Signa vides
Researching and recording printers‘ devices
Papers presented on 17-18 March 2015, at the CERL Workshop hosted by the National Library of Austria, Vienna.
Editor(s): Michaela Scheibe, Anja Wolkenhauer
Author(s): Anja Wolkenhauer; Christina Schmitz; David Zellhöfer; Elizabeth Klecker; Hans Brandhorst; Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba; Marina Venier; Melinda Simon; Michaela Scheibe; Neus Verger Arce
Language(s): Language(s): English
13-digits ISBN: 978-0-9569996-1-0
Pages: 196
Collection: CERL Papers
Publisher: The Consortium of European Research Libraries
Year: 2015
Abstract & Notes
This volume presents papers from the 2015 CERL Workshop Signa Vides: Researching and Recording Printers’ Devices, hosted by the National Library of Austria, Vienna. The contributions explore the history, typology, and cataloguing of printers’ devices, marks used by printers in early-modern Europe to indicate origin, authorship, and commercial identity.
Topics include the role of humanists and artists in designing devices, their significance in advertising and cultural dissemination, and the development of collections by readers and scholars. Several papers examine national cataloguing initiatives and databases, including Hungarian, Viennese, Italian (EDIT16, SBN, MAR.T.E.), and Spanish examples, as well as issues of standardisation and collaborative indexing across Europe. The volume highlights both methodological challenges and the potential for networking between libraries, scholars, and information scientists, emphasizing the importance of coordinated European research to understand printers’ devices as tools for the study of early-modern print culture, intellectual networks, and book history.
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