May 10, 2024
CODEX ROTUNDUS (Flanders, c.1480)
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CODEX ROTUNDUS (Flanders, c.1480)
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January 21st, 2026 | Incunabulum day on campus
Johannes de Sacrobosco – Scientist of the Day
Johannes de Sacrobosco was a 13th-century cleric and astronomer who wrote a basic textbook on astronomy called The Sphere.
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Doors Open Milwaukee
As we do every year, this past Saturday (September 28, 2024) we participated in the annual city-wide event, Doors Open Milwaukee, where over 150 institutions, facilities, and buildings open their doors to the community. Of course, as a public institution our doors are always open to the public, but this event offers us an opportunity to emphasize the public-facing aspect of our Special Collections.
During the event, we displayed select examples from our many collecting areas. These materials were arranged chronologically from the 15th century to the present, covering incunabula, literature, history, horticulture, printmaking technologies, state-of-the-art facsimiles, fine-press publications, and artists' books.
142 visitors walked through our doors on Saturday, with many coming in family groups. As you can see from the images, the children were as fascinated with our materials as the adults!
The word "incunabula" is Latin, a neuter plural meaning "swaddling clothes" or "cradle." In book history, it is used to refer to all books printed with metal type from the beginning of Gutenberg's movable type printing press, around 1455, to the end of 1500. This is an arbitrary but traditional date that marks the end of the "infancy" of printing, as it rapidly spread to centers across Europe and into the Americas. Known as "incunables" in Spanish and French (and often in English), "incunaboli" in Italian, and "incunábulos" in Portuguese, these earliest of printed books have long been of great interest to librarians, book collectors, and historians of the book.
What Are Incunabula?, The University of Chicago Library
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William Morris, a British poet, designer, and thinker, founded the Kelmscott Press in 1891, a printing press that became a landmark of the Arts and Crafts movement. In response to mechanization and the subpar quality of many industrially produced books, Morris aimed to restore the craftsmanship of books from the incunabula period by reviving medieval printing techniques. He championed the book as a complete work of art by creating works with his own typefaces, illustrations by artists like Edward Burne-Jones, and careful attention to layout and binding. The edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was his most famous creation.
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Incunabula presents a new modern English translation, by the acclaimed translator and writer R J Dent, of André Breton’s The Surrealist Manifesto, a work whose influence on the artistic world of its time was enormous and whose repercussions are still perceptible anywhere that artists and free-thinkers raise the flag of revolt.
First published in French 1924, and first translated into English in 1969, this new edition of The Surrealist Manifesto has been published to commemorate the official centenary of the Surrealist movement. It is a companion volume to R J Dent’s translation of Breton’s Soluble Fish (also available from Incunabula), and will hopefully address the general lack of comprehension that Breton’s work has been met with by the English speaking world.
R J Dent’s English translation of this key text casts new light on the intricacies and subtleties of Breton’s writing that have always presented a challenge to the translator. This is likely to be the definitive translation, and is therefore essential reading for students and fans of Surrealism and literature in general.
Book details:
Title: The Surrealist Manifesto
Author: André Breton
Translator: R J Dent
ISBN: 978-1-4452-4380-1
Language: English & French (Bilingual Edition)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
Dimensions: 6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm
Publisher: Incunabula
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