STAR21 - BIBLIOLOGIA E STORIA DELLA STAMPA

courses
ID:
STAR21
Duration (hours):
42
CFU:
6
SSD:
ARCHIVISTICA, BIBLIOGRAFIA E BIBLIOTECONOMIA
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
HISTORICAL STUDIES AND WRITING HERITAGE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE CONTEMPORARY AGE/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (01/03/2026 - 31/05/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives


Providing knowledge and tools needed by those who want to approach the work of bibliographic management and cataloguing of historical collections, encouraging the development of specific professionalising skills especially in the field of early printed material. The cataloguing of early printed and modern material will be the focus of a dedicated workshop in the second year.




Course Prerequisites


No previous courses or exams are required.




Teaching Methods


Lectures with the support of computer and multimedia/internet resources. Some classes will have a hands-on approach and may be held in historical libraries for a ‘book in hand’ study of the course content; external speakers may be invited for specific classes and seminars. Trips to historical libraries will be scheduled for the last part of the course.


Assessment Methods


An oral exam will ascertain knowledge and understanding of the topics presented in the classes and covered by the textbooks indicated for preparation. The test is intended to verify the knowledge and critical ability to elaborate the theoretical-practical contents of the discipline. The final assessment will also take into consideration the clarity and coherence of the exposition and the level of mastery in the use of technical language.



Exams take place in the professor’s room, first floor, third aisle, in DiLASS building.


Texts


- Lorenzo Baldacchini, Il libro antico. Storia, diffusione e descrizione, terza edizione, Roma, Carocci, 2019;



- Conor Fahy, Edizione, impressione, emissione, stato, in Saggi di bibliografia testuale, a cura di Conor Fahy, Padova, Antenore, 1988, pp. 65-88;



- Lucien Febvre e Henri-Jean Martin, La nascita del libro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011.



Additional reading suggestions will be provided during the course. The presentations used during the classes will be available through course channel on the FAD Moodle platform.



Students who could not attend the course will also add:



- Lorenzo Baldacchini, La descrizione del libro antico, Milano, Bibliografica, 2016.



Texts for the exam can be agreed upon on other on the basis of specific interests.


Contents


The course will explore the history of early printed books from the invention of movable type printing, in the second half of the 15th century, to analyse the material features of early printed material, and to learn how to describe them according to appropriate terms, and to the most up-to-date national and international standards for bibliographic description.

Detailed programme:

Printing with movable type: definition and chronological details; the printing workshop

Bibliology and Bibliography

Paper and Watermarks

Illustration and printers' devices

Ideal copy, edition and item; printing variants

Format, signature statement, collation and register

Fingerprint

Bibliographies and catalogues; owners and provenance

Online and printed references

Cataloguing early printed books

Promotion in a historical library


Course Language


Italian


More information


Further information might be provided both in the class and through the FAD Moodle platform; students are therefore invited to subscribe to the course channel.




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