Early Printed Works (1477-1521) at the MRU Archives & Special Collections

Explore the Printing Revolution and its impact on the Renaissance through books and leaves from the MRU Archives' Early Print Collection. Prepared for HIST 3333 - The Renaissance.

Video contents:
00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - Manuscript culture in the medieval period
01:15 - The Printing Revolution
02:08 - The printing process
03:55 - Societal impacts of printing technology
06:21 - Comparing manuscript to print: Liber Sextus Decretalium (ca. 1300) and Decretals of Gregory IX (1486)
09:01 - Reproducing images through woodcuts: The Nuremberg Chronicle (1494)
10:17 - Early attitudes to print, and hybrid works: Hore Beate Marie Virginis (ca. 1521)
12:18 - Vernacular texts: German Bible (1477)
14:27 - Dante's Inferno (1507)
17:20 - Classical works: Aldine Aristotle (1497)
19:23 - The Aeneid (1517)
21:05 - How to access collections