Froben Press Editions (1505–1559) in the Holdings of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Library: A Brief Survey
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Abstract
Analysis of the material aspects of books has opened new fields for historical enquiry that connect humanist learning, theology, and the press. The collaboration between Erasmus of Rotterdam and the printers Johannes and Hieronymus Froben of Basel between 1514 and 1536 offers itself as a vantage point from which to observe the making of written culture for humanists, allowing investigations into the media strategies and marketing communication tools employed to produce and disseminate humanist books in early modern Europe. This contribution provides a brief survey of Froben’s editions held in the collections of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS) at Victoria University in the University of Toronto. A deep scrutiny of some of the CRRS library’s copies sheds light on the technical and economic aspects of Froben’s printing activity, while supplying significant information on Erasmus’s readership. L’analyse des aspects matériels des livres a initié de nouvelles avenues de recherche historique mettant en lien la formation humaniste, la théologie et les milieux de l’imprimerie et de la publication. La collaboration entre Érasme de Rotterdam et les imprimeurs Johannes et Hieronymus Froben de Bâle entre 1514 et 1536 constitue un cas idéal à partir duquel observer la fabrication de la culture écrite des humanistes, ouvrant la porte à des études des stratégies médiatiques et de la communication de marketing utilisées pour produire et disséminer les livres humanistes en Europe au début des temps modernes. Cet article effectue un survol des éditions de Froben présentes dans les collections du Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS) à la Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Un examen minutieux de quelques uns des livres de ces collections met en lumière certains aspects techniques et économiques de l’activité de Froben, et donne également des informations importantes au sujet du lectorat d’Érasme.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.016 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.049 | 0.010 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".