Incunabula in Transit

Lotte Hellinga, Litt.D. (1974, University of Amsterdam) was, until 1995, Deputy Keeper at the British Library, where she initiated the ISTC database and completed the BMC incunabula catalogue. She published extensively on book history, early typography, the book trade and textual transmission in incunabula. Her most recent book is Texts in Transit (Brill, 2014).

“An intellectual tour de force in the oeuvre of one of our most renowned book historians and incunabulists.”Carol M. Meale, in: The Book Collector, Vol. 67. No. 3 (Autumn 2018), pp. 600–603.“For the amount and quality of information provided, this book will be read by anyone who works with early printing. Yet all early modern historians will find it of interest, especially those involved with European cultural history. Young scholars might also use it as a handbook for the field’s methodology, reflected in the author’s works as well as those of the many scholars mentioned in this book.”Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, University of Turin. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 274–276. “Lotte Hellinga hoort tot de “top in het veld“. In deze bundel geeft Lotte Hellinga […] een helder beeld van de werkwijze van de incunabulistiek, de hogeschool onder de disciplines die de boekwetenschap uitmaken.” (Lotte Hellinga is among the “top in the field“. In this volume, Lotte Hellinga provides [...] a clear picture of the working method of incunabulistics, the honors college among the disciplines that make up book history.)Frans A. Janssen, in: De Boekenwereld, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2018), pp. 88–89.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Book Auctions in the Fifteenth Century2 Advertising and Selling Books in the Fifteenth Century3 Nicolas Jenson, Peter Schoeffer and the Development of Printing Types4 Peter Schoeffer: Publisher and Bookseller5 The Mainz Catholicon 1460–1470: An Experiment in Book Production and the Book Trade6 Fragments Found in Bindings: The Complexity of Evidence for the Earliest Dutch Typography7 Prelates in Print8 William Caxton, Colard Mansion and the Printer in Type 19 Wynkyn de Worde’s Native Land10 Aesopus Moralisatus, Antwerp, 1488 in England11 An Early Eighteenth-century Sale of Mainz Incunabula by the Frankfurt Dominicansin co-authorship with Margaret Nickson12 A Caxton Tract-volume from Thomas Rawlinson’s Libraryin co-authorship with Margaret Nickson13 Buying Incunabula in Venice and Milan: The Bibliotheca SmithianaIndexColour Illustrations