| ISBN |
0712346015 (British Library) |
| 1884718922 (Oak Knoll) |
| Title |
Bible as book : the first printed editions / edited by Paul Saenger and Kimberly Van Kampen |
| Publisher |
London ; New Castle, DE : British Library ; Oak Knoll Press, in association with The Scriptorium: Center for Christian Antiquities, 1999 |
| Physical desc. |
xii, 164 p., [32] p. of plates ; ill. (b&w) ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
Collection of papers based on a conference held in Hampton Court, Herefordshire, in May 1996, and sponsored by the Scriptorium, Center for Christian Antiquities, in co-operation with the Van Kampen Foundation. |
| Second of three volumes |
| Volunteer Reading List [Western] |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-155) and indexes |
| Contents |
Introduction / Anthony Kenny. -- The layout of the Bible gloss in manuscript and early print / J. P. Gumbert. -- An extraordinary achievement: the Glossa ordinaria in print / Karlfried Froehlich. -- Biblical blockbooks / Nigel F. Palmer. -- The impact of the early printed page on the reading of the Bible / Paul Saenger. -- The changing shape of the Vulgate Bible in fifteenth-century printing shops / Paul Needham. -- Hebrew printing of the Bible in the XVth century / Adrian K. Offenberg. -- Biblical books and the circulation of the Psalms in late-medieval England / Kimberly Van Kampen. -- The Bible, printing and the educational goals of the humanists / Guy Bedoulle. -- The printing press in Alcalá de Henares: the Complutensian Polyglot Bible / Julián Martín Abad. -- The problem of the manuscript basis for the earliest printed editions of the Greek New Testament / Michael Welte. -- 'The Book thus put in every vulgar hand': impressions of readers in early English printed Bibles / William H. Sherman. -- The re-evaluation of the patristic exegetical tradition in the sixteenth century / David Steinmetz. |
| Subject |
Bible -- History -- Congresses |
| Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses |
| Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Europe -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses |
| Incunabula Bibliography |
| Added name(s) |
Saenger, Paul Henry 1945- ed. |
| Van Kampen, Kimberly ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Scriptorium Center for Christian Antiquities |
