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Bruno Psalter This psalter, a book of psalms with commentary, was commissioned by St. Bruno, bishop of Würzburg, Germany. It was printed by Reyser in 1475 in Würzburg on one of the first printing presses to use moveable type. There is evidence that this copy was the first completed copy of the edition, which was presented to St. Bruno and which bears his hand-written notes in the margins. The leather-and-board binding has been backed with illuminated endpapers dating from the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The first page of the text has been hand illuminated with gold and other colors. Stephanie Edwards |
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Summa Contra Gentiles Matthew, Isaiah, and Deuteronomy, as well as Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, and Diodorus, are among the many sources quoted by Thomas Aquinas in his classic manual of Christian doctrine. This edition was published in 1480, very shortly after the invention of the printing press. It illustrates the medieval manuscript of rubrication: decorating initial letters in red and blue. This page's elaborate V, illuminated in gold, shows a saint carrying a book amid a floral spray that extends down the left margin. Patrice M. Kane |
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New Testament This New Testament, printed in 1942, belonged to Dorothy Day (1897 -- 1980), Catholic convert, social justice activist, and founder of the Catholic Worker movement. The names on the prayer card, found in the Bible, are of people for whom she prayed. Included are Catholic Worker associates, other friends, and the three men with whom she lived before her conversion: Forster Batterham, Lionel Moise, and Berkeley Tobey. The preface was written by Fr. Robert I. Gannon, SJ, then president of Fordham University. Philip Runkel |
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Antiphonal The fourteenth-century antiphonal contains text and musical notes to be sung during Mass and other liturgical services, such as vespers, throughout the Chuch year. It begins with sons for the Advent season and continues through Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost; it ends with an antiphon for the feast of Corpus Christi. John Waide |
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Gutenberg Bible facsimile Only 47 Gutenberg Bibles are known to be extant. This handsome facsimile was a gift to Spring Hill from Thomas Martin, past chairman of the board of the Alabama Power Company, who made the presentation on the frest of St. Jerome, whose Vulgate version of the Bible was the one Gutenberg printer. Alice Harrison Bahr, PhD |
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