Happy Ash Wednesday! Did you know that the oldest work in the DEI library is a fragment of Jacobus de Voragine’s Lenten Sermons (c.1493)? February's Book of the Month blog explores the history of this mysterious little volume.
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#incunabula #incunable
The full page featuring St. Jerome at a writing desk. The page is from GW M0810720 (likely from the workshop of Laurentius de Morgianis in Florence, mid 1490s).
And here is the page of an #incunable in full glory, #bookhistory:
🐲 Here be dragons ... Day 5 of our Advent Calendar is a rare #incunable compilation of sermons, printed in Gouda in 1482, our copy in a contemporary Netherlandish blind-stamped binding featuring a cockfight, dragons, and fleur-de-lys tools.
Photo of the fragment of the incunable
A small fragment of a very early edition of Flavius Josephus's works printed in the Low Countries in around 1475.
The elegant pen-flourished initial probably saved this fragment...
(GW M15163 - @enssib.bsky.social collection)
#incunabula #incunable #fragmentology #fragments #bookhistory
Un incunable est un livre imprimé avant 1500. Ces ouvrages rares témoignent des débuts de l’imprimerie. Ils sont recherchés par les collectionneurs du monde entier. #Incunable #Imprimerie
Check our website for the story - related by one of specialists - of the epic gastronomic journey of #bookworms through our 1486 edition of the most influential work about #medieval liturgy, in a blind-tooled pigskin #binding made in Augsburg for Georg Waser, patron of #Scheyern Abbey.
#incunable
Detail of the margin of 15th century printed book with trimmed annotation and manicule added in ink by a reader
This reader's manicule, or pointing finger, looks more like a retractable blade! From 'The letters of St Jerome, printed 535 years ago in Venice #Incunable #Readers #Manicules
Check our website for more info on this ca. 1492 #incunable with sermons by Roberto Caracciolo.
Farfel leaf 011: Book of hours, France, 1400s. A single Latin manuscript book of hours page with heavily illuminated left border. Border was used to create the digital exhibit header in image 2.
Screenshot of digital exhibit header: A Glance into Manuscript & Printed Leaves from 1200-1700.
Farfel leaf 597: Psalter, Ethiopia, 1750-1850. A single manuscript psalter page written in the Ge'ez language in black and red inks.
Letters laid out. Sample of correspondence from some of the institutions Dr. Farfel wrote to regarding his leaves (top to bottom): University of Minnesota, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Hispanic Society of America, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Germany), The Cleveland Medical Library Association, and The New York Botanical Garden.
New #DigitalExhibit about Farfel Collection of #Incunable & Manuscript Leaves. Read #RareBooks intern Zoe Duncan’s #MahnBlog bit.ly/mahnblog-far...
#ManuscriptMonday #MedievalMonday #MedievalManuscripts #EarlyPrintedBooks #IlluminatedManuscripts #BookOfHours #SpecialCollections
Our book of the day is this early 16th-century superb Humanist "Sammelband" with the collected works of three classical authors (Horace, Persius, and Juvenalis), in a fine contemporary Strasbourg binding. More info on our website.
#rarebooks #bookbinding #incunable #earlyprinting
Woodcut cherub with his halo colored in, holding a cloth and looking skeptical
What Am I Looking At?
Wrong answers only...
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#annotated #skeptical #Incunable
📚📕📜 Las 10 bibliotecas con mayor número de incunables en el mundo
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📚 #Bibliotecas
📜 #incunable
📕 #Bibliofilia
📘 #Libros
🗃 #Preservación
📗 #PatrimonioBibliográfico
Title page of the 1490 (Naples) incunable "Perush ha-Torah", nowadays in the Vatican Library https://digi.vatlib.it/inc/detail/11013968 Two stamps ("Bibliot. S. Silvestr.") of the library of San Silvestro al Quirinale (Rome) are highlighted.
Aktuelle Trends #junkfoodmovies 89 Profile in 2 Tagen Bildbeschreibung Detail of the title page of the 1490 (Naples) incunable "Perush ha-Torah", nowadays in the Vatican Library https://digi.vatlib.it/inc/detail/11013968 showing a stamp of the library of San Silvestro al Quirinale (Rome) in the miniature.
Detail of the title page of the 1490 (Naples) incunable "Perush ha-Torah", nowadays in the Vatican Library https://digi.vatlib.it/inc/detail/11013968 showing a stamp of the library of San Silvestro al Quirinale (Rome) under the text.
Here are two library stamps on this title page of a #Hebrew #incunable. The first is centered under the text (to make it look like being part of the text to Western eyes), and the second is hidden in the empty space left over for a miniature. #bookhistory
The #LibraryStampMadness series continues.
Our book of the day is one of the oldest books we currently offer for sale. The 1st Dutch edition of Otto van Passau's classic devotional work was printed in Utrecht, March 30, 1480, and is the 1st Dutch book extensively illustrated with woodcuts. Find out more on our website.
#incunable #rarebooks
Sun, moon, and stars ✨ illustration from Konrad von Megenberg’s ‘Buch der natur.’ Augsburg: Johannes Bämler, second ed, 1478.
I saw this book at McGill Rare Books and Special Collections.
#Incunable #incunabula #antiquarianbooks #historyofprint #historyofbooks #bookhistory
Un incunable est un livre imprimé avant 1500. Ces ouvrages rares témoignent des débuts de l’imprimerie. Ils sont recherchés par les collectionneurs du monde entier. #Incunable #Imprimerie
Thanks to the lovely folks @quaritch1847.bsky.social I am now the proud owner of my first #incunable! Jerome’s letters, printed at #Venice in 1496 & covered in scribbles, manicules & the odd doodle by a capuchin friar in Lucca in the 1570s. Expect more posts while I get to know this gorgeous object.
Arcipreste o arcipreste
Typo or phonemic neutralization on a 1481 printed book? It should be arcipreste the printer’s head maybe heard adcipreste. #incunable
The mentioned printed publication of 1488 was titled "Die geschicht dracole waide", a full scan of this #vampire #incunable (GW 12524. Ra 236) can be found here, #skystorians:
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Era más de #Mosaic y #Netscape. Sólo bajo coerción usé ese navegapuajjjj.
Lo que tienes en la mano es todo un #incunable. :)
The first #incunable belonging to 'sage of the north', Bernard Gilpin. Politianus, Opera, Venice: Aldus Manutius, July 1498
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4.c.7. A popular work: copies the Florentine humanist's text at most of the older colleges. data.cerl.org/istc/ip00886...
Psalterium, ed. Justinus Decadyus, Venice: Aldus Manutius, [c.1496-98]
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sel.a.44 #incunable
with addition of missing line by Aldus?
More Quintilianus, Institutiones oratoriae, this time by Nicolaus Jenson, printed 21 May 1471 before he put his Greek type into action (so inked in). Colophon with some of his fine Roman capitals.
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sel.a.329. #Incunable data.cerl.org/istc/iq00026...
Some evidence of fore-edge clasps for today's #incunable. Quintilianus, Institutiones oratoriae, Treviso: Dionysius Bononiensis & Peregrinus, 22 Oct. 1482 @QueensCollegeOx sel.a.330
data.cerl.org/istc/iq00028...
Sir James Lewis Knight's bookplate www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-...
Antonius de Rampigollis, Aurea Biblia, sive Repertorium aureum Bibliorum, [Cologne: Ludwig von Renchen, c. 1487-90]
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sel.a.37 #incunable With plaited leather place-tabs data.cerl.org/istc/ir00018...
Preparing for national service with Frontinus et al, Scriptores Rei Militaris, Bologna: Plato de Benedictis, 17 Jan. 1496,
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sel.a.263 #incunable
With some type moving in close formation
data.cerl.org/istc/is00345...
illuminated incunable with 'consistorium' written at the tail of the leaf. library stamp.
Seneca, Epistolae ad Lucillium, [Strasburg: Adolf Rusch, c. 1474-5], @QueensCollegeOx sel.a.285 #incunable. Rubricated in 1477. data.cerl.org/istc/is00379...
Scaliger's copy of the Thesaurus Cornucopiae (Adus Manutius, Aug. 1496)
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sel.e.1496 in a Roger Payne binding #incunable
