Medievalists.net » Printing History http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Beautiful Images from the Nuremberg Chronicle http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/25/beautiful-images-nuremberg-chronicle/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/25/beautiful-images-nuremberg-chronicle/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:25:36 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=55663 Created in 1493, the Nuremberg Chronicle is a history of the World going back to Biblical times. Written by Hartmann Schedel, it was printed in Latin and German editions with hundreds of copies being sold. The 1801 woodcut illustrations were done by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Here are some of favourite images!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/love-marriage-medieval-english-stage-using-english-cycle-plays-sources-social-history/feed/ 0 Aberdeen Breviary goes online http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/26/aberdeen-breviary-goes-online/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/26/aberdeen-breviary-goes-online/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:14:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52857 A copy of the Aberdeen Breviary, one of the first printed books in Scotland, has been purchased by the National Library of Scotland and is now available to read online.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/26/aberdeen-breviary-goes-online/feed/ 0 (Re)casting the Past: The Cloisters and Medievalism http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:35:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51257 In this essay, I focus on a variety of texts printed using Anglo-Saxon type between 1566 and 1623 in an effort to explore the use of Anglo-Saxon typeface in the early modern period as the use of the Old English language progressed from polemical truncheon to historiographical instrument.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/feed/ 0 Printing with gold in the fifteenth century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/17/printing-with-gold-in-the-fifteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/17/printing-with-gold-in-the-fifteenth-century/#comments Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:12:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46756 Gold printing in the fifteenth century is very rare. There are only two printers who are known to have applied this technique. One of them was Erhard Ratdolt who first used gold for printing a gloriously spectacular full page of dedication in a number of copies of his editio princeps of Euclid.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/17/printing-with-gold-in-the-fifteenth-century/feed/ 0 ‘Selling stories and many other things in and through the city’: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/04/selling-stories-and-many-other-things-in-and-through-the-city-peddling-print-in-renaissance-florence-and-venice/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/04/selling-stories-and-many-other-things-in-and-through-the-city-peddling-print-in-renaissance-florence-and-venice/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2013 00:37:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45491 ‘Selling stories and many other things in and through the city’: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice Rosa M. Salzberg (University of Warwick) Sixteenth Century Journal: XLII/3 (2011) Abstract Mobile and marginal, street sellers tend to disappear from the historical record, yet they played a very important part in the dissemination of cheap print […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/04/selling-stories-and-many-other-things-in-and-through-the-city-peddling-print-in-renaissance-florence-and-venice/feed/ 0 Of Monks, Medieval Scribes, and Middlemen http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/03/of-monks-medieval-scribes-and-middlemen/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/03/of-monks-medieval-scribes-and-middlemen/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:04:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39041 The copying of books was also slow, tedious, and very time-consuming; it took years for a scribe to complete 'a particularly fine manuscript with colored initials and miniature art work.'

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/26/wormholes-from-centuries-old-art-prints-reveal-history/feed/ 0 Authors, Scribes, Patrons and Books http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/28/authors-scribes-patrons-and-books/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/28/authors-scribes-patrons-and-books/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:18:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36750 This essay gives an account of the social role of manuscripts and early printed books and the processes by which they were made, processes that changed greatly during the period

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/28/authors-scribes-patrons-and-books/feed/ 0 Medieval and Renaissance Book Production http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/28/medieval-and-renaissance-book-production/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/28/medieval-and-renaissance-book-production/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:15:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35192 We are accustomed to think of the periods of manuscripts and printed books as distinct. Traditionally a scholar working in one of these fields has known little of the other field.

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