Phagotum
A musical instrument invented by Afranio Ambrogio in the 16th century, akin to the bagpipes, is rather bizarrely described and depicted here in the middle of his nephew Teseo Ambrogio’s ground-breaking 1539 grammar of the Syriac language.
Printing Press
A reference to the printing press found on the penultimate leaf of Fasciculus temporum (1482)
![Image of the printing press used in the title page of Annotationes doctorum viroru[m] in grammaticos (1511)](https://i0.wp.com/specialcollections.ul.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Bolton_M.3.13_Printing-press.jpg?w=581&h=581&crop=1&ssl=1 "Bolton_M.3.13_Printing press")
Image of the printing press used in the title page of Annotationes doctorum viroru[m] in grammaticos (1511)
In 1493, the Nuremberg Chronicle appears, and details the history of the world through to the year of publication. On one of its very final pages – and on the penultimate leaf of Fasciculus temporum (1482) – is a reference to a recent invention: ‘’Ars imprimendi libros …’’: the printing press. We can see it hard at work here in Paris on the title page of Bolton Library M.3.13 two decades later.
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