This update of the Shakespeare First Folio Census (2003) records all sales and discoveries of First Folios since 2000. Each of the seven ‘new’ Folios, ones that did not appear among the 228 Folios in the Census, is given a new ‘West’ number, accompanied by information on provenance and seller, auctioneer or bookseller, and buyer and price, plus comments as appropriate. There are now 235 extant First Folios in the world, each with an identifying number, and the precise location is known of almost all. It is likely there are more First Folios lurking somewhere. The two addenda may help to find them: Pursuing Leads to ‘New’ Folios; and Some Targets for First Folio Hunters.
{"title":"Update of the Shakespeare First Folio Census","authors":"Anthony James West","doi":"10.1093/library/fpad041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad041","url":null,"abstract":"This update of the Shakespeare First Folio Census (2003) records all sales and discoveries of First Folios since 2000. Each of the seven ‘new’ Folios, ones that did not appear among the 228 Folios in the Census, is given a new ‘West’ number, accompanied by information on provenance and seller, auctioneer or bookseller, and buyer and price, plus comments as appropriate. There are now 235 extant First Folios in the world, each with an identifying number, and the precise location is known of almost all. It is likely there are more First Folios lurking somewhere. The two addenda may help to find them: Pursuing Leads to ‘New’ Folios; and Some Targets for First Folio Hunters.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"434 24","pages":"454 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139204317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Pantegni of Constantine the African (d. by 1098/9) was the first ever comprehensive medical textbook written in Latin. It was translated and modified from an Arabic original in Salerno and in the monastery of Monte Cassino in south Italy. This article demonstrates that a large-scale stylistic revision of the Pantegni, or more precisely of its section Theorica, was carried out in the first half of the twelfth century at the latest. The existence of the revised version suggests there was a desire for Constantine’s translation to meet altered expectations and practical needs. Based on collation of a chapter from Book V and additional sample passages in both the standard version and the revised version of the Theorica, it is argued that the latter was compiled in order to simplify and clarify Constantine’s expression and make his train of thought as lucid as possible.
{"title":"Switching Style towards Ease in a Medieval Textbook of Medicine: Revison of Constantine the African’s Pantegni, Theorica in Twelfth-Century Manuscripts","authors":"Outi Kaltio","doi":"10.1093/library/fpad037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad037","url":null,"abstract":"The Pantegni of Constantine the African (d. by 1098/9) was the first ever comprehensive medical textbook written in Latin. It was translated and modified from an Arabic original in Salerno and in the monastery of Monte Cassino in south Italy. This article demonstrates that a large-scale stylistic revision of the Pantegni, or more precisely of its section Theorica, was carried out in the first half of the twelfth century at the latest. The existence of the revised version suggests there was a desire for Constantine’s translation to meet altered expectations and practical needs. Based on collation of a chapter from Book V and additional sample passages in both the standard version and the revised version of the Theorica, it is argued that the latter was compiled in order to simplify and clarify Constantine’s expression and make his train of thought as lucid as possible.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"183 1","pages":"415 - 444"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139198088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The recent New Oxford Shakespeare Authorship Companion states that 2 Henry VI was co-authored by Shakespeare and Marlowe, citing an essay by Paul Vincent arguing that a change in the spelling of the interjection O/Oh showed a change in authorship. Vincent affirmed that ‘playwrights usually favoured one alternative far more than the other, and that the compositors of the First Folio regularly followed their copy text.’ He compiled a list of the variant spellings, arranged by Act and scene, identifying which compositors had set each section. Vincent argued that a passage corresponding to Act 3 in modern editions (the Folio is undivided) containing few instances of either O or Oh signalled an authorial change. When the evidence is arranged according to the sequence in which the two compositors set the pages, no consistent preference can be seen, thus disproving the case for Marlowe’s co-authorship.
{"title":"Compositors' Spelling Preferences and the Integrity of 2 Henry VI","authors":"B. Vickers","doi":"10.1093/library/fpad016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The recent New Oxford Shakespeare Authorship Companion states that 2 Henry VI was co-authored by Shakespeare and Marlowe, citing an essay by Paul Vincent arguing that a change in the spelling of the interjection O/Oh showed a change in authorship. Vincent affirmed that ‘playwrights usually favoured one alternative far more than the other, and that the compositors of the First Folio regularly followed their copy text.’ He compiled a list of the variant spellings, arranged by Act and scene, identifying which compositors had set each section. Vincent argued that a passage corresponding to Act 3 in modern editions (the Folio is undivided) containing few instances of either O or Oh signalled an authorial change. When the evidence is arranged according to the sequence in which the two compositors set the pages, no consistent preference can be seen, thus disproving the case for Marlowe’s co-authorship.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125281973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the first half of the seventeenth century the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp was widely known for the high quality of its editions. One such case are two editions composed by the Spanish Jesuit Petrus Biverus published in 1634, namely: the Sacrum Oratorium piarum imaginum immaculatae Mariae and the Sacrum sanctuarium crucis. Both publications are well known for their numerous illustrations and as noteworthy emblem books. Nevertheless, correspondence between Moretus and Biverus reveals that Biverus was displeased with the high selling price of his books, while Moretus’s responses to Biverus’s remarks provide a rare view of how he envisioned his work as a publisher. In this article, I discuss this tension between the production costs and the author’s expectations. Like many other Jesuit authors, Biverus forgot that a publisher’s aim was to make a profit; Moretus forgot that authors want to have their books read and known by as many readers as possible.
{"title":"Petrus Biverus's Sacrum Oratorium and Sacrum Sanctuarium (Antwerp, 1634): Balthasar Moretus's Preference for Pearls over Glass","authors":"D. Imhof","doi":"10.1093/library/fpad018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the first half of the seventeenth century the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp was widely known for the high quality of its editions. One such case are two editions composed by the Spanish Jesuit Petrus Biverus published in 1634, namely: the Sacrum Oratorium piarum imaginum immaculatae Mariae and the Sacrum sanctuarium crucis. Both publications are well known for their numerous illustrations and as noteworthy emblem books. Nevertheless, correspondence between Moretus and Biverus reveals that Biverus was displeased with the high selling price of his books, while Moretus’s responses to Biverus’s remarks provide a rare view of how he envisioned his work as a publisher. In this article, I discuss this tension between the production costs and the author’s expectations. Like many other Jesuit authors, Biverus forgot that a publisher’s aim was to make a profit; Moretus forgot that authors want to have their books read and known by as many readers as possible.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"98 6 Pt 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129856211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper seeks to establish some preliminary numbers for the survival rates of some different kinds of cheap print, especially ballads and chapbooks, from the second half of the eighteenth century. The basic method is to compare contemporary booksellers’ lists with modern records of surviving copies, especially ESTC. An important question is whether survival rates can be correlated with price and/or type of content, and whether the publications of certain booksellers have survived better than others. Methodological problems of such a study include variation in sample size, and especially the unreliability of results based on very small samples, and the critical role of collectors in ensuring that publications of this kind survived at all.
{"title":"Survivals in Cheap Print, 1750–1800: Some Preliminary Estimates","authors":"D. Atkinson","doi":"10.1093/library/fpad011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper seeks to establish some preliminary numbers for the survival rates of some different kinds of cheap print, especially ballads and chapbooks, from the second half of the eighteenth century. The basic method is to compare contemporary booksellers’ lists with modern records of surviving copies, especially ESTC. An important question is whether survival rates can be correlated with price and/or type of content, and whether the publications of certain booksellers have survived better than others. Methodological problems of such a study include variation in sample size, and especially the unreliability of results based on very small samples, and the critical role of collectors in ensuring that publications of this kind survived at all.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125117795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article recovers parts of the biographically and bibliographically intertwined history of two early modern Zurich citizens, their joint travels and the Shakespeare quartos each of them owned. The first part focuses on a previously forgotten copy of the third quarto edition of Pericles (1611), now at the Zurich Central Library, and its original owner recorded on the title page, Marcus Stapfer (1591–1619). The second part of the article adds to the investigation Johann Rudolf Hess (1588–1655), the owner of the other early Shakespeare quartos at the Zurich Central Library. Stapfer and Hess jointly undertook extended educational travels from 1610 to 1614, including to London, where they are likely to have acquired their Shakespeare quartos in the summer of 1613. The article traces what is known about the quartos’ subsequent ownership history, before concluding that Shakespeare thus appears to have had a continuous bibliographic presence in Switzerland since the early seventeenth century.
{"title":"The Two Gentlemen of Zurich: Marcus Stapfer and Johann Rudolph Hess, Swiss Travellers to England (1611–13), and Their Shakespeare Quartos","authors":"L. Erne","doi":"10.1093/library/fpad003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article recovers parts of the biographically and bibliographically intertwined history of two early modern Zurich citizens, their joint travels and the Shakespeare quartos each of them owned. The first part focuses on a previously forgotten copy of the third quarto edition of Pericles (1611), now at the Zurich Central Library, and its original owner recorded on the title page, Marcus Stapfer (1591–1619). The second part of the article adds to the investigation Johann Rudolf Hess (1588–1655), the owner of the other early Shakespeare quartos at the Zurich Central Library. Stapfer and Hess jointly undertook extended educational travels from 1610 to 1614, including to London, where they are likely to have acquired their Shakespeare quartos in the summer of 1613. The article traces what is known about the quartos’ subsequent ownership history, before concluding that Shakespeare thus appears to have had a continuous bibliographic presence in Switzerland since the early seventeenth century.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122284063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay focuses upon John Foxe and John Day’s approach to the correction of error in the production of successive editions of Acts and Monuments, especially through the use of slip-cancels, tiny scraps of paper which are intended for pasting over erroneous text, as well as the use of stop-press correction and the labeling of the book’s well-known woodcut illustrations. The bibliographical nature of successive editions of Foxe’s book overseen by Day emerges as even more complex than previously described. The argument adds to scholarly understanding of the goals and methodologies of both Foxe and Day. Bibliographical fluidity associated with John Day’s approach to error during production points toward the better understanding of textual fluidity within successive editions of Foxe’s work.
{"title":"Accuracy and ‘Error’ in the Production of John Foxe and John Day’s Acts and Monuments","authors":"M. Rankin","doi":"10.1093/library/fpad002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay focuses upon John Foxe and John Day’s approach to the correction of error in the production of successive editions of Acts and Monuments, especially through the use of slip-cancels, tiny scraps of paper which are intended for pasting over erroneous text, as well as the use of stop-press correction and the labeling of the book’s well-known woodcut illustrations. The bibliographical nature of successive editions of Foxe’s book overseen by Day emerges as even more complex than previously described. The argument adds to scholarly understanding of the goals and methodologies of both Foxe and Day. Bibliographical fluidity associated with John Day’s approach to error during production points toward the better understanding of textual fluidity within successive editions of Foxe’s work.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129486935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. R. Ransome, A. Edwards, Catherine R. Evans, M. Rankin, L. Erne, Robert Laurie
This paper brings together for the first time the writings of four Little Gidding authors of the early seventeenth century. What they then saw as a merely auxiliary effort became in the nineteenth century a matter of international bibliographical concern. The three siblings, John and Nicholas Ferrar and their older sister Susanna, and John’s son Nicholas, created at least thirty-eight works, not all now extant. They included a commonplace book, translations, promotional works, memoranda of instruction, and—most famously—biblical concordances. Thirty years of study has extended, though not completed, their provenance.
{"title":"The Book Factory of Little Gidding","authors":"D. R. Ransome, A. Edwards, Catherine R. Evans, M. Rankin, L. Erne, Robert Laurie","doi":"10.1093/library/fpad004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper brings together for the first time the writings of four Little Gidding authors of the early seventeenth century. What they then saw as a merely auxiliary effort became in the nineteenth century a matter of international bibliographical concern. The three siblings, John and Nicholas Ferrar and their older sister Susanna, and John’s son Nicholas, created at least thirty-eight works, not all now extant. They included a commonplace book, translations, promotional works, memoranda of instruction, and—most famously—biblical concordances. Thirty years of study has extended, though not completed, their provenance.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127838340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article seeks to record the various writings of A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941). While best known for his biography, The Quest for Corvo (1934) Symons wrote widely on biography and on bibliographical and bibliophilic matters. He also made many contributions to the various publications of the First Edition Club, of which he was Director. In addition, in his later years he wrote extensively on food and wine. The range of his publications indicates the steadily widening extent of his interests in his brief life.
{"title":"The Publications of A. J. A. Symons","authors":"A. Edwards","doi":"10.1093/library/fpad005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article seeks to record the various writings of A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941). While best known for his biography, The Quest for Corvo (1934) Symons wrote widely on biography and on bibliographical and bibliophilic matters. He also made many contributions to the various publications of the First Edition Club, of which he was Director. In addition, in his later years he wrote extensively on food and wine. The range of his publications indicates the steadily widening extent of his interests in his brief life.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117076785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article considers the place that sermons held in the early modern book market through a quantitative survey of the title pages of sermon-books published in English between 1620 and 1642. Working from an EEBO dataset, this research examines four features of title pages: (a) dating referents, (b) location referents, (c) references to the living or status of the preacher, and (d) whether the books were collections. This research demonstrates that the vast majority of sermon-books declared their place of preaching (74%) and the occasion of their preaching (67%). This article explores how the book-buying public’s interest in novelty and the initial performance of the sermon shaped the use of paratextual material. It proposes that the printed sermon makes the page into a privately accessible space to connect with the publicly experienced communal time of the performed sermon, counteracting the desacralizing effect of the press.
{"title":"Locating Devotion: Sermon Title Pages and the Early Modern Book Market, 1620–1642","authors":"Catherine R. Evans","doi":"10.1093/library/fpad001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article considers the place that sermons held in the early modern book market through a quantitative survey of the title pages of sermon-books published in English between 1620 and 1642. Working from an EEBO dataset, this research examines four features of title pages: (a) dating referents, (b) location referents, (c) references to the living or status of the preacher, and (d) whether the books were collections. This research demonstrates that the vast majority of sermon-books declared their place of preaching (74%) and the occasion of their preaching (67%). This article explores how the book-buying public’s interest in novelty and the initial performance of the sermon shaped the use of paratextual material. It proposes that the printed sermon makes the page into a privately accessible space to connect with the publicly experienced communal time of the performed sermon, counteracting the desacralizing effect of the press.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131758160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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