Summary This book presents new research by eminent and emerging scholars in honor of Lilian Armstrong, whose extraordinary research has elucidated a vast corpus of imagery previously hidden inside manuscripts and books produced in late medieval and Renaissance Venice and the Veneto. Armstrong was one of the pioneers focusing upon the unique nature of each copy of early printed editions, an approach which has transformed the field of book history. Her studies of antiquarian imagery in books and manuscripts revealed the inventiveness and originality of these works, and that many important classical motifs initially emerged in such marginal spaces before they were canonized in sculpture and oil painting. The contributions by art historians, manuscript scholars, and book historians collected here on the book arts across Europe are testimonies to the fact that Lilian Armstrong's research has been highly influential across disciplines and geographical areas of study. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION The Art of the Renaissance Book: Honoring Lilian Armstrong Helena Katalin Szépe and Ilaria Andreoli PART I: EARLY PRINTED BOOKS AND THEIR DECORATION I, libelle: Rodericus Zamorensis Launches his Book Martin Davies The Graphic Style of the First Books Printed in Venice Renzo Baldasso Italian Book Design as Paradigm and Challenge for German Artists, Intellectuals, and Printers (among others Ulrich Schreier, Hartmann Schedel, and Günther Zainer) Christine Beier Nicolas Jenson and Jacobus Rubeus in Cologne and Zutphen Lotte Hellinga Une énigmatique illustration dans un incunable vénitien François Avril Il Calepino 1533: una doppia emissione, un frontespizio "metalibrario," e una nuova edizione delle Tre Parche Edoardo Barbieri PART II: MANUSCRIPT PAINTING IN ITALY An Illustrated "Esopo" of the Veneto in the British Library Matilde Malaspina Una nuova tessera per l'attività di Cristoforo Majorana e la biblioteca di Andrea Matteo III Acquaviva Teresa d'Urso Per Alessandro Leoni, Antonio Maria da Villafora, e il Maestro delle Sette Virtù Giordana Mariani Canova Due codici miniati da Antonio Maria da Villafora: un commentario al primo libro delle Sentenze di Egidio Romano della Biblioteca Angelica e un messale del Musée Jacquemart-André Federica Toniolo and Gennaro Toscano Benedetto Bordon, the Barozzi Breviary Master, and the Venetian Procurators of Saint Mark Helena Katalin Szépe Il miniatore Giorgio Colonna e la raffigurazione dell'Arsenale veneziano Susy Marcon PART III: COLLECTING AND THE HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP ON EARLY BOOKS Venetian Miniatures in Munich Incunabula: New Additions Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt An Ex-Celotti Antiphonal Cutting Inscribed "BF" in the North Carolina Museum of Art Lyle Humphrey Re-uniting Cuttings by Antonio Maria da Villafora Collected by James Dennistoun in Padua in 1839 with their Parent Manuscript Jonathan J.G. Alexander Les Missels imprimés à Venise (1896): storia di un incunabolo moderno Ilaria Andreoli