Incunabula and block books
The University Library's collections include valuable block books and incunabula. Among the most important are:
- Ekbert von Schönau: Respice Domine. [Mainz: Gutenberg type, c. 1457]. Single sheet print (unique copy) (2,34 MB)
- Fragments of the 36-line bible. [Mainz/Bamberg, c.1458]
- Biblia, 48-line. Mainz: Fust u. Schöffer, 1462
- First bible published in German. Strasbourg, Menteln, 1466
- Second bible published in German. Strasbourg: Eggstein, [not later than 1470]
- Corpus Juris. Mainz: Peter Schöffer, 1468
- Speculum humanae salvationis. [before 1472]. With 192 coloured woodcuts (111 MB)
- Latin and German editions of the Schedelsche Weltchronik (Nuremberg chronicle). Nuremberg: Koberger, 1493