Many books have colophons at the end giving the name of one or more scribes, and sometimes giving the names of patrons. |
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When they stood alone, they were distinguished from colophons and called explicits. |
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Caxton's prefaces, colophons, and epilogues in particular are self-conscious about authorship, purpose, genre, sources, patronage, medium, and technique. |
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I wallowed in bindings and leathers and fonts, in all the lovely jargon of the trade, half-titles, colophons, blind stamping, foxing, black letter, washed leaves and cancels. |
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Such colophons are important sources of information for the origin of early printed books. |
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The illustrated manuscripts of the seventeenth century yield a number of vital colophons and marginal notes. |
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The importance attached to patronage can be traced in the colophons of surviving books. |
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In Chinese eyes a picture may gain considerably in interest and value from the colophons added by later connoisseurs on the painting itself or, in the case of a hand scroll, mounted after it. |
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Printed colophons soon became more elaborate, however, evolving into a means whereby the printer might praise the book at length and even insert a short essay upon its merits. |
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The author explains each text, and includes both incipits and colophons of metrological and numerical tables. |
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Colophons are sometimes found in manuscripts and books made from the 6th century ce on. |
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