From Pen to Print
TUTORIAL ONE: FROM PEN TO PRINT.
This seminar allowed the students to examine the transition from handwritten manuscripts to printed books that took place in the course of the period 1450-1550, with works that represents various stages in the transition to printing and several key examples of the printer’s art.
The Renaissance.
- [Bellum Jugurthinum] [manuscript]. (also know as the Canterbury Sallust). [between 1465 and 1470]
- Le terze rime [lo'nferno e'l purgatorio e'l paradiso]. 1502.
The Transition to Printing.
- [Canterbury roll] [manuscript] MS1. (formally known as the Maude Roll).
- The First Letter of Peter : 13th Century Leaf from a Friar's Bible. MS.5. [c. 1275]
- Book of Genesis : 13th Century Leaf from a Friar's Bible. MS6. [c.1275]
- The Prophet Jeremiah : 13th Century Leaf from a Friar's Bible. MS7. [c. 1275]
- [Psalms 40 & 42] [Manuscript]. MS4, [mid-fourteenth century].
- [Feast day of the decollation of St John the Baptist] [Manuscript]. MS3. [15thC]
- Biblia sacra Mazarina. [c.1455] A fascimilie reprint of the '42-line' or 'Mazarin' Bible printed by Johann Gutenberg. [c.1985]
The Art of Printing
- Liber chronicarum. 1493 (also known as The Nuremberg Chronicle)
- Sententiae
- De Biblie mit vlitigher achtinghe : recht na deme latine in dudesck auerghesettet Mit vorluchtinghe unde glose. 1494 (also known as The Lübeck Bible)
- [The Description of Britaine, part of The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande...by Raphael Holinshed]. 1577.
- The works of Shakespeare... . 1635 (in eight volumes).