Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Printed Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Texts, the Books, and the Survival of a Long-Lasting Genre

Printed Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Texts, the Books, and the Survival of a Long-Lasting Genre

Dondi, Cristina

Hardcover

Series: Biblioteca Di Bibliografia. Documents and Studies in Book and Library History, Book 204

General DesignGeneral World HistoryItalian History

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 8822264681
ISBN13: 9788822264688
Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki
Published: Feb 8 2017
Pages: 754
Language: English
A detailed analysis of the production, distribution, and use of the 74 Books of Hours's editions surviving today in 198 copies preserved in European and North American libraries. Special attention is devoted to the transmission of the texts in print, the definition of a stemma editionum, illustrations, the comparison with the manuscript tradition, and with the printed production of the later centuries. With ample use of documentary and historical bibliographical evidence, full transcription of all the calendars, and 88 plates in colour.

Also in

General World History

View All