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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 283 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_282.jpg |
| Transcript | German Musi tves by Durer (Apocalypse, Passions, Life of Mary , Lucas Cranach, Hans Burgkmair, Grien. SchaufFelein. etc . and of copper-engravings] by Durer, Lucas van Leyden, Aldegrever. Altdorfer, Augustin Hirschvogel, etc. In the next room we enter the region of printed books, and find a well-arranged and delightful collection. In case i., among other examples of the early ■ Block books " (books printed wholly from carved blocks of wood, from which undoubtedly the idea of moveable type arose), we note the Art Moriettdi and the KaUndar of Ludwig von Basel (1460 ?). Ot Block books at Nuremberg, we may note that Hans Sporer produced here an edition of the Endkrist (1472), of the Art Moritndiy 1473, and of the Biblia Pauperum (1475). The first two books to be printed from moveable type were two Latin Bible- (./>.. 1453). Of these, one is known as the thirty-six line, or Bamberg Bible. It was printed by Guten- and is represented in the Museum by two leaves only (case iv. The other is known as the Forty-two line, or Mazarine Bible. It was printed by Gutenberg, in partnership with Fust and SchofTer, and is represented here by one leaf (case ii.). One leaf, too, is all there is here to tell of with the wonderful capital letters printed by Fust and SchofTer. The extraordinary beauty and perfection of printing in its infancy can never fail to arrest attention. The explanation is obvious. It was not till the . with whom printers had at first to compete in the multiplication of books, had ceased to exist that printers could afford to be careless in their work and indifferent in their choice of types. Then there are the three books ascribed to Gutenberg's M about the year 1460— (1) The Tractate rations et conscientia of Matthxu- de Craci (2) The Summa de m iof Thomas Aquinas: and (3) The Catholicon. The * Catholicon type appears again in the Latin-German dictionary known as the Voaxbularius ex quo, the second edition of which, published by Nikolaus Bechtermunze at Eltvil, .is here represented. Copies of the rir>t fourteen German Bibles ( 1466. with the exception of the second and seventh, will be 1 To view a further collection apply to the Director. 283 |