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Media history(ies) in the Gutenberg Museum MOVED
Gutenberg Museum Mainz

Book history collection

Vannoccio Biringuccio's "Pirotecnica" (Venice 1558).
Wenzel Sponrib's "True Description; Graz, Wedding" (Graz 1572)
Mathäus Merian's "Dance of Death" (Frankfurt 1696).
Johann Hieronymus Kniphof's "Naturselbstdruck" (Erfurt 1733).
Tobias Lobeck /Tobias Lotter: World map in small format (Augsburg 1747)
Collection of letters from the Gutenberg Museum
Johann Wonnecke von Kaub's "Gart der Gesundheit" (Mainz 1485).
Johannes Gutenberg's "Catholicon" (Mainz between 1460 and 1472?).
The "Theuerdank" of Emperor Maximilian.
"Poliphilo's dream love battle" (Venice 1499).
A "Book of Hours" for religious edification (France, around 1450).
Missal from St. Gangolf (Mainz 1444).
Bible manuscript in small format (Paris, around 1300).
Hartmann Schedel's "World Chronicle" (Nuremberg 1493).
Book on the art of palmistry (Augsburg 1519).
The "Apocalypse" of the New Testament as a block book with color woodcuts.
Image gallery, 16 images

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