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2022 ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography - First Prize Winner
This catalogue of the substantial collection of the incunabula at
the University of Glasgow Library, concentrates, in addition to the
usual data, on the copy-specific aspects of the book such as
provenance, use, binding and decoration. The University of Glasgow
Library has one of the richest rare book collections in the UK
outside London, Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester. There are 1042
incunabula (including many unique items). As witnesses of the first
print revolution, these books are fascinating on many levels - as
innovative survivors of the technological shift from manuscript to
print, as late medieval texts available in duplicate to a
commercial mass market for the first time, andas cultural artefacts
containing over 500 years of ownership history. A well-presented
catalogue is the key to accessing this rich resource for a wide
range of historians and researchers. A further 64 itncunabula in
other Glasgowmuseums and libraries are also included.
Bibliographically, incunabula have been well documented. The aim of
the Glasgow catalogue is to concentrate on the unique aspects of
the books. A short-title catalogue approachis taken in providing
enough information to identify each edition (with reference to
standard bibliographical works such as ISTC) presented in author
order. The main focus of each record is on the copy specific
features of the book, including full details of provenance
(ownership), evidence of use from annotation and other marks,
binding, decoration and any other idiosyncratic features (such as
hand-colouring of woodcuts or manuscript waste used in endpapers.
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