Year
Event Keyword

1282
Watermark, Oldes know watermark (Italy) WATERMARK

1283
Fabriano, town in which first Italian paper mill was established. Still PAPER

name of an Italian handmade paper

1283
Fabriano, town in which first Italian paper mill was established. Still FABRIANO

name of an Italian handmade paper

1290
Edda, Elder Edda (Saemundar Edda) written, presented to King EDDA

Frederik III by the Icelandic bishop Brynjolfur Sveinsson, now in the

Copenhagen Royal Library)

1313
Giovanni Boccacio (1313-1375), author of the DECAMERON. BOCCACIO

1325
Biblia Pauperum made in Klosterneuburg near Vienna PAUPERUM

1325
Belleville Breviary by Jean Pucelle (Parisian manuscript painter) BELLEVILLE

1325
Biblia Pauperum made in Klosterneuburg near Vienna BIBLE

1338
Paper, oldest known paper mill in France PAPER

1340
Berry, Jean duc de (d.1416). Les Tres Riches Heures. RICHES HEURES

1340
Berry, Jean duc de (d.1416). Les Tres Riches Heures. BERRY

1373
Bibliotheque Nationale. Charles V is said to be the founder of this BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE

library. The 1373 catalogue of his library lists about 1000 volumes,

housed in the Louvre

1389
Bedford, John of Lancaster, Duke. The Bedford Missal, 1423 BEDFORD

1396
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. BURGUNDY

1399
Gutenberg, Johann, d.1468, born in Mainz as Johann Gensfleisch GENSFLEISCH, GUTENBERG

zum Gutenberg

1399
Gutenberg.Year of birth Gutenberg GUTENBERG

1400
Chaucer died CHAUCER

1410
Ellesmere Chaucer, illustrated manuscript of the Canterbury Tales ELLESMERE

1418
Woodcut, oldest known specimen WOODCUT

1418
Rohan Book of Hours, made for Yolande of Aragon. ROHAN

1420
Jenson, Nicolaus, d. 1480, punch cutter and printer of Venice JENSON

1420
Caxton, William, born. CAXTON

1420
Fouquet, Jean, d.1480, leading 15th century manuscript painter FOUQUET

(Hours of Etienne de Chevalier)

1421
Bisticci, Vespasiano da, d.1498, Florentine bookseller, had people BISTICCI

like Cosimo de Medici as customer.

1423
Buxheim Saint Christopher, early dated European woodcut BUXHEIM

1425
Mansion, Colard, d.1484, one of the leading calligraphers in Bruges, CALLIGRAPHY

Belgium

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