Bourgeois scholarship as disguise: “Fake books” are objects that simulate the most important carriers of knowledge and culture by subverting fundamental functions such as visualization, information or entertainment. Most of these “book simulators” are beautiful containers, which serve for storing – or hiding – approximately everything. The viewer is always confronted by the discrepancy between appearance and being, between form and function.

Armin Müller has collected book dummies of very different sizes, styles and provenances from different eras: art-historically valuable, technically sophisticated and historically exciting pieces, but also kitsch of all kinds. The imaginative and creative richness of camou-flage and illusion seems to be inexhaustible.

One of the most important Italian manuscripts in the Getty Museum, the lavishly illustrated Gualenghi d'Este Hours was created around 1649 on the occasion of the marriage of diplomat Andrea Gualengo to Orsina d'Este, a member of Ferrara's ruling family. The devotional manuscript featured brilliant figured decoration of the suffrages--short prayers to saints--and was created by Taddeo Crivelli, one of the most important manuscript illuminators of the Renaissance.
This volume includes reproductions of all the illuminations in the original manuscript plus selected text pages, each with commentary. Kurt Barstow examines the book's vivid devotional imagery in relation to works of art of the period that help explain the Hours significance for the fifteenth-century patrons. This beautifully illustrated book is published to coincide with an exhibit featuring the manuscript that will take place at the Getty Museum from May 9 to July 30, 2000.

Widmungen stellen eine Form von Paratexten des Buches dar, deren historische Aussagekraft bislang nicht ausreichend gewurdigt erscheint. Am Beispiel der deutschsprachigen Druckproduktion der Stadt Mainz im 16. Jahrhundert weist der Autor 178 Dedikationen nach, die er durch eine Kombination bewahrter texthermeneutischer wie auch innovativ-statistischer und netzwerkanalytischer Untersuchungsmethoden auswertet. Die Untersuchung liefert neue Einblicke in die soziale, oekonomische und religioese Struktur der Mainzer Stadtgesellschaft der Fruhen Neuzeit. Sie versteht sich durch Anwendung computergestutzter Analysetechniken als Beitrag zur schrittweisen Entwicklung jener Wissenschaftskonzeption, die weltweit unter dem Stichwort Digital Humanities diskutiert wird.

From primitive pieces to elegant modernity, the definitive guide to 3,000 years of furniture design A glorious encyclopedia from expert Judith Miller, a regular guest on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, showcasing more than 3,000 years of design. From primitive pieces to elegant modernity, this definitive guide illustrates every style and form. Packed with tips on how to recognise the key elements of each period and featuring lavish, full-colour photographs throughout. With a special foreword by furniture designer and manufacturer David Linley.