Image Title: German Incunabula: 110 Original Leaves Source: German Incunabula: 110 Original Leaves Creator: Haebler, Konrad. Translated from the German by André Barbey Publisher: Munich: Weiss & Co., 1927 Call Number: Z240.H13 V.1 Learn More Tags: book art, printing

 

This leaf was published by Michael Wenssler in Basel in 1486 and is the second Wenssler edition of Pope Gregory the IX’s Decretales, which was first printed in Mainz in 1473. Gregory was Pope from 1227 to 1241. A Paris-educated lawyer, he continued the systematic compilation of Church pronouncements made since the early Middle Ages that was begun by the 12th century jurist Gratian. The book shows the tendency to reduce the size of large folio publications and to refine the type from manuscript models into typographic styles. This image shows leaf No. 25 printed in 1486 by Michael Wenssler and then compiled in 1927 by the German incunabula scholar Konrad Haebler.

This image can be found in German Incunabula: 110 Original Leaves at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (Z240.H13, V. 1, leaf 25).

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