num_pages: 6
description: The Bodleian's incunable catalogue describes the Library's fifteenth-century western printed books to the same standards expected in the best modern catalogues of medieval manuscripts. It records and identifies all texts contained in each volume, and the detailed analysis of the textualcontent is an innovative feature. Further information about authors, editors, translators, and dedicatees is given in an extensive index of names, complete with biographical and other information; this index will be of interest to textural scholars from the classical period to the renaissance. Thedetailed descriptions of the copy-specific features of each book (the binding, hand-decoration and hand-finishing, marginalia, and provenance) form another important contribution to scholarship. The provenance index will be of great value to all those interested in the history of the book from the1450s to the present day.
language: English
title: A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian Library
titlecomplete: A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian Library
publisher: Oxford University Press