Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical Note -- A Note on Images -- 0. Introduction: Hybrid Books in Flux -- 1. Cut, Pasted, and Cut Again: The Fate of 140 German and Netherlandish Single-Leaf Prints at the Hands of a Limburg Franciscan and a Modern Connoisseur -- The Beghards of Maastricht and their Commercial Pursuits -- Israhel's Roundels -- The Logic of Accession Numbers -- The Knife as a Tool for Creativity -- Silhouettes and Doubles -- The Thin Red Line -- Split Personalities -- Foliation -- A Group of Woodcuts, Possibly Netherlandish -- Appropriating German Engravings -- Painted Prints from the Circle of Israhel van Meckenem -- Monogrammist A -- Attributions -- Recapitulation -- Book Production -- A Sheaf of Drawings -- Revolutionary Upheavals and the Dispersal of the Prints -- The Missing Images: In Paris? -- Rothschild -- Tross, Again -- Holes and Patterns -- Conclusions -- 2. A Novel Function for the Calendar in Add. Ms. 24332 -- Calendars and the Principle of Interchangeable Parts -- Book Technologies and Social Networks -- The Table of Contents in Add. 24332, Transcribed and Translated -- A Book for Children -- Jan van Emmerick -- Conclusions -- 3. The Beghards in the Sixteenth Century -- Another Hoard of Prints From Maastricht -- The Calendar of Add. 31002 -- Similarities Between Add. 24332 and Add. 31002 -- 25 Years Later -- Dating the Later Manuscript -- Israhel van Meckenem -- Conclusion: Changes Over Three Decades -- 4. Manuscripts with Prints: A Sticky Idea -- Patterns -- Hiding in Plain Sight: Prints from Another Drugulin Manuscript -- The Dregs in Paris -- Berlin -- Bleeding into a Chalice -- Manuscripts Still Intact -- Israhel van Meckenem as a Master of Self-Promotion -- Conclusions: Some Assembly Required -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- E-figures.

Chapter 1 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Manuscripts and Prints.

In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of a Netherlandish book of hours made in 1500.

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