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Fred C. Robinson, Valerie
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| English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton
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University of Illinois Press. New ""English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton" examines the history of early English books, exploring the concept of putting the English language into print with close study of the texts, the formats, the audiences, and the functions of English books. Lavishly illustrated with more than 130 full-color images of stunning rare books, this volume investigates a full range of issues regarding the dissemination of English language and culture through printed works, including the standardization of typography, grammar, and spelling; the appearance of popular literature; and the development of school grammars and dictionaries. Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred C. Robinson provide engaging descriptions of more than a hundred early English books drawn from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the Elizabethan Club of Yale University. The study nearly mirrors the chronological coverage of Pollard and Redgrave's famous "Short-Title Catalogue" (1475-1640), beginning with William Caxton, England's first printer, and ending with John Milton, the English language's most eloquent defender of the freedom of the press in his "Areopagitica" of 1644. William Shakespeare, neither a printer nor a writer much concerned with publishing his own plays, nonetheless deserves his central place in this study because Shakespeare imprints, and Renaissance drama in general, provide a fascinating window on the world of English printing in the period between Caxton and Milton. " ISBN10: 0252033469.
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BRUNUS ARETINUS (Leonardus)
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| Isagogicon moralis disciplinae :]
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- liber de moribus admodum utilis et necessarius ad Galeotum. [Sant'Orso, Johannes Renensis, vers 1475], in-4 (20,3 x 14,5 cm) de 14 ff.n.ch., sign. a8-b6, 25/26 lignes, car. rom., demi-veau [Rel. du XIXe siècle, signée Simier, relieur du Roi]. Rare édition incunable imprimée dans une localité italienne peu connue. Après avoir commencé sa carrière à Padoue en 1473, l'imprimeur allemand Johannes Renensis (Hans vom Rin), originaire de la région de Bâle, transporta en 1475 son atelier à Sant'Orso, petite bourgade dans les collines de la Vénétie à une trentaine de kilomètres au nord-ouest de Vicence, vraisemblablement pour fuir une épidémie de peste. Il imprima là-bas sept ou huit éditions avant de redescendre à Vicence en 1476 et disparaître ensuite des annales typographiques. Toutes ces éditions sont très rares et peu d'entre elles sont signées. C'est le cas de celle-ci, et les bibliographes ont longtemps hésité sur son attribution typographique. HC 1766. GW 5617 = 2385. Goff B-1251. CIBN B-888. On a aussi hésité quant au texte de cette édition : jusqu'à une époque récente, les catalogues et les bibliographies le présentaient comme une traduction latine par Leonardo Bruni, dit "l'Arétin", de l'Ethique d'Aristote à son disciple Eudème de Rhodes. Or, si le célèbre humaniste florentin (1370-1444) a effectivement traduit par ailleurs l'Ethique d'Aristote à Nicomaque, il s'agit bien ici d'un traité de son cru, ou plutôt une introduction (Isagogicon) d'inspiration aristotélicienne à la philosophie morale, qu'il composa vers 1421-1424 et dédia à un de ses disciples, Galeotto Ricasoli. Ce court texte connut un énorme succès dans l'Italie du Quattrocento et fut imprimé à plusieurs reprises dès 1470 [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]
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Duranti, Guillaume
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| Rationale diuinorum officiorum
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Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, 1475. 13 Avril 1475. In-folio (226 x 318 mm), veau, fine roulette dentelée dorée encadrant les plats, dos à nerfs orné, tranches dorées (reliure du XVIIIe s.). 318 ff. (dont un blanc après les seize de sommaire), dont 301 de texte, numérotés à l'époque, à la main et en chiffres arabes. Texte sur deux colonnes à 46 lignes, sans page de titre ni signature. Lettrines, rubriques et bouts-de-ligne à l'encre rouge. Titres-courants manuscrits à l'encre noire et rouge. De la bibliothèque Maurice Burrus, avec ex-libris. BEL EXEMPLAIRE DE CET INCUNABLE ENLUMINÉ À L'ÉPOQUE, dans une reliure du XVIIIe siècle. Reliure frottée et épidermée ; quelques taches (certaines à l'encre rouge) ; f. 283 provenant d'un autre exemplaire et f. 284 remonté ; quelques inscriptions manuscrites de l'époque. UN DES PLUS IMPORTANTS OUVRAGES DU XVe SIÈCLE et même de tout le Moyen Âge sur la liturgie et sa signification. Brunet, II, 905 ; Hain-Copinger, 6476 ; Pellechet, 4496 ; Gesamtkatalog, 9108; Goff D409. TRÈS RARE - VERY RARE (English description available upon request). PHOTO DISPONIBLE - PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.. Cuir / Leather. Very Good Condition / Très bon. 22,6cm x 31,8cm.
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SAWYER, Charles J.
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SAWYER, Charles J. and DARTON, F.J. Harvey. English Books 1475-1900: A Signpost for Collectors. Westminster and New York: Chas. J. Sawyer and E.P. Dutton, 1927. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter burgundy morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and unopened. $850. First edition, one of 2000 unnumbered copies, of "one of the best guides ever written to the collecting of English books," handsomely bound. "One of the best guides ever written to the collecting of English books" (Webber, 11). Sawyer and Darton's attempt "to show... which books are to-day considered desirable by the book-collector... and why they are desirable" (Preface). Surveys rare books from the days of William Caxton through the private press movement at the turn of the 20th century. With 100 illustrations, including frontispiece and one folding plate. A fine copy.
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CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de.
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| Catalogus Plantarum Horti Botanici Monspeliensis, addito observationum circa species novas aut non satis cognitas fasciculo. Montpellier, J. Martel, 1813. 8vo. Modern brown half goatskin, decorative paper sides and marbled endpapers.
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- (8), 155 pp. BMC NH, p. 310; Pritzel 1475; Stafleu & Cowan 991; DSB III, pp. 43-45. Rare first edition of Candolle's catalogue of plants in the botanical garden in Montpellier. From 1808 till 1816 Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was professor of botany in Montpellier. His professional obligations at the university in this quiet provincial town left him ample time to publish his research. The present work contains an alphabetical list of species found in the botanical garden, followed by 230 annotations on unknown or relatively unknown species. Some hand-written annotations in ink and pencil; p. 115: part of outer margin missing, not affecting text. A very good copy of an uncommon botanical catalogue.
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| Biblia Latina. Incunable imprimée par Bernhard Richel à Bâle en 1475. Important fragment, le tome 1 seul (de 2), manque la fin des Psaumes (environ 20 folios). Avec une introduction à chaque livre de la Bible par ÔMenardus monachus' (probablement un chartreux de Eisenach).
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Bâle, Bernard Richel, 1475, in-folio, 1 ff. index manuscrit avec note du propriétaire: ÔQui libros aperis hos claudere ne pigriteris / a fatuis fordide libri tractantur vbqz ... / sed nolcens litteras tractat eas vt margaritas' + 207 ff., pages de 48 lignes, belles lettrines (gravées) coloriées à la main en vert, rouge, jaune et bleu, reliure d'origine en plein cuir orné en relief, avec 5 cabochons sur chaque plat, charnères fendus. La ÔBiblia Latina' imprimée par Richel en 1475, se présente divisée en deux tomes: le 1er de 226 ff., comprend les livres de la Genèse aux Psaumes, et le 2e de 234 ff., contient les livres ÔLiber Proverbiorum bis Tabula Menardi'. "Un des anciens compagnons de Gutemberg, Berthold Ruppel, s'établit à Bâle peu de temps après l'invention de l'imprimerie. (...) D'autres imprimeurs contribuèrent à asseoir la réputation de Bâle en tant que métropole de l'imprimerie: Bernhard Richel, Johannes Amerbach, Johannes Froben, et d'autres encore. Aujourd'hui Bâle possède une des plus riches collections de ces premiers livres imprimés, appelées incunables. (...) En 1471, les archives mentionnent une première grève des ouvriers de l'imprimerie à Bâle, ce qui laisse à penser que cette industrie connaissait déjà un large développement" (La Bible en Suisse, Bâle 1997, p. 128). Richel was the first printer to specialize in "ready-to-use" Bibles. Whereas Fust and Schoeffer had printed red rubrics and some small initials in red or blue in their Bible of 1462, Richel provided rubrics in red and printed all of the large and small initials with ornamental woodblocks, so that rubrication by hand was no longer necessary for use. http://smu.edu/bridwell/specialcollections/prothroexhibit/richel.htm ; La Bible en Suisse, Bâle 1997, p. 128 ; Pierre L. Van der Haegen, Basler Wiegendrucke, p. 58 ;
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Duranti, Guillaume
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| Rationale diuinorum officiorum
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Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, Paris 1475 - 13 Avril 1475. In-folio (226 x 318 mm), veau, fine roulette dentelée dorée encadrant les plats, dos à nerfs orné, tranches dorées (reliure du XVIIIe s.). 318 ff. (dont un blanc après les seize de sommaire), dont 301 de texte, numérotés à l'époque, à la main et en chiffres arabes. Texte sur deux colonnes à 46 lignes, sans page de titre ni signature. Lettrines, rubriques et bouts-de-ligne à l'encre rouge. Titres-courants manuscrits à l'encre noire et rouge. De la bibliothèque Maurice Burrus, avec ex-libris. BEL EXEMPLAIRE DE CET INCUNABLE ENLUMINÉ À L'ÉPOQUE, dans une reliure du XVIIIe siècle. Reliure frottée et épidermée ; quelques taches (certaines à l'encre rouge) ; f. 283 provenant d'un autre exemplaire et f. 284 remonté ; quelques inscriptions manuscrites de l'époque. UN DES PLUS IMPORTANTS OUVRAGES DU XVe SIÈCLE et même de tout le Moyen Âge sur la liturgie et sa signification. Brunet, II, 905 ; Hain-Copinger, 6476 ; Pellechet, 4496 ; Gesamtkatalog, 9108; Goff D409. TRÈS RARE - VERY RARE (English description available upon request). PHOTO DISPONIBLE - PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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ILLUMINATED LEAF
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| Leaf from a Book of Hours
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1475 1475 - (ILLUMINATED LEAF). Illuminated manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin. France, circa 1475. Octavo, single leaf on vellum, in black, gold, green, blue, white, brown and red inks. Leaf measures 5 by 7 inches. $2000. Lovely illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours, with striking and unusual border panel. Scribed in 20 lines in a late gothic script, with capitals of gold ink on blue and red rectangular grounds. One two-line and five one-line capitals, with four line extenders. Border panel along right margin is of acanthus leaves in blue and gold and flowers and leaves in green, blue and red set within a background of vertical stripes of gold and brown. Verso has 20 lines of text, seven one-line capitals, four line extenders and a similar border panel. Fine condition, suitable for framing.
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A LARGE HISTORIATED VELLUM INITIAL S
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Verona/the Veneto, ca. 1475 150 x 147 mm. (6 x 5 3/4"") in a 14 x 11"" mat. The cutting mounted in a recessed compartment enclosed by a mat the whole within a very pleasing 15 1/8 x 12 1/8 gilt frame. The cutting comprised of a large S in different shades of pink with subtle white tracery the elements of the letter outlined with lush blue and green foliage the initial against a background of burnished gold the lower opening of the S revealing Stephen his hands clasped in prayer blood flowing from his head in which is embedded a stone other bloodied stones at his feet the opening above showing his attackers both about to cast another lithic missile behind them hills topped with castles and a walled city the whole painted in clear bright colors. Two faint horizontal creases (one above the stoning figures one through the top of Stephen's head) loss of paint at very edge and in lower corner in the foliate extension otherwise in very pleasing condition the colors and gold very rich and the three figures extremely well preserved. Saint Stephen the young deacon and the first of Christ's followers to suffer martyrdom is shown here with a bright blond tonsure an elongated face and a suffering resigned expression that gives him great individuality. Stephen had argued that the true temple is the temple of the heart and for this he was stoned the usual punishment for blasphemy. The artist has cleverly entwined the victim and the attackers in the plump initial S. Three towers on improbably steep hills jut up behind the stoners the more youthful of whom has an enormous red hat such as a 15th century wastrel might wear perched on his voluminous pile of hair. His face with its cleft chin snide expression and round rosy cheeks is a contrast to the saintly visage of Stephen. $8500
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| Biblia Latina. Incunable imprimée par Bernhard Richel à Bâle en 1475. Important fragment, le tome 1 seul (de 2), manque la fin des Psaumes (environ 20 folios). Avec une introduction à chaque livre de la Bible par ÔMenardus monachus' (probablement un chartreux de Eisenach).
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Bâle, Bernard Richel, 1475, in-folio, 1 ff. index manuscrit avec note du propriétaire: ÔQui libros aperis hos claudere ne pigriteris / a fatuis fordide libri tractantur vbqz ... / sed nolcens litteras tractat eas vt margaritas' + 207 ff., pages de 48 lignes, belles lettrines (gravées) coloriées à la main en vert, rouge, jaune et bleu, reliure d'origine en plein cuir orné en relief, avec 5 cabochons sur chaque plat, charnères fendus. La ÔBiblia Latina' imprimée par Richel en 1475, se présente divisée en deux tomes: le 1er de 226 ff., comprend les livres de la Genèse aux Psaumes, et le 2e de 234 ff., contient les livres ÔLiber Proverbiorum bis Tabula Menardi'. "Un des anciens compagnons de Gutemberg, Berthold Ruppel, s'établit à Bâle peu de temps après l'invention de l'imprimerie. (...) D'autres imprimeurs contribuèrent à asseoir la réputation de Bâle en tant que métropole de l'imprimerie: Bernhard Richel, Johannes Amerbach, Johannes Froben, et d'autres encore. Aujourd'hui Bâle possède une des plus riches collections de ces premiers livres imprimés, appelées incunables. (...) En 1471, les archives mentionnent une première grève des ouvriers de l'imprimerie à Bâle, ce qui laisse à penser que cette industrie connaissait déjà un large développement" (La Bible en Suisse, Bâle 1997, p. 128). Richel was the first printer to specialize in "ready-to-use" Bibles. Whereas Fust and Schoeffer had printed red rubrics and some small initials in red or blue in their Bible of 1462, Richel provided rubrics in red and printed all of the large and small initials with ornamental woodblocks, so that rubrication by hand was no longer necessary for use. http://smu.edu/bridwell/specialcollections/prothroexhibit/richel.htm ; La Bible en Suisse, Bâle 1997, p. 128 ; Pierre L. Van der Haegen, Basler Wiegendrucke, p. 58 ;
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BOOK OF HOURS
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1475 1475 - (BOOK OF HOURS). Illuminated manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. Low countries, circa 1475. Single vellum leaf (4-1/2 by 6 inches), in black, gold, green, blue and red inks. Matted and framed. $3800. Stunning illuminated leaf from a Dutch Book of Hours, with a beautiful 14-line initial. The text is from the beginning of the rubrics for matins. Scribed in 20 lines in dark brown and red inks in a gothic script, with a magnificent 14-line initial in blue on a field of burnished gold with designs in red, blue and green, all set within a border of acanthus leaves in red, blue and green on hairline tendrils in gold. The opposite side is also scribed in 20 lines, with one three-line initial in red with elaborate extenders. This leaf is from the extremely successful compilation of Geert Grote and is indicative of the "devotion moderna" in the Low Countries; only the Dutch consistently read the Hours in their vernacular language. Fine condition.
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TOMMASI TOMMASO (PSEUD. DI GREGORIO
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| Vita di Cesare Borgia detto poi il duca Valentino. S.n.l. (Firenze?), 1789
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- Due parti in un volume di cm. 17, pp. xv (1), 269 (1) + 1 c.b.; vii (1), 294 + 1 c.b. Ottima leg. coeva in perg. rigida con titoli in oro su tass. al dorso, tagli spruzzati. Ottimamente conservato. Celebre biografia di Cesare Borgia (1475-1507), uomo politico dalla vita tanto breve quanto avventurosa. A proposito dell'attribuzione cfr. Melzi, III, p. 233: "Dal Catalogo Farsetti assegnasi per vero autore di questa Vita Gregorio Leti, che sembra essersi voluto occultare sotto il finto nome di Tommaso Tommasi. Ma. il non vedere di quest'opera fatto cenno fra le anonime, o pseudonime, delle quali lo stesso Leti ci somministra l'elenco nella sua Vita di Cromwell, ci fa nascere il dubbio che non sia veramente tutto suo lavoro. Ch'egli però vi abbia posto mano e fattevi delle aggiunte. Arroge a ciò che un Tommaso Tommasi ha veramente esistito". Cfr. Iccu. (S126)
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Anonymous
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| [Untitled World Map from Mer des Hystoires]
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Rare reduced version of the world map from Rudimentum Novitorum, the monumental encyclopedia of world history issued in 1475, which contains the first printed maps. The work was translated into French under the title Mer des Hystoires in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. Two separate blocks can be identified for these French translations; the first in Paris in 1488, and the second in Lyon in 1491. The version printed in Lyon is clearer and includes several corrections to the earlier works. Tony Campell notes that while the earlier La Mer des Hystoires map of 1488 remained close to the Rudimentum Novitorum prototype, this second derivation of 1491 betrays the work of a thinking individual (Campbell). The map derives from a Christianised medeiveral tradtions without any reference to Ptolemaeic or Portolan sources. The map is oriented with east at the top and Jersulaem in the center. The Pope is shown in a walled cityof Rome. Asian and African countries are noted by hills surrounded by water. The extent of the known world reaches to Taprobana, Ethiopia, Tartary and the Sea of the Amazons. The Pillars of Hercules are shown at the bottom of the map. In lieu of Adam & Eve, two priestly figures are shown in a garden at the top of the map.The outline of Europe and the Mediterranean, along with the names of several countries, appear in a rough outline. Nice example of this highly important map. Shirley 17. (Lyon, 1491 (1517)) [color: Uncolored, size: 12.5 x 12.5 inches, condition: VG]
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ORBIGNY, Alcide Dessalines d'.
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| Cours Élémentaire de Paléontologie et de Géologie Stratigraphiques.Paris, Victor Masson, 1849-1852. 8vo & 4to. 3 volumes. With 628 mostly wood-engraved figures in the text (except for 1 folding cross-section) and 17 numbered tables (16 folding, 1 full-page). Volumes 1 and 2 (8vo text) contemporary half morocco, marbeled side and endpapers. Volume 3 (4to tables) original printed wrappers with green cloth spine.
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- (4), 300, 258; (4), 259-847, (1); (3) pp. + 1 folding cross-section & 17 tables. BMC NH, p. 1475; Ward 1684; DSB X, pp. 221-222; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (4 copies); OCLC WorldCat (5 copies). A basic work on stratigraphy and paleontology by the famous d'Orbigny, one of the founders of biostratigraphy, with hundreds of illustrations finely engraved in wood by E. Salle. The illustrations show an enormous variety of plant and animal fossils, from tiny invertebrates to gigantic dinosaurs. The figures also include maps and geological cross-sections. d'Orbigny's precise rendition of surviving skeletons placed in the black background of the reconstructed figure of the animal gives the book a remarkably modern appearance. Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-1857) lectured and published on his new classification of fossils based on his research on geological strata, establishing the vital link between paleontology and stratigraphic geology that has proved so fruitful for both disciplines. Many contemporary geologists opposed his stratigraphic ideas, but despite this controversy he was appointed professor of paleontology at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris in 1853. As a pre-evolutionist d'Orbigny believed in the theory of the successive destruction and creation of animals in the earth's history, corresponding to Curvier's theory of catastrophy. Darwin's theory of evolution eventually put an end to all such ideas about new creations, including d'Orbigny's, but important elements of d'Orbigny's theories remain valid. He also introduced a great number of new species and many of his names for species and geological eras continue in use. d'Orbigny may thus be considered one of the founders of modern biostratigraphy.The present work is especially rare complete with the volume of tables.
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CRUCIFIXION
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| Illuminated miniature of the Crucifixion, from a Book of Hours. Bruges, c. 1460-
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- The crucified Christ in the centre of the miniature flanked by the Virgin and St. John on the left and the centurion and his followers on the right. Landscape background, with rocky hillside and in the far distance a view of Jerusalem depicted by pinnacled and round-topped buildings. Full border of coloured acanthus leaves, soft fruit, flowers and gold leaves on hair-line stems (right hand border perhaps unfinished). Size of miniature: 118 x 74mm. Size of leaf: 192 x 135mm. Verso blank. 1475 A Flemish miniature made for the English market, from a Book of Hours, of the Use of Sarum. It is one of a group of miniatures produced in Bruges in the style of William Vrelant (also illustrated in Duschnes' catalogue 169, December 1964). Our miniature introduce Nones in the Hours of the Cross. A few tiny worn areas affecting the miniature, also a stain at the top, but border in excellent condition.
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BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, Saint (BERNARDUS
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| Sermones [de Tempore et de Sanctis] Bernardi in Duytssche.[Colophon:] Zwolle, Peter van Os, 27 May 1495. Folio (27.5 x 20.5 cm). Sermons, translated from the Latin into Dutch, with a full-page woodcut on the title-page (with the letterpress title above it) showing Mary and Jesus appearing before the author, a full-page woodcut of the Annunciation, a full-page woodcut of Jesus at the end ("speciosus forma pre filys homi[num]" Psalm 45:3), 17 smaller woodcut illustrations plus 1 repeat (mostly 10.5 x 8 & 7.5 x 6 cm) in the text (6 flanked by any 2 of 6 woodcut decorative strips), and the woodcut armorial device of the printer-publisher (plus 1 repeat). Set in textura types. With 2 large blue manuscript uncial initials with interior decoration
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- (4), cclxxiiii, (1) ll. Arnim, Bib. Otto Schäfer 43; BMC IX, p. 88 (lacking final leaf with full-page woodcut); Goff B-435; GW 3948; Hermans, Zwolse Boeken ZD 107; Hind, Intro. Hist. Woodcut, pp. 582-583; Incunabula in Dutch Libraries 762; V. Thienen & Goldfinch 391; ISTC IB00435000. Second Dutch-language edition (the first extensively illustrated edition in any language) of the Sermones de Tempore et de Sanctis by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), first published in Latin at Mainz in 1475. The first Dutch edition, by the same printer-publisher (1484-85), has no woodcuts except that of Mary and Jesus appearing before the author ("one of the best Dutch woodcuts of the period" -- Hind) and that with the publisher's armorial device. Van Os used the full-page Annunciation woodcut in 1490 and Gerard Leeu in Antwerp used 9 of the other cuts (plus the decorative strips) in 1487 and 1488. The BMC notes no earlier use for the remaining nine woodcuts, including a matching series of six (7.5 x 6 cm) illustrating scenes from the lives of Jesus and Mary.With extensive marginal restorations in a few leaves, not affecting the text or woodcuts, and with the title-page slightly worn, but otherwise in very good condition and with generous margins. The binding is worn and the original wooden boards have been replaced by modern ones, but most of the tooling is still clear enough to identify. The first well-illustrated edition of Saint Bernard's sermons.
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BIBLE
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1475 1475 - (BIBLE-PSALTER). Illuminated Manuscript Psalter on parchment. Southeastern France, likely Savoy, circa 1475. Small octavo (4 by 5-1/2 inches), modern full brown calf, raised bands, brass clasps, uncut; ff. 184. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $26,000. Illuminated 15th-century manuscript psalter on parchment with a miniature of King David with a harp, illuminated throughout in gold, green, red, blue, brown and black inks. Written in dark brown ink in a batarde bookhand on 22 lines, rubricated in red, with alternating red and blue capitals, two-line gold initials with white tracery infill on blue and red parti-colored grounds, occasional three- and four-line initials in blue or red on highly burnished gold backgrounds. Most pages have several ascenders, occasionally with elaborate strapwork. The miniature, prefacing the Psalter, depicts King David with a harp in a landscape, framed by craggy mountains, in the background a sea with boats and in the distance a castle: tiny red and white flowers decorate the landscape, and the name "David Davides" is written in the sky above his head. Surrounding the image-and seven other pages-is a full foliate border of acanthus leaves, fruit, flowers and animals and grotesques, in red, green, blue and brown inks and liquid gold. The style of the miniature and of the borders recalls that of Savoyard illumination at the end of the third quarter of the 15th century, including the highly saturated colors and the red used in the turrets of the castles in the miniature, both reminiscent of Peronet Lamy and other artists working at the courts of the dukes of Savoy. This Ferial Psalter was made for an ecclesiastic (probably a bishop), whose unidentified arms, a red rampant lion on a gold ground with a blue star, occur in the lower margin on folio 47 and whose cross and initials appear in the border of the miniature on folio 26. At one point it was in the possession of the Jesuit College of Nancy (with their inscription on folio 1, dated 1755, from where it was likely deaccessioned with the suppression of the Jesuits in France. The psalter itself is preceded by a calendar, the Nativity Office of the Virgin Mary, a Short Office of the Dead, and other prayers, comprising the first 25 folios. The remaining 159 folios are the Psalter, in the usual eight divisions. Ferial Psalters are uncommon from this time period, when the favored type of manuscript had become the Book of Hours. Without at least one folio of the calendar at the beginning, rest complete. Bookplate. Old auction description to front free endpaper. Expected marginal embrowning. A wonderful item. [Attributes: Signed Copy]
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Book of Hours - Libro d'ore ROUEN
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| BOOK OF HOURS USE OF ROUEN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM - LIBRO D'ORE ALL'USO DI ROUEN MANOSCRITTO MINIATO SU PERGAMENA
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Rouen (France) 1475 - BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF ROUEN. [Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in Latin and French. Rouen, about 1475]. 8vo (165x122 mm), XIXth full calf century binding, gilt tooled borders on both covers and squares, elaborate gilt decorations and rules at spine (recently restored) ff. (108, last two leaves ruled but left blank). Gothic type, 18 lines (16 for the calendar) in sepia ink. EIGHT FULL-PAGE MINIATURES, INSERTED IN A RICH FOLIATED BORDER WITH FLOWERS, FRUITS AND GOLD BANDS ENRICHED BY GOLD AND COLORS THREE LINES ILLUMINATED INITIALS. NINE THREE LINES GOLD AND COLORS ILLUMINATED INITIALS ALONG THE TEXT, SURROUNDED BY A THREE SIDES FULL PAGE RICH FLORAL BORDER WITH ACANTHUS AND FLOWERS. 137 TWO LINES AND HUNDREDS OF ONE LINE GOLD AND COLORS ILLUMINATED INITIALS. CALENDAR ILLUMINATED IN BLUE, RED AND GOLD. END LINES IN GOLD, BLU AND OCHRA. TEXT: Calendar, ff. 1-12; Gospel Lessons, ff. 13-17; Obsecro te, ff. 17-20; O intemerata, ff. 20-23; Hours of the Virgin use of Rouen, ff. 24-56 (last is ruled but left blank); Penitential Psalms and Litany, ff. 57-70; Hour of the Cross, ff. 71-73; Hour of the Holy Spirit, ff. 73-75; Office of the Dead, ff. 76-99; Devotional in French, ff. 100-108 (last two leaves ruled but left blank) FULL PAGE MINIATURES: The four Evangelists, f. 13r; Annunciation, f. 24r; Nativity, f. 41r; David in Penance, f. 57r; Crucifixion, f. 71r; Pentecost, f. 73v; Burial, f. 76r; Lamentation, f. 100r. ORIGIN: some saints highlighted within the calendar, the specificity in liturgy and the style of the miniatures ascribe this Book of Hours to the production of Normandy, and more specifically to the area of Rouen. After a pause of almost hundred years, starting from the second quarter of XVth century we can assist to the renaissance of the manuscript production in Normandy where Rouen, the capital, immediately take the led of the artistic movement of illuminations overtaking in a short time the other very famous illumination site of the region, Caen. After a short period where the style of the illuminators relieved of the strong influence from Paris, the Rouen style started to gain the peculiarity that made him one of the most famous in manuscript production in France. Minor marks of use, but a very good copy with unusual high margins PROVENANCE: I. Contemporary handwritten note Communitati Sancti Coenobii Praemonstratensis at upper margin of first calendar leaf. II. At front inside cover, ex-libris of Edward Hailstone, English bibliophile (1818-1890). LIBRO D'ORE, USO DI ROUEN. [manoscritto miniato su pergamena, in Latino e Francese. Rouen, circa 1475]. In-8° (165x122 mm), legatura ottocentesca in cuoio bruno con ricca cornice dorata ai piatti e alle unghie, elaborate decorazioni dorate e filetti al dorso (trace di recenti restauri), cc. (108, le due ultima carte sono bianche con rigature di riferimento). Gotico, 18 linee (16 per il calendario) in inchiostro seppia. OTTO MINIATURE A PIENA PAGINA, INSERITE IN UNA RICCA CORNICE DECORATA CON FIORI, FRUTTI E BANDE DIAGONALI IN ORO, ARRICCHITE DA CAPILETTERA MINIATI SU TRE LINEE IN ORO E VARI COLORI. NOVE ALTRI CAPILETTERA NEL TESTO, MINIATI IN ORO E COLORI SU TRE LINEE, CIRCONDATI SU TRE LATI DA UNA RICCA CORNICE A PIENA PAGINA DI ACANTO, FIORI E FRUTTA. 137 PICCOLI CAPILETTERA SU DUE LINEE E CENTINAIA SU UNA LINEA MINIATI IN ORO E COLORI VARI. CALENDARIO ILLUMINATO IN BLU, ROSSO E ORO. FINE LINEA IN BLU ORO E OCRA. TESTO: Calendario, cc. 1-12; Letture dai Vangeli, cc. 13-17; Obsecro te, cc. 17-20; O intemerata, cc. 20-23; Officio della Vergine all'uso di Rouen, cc. 24-56 (ultima carta con rigatura ma bianca); Salmi Penitenziali e Litanie, cc. 57-70; Ore della Croce, cc. 71-73; Ore dello Spirito Santo, cc. 73-75; Ufficio dei Morti, cc. 76-99; Devozionale in Francese, cc. 100-108 (ultime due carte con rigatura di riferimento ma bianche). MINATURE A PIENA PAGINA: Tetramorfo (Quattro Evangelisti), c. 13r; Annunciazione, c. 24r; Natività, c. 41r; Re Davide in Preghiera, c. 57r; C
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| BLACK HOURS (DAS SCHWARZE STUNDENBUCH) Fine Facsimile Illuminated Edition of 15th Century
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Faksimile Verlag Luzern. Black Hours, 15th century - Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, M. 493A splendid jewel in black and silver, gold and blue The Black Hours - a precious rarity The Black Hours M. 493 today in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York were made around 1475 in Bruges, probably in the circle of Willem Vrelant, the leading illuminator of this time. The Black Hours is a product of unequalled luxury. All 121 vellum folios are stained in black. To make the writing stand out against the dark background, only white lead and opaque paints were used for the miniatures, and gold and silver ink for the script. Only three of these black parchment manuscripts bound in codices survive to this day. The production of a manuscript on black parchment was extremely costly and delicate. In a first step the parchment was immersed in an iron copper solution to obtain the black colouring, before it was painted. The immersion in black colour was, however, detrimental to the quality of the manuscript in the long run as the dye made the parchment fragile and brittle. The decorative apparatus of the Black Hours is unique in the world: more than half of the folios are ornate with large borders grounded in a gleaming blue colour. The ornaments contained therein - acanthus leaves abounding with drolleries - are all executed in gold. Additionally, the chapter incipits were highlighted with rubrics written with gold ink. A particular feature are the more than thirty sumptuous initials in gold leaf on an emerald ground which extend over more than one line to divide the text. The 14 full-page miniatures are embellished with glittering gold to amplify the effect of the black stained pages. Finely differentiated shades of grey and a delicate noble colouring allowed the painter to enhance the perspective of interiors and landscapes before the black background. His limitation to a small number of carefully selected colours lends the The prayers are each introduced by a full-page picture. The Office of the Virgin alone contains eight of these miniatures, expressing the great veneration reserved for the Virgin Mary. Bruges and the dukes of Burgundy The Flemish city of Bruges was among the busiest trading communities in Europe and a celebrated centre of book illumination. This city, in which the rarest and most precious things abounded, also attracted many art lovers who contributed greatly to both the local culture and craftsmanship. The dukes of Burgundy ruling over Bruges at the time were well known as patrons of the arts and used to commission both manuscripts and tapestries for their residences. The well to do citizens eagerly tried to emulate the court in their lifestyle having their portraits painted, dressed in sumptuous vestments. Besides Vrelant, painters like Jan van Eyck and Simon Bening were active in Bruges. This concentration of highly talented artists was the reason for the rise of Bruges and Gent, which became the heart of European book illumination in the second half of the 15th century. The production of black manuscripts is closely associated with the ascent of the dukes of Burgundy. Out of the six surviving black parchment manuscripts, five were made in the Low Countries and one in Spain, which was strongly influenced by Flemish art in the 15th century. The realm of Burgundy was an unusual and very short-lived state which emerged in the late 14th century at the interface between the kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire. Through marriage, purchase, heritage and conquest, Philip the Bold, John the Fearless, Philip the Good and Charles the Bold, constructed a realm which extended from the North Sea down into the heart of France, comprising the homeland of Burgundy and other provinces such as Flanders, Limburg and Luxembourg. The extravagance and pomp of the Burgundian court soon outperformed anything ever known in Europe and became the model for royal households everywhere. The colour black at the court of Philip the Good When his father John the Fearless was stabbed to death on 10 September 1419 by servants of the French king, Philip was only 23 years old. Unable to revenge this murder, he decided to lend his mourning a visible expression. The mourners, who accompanied him during the celebrations and welcomed the French and the English kings on horseback, well befitted the splendour of the house of Burgundy. 2000 black pennants, with black standards and seven cubit long banners, their fringes in black silk, all embroidered or painted with golden coats of arms, adorned the funeral procession. Even the stately seats and coach of the duke were painted black for this occasion. As Philip continued wearing black long after the mourning period was over, this began to "rub off" on the nobility and finally on the rich citizens of Flanders. From then on it was considered good form in Flanders to dress in black. This combination of religious thinking and fashionable splendour is the foundation of the Black Hours produced around 1475. The production of the facsimile edition Black manuscripts are extremely fragile due to their brittle parchment and it seems all the more important to preserve these very rare and unique items for posterity in the form of facsimile editions. Thus our prime interest in facsimile production has always been the protection of the original. The Black Hours in the Pierpont Morgan Library are now reproduced by Faksimile Verlag Luzern in a limited edition of 980 copies world-wide. All 242 pages in the format of approx. 17 x 12 cm with 14 large sized miniatures, blue and golden borders, and golden decorated initials on emerald ground, are reproduced faithfully and true to the original colouring. The binding of the facsimile edition is made of black velvet, ornate with gilded decorative buttons and a gilded clasp. Faksimile Verlag Luzern thus successfully restored to the manuscript a binding which perfectly befits its sumptuous splendour and replaces the current protective 20th century binding. The scholarly commentary The scholarly commentary was written by Bernard Bousmanne, Director of the Manuscript Department of the Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er in Brussels, in co-operation with William Vœlkle, Curator of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. Both the facsimile and the commentary volumes are available in a protective case of acrylic glass. , New
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| Rationale diuinorum officiorum
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Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, 1475. 13 Avril 1475. In-folio (226 x 318 mm), veau, fine roulette dentelée dorée encadrant les plats, dos à nerfs orné, tranches dorées (reliure du XVIIIe s.). 318 ff. (dont un blanc après les seize de sommaire), dont 301 de texte, numérotés à l'époque, à la main et en chiffres arabes. Texte sur deux colonnes à 46 lignes, sans page de titre ni signature. Lettrines, rubriques et bouts-de-ligne à l'encre rouge. Titres-courants manuscrits à l'encre noire et rouge. De la bibliothèque Maurice Burrus, avec ex-libris. BEL EXEMPLAIRE DE CET INCUNABLE ENLUMINÉ À L'ÉPOQUE, dans une reliure du XVIIIe siècle. Reliure frottée et épidermée ; quelques taches (certaines à l'encre rouge) ; f. 283 provenant d'un autre exemplaire et f. 284 remonté ; quelques inscriptions manuscrites de l'époque. UN DES PLUS IMPORTANTS OUVRAGES DU XVe SIÈCLE et même de tout le Moyen Âge sur la liturgie et sa signification. Brunet, II, 905 ; Hain-Copinger, 6476 ; Pellechet, 4496 ; Gesamtkatalog, 9108; Goff D409. TRÈS RARE - VERY RARE (English description available upon request). PHOTO DISPONIBLE - PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.. Cuir / Leather. Very Good Condition / Très bon. 22,6cm x 31,8cm.
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AN ESPECIALLY FINE ILLUMINATED VELLUM
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| USE OF UTRECHT.
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Northern Netherlands [Delft?], ca. 1475 - With Extraordinarily Exuberant Elaborated Initials Complete containing 186 leaves single column 21 lines to the page in a very readable clean gothic book hand. CONTEMPORARY BLIND PANELLED CALF OVER WOODEN BOARDS with a large diapered central panel expertly rebacked (perhaps in the 19th century) original brass catches. Capitals struck with red rubrics in red hundreds of one- and two-line initials painted in red or blue and 43 PAGES WITH TWO- TO EIGHT-LINE DECORATIVE MAIBLUMEN INITIALS EACH FEATURING ELABORATE MARGINAL EMBELLISHMENT in red green and blue INCLUDING EIGHT CAPITALS WITH FULL BORDERS OF EXTRAORDINARY INTRICACY 10 with similar three-quarter borders and eight with two-sided borders. Front pastedown with the bookplate of J. F. M. Sterck. Leather a bit scuffed and abraded but the binding entirely solid and generally very well preserved. Opening to the Hours of the Virgin with slight blurring at bottom very occasional fading in the text (though nothing illegible) isolated wrinkling of no great consequence other trivial defects but IN QUITE FINE CONDITION the leaves especially bright and clean and featuring remarkably ample margins with pricking at the fore edge throughout and with quire signatures partly visible. This handsomely written and decorated manuscript includes the Calendar; the Hours of the Virgin; the Hours of Eternal Wisdom; the Hours of the Cross; the Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany; the Hundred Articles on the Passion of Christ; a section of prayers including prayers before and after receiving Communion on the wounds of Christ of Augustine against sudden death and prayers to the Virgin; and the Office of the Dead. The text is in the translations of Geert Groote and written in a littera textualis script. The leaves have been trimmed for binding but there is considerable margin with quire signatures remaining on some leaves (for example folios 19-22 and 140-142). The Calendar has major saints' days of Utrecht use in red. St. Jeroen or Hiero (17 August) an Irish missionary killed by Normans at Noordwijk in 856 also in red establishes the County of Holland as the region of origin. The ecclesiastical authority of the bishop of Utrecht extended over much of the northern Netherlands far beyond the bishopric as a secular state under his temporal power. Internal evidence suggests further localization to Delft an important center for the production of Books of Hours of this type with penwork border decoration but without miniatures. The border decorations in red and occasionally in blue with green washes are unusually varied in style. One leaf (folio 107) has oak branches with acorns and green leaves emanating from a vase. The principal decorated pages (especially folios 11 46 67 91 108 verso and 155) are characterized by exuberant penwork similar to the Delft scallop group type in Korteweg's classification system.The Litany lends further support to a Delft provenance with invocations of Hippolytus and Ursula and her 11000 virgin companions the patron saints of Delft to whom the Oude Kerk and the Nieuwe Kerk were respectively dedicated. The manuscript is an altogether attractive example of a vernacular Book of Hours done for a client of means. Many 15th century Dutch Books of Hours have initials and marginal embellishment that resemble what appears here but these leaves especially those containing major openings are atypically decorated in a memorably flamboyant way. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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| Rationale diuinorum officiorum
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Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, 1475. 13 Avril 1475. In-folio (226 x 318 mm), veau, fine roulette dentelée dorée encadrant les plats, dos à nerfs orné, tranches dorées (reliure du XVIIIe s.). 318 ff. (dont un blanc après les seize de sommaire), dont 301 de texte, numérotés à l'époque, à la main et en chiffres arabes. Texte sur deux colonnes à 46 lignes, sans page de titre ni signature. Lettrines, rubriques et bouts-de-ligne à l'encre rouge. Titres-courants manuscrits à l'encre noire et rouge. De la bibliothèque Maurice Burrus, avec ex-libris. BEL EXEMPLAIRE DE CET INCUNABLE ENLUMINÉ À L'ÉPOQUE, dans une reliure du XVIIIe siècle. Reliure frottée et épidermée ; quelques taches (certaines à l'encre rouge) ; f. 283 provenant d'un autre exemplaire et f. 284 remonté ; quelques inscriptions manuscrites de l'époque. UN DES PLUS IMPORTANTS OUVRAGES DU XVe SIÈCLE et même de tout le Moyen Âge sur la liturgie et sa signification. Brunet, II, 905 ; Hain-Copinger, 6476 ; Pellechet, 4496 ; Gesamtkatalog, 9108; Goff D409. TRÈS RARE - VERY RARE (English description available upon request). PHOTO DISPONIBLE - PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.. Cuir / Leather. Very Good Condition / Très bon. 22,6cm x 31,8cm.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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| The Paintings of Michelangelo
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New York, Oxford university press. Description: 26 p., 1 l., [4] p. incl. mounted front., illus. (incl. ports., facsim. ) 2 pl. (1 mounted) on 1 l. 169 pl. on 66 l. (2 fold. ) 37 cm. Subjects: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked linen cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.
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Leo I, Pope; Gregorius I, Pope;
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| Sermones[bound with:]Gregory & Pseudo-Origines:Homiliae quadraginta super in evangeliis.1475, December 9.
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Bartholomaeus de Unkel, Cologne: 1475-1476. - Folio. 2 works in 1 volume. 283 x 200mm. [*4, a-l10,m12. Lacks *1 & m12 blanks)] [a-k10, l8, m10, n-o8.] 124 ( of 126 lacking blanks); 134ff. Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wood boards ,sympathetically rebacked, with both original clasps intact; book-label of Schoyen Collection; first leaf has small marginal holes in black outer margin, lower blank margin dampstain at end; 2 rust holes in upper bank margin of last five leaves due to earlier chain attachment; marginal flaw in first leaf of Origines. Binding stamps: (approx. Schunke/Schwenke #s).Doppeladler 436; Hirsch 80; Lowe 108; Rosette 434; Schrift 155; Lille 227; Blattwerk 157. Rubricated in red throughout with Lombard initials with flourishes. Pope St. Leo I (the Great) (Reigned 440-61).ÒPlace and date of birth unknown; died 10 November, 461. Leo's pontificate, next to that of St. Gregory I, is the most significant and important in Christian antiquity. At a time when the Church was experiencing the greatest obstacles to her progress in consequence of the hastening disintegration of the Western Empire, while the Orient was profoundly agitated over dogmatic controversies, this great pope, with far-seeing sagacity and powerful hand, guided the destiny of the Roman and Universal Church.Leo was no less active in the spiritual elevation of the Roman congregations, and his sermons, of which ninety-six genuine examples have been preserved, are remarkable for their profundity, clearness of diction, and elevated style. The first five of these, which were delivered on the anniversaries of his consecration, manifest his lofty conception of the dignity of his office, as well as his thorough conviction of the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, shown forth in so outspoken and decisive a manner by his whole activity as supreme pastor.Ó [CE] Pope St. Gregory I ("the Great") ÒDoctor of the Church; born at Rome about 540; died 12 March 604. Gregory is certainly one of the most notable figures in Ecclesiastical History. He has exercised in many respects a momentous influence on the doctrine, the organization, and the discipline of the Catholic Church. To him we must look for an explanation of the religious situation of the Middle Ages; indeed, if no account were taken of his work, the evolution of the form of medieval Christianity would be almost inexplicable. And further, in so far as the modern Catholic system is a legitimate development of medieval Catholicism, of this too Gregory may not unreasonably be termed the Father. Almost all the leading principles of the later Catholicism are found, at any rate in germ, in Gregory the Great.Ó [CE]Leo:Add: Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria, Letter. Symbolum Nicaenum. Testimonia semper verus sit deus et veus homoGregorius add: Origines, Homiliae. Leo:Goff L133. Hain 7947 (II). C 3543. Voull(K) 739. Pell Ms 7124 (7067). CIBN L-114. Zehnacker 1407. IBE 3472. IDL 2907. Coll(U) 947. SchŸling 546. Schmitt I 857,5. Voull(Trier) 530. Ohly-Sack 1791. Sack(Freiburg) 2232. Pad-Ink 429. Finger 646. Oates 628, 629. Sheppard 863. Bodleian L-066. Proctor 1138. BMC I 241. ISTC il00133000.Gregorius:Goff G419. Hain/Copinger 7947 (I). C 2782. Voull(K) 507. Pell 5368. Polain(B) 1708. IDL 2089. IBP 5875. Coll(U) 633. Madsen 1781, T29. Voull(B) 842,15. SchŸling 397. Ohly-Sack 1280. Sack(Freiburg) 1623. Pad-Ink 287. Finger 465. Walsh 408. Oates 624. Proctor 1136. BMC I 240. BSB-Ink G-309. GW 11420. ISTC ig00419000.
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OROSIUS PAULUS.
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| HISTORIAE.
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[Vicenza]: Hermannus Liechtenstein, ca. 1475 - The Broxbourne Library Copy of Liechtenstein'sFirst Book with Beautiful Illuminated Capitals [100] leaves. Single column roman type 39 lines to a page. Second Printing, First Printing of this Edition. Modern stiff vellum flat spine brown morocco spine label. Paragraph marks in red or blue 4 two-line 23 three-line and 128 four-line initials in burnished gold on a ground of blue magenta or green enlivened by ornamental painted scrollwork in a contrasting color first leaf of text with an armorial crest of the Caroli family of Bologna at the bottom (three gold stars surrounded by a laurel wreath) and SEVEN BEAUTIFUL HAND-PAINTED WHITE-VINE INITIALS IN SEVERAL COLORS AND BURNISHED GOLD THE ONE ON THE FIRST PAGE OF TEXT 15 LINES TALL (the others: three seven-line two six-line and one four-line). Front pastedown with the armorial bookplate of Albert Ehrman rear pastedown with the bookplate of the Broxbourne Library (containing the initials of his son John Ehrman [J. P. W. E.] and ex dono A. & R. E. indicating that the book came to him from his father and mother). Upper corner of front cover rather bumped but the binding solid clean and otherwise in excellent condition. First 40 leaves with a half dozen small round skillfully filled-in wormholes all in the fore margin except one (which affects text only minimally) frequent but always light foxing minor occasional thumbing else IN EXCELLENT CONDITION INTERNALLY especially fresh and bright and THE FINE GILT AND PAINTED INITIALS BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED. Goff O-97; BMC VII, 1035. This is an important early Christian book offered here in a beautifully illuminated copy from an edition with a noteworthy place in printing history as well as with fine modern provenance. Written in the wake of the Visigoths' sack of Rome in 410 Orosius' Histories is in Britannica's words a pragmatical chronicle of the calamities that have happened to mankind from the Fall down to the Gothic period the first attempt to write the history of the world as a history of God guiding humanity. Its purpose gave it value in the eyes of the orthodox and it remained influential for centuries. Orosius a priest from Roman Spain came to Hippo in North Africa in 413 to sit before St. Augustine at whose suggestion the history was undertaken and to whom it is dedicated. Like Augustine in his great City of God Orosius attempts to counter the prevailing view among the pagans that their divinities had permitted the sack to punish the Romans for abandoning traditional worship in favor of Christianity. Through his narrative Orosius demonstrates that the history of humankind has always been abundantly provided with a variety of horrors shows that the dawn of the new religion did not measurably increase such catastrophes and proffers the theme of a beleaguered Christianity triumphant an emphasis that made the book understandably popular. Our second printing of Orosius (the original edition was issued in Vienna in 1471) is believed to be the first work produced at the press in Vicenza of Hermann Liechtenstein. BMC draws this conclusion because ours is the only Liechtenstein volume printed without signed gatherings a feature that became less and less typical as the incunabular period progressed. Our editor Aeneas Vulpes of Vicenza describes himself as prior of Holy Cross and subsequent printings relied on his edition. Liechtenstein who came from Cologne printed 12 books in Vicenza between 1475 and 1480. The Orosius is rare and the present copy is particularly lovely because of its hand-illuminated initials done in the white-vine style characteristic of Italian 15th century decoration. The gold for the initials is lavishly laid on and the white vines embrace the letters in intricate loops subtending a patchwork of blue red and green areas sowed with white dots clustered in threes. This copy comes from the celebrated Broxbourne library of Albert Ehrman (1890-1969) a diamond merchant who gathered a fine collection of books at his home at Brox [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]
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PERALDUS GUIL.
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| Mysterious edition of a mediaeval work on church law De fide et legibus.
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(Augsburg, Günther Zainer, 1475-1476). - Small folio. Contemporary richly blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, with two brass clasps, blue painted edges. With all initials supplied in red, rubricated throughout. (139) leaves. Editio princeps of a mediaeval work on Church Law by Guilielmus Peraldus, or Guillaume Pérault or Peyraud, doctor at the Paris University and bishop of Lyon (ca. 1190-1255). The work is mostly ascribed to Guillermus or Guillelmus Arvernus, bishop of Paris, and a very popular author, who died in 1248. In our copy the author is called: "Wilhelmi Epilugdunensis", and "doctoris parisiensis". The present, somewhat mysterious edition, was probably the only edition and published by the first printer of Augsburg, Günther Zainer. His first book, the "Meditationes" of Bonaventura was published in 1468 and Zainer died on April 13, 1478. Hain and Polain date the present work at ca. 1469, but other bibliographers date the work at ca. 1475-1476. The book is well produced, printed in a fine small Roman type, with 43 lines to a page, and is finished by hand and rubricated throughout. The first blank is lacking. On top of the first text-leaf a contemporary ms. note reads: "Cart. in Buxheim", and a small stamp of the "Bibl. Buxheim:" is present at the bottom. So the book originally belonged to the Carthusians at Buxheim in Germany. The publisher Zainer was after his death remembered for his gifts to the Carthusian Monastry at Buxheim, and our copy may have been one of these. The Monastry's library was sold in the 19th century. Our copy has also an interesting contemporary German binding. Fine large paper copy, with the additional bookplate of the Library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead.- (Binding sl. stained and rubbed). Goff G 711; Proctor 1556; BMC II 323; Hain-Copinger 8317; Polain 1807; Oates 883; IGI 4602; STC German p. 681. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Josephus Flavius
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Belgium Not after 1475 - RARE PRINTING AND A HIGHLY ELUSIVE EDITION. ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS PRINTED IN BELGIUM. Handsomely illuminated: 9-line initial in gold on [a]1; 18-line initial in blue and white on [a]2; 7- to 11-line book opening initials in red and blue with pen-work decoration; 3-line chapter-opening initials in red or blue; [aa]1 with leafy borders on both side of leaf. Early annotations in a fine calligraphic hand. Folio [390 x 281 mm.] , bound in contemporary Renaissance styled half pigskin over wooden boards, the spine with raised bands. 417 leaves (of 420). A beautiful and finely preserved copy. Without the blank leaves at the end of each text) only; [aa]1 remargined and probably supplied from another copy; and with the tabula complete and bound at the front. ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS PRINTED IN BELGIUM. THE RAREST OF ALL INCUNABLE PRINTINGS OF JOSEPHUS Ð and very probably the rarest of all printings of Josephus altogether Ð this book remains a bibliographic "mystery." No printer (or town) has been assigned to this book and the dating is a terminus ante quem based on an acquisition note (dated "1475") in the British Library copy. The text appears to have been based on a corrupt manuscript source, and this particular copy has been closely read and neatly corrected in the text body at an early date. Goff lists this edition second in his Josephus entry in Incunabula in American Libraries, suggesting that itÕs actual dating may in fact be earlier than 1475. We think that the bibliographic study of this particular copy -- the comparison of its text and corrections with other early editions -- may reveal this editionÕs relative positioning to other incunable editions with greater certainty. As it stands, the current ascription of this edition to "Belgium, not after 1475" makes this One of the First Books Printed in Belgium. Only a very small number of copies of this edition are known to exist: some 3 or 4 copies are in American libraries; the British Library and Oxford own copies; but there is apparently no copy at the Bibliotheque Nationale, and no copies are listed in the World Catalog. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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LEONICENUS, OMNIBONUS
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Filippo di Pietro, Venezia 1475 - LEONICENUS, OMNIBONUS. Commentarium in Lucanum. [precedes:] Vita Lucani. [follows:] Disticha. [at colophon:] Venetiis. M.CCCC.Lxxv. xii. Kalendas Augusti. [Venice, Filippo di Pietro, 21 July 1475]. Folio (303 x 205mm), attractive contemporary full calf binding (spine renewed), blind-tooled decorations at covers, outer frame with acanthus leaves, inner panel with mastiffs, unicorns and small rosettes, bigger rosettes in the intersections, brass bosses (all present, clasps partially missing), ff. (372). 34 lines. Type: 2:115 (113) R; 115 Gr. Register: a-c10, C8, D6, d-k8, l-r10, ?10, s10, ??10, ?t10, ?l12, t-z8, &8, aa-bb8, cc-gg10, hh-kk12. FIRST AND UNIQUE 15th century edition containing Leoniceno's commentary only, which appeared together with the text of the Pharsalia in Britannico's printing of May 1496, and then in many following editions. The wonderful contemporary binding is probably attributed to the master known as Mair bb from Bamberg (i.e. Ulrich Meyer, cfr. Kyriss, 50): the unicorn tool is identified in the Schwenke archive as typical of Mair, athough Kyriss (table 103) doesn't indicate the unicorn or similar tools as typical of his workshop. Goldschmidt identifies Mair as a Jewish binder, author of remarkable works on leather and chiselled bindings, but Kyriss doubts he ever did something similar. A veil of dust on first pages, few stains on lower margin of some leaves. Light waterstains in the lower margin of last three quires. Very good and crisp copy, with wide margins (some leaves uncut) printed on strong paper. PROVENANCE: I. Ownership inscriptions in 18th century handwriting Saigan O Dalu in Gaelic on recto of title page and at colophon. II. Inscription ex-dono at title page: A present from Mr. Corlam Tho[mas] St Dublin to Mr. Cullin, Clandalchin Monastery April 1851. HC 10029*; IGI, 6999; BMC V, 219; Goff, L-172; GW, M27816; CR, 3653; GfT 1991; Pellechet, Ms 8702 (8576) = 7274 (7216); CIBN, L-147; Neveu, 392; Delisle, 1097; Polain (B), 4614; IBE, 4191; IBP, 3418; Madsen, 2945; Voullième (B), 3726 ; Ohly-Sack, 2172; Borm, 1987; Mittler-Kind, 428; Walsh, 1659; Bod-inc, L-095; Sheppard, 3439; Proctor, 4256; BSB-Ink, O-47. E. Ph. Goldschmidt, Gothic and Renaissance Book Bindings, I, pp. 80-81. Paul und Ilse Schwenke, Die Schwenke-Sammlung gotischer Stempel- und Einbanddurchreibungen, Berlin, 1979, 91:26. E. Kyriss, Verzierte gotische Einbände im alten deutschen Sprachgebiet, Stuttgart, 1951-1958. LEONICENUS, OMNIBONUS. Commentarium in Lucanum. [precede:] Vita Lucani. [seguono:] Disticha. [al colophon:] Venetiis. M.CCCC.Lxxv. xii. Kalendas Augusti. [Venezia, Filippo di Pietro, 21 luglio 1475]. In-folio (303 x 205mm), attraente legatura coeva (dorso rinnovato) in cuoio impresso a secco, cornice esterna con foglie di acanto, pannello interno decorato con impressioni raffiguranti un cane mastino, un unicorno e piccole rosette, altre rosette più grandi nelle intersezioni, borchie in ottone (tutte presenti), resti di fermagli, cc. (372). 34 linee. Carattere: 2:115 (113) R; 115 Gr. Registro: a-c10, C8, D6, d-k8, l-r10, ?10, s10, ??10, ?t10, ?l12, t-z8, &8, aa-bb8, cc-gg10, hh-kk12. PRIMA E UNICA edizione quattrocentesca contenente il solo commentario del Leoniceno, che apparirà insieme al testo della Pharsalia nell'impressione del Britannico del maggio 1496, e poi in molte edizioni successive. La splendida legatura coeva è probabilmente attribuibile al maestro conosciuto come Mair bb di Bamberga (ossia Ulrich Meyer, cfr. Kyriss, 50): il ferro con l'unicorno è identificato nell'archivio Schwenke come tipico di Mair, sebbene Kyriss (tavola 103) non riporti l'unicorno o altri simili ferri per questa bottega. Goldschmidt identifica Mair come un legatore di origine ebraica, autore di eccellenti lavori su cuoio e legature cesellate, anche se Kyriss dubita che egli fece mai lavori di questo genere. Un velo di polvere alle prime pagine, alcune macchie al margine inferiore di poche carte. Una gora nel margine inferiore dei tre
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| [Untitled World Map from Mer des Hystoires]
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Rare reduced version of the world map from Rudimentum Novitorum, the monumental encyclopedia of world history issued in 1475, which contains the first printed maps. The work was translated into French under the title Mer des Hystoires in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. Two separate blocks can be identified for these French translations; the first in Paris in 1488, and the second in Lyon in 1491. The version printed in Lyon is clearer and includes several corrections to the earlier works. Tony Campell notes that while the earlier La Mer des Hystoires map of 1488 remained close to the Rudimentum Novitorum prototype, this second derivation of 1491 betrays the work of a thinking individual (Campbell). The map derives from a Christianised medeiveral tradtions without any reference to Ptolemaeic or Portolan sources. The map is oriented with east at the top and Jersulaem in the center. The Pope is shown in a walled cityof Rome. Asian and African countries are noted by hills surrounded by water. The extent of the known world reaches to Taprobana, Ethiopia, Tartary and the Sea of the Amazons. The Pillars of Hercules are shown at the bottom of the map. In lieu of Adam & Eve, two priestly figures are shown in a garden at the top of the map.The outline of Europe and the Mediterranean, along with the names of several countries, appear in a rough outline. Nice example of this highly important map. Shirley 17. (Lyon, 1491 (1517)) [color: Uncolored, size: 12.5 x 12.5 inches, condition: VG]
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ORBIGNY, Alcide Dessalines d'.
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| Cours Élémentaire de Paléontologie et de Géologie Stratigraphiques.Paris, Victor Masson, 1849-1852. 8vo & 4to. 3 volumes. With 628 mostly wood-engraved figures in the text (except for 1 folding cross-section) and 17 numbered tables (16 folding, 1 full-page). Volumes 1 and 2 (8vo text) contemporary half morocco, marbeled side and endpapers. Volume 3 (4to tables) original printed wrappers with green cloth spine.
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(4), 300, 258; (4), 259-847, (1); (3) pp. + 1 folding cross-section & 17 tables. BMC NH, p. 1475; Ward 1684; DSB X, pp. 221-222; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (4 copies); OCLC WorldCat (5 copies). A basic work on stratigraphy and paleontology by the famous d'Orbigny, one of the founders of biostratigraphy, with hundreds of illustrations finely engraved in wood by E. Salle. The illustrations show an enormous variety of plant and animal fossils, from tiny invertebrates to gigantic dinosaurs. The figures also include maps and geological cross-sections. d'Orbigny's precise rendition of surviving skeletons placed in the black background of the reconstructed figure of the animal gives the book a remarkably modern appearance. Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-1857) lectured and published on his new classification of fossils based on his research on geological strata, establishing the vital link between paleontology and stratigraphic geology that has proved so fruitful for both disciplines. Many contemporary geologists opposed his stratigraphic ideas, but despite this controversy he was appointed professor of paleontology at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris in 1853. As a pre-evolutionist d'Orbigny believed in the theory of the successive destruction and creation of animals in the earth's history, corresponding to Curvier's theory of catastrophy. Darwin's theory of evolution eventually put an end to all such ideas about new creations, including d'Orbigny's, but important elements of d'Orbigny's theories remain valid. He also introduced a great number of new species and many of his names for species and geological eras continue in use. d'Orbigny may thus be considered one of the founders of modern biostratigraphy.The present work is especially rare complete with the volume of tables.
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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| TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF THE OFFICE OF THE DEAD.
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Florence, ca. 1475 127 x 89 mm. (5 x 3 1/2""). Single column 12 lines of text in a very neat uncluttered gothic book hand. Rubrics in red four one-line initials in red or blue recto WITH A BEAUTIFUL DENSE FULL BORDER with much foliage many flowers very numerous small gold bezants and at the middle top a skull as well as WITH A FINE HISTORIATED D painted in several colors on a burnished gold ground ENCLOSING A SKELETON (from the fourth rib upwards) against a powder blue background the border text and initial within a fine modelled frame of brown and gold. The leaf carefully inlaid into a larger piece of vellum (measuring approximately 8 1/8 x 5 5/8) the black ink of the text somewhat faded (a few letters neatly retouched); in all other ways AN EXTREMELY FINE EXTRAORDINARILY BRIGHT LEAF with its gilt still shimmering. This leaf comes from a manuscript executed in the style of Mariano del Buono (1433-1504) a leading Florentine illuminator during the 1470s. Three of the splendid manuscripts that he painted appear as nos. 49 68 and 69 in the catalogue entitled The Painted Page done for the magnificent exhibition held in 1994-95 at the Royal Academy in London and then the Morgan Library in New York. The historiation on both leaves is first rate and the borders are simply superb. The inlaying of leaves into vellum as here is characteristic of items from the library of John Boykett Jarman. $3000
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