Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and PrintMore info and resources at: https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0145
Abbreviations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Bibliographical Note
xiii
A Note on Images
xv
0.
Introduction:
Hybrid Books in Flux
11
1.
Cut, Pasted, and Cut Again:
The Fate of 140 German and Netherlandish Single-Leaf Prints at the Hands of a Limburg Franciscan and a Modern Connoisseur
The Beghards of Maastricht and their Commercial Pursuits
25
Israhel’s Roundels
39
The Logic of Accession Numbers
47
The Knife as a Tool for Creativity
54
Silhouettes and Doubles
59
The Thin Red Line
65
Split Personalities
71
Foliation
77
A Group of Woodcuts, Possibly Netherlandish
83
Appropriating German Engravings
89
Painted Prints from the Circle of Israhel van Meckenem
91
Monogrammist A
96
Attributions
99
Recapitulation
102
Book Production
108
A Sheaf of Drawings
110
Revolutionary Upheavals and the Dispersal of the Prints
132
The Missing Images: In Paris?
140
Rothschild
148
Tross, Again
155
Holes and Patterns
159
Conclusions
162
2.
A Novel Function for the Calendar in Add. Ms. 24332
167
Calendars and the Principle of Interchangeable Parts
168
Book Technologies and Social Networks
174
A Book for Children
186
Jan van Emmerick
189
194
3.
The Beghards in the Sixteenth Century
197
Another Hoard of Prints From Maastricht
198
The Calendar of Add. 31002
205
Similarities Between Add. 24332 and Add. 31002
212
25 Years Later
218
Dating the Later Manuscript
223
Israhel van Meckenem
226
Conclusion: Changes Over Three Decades
239
4.
Manuscripts with Prints:
A Sticky Idea
245
Patterns
247
Hiding in Plain Sight: Prints from Another Drugulin Manuscript
253
The Dregs in Paris
263
Berlin
267
Bleeding into a Chalice
273
Manuscripts Still Intact
284
Israhel van Meckenem as a Master of Self-Promotion
293
Conclusions: Some Assembly Required
300
List of Illustrations
307
E-figures
321
Bibliography
337
General Index
349
Index of Manuscripts and Prints
355