Category: Wynken de Worde

>One of my favorite things about my job is that it gives me the chance to explore books. On the best times, it means that I can go down into the stacks where the rare materials are kept and discover something I hadn’t been looking for. This book comes from one of those occasions. It’s a Vulgate bible printed in Lyon in 1527 by Jaques Mareschal. The text itself isn’t particularly notable–it’s the standard Latin translation of the day. But the physical object is something else, a real window into the act of reading and understanding the text. I had gone down to Deck C with our Curator of Books, Steve Galbraith, in order to find some bibles that we could use in class. I don’t remember why we pulled this one off the shelf–we misread the shelfmark, maybe? In any case, when we pulled it out, we found that…