medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>
> Christopher Crockett wrote:
>>the M.A. ended at midnight, 31 December, 1499.
> Are you absolutely certain it isn't 31 December 1500?
yes.
i am.
>(Which is, in any case, the cut-off date for incunabula.)
i've always heard "Books published before 1500" as the date for incunabula.
but, i'm just a bookdealer, so what do i know?
or, for that matter, the OED:
INCUNABLE:
2. (With sing. incunabulum): Books produced in the infancy of the art of
printing; spec. those printed before 1500.
1861 NEALE Notes Dalmatia etc. i. 9 What are Incunabula? you ask. It is the
name that Germans give to books printed before 1500.
unlike in Art (as the Spanish painting which MG showed us demonstrates) there
is no clear break to be seen in book production, at the very moment when the
15th c. turned into the 16th.
hence:
Edward Cranwell, _An index of such English books printed before the year MDC,
as are now in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge_. Cambridge : J. and
J.J. Deighton, 1847.
Alan Coates, _A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the
Bodleian Library_. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
etc.
personally, i prefer a cutoff date of around 1525.
that way, i could say that, over 25 years, i've dealt two "incunables".
> In England it is conventionally 22 August 1485, of course.
that's just English ideosyncracy, playing itself out, as usual.
for Normal People, the whole of the 15th c. is Middlevil, the 16th c. (which
began at midnight, 1 January, 1500) is Modren.
obviously.
> For the purposes of "Medieval Religion" some other termination date might be
chosen, such as 1517, 1534, 1549, 1559 or 1570 - according to taste.
well, any date is o.k., as long as it's not Arbitrary.
c
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