Search Results for: Provenance Research In Book History
Provenance Research in Book History
Author: David Pearson
Publisher: London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press
ISBN: STANFORD:36105009712667
Category: Art
Page: 344
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Language: en
Pages: 344
Pages: 344
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press
This handbook surveys the different kinds of ownership evidence to be found in books and brings together a wide range of information and bibliographical references to provenance research. Features of this text include: a list of mottoes used by owners in the 16th and 17th centuries; details of donors' registers
Language: en
Pages: 706
Pages: 706
The Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries records articles of scholarly value that relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic, social and cultural environment involved in their production, distribution, conservation and
Language: en
Pages: 284
Pages: 284
Founded in 1632, the library of the Kiev Mohyla Academy went up in flames in 1780. Encompassing predominantly humanist, scholastic and homiletic titles in Latin yet placed in a heartland of Eastern Orthodox territories, the library was something of an anomaly for its time, offering East Slavic intellectuals a comprehensive
Language: en
Pages: 342
Pages: 342
This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and the social impact that they had.
Language: en
Pages: 284
Pages: 284
Recent literary scholarship has seen a shift of interest away from questions of attribution. Yet these questions remain urgent and important for any historical study of writing, and have been given a powerful new impetus by advances in statistical studies of language and the coming on line of large databases
