German Book, 1450-1750: Studies Presented to David L. Paisey in His Retirement

Contents: The second disturbance in quire F: an unsolved mystery in Fust and Schöffers's Psalterium Benedictinum of 1459 / Martin Boghardt An early eighteenth-century sale of Mainz incunabula by the Frankfurt Dominicans / Margaret Nickson and Lotte Hellinga. News from Portugal in 1506 and 1507, as printed by Johann Weissenburger in Nuremberg / Irmgard Bezzel 'Caveat lector!' Edward Schröder's "facsimile' of the 1515 Strasbourg edition of Till Eulenspiegel and the consequences for scholarship / John L. Flood New light on the presses of Adam Dyon and Kaspar Libisch in Breslau (1518-1540) / Helmut Claus Dürer's Kleine Passion and a Venetian blockbook / Denis V. Reidy Physicians and publishers: the translation of medical works in sixteenth-century Basle / Frank Hieronymus Sixteenth-century German Bohemica in the British Library / Mirjam Bohatcová The Antwerp edition of the works of Baptisa Mantuanus of 1576 and Johannes Lucienberger of Frankfurt am Main / Ulrich Kopp Two German strays in Italy / Dennis Rhodes. German funeral books and the genre of the festival description: a parallel development / Jill Bepler A German-Dutch tapestry: some early seventeenth-century Dutch publications with German connections: Henrick van Haestens of Leiden and Jan Jansz of Arnhem / Anna E.C. Simoni Who printed the text of the Hortus Eystettensis? / Nicolas Barker Christian Cunrad's Hirten Gespräch. -- A man of many parts: some thoughts on the career of Christian Brehme, student, soldier, courtier, librarian, burghermaster, poet / Anthony J. Harper Arcadian semiotics: the visual poetry of Sigmund von Birken (1626-81) / Jeremy Adler The publication of a seventeenth-century bestseller: Sigmund von Birken's Der Donau-Strand (1664) / John Roger Paas Festival books for religious occasions / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly Research on early German dissertations: a report on work in progress / Manfred Komorowski Konrad Philipp Limmer (1658-1730): a neglected polymath / William A. Kelly The 'splendid library' of the Counts of Auersperg in Ljubljana / Martin Bircher The House of Weidmann in Leipzig and the eighteenth-century importation of English books into Germany / Bernhard Fabian and Marie-Luise Spieckermann Joseph Downing and the publication of pietist literature in England, 1705-1734 / Graham Jefcoate Almanacks and poltergeists: Gottfried Kisling's interleaved Osznabrückscher Stiffts-Calendar (1713-1739) / Horst Meyer The baroque sermon, illustrated by a collection from Austria and neighbouring territories / Graham Nattrass Publications by David L. Paisey / Dennis E. Rhodes