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Manuscripts and Early Printed Books is an academic field that studies the production, transmission, and preservation of written texts prior to the modern publishing era. It encompasses the analysis of physical artifacts, textual content, and historical contexts of manuscripts and books produced before the 18th century, focusing on their cultural and scholarly significance.
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Manuscripts and Early Printed Books is an academic field that studies the production, transmission, and preservation of written texts prior to the modern publishing era. It encompasses the analysis of physical artifacts, textual content, and historical contexts of manuscripts and books produced before the 18th century, focusing on their cultural and scholarly significance.

Key research themes

1. How were medieval manuscripts and early printed books compiled and circulated as cultural artifacts reflecting local and transregional identities?

This theme investigates the compilation, circulation, and reception of medieval manuscripts and early printed books as dynamic cultural artifacts. It explores how multi-text codices, miscellanies, and individual manuscripts were assembled, organized, and transmitted across different European regions, reflecting community identities, devotional practices, and intellectual networks. Research here emphasizes manuscript formation phases, codicological features, and patterns of book ownership to illuminate the social and cultural mechanisms shaping textual transmission and reception during manuscript and incunabula eras.

Key finding: This work demonstrates that medieval manuscripts commonly existed as multi-text codices, compiled and rearranged over time, reflecting varied reading experiences distinct from modern fixed editions. By comparing miscellany... Read more
Key finding: Through analysis of Antonio Gazio’s manuscript autographs and book collections, this study reconstructs an intellectual network intersecting university, court, and religious spheres in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.... Read more
Key finding: The analysis of the Rujan Tetraevangelion reveals the persistence of manuscript textual traditions alongside early Cyrillic printing in 16th-century Serbia. The colophonic and provenance evidence places the work within... Read more
Key finding: The volume examined showcases an integrated spatial and codicological study of a Venetian Benedictine nunnery’s monastic library and book usage. It evidences how monastic spaces and manuscripts functioned collaboratively,... Read more

2. What are the evidential bibliographical methods and material indicators distinguishing movable type printing from alternative early printing techniques in incunabula?

This theme focuses on the detailed palaeographic, codicological, and bibliographical analyses that interrogate typographical features in early printed books—especially incunabula—to determine printing techniques. It addresses the contested question whether iconic early printed works, such as the Mainz Catholicon, were produced by movable metal type or by unconventional methods like stereotype printing. The research applies microscopic printing marks, raised spaces evidence, paper watermark dating, and typographical variance to validate or refute competing production theories, thereby refining understanding of early printing technology and its evolution.

Key finding: This study refutes the stereotype strip theory of printing for the Catholicon Press books by demonstrating paper dating inconsistencies and typographical evidence indicating movable type use. Comparative bibliographic... Read more
Key finding: Through the identification of multiple instances where raised spaces between words left varying ink marks during printing, this work provides further conclusive proof that the Catholicon was printed from movable type rather... Read more
Key finding: By systematically analyzing digitized copies of the Catholicon and identifying incremental printed marks from raised spaces that changed across impressions, the paper robustly contradicts the prevailing theory that the book... Read more

3. How did scribal practices such as annotations, corrections, and editorial interventions evolve in manuscripts at the transition from the medieval to early modern periods?

This theme explores the textual and material features of manuscripts, including marginal annotations, scribal corrections, and editorial emendations, as indicators of reading communities, scholarly practices, and transmission processes. It particularly examines how these interventions reveal authorial intentions, scribal identities, and reading strategies. The analyses contribute to a nuanced understanding of how the manuscript culture adapted during the onset of printing technology, how scribes negotiated textual authority, and how corrections mark stages within book production.

Key finding: By surveying annotations in early medieval manuscripts, this collection demonstrates that annotations were integral to medieval textual engagement, with flyleaves, margins, and interlinear spaces actively designed for... Read more
Key finding: This paper analyzes the interrelationship between decoration—initials, headpieces, tailpieces—and textual structure in the 17th-century Ukrainian manuscript "Vinets Khrystov". It shows these embellishments are not merely... Read more

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