Published papers

It is now widely accepted that there were many points of contact between manuscript and early print cultures; early printers, seeking to imbue their products with the authenticity of the previously dominant textual culture, attempted to make the products of the new technology appear as similar as possible to manuscripts in a number of respects. In studies of the history of the book in England, this continuity between manuscripts and prints has been recognised as an important issue. Nevertheless, some aspects still require detailed and extensive scrutiny, one of which is the rubrication of English fifteenth-century printed books. It was not until early 1484 that William Caxton, England's first printer, acquired types for printing initials. Without such apparatus, Caxton and his contemporary printers provided spaces with guide letters for initials, so that the rubricator could insert letters after printing; underlines, paragraph marks and initial strokes were also often added after printing, as in medieval manuscripts. Previous scholarship has touched on the possibility of research in this area, but there has not been any systematic research to examine rubrications of English fifteenth-century books, considering to what extent these manuscript additions were systematized (or unsystematized) in the transitional phase between handwriting and the mechanical production of texts. This paper has examined nine extant copies of the Myrrour of the Worlde, as a case study. It has argued that it is possible to discern distinctive patterns of rubrication among them, presenting possibilities and challenges of studying patterns or house styles of rubrications in Caxton's early books.

はじめに展示ケース1:16・17世紀の大陸本1-1. ジャン・ド・コラ『忘れ難き判決』（リヨン、1561年）［KV0@326.9@Co1@1］1-2. ゴンザレス・デ・メンドーサ『シナ大王国誌』（ローマ、1585年）［KV0@292.2@Go1@1］1-3. フランソワ・ガラス『キリスト教主要真理の神学大全』（パリ、1626年）［KFO@191@Ga1@1］1-4. ピンダロス『祝捷歌集』（ライデン、1590年）;ヨハン・ヴァレニウス『ギリシア語文法』（バーゼル、1561年）［KV0@991@Pi1@1］1-5. ルイ・マンブール『カルヴァン派史』（パリ、1682年）［KV@0198.3@Ma1@1］展示ケース2:アーサー王からミルトンまで2-1. リチャード・ブラックモア『アーサー王: 英雄詩』（ロンドン、［1695年］）［KV0@931@Ar1@1］2-2. ウィリアム・カムデン『エリザベス女王の年代記』（ロンドン、1625年）［KV@0233.05@Ca1.1］2-3. 『チョーサー全集』トマス・スペイト編 （ロンドン、1687年）［KV0@931@Ch1@1］2-4. ジョン・ミルトン『失楽園』第4版 （ロンドン、1688年）［KV0@931@Mi1@1］展示ケース3:シェイクスピアとその周辺3-1. ウィリアム・シェイクスピア『ジュリアス・シーザー』（ロンドン、［1695?］年）［KV0@932@Sh1@2］3-2. ウィリアム・シェイクスピア『オセロー』（ロンドン、1687年）［KV0@932.Sh1@1］3-3. ボーモントとフレッチャー『悲喜劇集』（ロンドン、1647年）［KV0@932@Be1@3］3-4. トマス・ライマー『古代ギリシア人の実践と万世にわたる良識に鑑みて考察された先代の悲劇』 （ロンドン、1692年）；トマス・ライマー『悲劇管見』（ロンドン、1693年）［KV0@932@Ry1@1］3-5. ファインズ・モリソン『旅行記』（ロンドン、1617年）［KVO@290.9@Mo1@1］The Hiyoshi Media Center of the Keio University Library holds a collection of both Western and Japanese early books. Although the size of this collection may not be large, it contains historically significant copies. However, there has been no systematic catalogue nor active use of this collection. The present writer has therefore organized an exhibition of the rare books housed in the Hiyoshi Media Center on the occasion of the Hiyoshi Research Portfolio (HRP), an annual event for introducing research activities at Hiyoshi campus to the public. This paper is a reprint (with some revisions) of the catalogue prepared for the exhibition held at HRP 008. In total sixteen editions of Western old books were selected for the display, ranging from 16 th-century Continental books to 1 7th-century English books, including Jean de Coras's Arrest memorable, dv Parlement de Tolose (Lyon, 1561), Louis Maimbourg's Histoire de Calvinisme par Monsieur Maimbourg (Paris, 1682), William Camden's Annales (London, 1625) and Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beavmont and John Fletcher Gentlemen (London, 1647).

Digitization is increasingly being employed as a means of preserving, improving access to, and advancing research on manuscripts and rare books. In line with this trend, a project to digitize and compile a database on such holdings in the Keio University Library (KUL) has been undertaken by a group of scholars and librarians at Keio University. As a first step, the Keio Incunabula Project, which focuses on the digitization of incunabula codices, was started in 2003; this paper offers a survey of its activities and achievements. The first task of the Project was to compile a comprehensive list of KUL incunabula. This entailed not only checking original materials held by KUL, but also examining all available resources relating to the KUL collection. This broad survey has succeeded in clarifying bibliographical details of the works while also tracking the chronological development of the collection for the first time. For example, the first incunabule codex acquired by KUL is a copy of Justinus's Epitomae, printed by Christophorus Valdarfer in 1476 [KUL shelfmark 120X@468@1]. The exact year of acquisition is not known, but we can surmise from available information that it came into the possession of KUL between 1952 and 1964. The next task of the Project was to prepare digital images. The aim was not to produce full digital facsimiles, so only representative pages (such as the title page, colophon, and illustrations) have been digitized with the collaboration of the HUMI Project, Keio University. The final output has now been published in the Digital Gallery of Keio University Library (http://project.lib.keio.ac.jp/dg_kul/). The incunabula section contains each copy's bibliographical description, a commentary (prepared by scholars and graduate students of Keio), and digital images. The Japanese version appeared in March 2006, and the English version will comein April 2008. In future, the members of the Project hope to extend the scope of this Digital Gallery, for which further collaboration between librarians and scholars will be essential.