Between manuscript and print : transcultural perspectives, ca. 1400-1800 /

A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant 'culture of handwriting' to a predominant 'culture of print' in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on Christian and Jewish European book culture with findings on E...

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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Brockstieger, Sylvia (Editor), Schweitzer-Martin, Paul (Editor), Eckhart, Pia (Contributor), Hirt, Rebecca (Contributor), Leca, Radu (Contributor), Sugerman, Samuel (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]
Series:Materiale Textkulturen ; 40.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Bibliography
  • Contents
  • Between Manuscript and Print - Introduction
  • The Risk to Print History in the Late 15th Century. Johann Koelhoff's Chronicle Project in 1499
  • Medial Translations and Material Manifestations. The Fasciculus Medicinae in Physician-Patient Interaction
  • A Good Book is an Old Book? Hebrew Manuscripts and Prints in 16th-Century Christian Book Collections
  • Title Pages in Icelandic Post-Medieval Manuscripts and Books
  • Behaving like Print. On the Graphic and Performative Adaptation of Printed Letters in Early Modern Handwriting
  • 'Bilderfahrzeug' of the Rosicrucians. Daniel Mögling's Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum (1618) in Print and Manuscript
  • Takahiro Sasaki Manuscript Features of Early Japanese Movable Type Books. On the Intersection of Eastern and Western Typesetting Techniques
  • The Media Trajectory of Kano Naganobu's Merrymaking under Cherry and Aronia Blossoms
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Names and Locations