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Tracking Incunables between Venice and Oxford

Inscription on Livy, Historiae Romanae decades, publ. Venice 1481, Bodleian Auct. Q inf. 2.21: 1574 die xii mensis septembris. Philippi d Francisci q. v. H. D. Philippi liber quem emit apud S. Marcum...

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Re-reading the 15th century in digital images

Digitization of a number of inscriptions on Bodleian incunables has captured some of the evidence for the early use and ownership of pre-1500 printed books. Under the direction of Cristina Dondi, who...

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Seminar on the History of the Book: Martin McLaughlin, “From Cosimo Bartoli...

Engraving of a design for a triumphal arch, from James Leoni's 1726 English translation of Alberti's De re aedificatoria. The inscription on the arch alludes to the 1725 Treaty of Hanover signed by...

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Monastic provenances of early printed books in Bodleian collections: case 1

A Bible from the Benedictines of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice Fol. a1r: initial Biblia Latina Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1480. Folio and 4o (ISTC ib00566000; Bod-inc B-275) Bodleian...

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Monastic provenances of early printed books in Bodleian collections: case 2

An incunable from the Benedictines of Tegernsee Fol. b2r: page border Gualtherus Burlaeus, De vita et moribus philosophorum [short edition] [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, not after 1473]. Folio (ISTC...

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Case studies: evidence and provenance histories of monastic books now in the...

In anticipation of the conference “How the secularisation of religious houses transformed the libraries of Europe, 16th-19th centuries“  (22-24th March 2012, Oxford), some monastic books now in...

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Monastic provenances of early printed books in Bodleian collections: case 3

An incunable from the Benedictines of Fiecht (Tyrol) Fol. a1r Hugo de Sancto Victore, Didascalicon [Strasbourg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), not after 1474] (ISTC ih00532000;...

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Monastic provenances of early printed books in Bodleian collections: case 4

An Augustinus from the Augustinian Canons regular of the Lateran congregation of Padua  Augustinus, De civitate Dei Venice: Johannes and Vindelinus de Spira, 1470. Folio (ISTC ia01233000; Bod-inc...

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Monastic provenances of early printed books in Bodleian collections: case 5

Aristoteles’ Opera from the Premonstratensians of Weissenau   Fol. 3A1r     Aristoteles, Opera Venice: A. Torresanus and B. de Blavis (in part for Johannes de Colonia), 1483. Folio (ISTC ia00962000;...

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A visual record of unidentified coats of arms in Bodleian incunables

From Marie-Eugénie Lecouffe (Enssib / CSB intern) The importance for a library such as the Bodleian Library of making provenance information more available for its users, with the aim of helping...

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The first printing revolution re-examined: Oxford Bibliographical Society

12 May 2014: The Oxford Bibliographical Society hosted Cristina Dondi speaking about ‘the first printing revolution’ and our understanding of the transformation of the economics of communications....

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Printing, sculpture and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: display and lecture, 6...

On display in the Proscholium of the Bodleian Library now are examples of Renaissance books from the printing house of Aldus Manutius (c.1450-1515). See the online exhibition:...

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Die Armenbibel im Stundenbuch/ The Biblia Pauperum in the Book of Hours – On...

A guest post from Stefan Matter (Freiburg/Schweiz)  Abstract: Early printed books of hours are distinguished by their extensive border schemes, executed in text and images, which have hitherto scarcely...

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A virtual tour of Dante 1481 in multiple copies

See recording of the online multi-library event on 4 May 2021 See the film demonstrating printing an intaglio plate on a letterpress sheet A follow-up seminar will take place on 6 July 2021;...

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