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Collection: The Shape of Content in Christian Books, Broadsides, and Prints
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06125
The first of two volumes of the Latin scriptures, bound in Bohemia, and owned by the Franciscans of Tachov. Royal folio, 413 x 288 mm. Double columns, 248 lines.
AFS2797
The typography and woodcut illustration of this book reproduces the appearance of a ninth-century illuminated manuscript that consisted of twenty-eight poems in praise of the Holy Cross. In the original manuscript version, the Latin texts were…
AFW8268
The Spanish Inquisition's Index of Expurgations, first issued in 1584. It informs censors which passages are erroneous or obsolete in past books and need to be deleted.
AFU6984
Intended to help readers memorize the basic content of the four Gospels, the fifteen full-page woodcut illustrations in this book combine symbolic emblems that provide visual cues pertaining to each chapter.
BRMS 93
Biblical history written by Peter Comestor, Chancellor of Notre Dame in Paris. Bridwell Library's manuscript of the Historia scholastica is one of many that were expanded with commentaries. Where necessary, the scribe divided the column into two and…
BRB0472
Dirst edition of the Latin Bible prepared by Andreas Osiander II (1562–1617), presenting the revised Latin scriptures in the two inner columns, with the compiler's paraphrases, explanations, and annotations from various other commentators printed in…
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. Median Quarto, 235 x 162 mm. Single column,…
BRB1545
This book comprises a series of 153 engravings depicting the Life of Christ by Hieronymus Wiericx (1553–1619) and others. Each illustration combines multiple scenes and features an alphabetical sequence of letters keyed to explanations in Latin…
06457
First printed edition of the Mammorectus, a manual for the unlettered clergy with short entries explaining difficult terms and concepts encountered in the Bible. Bound in southern Bohemia. Median folio, 339 x 240 mm. Double columns, 48 lines.
BRB1021
Based on a set of illustrated cards first published with an instructional booklet in 1833, this edition of Elizabeth Maria Lloyd's popular Gospel lessons for children consists of the same booklet with four extensive folding panels bearing the series…
BRB1072
Compiled by a French Franciscan friar, this innovative confessional manual encouraged self-reflection on several hundred sins. Categorized according to the Ten Commandments, brief definitions of the sins were printed on pre-cut paper. This allowed…
BRB1505
This engraved broadside features text in two languages, Italian and French. The purpose of the broadside was to highlight holy relics that could be seen by visitors to Milan Cathedral.
24780
Six-volume multilingual Bible with Greek Septuagint and New Testament, Latin Vulgate, Hebrew Old Testament, and Aramaic translation in the lower margin.
06327
A compilation of all of the papal decrees and canon laws that had been approved between 1140 and 1234. An exceptionally large book printed on durable vellum. The text is arranged in tandem with the main text in the center surrounded by commentary in…
BRB1614
The extended Latin title of the first collected edition of St. Gregory's Opera may be translated "The Principal Works of Saint Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church, formerly dispersed in individual volumes, but now combined into a single volume by…
00617
In this controversial sixteenth-century exposé of alleged cruelties perpetrated by the Spanish Inquisition, the large unfolded woodcut plate illustrates an auto-de-fé, the post-trial ritual in which the condemned heretics were led through a public…
06800
This treatise on the legal definition of Christian marriage features two full-page diagrams depicting the "Tree of Consanguinity" and the exhibited "Tree of Affinity." The two woodcuts in the form of family trees helped to clarify the allowable…
BRB1557
Complete set of sixty uncut, unfolded, and unbound paper sheets of the Greek New Testament. 25 x 39 cm, printed in octavo.
BRB1558
Complete set of sixty uncut, unfolded, and unbound paper sheets of the Greek New Testament. 44 x 27.5 cm, printed in octavo.
BRB0180
Jesuit catechism that includes one hundred lessons translated into Dutch, each illustrated with a meditational emblem engraved by Theodore Galle. A key to the book's usage is the rotating volvelle, part of a "lottery plate" that reveal the numerals 1…
06090
This anonymous fifteenth-century treatise on the Mas ceremony contains two texts printed in two distinct typefaces: quotations from the Latin litury printed with a tall Gothic font and the German explanation of the Mass printed in a smaller rounder…
AET1281
This portrait of Jean Calvin features micography of the first chapter of Martin Luther's German translation of Ecclesiasticus.
06238
Pope Clement V's Constitutiones consist of decretals (papal letters establishing canon law) issued by Popes Boniface VIII, Benedict XI, and Clement V himself. In this work Schoeffer introduced an improved commentary type, intended mainly for use with…
AFG0129
This pocket edition of the Book of Common Prayer was designed to provide both intimacy of use and portability. It includes gilt and red-dyed goatskin binding with enclosing flap and fore-edge painting of an English church.
AFB9093
This all-engraved edition of the Book of Common Prayer features a volvelle, or rotating circular table, that allowed the user to determine the dates of all the moveable Sunday feasts, such as Easter, during a particular year.
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