An inquiry concerning the invention of printing, also notices of the early use of wood-engraving, etc |
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800 florins afterwards ancient editions Andrew Dritzehen appears armour art of printing artist bascinet Beildeck Bible Biblia Pauperum bibliographers block-books Book of Canticles breast-plate camail Catholicon chapter Christ colophon conjecture copy Coster costume cuts Donatus doubt Dutch edition Dutch language early engraved blocks engraved in wood Enschedé evidence executed fifteenth century figures Flemish language florins Fust and Schoeffer Germany Gutenberg Haerlem Heilman Heinecken Henry Henry VI Holland Humery illuminated manuscripts illuminations inscription inventor Johan Junius Koning Laurent Janssoen letters Low Countries Meerman mentioned Mentz Meyrick Moriendi moveable characters moveable type observed opinion original Ottley paper paper-marks pieces Plate printed from engraved printed with moveable printer probable proof proved reader remark Santander says scrolls second Latin edition sheet shew speak specimens Speculum Speculum Humanæ Salvationis Strasburg supposed tion tuilles typography Veldener vignettes witness wood-engraving writers
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Página 6 - And it is a great honour to the German nation that such ingenious men were found in it. This took place about the year of our Lord M.CCCC.XL., and from that time to the year L. this art and whatever appertains to it were rendered more perfect. And in the year M.CCCC.L., which was a jubilee year, they began to print ; and the first book that was printed was the Bible in Latin, and it was printed with larger characters than those which are now used for printing Missals.
Página 359 - Austen, xi. Feb. 28 H. 6, doth covenant to cast and make an image of a man armed, of fine latten, garnished with certain ornaments, viz. with sword and dagger ; with a garter ; with a helme and crest under his head, and at his feet a bear musted (muzzled), and a griffon perfectly made of the finest latten, according to patterns...
Página 202 - Mr. Horn, having broken up the volume, and parted with the contents, was enabled to supply me with the foregoing information upon the strength of his memory alone : but he is quite confident of the three following particulars : 1. That the works, contained in this volume, were, as have been just mentioned : 2. That the binding was the ancient legitimate one, and that the treatises had not been subsequently introduced into it : and 3. That the date was 142 odd— but positively anterior to the year...
Página 180 - ... printed, which are made out of Venice; to which evil it is necessary to apply some remedy; in order that the said artists, who are a great many in family, may find encouragement, rather than foreigners. Let it be ordered and established, according to that which the said masters have supplicated, that from this time in future, no work of the said art, that is printed or painted on cloth, or on paper, that is to say altar pieces (or images) and playing cards...
Página 359 - Latten, one large plate to be dressed and to lye on the overmost stone of the Tombe under the Image that shall lye on the same Tombe ; and two narrow plates to go round about the stone. Also they shall make in like wise, and like Latten, an Hearse to be dressed and set upon the said stone, over the Image, to beare a covering to be ordeyned ; the large plate, to be made of the finest and thickest Cullen plate, shall be in length viii.
Página xlii - Salvationis : le plus ancien monument de la xylographie et de la typographie réunies. Reproduit en fac-similé, avec introduction historique et bibliographique, par J. Ph.
Página 181 - Sia ordenado, e statuido, come anchora i diti maestri ne ha supplicado, che da mo in avanti non possa vegnir over esser condutto in questa Terra alcun lavorerio dela predicta arte, che sia stampido, o depento in tella, o in carta, come sono anchone e carte da zugare, e cadaun altro lavorerio dela so arte facto a penello, e stampido, soto pena di perdere i lavori condutti, e liv. xxx e fol xii p.
Página 359 - Will. Austen, Citizen and founder of London xiv. Martii 30 H. 6. covenanteth, &c. to cast, work, and perfectly to make, of the finest Latten to be gilded that may be found, xiv. Images embossed, of Lords and Ladyes in divers vestures, called Weepers, to stand in housings made about the tombe, those Images to be made in bredth, length, and thickness, &c.
Página 13 - ... repute, his servant, they say, went to reside at Mentz; where, giving proofs of his knowledge in that science, he was joyfully received; and where, having applied himself to the business with unremitting diligence*, it became at length generally known, and was brought to entire perfection; in consequence of which, the fame afterwards spread abroad and became general, that the art and science of printing originated in that city.
Página xlii - Histoire de l'origine et des progrès de la Gravure dans les Pays-Bas et en Allemagne, jusqu'à la fin du quinzième siècle.