Los orígenes de la portadaun laberinto editorial con una salida inesperada
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 2387-0915
Year of publication: 2016
Issue: 2
Pages: 127-157
Type: Article
More publications in: Titivillus = International Journal of Rare Book: Revista Internacional sobre Libro Antiguo
Abstract
Over the approximately fifty years the incunabula period spanned a number of features gradually evolved that gave printed books, which had begun life by imitating manuscripts, their own distinct character. One of the features that best embody this evolution was the invention and subsequent development of the title-page. Various hypotheses have been suggested to explain its origin. For instance, did some 15th-century Italian manuscripts have title-pages? Is the title-page the result of transferring to the flyleaf elements from within the book itself such as the incipit or the colophon?