Incunabula
![Hartmann Schedel, Liber Chronicarum [Nuremburg Chronicle] (1493).](images/bkg1b.jpg)
Hartmann Schedel, Liber Chronicarum
[Nuremburg Chronicle] (1493).
The Ransom Center collection of incunabula (books printed before 1501) consists of 380 volumes and numerous leaves. Highlights include the Gutenberg Bible; seven copies of Hartmann Schedel's history of the world known as the Nuremburg Chronicle (1493); a 1465 edition of Lactantius printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz on the first press in Italy; an illuminated Latin Bible (Venice, 1476) and other works printed by Nicolaus Jenson; the first book printed in the English language, the Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, translated and printed by William Caxton (Bruges, 1473-74); the Etymologiae of St. Isidore of Seville (1472), the first volume to contain a printed map of the known world; and first printings of Dante (Foligno, 1472) and of Euclid (Venice, 1482).
The Harry Ransom Center's blog Cultural Compass gives an insider's look at news, events, exhibitions, acquisitions, multimedia content, researcher and scholarly work, conservation, and items from the collections.
