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Collection: Peter Schoeffer: Printer of Mainz
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07013
A little-known text often attributed to St. Augustine, it was likely actually writted by Honorius of Autun. According to a flyleaf, this book was bound with five works by Jean Gerson.
06062
Sixth printing of De civitate dei. This edition was the second to be printed with the fourteenth-century commentary by Trivet and Waleys.
06095
1469 printing of the Catholicon. This fragment was recovered binder's waste.
06096
Latin dictionary printed by either Gutenberg or Schoeffer. This copy has the Bull's Head watermarks, datable c. 1460. The printing date of this item is contested but is likely 1460.
06114
The first edition of the collection sermons of St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
06191
Schoeffer's third printing of the Liber sextus decretalium. Rubrication in red and blue has been added and there is an elaborately illuminated and colored initial B.
06236
First dated printing of any works of Classical literature.
06238
Pope Clement V's Constitutiones consist of decretals (papal letters establishing canon law) issued by Popes Boniface VIII, Benedict XI, and Clement V himself. In this work Schoeffer introduced an improved commentary type, intended mainly for use with…
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.
07038
Fragment of a vellum leaf of a Latin Psalter printed by Fust and Schoeffer. It had previously been used as binder's waste.
06120
Second volume of Fust and Schoeffer's 1462 Bible.
06119
Fourth printed edition of the Latin Bible by Fust and Schoeffer. They used a small typeface for extended private reading and included printed rubrics, colored initals, chapter numerals, and paragraph marks which were usually added by rubricators.
06327
Compiled for Pope Gregory IX in 1324, the Decretales collected all of the canon laws that had been approved since the completion of the Decretum of Gratianus in 1140. This version is one of the 40 that were printed on vellum and includes painted…
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.
Prothro B-51
1 vellum leaf of the "Gutenberg Bible" produced by Gutenberg, Fust, and Schoeffer. It was recovered from binder's waste.
06117
31 leaves of the Latin Vulgate Bible printed by Gutenberg in his style of 42 lines of "Missal" type per column.
06420
The layout of legal texts had been established in the fourteenth-century where the main text was written in columns of large script with commentary surrounding it in smaller script. Fust and Schoeffer were the first to establish it as the standard…
06457
First printed edition of the Mammorectus, a manual for the unlettered clergy with short entries explaining difficult terms and concepts encountered in the Bible.
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.
06521
Schoeffer printed the fifth edition of this comparison between the merits of Christian and Jewish beliefs.
06669
First printing of the first section of the secunda Pars.
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.
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…
06684
An exposition on the Christian significance of the Psalter. In this edition, the psalms are set off dramatically in the Psalter types of 1457 while the other texts are in the typeface of the 1462 Bible.
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