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Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print
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Contents

Abbreviations		ix
Acknowledgments		xi
Bibliographical Note		xiii
A Note on Images		xv

0.	Introduction: Hybrid Books in Flux	11

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	11
	The Beghards of Maastricht and their Commercial Pursuits	25
	Israhel’s Roundels	39
	The Logic of Accession Numbers	47
	The Knife as a Tool for Creativity	54
	Silhouettes and Doubles	59
	The Thin Red Line	65
	Split Personalities	71
	Foliation	77
	A Group of Woodcuts, Possibly Netherlandish	83
	Appropriating German Engravings	89
	Painted Prints from the Circle of Israhel van Meckenem	91
	Monogrammist A	96
	Attributions	99
	Recapitulation	102
	Book Production	108
	A Sheaf of Drawings	110
	Revolutionary Upheavals and the Dispersal of the Prints	132
	The Missing Images: In Paris?	140
	Rothschild	148
	Tross, Again	155
	Holes and Patterns	159
	Conclusions	162

2.	A Novel Function for the Calendar in Add. Ms. 24332	167
	Calendars and the Principle of Interchangeable Parts	168
	Book Technologies and Social Networks	174
	A Book for Children	186
	Jan van Emmerick	189
	Conclusions	194

3.	The Beghards in the Sixteenth Century	197
	Another Hoard of Prints From Maastricht	198
	The Calendar of Add. 31002	205
	Similarities Between Add. 24332 and Add. 31002	212
	25 Years Later	218
	Dating the Later Manuscript	223
	Israhel van Meckenem	226
	Conclusion: Changes Over Three Decades	239

4.	Manuscripts with Prints: A Sticky Idea	245
	Patterns	247
	Hiding in Plain Sight: Prints from Another Drugulin Manuscript	253
	The Dregs in Paris	263
	Berlin	267
	Bleeding into a Chalice	273
	Manuscripts Still Intact	284
	Israhel van Meckenem as a Master of Self-Promotion	293
	Conclusions: Some Assembly Required	300

List of Illustrations		307
E-figures		321
Bibliography		337
General Index		349
Index of Manuscripts and Prints		355

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