Research Catalog

Title

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Author

British Museum. Department of Printed Books.

Publication

London : Printed by order of the Trustees : sold at the British Museum, 1908-2007.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944.
• Scholderer, Victor, 1880-1971.
• Painter, George D. (George Duncan), 1914-2005.
• Sheppard, L. A. (Leslie Alfred), 1890-
• Hellinga, Lotte.
• Needham, Paul, 1943-
• Rhodes, Dennis E.
• Offenberg, A. K.
• British Library. Department of Printed Books.

Description

13 v. : ill., facsims., maps; 39 cm.

Alternative Title

• British Museum catalogue of XVth century books
• Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century
• BMC 15th cent.
• Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Library.
• BMC part XI. England.
• BMC part XIII. Hebraica.

Subject

• British Library. Department of Printed Books > Catalogs
• British Library. Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections > Catalogs
• Incunabula > Bibliography > Catalogs
• Block books > Bibliography > Catalogs
• Printing > History > Origin and antecedents
• Hebrew imprints > Catalogs
• Printing, Hebrew > History

Note

• Pts. 11-13 published under title: Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Library.
• Pts. 11 and 13 also called "BMC part XI" and "BMC part XIII" respectively.
• Pts. 11-12 issued by the Department of Printed Books of the British Library; pt. 13 by the Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections of the British Library.
• Parts 1-4 edited by A.W. Pollard; pts. 5-8 by Victor Scholderer; pt. 9 by G.D. Painter; pt. 10 by L.A. Shepherd and Painter; pt. 11 by Painter and Lotte Hellinga, with contributions from Paul Needham and others; pt. 12 by D.E. Rhodes; pt. 13 by A.K. Offenberg.
• Imprint varies. Pts. 8-10 published by the Trustees of the British Museum; pt. 12 published by the Trustees of the British Library. Pts. 11, 13 published: 't Goy-Houten, The Netherlands : Hes & De Graaf.
• Pts. 1-3 and 4-7 paged consecutively.
• Facsimiles issued with each part. In parts 1-10, the facsims. have special title pages and separate paging for accompanying letterpress. Facsims. for pts. 1-3 and 4-7 are paged and numbered consecutively.
• In the "Lithographic reprint" ed. of pts. 1-8 (1963), the facsims. for pts. 1-3 and 4-7 are separately bound in 2 v.
• With introductions on the history of the presses, indexes, concordances of Proctor numbers, etc.
• "Index to parts I-III": pt. 3, p. 819-864. "Index to parts IV-VII": pt. 7, p. 1153-1213. "Part IV. Italy: Subiaco and Rome. Index. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1916" (16 p.) inserted in pt. 4.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Provenance (note)

• Bequest of Wilberforce Eames, 1937.

Contents

pt. 1. Xylographica and books printed with types at Mainz, Strassburg, Bamberg and Cologne. 1908 -- pt. 2. Germany: Eltvil-Trier. 1912 -- pt. 3. Germany: Leipzig-Pforzheim; German-speaking Switzerland and Austria-Hungary. 1913 -- pt. 4. Italy: Subiaco and Rome. 1916 -- pt. 5. Venice. 1924 -- pt. 6. Italy: Foligno, Ferrara, Florence, Milan, Bologna, Naples, Perugia and Treviso. 1930 -- pt. 7. Italy: Genoa-Unassigned; Addenda. 1935 -- pt. 8. France, French-speaking Switzerland. 1949 -- pt. 9. Fascicule 1, Holland; fascicule 2, Belgium. 1962 -- pt. 10. Spain; Portugal. 1971 -- pt. 11. England. 2007 -- pt. 12. Italy, supplement. 1985 -- pt. 13. Hebraica. 2004 -- Facsimiles [to pts. 1-3] illustrating types used in Germany, German-speaking Switzerland and Austria-Hungary. [1908-]1913 [reprint ed., 1963] -- Facsimiles [to pts. 4-7]. 1916[-1935] [reprint ed., 1963]

Call Number

*KAE+ 73-17

ISBN

• 9061943795 (pt. 11)
• 9789061943792 (pt. 11)
• 9061942594 (pt. 13)
• 9789061942597 (pt. 13)

LCCN

09022616

OCLC

1261640

Author

British Museum. Department of Printed Books.

Title

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Imprint

London : Printed by order of the Trustees : sold at the British Museum, 1908-2007.

Local Note

Copy in *KAE+: Pts. 1-8 and 2 v. of facsims. are "Lithographic reprint" (London : Trustees of the British Museum,1963). Reprint of the original ed., reproduced from "the Museum's working copy, which contains numerous manuscript additions and corrections ... the majority being by Dr. Victor Scholderer. The annotations do not record later acquisitions."

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Provenance

Bequest of Wilberforce Eames, 1937. JFN 99-39, pts. 1-6

Added Author

Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944.

Scholderer, Victor, 1880-1971.

Painter, George D. (George Duncan), 1914-2005.

Sheppard, L. A. (Leslie Alfred), 1890-

Hellinga, Lotte.

Needham, Paul, 1943-

Rhodes, Dennis E.

Offenberg, A. K.

British Library. Department of Printed Books.

Spine Title

British Museum catalogue of XVth century books

Added Title

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Library.

BMC part XI. England.

BMC part XIII. Hebraica.

Research Call Number

*KAE+ 73-17 Library has: pts. 1-8 (reprint ed.), 2 v. of facsims. (reprint ed.), 9-11

JFN 99-39 Library has: pts. 1-7, 10

**P+ 06-140 Library has: pt. 13