Library of the Written Word

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Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe

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Library of the Written Word

VOLUME 24

The Handpress World

Editor-in-Chief

Andrew Pettegree

University of St Andrews

Editorial Board

Ann Blair

Harvard University

Falk Eisermann

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Angela Nuovo

University of Udine

Michael F. Suarez, S.J.

University of Virginia

VOLUME 18

The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/lww

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Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe

A Contribution to the History of Printing and the Book Trade in Small European and Spanish Cities

Edited by

Benito Rial Costas

LEIDEN • BOSTON 2013

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Cover illustration: Privilegio de la reina doña Juana al Hospital Real, [Santiago de Compostela, Nicolás Tierry, 1537], fol. 1r. Historical Archive of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Hospital Real, General, Folder 35, File 1.174.

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Print culture and peripheries in early modern Europe : a contribution to the history of printing and the book trade in small European and Spanish cities / edited by Benito Rial Costas.

pages cm. -- (Library of the written word ; volume 24. The handpress world ; volume 18) Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-90-04-23574-8 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-90-04-23575-5 (e-book) 1. Printing--Europe-- History--16th century. 2. Printing--Europe--History--Origin and antecedents 3. Book industries and trade--Europe--History--16th century. 4. Book industries and trade--Europe--History--To 1500. I. Rial Costas, Benito.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ...vii

Contributors ...ix

List of Figures ...xv

Introduction ...xix

PART I SMALL CITIES IN CONTEXT European Provincial Towns: Demographic and Institutional Trends in Regional Networks, 1400–1600 ...3

Pablo Sánchez León PART II PRINTING AND THE BOOK TRADE IN SMALL EUROPEAN CITIES A Golden Age? Monastic Printing Houses in the Fifteenth Century... 37

Falk Eisermann Advertising or Fama? Local Markets for Schoolbooks in Sixteenth-Century Italy ... 69

Paul F. Gehl The Book Trade in Early Modern Britain: Centres, Peripheries and Networks ...101

John Hinks Impressorie Arte: The Impact of Printing in Exeter and Devon ...127

Ian Maxted Printing in the Shadow of a Metropolis ...147

Hubert Meeus Towns and Book Culture in Hungary at the End of the Fifteenth Century and During the Sixteenth Century ...171 István Monok

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Ippolito Ferrarese, a Traveling ‘Cerretano’ and Publisher

in Sixteenth-Century Italy ...201 Giancarlo Petrella

Print and Book Culture in the Danish Town of Odense ...227 Wolfgang Undorf

Printer Mobility in Sixteenth-Century France ...249 Malcolm Walsby

PART III

PRINTING AND THE BOOK TRADE IN SMALL SPANISH CITIES Printing Presses in Antequera in the Sixteenth Century ...271 Natalia Maillard Álvarez and Rafael M. Pérez García

The Liturgical Publishing Project of Pedro de Castro,

Bishop of Cuenca (1554–1561) ...303 Jaime Moll

Minor Printing Offices in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century

Aragon: Híjar, Huesca and Épila ...309 Manuel-José Pedraza-Gracia

Barcelona: Printers, Booksellers and Local Markets

in the Sixteenth Century ...325 Manuel Peña Díaz

The Book in Segovia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries:

Accident, Chance, Necessity? ...345 Fermín de los Reyes and Marta M. Nadales

Santiago de Compostela: A Case Study of Bookselling

in Peripheries ...363 Benito Rial Costas

From Europe to Finisterre: A Caravan of Books to Galicia (1595) ...381 Anastasio Rojo Vega

Index ...403

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This volume presents seventeen original articles written by historians, librarians and bibliographers who share their knowledge of the history of printing and the book trade in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. I want to express my gratitude to all of those scholars for their generous contribu- tions. I would also like to extend a special thank you to Professor Andrew Pettegree and to Brill for believing in the value of the volume from its inception and for exercising patience with it through to its publication.

I also want to make a special acknowledgement of the invaluable source of knowledge and inspiration that Professor Jaime Moll has been for me.

Unfortunately, he passed away during the preparation of his article for the volume.

Benito Rial Costas

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CONTRIBUTORS

Falk Eisermann

Falk Eisermann is head of the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (Union Catalogue of Incunabula) at the Berlin State Library since 2007. After receiving his Ph.D. in Medieval German Literature at Goettingen University (1995), he held post-doctoral positions at the Universities of Muenster (Germany) and Groningen (Netherlands), where he worked on a three- volume catalogue of fifteenth-century broadsides (published in 2004). He has published on the transmission of vernacular texts in the later Middle Ages, on early printing, and on medieval and early modern epigraphy. In 2010, he was Harris German/Dartmouth Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (USA).

Paul F. Gehl

Paul F. Gehl is the Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at The Newberry Library. As such he is responsible for one of the largest collections on printing history, calligraphy, and design in North America. He is also a historian of education. He has published extensively on manuscript and printed textbooks of the Renaissance, on the book trade, and on modern fine printing and artists books.

John Hinks

Dr. John Hinks is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Urban History, Uni- versity of Leicester, UK, with research interests in early modern print culture and book-trade networks. He is Chair of the Printing Historical Society and is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where he edits the British Book Trade Index website.

Natalia Maillard Álvarez

Natalia Maillard Álvarez received her PhD from the University of Seville in 2007 with a doctoral thesis entitled Difusión y circulación de la cultura escrita en Sevilla; 1550–1600. She is co-author of the book Orbe tipográfico.

El mercado del libro en Sevilla en la segunda mitad del siglo XVI (2003) and author of Lectores y libros en la ciudad de Sevilla: 1550–1600 (2011). She has also participated in the coordination of the book, Testigo del tiempo, memoria del universo; Cultura escrita y sociedad en el mundo ibérico: siglos