Sweynheym & Pannartz and the origins of printing in Italy : German technology and Italian humanism in Renaissance Rome / by Edwin Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Edwin, 1928-

Contributor:

Bird & Bull Press.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Edward P. Mally, W'83 and Julia Lang Mally, W'83 Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts Collections.

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--Italy--History.

Printing.

Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477.

Sweynheim, Konrad.

Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1476.

Pannartz, Arnold.

Incunabula.

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349. Postillae perpetuae.

Nicholas.

History.

Italy.

Physical Description:

128 pages ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Sweynheym and Pannartz

Place of Publication:

McMinnville, OR : Bird & Bull Press for Phillip J. Pirages, 1991.

Notes:

"Of the 275 copies of this book printed on mouldmade Frankfurt paper at the Bird & Bull Press in January of 1991, 239 copies are for sale, each offered together with a Sweynheym and Pannartz leaf. The text was composed in Italian Old Style types by M&H Type ... The standard copies are numbered with Arabic numerals and were bound by Campbell-Logan Co. with marbled papers ... by Iris Nevins. The folding cloth box was constructed by Nancy Cuthbert. Numbered. -- Colophon.

Includes an original leaf of a copy of volume I of the Sweynheym and Pannartz Editio princeps of Nichols of Lyra's Postilla super totam bibliam ... completed on 18 November 1471 in the Palazzo Massimo in Rome.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward P. Mally, W'83 and Julia Lang Mally, W'83 Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts Collections.

RBC has copy 21.

Related Work:

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349. Postillae perpetuae.

ISBN:

0962856800

9780962856808

OCLC:

24445372