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Contextualizing England’s first printed source about limning : a book-historical study of A Very Proper Treatise (1573)
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Abstract
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| This article attempts to contextualize, through the prism of book history, A Very Proper Treatise (1573), the first English publication that is entirely devoted to limning or miniature painting. This is the first comprehensive study that takes into consideration both the content and the materiality of the book. It investigates the origin of the book with the printer Richard Tottel as initiator of the process of composition. Tottel collected sources, edited the text and printed it, thus disseminating technical knowledge about art. This article reconstructs the editing process of A Very Proper Treatise, maps out potential sources of the work, and discusses the audience for which this work was intended. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Contribution à une histoire technologique de l’art : actes de journées d’étude de la composante de recherche PBC, Paris, INHA, site de l’HiCSA
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Publication
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Paris
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Centre de recherche HiCSA (EA 4100), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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2018
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Volume/pages
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(2018)
, p. 101-116
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Full text (open access)
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