The Effects of Time

An exhibition of books before 1600 with artwork by insects and rodents, mangled by bookbinders and dealers, etc.

Leonard Hansen and Richard Minsky, curators of the exhibition, said of the exhibit: “One of the great fascinations of old books is their history as artifacts. When we look at books that are hundreds of years old we see marginal notes from many readers, burn holes which may come from cigar ashes, manuscript replacements for missing text, and many other indications of where the book has been and what hazards it has survived. This exhibit of early books and book fragments presents a variety of examples of the effects of humans, insects, vermin, and the physical or chemical environment.”

Support for the Center for Book Arts’ visual arts programming is provided, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.


 

Exhibition Checklist: (all dimensions are in inches)

Margarita Poetica, Basel, 1503-04
Albertus de Eyb
Printed by Johann Amerbach, Johann Petri, Johann Froben. 11 x 8.

Gli Asolani, Venice, 1505
Pietro Bembo
Aldus Manutius. 7 1/4 x 4 5/8.

Drittes Theil Der Postill Order Predigbuchs…Uber Die Sontag Und Heyligen Des Wintertheyls, Mainz, 1561
Johann Wild
Franciscus Behem. 13 1/2 x 8 1/4.

Novus Orbis Regionum…, Basel, 1537
Simon Grynaeus
Johannes Hervagius. 12 1/4 x 8 1/4.

Epistolae Familiares, Paris, 1533
Cicero
Michael Vascosanus. 12 3/4 x 8 1/2

In Omnes Beati Pauli Epistolus…, Cologne, 1533
D. Dionysii Carthusani
Petrum Quentell. 13 1/4 x 8 3/4.

Enarrationes Piae Ac Eruditae In Quatuor Prophetas (Quos Vocant), Cologne, 1982
D. Dionysii Carthusiani
Johannes Quentel. 13 1/8 x 8 3/4.

…In Quinque Mosaic Legis Libros: Genesis, Exodus…, 1548

Sermones De Sanctis, Strassburg, 1489
Vincent Serrerius
Printer of Jordanus de Quedlinburg (George Husner). 13 3/8 x 8.

Exposito In Pasalterium, Basel, 1982
Cassiodorus
Johann Amberbach. 12 x 8 1/4.

Satyrae, Venice, December 2, 1492
Juvenal
Johannes Tacuinus de Tridino. 12 x 8 1/4.

Comedia. Con La Dotta & Leggiadra Spositione Di Christophoro Langdino, Venice, 1982
Dante Alighieri
ad instantia di M. Gioanni Giolitto di Trino (per M. Bernardino Stagnino). 8 1/2 x 6 1/2.

Introducctionin Ad Symbolum Fidei, Libri Quatuor, Cologne, 1588
Luis de Granada
Gervinius Calenius and heirs of Johann Quentell. 8 7/8 x 7.

Emendationum Libri Duo, Venice, 1557
Carlo Sigonio
Paulus Manutius. 8 1/4 x 6.

Ex Divi Joannis Apostoli Et Evangelistae…, Rome, 1570
Marco Antonio Georgio
Heirs of Antonio Blado. 8 1/2 x 6 1/4.

Continens Enarrationes In Psalmas Mysticos, Basel, 1569
St. Augustine of Hippo
Forben. 15 1/2 x 10 1/4.

Opera, Venice, February 4, 1490
Horace
Georgius Arrivabenus. 10 3/4 x 8 1/4.

Epigrammata, Venice, September 20, 1490
Martial
Uldericus Scinzenzeler. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2.

Storia Naturale, Venice, 1476
Pliny
Nicholas Jenson. 16 x 10 1/2.

Bible, Copenhagen, 1550
Ludowich Dietz. 14 3/4 x 10 1/4.

De Rerum Varietate, Basel, 1557
Girolamo Cardano
Henrich Petri. 12 3/4 x 8 1/4.

Die New Welt, Strassburg, March 14, 1534
Amerigo Vespucci Et Al
George Ulricher von Andla. 12 x 8.

Comentarii In Sex Libros, Venice, 1565
Pierto Andrea Mattioli
Vincenzo Valgrisi. 15 x 9 1/2.

Antiphonal (?) Covers, Northern Italian, 15th Century (??)

Antiphonal (?) Covers, Italian, 15th Century (??)

Great Bible, London, 1540-41
Grafton and Whitchurch. 16 1/2 x 11 3/4.

Bible, London, Dec. 29, 1549
Edward Whitchurch. 12 5/8 x 8 1/4.

Pantheologia, Augsburg, 1476
Ramerius De Pisis
Gunther Zainer. 16 1/2 x 11 3/4.

Suppressed Luther Bible, Leipzig, 1541
Nicolaum Wolrad. 13 3/4 x 9 1/2.

Missale Plenarium, Spain (?), circa 1170
13 7/8 x 9.

Duns Scotus, Venice, Dec. 13, 1472
13 3/4 x 9 1/2.

Summa Theologia, Strassburg, Aug. 17, 1490
Antoninus Florentinus
Johann (Reinhard) Gruenger. 12 5/8 x 8 1/2.

Italian-English Dictionary, London, 1598
John Florio
Arnold Hatfield for Edward Blount. 10 x 7 1/2

Antiphonary, Spain, 15th century (??)
Manuscript on vellum. 24 1/2 x 16 1/2.

Illuminated Manuscript Pages, 14th century (?)
17 1/2 x 12, 12 1/4 x 11 1/2

Incunable Leaf, Mainz, Feb. 23, 1472 (??)
Peter Schoeffer (?). 13 1/2 x 10.

The Enemies Of Books, London, 1880
William Blades
Trubner & Co. 8 x 5

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