https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/browse?collection=59&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle&output=atom2024-03-19T06:41:59-04:00Omekahttps://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1695In 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 procession prior to their punishment, which in this case was execution by burning at the stake (at center). In the printed table at the end of the book, captions lettered A to R describe the corresponding elements of the woodcut.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
00617. Raimundo González de Montes (attributed). A Discovery and Playne Declaration of Sundry Subtill Practises of the Holy Inquisition of Spayne. London: John Day, 1569.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1722This 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 text.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1736The 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.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1716Schoeffer's third printing of the Liber sextus decretalium. Rubrication in red and blue has been added and there is an elaborately illuminated and colored initial B. The front flyleaf features an alphabetical subject index compiled by a fifteenth-century reader.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1696Noted for its striking woodcut illustrations, this book recounts a pilgrimage to the Holy Land undertaken in 1483–1484 by Bernhard von Breydenbach, Dean of Mainz Cathedral. Six leaves across, the exhibited fold-out illustration of Jerusalem represented the city with unprecedented topographical accuracy. However, the woodcut omits any evidence of the city's contemporary Muslim rule and inhabitation.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1723Pope 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 the text type of the Bible of 1462.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1738A 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 a separate typeface. It required extensive rubrication and pictoral illuminations. Schreier did the rubrication, illumintion, and binding of the book.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1730The most popular private devotional tract of the fifteenth century, bound in Bavaria and owned by the Augustinian canons of St. Nicolaus, Passau. Chancery octavo, 114 x 106 mm. Single column, 22 lines.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1735First 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.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1707Numerous early printed missals, such as this edition published for the use of Carmelite monasteries, included music notation in the section of text located immediately prior to the Canon of the Mass. Plaited leather button tabs were also attached to each vellum leaf in order to ease the turning of the pages during the liturgy.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1733A 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, 27 lines.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1701This early printed papal bull announced that indulgences would be granted to penitent Christians who made donations to benefit the church of St. George and Mary Magdalen in Nördlingen, Germany. It contains many of the essential formulas of the exhibited bull of 1174, including the handwritten signature of the notary, Jodocus Pflantzman, in the last line.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1734A guide to the study of the Gospels, bound for the Franciscans of St. Anne in Bamberg. Chancery folio, 292 x 210 mm. Double column, 47 lines.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1737The first of five volumes of a lengthy theological treatise, bound in southern Bavaria, and later owned by the Jesuits of Burghausen. Imperial folio, 480 x 323 mm. Double column. 59 lines.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1713This 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 marital relationships and lines of inheritance.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1731A handy exposition on the Gospels, bound in Italy and later owned by the Carmelites of Venice. Median Octavo, 179 x 119 mm. Double column, 42 lines.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1706In this Latin Bible printed in 1483, a late sixteenth-century English reader has inserted paper slips bearing handwritten English prologues for each book of the Bible. These added texts were transcribed directly from the prologues published in the Protestant "Geneva version" of the English Bible, first printed as The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament at Geneva in 1560.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1725In the exhibited exposition on the Psalms, the printer eliminated the need for rubrication, printing suitably elaborate initials and border decoration along with the text. Such books had the advantage of being ready for use as soon as they were bound.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1732This Sammelband of four fifteenth-century publications by Johannes Trithemusm is preserved in its original monastic binding. Chancery quatro, 211 x 144 mm.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1729Rules for monastic living, bound in south Germany, with a later brass clasp. Chancery sextodecimo, 114 x 77 mm.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1721Six-volume multilingual Bible with Greek Septuagint and New Testament, Latin Vulgate, Hebrew Old Testament, and Aramaic translation in the lower margin.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
24780. [Biblia Polyglotta]. Libri Veteris ac Novi Testamenti multiplici lingua impressi. 6 vols. Edited by Diego Lopez de Zuga, et al. Alcalá de Henares: Arnaldo Guillén de Brocar, printed 1514–1517, published 1521–1522.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1718In this chronological overview of world history the spine crosses the top of the book, so that the pages must be turned from bottom to top as they are read. The text was printed from engraved plates instead of movable types and text was only printed on one side of each leaf.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
25618. Adam Blandy. Chronological Tables of the World, Commencing with the Creation and Ending with the Nativity of Jesus Christ. Oxford: For Adam Blandy, [ca. 1727].
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1692In this comprehensive study of biblical sources by the Dutch Protestant theologian Herman Witsius, revelation plays a large role in the chapter of the Tabernacle of the Ark of the Covenant. The Tabernacle was equipped with a curtain that concealed the Holy of Holies. In the engraved fold-out illustration of the Tabernacle, an engraved rectangle of paper substitutes for the curtain and can be liftd to reveal the location of the Ark of the Covenant.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1686This portrait of Jean Calvin features micography of the first chapter of Martin Luther's German translation of Ecclesiasticus.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1691This 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.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00