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Collection: Invention and Discovery: Printed Books from Fifteenth-Century Europe
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06516
Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins. The rubricator inscribed that they finished in 1473, although it was previously thought that this work was dated 1475.
06982
This book binding was created with a time-saving method called panel stamping on the front and the back. The front depicts "Ecce Homo" but is stamped upside down. The back has dragons, falcons, and monstrous dogs amid twisting vines and is also…
06118
Single leaf of the Latin Bible printed by Gutenberg in 1454–1455. The text of the present leaf, consisting of Exodus 9:12-11:1, has been rubricated in red and blue.
Prothro B-51
Single vellum leaf from a Gutenberg Bible that was disassembled for binding material. Text is part of Genesis 46-48.
06117
31 leaves of the Latin Vulgate Bible printed by Gutenberg in his style of 42 lines of "Missal" type per column.
06951
Johannes Richenbach (d.1486) decorated his bndings using metal rolls with patterns.
07047
The only copy of a previously unrecorded Castilian indulgence for the living, for the crusade against the Muslims in Granada.
06401
English translation of de Voragine's Golden Legend, the popular compendium of saints' biographies.
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.
06721
King Ferdinand I invited the Bishop of Coria to write the Luzero de la vida cristiana (Morning Star of the Christian Life") in order to expel the darkness of ignorance" in Spain, particularly among Jews and Muslims who had endured forced conversion…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Prothro B-09
Latin Bible featuring fifteenth-century binding of blind-stamped calfskin. The binding is thought to be done at a bindery in Brixen, in the Alps of South Tyrol (Italy).
06444
Bridwell Library's copy of the fifth edition of Lucan's epic poem on the battle of Pharsalus (48 BCE) bears a painted coat-of-arms depicting a leaping white hound on a red field belonging to Wenceslaus Brack (d. 1495).
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.
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.
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.
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" .
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.
06164
First edition of the Bible in German and is the first edition of the Bible printed in any language other than Latin.
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).
06502
A critique of Jewish beliefs concerning the Messiah, this work includes a rudimentary introduction to the Hebrew language, a misleading summary of Jewish beliefs, and transliterations from Hebrew sources.
Prothro B-108
Whereas most manuscript Books of Hours were illuminated with colorful miniatures, printed editions such as this one were embellished with metalcut illustrations and decorative borders.
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