1. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Early Printing - in Europe filename oulis2009-btj0054 folio a6 recto Caption This edition of Pliny was printed for the Florentine banker, Filippo Strozzi (1428-1491). Cristoforo Landino (1424-1492) was paid 50 gold florins for the translation into Italian. This copy is printed on parchment, and was bound and hand-illuminated for Strozzi by the Florentine illuminator Monte di Giovanni di Miniato (1448-1529). The bills survive and it took four years for the job to be completed, at a cost (for both binding and illumination) of 76 florins 15 soldi and 11 denars. The illustrations include Pliny as the scholarly scientist; and Filippo Strozzi and his son (lower right). The coat of arms in the lower margin is that of Filippo (in his accounts Strozzi referred to this book as ‘my Pliny’). Detail (Materials and Techniques) parchment Detail (dimensions) 415 x 280 mm. (page) sort order 30 Shelfmark Arch. G b.6 Description Historia naturalis [Italian] Historia naturale (Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1476) Title Historia naturalis [Italian] Historia naturale Author Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the elder). Owner Strozzi, Filippo (1428-1491) Printer Jensen, Nicolaus Type of Object printed book Country or culture of origin Italian Conditions of Access The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Language Latin Date of origin 1476 Collection incunable Keywords printed pages Keywords illuminations Keywords provenance evidence Image subject terms foliage, tendrils, branches - ornament Image subject terms cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti' Image subject terms sheep Image subject terms scholar, philosopher Catalogue Reference Bod. Inc. Cat., P-372(2)

2. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Early Printing - in Europe filename oulis2009-btj0053 folio upper cover Caption The earliest Florentine binding in ‘humanistic’ style. The illumination and binding were completed in 1483. Dark olive-green goatskin over thick wooden boards bevelled inwards. Four red textile clasps (lacking) hinged on the upper cover were secured by silver ornaments (sixteenth- century?) bearing the De Nobili arms. Four domed bosses with scalloped shell surrounds on each cover. Large silver catches on the lower cover with the Strozzi emblem, a lamb lying in a field with the motto ‘MITIS ESTO’, on a niello plaque. Tooled in blind with three five-line frames, the second and third enclosing a border of a foliate tool in blind; the innermost frame is double, the two five-line sections divided by a single gilt line; gilt leaves at the outer corners of, and inside, the innermost frame; gilt fleurons in the central panel; oval ornament in blind around a silver roundel containing, gilt, the word ‘PLINIO’ on the upper cover and ‘DENA. ISTO.’ on the lower. Detail (Materials and Techniques) goat-skin Detail (dimensions) 435 x 295 mm. (binding) Detail (date of creation) 15th century Detail (place of origin) Italian sort order 10 Shelfmark Arch. G b.6 Description Historia naturalis [Italian] Historia naturale (Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1476) Title Historia naturalis [Italian] Historia naturale Author Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the elder). Printer Jensen, Nicolaus Type of Object printed book Country or culture of origin Italian Conditions of Access The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Language Italian Date of origin 1476 Collection incunable Keywords bindings Keywords provenance evidence Catalogue Reference Bod. Inc. Cat., P-372(2)

3. ------------- Image1 ------------- 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. 1481-1486) 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. 1481-1486); 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

4. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Early Printing - in Europe filename oulis2009-brk0006 folio a2 recto Caption Owned by a printer, Johannes Drach. Pen work decoration in red and blue. Inscription (scored through): "Fr[atru]m Min[orum] Conuentual[ium] Herbipoli 1673". Detail (dimensions) 335 x 237 mm. (page) Detail (date of creation) 17th century Detail (place of origin) Bavarian sort order 20 Shelfmark Auct. 1Q 1.27 Description Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei (Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 Sept. 1474) Title Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei Author Henricus de Herp Owner Drach, Johannes (c.1450-1504); Würzburg, Bavaria, Conventual Franciscans, Inventio crucis/Sancta crux Printer Schoeffer, Peter 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 1474 Collection incunable Keywords printed pages Keywords provenance evidence Image subject terms ornamental decoration - printed matter, book Catalogue Reference Bod. Inc. Cat., H-019

5. ------------- Image1 ------------- 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 (1577-1640). 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 (1577-1640) 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

6. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Early Printing - in Europe filename oulis2009-bbr0014 folio a2 recto Caption The owner of this book, Thomas Lambertus, has had his coat of arms emblazoned on this leaf: party per fess, in chief argent a demilion rampant or, holding in the right paw a star gules; in base, azure and vert a chief-pale purpure (see Crollalanza II 4); the shield is flanked by the initials T. L. Detail (dimensions) 430 x 276 mm. (page) sort order 10 Shelfmark Auct. 3Q 3.38 Description Liber pandectarum medicinae (ed. Matthaeus Moretus) ([Modena]: Johannes Vurster, [July] 1474) Title Liber pandectarum medicinae Author Silvaticus, Matthaeus; Moretus, Matthaeus Owner Lambertus, Thomas Printer Vurster, Johnannes Type of Object printed book Country or culture of origin Italian Conditions of Access The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Language Latin Date of origin 1474 Collection incunable Keywords printed pages Keywords illuminations Keywords provenance evidence Catalogue Reference Bod. Inc. Cat., S-204