Not only Italian Books!
On Monday, 13th of December, the Bibliographical Society will host its final lecture of 2021 via zoom; the lecture is open to everyone, regardless of membership status, and promises to be an eye-opening session on the history of the book through the lens of German prints.
The lecture will be given by Elizabeth Savage, Senior Lecturer in Book History and Communications at the University of London's School of Advanced Study. Savage’s talk is titled ‘German Renaissance woodcuts at the British Museum’ and will focus on colour printing, as the caption on the Society’s website explains: “In the last ten years, art historians have begun to recognise the significance of colour in print history — but the role of printed colour in books has been overlooked. This lecture will offer a new approach, one centred on printers, based on a survey of the British Museum’s holdings of German prints, ephemera, broadsides, and books printed in 1450–1600.” Savage’s talk will be followed by “questions and virtual bibliographical socialising” along with the launch of her new book, Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum (Paul Holberton Publishing, in association with the British Museum, 2021).
The lecture will be given at 5:30PM GMT and registration is available through the Society’s website here.
Regiomontanus, Johannes (1436-1476).
Kalendarium. Venice, Bernhard Maler, Peter Loeslein and Erhard Ratdolt, 1476.
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[Cinderella]. Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johannes (1445-1510).
Das irrig Schaf. Sagt von kleinmuetikeit und verzweiflung... mit sampt den nachvolgenden tractaten.... Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, [ca. 1510].
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Gersdorff, Hans von (ca. 1455-1529).
Feldtbuch der Wund Artzney, sampt vilen Instrumenten der Chirurgey dem Albucasi contrafayt. Chiromantia Jo...Strasbourg, Johann Schotten, 3 December 1540.
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Mattioli, Pietro Andrea (1501-1578).
Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia... Adiectis magnis, ac nouis plantarum, ac animalium Iconibus, supra priores editiones longe pluribus, ad uiuum delineatis....Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1565.
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Flittner, Johann (fl. 1st half of the 17th century) - Murner, Thomas (1475-1537).
Nebulo Nebulonum... Frankfurt am Main, Jakob de Zetter, 1620.
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