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Collection: Invention and Discovery: Printed Books from Fifteenth-Century Europe
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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…
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.
06962
First edition of the most influential confession manual of the fifteenth century.
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.
06056
De civitate dei, printed by the first printer in Venice, Johannes de Spira, and completed by his brother Vindelinus when Johannes died in 1470. This edition includes white-vine decorations painted over hand-stamped woodblock patterns.
06054
First printed edition of St. Augustine's De civitate dei. This edition has bianchi girari decoration.
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.
06102
William Caxton's earliest publishing venture, the first edition of this encyclopedic Latin treatise "on the properties of things," was printed anonymously, without location or date of publication. The longstanding uncertainty surrounding its origins…
06103
The first English edition of "the propritees of thynges" features a lengthy rhymed postscript that identifies William Caxton as the first printer of this title in Latin at Cologne. This edition is illustrated with woodcuts introducing each of the…
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,…
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.
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…
06881
St Bridget's account of her experiences of "celestial revelations" of Christ's life, the Last Judgment, her own "mystical marriage" to Christ, and divine instructions to found the Brigittine Order. This is a reprint from the 1492 Lübeck edition.
06236
First dated printing of any works of Classical literature.
07035
A rhyming introduction to Latin grammar.
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.
06166
Second German Bible with a unique illustration of the Idolatry of King Solomon including a with dark skin which was unsual for European art of the time.
06123
Third Strasbourg edition of the Latin Bible with Netherlandish illumination.
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…
06119-06120
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.
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…
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…
06327
Compiled for Pope Gregory IX in 1234, 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…
06330
Only copy of this popular elementary Latin school book.
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