CORDIS Project
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This project investigates the 15th-century book trade using surviving books and historical records to explore their distribution, market value, and reading practices. It aims to create a comprehensive database to visualize the movement and influence of printed texts across Europe and the USA.
The idea that underpins this project is to use the material evidence from thousands of surviving 15th-c. books, as well as unique documentary evidence — the unpublished ledger of a Venetian bookseller in the 1480s which records the sale of
25,000 printed books with their prices — to address four fundamental questions relating to the introduction of printing in the West which have so far eluded scholarship, partly because of lack of evidence, partly because of the lack of
effective tools to deal…
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