Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700

Walter Melion, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, is the author of three monographs and a critical edition of Karel van Mander’s Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting, co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of more than twenty-five volumes, and author of more than ninety articles.br/>br/>Christopher D. Fletcher, Assistant Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library, is a historian of public engagement and book history before 1800 whose work has appeared in articles, book chapters, gallery exhibitions, and digital resources.

Shaun Midanik's chapter, "Picture Bound: Customized Books of Prints and the Myth of the Ideal Series," was awarded the 2024 Schulman and Bullard Article Prize. This award is given by the Association of Print Scholars (APS) to an article published by an early-career scholar that features compelling and innovative research on prints or printmaking.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsPart 1: Introduction1 Kinds and Degrees of Customisation in Early Modern Book Production and ReceptionWalter S. Melion2 The Customising Mindset in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Newberry Inc. 1699Christopher D. FletcherPart 2: Customisation across Media3 A Late Medieval Multi-Text Manuscript and Its Printed PrecedentsBritt Boler Hunter4 Reforming Hrabanus: Early Modern Iterations of In honorem sanctae crucisKelin Michael5 A Customized Housebook of Repurposed Prints: the Liber Quodlibetarius, c. 1524Stephanie LeitchPart 3: Communal Customising6 How to Talk about Burgundian Books You Could Not ReadBret L. Rothstein7 Customizing for the Community: The Wiesbaden Manuscript (Hauptstaatsarchiv 3004 B 10) and the Late Medieval ChurchGeert Warnar8 A Medical Anthology Customised ‘for the Consolation of the Sick’ in a Brussels ConventAndrea van Leerdam9 Custom Made by Antonio Ricardo: Peru’s First Printer and His Illustrations in Jerónimo de Oré’s Symbolo Catholico Indiano (1598)Tom CumminsPart 4: Individual Customisers10 From Proud Monument to Ill-Marked Tomb: Tommaso Schifaldo in a Sicilian Humanist MiscellanyPaul F. Gehl11 Customization of a Latin Emblem Book by a Vernacular Owner: Unknown German Poems to a Copy of Vaenius’s Emblemata Horatiana (first edition, 1607)Karl A.E. Enenkel12 Picture Bound: Customized Books of Prints and the Myth of the Ideal SeriesShaun Midanik13 Customizing an Emblem Book as an album amicorum: Valentin Ludovicus’ Entry in the Stammbuch of Christian WeigelMara R. WadePart 5: Editorial Customisation14 A Play of Continuity and Difference: A Book of Fortune-telling Adapted from the Kingdom of Poland to Southeastern EuropeJustyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba15 Shifting Perspectives: Changing Optical Theory in the Printed Works of Jean-François NiceronBrent Purkaple16 Venice as a Musical Commodity in Early Modern Germany: A Frontispiece Collage, c. 1638Jason Rosenholtz-Witt17 Vaenius in Ireland: An Eighteenth-Century Customization of the Emblemata HoratianaSimon McKeownPart 6: Visual Customisation18 Frames, Screens and Urns: Customisation and Poetics in the 1495 Aldine Theocritus painted by Albrecht Dürer for Willibald PirckheimerJakub Koguciuk19 Compiled Compositions: The Kattendijke Chronicle (c. 1491–1493) and Late Medieval Book DesignAnna Dlabačová20 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus’s Dutch New TestamentWalter S. Melion21 ‘By the Genius of the Indians’: The Customization of Nieremberg’s De la Diferencia in Guarani (Loreto, Juan Bautista Neumann et alii: 1705)Pedro LealIndex Nominum