In my opinion, it makes little sense to study print products such as lists of events, bills, notices, edicts, announcements, almanacs, claims and legal petitions or Bulls and sums of indulgences in the category, 11 while neglecting other contemporary documents of a similar tone because they were written or copied by hand. In contrast with this approach, the terms вЂњminorвЂќ or even вЂњdiverseвЂќ material, contrasted with вЂњa culture that by convention we define as вЂhighвЂ™ culture,вЂќ 10 is much more appropriate, so long as it is not restricted to print menudencias. This is demonstrated by the fact that some of the categories used to classify such material do so on a negative basis, identifying it as вЂњnon-book printed materialsвЂќ 8 or simply вЂњle non livre.вЂќ 9 These definitions exhibit the fetishism that places the book not just in a superior but a hegemonic position, while downgrading manuscript material that performs the same function and has the same contents. Despite progress in both cataloging and analysis, such material is still frequently seen as a curiosity, while the majority of studies of the history of the book and of reading continue to focus on the development, use and appropriation of books, as if other types of print artifacts were of less significance. This has directly influenced both the haphazard nature of the conservation of such material and the relative scarcity of studies of it. Material such as the images printed on this itinerant press constitute menudencias or ephemera, minor printed material used in everyday situations, without the same view to preservation as was the case for books. It was also printed on heavy marca mayor 5 paper, with the announcement of a literary contest, and these, вЂњas the carriages progressed,вЂќ were affixed вЂњto every corner by two ministers of the city, so that all were notified,вЂќ as was the custom at such celebrations. The image was printed in various formats and media for a range of uses and recipients вЂ“ on paper for a general audience, on taffeta for important people. At the bottom, completing the scene, are the coats of arms of the king and of the city, held by angels. Below, to the right, is Pope Alexander VII, accompanied by several cardinals as he presents the Bishop of Valencia with the brief he had issued on 8 December 1661, defining the true meaning of the word вЂњconception.вЂќ To the left are the jurors, representatives of the city, kneeling and wearing majestic cloaks. The Virgin is shown on her throne over the moon, trampling on a dragon representing guilt, and flanked by a pair of angels with laudatory scrolls. 4 The same image, reduced in scale, was included on the flyleaf of Juan Bautista de ValdaвЂ™s account of the feast. 2 At the tail end of the procession was a handsome cart carrying a press, on which two officials were printing images of the Virgin Mary on marquilla 3 paper. On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, 1662, a procession wound its way through the streets of Valencia, the bitter controversy that the mystery had aroused in the first half of the century now a thing of the past. Juan-Carlos Conde and Clive Griffin (New York and Oxford: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 2020), 23-55. Papeles efГmeros en la sociedad hispana de la temprana Edad Moderna,вЂќ in La palabra escrita e impresa: libros, bibliotecas, coleccionistas y lectores en el mundo hispano y novohispano: in memoriam VГctor Infantes & Giuseppe Mazzocchi, eds. Originally published as: Antonio Castillo GГіmez, вЂњNo solo libros.

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