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Title: Printing and writing materials : their evolution
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Adele Millicent
Subjects: Writing -- Materials and instruments Printing -- History Papermaking Bookbinding
Publisher: Philadelphia : Smith
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to us. Witha few exceptions, these prints were colored. Theywere pictiues of sacred personages, and wereundoubtedly copied from ilkmiinated religiousbooks then to be found in all the large monas-teries. They were intended for religious instruc-tion and comfort, and were bought by the poorand hung on the walls of their huts and cabins.These prints were produced as early as the four-teenth, perhaps as early as the thirteenth cen-tury. The earliest print still existing with a The St. definite and unquestioned date is the St. Chris- ^ ^^ topher of 1423. It is a rude wood-engraving,about 8 by 11 inches, and represents the Saintcarrying the infant Saviour across a river. Thisprint was discovered by Heinecken, in 1769,pasted inside the binding of an old manuscriptvolume of 1417, in the library of one of the mostancient convents of Germany, the Chartreuse atBuxheim in Swabia. The manuscript was placedin what was known as the Spencer library, whichafterwards passed into the possession of Mrs.
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STATUE OF GUTENBERG, AT STRASBURG (From a photograph.) PRINTING IN EUROPE 19 Rylands, of Manchester, England.^ In the book which contained the St. Christopher was also found another image print, the Annunciation, by some The Annun- ^ c ) J J ciation. thought to be of the same age and workmanship as the former. It is about the same size and is printed on the same land of paper. Msmy im.ageprints, of course, were produced before the St.Christopher, but this bears the earliest date of anynow in existence. The Mary Engraving, or the Bmssels Print, was formerh thought to be of the tl*^ Brussels • ° Print. year 1418; but the date had evidently been tampered with, and the authorities now consider it to be 1468. This print was discovered by an inn-keeper, in 1848, pasted on the inside of an old chest, and was placed in the Royal Library at Brussels. Other old prints are the St. Bridget, supposed to be of nearly the same age as the St. Christopher; the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, with fourteen li

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