Production and Provenance: Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula: Vol 101

The aim of this volume is to re-evaluate some of the temporal, intermedial and geographical boundaries built around a long-established discipline, the study of incunabula.
This volume starts by setting out the past and future landscapes of incunabula studies, looking particularly at copy-specific features. Subsequent chapters use research on specific editions or subjects in order to engage with the two key themes of the book: production and provenance of early printed books.
By examining a wide range of copy-specific aspects of individual books, the volume showcases how printed books were produced in the fifteenth century and subsequently used and transformed by readers and owners during their long journeys till they fell into their current owners’ hands.

John Goldfinch is a former Curator of Incunabula at the British Library. He worked on the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) from 1985, and has published on the history and provenance of the historic collections at the British Library.

Takako Kato, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University. Recent publications include ‘Lost, Burned and Recovered: Tracing the Provenance History of a Copy of Caxton’s Golden Legend in the John Rylands Library’, The Library, 7th ser., 23 (2022); and ‘Manuscript and Print: Discontinuity and Continuity in the Transmission of Arthurian Tales, in A. Putter, C. Ferlampin-Acher and R. Radulescu (eds.), Late Arthurian Traditions in Europe (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020).

Satoko Tokunaga, PhD, is Professor at the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Tokyo. She works on the manuscript and print cultures of late medieval England. She is a co-editor of Caxton’s Golden Legend, EETS o.s. 355, 357 (Oxford University Press, 2021–22).