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Collection: Invention and Discovery: Printed Books from Fifteenth-Century Europe
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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…
06724
Printed by Thomas de Blavis in 1489, this single leaf of text served as the printer's advertisement for that Liber sextus Decretalium.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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" .
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).
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.
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…
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.
06951
Johannes Richenbach (d.1486) decorated his bndings using metal rolls with patterns.
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…
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).
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.
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.
Prothro B-03
The "Nuremberg Chronicle," a history of the world from the Creation to the year 1493, was the most profusely illustrated book printed during the fifteenth century. It contains more than 900 different woodcuts by Michael Wohlgemut, Hans Pleydenwurff,…
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.
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.
06962
First edition of the most influential confession manual of the fifteenth century.
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.
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