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Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking

http://www.ipst.edu/amp/index.html
The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking is an internationally renowned resource on the history of paper and paper technology. In addition to more than 2,000 books, the Museum features a remarkable collection of over 10,000 watermarks, papers, tools, machines, and manuscripts. This site offers a virtual tour of their museum.

Illuminated Manuscripts: Concentrating on Kirby 1, a book of hours

http://www4.hmc.edu:8001/humanities/hum2g/hum2g1/index.htm
This web site delves into the illuminated manuscripts of medieval times, the creation of these beautiful volumes and the symbolism of their images. A detailed provenance of Kirby 1 which is housed in the Special Collections department of the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges, is included as well as a glossary of terms. This site shows in detail the many people, guilds, and processes that went into the making of Kirby 1, a fifteenth-century illuminated Book of Hours.

The Nuremberg Chronicle

http://www4.hmc.edu:8001/humanities/hum2g/hum2g2/index.htm
The Liber Chronicarum, commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, was written by Hartmann Schedel in the late fifteenth century. Written specifically for the printing press, the Nuremberg Chronicle was to be a compilation of the history of the world, from Creation to its year of publication, 1493. Histories of the world were by no means uncommon in the fifteenth century, but most were incomplete and none as meticulously designed and illustrated as Schedel's work. This wonderful site takes you through the design and production process and includes the illustrations, a translation of a poem from the book and information about its author.

The Gutenberg Museum

http://www.uni-mainz.de/UniInfo/Stadt/Museen/gutenberg.html
This site from Mainz, Germany, is in German but contains a few excellent pictures of Gutenberg, his press, and a sample from his bible.

 

Money and Medals
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/HuntMus/MoneyAndMedals/cgintro.html
From the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow come this exhibit on the history of money. The inconvenience of bartering led to the invention of coins - pieces of precious metal stamped with the 'guarantee' of the issuer for their weight and purity. This allowed the storage and transfer of wealth to become easier. A variety of forgeries, and money scales and coin weights are shown. Engravings of medieval (http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/HuntMus/MoneyAndMedals/MdvlCoins.html) and later mints, along with real and reproduction dies, as well as a working model of an 18th-century coin press show how coins were made.

 

The History of Print

http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/print.html
This gives a concise history of Gutenberg and the effects printing had upon Western Europe.

 

Johannes Gutenberg

http://www.slip.net/~graphion/guten.html
A short biograhpy of Gutenberg along with a picture from a portrait of the man who is credited with inventing the printing press. Includes two pictures from his famous Bibles.

William Caxton
http://www.slip.net/~graphion/caxton.html
A short biograhy of William Caston along with a picture from a portrait of the man who was influencial in the printing process during the Renaissance. Contains two pictures of his work.

The Media History Project Timeline: 1400 - 1599 C.E.

http://www.mediahistory.com/time/1400s.html
This lists the important events in chronological order in print history. Includes many seperate pages dealing with important figures and events in this history.

Bodleian Library

http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/imacat.html
The few images of rare old manuscripts both scribed and printed are worth the look. They are taken from a collection of approximately 30,000 35mm slides of iconography from manuscripts held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, United Kingdom.

 

Graphion's Online Type Museum

http://www.slip.net/~graphion/museum.html
Here you will find information about the history and practice of typesetting. While the advent
of the personal computer has put the tools for page composition within the reach of virtually
everyone, we at Graphion feel that an appreciation of the roots and subtleties of type can
only enhance the experience of both publisher and reader.

 

The Cary Collection: Subject Library and Searching Engine

http://wally2.rit.edu/cary/subject_library.html
The Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, a library on printing history located at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y. offers this unique site offers pictures of famous printers and their works along with information on the papermaking and printing process.

 

Renaissance Electronic Texts

http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/ret/ret.html
A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period. From the University of Toronto.

Renascence Editions: Works Printed in English, 1477-1799

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
These publications are provided for nonprofit purposes only; unique content is copyright © 1997 the editor and The University of Oregon.

Printing: Renaissance and Reformation

http://theusc.csd.scarolina.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/rp5.html
From the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina comes this site with annotated pictures from books in their collection printed during the Renaissance and Reformation periods. Very "illuminating".

History of the Written Word

http://www.lib.usf.edu/spccoll/wrtword.html
This is actually just one page containing samples of Medieval Documents and Early Printing, but well worth the trip for the pictures and the concise historical snippets. From the University of South Florida Tampa Campus Library.

 

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