As the incunabula period progressed, printers began to take advantage of print technology in order to mass produce texts in their entirety, slowly dropping the requirement for scribes to “finish off ” the books. In including illustrations, meanwhile, it became increasingly… Read More ›
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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (12/11/12)
This batch includes a book that is unique to the University of Glasgow – the anonymous “lityll treatyse”entitled The art and craft to know well to die. This is the only recorded surviving copy of the edition that was printed… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula project update (2/11/12)
It may have been June since we last blogged about the Glasgow Incunabula Project, but just in case you think we have been kicking our heels on some kind of extended holiday, I assure you that work “behind the scenes”… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (14/6/12)
The latest ten books to be added to the project website are: Gregorius I, Pont. Max.: Pastorale, sive Regula pastoralis [Basel: Martin Flach (printer of Basel), not after 1472] Pius II, Pont. Max.: Epistolae in Pontificatu editae Milan: Antonius Zarotus… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (29/5/2012)
Another ten books are now fully described and indexed on the project website: Heimericus de Campo: Reparationes librorum totius philosophiae naturalis secundum processum Albertistarum et Thomistarum Cologne: Ulrich Zel, 15 Nov. 1494 Legenda S. Annae Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, 16 Sept…. Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (15/5/12)
The latest ten records to be fully described and indexed on the project website are: Nider, Johannes: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis cum quadragesimali Speyer: Peter Drach, 13 Nov. 1479 Solinus, Gaius Julius: Polyhistor, sive De mirabilibus mundi [Paris]:… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (19/4/12)
The latest ten books to be fully indexed on the project website are: Regiomontanus, Johannes: Kalendarium Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 9 Aug. 1482 Johannes de Sacro Bosco: Sphaera mundi Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 6 July 1482 Alchabitius: Libellus isagogicus Venice: Erhard Ratdolt,… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (26/3/12)
The following ten books are now fully described and indexed on the project website: Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia Strassburg: [Georg Husner], 1479 Epistola de miseria curatorum [Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, ca. 1489] Benedictus de Nursia: De… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (16/3/12)
Another ten books are now fully described and indexed on the project website: Psalterium. With canticles Milan: [Printer of 'Psalterio in Volgare', 1476], 7 July 1477 Berchorius, Petrus: Liber Bibliae moralis Deventer: Richardus Pafraet, 1477 Magistri, Martinus: Expositio super Praedicabilia… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (24/2/12)
The latest ten books available via the project website are: Psalterium cum canticis [Greek and Latin] Milan: [Bonus Accursius], 20 Sept. 1481 Johannes de Sacro Bosco: Sphaera mundi Venice: [Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco] for Georgius de Monteferrato, 28 Jan. 1500/01… Read More ›