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Prof. Dr. Ursula Rautenberg
Institute for the Study of the Book
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
http://www.buchwiss.uni-erlangen.de
ursula.rautenberg@buchwiss.uni-erlangen.de
Dear Colleagues:
We would like to announce the online publication of two resources on the
incunable title page by the Institute for the Study of the Book at the University
of Erlangen. The publications are products of two research projects on the rise
and development of the title page in the incunable and early print period that
were supported from 2000 to 2004 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
* Database with bibliographic descriptions and illustrations
* (director Ursula Rautenberg, assistant Oliver Duntze)
* Online: http://inkunabeln.uni-koeln.de/titelblatt
* The database's coverage is focused with respect to time and region by the
project's topic: it contains bibliographic data for the seven earliest printing
towns in the German language area (Mainz, Bamberg, Strasbourg, Cologne,
Basle, Augsburg, Nuremberg), with a primary focus on early title pages (until
ca. 1490). For this time period, the database includes bibliographic data both
for the autopsied incunables (with illustrations) and also for editions that could
only be identified as works with title pages on the basis of incunable
bibliographies. For the decade from 1491 to 1500, only editions that were
examined for this project are included.
* Within these regional and temporal limits, the database encompasses 914 total
records with bibliographic descriptions for the incunable period. For 630 of
these descriptions, illustrations of the title page, incipit, and explicit as well as
additional significant pages have been integrated into the database (ca. 2500
illustrations in all).
* An additional component of the database includes illustrations that were
collected for an Erlangen master's thesis on "Erasmian Title Pages from the
Press of Johann Froben in Basle." This includes 125 further database records
with ca. 750 illustrations.
* Because of the goals and intentions of this research project, the bibliographic
descriptions concentrate on aspects of print production. In addition to author,
title, and press information, the database includes data concerning the format,
length, collation, printer's types, initial type, woodcuts, etc. Copy-specific
information, on the other hand, is limited to the identification of the autopsied
copies. Bibliographic references include the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke
(print and online versions), Hain-Copinger-Reichling, and the ISTC.
* The database's explanatory pages are presently in German but will shortly be
available in English and Spanish also.
* Ursula Rautenberg, Das Titelblatt: Die Entstehung eines
typographsichen Dispositivs im frühen Buchdruck.
Erlangen 2004. 33 pp., 18 illustrations. ISBN 3-9809664-0-2
Online: www.buchwiss.uni-erlangen.de/Alles Buch/Studien.htm
This publication, which accompanies the database, contains some results of
research on early book title pages and was based on several previous lectures
and presentations.
An extensive monograph, which will present all research results in book form,
is expected to appear in 2005. The manuscript is for the most part complete.
For a preview, here is an overview of the contents:
The Title Page of the Incunable and Early Printing Period in Germany, the
Netherlands, and Venice: General Development and Case Studies.
Introductory section
Ursula Rautenberg: "The Early Title Page as Research Problem"
Ursula Rautenberg: "The Title Page in the Incunable and Early Printing
Period: On the Development of a Typographic Institution"
Case studies
Ursula Rautenberg: "The Title Page in Strasbourg"
Johanna Gummlich-Wagner: "The Title Page in Cologne: Uni- and
Multivalent Title Woodcuts from the Rhenish Metropolis of Incunable
Printing"
Oliver Duntze: "The Title Page in Augsburg: The Introductory Woodcut as
Precursor and Alternative to the Title Page"
Randall Herz: "The Title Page in Nuremberg: Development Tendencies in
Title Formulation and Title Page Layout"
Gaby Kachelrieß: "The Title Page in Basle: The Erasmus Editions of Johann
Froben with a Catalog of Editions"
With kind regards
Ursula Rautenberg
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Prof. Dr. Ursula Rautenberg
Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
Buchwissenschaft
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