by Petra Hofmann (College Librarian) The so-called Nuremberg Chronicle was printed as Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg in 1493. Despite its early date, it is certainly not a rare book. The Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue lists 858 holding institutions, some of which hold multiple copies. It is, however, one of those books you can keepContinue reading “The Nuremberg Chronicle : A Masterpiece of the Incunable Period”
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Caxton’s Chess Book
by Petra Hofmann (College Librarian) Among the Library’s early printed books are eleven published by William Caxton, including his second edition of Jacobus de Cessolis’s The Game and Play of Chess, which Caxton translated himself and printed it with woodcuts in his workshop in Westminster around 1483. Almost from the beginning chess was perceived asContinue reading “Caxton’s Chess Book”