The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)
De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : F. Hart · leaf 273
re books, with a brief explanatory text, had, since the thirteenth century, gradu- were the best means of supplying this ally monopolized preaching and the pas- want. Hence originated representations toral work of the settled clergy. Pro- of the mystic relation between the Old vided with nothing… … Mb THE SPECULUM SALUTIS. 267 An illustration on the last page of the book represents theParable of the Ten Virgins, to which is added the legend,The Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto Ten Virgins. Thefive foolish virgins are sadly descending into the mouth of themonster that represents Hell. Another…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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