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BRMS 113
In the Bulla aurea ("Golden Bull") of 1479, Pope Sixtus IV granted indulgences to all who made donations to the Franciscan Order and to the Poor Clares, all visitors to Franciscan churches, and all who contributed money or work to the maintenance of…
BRMS 173
Composite manuscript hymn book in two sections with manuscript Latin and printed German hymn texts with manuscript tunes.
07066
First missal printed for Dominican Use and is an early example of Venetian music publishing. This copy of the Dominican Missal was owned by the Dominicans of Frankfurt am Main in Germany.
06125
The first of two volumes of the Latin scriptures, bound in Bohemia, and owned by the Franciscans of Tachov. Royal folio, 413 x 288 mm. Double columns, 248 lines.
06716
This psalter fragment includes Schoeffer's first printed music with Hufnagelschrift muscial notation. This psalter was printed for the Bursfield Congregation. After the Reformation, many Latin psalters were discarded and repurposed in bookbinding…
Prothro B-03
The "Nuremberg Chronicle," a history of the world from the Creation to the year 1493, was the most profusely illustrated book printed during the fifteenth century. It contains more than 900 different woodcuts by Michael Wohlgemut, Hans Pleydenwurff,…
30878
This copy of his De simplicitate vitae christiane, printed in Spain, bears a seventeenth-century inscription on its title page warning that the "Auctor iste damnatus" ("the author is damned"). However, citing the Historia pontifical y cathólica by…
06413
This treatise on the "Earthly Sphere" shows that medieval scientists were aware that the earth is not flat. Additionally, the woodcut in this edition is the earliest printed illustration of solar and lunar eclipses.
06578
The painted coat-of-arms added to the first page of this official history of Venice depicts the two-faced god Janus, who signifies the ability to look to the past and the future.
Prothro B-174
Early printed novel using the more legible Roman type instead of Gothic. Likely used for reading at a lectern, this is a large Royal folio with hand decoration of initials.
AET7905/B
The Council of Trent broke prohibited books into three classes: books by heretical authors, individual prohibited books, and anonymous protected books. They were listed in these three categories until 1664 when books were listed in a single…
AFH7136
In this engraved frontispiece for this edition of the Imitatio Christi, Thomas à Kempis kneels in devotion before the Virgin Mary and Christ Child.
BRB1423
Endorsed in manuscript on January 3, 1598, this unique printed indulgence was granted to a pilgrim to the Cathedral of Santiago (St. James) de Compostela in northwest Spain. To this day, certificates of completion are made available to pilgrims to…
Prothro B-116
This edition of the Bible included guides to help users read and interpret the Bible better. Additionally, the initials were printed with woodblocks so hand rubrication was not needed.
BRA0050
The official instrument of Roman Catholic Church censorship beginning in the sixteenth century.
Prothro B-172
One of the first editions of the Bible printed in quarto format and included aspects of early manuscripts - book prologues and alphabetical interpretations of Hebrew names. Includes illumination and hand colored initials.
BRA0847
Reisch's illustrated encyclopedia compiles information from various branches of medieval knowledge: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and philosophy as well as the natural and human sciences. Compiled by the Prior of the…
Reid-Cunningham
Pierced vellum binding, designs tooled and cut into the vellum to reveal brightly colored boards, title and tooling in gold and metallic foils. Design utilizes the repetition of a few limited geometric elements. The letters of the title, parallel…
06810
The Persian Mohammed al-Razi (Rhasis) was considered one of the great early physicians of the Islamic world, and he had widespread influence upon late medieval European medicine as well. This ninth volume of the set of ten medical textbooks he…
Ramsey
Ref French Cape morocco with design inspired by French cathedral windows. Covers tooled in blind and gold with black mosaics. Doublures of black and grey engraved decorated papers to compliment the frontispiece. Flyleaves of black suede. Title tooled…
BRD0179
Rambach's dissertation which is a critique of the Racovian Catechism.
AFS2797
The typography and woodcut illustration of this book reproduces the appearance of a ninth-century illuminated manuscript that consisted of twenty-eight poems in praise of the Holy Cross. In the original manuscript version, the Latin texts were…
AFW8268
This Index librorum expurgatorum, a reprint of the first Spanish edition of 1584, was published by Protestants at the French university town of Saumur in an effort to expose the methods of the Catholic censors. It includes a preface by the Protestant…
AFW8268
The Spanish Inquisition's Index of Expurgations, first issued in 1584. It informs censors which passages are erroneous or obsolete in past books and need to be deleted.
06563
Bound in Russia leather with gold line tooling and gilt edges by Roger Payne. Simple yet attractive, it dispenses with Payne's familiar array of small tools in favor of plain gold fillets comprising paired lozenges with semicircular lobes at the…
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