28 The Decoration and Illustration of Venetian Incunabula

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dc.contributor.author	Armstrong Lilian
dc.title	28 The Decoration and Illustration of Venetian Incunabula. From Hand Illumination to the Design of Woodcuts
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The paper summarises the decoration of Venetian incunabula from 1469-1500. In the early 1470s, illuminators experimented with schemes for ‘finishing’ the printed books, decorating the margins and spaces left blank for initials. The high numbers of hand-illuminated volumes indicate that numerous miniaturists must have come to Venice for this work. In the later 1470s and 1480s, incunabula continued to be illuminated, but greater numbers of each edition were printed, so the proportion that were decorated was lower. In the 1490s, miniaturists designed woodcuts that were printed with every copy of an edition. It is urged that historians of the book trade study the evidence provided by the hand-illumination and woodcut decoration of incunabula.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi di storia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-02-24
dc.dateAccepted	2019-08-31
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-05-16
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-333-5/28-the-decoration-and-illustration-of-venetian-inc/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-332-8/028
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9883
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9107
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-333-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-332-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Hand-illumination
dc.subject	Hand-illumination
dc.subject	Illustration
dc.subject	Illustration
dc.subject	Incunabula
dc.subject	Incunabula
dc.subject	Trade
dc.subject	Trade
dc.subject	Venice
dc.subject	Venice

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28 The Decoration and Illustration of Venetian Incunabula

From Hand Illumination to the Design of Woodcuts

Lilian Armstrong Wellesley College, US

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The paper summarises the decoration of Venetian incunabula from 1469-1500. In the early 1470s, illuminators experimented with schemes for ‘finishing’ the printed books, decorating the margins and spaces left blank for initials. The high numbers of hand-illuminated volumes indicate that numerous miniaturists must have come to Venice for this work. In the later 1470s and 1480s, incunabula continued to be illuminated, but greater numbers of each edition were printed, so the proportion that were decorated was lower. In the 1490s, miniaturists designed woodcuts that were printed with every copy of an edition. It is urged that historians of the book trade study the evidence provided by the hand-illumination and woodcut decoration of incunabula.

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Feb. 24, 2020

Accepted

Aug. 31, 2019

Submitted

May 16, 2019

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978-88-6969-333-5

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978-88-6969-332-8

Keywords: Venice • Incunabula • Trade • Hand-illumination • Illustration

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