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Understanding 9/11Biblia pauperum, : conteynynge thirty and eight wodecottes, illustrating the liif, parablis, and miraclis offe Oure Blessid Lord & Saviour Jhesus Crist, with the proper descrypciouns thereof extracted from the originall texte offe Iohn Wiclif ...
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"The borders and ornaments which embellish the letterpress pages are exact fac-similes of those used in a book of hours, now in the Lambeth palace library, printed by T. Kerver, in Paris, 1525."--Note by the printers, leaf 5
"The originals...which have been used for the reductions which illustrate this volume [were exhibited, together with a volume of impressions, at the Caxton celebration held in London in 1877]...This...series of orignal blocks were purchased about sixty years since at Nuremberg...They cannot be recognized as belonging to any printed book, and the artist's mark, which appears on the 37th plate, is unknown to any bibliographyer...It is...probable that the blocks were thrown aside and never used...till a
lapse of nearly four centuries...These blocks were used in the production of 'A new Biblia pauperum'...of which 275 copies were issued [in 1877]"--Note by the printers
The London edition of the present work was issued under title "A smaller Biblia pauperum..." 1884
The genuineness of the woodcuts is questioned. cf. Schreiber, W. L. Handbuch der holz- und metallschnitte des XV. jahrhunderts. Leipzig, 1926-30. v. 6, p. 87-89; v. 8, p. 148-152
"This edition consists of three hundred and seventy-five copies, printed for America by Unwin brothers of London, England. No. 65."
Mode of access: Internet
"The borders and ornaments which embellish the letterpress pages are exact fac-similes of those used in a book of hours, now in the Lambeth palace library, printed by T. Kerver, in Paris, 1525."--Note by the printers, leaf 5
"The originals...which have been used for the reductions which illustrate this volume [were exhibited, together with a volume of impressions, at the Caxton celebration held in London in 1877]...This...series of orignal blocks were purchased about sixty years since at Nuremberg...They cannot be recognized as belonging to any printed book, and the artist's mark, which appears on the 37th plate, is unknown to any bibliographyer...It is...probable that the blocks were thrown aside and never used...till a
lapse of nearly four centuries...These blocks were used in the production of 'A new Biblia pauperum'...of which 275 copies were issued [in 1877]"--Note by the printers
The London edition of the present work was issued under title "A smaller Biblia pauperum..." 1884
The genuineness of the woodcuts is questioned. cf. Schreiber, W. L. Handbuch der holz- und metallschnitte des XV. jahrhunderts. Leipzig, 1926-30. v. 6, p. 87-89; v. 8, p. 148-152
"This edition consists of three hundred and seventy-five copies, printed for America by Unwin brothers of London, England. No. 65."
Mode of access: Internet
Notes
"The borders and ornaments which embellish the letterpress pages are exact fac-similes of those used in a book of hours, now in the Lambeth palace library, printed by T. Kerver, in Paris, 1525."--Note by the printers, leaf 5.
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December 4, 2011
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It may just be me, but the facsimile pages are all blank, except for the heading. Also missing are the ornamental capitals. Did some idiot redact them all while scanning? It looks like it. In which case, there wasn't much point scanning, was there?
