The Universal Short Title Catalogue 1450-1650

通用短标题目录 1450-1650

• 批准号: AH/I026480/1
• 负责人: Andrew Pettegree
• 金额: $ 103.9万
• 依托单位: University of St Andrews
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI026480%2F1
• 关键词: Universal; Short; Title; Catalogue; 1450

The invention of printing was one of the crucial technological milestones in the creation of modern European society. It facilitated the generalisation of reading, the dissemination of scientific knowledge, the creation of an information society and the growth of public opinion.The Universal Short Title Catalogue is the first comprehensive survey of all books published in the period 1450-1650: the first two hundred years after the invention of printing. It will present, in a searchable database accessible free to all users, data on over 700,000 editions published in more than 20 languages. It will provide the locations of over 3.5 million surviving copies in some 6,000 libraries and archives. Crucially the database will also provide links to the many thousands of editions made available by recent digitisation projects. Instead of having to locate and then travel to see these very rare texts, users will be able to access them from their desktop.The USTC will be an indispensable resource, and the first port of call, for all those interested in the history, literature, religion and culture of this period of European history. By gathering together information on all of Europe's printed books in one place, the USTC will bring to light previously unrecognised phenomena, such as the flow of text across national and linguistic boundaries, or the trans-national popularity of particular works or authors. A unique system of subject coding will allow users to search for all works of particular genres wherever they were published in Europe: the power and ease of these searches will facilitate any number of particular studies in the fields of literature, science and political writing. The USTC documents the printed book in the first two centuries after the introduction of the new technology of mechanical book production: the last great media transformation before our own electronic age. In the first years the experimental technology was carried along on a wave of enthusiasm: but for the most part the books published in the first decades were texts familiar from the manuscript book world of the late mediaeval period. It was only in the sixteenth century that publishers began to experiment with new types of books for new classes of readers, offering a vastly expanded range of literature, practical handbooks, religious and political works. The early seventeenth century witnessed a further huge growth in pamphlet literature, stimulated by the great conflicts of the age: the Fronde, the Thirty Years' War, and the English Civil War. The early seventeenth century also saw the first experiments with periodical newssheets, adapting and reshaping an already buoyant market for news, entertainment and sensation.Many of the new genres of print were small ephemeral publications with an extremely low rate of survival. A high proportion of the books, pamphlets and broadsheets registered in the USTC are documented in only one located copy. Bringing together information on these unique items, scattered among libraries and archives around the world, has only become possible thanks to the transformation of resources in the new digital age, as libraries move towards the publication of on-line catalogues. The USTC team in St Andrews had developed new methodologies to capture, sieve and analyse this electronic data, moving to completion a project that in an earlier era would have scarcely been possible. When complete, the USTC will allow us for the first time to appreciate and study the full richness of this diverse, dynamic world of print: and its impact on society.

印刷术的发明是现代欧洲社会建立过程中的重要技术里程碑之一。它促进了阅读的普及、科学知识的传播、信息社会的建立和公众舆论的发展。《通用短标题目录》是对1450 - 1650年期间出版的所有书籍的第一次全面调查：这是印刷术发明后的头两百年。它将在一个所有用户均可免费查阅的可搜索数据库中提供以20多种语文出版的70多万种版本的数据。它将提供大约6 000个图书馆和档案馆中350多万份幸存副本的位置。至关重要的是，该数据库还将提供最近数字化项目提供的数千个版本的链接。用户不必再去寻找这些非常罕见的文本，而是可以从他们的桌面上访问它们。对于所有对这一时期欧洲历史，文学，宗教和文化感兴趣的人来说，中国科学技术大学将是一个不可或缺的资源，也是第一个停靠港。通过将欧洲所有印刷书籍的信息集中在一个地方，USTC将揭示以前未被认识到的现象，例如跨国家和语言边界的文本流动，或特定作品或作者的跨国流行。一个独特的主题编码系统将允许用户搜索特定类型的所有作品，无论它们在欧洲出版：这些搜索的力量和便利将促进文学，科学和政治写作领域的任何数量的特定研究。中国科学技术大学记录了机械图书生产新技术引入后的前两个世纪的印刷图书：我们自己的电子时代之前的最后一次伟大的媒体变革。在最初的几年里，实验性的技术在热情的浪潮中沿着前进：但在最初的几十年里，出版的大多数书籍都是中世纪晚期手稿世界中熟悉的文本。直到16世纪，出版商才开始尝试为新的读者阶层提供新类型的书籍，提供范围广泛的文学作品、实用手册、宗教和政治作品。世纪早期，小册子文学又有了进一步的巨大发展，这是由当时的大冲突所激发的：正面战争、三十年战争和英国内战。世纪早期，期刊报纸也开始出现，它改变和重塑了已经繁荣的新闻、娱乐和轰动市场，许多新的印刷品都是小型的、短命的出版物，生存率极低。在中国科学技术大学注册的图书、小册子和大报中，有很大一部分只记录在一个副本中。由于新的数字时代的资源转变，图书馆开始出版在线目录，才有可能将这些分散在世界各地图书馆和档案馆的独特物品的信息汇集在一起。位于圣安德鲁斯的USTC团队开发了新的方法来捕获、筛选和分析这些电子数据，从而完成了一个在早期几乎不可能完成的项目。完成后，USTC将使我们第一次欣赏和研究这个多样化，动态的印刷世界的丰富性：及其对社会的影响。

项目成果

The census of Barbaro editions: copy-specific features

Barbaro 版本普查：副本特定功能

• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Graheli S.

The Accademia Veneziana: Strategies and Failures of a Renaissance Publishing Venture

威尼斯学院：文艺复兴时期出版企业的策略和失败

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Graheli S.

La circolazione libraria lungo la Loira nel Rinascimento: il caso del libro italiano

La circolazione libraria lungo la Loira nel Rinascimento: il caso del libro italiano

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Graheli S.

Daniele Barbaro e la Repubblica delle Lettere

丹尼尔·巴巴罗与字母共和国

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Graheli, S.

Aldo e il Rinascimento francese

阿尔多与法国文艺复兴

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Graheli S.