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
