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Albertus Pafraet, 1530 -- Printer's Mark

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1530
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Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Second window. Albertus Pafraet (c.14-- – c. 155-) was born in Deventer to Richard Pafraet, one of the first printers in the city. By 1511 he took over his father's press and continued to work on similar types of commissions, mainly religious texts and

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Aldus Manutius, 1495-1515 -- Printer's Mark

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1495-1515
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Main (Thompson) Library location: Class of '51 Reading Room. Aldus Manutius (c.1449 – 1515) was born in Bassiano, Italy around 1449 and studied the classics in Rome and Ferrara. He took a special interest in the ancient Greek scholarship of Guarino da Verona. In 1482, through his relationship with

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Alexandre Aliate, 1499-1505 -- Printer's Mark

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1499-1505
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Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Fifth window. Originally from Milan, Alexandre Aliate (c.14-- – c. 1505) began working as a printer in Paris in approximately 1497, where he is first documented working at the Sign of St. Barbara. In 1499, he printed his first known work, Carmina, sive

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André Wechel, 1535-1573 -- Printer's Mark

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1535-1573
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Main (Thompson) Library location: End window -- North wing. André Wechel (c.15-- – 1581) assumed responsibility of the printing press of his father, Chrétien Wechel, after his death in 1554. Wechel primarily printed the works classical and contemporary authors; among his most notable titles are La

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Andrew Hester, 1550 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1550
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Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- First window. Very little is known about the life and career of Andrew Hester (c.15 -- – c. 1556). He worked as a bookseller and printer at St. Paul's Churchyard in London, and his practice was most likely located at the Sign of the White Horse. In

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Antonio Blado, 1524-1565 -- Printer's Mark

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1490-1567
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Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Third window. Antonio Blado (1490 – 1567) was born in Asola, Italy in 1490 established his printing press in Rome and soon after began to publish a series of excerpts from a 12th century collection of narratives entitled Mirabilia Urbis Romae. Blado

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Arnold Therhoernen, 1477 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1477
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Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- First window. The earliest records concerning Arnold Therhoernen (c. 14-- – c. 1484) document him as a cleric of the Diocese of Utrecht who matriculated at the University of Cologne in 1468. He began to work at the press of Ulrich Zell, and the first

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Berthold Rembolt, 1500 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1500
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Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Sixth window. Berthold Rembolt (c.14-- – 1518), originally from Ehenheim in Alsace, moved to Paris in 1494, where he established his printing firm in partnership with Ulrich Gering at the Sign of the Golden Sun. By the time Gering left the firm in 1509

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Caligula de Bazaleriis, 1503 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1503
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Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- End window. The earliest available records concerning Caligula de Bazaleriis (c.14-- – c. 15--) locate him in Bologna in 1490. There he may have begun to work with printer and relative, Bazalerius de Bazaleriis, who published books dated as early as

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Christopher Plantin, 1555-1589 -- Printer's Mark

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1555-1589
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Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Second window. Christopher Plantin (c.1520 – 1589) was born circa 1520 in the region of Touraine, France where he was raised in the home of a clergyman and received a classical education. He was apprenticed to bookbinder Robert Macé and later began to

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Cornaro Window, Thompson Memorial Library

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Date
1910-1940
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The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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Stained glass window depicting the Lady Elena Lucretia Cornaro-Piscopia

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Cupid and Psyche tapestry, Vassar College Library

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Date
1910-1940
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The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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One of a set of five seventeenth century tapestries depicting the story of Cupid and Psyche

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Cupid and Psyche tapestry, Vassar College Library

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1910-1940
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The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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One of a set of five seventeenth century tapestries depicting the story of Cupid and Psyche

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Cupid and Psyche tapestry, Vassar College Library

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1910-1940
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The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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One of a set of five seventeenth century tapestries depicting the story of Cupid and Psyche

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Cupid and Psyche tapestry, Vassar College Library

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Date
1910-1940
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The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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One of a set of five seventeenth century tapestries depicting the story of Cupid and Psyche

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Cupid and Psyche tapestry, Vassar College Library

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Date
1910-1940
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The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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One of a set of five seventeenth century tapestries depicting the story of Cupid and Psyche

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Cupid and Psyche tapestry, Vassar College Library

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Date
1910-1940
Content Warning
The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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One of a set of five seventeenth century tapestries depicting the story of Cupid and Psyche

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De Marnef Brothers, 1481-1550 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1481-1550
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Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Sixth window. Brothers Geoffroy, Jean, and Enguilbert de Marnef printed collaboratively and shared a printing press in Paris at the Sign of the Pelican, founded by Geoffroy, from which they issued their first publication Les sept degres de l'echelle in

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Ercole Nani, 1500 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1500
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Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fifth window. Ercole Nani (c.14-- – c. 15--) was a printer and typesetter in Bologna, where his documented practice began in 1483 with the collaborative publication of Robertus Valturius' Opera dell'arte militare. By 1492, Nani established himself

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Erhart Oeglin, 1505-1516 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1505-1516
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Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Second window. Erhart Oeglin (c.1470 – c.1521) was born in Reutlingen around 1470, and by 1490, he was in Basel, where he studied printing under Johann Otmar. In 1505, Oeglin moved to Augsburg and began printing with Jörg Nadler; it was not until 1518

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