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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. |