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The repair and rebinding history of blockbooks printed in the fifteenth-century now in the Bodleian Library
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The Bodleian Library, Oxford has an important collection of eight blockbooks printed in the fifteenth century. These volumes have been described as 'of exceptional importance for our early understanding of early woodcut printing and its function'. Blockbooks have an unusual codicological structure, where both the text and pictures were printed from wood blocks on one side of the paper only, then bound in codex form. Their unusual structure has posed particular problems for bookbinders, ancien...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Driscoll, M
Institution:
University of Copenhagen
Role:
Editor
+ Mósesdóttir, R
Institution:
University of Copenhagen
Role:
Editor
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Museum Tusculanum Press Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 11: Proceedings of the eleventh international seminar held at the University of Copenhagen 24th-25th April 2008
- Pages:
- 105-120
- Publication date:
- 2009-01-01
- ISSN:
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16021339
- ISBN:
- 9788763530996
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:3123
- Deposit date:
- 2009-12-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Museum Tusculanum Press & Andrew Honey
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- Citation: Honey, A. (2009) The repair and rebinding history of blockbooks printed in the fifteenth-century now in the Bodleian Library. In: Driscoll, M. J. & Mósesdóttir, R (eds.), 'Care and conservation of manuscripts 11: proceedings of the eleventh international seminar held at the University of Copenhagen 24-25th April 2008', Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, pp.105-120.
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