Specification for a Bestseller: Notes on the Production of a Book of Hours.
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| Název: | Specification for a Bestseller: Notes on the Production of a Book of Hours. |
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| Autoři: | van der Vlist, Ed1 (AUTHOR) Ed.vanderVlist@KB.nl |
| Zdroj: | Queeste. 2025, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p130-143. 14p. |
| Témata: | *MODULAR forms, *FIFTEENTH century, *BOOK sales & prices, *PARCHMENT, *NOTEBOOKS |
| Abstrakt: | Books of Hours in the late medieval Low Countries were typically produced in modular form, with specialised craftsmen handling different stages of production — parchment preparation, copying, rubrication, illumination, and binding. A single parchment leaf, once reused as a pastedown and now kept at the Museum Huis van het boek in The Hague (MS 10 A 10, 58f), offers rare insight into the (commercialised) process of book making. The recto contains the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin in Middle Dutch, likely intended as a sample page for prospective clients. In the lower margin, a production specification outlines the planned content, structure, materials, and cost of a custom Book of Hours. These scribbled notes shed unique light on the role of the librarius — a bookseller acting as an intermediary between producer and client — and illustrate the modular approach to producing a Book of Hours in the Low Countries during the second half of the fifteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Academic Search Index |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | Books of Hours in the late medieval Low Countries were typically produced in modular form, with specialised craftsmen handling different stages of production — parchment preparation, copying, rubrication, illumination, and binding. A single parchment leaf, once reused as a pastedown and now kept at the Museum Huis van het boek in The Hague (MS 10 A 10, 58f), offers rare insight into the (commercialised) process of book making. The recto contains the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin in Middle Dutch, likely intended as a sample page for prospective clients. In the lower margin, a production specification outlines the planned content, structure, materials, and cost of a custom Book of Hours. These scribbled notes shed unique light on the role of the librarius — a bookseller acting as an intermediary between producer and client — and illustrate the modular approach to producing a Book of Hours in the Low Countries during the second half of the fifteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 09298592 |
| DOI: | 10.5117/QUE2025.1.006.VLIS |