Texts in Transit: Manuscript to Proof and Print in the Fifteenth Century.

摘要

After a long and distinguished career as a historian of early printing, punctuated but not crowned by a Festschrift in her honour in 1999, Lotte Hellinga has treated herself and us to a retrospective of her greatest hits in not one but two substantial volumes. (By an unlucky combination of mix-ups and mishaps, for which the reviewer is only partly responsible, the first was not given a timely review in these pages when it came out five years ago. In what follows I refer to that volume as TT, and to Incunabula in Transit as IT.) These are not just collected essays, however, as every one of them has been reworked, refreshed, or variously sliced and diced since its first publication, sometimes decades ago. Over the years her work has been remarkable for its consistency of topics and approach, but even so she has tried to shape the originally self-standing pieces here to form coherent chapters, with running themes and glances backward and forward.