6 Binding Waste as Book History

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_2896
dc.contributor.author	White Eric
dc.title	6 Binding Waste as Book History. Patterns of Survival Among the Early Mainz Donatus Editions
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	n this article the Author examines binding waste made from the earliest editions of Donatus’ Ars minor (a Latin grammar printed in Mainz during the 1450s and ’60s) to contextualize his earlier conclusions regarding at least 15 copies of the Gutenberg Bible known only from fragments, which bookbinders across Europe recycled for waste material during the later sixteenth century and throughout the seventeenth century. The binding contexts for the Donatus fragments, by contrast, date mainly to the fifteenth century. This testifies to the fact that the Bibles retained their usefulness much longer than the schoolbooks did, and suggests that the functional life spans of various genres of books are measurable, and this can be better understood through similar studies of binding waste in context.
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/978-88-6969-333-5/6-binding-waste-as-book-history/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-332-8/006
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
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ars minor
dc.subject	Ars minor
dc.subject	Binding waste
dc.subject	Binding waste
dc.subject	Book history
dc.subject	Book history
dc.subject	Bookbinding
dc.subject	Bookbinding
dc.subject	Donatus
dc.subject	Donatus
dc.subject	Fragments
dc.subject	Fragments
dc.subject	Gutenberg Bible
dc.subject	Gutenberg Bible
dc.subject	Incunabula
dc.subject	Incunabula
dc.subject	Johann Gutenberg
dc.subject	Johann Gutenberg
dc.subject	Mainz
dc.subject	Mainz
dc.subject	Printing
dc.subject	Printing

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6 Binding Waste as Book History

Patterns of Survival Among the Early Mainz Donatus Editions

Eric White Princeton University Library, US

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n this article the Author examines binding waste made from the earliest editions of Donatus’ Ars minor (a Latin grammar printed in Mainz during the 1450s and ’60s) to contextualize his earlier conclusions regarding at least 15 copies of the Gutenberg Bible known only from fragments, which bookbinders across Europe recycled for waste material during the later sixteenth century and throughout the seventeenth century. The binding contexts for the Donatus fragments, by contrast, date mainly to the fifteenth century. This testifies to the fact that the Bibles retained their usefulness much longer than the schoolbooks did, and suggests that the functional life spans of various genres of books are measurable, and this can be better understood through similar studies of binding waste in context.

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Feb. 24, 2020

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Aug. 31, 2019

Submitted

May 16, 2019

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978-88-6969-333-5

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-332-8

Keywords: Book history • Mainz • Johann Gutenberg • Gutenberg Bible • Binding waste • Donatus • Ars minor • Fragments • Printing • Bookbinding • Incunabula

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