#incunables

[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.

[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!

[othmeralia]

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

[squeegin]

Y en la sección de Incunables...

[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.

[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…

[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 

[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

[carloskaplan]

Incunable de Ulm (1482): Tabula Moderna Hispanie

[u-mspcoll]

Still time to apply! More information here

Applications Open: Special Collections Research Fellowships

The current application cycle is now open for fellowships available to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our special collections! 

Read more!

[othmeralia]

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

Woodcut found in Liber chronicarum (1493).

[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…

[utopense]

Curso: comentario de la Suma Teológica

Summa Theologiaede Tomás de Aquino Página de una edición incunable de la parte II(Peter Schöffer, Mainz, 1471).Tema(s)Filosofía, teología católica, escolástica y Quinque viae IdiomaLatín eclesiástico [editar datos en Wikidata] La Suma teológica (cuyo título en latín es Summa theologiæ o Summa theologica, a veces llamada simplemente la Summa), es un tratado de teología escrito entre 1265 y 1274…