First page of the Mainz Psalter of 1457
Title:
First page of the Mainz Psalter of 1457
Author:
Catholic Church.
Corporate Author:
Uniform Title:
Psalter (Mainz psalter)
Publication Information:
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1927.
Physical Description:
1 leaf ; 47 cm
General Note:
"It has been reproduced by woodcutting from the original copy on vellum in the King's Library of the British Museum."
Signed copy (signature illegible); "Sept. 4th. 1927."
Rare Book Room copies 2, 3 and 4 vary: initial printed in red with blue decorative background; 2 staves of music with antiphon are above beginning of Beatus vir.
Rare Book Room copy 4 varies: "This facsimile of Fust and Schoeffer's Psalter (1456) was printed on the Gutenberg Press loaned by the Gutenberg Museum of Mainz for "A Century of Progress International Exposition, " Chicago, 1933, and exhibited by the Cuneo Press, Inc."
Language:
German
Local Note:
Text printed in black and red; illuminated intital in blue with red decorative background.
Subject Term:
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Format :
Book