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===== Catalogues ===== | ===== Catalogues ===== | ||
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- | ===== Print Runs ===== | + | ===== Researching |
- | Many historians seeking to measure the impact of the ‘printing revolution’ in fifteenthcentury | + | Many historians seeking to measure the impact of the ‘printing revolution’ in fifteenth century |
Europe have taken a quantitiative approach, multiplying the total of all editions | Europe have taken a quantitiative approach, multiplying the total of all editions | ||
by the number of copies in a typical edition. However, whereas the Incunable Short Title | by the number of copies in a typical edition. However, whereas the Incunable Short Title | ||
- | Catalog | + | Catalogue |
- | surviving specimens, the number of lost editions will always remain indeterminate.1 The | + | surviving specimens, the number of lost editions will always remain indeterminate. The |
second factor in the equation – the typical or ‘average’ fifteenth-century print run – is just | second factor in the equation – the typical or ‘average’ fifteenth-century print run – is just | ||
as indeterminate as the first, if not more so. Inevitably, the ‘editions × copies’ formula | as indeterminate as the first, if not more so. Inevitably, the ‘editions × copies’ formula | ||
has produced estimates of fifteenth-century press production that range anywhere from | has produced estimates of fifteenth-century press production that range anywhere from | ||
- | eight million to more than twenty million pieces of reading material.2 Such irreconcilable | + | eight million to more than twenty million pieces of reading material. Such irreconcilable |
results (in which the margin for error may be larger than the answer itself) only serve to | results (in which the margin for error may be larger than the answer itself) only serve to | ||
demonstrate that any effort to arrive at a meaningful quantification of fifteenth-century | demonstrate that any effort to arrive at a meaningful quantification of fifteenth-century | ||
press production will require a much more systematic analysis of the available data on | press production will require a much more systematic analysis of the available data on | ||
- | print runs. The present study, a census of print runs for fifteenth-century books, takes a | + | print runs. |
- | step in that direction by asking a much more basic question: what is the available data? | + | |
- | Download | + | Eric White has conducted a study; a census |
+ | Download Eric White' | ||
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===== Printers’ Devices ===== | ===== Printers’ Devices ===== | ||
- | CERL programme of digitisation of published repertories of printers’ devices | ||
CERL has undertaken a programme of digitisation of repertories of printers’ and publishers’ devices, to create links to the individual images from the appropriate entries in the ‘‘Imprint Names’’ section of the CERL Thesaurus. To date the CERL Thesaurus contains links to | CERL has undertaken a programme of digitisation of repertories of printers’ and publishers’ devices, to create links to the individual images from the appropriate entries in the ‘‘Imprint Names’’ section of the CERL Thesaurus. To date the CERL Thesaurus contains links to | ||
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* **Spanish printers' | * **Spanish printers' | ||
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Digitisation of further reference works is planned, including Paul Heitz, // | Digitisation of further reference works is planned, including Paul Heitz, // | ||
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* [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
* [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http://eclipsi.bib.ub.es/imp/|Marques d’impressor at the Universitat de Barcelona - Fons de Reserva]] (Catalan version) | + | * [[http://www.bib.ub.edu/fileadmin/impressors/ |
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* [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
* Ronald B. McKerrow. [[http:// | * Ronald B. McKerrow. [[http:// | ||
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===== Standards for storing and exchanging bibliographic records ===== | ===== Standards for storing and exchanging bibliographic records ===== | ||
- | * [[http://www.oclcpica.org/dasat/|PICA]] | + | * [[http://search.cpan.org/~voj/PICA-Record-0.36/lib/PICA/Tutorial.pm|PICA]] and a [[http:// |
- | * [[http://www.bl.uk/ | + | |
* [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
* [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
* [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
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**Subject Headings** | **Subject Headings** | ||
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+ | ===== Digitising Early Printed Books and Manuscripts ===== | ||
+ | IFLA Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections\\ | ||
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