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The Atlas of Early Printing
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Illuminated Page from a Facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible
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Printing Press - Document 1E Excerpt Scribe’s hand-crafted illumination added to pages in printed bible. Download PDF…
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15th Century: Book and Print
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Printing Press - Document 1F Excerpt Scribe’s hand-crafted illumination added to pages in printed book. Visit Source Download PDF…
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Incunabula Art
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Printing Press - Document 3D Excerpt Hand-crafted art in a printed book. Visit Source Download PDF…
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Image from De Humani Corporis Fabrica
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Printing Press - Document 3E Excerpt Image from De Humani Corporis Fabrica. Illustration included within printed medical textbook. Visit Source Download PDF…
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1572 German translation of humanist Petrarch’s ”De Remediis Utriusque Fortuna”
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Printing Press - Document 3F Excerpt Early Printed Manuscript. The illustrations for this 1572 German translation of humanist Petrarch's ''De Remediis Utriusque Fortuna'' are among the most famous w…
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Abyssinian New Testament, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, 13th Century
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) This Coptic manuscript, bound in wood boards dates from the 13th century and is hand-lettered and painted on parchment. A Coptic stitch runs through the folded signatu…
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Ancient Near Eastern Seals, c. 3000-1000 B.C.E.
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) Produced for about 5000 years, these seals were made by engraving, in reverse, on a small stone using metal tools. The design becomes apparent only after being rolled …
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Korean Hand Carved Wooden Type and Printed Scroll, c 19th Century
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) The Chinese began printing from movable type in the eleventh century. There is no connection between this and its invention in Europe four centuries later. Movable typ…
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Latin Sheet Music, 1535
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica
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Printing Press - Document 3C Excerpt Woodcut illustration in medical textbook. De Humani Corporis Fabrica... Basel, 1543. Woodcut. National Library of Medicine. Andreas Vesalius [anatomist] (1514-…
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The Hyakumanto Dharani Scroll, Nara, Japan, 764-770 C.E.
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) One of few remaining block printed dharani scrolls, the oldest surviving examples of printing on paper. Hyakuman means "one million" in Japanese. One million pagodas w…
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The Rosetta Stone, 196 B.C.E. Cast of the Original in the British Museum
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) This black basalt slab is perhaps the most famous hieroglyphic inscription known. Not only was it a beautiful example of ancient writing, it was also the key to unders…
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