Pages from the past: 1490-1499

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Digest of civil law : [pages 113-114]
Information about this leaf: Printed in massed gothic type in red and black ink with rubrication and initial letters., Information about this book: This book is so rare that there is only one other known copy in the United States., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label.
Hortus sanitatis : [1 leaf]
Information about page: The typography of the page is a bold gothic, and the pages are unnumbered. The illustrations were done by an anonymous printer, but were done with the classic woodcut method. The illustrations feature three animals: a bull, horse and elephant., Information about the book: Many books were published under this title, it was a generic name given to books about botany and medicine. There are also many editions of this book. This book contains medieval lore about the therapeutic properties of animals, vegetables and minerals., Information about local copy: The page has slight staining around the corners, and some of the print bleeds through from the back of the page to the front.
Liber chronicarum : [pages 238-239]
Information about this leaf: This leaf was printed in a modified gothic type on paper that came from a mill just outside of Nuremberg., Information about this book: The Nuremberg Chronicle was "one of the greatest publishing ventures of its time, and is known as the Picture Book of the Fifteenth Century." The book contains over 300 leaves and more than 1900 woodcuts, many of which are repeats. -from the label, Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.
Opera et libri vite fratris Thome de Kempis ordinis canonicorum regularium, quorum titulos vide in primo folio : [1 leaf]
Information about this leaf: It is printed in a modified gothic text type with black ink in two columns, with very slight rubrication in red. This manuscript leaf is from De Imitatione Christi (The Imitation of Christ) included within this folio of works by Thomas a Kempis, although his authorship of De Imitatione Christi has been questioned., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on January 27, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.
Propositiones ex omnibus Aristotelis libris excerptae : [pages 53-54]
Information about this leaf: This manuscript is printed in roman in black and red ink., Information about this book: Brother Theophilus of Ferrara set forth these excerpts according to the expositions of Saint Thomas Aquinas and other scholars. A note on the last page states that the book was printed at the expense of Alexander Calcedonius of Pisaurum, a merchant. It is also stated that a special license was obtained from the Doge which prevented anyone else from printing this book in the Venetian State. The penalty for violators would be a fine and the confiscation of all the printed copies., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on Januaury 27, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.
Stultifera navis : [1 leaf]
Information about this leaf: The woodcut is a representation of the vices 'Of Beggars.' All 117 original woodcuts from Stultifera Navis or Ship of Fools, including this one, as well as the printer's device of Johann Bergmann von Olpe, can be viewed in the University of Houston's digital library by following this link: Ship of Fools, Information about this book: "The famous fifteenth-century satire on mankind's weaknesses and follies, "The Ship of Fools"/"Das Narrenschiff," composed in humorous verse by the German humanist Sebastian Brant, was first published in Basel by Johann Bergmann in 1494. Illustrated by woodcuts, many of which authorities now believe were designed by Albrecht Durer, it was immediately taken up by other printers and several unauthorized reprints using the original woodcuts appeared in other German cities in the same year. In 1497 a Latin translation done by Brant's friend Jacob Locher was published by the original printer. This copy is dated 1498. The volume contains one hundred and seventeen woodcuts, the first in the book bearing the date 1497 as does Bergmann's device which follows the colophon. The device shows a lion with a shield bearing six hills surmounted by a fleur-de-lis, which is surrounded by a scroll 'Nihil Sine Causa,' the date, and another scroll 'Io Bergman De Olpe.' There are ornamental side borders." --WorldCat record for the book (viewed on 02/17/2016), Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label and through examination of the University of Houton's digital collection of the woodcuts (viewed on 02/17/2016). WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.
Vocabularius : Gemma vocabulorum : [1 leaf]
Information about this leaf: Printed in plain type on durable paper, this leaf has no rubrication or embellished initial letters. The words are followed by 1 line explanations., Information about this book: This book is a compendium of the Latin-Dutch vocabulary. Some time after its initial printing the book this leaf is from was rebound with a 1488 dictionary., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on January 27, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.
Vulgate Bible : [1 leaf]
Information about this leaf: This leaf is printed in two columns in black ink. It appears to be from the book of Psalms, possibly beginning with Psalm 45 at the first indentation on the front of the leaf., Information about this book: The printer prefaces his remarks with an invocation of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin, and the "entire celestial mititia [sic]." --From the label, Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label.