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![Canon Missae, unnumbered page detail Canon Missae, unnumbered page detail](https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/files/thumbnails/df601616a6bde633036a13a7dd72ece8.jpg)
CANON MISSAE
The first printed book to give the names of the printers and the date of its printing. click here for more information.
![Book of fayttes of armes and of Chyualrye, unnumbered page detail Book of fayttes of armes and of Chyualrye, unnumbered page detail](https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/files/thumbnails/02cbdd8c13095addf81486b50fb7f5e8.jpg)
CHRISTINE DE PISAN, The Book of Fayttes of Armes & of Chyvalrye William Caxton, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey, set up the first English press.
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![De evangelica praeparatione, unnumbered page detail De evangelica praeparatione, unnumbered page detail](https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/files/thumbnails/bad07588eaf0aebdb0101b3a5fc2cd77.jpg)
EUSEBIUS, De Evangelica Praeparatione
The first type to be consciously designed according to typographical ideals.
![Epistole CCCLXVIII, unnumbered page detail Epistole CCCLXVIII, unnumbered page detail](https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/files/thumbnails/5d4fa5e996aa0ea1ba7e6d99adf5b976.jpg)
SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA, Epistole CCCLXVIII
The first appearance of a printed italic letter form occurs in this book.
![Type Specimen Sheet, detail Type Specimen Sheet, detail](https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/files/thumbnails/e88c4b1f9ec42ca9ed403024caffddb0.jpg)
VICENTINO LUDOVICO DEGLI ARRIGHI, Type Specimen Sheet
A rare specimen sheet showing type based on Arrighi's italic hand.
![Homērou Ilias, volume 1, unknown page detail Homērou Ilias, volume 1, unknown page detail](https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/files/thumbnails/b55cc02a9ab89bae5078bfb2f8d8e501.jpg)
HOMER,
Works
Aldus commissioned this font for his new series of classical texts,which he called "portable books in the nature of manuals."