Colard Mansion and the Printer of Flavius Josephus: two collaborators in Bruges?
(2016) Sixteenth Century Society Conference — Location: Bruges (18.August.2016)
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- The Printer of Flavius Josephus is not located. Studies of his edition of the Valerius Maximus text show it could be Bruges - blank spaces were left to introduce miniatures at the beginning of the nine books constituting the text. Copies with miniatures show that most of them were produced in Bruges or show an iconography that was typically from Bruges which is rooted in a manuscript made for Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy (Paris, BnF, fr. 6185) and largely widespread in Bruges. - Most of the decorated copies show characteristics of the Bruges style. The study of the watermarks of the paper of his editions wasn't made until now. Some of the watermarks were widespread, but others can only be found in editions of Colard Mansion and William Caxton. This is an additionnal evidence for the location of the printer in Bruges. The links between the two printers become also clearer.
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Dubois, A. (2016). Colard Mansion and the Printer of Flavius Josephus: two collaborators in Bruges? Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Bruges. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/48511