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> *** Please excuse cross-posting ***<BR>> <BR>> International conference: "An experimental phase in the history of<BR>> early printing: Fifteenth-century blockbooks"<BR>> <BR>> Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Friedrich-von-Gärtner-Saal, 16-17<BR>> February 2012<BR>> <BR>> In the context of a project funded by the Deutsche<BR>> Forschungsgemeinschaft (http://www.dfg.de/index.jsp) the Bayerische<BR>> Staatsbibliothek in cooperation with the Centre for the Study of the<BR>> Book of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford,<BR>> (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/) organizes the international<BR>> conference "An experimental phase in the history of early printing:<BR>> Fifteenth-century blockbooks". During the conference, the exhibition<BR>> "From the ABC to the Apocalypse. Life, Faith and Death in Late<BR>> Mediaeval Blockbooks" will be opened which will be on show until 6 May<BR>> 2012 in the treasure room of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.<BR>> <BR>> Blockbooks (xylographs) are books with a comparatively small number of<BR>> pages which were produced in the fifteenth century from woodcuts and<BR>> represent a form of transition between hand illuminated manuscripts<BR>> and illustrated printed books. They count among the rarest and most<BR>> precious items collected by libraries. Up to today, they raise<BR>> numerous questions for bibliographical, art historical and<BR>> philological research. Until recently, the problematic state of<BR>> conservation of many blockbooks has severely hindered their scholarly<BR>> examination. While cataloguing projects abroad, most recently in the<BR>> Bodleian Library at Oxford, have produced important new insights<BR>> regarding blockbooks, a systematic analysis of the xylographic<BR>> holdings of German libraries is still outstanding.<BR>> <BR>> Since 2009, all c. 90 copies of blockbooks owned by Bavarian<BR>> institutions have been digitized after restoration of the damaged<BR>> copies in the course of a project funded by the Deutsche<BR>> Forschungsgemeinschaft. The watermarks in the paper were documented<BR>> with a newly developed technology (thermography or infra-red<BR>> photography). The project thus constitutes an organic continuation of<BR>> the projects funded by the DFG for digitizing the incunabula and<BR>> 16th-century books printed in German territories held at the<BR>> Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The digital reproductions of all<BR>> blockbooks are accessible on the website of the Bayerische<BR>> Landesbibliothek Online:<BR>> http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/blockbooks<BR>> Alongside digitization, scholarly descriptions of the blockbooks are<BR>> created which aim at a high bibliographic standard equivalent to the<BR>> more recent international catalogues which reflects the importance of<BR>> the items. After the end of the project, the descriptions will be made<BR>> accessible in electronic form via the internet as well as in a printed<BR>> catalogue.<BR>> The conference will provide an opportunity to discuss the results<BR>> achieved by the project so far with representatives of various<BR>> academic disciplines. The first day will focus on questions with<BR>> regard to the materiality of the blockbooks, while the second will be<BR>> devoted to questions of content, function and reception relating to a<BR>> selection of examples.<BR>> <BR>> Prospective participants are asked to register by 31 January 2012 online:<BR>> http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Veranstaltungen-fuer-Fachpublikum.339.0.html<BR>> Participation in the conference is free.<BR>> <BR>> Conference programme:<BR>> http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/xylographa-tagung<BR>> http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/images/blo/startseiten/Blockbuecher/Blockbuchtagung_Programm.pdf<BR>> <BR>> Donnerstag, 16.2.2012<BR>> <BR>> 14:00-14:15<BR>> Begrüßung<BR>> <BR>> 14:15-15:00<BR>> Paul Needham (Princeton)<BR>> The paper stocks of blockbooks: Allan Stevenson and beyond<BR>> <BR>> 15:00-15:45<BR>> Richard Field (Yale)<BR>> Cutting remarks: A brief examination of the technique of the early woodcut<BR>> <BR>> 15:45-16:30<BR>> Ad Stijnman (Wolfenbüttel)<BR>> The colours of black: printing inks for blockbooks<BR>> <BR>> 16:30-17:00 Kaffeepause<BR>> <BR>> 17:00-17:45<BR>> Andrew Honey (Oxford)<BR>> The binding of blockbooks: searching for evidence of contemporary<BR>> binding methods<BR>> <BR>> 17:45-18:30<BR>> Rahel Bacher (München):<BR>> Erkenntnismöglichkeiten durch Digitalisierung und Thermographie:<BR>> Produktionszyklen innerhalb einer Blockbuchausgabe<BR>> <BR>> 19:00<BR>> Eröffnung der Blockbuch-Ausstellung der BSB (mit Empfang)<BR>> <BR>> Freitag, 17.2.2012<BR>> <BR>> 9:00-9:45<BR>> Nigel Palmer (Oxford)<BR>> Das erste Blockbuch? Eine literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektive auf<BR>> das *Exercitium super Pater noster'<BR>> <BR>> 9:45-10:30<BR>> Joost Robbe (Aarhus)<BR>> Zur Genese der niederländischen Typoxylografien des *Speculum humanae<BR>> salvationis*<BR>> <BR>> 10:30-11:00 Kaffeepause<BR>> <BR>> 11:00-11:45<BR>> Peter Schmidt (München)<BR>> Das *Canticum Canticorum* im Rahmen der Text-Bild-Geschichte, Exegese und<BR>> Frömmigkeit<BR>> <BR>> 11:45-12:30<BR>> Sabine Griese (Leipzig)<BR>> Das *Zeitglöcklein*. Strategien der Gebetsandacht<BR>> <BR>> 12:30-14:00 Mittagspause<BR>> <BR>> 14:00-14:45<BR>> Almut Breitenbach (Münster)<BR>> Text in Bewegung. Die *Septimania poenalis* in Blockdruck und<BR>> handschriftlicher Überlieferung<BR>> <BR>> 14:45-15:30<BR>> Susanne Rischpler (Wien/Würzburg)<BR>> Bild und Text in der *Ars memorandi*<BR>> <BR>> 15:30-16:00 Kaffeepause<BR>> <BR>> 16:00-16:45<BR>> Richard Kremer (Dartmouth College, Hanover)<BR>> A Census of All Known Copies of Regiomontanus's Blockbook Calendar:<BR>> New Technologies, New Questions, New Findings?<BR>> <BR>> 16:45-17:30<BR>> Frank Fürbeth (Frankfurt)<BR>> Das Verhältnis der Überlieferung von Handschrift und Blockbuch bei der<BR>> Johannes Hartlieb zugeschriebenen *Chiromantie'<BR>> <BR>> 17:30-18:15<BR>> Oliver Duntze (Berlin)<BR>> Zum komplexen Verhältnis von xylographischer und typographischer<BR>> Schrift: Die Blockbuchausgaben der *Ars minor' des Aelius Donatus<BR>> <BR>> 18:15-18:30 Schlussdiskussion<BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________<BR>> <BR>> Dr. Bettina Wagner<BR>> Abteilung fuer Handschriften und Alte Drucke<BR>> Bayerische Staatsbibliothek<BR>> Ludwigstr. 16<BR>> D-80539 Muenchen<BR>> Germany<BR>> email: bettina.wagner@bsb-muenchen.de<BR>> Tel. +89 / 28638-2982<BR>> Fax. +89 / 28638-12982 oder 2266<BR>> postbox: D-80328 Muenchen<BR>> http://www.hgw.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/personen/lehrbeauftragte/wagner/index.html<BR>> _______________________________________<BR>> <BR>> Inkunabelkatalog der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (BSB-Ink) online<BR>> http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Inkunabelkatalog-BSB-Ink.181.0.html<BR>> _______________________________________<BR>> <BR>> Blockbücher in Bayern<BR>> http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/xylographa<BR><BR> </div></body>
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