Signa vides
Researching and recording printers’ devices: current activities and new perspectives
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Anja Wolkenhauer (Tübingen), Michaela Scheibe (Berlin), and Dr. Andreas Fingernagel (Vienna)
Speaker(s): Anja Wolkenhauer,Christina Schmitz,Elisabeth Klecker,Hans Brandhorst,Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba,Marina Venier,Melinda Simon,Michaela Scheibe,Neus Verger Arce
Researching and recording printers’ devices can be a real challenge, but the necessity to find adequate solutions cannot be denied. Printers’ devices combine pictures, texts (mottoes) and printer-related information in very elaborated and variable ways, which ask for specific bibliographical tools. Moreover, a certain part of them lost its original context and can be found today in single-leaf collecti ons, which need specific kinds of indexing for their part. After a long period of scientific neglect, today there are a lot of current initiatives to establish models of description in different databases.
The workshop aims at making a survey of current research activities and discuss possible methods of description in order to link those initiatives and get confirmed standards for recording printers’ devices in future projects.
Published in 2016 as CERL Papers XIII
Programme
TUESDAY, 17 MARCH
Chair: Michaela Scheibe
– 4.00: Welcome
– 14.15-15.00: Prof. Dr. Anja Wolkenhauer (University of Tübingen, Institute of Classical Philology) – Old & new research on printers’ devices.
– 15.00-15.45: Dr. Melinda Simon (University of Szeged, Department of Library and Human Information Science) – Cataloguing printers’ marks in Hungary – achievements and objectives.
– 15.45-16.15: Coffee
– 16.15-17.00: Dr. Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba (Jagiellonian University Krakow, Faculty of Polish Studies) – When is a device not a device? Problematic woodcuts from Krakow printing shops.
– 17.00-17.45: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Klecker (University of Vienna, Institute for Classical Philology) – Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies) Emblems, rebuses, (mirror) monograms. Strategies of intermediality in Viennese printers’ marks (1500-1800).
– 19.00: Conference dinner (details to be confirmed)
WEDNESDAY, 18 MARCH
Chair: Prof. Dr. Anja Wolkenhauer
– 09.30-10.15: Dr. Marina Venier (National Central Library of Rome, Cataloguing Department of the Older Book) – Italian printers’ devices databases: from EDIT16 to SBN and not least MAR.T.E.
– 10.15-11.00: Neus Verger Arce (University of Barcelona, CRAI Rare Book and Manuscript Library) – The Printers’ Devices database of the University of Barcelona.
– 11.00-11.30: Coffee
– 11.30-12.15: Hans Brandhorst (Erasmus University Rotterdam, University Library / Arkyves) – Dutch printers’ devices – from standalone catalogue to networked web resource.
– 12.15-13.00: Michaela Scheibe and Christina Schmitz (Berlin State Library, Department of Early Printed Books) – Towards a standardised description of printers’ devices: authority files and more.
– 13.00-13.30: Final discussion: Further work to do …
