#Incunable

[othmeralia]

When you accidentally type “moon faces” into Google instead of “moon phases.” Oops!⁠ ⁠ This resting moon face is from Liber Chronicarum (1493).⁠

[victusinveritas]

Ink spill!

Recto and verso (front/back), Ovid’s Metamorphoses (printed by Elisabeth de Rusconibus), Venice, 1527. Madrid, Universidad Complutense.

Source: @ AntigoneJournal on Twitter

[jamesgraybooksellerworld]

9 incunabula not in NYC Part TWO

This week’s blog is descriptions of a few more incunabula not represented in NYC libraries #1 Two Incunabula bound together. One Very Rare, printed at Vienne by Eberhard Frommolt. Both rubricated at the same time and both signed by the Rubricator!  https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search?query=+ig00654800&from=0 https://data.cerl.org/istc/it00553000 444J Guillermus…

[houghtonlib]

Houghton cataloger Graham Skinner is taking a course on digital photography and shared these extreme closeups they took that turn the spines of some of our incunables (books printed 1450-1500) into compelling and unfamiliar landscapes.

[talkingpiffle]

I didn't find any Sayers at the Antiquarian Book Fair this year, but did spot this John Donne first edition that Lord Peter might have wanted for his collection.

[u-mspcoll]

Next week | Incunables in Special Collections: Five Decades of Printing History

Detail of the opening of Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Opera. Ed. and comm: Christophorus Landinus. Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 5 Aug. 1482.

Join us next Thursday, 18 January between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event!

Drop in any time during this open house to view a selection of incunables held in the U-M Library’s Special Collections. These books are extraordinary witnesses of an exciting period of technical and artistic innovation in book history. Join us if you can!

[useless-catalanfacts]

The Episcopal Archive and Library of Vic, Central Catalonia.

This archive contains the documentation generated by the Diocese of Vic for over 1000 years, as well as some other non-religious collections about its area that the Diocese has gathered throughout the centuries. It includes, among others, the document of consecration for Vic's cathedral, 5 papyrus Papal bulls (out of the 23 that exist in the world), documents of the trials against supposed witches, and many others that tell the history of Catalonia in the last 12 centuries.

The building also contains the Episcopal Library, which has about 200 incunables (books printed in the very earliest stages of printing in Europe, before the year 1500) and more than 300 manuscripts, the earliest of which is a parchment scroll dated in the year 882.

Photos by Victòria Rovira Casanovas published in La Mira. Information from Arxiu i Biblioteca Episcopal de Vic and La Mira.

[muspeccoll]

Winter storms are on their way across the Midwest, so make sure you're as stocked up with reading material as Louis Bosch, Curé of Tamise! He's shown here with his library in his very own custom-engraved bookplate from around 1750. It's affixed to the copy of Pius II's Epistolae familiares that is now part of our incunable collection.

Stay warm and safe!

[hildegardavon]

 Johannes Zainer, active 1473-1523

Woodcut illustration (leaf [c]9v, f. [xix]) of Niobe, Amphion and their dead sons, from an incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, one of 76 woodcut illustrations.

Penn Libraries (Universitat de Pennsilvània, Philadelphia), Catalog number Inc B-720 

[squeegin]

Y en la sección de Incunables...

[viecome]

Álbum de Bibliotecas en construcción. CCXLXXXVII

Vamos a entrar en la biblioteca del monasterio de Admont, en Austria). Una maravilla del siglo XVIII. Sus libros antiguos se han restaurado y tiene más de mil manuscritos e incunables. pic.twitter.com/xN3rRdjdsn— J. L. Martín Nogales (@jlmartinnogales) April 19, 2024 https://twitter.com/i/status/1781317376685867145

[othmeralia]

"Seriously? You're going to interrupt me? I just got to the good part!"

Woodcut found in Liber chronicarum (1493).

[carloskaplan]

Incunable de Ulm (1482): Tabula Moderna Hispanie

[jamesgraybooksellerworld]

453J Diogenes Lærtius; philosophorum vita

2) 453J Diogenes Lærtius , (Tr: Ambrosius Traversarius 1386-1439.) Diogenis lærtii historiographi de philosophorum vita decem per q[uam] fecundi libri ad bene beateq[ue] viuendu[m] co[m]motiui.  Paris : Guy or  Jean Marchant, for Jean Petit, [about 1509]. {Venundantur Parisius in vico Diui Iacobi apud Leonem Argenteum. :             Price:  $3,600 Quarto. 20 x 14.5 cm. Signatures: A8, a-y8/4,…

[eclecticpjf]

093 Incunabula

In the history of printing, an incunable or incunabulum (plural incunables or incunabula, respectively) is a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500. Incunabula were produced before the printing press became widespread on the continent and are distinct from manuscripts, which are documents written by hand.

I’m doomed.

The last three digits of your current follower count is the Dewey Decimal Classification subject on which you must immediately give a 15-minute presentation.

How would you do?

[jimmycabezasd]

PARODIANDO A ARACATACA

Siempre que mencionan a Gabriel García Márquez y su incunable Cien Años de Soledad pienso, y lo he dicho una y otra vez, que qué tal que ese monstruo hubiese nacido en Tumaco. Hoy que cumpliría 98 ruedas el vate, voy a tomarme la licencia de referirme, con el mayor de los respetos, a él, a su obra y a su pueblo. Por allá en algún año de los vibrantes ochenta, luego en todo caso de nuestro…