the first edition of Thomas More's Utopia, published in Louvain in 1516.a copy of William Tyndale's New Testament, printed in Worms in 1526.Our printed books cover every possible subject, including religion, literature, editions of the Classics, editions of the Bible, grammars and dictionaries, and medical and scientific books. Facsimiles Illustrating Types used in Fifteenth Century printed books: vols 4-7 (PDF format, 20.8 MB).Ī substantial number of our 16th-century printed books came into the Library with the large foundation collections, and we have added to the collections through regular acquisitions.Facsimiles Illustrating Types used in Fifteenth Century printed books: vols.8-10 are found in the volumes themselves listed above. Reproductions of type used in books described in vols.
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1-7 are available in the PDF supplements below. 602) and the reproductions of the type used in his books are on Plate LIX in Facsimiles Illustrating Types vols. For example, Albrecht Kunne’s press in Memmingen is described in BMC vol. The accompanying Plates with reproductions of the type is indicated in Roman numerals. Surveys of print types used by each of the named printers is given in the summary of their press prior to descriptions of the individual editions printed. Help identifying varieties of Type used by early printersīMC provides visual facsimiles of types used to print 15th century books. Holland, Belgium (PDF format, 53.6 MB).France, French, French-speaking Switzerland (PDF format, 133 MB).Ferrara, Florence, Milan, Bologna, Naples, Perugia and Treviso (PDF format, 82.3 MB). Italy: Subiaco and Rome (PDF format, 46.8 MB).German-speaking Switzerland and Austria-Hungary (PDF format, 75.5 MB). Germany: Eltvil Trier (PDF format, 43.5 MB).Xylographica and books printed with types at Mainz, Strassburg, Bamberg and Cologne (PDF format, 61.6 MB).The BMC numbered volumes cover the areas of printing activity below (click on the link to access a word-searchable electronic facsimile):
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Printed copies of the BMC are on open shelves in the Rare Books & Music Reading Room at shelfmark RAR 093.016 ENG. Most of the British Library's incunabula are described in detail in 'BMC', the Catalogue of books printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum (London: British Museum. 'BMC', Catalogue of books printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum
There are some 12,500 incunabula at the British Library, which represent about 10,390 editions out of an estimated total of surviving 28,000 editions published in the 15th century.
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