The Development of the Cover Decorations, Initials, Proto-exlibris and Graffitis in the Incunables of Vilnius University Library Throughout the 15-20th Centuries
Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis
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https://doi.org/10.37522/aaav.101.2021.64Keywords:
decoration, incunabula, provenances, Vilnius University LibraryAbstract
The research comprises a study and registry of the decor details, provenances and reading marks involving 340 names taken from the 218 copies of the Vilnius University Library incunabula spanning over several epochs. The research has shown that each time period had its own characteristic ways of adapting the books to the convenience of their owners, which includes their decoration, repair, provenancing and reading mark-making.
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28/09/2020
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Rankelienė, S. (2020). The Development of the Cover Decorations, Initials, Proto-exlibris and Graffitis in the Incunables of Vilnius University Library Throughout the 15-20th Centuries: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis. Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, (101-102), 14–68. https://doi.org/10.37522/aaav.101.2021.64
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