Incunable
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An incunable or incunabulum is a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500. The specific date is essentially arbitrary, but the nu
Page from Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, printed in red and black by Peter Schöffer (Mainz, 1471). The page exhibits a rubricated initial letter "U" and decorations, marginalia, and ownership stamps of the "Bibliotheca Gymnasii Altonani" (Hamburg).
Illumination with doodles and drawings (marginalia), including an open-mouthed human profile, with multiple tongues sticking out. Copulata, "De Anima", f. 2a. HMD Collection, WZ 230 M772c 1485
Image of two facing pages from "Phisicorum", fols. 57b and 58a, with doodles and drawings. HMD Collection, WZ 230 M772c 1485
First incunable with illustrations, Ulrich Boner's Der Edelstein, printed by Albrecht Pfister, Bamberg, 1461
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, called in English Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus, is a book attributed to the 15th-century Italian monk Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachia
Incunable
…1486, printed and illustrated by Erhard Reuwich; the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, written by Hartmann Schedel and printed by Anton Koberger; and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499, printed by Aldus Manutius, with important illustrations by an unknown artist. Other printers of incunabula were Günther Zainer of Augsburg…
First edition
Triumphal Car
The Rape of Europa
Poliphilo from a page of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili