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Collection: Invention and Discovery: Printed Books from Fifteenth-Century Europe
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06054
First printed edition of St. Augustine's De civitate dei. This edition has bianchi girari decoration.
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.
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…
06117
31 leaves of the Latin Vulgate Bible printed by Gutenberg in his style of 42 lines of "Missal" type per column.
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.
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.
06123
Third Strasbourg edition of the Latin Bible with Netherlandish illumination.
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" .
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…
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.
06164
First edition of the Bible in German and is the first edition of the Bible printed in any language other than Latin.
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.
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…
06236
First dated printing of any works of Classical literature.
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.
06285
The Epistolae et Evangelia provided a vernacular translation of the readings from the Epistles and Gospels that were designated for specific Sundays and holidays throughout the liturgical year.
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…
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.
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.
06401
English translation of de Voragine's Golden Legend, the popular compendium of saints' biographies.
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…
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).
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