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Chapter | 18 Costs We Don’t Think About
18 Costs We Don’t Think About
An Unusual Copy of Franciscus de Platea, Opus restitutionum (1474), and a Few Other Items
- Neil Harris - Università degli Studi di Udine, Italia - email
Abstract
Rubrication, or the hand-finishing of manuscripts and (very) early printed books, falls between several areas of competence; however, it often tells us important things about the book and its early history; it also had a cost, and in description it is important to distinguish between ‘professional’ and ‘amateur’ rubrication. A copy of a Venetian incunable printed in 1474 in the collections of the Boston Public Library has on its final leaf a contemporary rubricator’s note, with the summary of the costs of illumination and rubrication. The edition concerned was maybe sold through the Zornale of Francesco de Madiis, the ledger of a Venetian bookseller, which records the sales of some 25,000 books between 1484 and 1488. These sales, however, mostly concerned books sold as unbound sheets, though occasionally bound copies are recorded with a consequent increase in price. Discovering the expense of rubrication and illumination, albeit in this one instance, makes it possible to understand better the real cost of purchasing a 15th-century book.
Submitted: Oct. 15, 2019 | Accepted: Dec. 13, 2019 | Published Feb. 24, 2020 | Language: en
Keywords Decoration • Book prices • Rubrication • Venice • Incunabula • Booktrade
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Foreword
- 1 Foreword
- Kristian Jensen
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 2 The ERC: Funding Organisation and European Project
- Martin Stokhof
- Feb. 24, 2020
Introduction
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3 Introduction
The 15cBOOKTRADE Project and the Study of Incunabula as Historical Sources - Cristina Dondi
- Feb. 24, 2020
Illustrations
Section 1. The Transmission of Texts in Print and the Distribution and Reception of Books
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4 Printing the Law in the 15th Century
With a Focus on Corpus iuris civilis and the Works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato - Maria Alessandra Panzanelli-Fratoni
- Feb. 24, 2020
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5 La stampa medico-scientifica nell’Europa del XV secolo
Con cenni sulla fruizione dei libri di materia medica e ricettari - Sabrina Minuzzi
- Feb. 24, 2020
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6 Binding Waste as Book History
Patterns of Survival Among the Early Mainz Donatus Editions - Eric White
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 7 Printing in Greek before Aldus Manutius
- Geri Della Rocca de Candal
- Feb. 24, 2020
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8 Not Wanderers but Faithful Companions
A Brief Overview on the Hebrew Incunabula Held in Italian Libraries - Marco Bertagna
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 9 Hebrew Incunabula in the National Library of Israel as a Source for Early Modern Book History in Europe and Beyond
- Alexander Gordin
- Feb. 24, 2020
Section 2. Working with Libraries in Europe and the United States
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10 La formazione delle raccolte marciane
I cataloghi storici: genesi, struttura, presenza di incunaboli - Alessia Giachery
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 11 Acquisizioni e asportazioni alla caduta della Repubblica di Venezia
- Elisabetta Sciarra
- Feb. 24, 2020
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12 ll contributo del CRELEB e della Regione Lombardia alla catalogazione in MEI
Descrizione, risultati, problemi aperti - Edoardo Barbieri
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 13 Le collezioni di incunaboli delle biblioteche annesse ai monumenti nazionali, come tutelarle e fare ricerca: Santa Scolastica a Subiaco
- Pasqualino Avigliano, Andrea Cappa, Andrea De Pasquale, Cristina Dondi, Adalbert Roth, Marina Venier
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 14 How Provenance Marks from Lithuanian Incunabula are Contributing to Historical Narrative
- Viktorija Vaitkevičiūtė, Agnė Zemkajutė
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 15 Bringing American Collections into MEI
- John Lancaster
- Feb. 24, 2020
Section 3. The Cost of Living and the Cost of Books in 15th-Century Europe
- 16 Patterns of Consumption in Renaissance Venice
- Isabella Cecchini
- Feb. 24, 2020
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17 La compravendita di libri nella contabilità dei mercanti fiorentini
Un confronto coi prezzi dei generi di prima necessità e col potere d’acquisto dei salariati nella seconda metà del XV secolo - Paola Pinelli
- Feb. 24, 2020
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18 Costs We Don’t Think About
An Unusual Copy of Franciscus de Platea, Opus restitutionum (1474), and a Few Other Items - Neil Harris
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 19 Il commercio degli incunaboli a Padova nel 1480: il Quaderneto di Antonio Moretto
- Ester Peric
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 20 From the Corpus Iuris to ‘psalterioli da puti’, on Parchment, Bound, Gilt... The Price of Any Book Sold in Venice 1484-1488
- Cristina Dondi
- Feb. 24, 2020
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21 «Con un altro piccolo Indice in 4° bislungo»
Un inventario di libri conservato dentro il Zornale di Francesco de Madiis - Sara Mansutti
- Feb. 24, 2020
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22 Da Vespasiano da Bisticci a Franz Renner e Bartolomeo Lupoto
Appunti sul commercio librario tra Venezia, la Toscana e Genova (ca. 1459-1487) - Lorenz Böninger
- Feb. 24, 2020
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23 «Heredes de Plauto stampadore deno avere infrascritte robe e dinari»
Consumo del libro, prezzi e mercato librario a Bologna alla fine del Quattrocento - Elena Gatti
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 24 «Emptus Ferrarie». I prezzi del libro a stampa nella città estense fra Quattro e primi del Cinquecento
- Paolo Tinti
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 25 The Memmingen Book Network
- Claire Bolton
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 26 Sellers and Buyers of the Lyon Book Market in the Late 15th Century
- Monique Hulvey
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 27 Tra il libro manoscritto e l’edizione a stampa in Catalogna nella seconda metà del XV secolo (1450-1500)
- J. Antoni Iglesias Fonseca
- Feb. 24, 2020
Section 4. Illustration and Digital Tools
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28 The Decoration and Illustration of Venetian Incunabula
From Hand Illumination to the Design of Woodcuts - Lilian Armstrong
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 29 La Biblioteca pubblica veneziana e gli incunaboli miniati
- Susy Marcon
- Feb. 24, 2020
- 30 The Use and Reuse of Printed Illustrations in 15th-Century Venetian Editions
- Cristina Dondi, Abhishek Dutta, Matilde Malaspina, Andrew Zisserman
- Feb. 24, 2020
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31 The Essling LOD Project
From the Census to the Copies - Ilaria Andreoli, Ilenia Maschietto
- Feb. 24, 2020
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32 Visual Interpretation of the ISTC
The Atlas of Early Printing and the Material History of Data - Gregory Prickman
- Feb. 24, 2020
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33 The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC)
Past, Present and Future - John Goldfinch, Karen Limper-Herz
- Feb. 24, 2020
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34 A New Tool for Describing Provenance Images
CERL’s Provenance Digital Archive - Marieke van Delft
- Feb. 24, 2020
Indexes
- Artists, Binders, Booksellers, etc.
- Feb. 24, 2020
- Cited Incunabula
- Feb. 24, 2020
- Digital Tools and Catalogues
- Feb. 24, 2020
- Names and Places
- Feb. 24, 2020
- Printers and Publishers
- Feb. 24, 2020
- Provenance
- Feb. 24, 2020
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18 Costs We Don’t Think About. An Unusual Copy of Franciscus de Platea, Opus restitutionum (1474), and a Few Other Items |
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Rubrication, or the hand-finishing of manuscripts and (very) early printed books, falls between several areas of competence; however, it often tells us important things about the book and its early history; it also had a cost, and in description it is important to distinguish between ‘professional’ and ‘amateur’ rubrication. A copy of a Venetian incunable printed in 1474 in the collections of the Boston Public Library has on its final leaf a contemporary rubricator’s note, with the summary of the costs of illumination and rubrication. The edition concerned was maybe sold through the Zornale of Francesco de Madiis, the ledger of a Venetian bookseller, which records the sales of some 25,000 books between 1484 and 1488. These sales, however, mostly concerned books sold as unbound sheets, though occasionally bound copies are recorded with a consequent increase in price. Discovering the expense of rubrication and illumination, albeit in this one instance, makes it possible to understand better the real cost of purchasing a 15th-century book. |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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2020-02-24 |
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2019-12-13 |
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2019-10-15 |
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Book prices |
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dc.subject |
Book prices |
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Booktrade |
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Booktrade |
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Decoration |
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Decoration |
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Incunabula |
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Incunabula |
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Rubrication |
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Rubrication |
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Venice |
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Venice |
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