MS Fairfax 16 is an anthology of short poems popular in fifteenth-century England. What is emphasised in collections like this is the themes and styles of courtly love poetry; almost entirely ignored is the authorship of the works. Even works we know…
The Nuremburg Chronicle is an illustrated world history, and an important example of early printing. The work concerns human history as related in the Bible, but also includes the history of a number of European cities. Although Hartmann Schedel…