Die arabischen Evangelien der Typographia Medicea: Buchdruck, Buchhandel und Buchillustration in Rom um 1600

Caren Reimann

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Die arabischen Evangelien der Typographia Medicea

Buchdruck, Buchhandel und Buchillustration in Rom um 1600

Caren Reimann

Volume 3 in the series European Identities and Transcultural Exchange

Overview

About this book

The Medici Oriental Press (1584–1614) occupied a special position among Roman workshops—supported by Pope Gregory XIII and financed by Ferdinando de’Medici, it produced books in Arabic and Chaldean that were supposed to satisfy both scholarly and missionary requirements. This study assesses the extensive accounting documents that have been preserved with respect to the question of how the Medici Oriental Press positioned itself in the network of European printing houses and the international book market. Based on the example of the Gospels in Arabic and Arabic-Latin, it provides insights into the operation and costs of the process of producing books, and into practices for negotiating with the pontifical censorship authorities, book agents, and diplomats.

Author / Editor information

Caren Reimann, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Kunsthistoriker, Historiker, Bibliothekswissenschaftler
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 480
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 102
- Coloured Illustrations: 19
Keywords: Book trade; printing; gospels; illumination.

Hardcover

Published: October 26, 2021
ISBN: 9783110688627