{"id":1123,"date":"2011-12-08T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2018-09-07T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:11:55","slug":"oldest-printed-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/oldest-printed-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest printed books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest printed books in the Library are incunabula from the second half of the 15th Century. Incunabula are books printed before 1501, with a system that used individual letters and words to make up the text block. In Europe, this system was invented by Johannes Gutenburg in the mid 15<sup>th<\/sup> century. Before this invention, books were copied by hand or printed from hand-carved wooden blocks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1124\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Armagh-Public-Library-059.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1124\" title=\"Armagh Public Library 059\" src=\"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Armagh-Public-Library-059-695x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Armagh-Public-Library-059-695x1024.jpg 695w, http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Armagh-Public-Library-059-203x300.jpg 203w, http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Armagh-Public-Library-059.jpg 1189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Title page of Defensorium curatorum contra eos qui priuilegiatos se dicunt by Richard Fitz-Ralph, printed in Paris, 1485<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1199\" style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Incunable1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1199\" title=\"Incunable1\" src=\"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Incunable1-442x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Incunable1-442x1024.jpg 442w, http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Incunable1-129x300.jpg 129w, http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Incunable1.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page from The Fall Of The Princes by Giovanni Boccaccio, printed in 1494<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The oldest printed books in the Library are incunabula from the second half of the 15th Century. 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