Results 11 to 20 of about 1,984 (192)
Abstract In 1774, the physician‐anatomist William Hunter (1718–1783) published Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata/The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, Exhibited in Figures (1774). Issued as an elephant folio, the book is the culmination of twenty‐four years of work and includes thirty‐four plates with life‐size hyper‐naturalistic ...
Alicia Hughes
wiley +1 more source
Of Signs: Matter and Revelation in the Liturgies of William Durand and John Calvin
Abstract This article seeks to set aside what we might call Cartesian physics to revisit William Durand's conception of sign as set forth in the Rationale divinorum officiorum and John Calvin's as set forth in the Institutio christianae religionis. Reading the two works through the lens of medieval physics reveals commonalities – both held signs to be ...
Lee Palmer Wandel
wiley +1 more source
Franciscan Library and Museum with Pinacotheca in Ljubljana
The Franciscan Museum and Pinacotheca of the Franciscan Friary in the center of Ljubljana represent, together with the renovated library, a newly conceived cultural and art-historical section of the Friary as the mother house of the Slovenian Franciscan
Jan Dominik Bogataj
doaj +1 more source
El caprichoso 1500, una discusión sobre la definición de incunable
Este artículo hace un cuestionamiento al significado típico del término incunable. Primero porque las fechas que lo definen no tiene un fundamento sólido.
Robinson López Arévalo
doaj +1 more source
The 15-th century edition of the Pauline missal as a source for Gregorian chant history
There exist only few medieval codices containing musical notation for the Mass in the Pauline rite. The significant source for further research of the Pauline liturgical music is Missale Eremitarum S. Pauli printed by Johannes Amerbach about 1490.
Fryderyk Rozen
doaj +1 more source
Incunabula are the texts printed mainly during the second half of 15th century that are a key cultural element in a revolutionary period of the history and evolution of the book and the printing. In these books, the identification of their origin largely
J. Lacasta +3 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Spelling variation and text alignment
In the 15th century, at a time when codification via dictionaries and grammars had not yet taken effect, printers, editors, and compositors were already producing pamphlets and books that had to meet the new requirements of the letterpress, especially as
Voeste Anja
doaj +1 more source
From Incunabula to Book History: Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Search for their Printed Past
The history of the printed book in Africa is a relatively new line of inquiry. One of the most challenging issues confronting its practitioners will be to produce authoritative and comprehensive records of the national output of African countries, an ...
M. Zaccaria
semanticscholar +1 more source
In our time of increasing reliance on digital media the history of the book has a special role to play in studying the codex form and the persistence of old media alongside the growth of new ones.
Ann Blair
doaj +1 more source
Incunabula in Communities of Canonesses Regular and Tertiaries Related to the Devotio Moderna
This contribution discusses the hitherto overlooked ownership of the earliest printed books (incunabula) by Netherlandish female religious communities of tertiaries and canonesses regular connected to the religious reform movement of the Devotio moderna.
A. Dlabačová, P. Stoop
semanticscholar +1 more source

