The Library's copy of this 15th century book is one of 3 perfect editions printed on vellum
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History of the Printing Press - Invention of the Printing Press  May 1, 2007 ... 1461 Albrecht Pfister printed the first illustrated book Edelstein which ... 1476 Two hundred woodcuts were used in a edition of Aesop's Fables ... In the mid-15th century Johannes Gutenberg invented a mechanical way of making books. ..... The Huntington Library holds one of the three vellum copies of the...
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The First Twenty-five Years of Printing, 1455-1480: An Exhibition: a ...  As the writer stated in his Report of the Rare Book Librarian, Indiana University, ... Three items are known in America by one other copy; five by two; five by three; .... [Note from the editor of the electronic edition: In June 1997, the Lilly Library .... This connection between Mainz and Trier, existing in the 15th century, might lead...
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Rare Books - The Huntington  The rare book collection includes printed books from the 15th through the 20th centuries. ... The Huntington copy is one of eleven surviving copies printed on vellum, and one of three such copies in the United States. ... One of the Library's most prized works is this first folio edition of William Shakespeare's collected plays,...
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Gutenberg Bible - World Digital Library  Jan 31, 2014 ... The Library of Congress copy is printed entirely on vellum, a fine parchment made from animal skin, and is one of only three perfect vellum copies known to exist. ... with other 15th-century books, the Bible was purchased for the Library of ... facsimile edition of the Berlin copy (Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1913-14).
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Gutenberg Bible - Wikipedia  The Gutenberg Bible was the first major book printed using mass-produced movable type. ... It is not known how many copies were printed, with the 1455 letter citing ... Bible, some describing it as one of the most beautiful books ever printed. .... although the vellum copy in the British Library is completely undecorated.
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King James Version - Wikipedia  The Wycliffe Bible pre-dated the printing press but was ... Tyndale's translation was the first printed Bible in English.
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Chapter 1: My Cookery Books by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (Rare ...  IT was something of a shock that I woke one morning and found myself a collector of .... For the lover of the early printed book, there are the De Honesta Voluptate of Platina, ... For the Editio-Princeps man, there is the rare Mrs. Glasse in folio, when ..... But I prize even these modest names and notes on a fly-leaf or a margin;...
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Incunabula in Special Collections, University of Otago Library  books are in Latin, the predominant language for the printed word before 1500. ... to describe books printed before. 1501. It is derived from the Latin word cunae, a cradle, ...... Title page bound at back; 'De Vita Solitaria' the first to appear in this...
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This term for books printed before 1501 goes back to the Latin ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... This term for books printed before 1501 goes back to the Latin cunae, a cradle # Quiz # Question. video. 0:28 0 likes, 0 dislikes. No views.
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Jeopary Question, THE 15th CENTURY - TriviaBistro.com  Jeopardy Question: THE 15th CENTURY - The notebooks he left containing his anatomical drawings are written in mirror writing.
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Other Recent Publications - JStor  count some information that the others do not possess. ..... existing manuscripts, apart from the Aesinas and its copy the Toletanus, descend not ...... Roman marbles, joined the right clubs, and sat in parliament from a Cornish pocket ...... draws on both the family papers and archival material in Paris, but, as it lacks footnotes,.
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Exhibit: The Books That Made Shakespeare  Shakespeare at Iowa  Shakespeare read widely and actively in a remarkable variety of forms, ... who was famous for publishing convenient, small-format editions of classical works. ... was Ovid's masterpiece, and it was one of the most influential and widely imitated ... it shows several signs of use: the clasps have been lost, and the indentations in...
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BBC - Culture - The Book of Kells: Medieval Europe's ... - BBC.com  Apr 26, 2016 ... Strictly speaking, rather than The Book of Kells, named after a town in County Meath ... The library at Trinity College, Dublin (Credit: Credit: Alamy) ... Amazingly since they were written, the majority of the pages have been passed ... The most famous page is known as Chi Rho, which are the first letters of the...
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The Geneva Bible - An Historical Report - Logos Resource Pages  In the history of the English Bible, the Geneva Bible of 1560 stands alone in innovation ... In 1535, Coverdale printed the first complete Bible in the English language (Coverdale Bible). ... Even quotes from the Bible on church walls were banned. .... The Bible of today was divided into chapters in the thirteenth century, but the...
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The Club Dumas - Books on Google Play  The Club Dumas. 684. Arturo Perez-Reverte ... leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in...
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Full text of "Catalogue of the books in the Circulating Library .."  HE present volume forms the third of the Catalogue of the Central Circu- .... E 4725 Contents:  The clergy in American life  Early writers and ...... Mr. Gladstone on the Royal Supremacy  Joyce on Courts of spiritual ...... Creation myths of primitive America G 3670 Pharaoh and the priest, 2 copies. ...... F 2686 Greeley.
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Introduction - Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance ...  Traditionally, Pope Nicholas V (1447-55) has been regarded as the founder of the ... What Nicholas had in mind, as he wrote in a celebrated letter of 1451 to ... that "for the common convenience of the learned we may have a library of all books...
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viaLibri ~ (614131).....Rare Books from 1805  printed for J. Harding, London 1805 - Octavo, 32 pp. including the half-title, with a folding plate ... The problems of blight in wheat and corn were a considerable problem for farmers both in .... THE COMIC ADVENTURES OF OLD MOTHER HUBBARD AND HER DOG. ... The first title is exceptionally rare; the other very scarce.
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica - Andreas Vesalius - Google Books  This is the first English translation of Vesalius's "De Humani Corporis Fabrica ... published in 1543 which inaugurated a revolution in anatomical research. ... then published about human anatomy, based on Galen's work in the second century. ... The exquisite illustrations, drawn by artists in Titian's Venetian studio, are so...
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Antiquarian & Rare Books -...Heritage Book - Heritage Book Shop ...  By George Anson Esq; Commander in Chief of a squadron of His Majesty's Ships, ... One of the Earliest Examples of a Venetian Woodcut Border ..... One of 257 Signed Copies, with Woodcuts Printed from the Original ... Exact and Authentic Narrative of M. Blanchard's Third Aerial Voyage, From ...... Star Spangled Banner.
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Bodleian Library | library, University of Oxford, England, United ...  A legal deposit library entitled to free copies of all books printed in Great Britain, the Bodleian is particularly rich in Oriental manuscripts and collections of...