Entete TODAI
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Passe-Partout
The aim of
Passe-Partout is to make available to researchers in the field of book
history an international database of printers' ornaments.
Built around archives of
locally-provided data, Passe-Partout operates on the non-profit basis
of exchange and cooperation.
All users can freely consult
the database of ornaments and make use of the information they find.
Maintenance of the database (addition, suppression or modification of
data) is however restricted to recognized researchers or
institutions.Those persons and research centres wishing to obtain an
autorisation for such participation should adress their request to the
person in charge of the central data bank Silvio.Corsini@bcu.unil.ch
The central database
of printers' ornaments is located at the University of Lausanne.
Two types of interrogation
are possible:
Using the computer search
program TODAI
based on the comparison of images (software developed in 1996 and 2000
by the LTS of the EPF of Lausanne,
St?phane Michel, and the Signal
Analysis chair of Halmstad University, Heike Walter, under the
supervision of Dr Josef Bigun )Using descriptive keywords :
the program displays those ornaments which have been indexed with the
aid of selected keywords.
To achieve a greater degree
of search accuracy several pre-selections may be applied:
specifying the nature of
ornament (ie: typographical composition)
specifying the way in
which the ornament is used (ie: headpiece)
specifying the dimensions
of the ornament (in mm)
specifying the artist's
signature (as it is shown on the ornament being sought)
specifying a printer's
device or motto
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Centre
international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle ,
Ferney-Voltaire
Université
de Liège, projet
Moriane
Numerous editions
published in the past centuries, and especially in the eighteenth
century, do not reveal on the title page their true origin. Fictious
(London, by Bold Truth) or misleading addresses (Amsterdam, and on sale
in Lausanne, by F. Grasset) are legion and researchers have felt the
need to elaborate identification techniques based on a detailed study
of the compositorial material and of the typographic practices of
printers.The study of printers' ornaments has a crucial role to play in
the identification of printers which in turn allows the scholar to
assess the textual signifiance of the editions in question.
Parguez, Guy,
«Essai sur l'origine lyonnaise d'éditions
clandestines de la fin du XVIIe siècle», in : Nouvelles
études lyonnaises ,
Genève et Paris, 1969, pp. 93-130
Vercruysse, Jeroom,
«Typologie de Marc-Michel Rey», in : Buch
und Buchhandel in Europa im achtzehnten Jahrhundert ,
Hamburg, 1981, pp. 167-185
Mitchell, C. J.,
«The taxonomy of printers's ornaments», in : The
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin ,
9(1985), pp. 45-60
Brown, Andrew,
«Voltaire and Cramer?», in : Le
siècle de Voltaire. Hommage à René
Pomeau , Oxford, 1987, pp.
149-183.
Droixhe, Daniel,
«Systèmes ornementaux; le cas
liégeois», in : Etudes
sur le XVIIIe siècle ,
14(1987), pp. 39-74
Corsini, Silvio,
«Vers un corpus des ornements typographiques lausannois du
XVIIIe siècle: problèmes de définition
et de méthode», in : Ornementation
typographique et bibliographie historique ,
actes du colloque de Mons, août 1987, Mons, 1988, pp. 139-158
Corsini, Silvio,
«L'édition française hors des
frontières du royaume: les presses lausannoises sous la
loupe», in : Revue
française d'histoire du livre ,
Nos 62-63 (1989), pp. 93-119
Droixhe, Daniel,
«C'est le bouquet... Histoire d'un ornement typographique
liégeois du XVIIIe siècle», in : Gutenberg-Jahrbuch,
1994, pp. 211-228
Droixhe, Daniel (avec la
collab. de Nadine Vanwelkenhuysen), «Ce que tromper veut
dire: à propos des éditions maestrichoises
d'Helvétius (1774-1777)», in : Studies
on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century ,
329(1995), pp. 197-233
Smith, David Warner,
«False imprints: identifying the publishers of surreptitious
French works of the eighteenth century», in : O
livro e a leitura ,
coodenação João Luís
Lisboa, Lisboa, 1997, pp. 207-220
Bigün, J. /
Bhattacharjee, S.K. / Michel, S., «Orientation Radiograms for
Image Retrieval: an Alternative to Segmentation», in : Proceedings
of the ICPR-96 , Vienna, pp.
346-350
Michel, S. / Karoubi, B, /
Bigün, J. / Corsini, S., «Orientation radiograms for
indexing and identification in image databases», in : European
Conference on Signal Processing (Eupsico) ,
Trieste, 10-13 septembre 1996, pp. 1693-1696
Bibliothèque
cantonale et
universitaire -Lausanne
