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Part of Early print collection
Calendar for part of August and September with golden numbers, dominical letters, and feast days.
Part of Early print collection
Calendar for part of August and September with golden numbers, dominical letters, and feast days.
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Collection illustrates the early development of movable type printing in Europe. Collection consists of printed books including a book of hours, leaves from Bibles, hagiographies, liturgical texts, Japanese woodblock prints, and works of history, literature, and canon law.
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Gassho Dojikun [combined book of children's textbook]
Part of Early print collection
Item is an illustrated textbook for children from Edo Period, created by Suaraya Gensuke and six other authors. The textbook covers a wide range of topics and subjects including moral teachings, historical events, times tables, geography, reading, math, and defines important relationships such as those between a feudal lord and followers, father/son, husband/wife, and parents/children etc.
Part of Early print collection
B2 verso. Features a historiated metalcut border of Saint John holding a poisoned cup with a dead man at his feet, from an apocryphal tale in which Saint John is challenged by Aristodemus, the pagan chief priest of the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, to drink a cup of poison in order to prove his faith.
Part of Early print collection
B2 verso. Features an overpainted metalcut of Saint John the Evangelist on the island of Patmos with a vision of the Virgin and Child in the sky. John has his gospel on his lap and is accompanied by an eagle, his evangelist symbol.
Part of Early print collection
Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Compline
Part of Early print collection
G6 verso. Features an overpainted metalcut of the Coronation of the Virgin. An angel places a crown on Mary’s head while God the Father, enthroned and holding an orb, blesses her.
Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Lauds
Part of Early print collection
D7 recto. Features an overpainted metalcut of Augustus and the Tiburtine Sybil. The Roman emperor consults the prophetess, who reveals a celestial vision of the Virgin and Child, while a young man looks on. According to medieval legend, when Augustus consulted the Sibyl about whether he should accept apotheosis (recognition as a god after his death), she prophesied the coming of Christ and revealed a vision of the Virgin and Child on the site of the future Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome.
Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Matins
Part of Early print collection
C5 verso. Features an overpainted metalcut of the Expulsion from the Garden. Adam and Eve, covering themselves in shame, are expelled from the Garden of Eden by an angel with a sword, with God the Father and Christ above.
Part of Early print collection
K1 verso. Historiated metalcut border featuring a naked corpse awaiting burial lying on a shroud beside a churchyard cross and a wooden grave marker.
Part of Early print collection
H7 verso. Overpainted metalcut of King David repenting. A kneeling David prays for forgiveness outside the walls of Jerusalem with two bodies at his feet, while an angel descends bearing a sword and arrow, symbols of war.
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Suffrages of the Saints - Saint Sebastien
Part of Early print collection
N1 recto. Overpainted metalcut of the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastien, in which the saint is being executed with arrows by an archer.
Part of Early print collection
Item is a single leaf etched print created by French artist, Jacques Callot, a master printmaker of the Baroque period. The engraving depicts St. Anthony being tempted and tortured in the Egyptian dessert by the devil and a host of demons. The devil, in the form of a monstrous dragon directs the chaos, while St. Anthony cowers near the mouth of a cave in the bottom left corner. Originally created in 1635, this version of the print is Callot's second attempt at capturing the temptation of St. Anthony.
Part of Early print collection
Item is a double-sided wooden printing block from Tibet likely containing the text of a Buddhist sutra.
Part of Early print collection
A1 recto. Features overpainted metalcut depicting Germain Hardouyn’s printer’s device, two putti holding a shield hanging from a tree (adapted from the emblem of the Parisian printer Guillaume Eustace). Inscription reads: Hore beate marie virginis s[e]c[un]d[u]m usum e // cclesie romane totaliter ad longum cum mul // tis suffragiis et orationibus. (Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary according to the use of the Roman Church, complete and at length with many suffrages and prayers.)
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection
Part of Early print collection