Lux librorum : essays on books and history for Chris Coppens / Goran Proot, David McKitterick, Angela Nuovo and Paul F. Gehl (eds.) ; with a preface by David McKitterick.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Vlaamse Werkgroep Boekgeschiedenis (Publisher)
Other Authors: Coppens, Chr. (Chris) (honouree.)
Proot, Joran (Editor)
McKitterick, David (Editor)
Nuovo, Angela (Editor)
Gehl, Paul F. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Mechelen : Flanders Book Historical Society, 2018.
Edition:Special edition.
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Physical Description:xl, 240 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (some color), portrait ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Essays on books and history for Chris Coppens
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface / David McKitterick
  • Bibliography of Chris Coppens / Bram Caers & Linda Fonteyne
  • The Cartolari family from Perugia : from paper sellers to publishing house / Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni
  • Transferring humanism : the edition of Vitruvius by Lucimborgo de Gabiano (Lyon, 1523) / Angela Nuovo
  • Publishing and piracy : a case study of Giovanni Cefali's Consiliorum (1562/1563) / Kevin M. Stevens
  • John Christopherson, humanist and benefactor / David McKitterick
  • Prices for Spanish and Latin books published by Martinus Nutius I, ca. 1558 / Giles Mandelbrote & Goran Proot
  • Quaestiones theologicae, theses sacrae, and some conjectures about the Masius family / J. Christopher Warner
  • Four incunables brought to the Massachusetts Bay Colony / Paul Needham
  • The Officina Plantiniana in Antwerp as provider of books for Jesuits in early Qing China (1616/1617) / Noël Golvers
  • An eighteenth-century Danish-German book collector in Leiden : Christianus Carolus von Neumann (ca. 1695-1760) and his Bibliotheca Musaeana / Paul G. Hoftijzer
  • A scholar-librarian collects : Hans Baron at the Newberry Library / Paul F. Gehl
  • Where will the digital turn in reading take us? / Adriaan van der Weel.