Cambridge incunabula collection going online...
A remarkable collection of incunabula is being digitized and coming online from Cambridge University Library. Very few records of the Library's 4,650 treasures are currently in its online catalogue, which means that they are often invisible to scholars and students - both in Cambridge and around the world.It is told that their copy of the Gutenberg Bible arrived on morning in 1930 when a man stepped out of a taxi and told the library he had a bible he would like to give them...
Can't wait to see the results of this project.
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posted by LuxMentis @ 7:01 AM
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Sorry to disappoint you, but this news has been mangled by the media. It's only the catalogue of the incunabula that's going online. Not nearly so exciting.
Callimachus Cantabrigiensis
The McCune Rare Book and Art Collection incunabula is also going online. The website is:
http://www.mccunecollection.org.
Although much smaller than the Cambridge collection, it does contain a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, a number of leaves from other famous incunabula printers, such as Postilla in Job by Thomas Aquinas (1474), Opera Philosophica by Seneca (1478), Horatius Opera (1482), Biblia Latina (Nicolai de Lyra) (1487), Horatius Opera (1498). There are many digital photos as well as information about the books, the authors, the printers and the subject matter.
This can be found on their website under the heading "early printing"
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