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Collection: Invention and Discovery: Printed Books from Fifteenth-Century Europe
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06486
First printed edition of Nicolaus de Lyra's commentary on the Bible. This edition includes fruits, birds, and insects in the manner of the Venetian painter Carlo Crivelli (c. 1430–c. 1495).
06127
Early printed Bibles offered no accommodation for pictorial decoration aside from indented spaces for the addition of handwritten initials. This Bible's only illustration is of St. Jerome included within the space left for the intial "F" .
06135
The illustrations in this Latin Bible reflect the Bruges-Ghent school of illumination. Marginalia throughout the book reflects the regulations of the Carthusian Order.
06714
In fifteenth-century Missals, tradition required that the beginning of the Canon of the Mass ("Te igitur") should be illustrated with an image of the crucified Christ or a related image of sacrifice. This edition shows Christ on the Cross.
06448
This treatise defends the Franciscan Order's devotion to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary within the womb of St. Anne, an article of faith that was opposed by the Dominican Order. This edition features an illumination of the Nativity.
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.
07017
The text of the Psalms, printed in large letters, is surrounded with commentary by David ben Joseph Ḳimḥi (c. 1160-c. 1235) in smaller types. A Christian censor used ink and small sheets of paper to omit words from commentary and entire passages.
06193
Boniface VIII compiled this "sixth" book of the Decretaliumin 1298 as a supplement to the five books of canon law issued by Gregory IX in 1234. As in most early printed law codes, the main text appears as an island of large type surrounded by…
06724
Printed by Thomas de Blavis in 1489, this single leaf of text served as the printer's advertisement for that Liber sextus Decretalium.
06471
This Missal was printed specifically for use in Carmelite monasteries. The gathering of paper leaves containing the Canon of the Mass in Bridwell Library's copy was replaced with sturdy contemporary vellum leaves bearing the same text copied out in…
06330
Only copy of this popular elementary Latin school book.
06958
St. John Chrysostom encouraged a lapsed monk to return to ascetic life. This edition includes a table of contents of five publications that were bound together. The table of contents was writted by fifteenth-century librarian of St. Mary in…
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.
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.
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.
Prothro B-147
This two-volume Dutch Old Testament was the first book printed at Delft, and the first edition of any part of the Bible translated into Dutch. Includes 55 leaves derived from Cornelius Aernoldszoon's Bible.
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…
Prothro B-115
Derived from Latin writings attributed to saints, the texts of the "Psalter of our Blessed Lady Mary" are not the biblical Psalms, but 150 prayers in Dutch dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Each of the prayers begins with a line from an actual Psalm,…
06129
Published by the first French press, Bridwell Library's copy of the first Bible printed in France provides evidence of England's initial dependence on France for its supply of printed books. This copy has handwritten annotations by English readers…
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.
07052
Only recorded copy of this edition of an early vernacular text for private devotion. This work is a mixture of prose and verse on each of the Ten Commandments.
06977
Falsely attributed to St. Albertus Magnus (c. 1206–1280), the "Secrets of Women and Men" was compiled from a variety of Western and Arabic treatises on medicine and astrology. This text shows the primitive state of medicine at the time through its…
07035
A rhyming introduction to Latin grammar.
06780
The most popular Christian prayer book of the Middle Ages, the Book of Hours was designed for private lay devotion at appointed times of day. Much of the success enjoyed by manuscript Books of Hours was due to their colorful illuminations of scenes…
07047
The only copy of a previously unrecorded Castilian indulgence for the living, for the crusade against the Muslims in Granada.
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