Image Field Data Collection Early Printing - in Europe filename oulis2009-bog0001 folio Flyleaf with Inscriptions Detail (dimensions) 400 x 320 mm Detail (date of creation) [ca. 1628/9] sort order 10 Shelfmark Arch. B b.4 Description Picture calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church printed on one side of the paper in a press. The leaves are dated variously 1626, 1628, and 1629 Title Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov’ Printer [Monastery of the Caves] Type of Object Blockbook Country or culture of origin Ukraine Place of origin Ukraine, Kiev Extent [12] full sheets Dimensions 400 x 320 mm Conditions of Access The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Language Russian Date of origin Collection blockbooks Keywords endpapers Keywords manuscript Catalogue Reference Bod. Inc., Blockbooks, woodcut and metalcut single sheets, p.3.
Image Field Data Collection Early Printing - in Europe filename oulis2009-bog0002 folio Flyleaf with Inscriptions verso Detail (dimensions) 400 x 320 mm Detail (date of creation) [ca. 1628/9] sort order 20 Shelfmark Arch. B b.4 Description Picture calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church printed on one side of the paper in a press. The leaves are dated variously 1626, 1628, and 1629 Title Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov’ Printer [Monastery of the Caves] Type of Object Blockbook Country or culture of origin Ukraine Place of origin Ukraine, Kiev Extent [12] full sheets Dimensions 400 x 320 mm Conditions of Access The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Language Russian Date of origin Collection blockbooks Keywords endpapers Catalogue Reference Bod. Inc., Blockbooks, woodcut and metalcut single sheets, p.3.
Image Field Data Collection Early Printing - in Europe filename oulis2009-btj0048 folio n5 recto Caption The Fables probably originated in the fifth century BC, with the Greek slave Aesop who gained a reputation as a teller of animal stories. They became a standard school-text during the Renaissance, and this edition was translated and printed by William Caxton at Westminster in th-century inscriptions on this page: ‘Jvvenall sayth there is no thyng more tollerable than a rych wyfe’; ‘As tyme permytteth the to lyue so oughtest thou to be[ ] from daye to daye from tyme to tyme this domge to[ ]’; ‘O deus omnipotens soli miserere Johannis Quem mors preueniens non [ ] esse [ ]’; ‘Haue ye in mynd I haue byn kynd That I fore ye haue smartte Remember me as I haue done ye And ye thatt haue my harte’. [A drawing of a heart pierced by an arrow]. ‘John Haddon boke’; ‘Ocruell death as subtill as a fox thou mightest haue let [ ]h[ ]u cu[ ] Fyned till he had bin an [ ] that he might haue [ ] led his lief amonge brambles and thornes till he cam to his fathers adge to haue wor[ ] Jhon Haddon as the gorc[ ] [ ] p[ ]ire as monstrous’ Detail (dimensions) 279 x 193 mm. (page) sort order 11 Shelfmark Arch. G d.13(4) Description Vita et Fabulae (Westminster: William Caxton, 26 Mar. 1484) Title Vita et fabulae Author Aesopus Printer Caxton, William Type of Object printed book Country or culture of origin English Conditions of Access The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Language English Date of origin 1484 Collection incunable Keywords printed pages Keywords woodcuts Catalogue Reference Bod. Inc. Cat., A-054(1)
Image Field Data Collection Early Printing - in Europe filename oulis2009-btj0043 folio Additional leaf before a1, verso Caption A parchment leaf bearing the text of fol. xi in a different setting, apparently a pastedown of the original binding. Bears inscription of Johannes Kewsch (fl ) Detail (Materials and Techniques) parchment Detail (dimensions) 396 x 270 mm. (page) Detail (place of origin) German sort order 19 Shelfmark Auct. 1 Q 1.7 Description Missale Herbipolense (Würzburg).Commissioned by Rudolphus de Scherenberg, Episcopus Herbipolensis ([Würzburg: Georg Reyser, 1481]) Title Missale Herbipolense Owner Johannes Kewsch (fl ); Printer Reyser, Georg Type of Object printed book Country or culture of origin German Conditions of Access The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Language Latin Date of origin 1481 Collection incunable Keywords additional pages Keywords provenance evidence Keywords inscriptions Catalogue Reference Bod. Inc. Cat., M-256
Image Field Data Collection Early Printing - in Europe filename oulis2009-bbr0017 folio a1 recto Caption This item was owned by an Italian 16th-century merchant with English connections; perhaps to be identified with the Nicolao di Gianandrea Rustici who, in 1526, received a grant from the Council of Lucca ‘pro se exercendo in curia Serenissimi Regis Angliae’. It was later owned by Robert Burton ( ). Detail (dimensions) 197 x 133 mm. (page) Detail (date of creation) 16th century sort order 10 Shelfmark Auct. 2Q 5.10 Description Orationes et poemata (Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, 4 Sept. 1492) Title Orationes et poemata Author Beroaldus, Philippus Owner Burton, Robert ( ) Printer Trechsel, Johannes Type of Object printed book Country or culture of origin French Conditions of Access The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Language Latin Date of origin 1492 Collection incunable Keywords printed pages Keywords provenance evidence Keywords inscriptions Catalogue Reference Bod. Inc. Cat., B-229