TY - BOOK AU - Hellinga,Lotte TI - Texts in transit: manuscript to proof and print in the fifteenth century T2 - Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World SN - 9789004279001 AV - Z126 .H48 2014 U1 - 686.209409024 PY - 2014/// CY - Leiden PB - BRILL KW - Printing KW - Europe KW - History KW - Origin and antecedents KW - Proofs (Printing) KW - Transmission of texts KW - To 1500 KW - Criticism, Textual KW - Case studies KW - CRAFTS & HOBBIES KW - Book Printing & Binding KW - bisacsh KW - DESIGN KW - Book KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING KW - Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Index of Books Printed Before 1501Alphabetical Index; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. Press and Text in the First Decades of Printing; Chapter 2. The Text in the Printing House: Printer's Copy; Chapter 3. List of Printer's Copy Used in the Fifteenth Century; Chapter 4. Proofreading and Printing in Mainz in 1459; Chapter 5. Augustinus, De civitate Dei, Printed at Subiaco in 1467; Chapter 6. Poggio's Facetiae in Print; Chapter 7. Poggio Bracciolini's Historia fiorentina in Manuscript and Print; Chapter 8. The First Book Printed in Oxford; Chapter 9. Two Editors, Three Printers: M.T. Cicero, Orationes Printed in Venice, 1471-1480Chapter 10. From Poggio to Caxton: Early Translations of Some of Poggio's Latin Facetiae; Chapter 11. The Travels of Marco Polo and Gheraert Leeu; Chapter 12. The History of Jason: From Manuscripts for the Burgundian Court to Printed Books for Readers in the Towns of Holland; Chapter 13. Nicholas Love's Mirror in Print; Chapter 14. Wynkyn de Worde and The book of St Albans; Chapter 15. William Caxton and the Malory Manuscript; Subject Index: Text in Printing Houses; Index of Manuscripts N2 - Texts in Transit addresses the question what happened to texts during their production in printing houses in the fifteenth century. Lotte Hellinga finds some answers by exploring printer's copy and proofs in diverse printing houses, covering the period 1459 -1496 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=846986 ER -