The Universal Short Title Catalogue: an analytical bibliography of all books published before 1601

通用短书目目录：1601 年之前出版的所有书籍的分析书目

• 批准号: AH/E50910X/1
• 负责人: Andrew Pettegree
• 金额: $ 84.79万
• 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: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE50910X%2F1
• 关键词: Universal; Short; Title; Catalogue; analytical

The sixteenth century was the golden age of the early printed book. It was in this century that the book reached full technical maturity, and established the domination of Intellectual culture that would continue through to the modem era. The printed book is also fundamental to how we conceptualise the age: our progress-orientated view of the early modem period depends crucially on our sense of the critical role of the new technology in encapsulating the spirit of the Renaissance and Reformation. Thus the printed book is inevitably associated in the popular mind with critical intellectual developments of the age, from the rediscovery of classical texts and the creation of authentic scholarly editions to the growth of pamphlet culture and the popularization of vernacular translations of the Bible stimulated by the Reformation. Far less attention has been devoted to other, more mundane areas of the book trade that in fact accounted for a very large part of the day to day work of Europe's printing presses. The established trade in school books and conventional devotional texts was at least as important as the more eye-catching projects of Humanists and the Protestant reformers. So too was the large market for recreational reading in poetry and prose, a market which, like the market in school books, built on a healthy demand that long pre-dated the invention of the printing press. An equally significant development was the massive exploitation of print for the everyday tasks of government: many a publishing house would depend for its livelihood on the steady demand for printed proclamations, edicts and statutes. At the other end of the scale, in terms both of intellectual content and expense, was the vastly expanded trade in technical and scientific books. This was a domain in which Latin continued to be the dominant medium, though with a significant growth of vernacular texts in such areas as medical science and topographical literature. It is a characteristic of scholarship in technical bibliography that the parts of this complex economy have always tended to be studied separately: either with specialist studies of themes or genre (such as medical texts or dictionaries), or the study of an author, printer, or place of printing. What is proposed here is to gather together all of this information, while at the same time completing a Europe-wide survey of printing. This involves both plugging gaps in coverage (there is no survey of print culture in Spain, for example) and drawing together information on surviving copies from over 2,000 libraries world-wide. The U-STC will be simultaneously both the most powerful analytical tool for the study of the global world of print and an Invaluable reference work for scholars interested in any author, text or genre of printed book. Building on methodology developed for a project on books published in the French language, it will offer data on around 400,000 bibliographically distinct editions published around Europe. It will thus offer a single port of access to information on books published in Italy, Germany, France, and In Europe's subsidiary, satellite markets, such as England, Spain, and Eastern Europe. For researchers interested in a particular text or author the value of such a search tool is hard to overstate: particularly if their subject is an author whose popularity spread beyond their own native country. For scholars of the book world the complete survey of early printing envisaged here offers for the first time the prospect of a holistic understanding of one of the sixteenth century's most important and dynamic industries.

16世纪是早期印刷书籍的黄金时代。正是在这个世纪，这本书达到了完全的技术成熟，并确立了知识文化的统治地位，并将延续到现代。印刷书籍也是我们如何对时代进行概念化的基础：我们对早期现代时期以进步为导向的观点，关键取决于我们对新技术在概括文艺复兴和宗教改革精神方面的关键作用的认识。因此，印刷书籍在大众心目中不可避免地与时代的批判性知识发展联系在一起，从古典文本的重新发现和真实学术版本的创造，到宗教改革推动的小册子文化的发展和圣经白话翻译的普及。对图书贸易中其他更平凡的领域的关注要少得多，事实上，这些领域在欧洲印刷机的日常工作中占了很大一部分。教科书和传统宗教教科书的既定贸易至少与人文主义者和新教改革者更引人注目的项目一样重要。诗歌和散文休闲阅读的巨大市场也是如此，这个市场与学校书籍市场一样，建立在早在印刷机发明之前的健康需求之上。一个同样重要的发展是为政府的日常工作大量利用印刷品：许多出版社的生计将依赖于对印刷品公告、法令和法规的稳定需求。在天平的另一端，无论是知识含量还是费用，都是技术和科学书籍贸易的极大扩张。在这一领域，拉丁语仍然是占主导地位的媒介，尽管医学和地形学文献等领域的白话文本有了显著的增长。技术文献学的一个特点是，这种复杂经济的各个部分总是倾向于被分开研究：要么是对主题或体裁(如医学文本或词典)的专业研究，要么是对作者、印刷商或印刷地的研究。这里建议的是收集所有这些信息，同时完成一项全欧洲范围的印刷调查。这既包括填补报道空白(例如，西班牙没有对印刷文化的调查)，也包括从世界各地2000多家图书馆收集幸存副本的信息。同时，U-STC既是研究全球印刷界最强大的分析工具，也是对任何作者、文本或印刷书籍体裁感兴趣的学者的无价参考著作。在为一个法语图书出版项目开发的方法基础上，它将提供欧洲各地出版的约40万个书目不同版本的数据。因此，它将提供一个单一的港口，访问在意大利、德国、法国以及欧洲的附属市场--如英国、西班牙和东欧--出版的图书的信息。对于对特定文本或作者感兴趣的研究人员来说，这种搜索工具的价值怎么强调都不为过：特别是如果他们的研究对象是一位受欢迎程度超出本国的作者。对于图书界的学者来说，这里设想的关于早期印刷的完整调查首次提供了对16世纪最重要和最具活力的行业之一的整体理解的前景。

项目成果

The Universal Short Title Catalogue

通用短标题目录

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Pettegree, A

The Invention of News

新闻的发明

• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Pettegree, A

The Meaning of the Library - A Cultural History

图书馆的意义——文化史

• DOI: 10.1515/9781400865741-006
• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Pettegree A

The Book in the Renaissance

文艺复兴时期的书

• 发表时间: 2010
• 作者: Pettegree

La voix de l'auteur?

作者之声？

• 作者: Malcolm Norman Walsby (Author)