Incunabula: Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500
Selection: Stephen Parkin (Curator, Italian Printed Collections, The British Library, London). Rome was the first large centre of printing in Italy; the papal court, with its bureaucracy and its ceremonies, and the numerous scholars, diplomats and travellers which it attracted, ensured that the city's contribution to the development of printing in fifteenth-century Italy remains significant. All aspects of printing in Rome are represented in this selection, from the large-scale editions of classical and other texts sponsored and prepared by humanist scholars to the more routine production of ceremonial orations, sermons, papal bulls and the like, reflecting the life of the Papacy and of the city which it ruled. Unit 81: 371 fiche, 123 titles; Unit 84: 257 fiche, 110 titles.