CERL Annual Seminar 2018

Printing Revolution and Society 1450-1500 - Fifty Years that Changed Europe

Organized by: CERL

Speaker(s): Abhishek Dutta,Agnė Zemkajutė,Alessia Giachery,Alex Jahnke,Alexander Gordin,Andrea Cappa,Andrea De Pasquale,Claire Bolton,Claudia Fabian,Cristina Dondi,Dorit Raines,Edoardo Barbieri,Elena Gatti,Elisabetta Sciarra,Eric White,Ester Peric,Falk Eisermann,Geri Della Rocca de Candal,Gregory Prickman,Henry Woudhuysen,Ilaria Andreoli,Ilenia Maschietto,J. Antoni Iglesias Fonseca,John Goldfinch,John Lancaster,Karen Limper-Herz,Kristian Jensen,Lilian Armstrong,Lorenz Böninger,Marco Bertagna,Maria Alessandra Panzanelli-Fratoni,Marian Lefferts,Marieke van Delft,Marina Venier,Mario Infelise,Martin Davies,Martin Stokhof,Matilde Malaspina,Monique Hulvey,Neil Harris,Paolo Tinti,Pasqualino Avigliano,Paul Needham,Rahel Fronda,Sabrina Minuzzi,Sara Mansutti,Susy Marcon,Viktorija Vaitkevičiūtė,William Stoneman

In the context of the 15cBOOKTRADE project, Cristina Dondi and her team organised a three day-conference, which doubled up as the CERL Annual Seminar. The event took place at the Doge’s Palace in Venice on 19 to 21 September 2018.

The papers from the 2018 Annual Seminar were published in 2020 as as CERL Papers XIV

Programme Day 1

Costo della vita e costo dei libri nell’Europa del 15° secolo – The cost of living and the cost of books in 15th-century Europe

– 9.30-10.00: Welcome:

Mariacristina Gribaudi, Presidente Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
Gabriella Belli, Direttore Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
Stefano Campagnolo, Direttore Biblioteca Marciana
Pasquale Gagliardi, Segretario Generale Fondazione Cini

– 10.00-10.15: Introduction: Cristina Dondi

SESSION 1

Monica Viero – Biblioteca del Museo Correr

– 10.15-10:35: Paper 1: Isabella Cecchini, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia: Setting the context. A reconstruction of the cost of living in late 15th-century Venice
– 10.35-10.55: Paper 2: Paola Pinelli, Università di Firenze: La compravendita di libri nella contabilità dei mercanti fiorentini: un confronto coi prezzi dei generi di prima necessità e col potere d’acquisto dei salariati nella seconda metà del 15° secolo.
– 10.55-11.00: Questions
– 11.00-11.30: Coffee break

SESSION 2

Mario Infelise – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

– 11.30-11.45: Paper 3: Cristina Dondi, 15cBOOKTRADE: From the Corpus Juris to ‘psalterioli da puti’, on parchment, bound, gilt … The price of any book sold in Venice 1484-1488
– 11.45-12.00: Paper 4: Neil Harris, Università di Udine: Costs we don’t think about: rubrication and illumination. An unusual copy of Franciscus de Platea, Opus restitutionum (1474)
– 12.00-12.15: Paper 5: Sara Mansutti: “Con un altro piccolo indice in 4° bislungo”: un inventario di libri conservato dentro il Zornale di Francesco de Madiis.
– 12.15-12.30: Paper 6: Ester Peric, Università di Udine: La lista di libri di Antonio Moretto (Padova, 1480)
– 12.30-12.45: Paper 7: Lorenz Böninger, Firenze: Da Venezia a Firenze, Lucca e Genova: il commercio librario di Leonardo Donà e Franz Renner, c. 1477-1487
– 12.45-13.00: Questions / Discussion
– 13.00-14.00: Lunch

SESSION 3

Dorit Raines – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

– 14.00-14.20: Paper 8: Claire Bolton, Oxford: The Memmingen book network
– 14.20-14.40: Paper 9: Monique Hulvey, Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon: Sellers and Buyers of the Lyon book market in the late fifteenth century
– 14.40-15.00: Paper 10: J. Antoni Iglesias Fonseca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Tra il libro manoscritto e l’edizione a stampa in Catalogna nella seconda metà del 15° secolo (1450–1500)
–15.00-15.10: Questions

SESSION 4

Marian Lefferts – Executive Manager, CERL

– 15.10-15.30: Paper 11: Elena Gatti, Università di Bologna: “Heredes de Plauto stampadore deno avere infrascritte robe e dinari: consumo del libro, prezzi e mercato librario a Bologna”. Un caso di studio
– 15.30-15.50: Paper 12: Paolo Tinti, Università di Bologna: “Emptus Ferrarie”. I prezzi del libro nella città estense fra Quattro e primi del Cinquecento
– 15.50-16.00: Questions / Discussion
– 16.00-16.30: Coffee Break
– 16.30-16.50: Martin Stokhof, Vice-President ERC (Social Sciences and Humanities): Lectio Magistralis
– 17.00-18.30: Visit of the exhibition

Programme – Day 2

La trasmissione dei testi a stampa e la distribuzione e ricezione dei libri – The transmission of texts in print and the distribution and reception of books

SESSION 1

Henry Woudhuysen – Rector of Lincoln College Oxford

– 9.30-10: Paper 1: Kristian Jensen, The British Library and Chairman of CERL: Establishing and recording provenance, from the Bodleian Library Catalogue of Incunabula to MEI
–10.00-10.20: Paper 2: Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, 15cBOOKTRADE: Printing the Law in the 15th-century, with a focus on Corpus Juris Civilis and the works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato
– 10.20-10.40: Paper 3: Geri Della Rocca de Candal, 15cBOOKTRADE: Printing in Greek before Aldus Manutius
– 10.40-11.00: Questions
– 11.00-11.30: Coffee break

SESSION 2

Andrea De Pasquale – Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma

– 11.30-11.50: Paper 4: Sabrina Minuzzi, 15cBOOKTRADE: Printing Medicine in the 15th century, with a focus on the distribution and use of Materia Medica books
– 11.50-12.05: Paper 5: Alessia Giachery, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia: La formazione delle raccolte marciane. I cataloghi storici
– 12.05-12.20: Paper 6: Elisabetta Sciarra, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia: Acquisizioni ed esportazioni alla caduta della Repubblica
– 12.20-12.40: Questions: Discussion
– 12.40-14.00: Lunch

SESSION 3

Paul Needham – Scheide Library, Princeton University

– 14.00-14.20: Paper 7: Eric White, Princeton University Library: Patterns of Non-Survival among the Earliest Mainz Editions
– 14.20-14.40: Paper 8: Falk Eisermann, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendruke Berlin: “Did you mean incurable?” Searching and Finding Incunabula in the World Wide Web
– 14.40-15.00: Paper 9: John Lancaster, US MEI Editor: Bringing American collections into MEI
– 15.00-15.30: Coffee break

SESSION 4

Martin Davies – London

– 15.30-15.50: Paper 10: Pasqualino Avigliano, Andrea Cappa, Andrea De Pasquale and Marina Venier, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma – Cristina Dondi, CERL – Adalbert Roth, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: To protect and research the incunabula collections of the libraries annexed to National Monuments: Santa Scolastica at Subiaco – A Polonsky, National Library of Rome, and CERL collaboration
– 15.50-16.10: Paper 11: Edoardo Barbieri, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano: ll contributo del CRELEB e della Regione Lombardia alla catalogazione in MEI: descrizione, risultati, problemi aperti
– 16.10-16.30: Paper 12: Viktorija Vaitkeviciute and Agnè Zemkajute, Vilnius, Martynas Mažvydas, National Library of Lithuania and Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences: Lithuanian importation of foreign editions, especially from Italy
– 16.30-17.00: Paper 13: Marco Bertagna, Rahel Fronda and Alexander Gordin, 15cHEBRAICA: The distribution and use of Hebrew early printed books in Europe
– 17.00-17.30: Questions: Discussions

Programme – Day 3

Illustrazione e strumenti digitali – Illustration and digital tools

SESSION 1

William Stoneman – Houghton Library, Harvard University

– 9.30-9.50: Paper 1: Lilian Armstrong, Wellesley College: The Decoration and Illustration of Venetian Incunabula: From Hand-Illumination to the Design of Woodcuts
– 9.50-10.10: Paper 2: Susy Marcon, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia: Incunaboli marciani miniate
– 10.10-10.30: Paper 3: Matilde Malaspina, 15cBOOKTRADE and Abhishek Dutta, Visual Geometry Group University of Oxford: The use and reuse of printed illustrations in 15th-century Venetian editions
– 10.30-10.50: Paper 4: Ilenia Maschietto and Ilaria Andreoli, Fondazione Cini Venezia: The Essling project: the census and the copies
– 10.50-11.30: Coffee break

SESSION 2

Claudia Fabian – Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

– 11.30-11.50: Paper 5: Marieke van Delft, Royal Library of The Hague: CERL’s Provenance Digital Archive
– 11.50-12.10: Paper 6: John Goldfinch and Karen Limper-Herz, The British Library: The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC): Past, Present and Future
– 12.10-12.30: Paper 7: Alex Jahnke, DCG University of Göttingen and Simon Walton, Oxford e-Research Centre: Capturing and visualising the movement of incunabula: MEI and 15cv.trade
– 12.30-12.45: Paper 8: Gregory Prickman, Folger Shakespeare Library Washington: Mapping the ISTC: Visualisation and the Material History of Data
– 12.45-13.15: Discussion / Conclusion

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EVENT INFORMATION

Palazzo Ducale

Location: Venice - Italy
Event date: September 19-21, 2018

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