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Research Fragments: October 2014

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Jonathan Green's research notes on early printing and the language, literature, and culture of medieval and early modern Germany. Friday, October 31, 2014. Word, Zotero, Excel, Perl and back: online facsimiles and the digital research process in the humanities (with source code). For the simplest research projects, Word is enough for taking notes and then turning those notes into a written text. When I write book reviews, for example, I rarely need anything more than Word. Was driven by Access. Instead, ...

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Research Fragments: January 2015

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Jonathan Green's research notes on early printing and the language, literature, and culture of medieval and early modern Germany. Friday, January 30, 2015. Johannes Rasch: A bibliography of his sources, version 0.45. Update 6 February 2015. I have made a few small changes to the list of sources. Discussion has been moved to a separate post.]. In one edition of Rasch's practica for 1588 (VD16 R 315), Rasch gives a list of authors he cites. Sources cited by Rasch in the Gegenpractic of 1584. Again, no bibl...

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Research Fragments: February 2015

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Jonathan Green's research notes on early printing and the language, literature, and culture of medieval and early modern Germany. Friday, February 20, 2015. How atypical are the editions in Eric White's census of print runs? In the introduction to his census of known fifteenth-century print runs. Eric White cautions against taking his results as representative for all incunables:. Comparison of format distribution. Comparison of average leaf count by format. Friday, February 13, 2015. The graph below sho...

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Research Fragments: Incunable leaf sizes

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Jonathan Green's research notes on early printing and the language, literature, and culture of medieval and early modern Germany. Friday, March 27, 2015. Confirmed: The earliest printed books look very much like books. Specifically, the ratio of leaf height to leaf width and the height-width ratio of the type space are precisely what you would expect. Fig 1: Leaf height and width (red) and writing space height and width (blue) in Mainz codex editions to 1470. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Book Hist...

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Research Fragments: The history of the late medieval book in one boxplot

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Jonathan Green's research notes on early printing and the language, literature, and culture of medieval and early modern Germany. Friday, March 13, 2015. The history of the late medieval book in one boxplot. One of the basic ways to describe the types used for fifteenth-century printed books is the method refined by Konrad Haebler that involves, among other things. With the availability of the Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke. As an electronic resource linked to the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Bayer...

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Research Fragments: How atypical are the editions in Eric White's census of print runs?

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Jonathan Green's research notes on early printing and the language, literature, and culture of medieval and early modern Germany. Friday, February 20, 2015. How atypical are the editions in Eric White's census of print runs? In the introduction to his census of known fifteenth-century print runs. Eric White cautions against taking his results as representative for all incunables:. Comparison of format distribution. Comparison of average leaf count by format. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Printing a...

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Research Fragments: April 2015

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Jonathan Green's research notes on early printing and the language, literature, and culture of medieval and early modern Germany. Friday, April 24, 2015. A very short review: Sandra Rühr and Axel Kuhn, eds. Sinn und Unsinn des Lesens (2013). Sandra Rühr and Axel Kuhn, eds. Sinn und Unsinn des Lesens: Gegenstände, Darstellungen und Argumente aus Geschichte und Gegenwart. Göttingen: V and R Unipress, 2013. 246 pp. 978-3847-101284. Ceci n'est pas une Festschrift. Studien zur volkssprachlichen höfischen Lese...

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Research Fragments: Johannes Rasch: A bibliography of his sources, version 0.45

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Jonathan Green's research notes on early printing and the language, literature, and culture of medieval and early modern Germany. Friday, January 30, 2015. Johannes Rasch: A bibliography of his sources, version 0.45. Update 6 February 2015. I have made a few small changes to the list of sources. Discussion has been moved to a separate post.]. In one edition of Rasch's practica for 1588 (VD16 R 315), Rasch gives a list of authors he cites. Sources cited by Rasch in the Gegenpractic of 1584. Again, no bibl...

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fonts, typefaces and all things typographical — I love Typography (ILT)

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The First Female Typographer. MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE SUPPORT OF. October 15, 2014. In the fifteenth century women had few career opportunities. Few, bar those in the higher social classes were even sent to school, and women were not admitted to universities ( Oxford university. For those who did not join a convent, marriage came early: ‘an unmarried girl of sixteen or seventeen was a catastrophe.’ (Plumb, p. 132). Of 1484 issued by Pope Innocent VIII, wherein he sanctioned the inquisition to pursue any m...