Preface to the Exhibit

Introduction to the Exhibit

The Manuscript Tradition and the Transition to Printing:

• Main Text

• Johann Gutenberg
  • The Gutenberg Bible: A Commentary, Historical Background, Transcription, Translation / by Jean-Marie Dodu. [Paris]: Editions Les Incunables, 1985.

• Manuscript Fragments #1

• Manuscript Fragments #2

• A Leaf from the Catholican. Mainz, Germany: Johann Gutenberg, 1459.

• Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. De Civitate Dei (with Commentaries by Nicolaus Trevet and Thomas Waleys). Mainz, Germany: Peter Schoeffer, 5 September 1473.

• Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. De Civitate Dei Libri XXII. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 1486.

• Nicholas of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349. [Moralia super totam Bibliam]. Mantua: Paul de Butzbach, 30 May 1481.

• Pope Gregorius IX. Decretales. Venice: [Baptista de Tortis], 20 September 1491.

• Biblia Latina. Venice: Hieronymus de Paganinis, 7 September 1497.

• Saint Jerome, d. 419 or 20. Commentaria in Bibliam. Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1497-1498.

• Honorius Augustodunensis. De Imagine Mundi. Nuremberg: [Anton Koberger, 1472?].

• Martial. Valerii Martialis Epigrammatum opus in Amphitheatrum Caesaris. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1475.

• Geoffrey Chaucer, 1340?-1400. A Leaf from The Canterbury Tales. Westminster, England: William Caxton, [1478].

• Claudius Ptolemaeus. Cosmographia. XXVII tabulae geographicae, aera incisse in membranis impresse. Rome: Arnold Buckinck, 1478.

• Giulio Pomponio Leto, 1425-1497. Romanae historiae compendium ab inheritu Gordiani Iunioris vsque ad Iustinium .III. Venice: Bernardinum Venetum de Vitalibus, [12 December 1500].

Exhibit Comments and Credits

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