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Collection: Invention and Discovery: Printed Books from Fifteenth-Century Europe
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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…
06658
Tenth-century Greek encyclopedia. Text in original Greek, some prefatory matter, colophon and terminal matter in Latin. This first edition was printed at the expense of its Athenian-born editor, Demetrius Chalcondylas, one of the preeminent Greek…
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.
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).
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…
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…
06401
English translation of de Voragine's Golden Legend, the popular compendium of saints' biographies.
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…
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…
06967
This first edition of the processional music used by the Dominican Order was one of only a dozen fifteenth-century Spanish editions printed with musical notation. One of only five Spanish musical publications of the 15th century.
07047
The only copy of a previously unrecorded Castilian indulgence for the living, for the crusade against the Muslims in Granada.
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…
07035
A rhyming introduction to Latin grammar.
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…
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.
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…
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,…
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-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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
06330
Only copy of this popular elementary Latin school book.
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