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Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400â1700
Series: - Intersections, Volume: 86
Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400â1700 examines the form, function, and meaning of alterations made by users to the physical structure of their book, through insertion or interpolation, subtraction or deletion, adjustments in the ordering of folios or quires, amendments of image or text. Although our primary interest is in printed books and print series bound like books, we also consider selected manuscripts since meaningful alterations made to incunabula and early printed books often followed the patterns such changes took in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century codices. Throughout Customised Books the emphasis falls on the hermeneutic functions of the modifications made by makers and users to their manuscripts and books.
Contributors: B. Boler Hunter, T. Cummins, A. DlabaÄova, K.A.E. Enenkel, C.D. Fletcher, P.F. Gehl, P. Germano Leal, J. KiliaÅczyk-ZiÄba, J. Koguciuk, A. van Leerdam, S. Leitch, S. McKeown, W.S. Melion, K. Michael, S. Midanik, B. Purkaple, J. Rosenholtz-Witt, B.L. Rothstein, M.R. Wade, and G. Warnar.
Contributors: B. Boler Hunter, T. Cummins, A. DlabaÄova, K.A.E. Enenkel, C.D. Fletcher, P.F. Gehl, P. Germano Leal, J. KiliaÅczyk-ZiÄba, J. Koguciuk, A. van Leerdam, S. Leitch, S. McKeown, W.S. Melion, K. Michael, S. Midanik, B. Purkaple, J. Rosenholtz-Witt, B.L. Rothstein, M.R. Wade, and G. Warnar.
Walter Melion, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, is the author of three monographs and a critical edition of Karel van Manderâs Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting, co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of more than twenty-five volumes, and author of more than ninety articles.br/> br/> Christopher D. Fletcher, Assistant Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library, is a historian of public engagement and book history before 1800 whose work has appeared in articles, book chapters, gallery exhibitions, and digital resources.
Shaun Midanik's chapter, "Picture Bound: Customized Books of Prints and the Myth of the Ideal Series," was awarded the 2024 Schulman and Bullard Article Prize. This award is given by the Association of Print Scholars (APS) to an article published by an early-career scholar that features compelling and innovative research on prints or printmaking.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Kinds and Degrees of Customisation in Early Modern Book Production and Reception
âWalter S. Melion
2 The Customising Mindset in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Newberry Inc. 1699
âChristopher D. Fletcher
3 A Late Medieval Multi-Text Manuscript and Its Printed Precedents
âBritt Boler Hunter
4 Reforming Hrabanus: Early Modern Iterations of In honorem sanctae crucis
âKelin Michael
5 A Customized Housebook of Repurposed Prints: the Liber Quodlibetarius, c. 1524
âStephanie Leitch
6 How to Talk about Burgundian Books You Could Not Read
âBret L. Rothstein
7 Customizing for the Community: The Wiesbaden Manuscript (Hauptstaatsarchiv 3004 B 10) and the Late Medieval Church
âGeert Warnar
8 A Medical Anthology Customised âfor the Consolation of the Sickâ in a Brussels Convent
âAndrea van Leerdam
9 Custom Made by Antonio Ricardo: Peruâs First Printer and His Illustrations in Jerónimo de Oréâs Symbolo Catholico Indiano (1598)
âTom Cummins
10 From Proud Monument to Ill-Marked Tomb: Tommaso Schifaldo in a Sicilian Humanist Miscellany
âPaul F. Gehl
11 Customization of a Latin Emblem Book by a Vernacular Owner: Unknown German Poems to a Copy of Vaeniusâs Emblemata Horatiana (first edition, 1607)
âKarl A.E. Enenkel
12 Picture Bound: Customized Books of Prints and the Myth of the Ideal Series
âShaun Midanik
13 Customizing an Emblem Book as an album amicorum: Valentin Ludovicusâ Entry in the Stammbuch of Christian Weigel
âMara R. Wade
14 A Play of Continuity and Difference: A Book of Fortune-telling Adapted from the Kingdom of Poland to Southeastern Europe
âJustyna KiliaÅczyk-ZiÄba
15 Shifting Perspectives: Changing Optical Theory in the Printed Works of Jean-François Niceron
âBrent Purkaple
16 Venice as a Musical Commodity in Early Modern Germany: A Frontispiece Collage, c. 1638
âJason Rosenholtz-Witt
17 Vaenius in Ireland: An Eighteenth-Century Customization of the Emblemata Horatiana
âSimon McKeown
18 Frames, Screens and Urns: Customisation and Poetics in the 1495 Aldine Theocritus painted by Albrecht Dürer for Willibald Pirckheimer
âJakub Koguciuk
19 Compiled Compositions: The Kattendijke Chronicle (c. 1491â1493) and Late Medieval Book Design
âAnna DlabaÄová
20 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerusâs Dutch New Testament
âWalter S. Melion
21 âBy the Genius of the Indiansâ: The Customization of Nierembergâs De la Diferencia in Guarani (Loreto, Juan Bautista Neumann et alii: 1705)
âPedro Leal
Index Nominum
List of Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1 Kinds and Degrees of Customisation in Early Modern Book Production and Reception
âWalter S. Melion
2 The Customising Mindset in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Newberry Inc. 1699
âChristopher D. Fletcher
Part 2: Customisation across Media
3 A Late Medieval Multi-Text Manuscript and Its Printed Precedents
âBritt Boler Hunter
4 Reforming Hrabanus: Early Modern Iterations of In honorem sanctae crucis
âKelin Michael
5 A Customized Housebook of Repurposed Prints: the Liber Quodlibetarius, c. 1524
âStephanie Leitch
Part 3: Communal Customising
6 How to Talk about Burgundian Books You Could Not Read
âBret L. Rothstein
7 Customizing for the Community: The Wiesbaden Manuscript (Hauptstaatsarchiv 3004 B 10) and the Late Medieval Church
âGeert Warnar
8 A Medical Anthology Customised âfor the Consolation of the Sickâ in a Brussels Convent
âAndrea van Leerdam
9 Custom Made by Antonio Ricardo: Peruâs First Printer and His Illustrations in Jerónimo de Oréâs Symbolo Catholico Indiano (1598)
âTom Cummins
Part 4: Individual Customisers
10 From Proud Monument to Ill-Marked Tomb: Tommaso Schifaldo in a Sicilian Humanist Miscellany
âPaul F. Gehl
11 Customization of a Latin Emblem Book by a Vernacular Owner: Unknown German Poems to a Copy of Vaeniusâs Emblemata Horatiana (first edition, 1607)
âKarl A.E. Enenkel
12 Picture Bound: Customized Books of Prints and the Myth of the Ideal Series
âShaun Midanik
13 Customizing an Emblem Book as an album amicorum: Valentin Ludovicusâ Entry in the Stammbuch of Christian Weigel
âMara R. Wade
Part 5: Editorial Customisation
14 A Play of Continuity and Difference: A Book of Fortune-telling Adapted from the Kingdom of Poland to Southeastern Europe
âJustyna KiliaÅczyk-ZiÄba
15 Shifting Perspectives: Changing Optical Theory in the Printed Works of Jean-François Niceron
âBrent Purkaple
16 Venice as a Musical Commodity in Early Modern Germany: A Frontispiece Collage, c. 1638
âJason Rosenholtz-Witt
17 Vaenius in Ireland: An Eighteenth-Century Customization of the Emblemata Horatiana
âSimon McKeown
Part 6: Visual Customisation
18 Frames, Screens and Urns: Customisation and Poetics in the 1495 Aldine Theocritus painted by Albrecht Dürer for Willibald Pirckheimer
âJakub Koguciuk
19 Compiled Compositions: The Kattendijke Chronicle (c. 1491â1493) and Late Medieval Book Design
âAnna DlabaÄová
20 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerusâs Dutch New Testament
âWalter S. Melion
21 âBy the Genius of the Indiansâ: The Customization of Nierembergâs De la Diferencia in Guarani (Loreto, Juan Bautista Neumann et alii: 1705)
âPedro Leal
Index Nominum
Art historians, cultural historians, book historians