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Dossett
The design is in keeping with this book of devotion and duty to Christ. Binding in medieval style to reflect the time period in which the book was first written. Plain brown or light brown leather, Coptic stitching for the binding, title in black…
06278
The style of the "Harleian" bindings is exemplified nicely by this impressive volume. Although records kept by the Harleian Librarian, Humfrey Wanley (d. 1726), cannot prove that this vellum copy of the 1459 Durandus was owned by the Earl of Oxford,…
06278
A treatise on the significance of the sacramental ceremonies, describing the church edifice, its officers, their vestments, the Mass, the other divine offices, the dominical feast days, saints' days, and the liturgical calendar.
06278
A treatise on the significance of the sacramental ceremonies, describing the church edifice, its officers, their vestments, the Mass, the other divine offices, the dominical feast days, saints' days, and the liturgical calendar.
11012
A portable devotional book of 38 leaves issued in small quarto format. It consisted of a title page and 36 woodcuts illustrating the narrative of Christ’s Passion, followed by the colophon, in which the printer identified himself as “Albrecht Dürer,…
AFM9502
Dürer published the Apocalypse, a book with fifteen full–page illustrations, in German and Latin editions of the biblical text in 1498. With these prints Dürer transformed the “popular” woodcut craft into an art form of immense descriptive and…
11011
Dürer’s Large Passion was issued as a folio–format devotional book. It consisted of a title page depicting the Mocking of Christ and eleven large woodcuts illustrating the narrative of Christ’s Passion as conveyed in Latin verses by Benedictus…
BRA0255
A friend of Dürer’s since 1518, Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) was Germany’s leading scholar of biblical languages and Luther’s most important colleague in the promotion of his theological reforms. In 1526, the great Wittenberg reformer was living…
AFU6978
Bridwell Library has one woodcut from Dürer’s “Life of the Virgin,” a book that consisted of twenty illustrations created from 1504 to 1510. This woodcut, the last in the sequence and most likely the last to be produced, depicts the Coronation of the…
BRA0252
In this woodcut from the Apocalypse series, Dürer illustrated the beginning of Revelation chapter 14 along with several elements described in earlier chapters of the biblical account.
BRA1066
The dynamic power of Dürer’s woodcut technique is evident in this print from the Apocalypse series. The woodcut depicts the sounding of the sixth angel’s trumpet, which released a plague of armed horsemen and four avenging angels from the Euphrates…
06123
Third Strasbourg edition of the Latin Bible with Netherlandish illumination.
Elder
Gebrochener Rücken (modified Bradel) binding with text sewn onto tapes. Covers made of cerise-colored silk, embroidered in metallic gold with Chi-Rho symbol on the front cover and Alpha-Omega symbol on the back cover. Symbols framed by lace,…
BRB0086
Emblem book about the Virgin Mary that includes allegorical vignettes depicting appellations given to Mary, anagrams, and a four-line poem connecting them all.
BRB0116
The Catholic theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam continued to modify his Annotationes on the New Testament for many years following their first publication in 1516. In 1526, however, the Annotationes were condemned by the Faculty of Theology at the…
Prothro B-478
This commentary on the New Testament by the Catholic theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam, contains numerous passages that were inked out or excised by a censor because they were considered inconsistent with traditional interpretations of the scriptures.…
AEN4977
Binding by Garrett Godfrey. Calfskin binding has Godfrey's panel stamp with the monogram "GG" among the design on the front cover.
AER6426
In 1552, in an unprecedented action by a printer, Estienne published this response to the Sorbonne's condemnations, offering an introductory account of his two decades of conflict with the Parisian censors and a point-for-point defense of his Bible.…
Etherington
Full purple goatskin with colored onlays and gold tooling with a cross motif.
06290
The coat-of-arms on the first leaf of this book, accompanied by the monogram "IO," is believed to be that of Ioannes Simonetta (d. 1491). This book is a critique of pagan Greco-Roman theology that argues in favor of Hebrew scripture as the foundation…
BRB1137
In the exhibited 1688 biography of the Blessed Zita of Lucca, who in 1696 would be canonized as a saint, the artist signed the frontispiece engraving (in translation) "Sister Isabella Piccini, Franciscan nun of Santa Croce in Venice, engraved this."
Feinstein
Full purple goatskin binding; sewn-in leather hinge; leather doublures surface gilt and tooled in palladium, with tripartite corner motifs with onlays; double core silk headbands; neutral endpapers matching the text. The outside of the book is meant…
06406
Foresti da Bergamo's biography of "Famous Women," the first book printed with authentic portraits of living women. This biography included fifty-six portraits.
Fox
Full terracota goatskin, green goatskin doublures, and Cave paper endpapers. The four books of the text are represented by the four pages of different colored green goatskin onlays circling in and surrounding the dusting of gold which represents the…
BRC0004
1584 third edition of the author's collected works including his famous, De contagione et contagiosis morbis et curatione, and his poem on syphillis, Syphilis, sive morbus gallicus.
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