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