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06688
A guide to the study of the Gospels, bound for the Franciscans of St. Anne in Bamberg. Chancery folio, 292 x 210 mm. Double column, 47 lines.
07015
Indulgence offered for the remission of sins in the Jubilee Year of 1480. With Schoeffer's Lombard initial L and "Psalter" initial M. The type used for the headings is Gutenberg's 42-line Bible type.
07015
A letter of indulgence by the Bishop of Sebenico (Croatia) which could be bought for the remission of sin in the Jubilee Year of 1480. With Schoeffer's Lombard initial L and "Psalter" initial M. The type used for the headings is Gutenberg's 42-line…
07015
A letter of indulgence by the Bishop of Sebenico (Croatia) which could be bought for the remission of sin in the Jubilee Year of 1480. With Schoeffer's Lombard initial L and "Psalter" initial M. The type used for the headings is Gutenberg's 42-line…
Thomas
The pages of the book will be folded to form a cross and the volume will be bound in plain sackcloth. The binders will harvest fiber from plants growing around the monument to Thomas à Kempis at Mount Saint Agnes in the Netherlands and then use these…
06668
This copy of Summa theologica has an armorial woodcut bookplate for Hilprand von Brandenburg and inscription by librarian, Jakob Louber, that states the title and a note with the donor's name.
06771
First book printed by Schoeffer alone after the death of Fust in 1466. It is the second printed edition of Thomas Acquinas' Summa theologica.
06669
First printing of the first section of the secunda Pars.
06670
This three-part work was the most comprehensive and systematic statement of medieval Christian dogma. Printed by Johann Mentelin, the first successful printer located outside of Mainz.
06670
This three-part work was the most comprehensive and systematic statement of medieval Christian dogma. Printed by Johann Mentelin, the first successful printer located outside of Mainz.
06371
This copy of the Imitatio Christi has an inscription by a librarian that lists the contents and states that this book was donated to the Carthusian monastery of St. Margaretental in Basel.
06373
The most popular private devotional tract of the fifteenth century, bound in Bavaria and owned by the Augustinian canons of St. Nicolaus, Passau. Chancery octavo, 114 x 106 mm. Single column, 22 lines.
06377
The Imitatio Christi ("Imitation of Christ") is the most widely read Christian text after the Bible, and the most popular fifteenth-century text read today.
AFH7497
Miniature edition with an engraved frontispiece of Christ carrying his cross up the hill on which he will be crucified.
06377
This Parisian edition of the Imitatio Christi shows Christ on the Cross surrounded by his followers and Roman soldiers. In the space on the woodcut for an inscription is a prayer that would earn the reader an indulgence.
Tapley
Design draws upon late eighteenth-century Rococo patterns as well as the world-wide pan-historical tradition of making jeweled bindings for spiritual texts. Exuberant lines incorporate references to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Crucifixion, and the…
07080
Earliest missal in Bridwell designed for use within a particular diocese, Cathedral of Olmütz in Moravia, located in the current Czech Republic. Missal also features woodcut illustrations that were gilded and colored by hand. Fore-edge leather tabs…
BRB0999
This is the first edition of a suite of twenty-one engravings designed by the Flemish painter Joannes Stradanus (Jan van der Straet). These engravings after his works were executed by Philippe Galle, a famous Dutch engraver as well as Adriaen…
Stackpole
Traditional-style tight-joint binding, sewn on seven raised bands covered in beige Niger goatskin and tooled with blind lines evocative of fifteenth-century blind-tooled bindings of the time when The Imitation of Christ was first published. Onlay of…
Spener Letter
Elias Veiel was head of the Ulm Gymnasium; in the letter Spener complains that he has been slandered.
BRMS 195
This manuscript collection of processional hymns was prepared by Antonius Spanoghe for the use of the Order of the most Holy Annunciation, a Roman Catholic order for contemplative nuns founded in Genoa. The volume is enhanced throughout with…
AFW8269
This combined edition of the indexes of prohibited and expurgated books is a reprint of Cardinal Antonio de Sotomayor's highly restrictive 1640 edition. It lists numerous prohibited passages in the notes in the 1584 Salamanca edition of the Biblia…
Sobota
Box binding with three-board structure using Harmatan Nigerian goatskins, black for the binding and dark red for the doublures, with designs based on the Paris 1788 edition of the text. Hand-gilded 23k lines on all three sides of box binding would…
06651
This early printed papal bull announced that indulgences would be granted to penitent Christians who made donations to benefit the church of St. George and Mary Magdalen in Nördlingen, Germany. It contains many of the essential formulas of the…
BRMS 113
In the Bulla aurea ("Golden Bull") of 1479, Pope Sixtus IV granted indulgences to all who donated to the Franciscan Order and to the Poor Clares, all visitors to Franciscan churches, and all who contributed to the maintenance of Franciscan…
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