Abstract
The catalogue of incunabula of Strahov library contains 1,578 bibliographical items in 1,214 book units. The structure of catalogue entries is based on the Czech version of the International Standards of Bibliographical Description of Old Prints and Incunabula ISBD(A) from 1997.
Entries are provided with thorough collation. Regular consultation with thirty-three bibliographical books of Czech and world incunabulistic literature revealed a range of textual or publishing variations, or rather new editions.
Apart from general bibliographical details the catalogue covers in detail exemplar descriptions. Firstly the descriptions contain classification of book bindings based on textual analysis in concordance with EBDB, they are followed by exhaustive descriptions of the state of preservation and modifications such as colouring or later inscriptions.
Important inscriptions and all provenance details are transliterated. The Catalogue of incunabula contains 16 registers, which provide researchers of other fields of study with research material for further study of book-culture: register of bibliographies, chronological register, register of printers and publishers by names, register of printers and publishers by places, register of authors, register of titles, register of illustrators and illuminators, register of book-binders, register of book-bindings contained in EBDB, systematic catalogue (book-binders instruments - book-binding procedures - codicology and book-science - literary genres and themes), register of countries of origin, register according to language, register of provenance, register of manuscript inscriptions of Strahov librarians, register of historical shelf-marks, register of temporary shelf-marks.
The catalogue is supplemented with 501 colour photographs, mostly in full-page format, of book-bindings, decorative illuminations, miniatures, provenances or attached wood prints and fragments of old-prints.