place printed: Germany

Psalterium, 1499 (π1r)

This title label uses red ink to call attention to itself, with the second part of the title in a smaller face.

Tabulae abcdariae pueriles, 1544 (recto)

Children were often taught to read by printed examples of the alphabet and the Lord's Prayer. This sheet is one of the earliest surviving lessons (probably because, as its appearance suggests, it was never used). Although there is no imprint statement on the sheet, the blocks used in the border were also used by Valentin Bapst in the late 1540s, suggesting that he is this work's printer as well.

Verkündigung der Bulle Pastoris, 1479

This 1479 papal bull from Pope Sixtus IV features two nearly-identical collation notes by papal notaries, identified by their initials in the seals to the left of their notes as Gregorius May and Mathias Horn. The huge and intricate initial I is handwritten and the bull is printed on parchment, both features which hearken back to the established and respected tradition of manuscript bookmaking.