Manuscripts, market, and the transition to print in late medieval Brittany
By: Diane Booton.
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780754666233
Subjects: Books -- France -- Brittany -- History -- 400-1450; Books -- France -- Brittany -- History -- 1450-1600; Manuscripts, Medieval -- France -- Brittany; Printing -- France -- Brittany -- History -- To 1500; Book industries and trade -- France -- Brittany -- History -- To 1500; Book collecting -- France -- Brittany -- History -- To 1500; Books and reading -- France -- Brittany -- History -- To 1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The economics of manuscript-making; title: The illuminated page; title: Printing and the market; title: Ducal patronage and ownership; title: Breton book collectors; title: Readership and patterns of collecting.