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dc.contributor.author	Dondi Cristina
dc.title	20 From the Corpus Iuris to ‘psalterioli da puti’, on Parchment, Bound, Gilt... The Price of Any Book Sold in Venice 1484-1488
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The ledger of the Venetian bookseller Francesco De Madiis, known as the Zornale (1484-88), which is currently being studied by Cristina Dondi and Neil Harris, offers a unique insight into the market value of the earliest printed books, of any sort. The essay offers the analysis of a variety of subjects, prices, sales, customers, and comparison with the cost of living in Renaissance Venice, the largest place of production and distribution in 15th-century Europe. The focus is first and foremost on the cheapest and most popular items, a production and trade enabled by the new technology.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi di storia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-02-24
dc.dateAccepted	2019-11-04
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-10-03
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dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-332-8/020
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	Book prices
dc.subject	Book prices
dc.subject	Book trade
dc.subject	Book trade
dc.subject	Corpus Iuris
dc.subject	Corpus Iuris
dc.subject	Francesco De Madiis
dc.subject	Francesco De Madiis
dc.subject	Incunabula
dc.subject	Incunabula

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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 15cBOOKTRADE, University of Oxford, UK

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abstract

The ledger of the Venetian bookseller Francesco De Madiis, known as the Zornale (1484-88), which is currently being studied by Cristina Dondi and Neil Harris, offers a unique insight into the market value of the earliest printed books, of any sort. The essay offers the analysis of a variety of subjects, prices, sales, customers, and comparison with the cost of living in Renaissance Venice, the largest place of production and distribution in 15th-century Europe. The focus is first and foremost on the cheapest and most popular items, a production and trade enabled by the new technology.

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Feb. 24, 2020

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Nov. 4, 2019

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Oct. 3, 2019

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978-88-6969-333-5

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978-88-6969-332-8

Keywords: Incunabula • Book trade • Book prices • Francesco De Madiis • Corpus Iuris

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