalogues, we have located eighty-nine copies, thirty-seven of which we examined in person, with an additional six fully digitised copies online. We hope that this research note on the preliminary results will generate greater interest in this unduly neglected edition. The note shows how, despite the connection established in the history of seventeenth-century politics that emphasized the ties between Grotius and the Peace of Westphalia, the reception of Grotius's 1650 edition bore no relation to the debates at Osnabrück and Münster. However, this is an influential edition, cherished by collectors and authors. According to our findings, it would be reproduced in a number of later reprints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research note is the eighth instalment in our series of preliminary findings on the census and study of the reception of De iure belli ac pacis. The note presents a bibliographical description of Laurentius' 1647 re-issue of the 1631 edition by Blaeu, considers Laurentius' motivation and methods of production, lists and maps the currently known twenty-three surviving copies, and briefly describes two notable exemplars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research note offers a contextual overview of the printing history of Johann Blaeu's 1646 octavo edition of Hugo Grotius's De iure belli ac pacis (IBP). The note examines the printing process of the last edition that was prepared while Grotius was still alive, though it was published after his death. The note also sheds light on the theological dimension of some readers' annotations, and concludes by discussing the impact this edition had on the modern versions of the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lux Librorum: Essays on Books and History for Chris Coppens is a Festschrift honoring the esteemed Flemish book historian and librarian Chris Coppens. The collection consists of eleven essays arranged chronologically, covering topics such as publishing, book collections, and the digital turn in reading. The book also includes a preface about Coppens' life and work, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of his extensive oeuvre. While the introduction lacks thematic grouping and attention to the history of bookshops or libraries in Leuven, the collection showcases the richness and many facets of book history, making it a fitting tribute to Coppens' distinguished career. [Extracted from the article]

This document provides a list of contributors to the journal Quaerendo. The contributors include individuals with expertise in various fields such as book history, alchemy, early modern dissidence, and the history of science. They have published articles, curated exhibitions, and conducted research in their respective areas of specialization. The contributors come from different countries, including the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium. [Extracted from the article]

By failing to keep up with the praxeological turn of early modern Europeanists in the 1980s, scholarship on colonial America has consistently discounted the historical student. Uninterested in examining the intellectual habits of colonial students, early American historians have had little to say about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century schools beyond rehearsing worn, and often demonstrably false platitudes. This article seeks to take colonial students seriously by examining one of their most common, yet little studied intellectual practices: shorthand. When we apply the focus on intellectual praxis to modest subjects, when we look across boundaries of space and time, placing colonial America back into the fold of early modern history, a different image of the historical student snaps into focus. Rather than negligible rote memorizers, colonial students become active and engaged learners who sought to propagate the latest scribal technologies of their times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article centres on the emblem book Jesus en de Ziel, Een Geestelycke Spiegel voor 't Gemoed , first published in Amsterdam in 1678, with texts and images composed by Jan Luyken. From the time of its first publication, the book was part of the literary devotional life of the Dutch Republic, undergoing numerous editions and reprints, at least until the final decades of the eighteenth century. Using the information provided by Book Sales Catalogues, the article explores different modes in which Jesus en de Ziel was consumed, paying attention to the material conditions under which the object was provided and acquired by the consumer. The emblem book, as a religious object, was constantly reconfigured and mobilized by their manufacturers, their providers, and by the consumers themselves. I argue that these patterns of consumption, elucidated by the catalogues, can make a fundamental contribution for historical and cultural research on religious practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the printed editions of Joseph Gikatilla's Sha'arei Orah in the broader context of kabbalistic knowledge in early modern East-Central Europe. Following its first Italian editions, the book was reprinted several times. The Kraków 1600 edition with commentary by Matityah Delacrut presented Sha'arei Orah as a kabbalistic lexicon and study aid. The Offenbach 1715 edition included additional notes that linked Sha'arei Orah to the Safedian Kabbalah of Moses Cordovero and Isaac Luria. Finally, the several editions published in Żółkiew exemplify the diversification of Kabbalah in the contentious religious climate of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe. Each printing reflects a discrete historical context, yet Sha'arei Orah was consistently seen as an introductory guide to Kabbalah. Threading together these unique moments reveals one trajectory of the history of Kabbalah, as printing brought esoteric texts to new generations of readers with new concerns and agendas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An illustrated cosmographical and geographical manuscript at Oxford's Bodleian Library, known as the Book of Curiosities , has recently seen a rare confluence of public and scholarly attention. It is widely regarded as one of the outstanding Arabic works of geography, with stylistically idiosyncratic maps and a text that can be traced back to Egypt in the Fatimid period. However, few concrete facts are known about the history of this unique artefact. This article will identify and analyse the traces left by some of its previous owners and thus unlock the Ottoman history of this Fatimid work. By placing it in a concrete temporal and geographical context, we are better able to envisage the intellectual, social, and political environment in which this book could make sense to its owners and readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Treasure (Tibetan: gter ma) lineages are distinctive forms of visionary Buddhist practice found throughout the classical Tibetan literary world. Treasures are revealed by tertön (gter ston), Buddhist masters with karmic connections to the Tibetan past who have been preordained to recover treasures at the right time and place. There has been rich scholarship on the processes of treasure discovery and communities that have been inspired by treasure literature, but the publication and distribution histories of treasure texts have been comparatively understudied. Drawing on the work of historian Nile Green related to the mass production of Islamic texts produced in Mumbai that circulated through the modern Indian Ocean world, I will examine how the political and economic changes of the twentieth century impacted and transformed the promulgation of visionary literature in classical Tibetan language, and the circumstances that allowed for 'printing enchantment', and the power of the book, to remain intact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a Brazilian perspective on audiobooks. It contextualizes the past and current realities of the format in the country, on the basis of surveys coordinated by national associations connected to the book market and of archival research we have undertaken, and shows some examples of recorded literary works and recent initiatives in audiobook production. The 'acoustic-editorial project' idea is proposed as a way to highlight and deepen the materiality and production process of audiobooks, and to understand the editorial elements through which the listening experience is created. Authors from book history, bibliography, communication theory, and audiobook studies influenced this investigation and strengthened our construction of audiobooks as a research object. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a study of Thomas Hobbes's reading of Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historiographer of the 1st century BC whom Hobbes called "the greatest antiquary perhaps that ever was." After offering a comparison of the works of Thucydides (often regarded as Hobbes's greatest classical model) and Diodorus, the article traces the reception of Diodorus' work in early modern England and examines Diodorus' strong influence on two principal works, De Homine and Behemoth. Early human histories in the first books of Diodorus' Bibliotheke Historike ('Historical Library), including anthropological and cosmological narratives, are a recurrent feature of Hobbes's focus, and a certain subversiveness animates Hobbes's use of Diodorus and underpins his critique of contemporary theological and political structures. One result of this research is to suggest a greater place for Diodorus in Hobbes's intellectual world than previously realised, alongside a strong appreciation for Diodorus across multiple learned discourses in the pre-modern period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides an analysis of the most successful books on materia medica printed in Portugal in the seventeenth century and their influence on subsequent works. The study is informed by methodologies and concerns from the field of the history of the book and pays particular attention to paratexts, genres as well as to physical formats. It shows that these elements were fundamental in defining intended audiences and in constructing strategies of legitimation for their authors. In addition, it assesses issues of readership by considering the marginalia preserved in some copies of these books. The investigation has also into account a significant number of manuscripts on the subject. In spite of their limited circulation, this article shows the advantage of manuscript culture in the dissemination of knowledge on materia medica. Since they could circumvent censorship, particularly in the case of chemical remedies, they reveal a more open approach towards therapeutic innovations and the integration of new ideas and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on the evidence of correspondence and draft papers preserved primarily in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this essay gives a detailed account of the genesis and editing of one of seventeenth-century British antiquarianism's foremost works: the revised version of William Camden's Britannia , published in 1695. It pays particular attention to Edmund Gibson's role as editor of the project and demonstrates the diversity of kinds of antiquarian scholarship to be found within the book (showing that William Camden offered a wide-ranging model for antiquarian practice). The article then situates the Britannia within the context of the religio-political divisions provoked by the Glorious Revolution, showing how Edmund Gibson attempted to navigate those divisions. It concludes by assessing the 1695 Britannia 's place within the history of antiquarian scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Early modern alchemical literature is full of pseudonymous corpora. One of the most famous of these is connected with the name Basil Valentine, a supposed Benedictine monk and master of both medicinal and transmutational chymistry. Accreted over a period of nearly a century, the Valentine corpus is complex and heterogeneous. This paper endeavors to organize and recount the construction of the corpus by an array of authors, editors, publishers, and bibliographers, to sort out some of its strata, and to trace the origins and modifications of some of its texts. This exercise will be useful not only for further investigations of Basil Valentine and other pseudonymous chymical corpora, but also for broader studies of forgery and book history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Isaac Casaubon's 1605 Persius edition and its companion-piece, the De satyrica Graecorum poesi et Romanorum satira , likewise published in 1605, have long been considered milestones in the history of scholarship on Ancient satire. Marshalling evidence from humanist correspondences, annotated copies of early printed books, manuscripts and visual materials, this study offers a fresh and much fuller and more nuanced view of either book's trajectory from concept to print and distribution, of the motivations and guiding principles behind Casaubon's research, and, more generally, of scholarly endeavor around the turn of the seventeenth century. I demonstrate how Casaubon's work on satire is linked to the humanist recovery of Ancient scholia, how its erudition integrates observations on the contemporary world and non-textual evidence, and how it is marked by fierce scholarly rivalry and – hitherto underestimated – confessional differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This survey of intellectual endeavor in medieval Slavia orthodoxa proposes a different way to think through the problem of the "intellectual silence of Old Rus′," first set forth by Georges Florovsky and explored by George Fedotov, Francis Thomson, Simon Franklin, and now Donald Ostrowski. It examines the resources and opportunities for secondary schooling and their apparent outcomes in Kyivan Rus′ from the eleventh through the thirteenth century, among South Slavs on Mount Athos in the later fourteenth century, and at the Kirillo-Belozerskii (Kirillov) Monastery in northern Russia in the later fifteenth century. It concludes that intellectual endeavor is not necessarily bound to an international language of scholarship (e.g., Greek), one the one hand, or to a particular religious mentalité (e.g., that of the Western Church), on the other. Rather, it is cultivated by "schematizing" (educational) institutions oriented upon academic (heuristic) interpretive strategies and—most importantly—supported by textbooks and teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers how markers of place function differently in the print book ecosystem vs. the ebook ecosystem, using books associated with Australia and Western Australia as a case study. Although book historians have mostly failed to engage with ebooks as subject matter, they have considered in some detail the way in which markers of place function in the print book ecosystem. By surveying the scholarly output of book historians working with mapping technologies, it is possible to conclude that, in the print book ecosystem, there exist a handful of markers identifying the following categories: places associated with a book's setting, its author, its publication, its purchase, and its marketing and publicity. The latter three markers look substantially different in the ebook ecosystem than in the print book ecosystem. Furthermore, in the ebook ecosystem, changes to these three markers can mediate setting and author as markers of place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Scholars of Chinese women’s history in the West have often ignored the scholarship of their colleagues in China. For much of the twentieth century, Chinese academia was in chaos. With so little good research coming out of China, Western scholars became accustomed to ignoring the works of Chinese academics. Since the 1980s, however, Chinese scholarship has steadily improved, reaching international standards of quality. Chinese scholars remain highly influenced by their rich intellectual legacy. A post-Marxist mindset makes them extremely sensitive to the importance of social class. And the study of imperial philology has taught them the importance of textual criticism and close reading. This article discusses ten representative Chinese books covering different eras of women’s history, which exemplify the contributions that Chinese scholars are currently making to the field.  
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An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including the development of the commercial publication of legal works from the late eighteenth century, commercial publication of texts in the nineteenth century, and widespread networks of book production.

Paul Voet (1619-1669), law professor at the University of Utrecht, opened his most famous work, published in 1657, with an unusual discussion of the five different types of auctores of juridical books (juris libri)--a precious source for the history of authorship in the jurisprudence and in the early modern respublica litteraria in general. This essay discusses the key concepts for his understanding of auctor and auctoritas in the field of jurisprudence, as well as the motivations for this uncommon inquiry into the notion of authorship. Besides his personal reasons (the rumors about the illegitimate authorship of some of his works), the detailed taxonomy of legal auctores also helped him to build a cogent argument against the validity of canon law in the United Provinces. His aim was to redesign the history of legal tradition and to dispute the authority of certain canon law sources, such as Gratian's Decretum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The British Library holds one of 65 existing copies of the first dated book printed in Muscovy by Ivan Fedorov and Petr Mstislavets, the Apostol (Acts and Epistles) (1564) and one of two known copies of Ivan Fedorov's Primer (L'viv, 1574), which is considered by many to be the first Cyrillic book printed in Ukraine. The recent history of these books is linked to the name of the legendary Russian art critic and impresario Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929). Both titles belonged to his private book collection. A story of Diaghilev's collection became part of the history of the British Library when in 1975 it acquired, among other books and manuscripts, his copy of the famous 1564 Apostol. Diaghilev's copy of the 1574 Primer resurfaced at Harvard University Library, but its detailed descriptions and facsimile editions helped the British Library curator Christine Thomas, then in charge of the Russian collections, to identify a second copy, which is now held at the British Library. This article tells the story of how over 70 titles from Diaghilev's collection of rare Russian books and manuscripts were acquired by the British Library, examines possible reasons for Diaghilev's passion for books, and highlights other themes relevant for the history of private and public book collecting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two pirated editions form a vital but neglected part of the printing and reception history of the first edition of Grotius's Mare liberum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From 1538, the year of the first publication of Aretino's collection of Lettere, the Italian book market was overrun by hundreds of editions of epistolary collections. The reason lays in how well the genre served a variety of purposes; their language, for example, couched as they were in the idiom of high officialdom but still setting examples of the correct usage of the Italian vernacular. Not least, was their function as bearer of chronicles of contemporary events and famous personalities. The publication in 1564 of Sansovino's Del secretario launched a new genre of epistolary: the book was not only a collection of letters, but also a treatise on the role and function of the court secretary. Subsequently, texts and indexes took to being organized by rhetorical typology which enhanced their relevance. In the end, however, the standardized models that prevailed were bereft of any reference to contemporary events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A number of Protestants and their adversaries produced striking testimonies to the influence which Erasmus exercised on Protestant-minded people in the sixteenthcentury Southern Netherlands. Yet Erasmus' impact on the break-through and the further development of the Protestant reform movements is more complex than these testimonies seem to suggest. The first part of this article tries to probe Erasmus' influence by using the evidence from the printing press. Data about book production, book ownership, and the index of forbidden books point to a strong distribution of Erasmus' work even in the vernacular. The second part of the article highlights how a number of rhetoricians active in Brabant and Flanders assimilated and adapted Erasmus' ideas for a broader vernacular audience. The printing press, the activities of the rhetoricians, and schooling were interconnected agents of cultural and intellectual life which reinforced each other. They created in any case a fertile soil for religious change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1612, a Spanish fleet captured a French ship whose stolen cargo included the entire manuscript collection of the Sultan of Morocco, Muley Zidan. Soon, the collection made its way to the royal library, El Escorial, transforming the library into an important repository of Arabic books, which, since then, Arabists from across Europe sought to visit. By focusing on the social life of the collection, from the moment of its capture up through the process of its incorporation into the Escorial, this article examines three related issues: the first regards the social trajectories of books and the elasticity of their meaning and function, which radically altered in nature. The second part of the article examines the circulation of the Moroccan manuscripts in relation to a complex economy of restrictions over the reading and possession of Arabic manuscripts in early modern Spain. Finally, the third part focuses on the political and legal debates that ensued the library's capture, when the collection became the locus of international negotiations between Spain, Morocco, France and the Dutch United Provinces over Maritime law, captives, and banned knowledge. By placing and analyzing the journey of Zidan's manuscripts within the context of Mediterranean history, the paper explains (1) why Spain established one of the largest collections of Arabic manuscripts exactly when it was cleansing its territories of Moriscos (Spanish forcibly converted Muslims), and (2) why the Moroccan collection was kept behind locked doors at the Escorial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the "Schilder-boeck" by Dutch artist Karel van Mander as a source for the history of art. Among other topics addressed are the nature and content of the sections of the book such as advice to aspiring artists, accounts of the lives of artists and practical tips about methods, the professional relationship between Dutch and Italian artists, and the history of the composition of the book.

The article presents the Jury Report for the 2012 Menno Hertzberger Prize, awarded in the field of book history. It comments on the history of the prize and presents the reasons for selecting A.R.A. Croiset van Uchelen, also known as Ton Croiset van Uchelen, a librarian at Amsterdam University Library in the Netherlands. Various aspects of Croiset van Uchelen's career are considered, including his involvement in book history societies and associations, his time as editor of the periodical "Quaerendo," and his research on seventeenth century Dutch authors. A bibliography of some of Croiset van Uchelen's publications is also included.

Research into the provenance of medieval manuscripts and incunabula has generally focused on individual and institutional owners in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Who were these books made for, and why? How were they used? What was the composition of the collections of which they were part? The traces of former owners in extant works are an important source of information on these matters. The histories of several incunabula from the collection of Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague illustrate the importance of systematic research on the development of the collection of which they are part, and of using archival and printed sources (as well as other evidence) to reconstruct the eventful histories of individual works and the changes that were made to them over the years. Such research should also be conducted on past collections. Like genealogists, book historians should start from the present and progress backward in time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anne Frank's diary is probably the most famous book ever published in Dutch. Since its appearance as Het Achterhuis in 1947 it has been translated into many languages and still sells in vast numbers all over the world. Now that the Anne Frank Stichting has opened Otto Frank's archives to researchers and it has been possible to investigate the publisher's archives, the Diary's printing history in the Netherlands – hitherto untold because archive material was either inaccessible or had yet to be discovered – is told here for the first time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores connections to possible pilgrimages in the manuscript "Belles Heures" commissioned by Jean de Berry. It discusses marks possibly left by Jean de Berry and the manuscript illuminators, the Limbourg brothers, on the manuscript of Belles Heures which started in the form of badges imprinted on a blank page. The imprints of the badges appearing in the manuscript are described and the late 15th century practice of adding badges commemorating pilgrimages to devotional books is also explored.

Throughout his scholarly career Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) always entrusted the manuscripts of his works to the Officina Plantiniana; first to its founder, Christopher Plantin, either in Antwerp or in Leiden, then to his oldest son-in-law, Franciscus Raphelengius, Sr., who became Plantin's successor in Leiden, and finally, after Lipsius returned to the Southern Low Countries, to Plantin's second son-in-law, Johannes Moretus, who from the late 1590s on, could count upon the assistance of his son Balthasar. Because all of Plantin's publications were protected by privileges granted by Emperor Maximilian II (1565) and King Henry III of France (1582), he never had to worry about unauthorized editions of his work within these realms. Since Raphelengius continued the press founded by his father-in-law in Leiden, the privileges applied to his publications as well. They ended, however, when Plantin died on I July 1589 and indeed the first German editions of Lipsius's works, printed without his knowledge, were available at the next spring book fair in Frankfurt. Lipsius soon realized that these cheaper and sloppier editions not only threatened his fame as a humanist; he was afraid that works which he never intended to publish might appear as well. As soon as he had settled in Liège after his final farewell to Leiden, he appealed to Emperor Rudolph II. Thanks to the support of influential friends at court, Lipsius was granted his own privilege (I August 1592), valid for thirty years, to be passed to the printer of his choice (in his case always Moretus). What in Plantin's day had been an economic measure had now chiefly become an intellectual one, with added financial guarantees for Moretus thanks to Lipsius's faith. Hardly five years later a similar privilege, using Rudolph's as its model, was granted to him by the Spanish king. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the significance of book history for the publishing industry. Scope of book history; Role of book historians in the industry; Topics that most book historians tackle.

Reports on Bibliopolis, an information system on the history of the printed book in the Netherlands. Flourishing discipline of book history in the Netherlands and in other countries; Contents and services offered by Bibliopolis; Databases on the history of the printed book; Full text section; Image database.