Showing posts with label Incunabula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Incunabula. Show all posts

Printing in England from William Caxton to Christopher Barker

5:12 PM
The page of an exhibition held in England in 1977! Gives lots of information on the era. Some nice images also, but mostly text: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/printing/index.html The images below are William Gilbert's "De magnete" , printed in London by Petrus Short in 1600 (top), Galen's and "De temperamentis, et de inaequalia intemperie" from 1521 (middle), and James Pilkington's "A godlie exposition …

The Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection

8:25 PM
Huge archive of etchings of the artist, covers a huge range from costumes to architecture to maps and title pages. The image quality of quite a few of the reproductions is not the greatest, unfortunately. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/hollar/

Incunabula Collection

2:26 AM
http://www.ndl.go.jp/incunabula/e/index.html Probably the best collection of Icunabula to be found online - at least that I am aware of. Not only many superb quality images but also very good explanatory text . The collection mostly concentrates on full text pages (with relatively few images); which I find particularly fascinating since there are so many similarities that one can pinpoint between contemporary, typographically based page layouts an…
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