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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…
07023
Compiled by a Franciscan friar, this collection of 71 sermons was intended to provide sample texts for those preachers who could not create their own. Bridwell Library's copy of this rare Louvain edition was rubricated with elaborate flourishes and…
07024
Schoeffer printed the official publication announcing the coronation of Maximillian I as Holy Roman Emperor at Aachen. This publication included the event's protocols and particicpants. Schoeffer utilized Gutenberg's 42-line Bible type.
07026
In the exhibited exposition on the Psalms, the printer eliminated the need for rubrication, printing suitably elaborate initials and border decoration along with the text. Such books had the advantage of being ready for use as soon as they were…
07029
1 vellum leaf from the 36-line Bible printed in the "Donatus-Kalendar" type. This leaf was recovered as binder's waste. The printer is thought to either be Pfister or Gutenberg.
07030
Dürer’s first verified book illustration, a woodcut of St. Jerome removing a thorn from a lion’s paw, was published in Basel by Nicolaus Kesler in 1492. Dürer’s composition exerted considerable influence on frontispiece illustration in the region.…
07035
A rhyming introduction to Latin grammar.
07038
This psalter fragment is the second firmly dated book printed in Europe and the earliest edition for the Psalter for Benedictine use. This edition is large enough to be used communally. This psalter was printed for the Bursfield Congregation. After…
07038
Fragment of a vellum leaf of a Latin Psalter printed by Fust and Schoeffer. It had previously been used as binder's waste.
07040
This commentary on the Athanasian Creed, affirming the Trinity and the dual nature of Christ, is the only work by Pedro de Osma that survives in a fifteenth-century printed edition. This copy includes an inscription by Robert Huette.
07042/A
This book has the earliest woodcut associated with Albrecht Dürer, which would have been done when he was an 18 year old apprentice in Michael Wolgemut's workshop.
07044
Three Christian tracts issued together as a single publication by Ulrich Zel (fl. 1465–1503). The first is a sermon on the Lord's Prayer, the second title is on Christian symbolism, and the last is about drunkenness. They were all attributed falsely…
07045
Parts I and II of the four-part Doctrinale puerorum, a primary textbook used during the late Middle Ages. Labels and inscriptions identify the books as property of the Benedictine Abbey at Melk.
07061
This is the first edition of a collection of eleven sermons composed by St. Bernardino of Siena in praise of the Virgin Mary. An immensely popular preacher and Franciscan missionary, St. Bernardino came to be regarded as the "Apostle of Italy." The…
07062
Peter of Blois' letters to numerous heads of church and state were collected and printed for the first time by the Brethren of the Common Life, whose press at the Nazareth Cloister in Brussels was the first press established in that city. Rubricated…
07064
This Sammelband of four fifteenth-century publications is preserved in its original monastic binding. The selection of books bound together here is entirely logical: four tracts by a single author, Johannes Trithemusm published and sold in the same…
07064
This Sammelband of four fifteenth-century publications by Johannes Trithemusm is preserved in its original monastic binding. Chancery quatro, 211 x 144 mm.
07066
First missal printed for Dominican Use and is an early example of Venetian music publishing.
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.
07071/A-C
Three Latin dictionaries comprise this fifteenth-century Sammelband, still preserved in its original binding. The first of the three dictionaries, by Johannes Melber of Heidelberg, was intended for unschooled preachers and therefore includes…
07073
The texts bound together here include works by (or attributed to) three Doctors of the Church, two from the Western tradition (St. Isidore of Seville and St. Augustine) and one from the Eastern Church (St. John Chrysostom). As a group these texts…
07073/A-E
The texts bound together here include works by (or attributed to) three Doctors of the Church, two from the Western tradition (St. Isidore of Seville and St. Augustine) and one from the Eastern Church (St. John Chrysostom). As a group these texts…
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…
07081
Single leaf from a German blockbook showing an illustration from the Book of Revelation. Woodblock print with hand coloring.
07081
Single leaf from a German blockbook showing an illustration from the Book of Revelation. Woodblock print with hand coloring. Blockbook's lively apocalyptic imagery, derived from earlier manuscripts, provided Dürer’s generation of artists with useful…
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