Bookbinding and Production in Incunable Age Germany

Authors

Brooke Hardy

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Abstract

Printshops opened all over Germany shortly after 1450 with the invention of the metal moveable type printing press, marking Germany as the center of this new market. Each printer and binder had their own distinct characteristics featured in their works. They each had preferred materials or techniques, or simply had different materials available to them. This paper reviews aspects of incunable bookmaking and bookbinding to provide a broader material context for PSU’s 1490 codex.

Publication Date

2022

Comments

This essay is a research project written for Professor John Ott's Spring 2022 Medieval History seminar on PSU Library Special Collections' Malleus maleficarum and Fasciculus temporum codex.

Recommended Citation

Hardy, Brooke, "Bookbinding and Production in Incunable Age Germany" (2022). Provenance and Preservation. 4.