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Early Manuscripts and Printed Books 1180-1545.

Images of early manuscripts and printed books dating from 1180-1545 in the Rare Book Room

Medieval Germany

Medieval Germany

Leaf from Catholicon

Leaf from Catholicon.  Printed in black with rubricated capitals.  Mainz. 1460.  (May have been printed by Gutenberg.) 

Leaf from Catholicon

Leaf from Dat duytsche passionail

Leaf from Dat duytsche passionail.  Jacobus de Voragine.  Printed in black with rubricated capitals.  In low German.  Cologne.  1485.

Leaf from Dat duytsche passionail

Leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle

Leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle.  Printed in black with hand-colored woodcut images.  In Latin. Nuremberg.  1493.

Leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle

Leaf from Weltchronik

Leaf from Weltchronik. Hartman Schedel.  The German printing of the Nuremberg Chronicle. With rubricated capitals.  In German.  Augsberg. 1497.

Leaf from Weltchronik

Leaf from De Beschlossen Gart der Rosenkrantz Marie.

Leaf from De Beschlossen Gart der Rosenkrantz Marie

Leaf from De Beschlossen Gart der Rosenkrantz Marie.  Ulrich Pinder.  With woodcuts by Hans Baldung, et al. In German.  Nuremberg. 1505.

Der Beschlossen Gart der Rosenkrantz Marie.

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