LATIN-PORTUGUESE GLOSSARY OF PRINTERS OF INCUNABULA (PART II)

Abstract

This glossary was made for professionals of librarianship in order to ease the obtainment of informations of incunabula. More precisely, we propose a Latin glossary to assist librarians with the identification and standardization of the names of letterpress printers of incunabula, to be found in the catalogs of institutions which are custodians of special archives. The glossary is a product of our “extension project” “Núcleo de Documentação em Línguas Clássicas” which is executed in partnership between the Brazilian National Library Foundation (FBN) and the Faculty of Humanities of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). In this second part of the glossary, based on the archive of incunabula of the FBN, we present a short introduction and the entries of letterpress printers whose names begin with the letters C to Z. Far-off from trying to exhaust all the names of printers of that stage of letterpress printing, our aim was merely to propose a standardization of informations for the registers of these incunabula within the online catalog of the FBN, following international reference data bases, such as that of 1) the World Catalog (WorldCat), 2) the Library of Congress, 3) the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, and, 4) the Biblissima.