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The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe
Practices, Materials, Networks
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 89
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 89
This book attends to the most essential, lucrative, and overlooked business activity of early modern Europe: the trade of paper. Despite the well-known fact that paper was crucial to the success of printing and record-keeping alike, paper remains one of the least studied areas of early modern history. Organised into three sections â âHotspots and Trade Routesâ, âUsual Dealingsâ, and âRecycling Economiesâ â the chapters in this collection shed light on the practices, materials, and networks of the paper trade. Altogether, the collection uncovers the actors involved in the networks of paper production, transportation, purchase, and reuse, between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries and across the central and peripheral papermaking regions of Europe.
Contributors: Renaud Adam, Daniel Bellingradt, Frank Birkenholz, Simon Burrows, Orietta Da Rold, Michael Falk, Anna Gialdini, Rachel Hendery, Silvia Hufnagel, Jean-Benoît Krumenacker, Katherine McDonough, Krisztina Rábai, Anna Reynolds, Benito Rial Costas, Tapio Salminen, Helen Smith, Jan Willem Veluwenkamp, Andreas Weber, and Megan Williams.
Contributors: Renaud Adam, Daniel Bellingradt, Frank Birkenholz, Simon Burrows, Orietta Da Rold, Michael Falk, Anna Gialdini, Rachel Hendery, Silvia Hufnagel, Jean-Benoît Krumenacker, Katherine McDonough, Krisztina Rábai, Anna Reynolds, Benito Rial Costas, Tapio Salminen, Helen Smith, Jan Willem Veluwenkamp, Andreas Weber, and Megan Williams.
Daniel Bellingradt, Ph.D. (2010, Free University of Berlin) is Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Book at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany. He is co-editor of the journal Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte and has published monographs, edited volumes and journal articles on a range of book historical topics.
Anna Reynolds, Ph.D. (2018, University of York) is Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. She is completing a monograph on early modern waste paper and has published articles and chapters on binding waste, womenâs paper use, and material texts.
Anna Reynolds, Ph.D. (2018, University of York) is Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. She is completing a monograph on early modern waste paper and has published articles and chapters on binding waste, womenâs paper use, and material texts.
"With a wealth of references and a useful bibliography, the essays tell a story of an invaluable commodity, reflecting the global reach of the medium of paper and providing a collection of data that becomes a significant foundation on which to build further." - Victoria Button, Royal Collection Trust, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 1 (Spring 2024), pp. 284â285
Preface
âDaniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction
âDaniel Bellingradt
2 Selling Paper in Early Modern Venice: Paper-retailers and the âLibri da carta biancaâ
âAnna Gialdini
3 âUnter dem Zeichen des Adlersâ: Frankfurt as Hub of the Central European Paper Trade in the 16th Century
âMegan K. Williams
4 The Paper Supply of a Printing House as a Mirror of the Paper Trade in the Early Modern Low Countries: The Case of Dirk Martensâ Workshop
âRenaud Adam
5 Juan Tomás Fabario and the Paper Trade in Early Modern Spain or the Supply of Paper as a New Modality of Publishing
âBenito Rial Costas
6 Paper Flows through the Danish Sound, 1634â1857
âJan Willem Veluwenkamp
7 Networks of Paper in Late Medieval England
âOrietta Da Rold
8 Types and Sources of Paper in Late Medieval Finland: A Case Study of the Paper in Raseborg Castle Scriptorium, ca. 1390â1435
âTapio Salminen
9 Buying Paper for the Consulate: Insights into the Paper Trade of Lyon, 1450â1525
âJean-Benoît Krumenacker
10 The Usage and Acquisition of Paper in the Jagiellonian Courts, 1490â1507
âKrisztina Rábai
11 The Paper Purchases of the Dutch East India Companyâs Amsterdam Chamber in the Early Eighteenth Century
âFrank Birkenholz
12 Stationers, Papetiers and the Supply Networks of a Swiss Publisher: The Sociéte Typographique de Neuchâtel and the Paper Trade 1769â1789
âSimon Burrows, Michael Falk, Rachel Hendery, and Katherine McDonough
13 The Paper Trails of Guðbrandur Ãorláksson: A Case Study of the Official and Private Paths Used for Purchasing Paper by the Sixteenth-Century Bishop of Hólar, Iceland
âSilvia Hufnagel
14 Material Sensibilities: Writing Paper and Chemistry in the Netherlands and Beyond, ca. 1800
âAndreas Weber
15 âWorthy to Be Reservedâ: Bookbindings and the Waste Paper Trade in Early Modern England and Scotland
âAnna Reynolds
16 Afterword
âHelen Smith
Index
âDaniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction
âDaniel Bellingradt
part 1: Hotspots and Trade Routes
2 Selling Paper in Early Modern Venice: Paper-retailers and the âLibri da carta biancaâ
âAnna Gialdini
3 âUnter dem Zeichen des Adlersâ: Frankfurt as Hub of the Central European Paper Trade in the 16th Century
âMegan K. Williams
4 The Paper Supply of a Printing House as a Mirror of the Paper Trade in the Early Modern Low Countries: The Case of Dirk Martensâ Workshop
âRenaud Adam
5 Juan Tomás Fabario and the Paper Trade in Early Modern Spain or the Supply of Paper as a New Modality of Publishing
âBenito Rial Costas
6 Paper Flows through the Danish Sound, 1634â1857
âJan Willem Veluwenkamp
7 Networks of Paper in Late Medieval England
âOrietta Da Rold
part 2: Usual Dealings
8 Types and Sources of Paper in Late Medieval Finland: A Case Study of the Paper in Raseborg Castle Scriptorium, ca. 1390â1435
âTapio Salminen
9 Buying Paper for the Consulate: Insights into the Paper Trade of Lyon, 1450â1525
âJean-Benoît Krumenacker
10 The Usage and Acquisition of Paper in the Jagiellonian Courts, 1490â1507
âKrisztina Rábai
11 The Paper Purchases of the Dutch East India Companyâs Amsterdam Chamber in the Early Eighteenth Century
âFrank Birkenholz
12 Stationers, Papetiers and the Supply Networks of a Swiss Publisher: The Sociéte Typographique de Neuchâtel and the Paper Trade 1769â1789
âSimon Burrows, Michael Falk, Rachel Hendery, and Katherine McDonough
13 The Paper Trails of Guðbrandur Ãorláksson: A Case Study of the Official and Private Paths Used for Purchasing Paper by the Sixteenth-Century Bishop of Hólar, Iceland
âSilvia Hufnagel
Part 3: Recycling Economies
14 Material Sensibilities: Writing Paper and Chemistry in the Netherlands and Beyond, ca. 1800
âAndreas Weber
15 âWorthy to Be Reservedâ: Bookbindings and the Waste Paper Trade in Early Modern England and Scotland
âAnna Reynolds
Part 4: Epilogue
16 Afterword
âHelen Smith
Index
This book will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of book history and material culture between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries and across central and lesser-known European papermaking regions.