MD -- College Park -- University of Maryland -- Hornbake Library -- Exhibit: Early Printing:
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- Description of Pictures: The Early Printing Collection
The Early Printing Collection is a set of thirty-six leaves and pages that were painted in Europe in the late 15th century. It features printed pages from Bibles and other religious and historical chronicles, including leaves from well-known works like The Nuremberg Chronicle, Historia Scholastica and The Cologne Chronicle.
Most of the printing is done in a Gothic typeface, also called Blackletter, though there are a few examples of roman type as well. The leaves are printed in German or Latin and come from several important printers from the time period, including Gunther Zainer from Augsburg, Konrad Dinckmut from Ulm, and Johann Koelhoff The Younger of Cologne.
Even though the leaves are over 500 years old, the collection provides excellent examples of early printing history, from papermaking to moveable type setting to woodblock printing. Many of the leaves were printer's proof sheets or scraps, but since paper was a relatively valuable commodity, these scrap pages were reused as bindings. They've since been removed from bindings, but many still bear m arks from the old binding paste.
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- UMDHEP_140707_01.JPG: The Early Printing Collection
The Early Printing Collection is a set of thirty-six leaves and pages that were painted in Europe in the late 15th century. It features printed pages from Bibles and other religious and historical chronicles, including leaves from well-known works like The Nuremberg Chronicle, Historia Scholastica and The Cologne Chronicle.
Most of the printing is done in a Gothic typeface, also called Blackletter, though there are a few examples of roman type as well. The leaves are printed in German or Latin and come from several important printers from the time period, including Gunther Zainer from Augsburg, Konrad Dinckmut from Ulm, and Johann Koelhoff The Younger of Cologne.
Even though the leaves are over 500 years old, the collection provides excellent examples of early printing history, from papermaking to moveable type setting to woodblock printing. Many of the leaves were printer's proof sheets or scraps, but since paper was a relatively valuable commodity, these scrap pages were reused as bindings. They've since been removed from bindings, but many still bear m arks from the old binding paste.
- Wikipedia Description: University of Maryland Libraries
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Maryland Libraries is the largest university library in the Washington, D.C. - Baltimore area. The university's library system includes eight libraries; seven are located on the College Park campus, while the eighth library, Priddy Library, is located on the University System of Maryland satellite campus in Shady Grove.
The UM Libraries are a key academic resource that supports the teaching, learning, and research goals of the university. The various materials collected by the libraries can be accessed by students, scholars, and the general public. The libraries feature 4 million volumes and a substantial number of e-resources (including more than 17,000 e-journal titles), a variety of archives and special collections, and a host of technological resources which enable remote online access to the Libraries' holdings and services. The libraries are currently ranked 10th in electronic resources as a percentage of total library materials by the 115-member Association of Research Libraries. Patricia A. Steele currently serves as the Dean of Libraries, taking over the position in the Fall of 2009.
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Hornbake Library.
Constructed in 1972 as a separate undergraduate library, Hornbake Library was named in 1980 for R. Lee Hornbake, the former Academic Vice President of the University of Maryland. The building was repurposed as repository for special collections, and now Hornbake Library is home to the College of Information Sciences, the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, the Gordon W. Prange Collection (a collection of Japanese print publications issued during the early years of the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1949), Library Media Services the central campus audiovisual research and instructional library facility; the Katherine Anne Porter Room; and the Maryland Room, which houses Special Collections and University Archives. In September 2012, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) moved to a new space in Hornbake Library, having been previously located in the basement of McKeldin Library. Hornbake Library is located in Hornbake Plaza, which sits east of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union.
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