A shout out to Dr. Lauren Freese and her ARTH 211 class for visiting the Archives and Special Collections on Friday. We pulled out early examples of hand-written manuscripts, a facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible – Biblia Sacra, a facsimile of the Mainzer Psalter von 1457, and early printed works with woodcut illustrations as well as engravings.
1400s. “From a Latin manuscript, the work of Italian Franciscan monks, containing the prayer of the mass.” Chilson Collection
1450? Incipit laus Sancti Bernardi Abatis; Laus de Virgine Maria: Ave mater misericordie, by Saint Bernard de Clairvaux. Poetry. Chilson Collection BX 890 .B43 L3x
1454 or 1455 / 1961. Biblia Sacra, by Johann Gutenberg. (Facsimile of the Ansel Verlag edition based on the copy in the Koniglichen Biliothek in Berlin and the Standischen Landesbibliothek, circa 1454 or 1455.) Chilson Collection Z 241 .B58 v. 1 and v. 2.
1457 / 1968. Mainzer Psalter von 1457, by the Catholic Church. Chilson Collection BX 2033 .A3 M3 1457a
- Tusculanarum quaestiones, by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Publisher: Venice, Nicolas Jenson. Chilson Collection PA 6304 .T71 1472
- De Imitatione Christi (Imitation of Christ), by Thomas à Kempis, printed by Caspar Hochfeder at Nüremberg. Chilson Collection
- Politica Economica Aristotelis. Leonardo aretino interprete, by Aristotles. Chilson Collection PA 3890 .A8 1506
- Hortus Sanitatis, by Johann von Cube of Frankfort. Chilson Collection
- Sententiae ex Thesauris Graecorum Delectae, by Joannes Stobaeus. Printed by Johannes Oporinus of Basle, Switzerland. Chilson Collection PA 4436 .A5 1549
- Theatrum Anatomicum, by Caspar Bauhin. Printed in Frankfurt am Main, under the patronage of Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. Chilson Collection QS B353 1604
- Ecclesiastes. The Song of Solomon, by Robert Barker. “From the first edition of the King James Bible.” Chilson Collection BS1763 1611
- Cremona fedelissima citta, et nobilissima colonia de Romani: rappresentata in desegno col svo contato, et illvstrate d’vna breve historia delle cose piv notabili appartenenti as essa, et dei ritratti natvrali de dvchi, et dvchesse di Milano, e compendio delle lor vite, by Antonio Campi and Agostino Carracci. Mahoney Music Collection DG 975 .C8 C2 1645
- L. Annaei Senecae Philosophi Opera, quae extant omnia: A Iusto Lipsio Emendata et Scholiis Illustrata. Engravings by Cornelis Galle the Elder after Peter Paul Rubens. Chilson Collection
- Histoire des Juifs, by Flavius Joseph, translated by Arnauld d’Andilly. Chilson Collection DS 116. J81 1681
- Gabinetto Armonico pieno d’istromenti ti sonori, indicati, spiegati, e di nuovo corretti ed accresciuti, by Filippo Buonanni. Mahoney Music Collection ML 460 .B94 1723
- Versuch einer grundlichen Violinschule, entworfen und mit 4. Kupfertafeln sammt einer Tabelle, by Leopold Mozart. Mahoney Music Collection MT 262 .M93 1756
- Grondig onderwys in het behandelen der viool, by Leopold Mozart. Mahoney Music Collection MT 262. M93 1766
- Lutherie: contenant trente-quatre planches, dont une double, by Denis Diderot, Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, and Robert Bénard. Mahoney Music Collection ML 460. L87 1767
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