Exhibitions Image
Introduction
- C.W. Dyson Perrins, ca. 1930. Courtesy of Sotheby's, New York (76)
- Lessing J. Rosenwald, ca. 1932, by Shelburne of New York (77)
Fifteenth Century
- Albumasar. Flores astrologiae. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, November 18, 1488. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (1)
- Albumasar. Albumasar de magnis coniunctionibus. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, March 31, 1489. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (2)
- Passio domini Jesu Christi. Augsburg: [Johann Schönsperger], February 22, 1490. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (3)
- Dye Siben Cursz. Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut, 1491. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (4)
- Bertoldus. Horologium devotionis. Cologne: Johann Landen, [ca. 1498]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (5)
- Saint Birgitta. Revelationes. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, September 21, 1500. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (6)
- [image not yet available] Saint Birgitta. Revelationes. Lubeck:1492. Catalogue of a Collection. of Early German Books in the Library of C. Fairfax Murray, vol. 1. Comp. Hugh William Davies. London: 1913. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (6A)
- Ars moriendi. Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, after 1500. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (7)
- Ars moriendi. [Germany: ca. 1465]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (7A)
- Jordan van Quedlinburg. Meditationes de vita et passione Jesu Christi. [Magdeburg: Moritz Brandis, 1500]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (8)
- Juan de Torquemada. Meditationes. Rome: Stephan Plannck, March 13, 1484. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (9)
- Dante Alighieri. La Commedia. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius and Matteo Capcasa, March 3, 1491. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (10)
- Filippo Calandri. Arithmetica. Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, January 1, 1491-92. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (11)
- Christoforo Landino. Formulario di lettere et di orationi volgari. Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 1492. Page 2. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (12)
- Bonet de Latis. Annulus astronomicus. [Rome: Andreas Freitag, ca. 1492-93]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (13)
- [Saint Augustine]. Sermones ad heremitas. Florence: Antonio di Bartolemmeo Miscomini, June 28, 1493. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (14)
- Aesop. Aesopus moralisatus. [Brescia, Boninus de Boninus, ca. 1487]. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (15)
- Aesop. Aesopus moralisatus. Venice: Manfred de Bonellis, August 17, 1493. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (16)
- Biblia italica. Translated from the Latin by Niccolò Malermi. Venice: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis for LucAntonio Giunta, June 1494. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (17)
- Epistolae et Evangelii et lectioni vulgari in lingua toscana. Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, for Piero Pacini, July 27, 1495. Page 2. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (18)
- Francesco Berlinghieri. Protesto alla signora di Firenze. [Florence: Bartolommeo Libri, ca. 1495]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (19)
- Raynaldus Monsaureus. Sermo de visione Dei. [Rome: Johann Besicken et Sigismundus Mayer, after December 26, 1495]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (20)
- Battista Fregoso. Anteros, sive Tractatus contra amorem. Milan: Leonardus Pachel, 1496. Page 2. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (21)
- [Simon de Cassia]. Esposizione sopra evangeli. Ed. Giovanni da Salerno. Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, September 24, 1496. Page 2. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (22)
- [St. Bonaventura?]. Meditatione de la passione de Christo. Venice: Lazarus de Soardis, March 16, 1497. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (23)
- Girolamo Savonarola. Predica dell'arte del bene morire. [Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, after June 1497]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (24)
- Juan de Torquemada. Meditationes deu Contemplationes devotissimae. Rome: Stephan Plannck, August 21 1498. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (25)
- La rappresentatione divota di Joseph figluolo di Jacob. [Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, ca. 1500]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (26)
- Guillermus Parisiensis. Postilla super Epistolas et Evangelia. Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, not before 1497. Page 2. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (27)
- [Methodius?].Revelationes divinae a sanctis angelis factae. Basel: Michael Furter, 1498. Page 2. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (28)
- L'Art de bien vivre et de bien mourir. Paris: Antoine Vérard for André Bocard, February 12, 1453 [i.e., 1493-94]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (29)
- [Henricus de Vrimaria]. Praeceptorium divinae legis. Paris: Pierre le Dru for Antoine Baquelier, August 11, 1495 Page 2. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (30)
- Thomas Bradwardine. Arithmetica speculativa. Paris: Guy Marchant, February 1495-96. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (31)
- Cordiale quattuor novissimorum. Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, [between August 9, 1490 and October 31, 1492]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (32)
- Jordan van Quedlinburg. Meditationes de Vita et Passione Jesu Christi. Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, November 20, 1488. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (33)
- [Joannes of Hildesheim]. Liber de gestis et translatione trium regum. Westminster [London]: Wynkyn de Worde, [after July 1499]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (34)
- Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella. Sacerdotalis instructio circa missam. Seville: Johann Pegnitzer, Magnus Herbst, and Thomas Glockner, for Johannes Laurenti, June 14, 1499. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (35)
- Petrus de Castrovol. Tractatus super symbolum Athanasii: Quicumque vult. Pamplona: [Arnoldo Guillen de Brocar, ca. 1499]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (36) Ricoldo da Montecroce. Improbatio Alcorani. Seville: Stanislaus Polonus, 1500. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (37)
Sixteenth Century
- Passionis Christi unum ex quattuor Euagelistis textum. [Strasbourg: J. Knobloch, 1506?]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (38)
- Missale Romanum. Venice: L.A. Giunta, November 20, 1501. Page 2. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (39)
- [Saint Hieronymus]. Vita di sancti padri vulga[m] historiada. Venice: Otinus de la Luna, July 28, 1501. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (40)
- Missale secundu[m] ordinem carthusiensium. Ferrara: Carthusian Monastery, April 10, 1503. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (41)
- Jacobus Gualla. Papie sanctuarium. Pavia: Jacobus de Burgofrancho, November 10, 1505. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (42)
- Guilelmus Parisiensis. Postilla super Epistolas et Euangelia. Venice: Jacobus Pentius de Leuco for LucAntonio Giunta, November 6, 1505. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (43)
- Breviarium Romanum. Venice: LucAntonio Giunta, March 26, 1507. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (44)
- Lorenzo Spirito. Libro de la ventura. Milan: Zanoto di Castellione for Fratelli Legnano, August 23, 1508. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (45)
- Sigismondo Fanti. Theorica et practica de modo scribendi fabricandique omnes litterarum species. Venice: Giovanni Rosso, December 1, 1514. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (46)
- Apocalypsis Jesu Christi. Venice: Alexandro de Paganini, April 7, 1515-16. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (47)
- Albrecht Dürer. St. Michael Fighting the Dragon, 1511? Prints and Photograph Division, Library of Congress (47A) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-06618]
- Legenda ouero passione de li sancti martyri Faustino e Jouita cavalieri de Christo. Brescia: Damiano and Jacobus Philippum fratres, April 4, 1534. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (48)
- Tito Giovanni Scandianese. Libri della Caccia. Con la traduttione della Sfera di Proclo. Venice: Gabriele Giolito et fratelli, 1556. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (49)
- Ludovico Ariosto. Orlando Furioso. Venice: Vicenzo Valgrisi, 1562. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (50)
- Evangelium sanctum domini nostri Jesu Christi. Rome: Typographia Medicea, 1591. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (51)
- Aesop. Esopi Appologi siue mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant. Basel: Jacobus Wolff de Pforzheim, 1501. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (52)
- Pierre Gringore. Le chasteau de labour. Paris: Jean Tréperel, 1510. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (53)
- [Simon Bougouyn]. L'espinette du jeune prince, conquerant le royaulme de bonne renommee. Paris: Michel Le Noir, 1514. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (54)
- Le cuer de philozophie, translated de Latin en Francoys a la requeste de Philippe le bel roy de France. Paris: Jean de la Garde, [1515]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (55)
- La premier [-second] volume de la bible en francoiz. Paris: Antoine Vérard, October 19, 1517. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (56)
- Saint Augustine. La Cité de Dieu. Paris: Nicolas Savetier for Jean Petit, April 22, 1530, June 7, 1531. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (57)
- Flavius Renatus Vegetius. De re militari libri quatour. Paris: Christian Wechel, August 23, 1532. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (58)
- Publius Terentius Afer.[Comoedia.] Le grant therēce en francoys tāt En Rime que en Prose. Paris: Guillaume de Bossozel for Guillaume le Bret, 1539. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (59)
- Horæ in laudem beatissimę virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris: Olivier Mallard, 1542. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (60)
- Charles Estienne. De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1545. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (61)
- Ovid. La metamorphose figurée. Lyon: Jan de Tournes, 1557. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (62)
- Aristotle. Quaestiones naturales. Antwerp: Govaert Bac, ca. 1505. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (63)
- Henricus van Santen. Die collacē vander eewaerdigē. Antwerp: Henrick Eckert van Homberch, ca. 1510. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (64)
- Joannes Houden. Carmē rithmicū de passiōe Dňo. Ghent: Peter de Keysere, [1516]: Bound with: Calendarium fratrum minorum. Toulouse: J. Colomies, ca 1550. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (65)
- Guilielmus de Branteghem. Jesu Christi vita, iuxta quatuor Evangelistarum narrationes. Antwerp: Matthaeus Cromme for Adriaen Kempe de Bouchout, December 24, 1537. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (66)
- Benedictus Arias Montanus. Humanae salutis monumenta. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, [1572]. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (67)
- Nicholas de Nicolay. Discours et histoire véritable des navigations, pérégrinations et voyages, faicts en la Turquie. Antwerp: Arnould Coninx, 1586. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (68)
- Antonio del Rincon, Antonio de Medina, and Francisco de Ledesma. Monumenta ordinis minorum. Salamanca: Juan de Porras, July 1506. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (70)
- Guillermus Parisiensis. Postilla sive expositio epistolarum et evangeliorum. Saragossa: Georg Coci, 1506. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (71)
- Cronica del serenissimo Rey Don Juan II. Logroño: Arnao Guillen de Brocar, October 10, 1517. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (72)
- Aesopus. Libro del sabio y clarissimo fabulador Ysopo historiado y annotado. Seville: Jacob Cromberger, 1521. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (73)
- Miguel Pérez. La Vida y excellencias y milagros dela sacratissima Virgen Maria. Toledo: Miguel de Equia, November 29, 1526. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (74)
- Alfonso de la Torre. Visión delectable dela philosophia et artes liberales. Seville: Jacob and Juan Cromberger, 1526. Rosenwald Collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (75)
- Margaret Adams Parker. Impressions from woodcut block, no. 82, 2005. Ink and gouache on paper. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (83-84)
- Margaret Adams Parker. Woodcut block, 2005. Copy of image inPassio Domini Jesu Christi. Augsburg: Johann Schonsperger, 1490. Poplar. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (82)
- Woodblock cutting tools, late twentieth century. Courtesy of Margaret Adams Parker (84a-c)
- Inking tools, late twentieth century. Courtesy of Margaret Adams Parker (86a-c)
