| | Year | | Event | Keyword |
| | 1455 | | Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:39:39 -0700 | first original text to be printed |
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| | Subject: Re: Earliest ORIGINAL printed text |
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| | In a message dated 10/8/97 2:35:14 PM, Sidney E. Berger wrote: |
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| | <<A patron has asked, "What is the first original text to be printed?" |
| | (with |
| | an emphasis on the word original)>> |
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| | Could it be the 1455 Indulgence of Nicholas V, by the Printer of the |
| | 36-line |
| | Bible? |
| | See Goff N-48 (with relevant bibliographic references) |
| | (Just a guess) |
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| | 1455 | | Block Books in Europe, between 1455 and 1510. | BLOCK BOOK |
| | 1455 | | Biblia Pauperum, first xylographic version made in Germany | XOLOGRAPHY |
| | 1456 | | Gutenberg. 42-line bible by Gutenberg | BIBLE, GUTENBERG |
| | 1457 | | Color printing, earliest example in Mainz Psalter | COLOR PRINTING |
| | 1457 | | Mainz Psalter by Fust and Schoffer | MAINZ PSALTER |
| | 1458 | | Corvinus, Matthias, d.1490, King of Hungary, famous book collector | CORVINUS |
| | 1460 | | Froben, Johann, d.1527, started printing in Basle 1491. Printer of | FROBEN |
| | Erasmus publications |
| | 1460 | | Catholicon of Johannes Baldus printed by Schöffer | CATHOLICON |
| | 1461 | | Edelstein, der, by Ulrich Boner, printed by Albrecht Pfister of | EDELSTEIN |
| | Bamberg, first printed book with woodcut illustrations |
| | 1461 | | Biblia Pauperum issued in Bamberg with hand colored illustrations | BIBLE, BIBLIA PAUPERUM |
| | 1462 | | Badius Ascensius, Jodocus (1535). Parisian printer | BADIUS |
| | 1464 | | Weijden, Rogier van der, death of. | WEYDEN |
| | 1465 | | Biblia Pauperum, first typeset edition made near Brussels, | BIBLE, BIBLIA PAPUPERUM |
| | illustrations based on drawings by Rogier van der Weijden. |
| | 1465 | | The first drypoint engravings known in the history of prints are | HOUSEBOOK, MASTER OF THE |
| | those of the MASTER OF THE HOUSEBOOK, active in Germany |
| | between 1465 and 1500. The technique was also used, though |
| | rarely, by Dürer, for example in his St. Jerome by a Pollard Willow |
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