Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 Kinds and Degrees of Customisation in Early Modern Book Production and Reception  Walter S. Melion 2 The Customising Mindset in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Newberry Inc. 1699  Christopher D. Fletcher Part 2: Customisation across Media 3 A Late Medieval Multi-Text Manuscript and Its Printed Precedents  Britt Boler Hunter 4 Reforming Hrabanus: Early Modern Iterations of In honorem sanctae crucis  Kelin Michael 5 A Customized Housebook of Repurposed Prints: the Liber Quodlibetarius, c. 1524  Stephanie Leitch Part 3: Communal Customising 6 How to Talk about Burgundian Books You Could Not Read  Bret L. Rothstein 7 Customizing for the Community: The Wiesbaden Manuscript (Hauptstaatsarchiv 3004 B 10) and the Late Medieval Church  Geert Warnar 8 A Medical Anthology Customised ‘for the Consolation of the Sick’ in a Brussels Convent  Andrea van Leerdam 9 Custom Made by Antonio Ricardo: Peru’s First Printer and His Illustrations in Jerónimo de Oré’s Symbolo Catholico Indiano (1598)  Tom Cummins Part 4: Individual Customisers 10 From Proud Monument to Ill-Marked Tomb: Tommaso Schifaldo in a Sicilian Humanist Miscellany  Paul F. Gehl 11 Customization of a Latin Emblem Book by a Vernacular Owner: Unknown German Poems to a Copy of Vaenius’s Emblemata Horatiana (first edition, 1607)  Karl A.E. Enenkel 12 Picture Bound: Customized Books of Prints and the Myth of the Ideal Series  Shaun Midanik 13 Customizing an Emblem Book as an album amicorum: Valentin Ludovicus’ Entry in the Stammbuch of Christian Weigel  Mara R. Wade Part 5: Editorial Customisation 14 A Play of Continuity and Difference: A Book of Fortune-telling Adapted from the Kingdom of Poland to Southeastern Europe  Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba 15 Shifting Perspectives: Changing Optical Theory in the Printed Works of Jean-François Niceron  Brent Purkaple 16 Venice as a Musical Commodity in Early Modern Germany: A Frontispiece Collage, c. 1638  Jason Rosenholtz-Witt 17 Vaenius in Ireland: An Eighteenth-Century Customization of the Emblemata Horatiana  Simon McKeown Part 6: Visual Customisation 18 Frames, Screens and Urns: Customisation and Poetics in the 1495 Aldine Theocritus painted by Albrecht Dürer for Willibald Pirckheimer  Jakub Koguciuk 19 Compiled Compositions: The Kattendijke Chronicle (c. 1491–1493) and Late Medieval Book Design  Anna Dlabačová 20 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus’s Dutch New Testament  Walter S. Melion 21 ‘By the Genius of the Indians’: The Customization of Nieremberg’s De la Diferencia in Guarani (Loreto, Juan Bautista Neumann et alii: 1705)  Pedro Leal Index Nominum