Speculum

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The last of the block books, so far as is known, was the Opera Nova Contemplativa, which was executed at Venice about 1510.

From one point of view, the Speculum Humanae Salvationis, or Mirror of Salvation, is the most curious of its kind.

It is looked upon as the connecting link between block books proper and type-printed books its purpose seems to have been to afford instruction in the facts and lessons of the christian religion beginning with the fall of satan it is founded on an old and once popular manuscript work sometimes ascribed to brother john a benedictine monk of the thirteenth or fourteenth century four so-called editions of the speculum are known two of which are in latin rhyme and two in dutch prose all four having many points in common and standing apart from the latter and dated editions afterwards produced in germany holland and france In these early copies, the body of the work consists of a text printed from movable types with a block printed illustration at the head of each page.

but one of the latin editions is remarkable for having twenty pages of the text printed from wood blocks how and why these xylographic pages appear in a book whose remaining forty two pages are printed from types is a mystery they are inserted at intervals among the other leaves and for this and other reasons it is considered improbable that they were printed from blocks originally intended for a block book to help to eke out a not very plentiful stock of type moreover no entirely xylographic speculum exists to lend color to such a theory the time and place of origin of the speculum are unknown and bibliographers are not agreed as to the order in which the several editions appeared but such evidence as exists points to holland as the home of the printed speculum and those who believe that coster of haarlem invented typography credited him with having produced it Block books are nearly all of German, Dutch, or Flemish workmanship.

At Caxton's death, he became master of the red pail, and issued a number of books from Caxton's house at Westminster, including reprints of several of Caxton's publications.

He made use of some modified forms of Caxton's device, but he also had a device of his own, which first appears in the Book of Courtesy, printed sometime before 1493.

He printed, among other works, The Golden Legend, The Book of Courtesy, Bonaventura's Speculum Vitae Christi, Higdon's Polychronicon, which appeared in 1495, and is the first English book with printed musical notes, Bartholomaeus' De Propriatibus Rerum, which appeared about fourteen ninety five and is the first book printed on english made paper and which has already been noticed as the authority for supposing that caxton learned printing at cologne the book of st albans the chronicles of england mort d'arthur the canterbury tales c c he also issued a host of sermons almanacs and other minor works in fifteen hundred wynken de word moved from caxton's house in westminster to the sign of the sun in fleet street and presently opened another place of business at the sign of our lady of pity in st paul's churchyard about a year after caxton had established himself at the red pale and had issued the dictys or sayings and two years before the city of london had attained to the dignity of a printing-press typography began to be practised at oxford but by whom is not known though very possibly by theodore rood of cologne the first oxford book was the expositio in symbolum apostolarum of st jerome a work which happens to be dated fourteen sixty eight and has thereby led some to assign to oxford the credit of having printed the first book in this country but that date is now acknowledged to be a printer's error for fourteen seventy eight a similar misprint led to a similar error as to the first book printed in venice the decor pularum executed by nicholas jensen purports to have appeared in fourteen sixty one and thus was at one time supposed to be the first book printed in venice but the date is now recognized as a misprint for fourteen seventy one which leaves john of spires the first venetian printer and his epistolae familiares of cicero fourteen sixty nine the first venetian printed book cambridge was more than forty years later than oxford in providing herself with a printing press in the same year that london began to print appeared the first books from the press at the abbey of st albans namely augustini dacty elegancie and the nova rhetorica of sauna as both were printed in fourteen eighty it is uncertain which is the earlier this press was probably started in fourteen seventy nine but of the printer nothing is known except that when wynkyn de worde reprinted the chronicles of england from a copy printed at st albans He refers to him as the St. Albans schoolmaster.

The famous Books of Hawking and Hunting, and also of Kutar Morius, commonly known as the Book of St. Albans, written by the accomplished Juliana Berners, prioress of the neighboring nunnery of Sopwell, was printed at the monastery in 1486, and reprinted ten years later by by Winkin D.

A high fan-shaped crest on head strikingly marked with white.

Speculum white.

Sides rufous, finely barred with black.

Breast and belly white.

Neck with striking white collar.

Back and wings gray.

Speculum violet, bordered with black and white.

Rump and upper and under tail coverts black.

The Lord of Toulouse, a legend of Languedoc.

Veluti in Speculum, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.

Count Raymond rules in Languedoc, or the Champagne fair and wide, with town and stronghold many a one, washed by the wave of the blue Garonne, and from far Auvergne to Roussillon, and away to Narbonne and the mouths of the Rhone, and his Leonois silks and his Narbonne honey bring in his lordship a great deal of money.

A thousand lances stout and true attend Count Raymond's call, and knights and nobles of high degree from Guienne, Provence, and Burgundy before Count Raymond bend the knee and veil to him one and all.

Yeah, most people listening in Hamilton know the, the mayor's like, "Huh?"

Specul- the mayor would be stoked.

Oh, would you?

Eh?