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BECHTEL (Guy).
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| Catalogue des gothiques français, 1476-1560.
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Paris, l'auteur, 2008. - (Gothiques français). In-4, XXVII + 784 pp, broché. Dans ce Catalogue, nous entendons par gothiques français, non tous les livres imprimés en lettres gothiques sur le territoire de la France. mais les livres imprimés en lettres gothiques ET en français". Cette impressionnante bibliographie recense, décrit précisément et commente souvent 6171 éditions. On a avec ce chiffre une idée de la dimension des recherches qu'a faites l'auteur et du travail accompli. "Nous avons entrepris ce catalogue tout simplement parcequ'il n'existait pas". En effet cette étude est à la fois singulière et elle comble une lacune : nous n'avions pas de bibliographie des ouvrages publiés en français en lettres brisées. Texte dense sur 2 colonnes. Figures dans le texte.Publié à très petit nombre (150 exemplaires) à compte d'auteur, ce livre sera très vite épuisé.
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Priscianus [incl. Dionysius Periegetes]
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| Opera. [De octo partibus orationis; De constructione; De duodecim carminibus; De numeris; De ponderibus et mensuris; De versibus comicis; De declinationibus. [Also contains:] (Pseudo-) Priscianus: De accentibus; (Pseudo-) Hermogenes: De praeexercitamentis rhetorices; Rufinus Antiochensis: De metris comicis; De litteraturis; De compositione et metris oratorum; Dionysius Periegetes: De situ orbis. Tr: Priscianus Caesariensis.]
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[Jacobus De Fivizzano, Lunensis] for Marcus De Comitibus and Gerardus Alexandrinus, Venice: 1476. - Chancery Folio. 266 x 190mm. a-n10, o-y,aa-ll8, kk-oo10,pp-qq8, rr10. [-a1 blank]. 349 [+2 = 351] leaves of 350 without initial blank leaf, but with duplicate of conjugate leaves t4-5 bound with first t4-5). 19th calf by Hatton of Manchester with blind rules and devices, spine banded title label, spine lightly faded, minor rubbing, red edges, marbled endpapers; bookplate and stamp of Earls of Macclesfield, early manuscript annotations (some on folding sections of the margins, where the rest of the margin has been trimmed), bb1-2 and ll4 slightly stained, occ. damp and mold staining in upper corner , last 3 leaves damaged and repaired with some loss of text (not affecting colophon). A very clean copy with ample margins. 35 lines, roman letter, 2- to 7-line initials supplied in red and blue Lombard letters. ÒPriscianus, Latin grammarian, born at Caesarea (Mauretania), taught at Constantinople under Anastatius I (491-518).He delivered the panegyric of the Emperor Anastatius about 512; we possess this work in 312 hexameter verses, preceded by a prologue of 22 iambic senarii. Besides this he composed a "Periegenis" is 1087 hexameters; a translation of the work of the same name written under Hadrian by Dionysius of Alexandria; three works, dedicated to a certain Symmachus (perhaps the consul of 485), on numbers, numeration, and coins, on the metrical character of Latin comedies, on rhetoric according to the "Progymnasmata" at Hermogenes; the "Partitiones XII versuum Aeneidos" (on the versification of the Aeneid); a treatise "De aecentibus"; a compendium on declensions ("Institutio de nomine et pronomine at verbo").But he is chiefly celebrated for a great work of which the last-named is an extract, the eighteen books of the "Institutiones Grammaticae", the most important grammatical work of antiquity which we possess. Each of these eighteen books has its own special title and subject. The first sixteen, often separately copied ("Priscianus Maior") treat of forms ("De accidentibus"); the last two ("Priscianus Minor") of syntax. They are dedicated to a certain Julianus, consul and patrician. In this preface Priscian declares that he borrows his doctrines from the enormous volumes (spatiosa volumina) of Appollonius Dyscolus and from "the sea" (pleagus) of Herodian. He also cites Juba, Heliodorus, and Hephaestion. Moreover, he follows his sources servilely, as is proved by comparison with the extant fragments of Apollonius. His knowledge of Latin authors is chiefly derived from his predecessor Flavius Caper (end of second century). Priscian lacks judgment and taste, but he is valuable because he has preserved for us the theories of the Greek grammarians, and numerous Latin quotations for which he is our sole authority. Ò [CE]"Dionysius Periegetes (literally, Dionysius of The Description) was the author of a description of the habitable world in Greek hexameter verse written in a terse and elegant style. His life dates, and indeed his origins, are not known, but he is believed to have been from Alexandria and to have flourished around the time of Hadrian, though some put him as late as the end of the 3rd century. The work enjoyed a high degree of popularity in ancient times as a schoolbook. It was translated into Latin by Rufus Festus Avienus, and by the grammarian Priscian.Ó[wkpd] Jacobus de Fivizzano learned his trade in Venice before printing under his own name at Fivizzano in the Lunigiana in 1472; by 1476 he had moved back to Venice and began printing in the house of Marcus de Comitibus. This is one of only two works surviving (the other is Goff P305 dated 17 January 1476) with Gerardus Alexandrinus named in the imprint.Benedetto Brognoli [Prunulus] (1427-1502)born in Verona was a professor of philosophy at Venice where he taught Greek and Latin for nearly 50 years. He was corrector for the presses of Nicolaus Jensen and Phillippus Pincius. Goff P965 ; HCR 13358 ; Klebs 806.6 ; Pell Ms 9743 (9560) ; CIBN P-597 ; Zehnacker 1933 ; IGI
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BEECHEY, F.W.
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| Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Peformed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom.in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28.
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- Internally a bright and tight copy. "Beechey account includes details on the Bounty mutiny taken from the narrative of John Adams, the last surviving mutineer on Pitcairn IslandBeechey's party was commissioned to rendezvous with Captain Franklin, who was proceeding westward along the northern coast of Canada in a attempt to find the Northwest Passage. The two groups came within 150 miles of one another, almost completing the survey of the coastline." Howell 50:16. "Interesting accounts of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest." Howes B-309. Hill, p. 19. Lada-Mocarski 95. Zamorano Eighty 4. Cowan p. 42. Sabin 4347. Staton and Tremaine 1476. A New Edition. 3 maps, 2 folding, 1 double-page. 23 plates, 4 of which are lithographs and double-page. 2 vols. 8vo, modern 3/4 calf, gilt spines; (head of spine of volume I worn and calf covers rubbed, back corner of volume II lightly worn, otherwise very good). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. Second Octavo Edition. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Fortescue, Sir John; Amos,
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| De Laudibus Legum Angliae. Written Originally in Latin by Sir John
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Fortescue, Sir John [1394? - -1476?]. Amos, Andrew [1791-1860], Editor. De Laudibus Legum Angliae. The Translation into English Published A.D. MDCCLXXV and the Original Latin Text. With Notes. Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith for Joseph Butterworth, 1825. xvi, 280 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary calf, gilt rules to boards, lettering piece, gilt ornaments and raised bands to spines, marbled edges and endpapers, blind inside dentelles. Some rubbing to extremities, chip to head of spine carefully repaired, front hinge partially cracked. Early owner annotation and signature (of G.W. Bennett), internally clean. Ex-library. Bookplate to front pastedown, serial number in fine hand to title page. A handsome copy. * De Laudibus Legum Angliae was written for the instruction of Edward, the young Prince of Wales. Cast in dialogue form, it demonstrates that the common law is the oldest and most reasonable legal system in Europe. It also compares the common and Roman systems and extols the superiority of a constitutionally limited monarch to a absolute monarch. De Laudibus was written around 1470 and first printed in 1567. "Fortescue was a favorite among the old lawyers, and will be read with profit in modern times by those who are interested in the origin and progress of the Common Law.": Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 321. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:22-23 (16). [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Priscianus [Incl. Dionysius
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| Opera. [De Octo Partibus Orationis; De Constructione; De Duodecim Carminibus; De Numeris; De Ponderibus Et Mensuris; De Versibus Comicis; De Declinationibus. [Also Contains: ] (Pseudo-) Priscianus: De Accentibus; (Pseudo-) Hermogenes: De...
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[Jacobus De Fivizzano, Lunensis] for Marcus De Comitibus and Gerardus, 1476. Benedictus Brognolus, ed. Chancery Folio. 266 x 190mm. a-n10, o-y, aa-ll8, kk-oo10, pp-qq8, rr10. [-a1 blank]. 349 [+2 = 351] leaves of 350 without initial blank leaf, but with duplicate of conjugate leaves t4-5 bound with first t4-5). 19th calf by Hatton of Manchester with blind rules and devices, spine banded title label, spine lightly faded, minor rubbing, red edges, marbled endpapers; bookplate and stamp of Earls of Macclesfield, early manuscript annotations (some on folding sections of the margins, where the rest of the margin has been trimmed), bb1-2 and ll4 slightly stained, occ. damp and mold staining in upper corner, last 3 leaves damaged and repaired with some loss of text (not affecting colophon). A very clean copy with ample margins. 35 lines, roman letter, 2-to 7-line initials supplied in red and blue Lombard letters. “ Priscianus, Latin grammarian, born at Caesarea (Mauretania), taught at Constantinople under Anastatius I (491-518). He delivered the panegyric of the Emperor Anastatius about 512; we possess this work in 312 hexameter verses, preceded by a prologue of 22 iambic senarii. Besides this he composed a "Periegenis" is 1087 hexameters; a translation of the work of the same name written under Hadrian by Dionysius of Alexandria; three works, dedicated to a certain Symmachus (perhaps the consul of 485), on numbers, numeration, and coins, on the metrical character of Latin comedies, on rhetoric according to the "Progymnasmata" at Hermogenes; the "Partitiones XII versuum Aeneidos" (on the versification of the Aeneid); a treatise "De aecentibus"; a compendium on declensions ("Institutio de nomine et pronomine at verbo"). But he is chiefly celebrated for a great work of which the last-named is an extract, the eighteen books of the "Institutiones Grammaticae", the most important grammatical work of antiquity which we possess. Each of these eighteen books has its own special title and subject. The first sixteen, often separately copied (...
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TURRECREMATA, Johannes De [Juan de
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| Expositio Super Psalterio.
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[Colophon:] Rome: Wolf Han (Lupus Gallus), 21 February 1476. - 4to. 240 x 153 mm. [ff. 204, including the final register leaf]. 33 lines. roman type. initials, underlines & some paragraph marks supplied in red, other paragraph marks stroked in red. 8-line initial spaces on folios 1 & 3 left empty except for small letters written in ink in later hand. modern limp vellum (some leaves browned owing to the quality of the paper - a few severely, ownership inscription crossed out on). a few old marginal ms. notes. page book-label of F.S.Ferguson. ex libris Solomon Pottesman. the Bergendal copy. THE ONLY KNOWN SIGNED AND DATED BOOK FROM PRESS OF WOLF HAN. IN 1475 ULRICH HAN SET UP HIS BROTHER WITH TWO FOUNTS TYPE, WHICH HE REPRINTED, ALMOST PAGE FOR PAGE, ULRICH'S ROME 1470 FIRST EDITION OF THIS COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS BY THE FAMOUS CARDINAL AND UNCLE OF THE SPANISH GRAND INQUISITOR TOMÁS DE TORQUEMADA. FIVE OTHER, UNSIGNED, BOOKS ARE TRANSFERRED TO WOLF IN THE BMC ON ACCOUNT OF A FURTHER ADMIXTURE OF GOTHIC MAJUSCULES IN THE ROMAN TEXT TYPE, THIS NOT BEING FOUND IN BOOKS SIGNED BY ULRICH. BMC IV 74. GOFF T-521. HAIN-COPINGER 15700. OATES 1437. PROCTOR 3605. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE].-
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| Gazette Nationale ou Le Moniteur Universel.-
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- An VIII. 2 volumes in-f°(290 x 420mm) dos cuir marron, 1476 pages (pagination continue), impression sur 3 colonnes. Année complète. Reliures de l'époque très abîmées, qq. petits défauts, sinon intérieur en bon état. Le répertoire historique le plus vaste, le plus curieux et le plus complet, pour l'époque qu'il embrasse, surtout, et, malgré ses défauts, pour l'histoire de la Révolution. Il eut pour fondateur Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, le célèbre éditeur de l'Encyclopédie méthodique.Cette Gazette devait embrasser 5 grands objets: l'Assemblée nationale, la politique intérieure et extérieure, l'administration et tout ce qui en dépend; la littérature, les sciences et les arts.Exactitude dans les faits, clarté dans le style, fidélité scrupuleuse dans la transcription des décrets: voilà quels étaient à cet égard les engagements des auteurs et propriétaires envers le public. Extrait de Hatin, page 125.
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Priscianus [incl. Dionysius Periegetes]
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| Opera. [De octo partibus orationis; De constructione; De duodecim carminibus; De numeris; De ponderibus et mensuris; De versibus comicis; De declinationibus. [Also contains:] (Pseudo-) Priscianus: De accentibus; (Pseudo-) Hermogenes: De praeexercitamentis rhetorices; Rufinus Antiochensis: De metris comicis; De litteraturis; De compositione et metris oratorum; Dionysius Periegetes: De situ orbis. Tr: Priscianus Caesariensis.]
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[Jacobus De Fivizzano, Lunensis] for Marcus De Comitibus and Gerardus Alexandrinus, Venice: 1476. - Chancery Folio. 266 x 190mm. a-n10, o-y,aa-ll8, kk-oo10,pp-qq8, rr10. [-a1 blank]. 349 [+2 = 351] leaves of 350 without initial blank leaf, but with duplicate of conjugate leaves t4-5 bound with first t4-5). 19th calf by Hatton of Manchester with blind rules and devices, spine banded title label, spine lightly faded, minor rubbing, red edges, marbled endpapers; bookplate and stamp of Earls of Macclesfield, early manuscript annotations (some on folding sections of the margins, where the rest of the margin has been trimmed), bb1-2 and ll4 slightly stained, occ. damp and mold staining in upper corner , last 3 leaves damaged and repaired with some loss of text (not affecting colophon). A very clean copy with ample margins. 35 lines, roman letter, 2- to 7-line initials supplied in red and blue Lombard letters. ÒPriscianus, Latin grammarian, born at Caesarea (Mauretania), taught at Constantinople under Anastatius I (491-518).He delivered the panegyric of the Emperor Anastatius about 512; we possess this work in 312 hexameter verses, preceded by a prologue of 22 iambic senarii. Besides this he composed a "Periegenis" is 1087 hexameters; a translation of the work of the same name written under Hadrian by Dionysius of Alexandria; three works, dedicated to a certain Symmachus (perhaps the consul of 485), on numbers, numeration, and coins, on the metrical character of Latin comedies, on rhetoric according to the "Progymnasmata" at Hermogenes; the "Partitiones XII versuum Aeneidos" (on the versification of the Aeneid); a treatise "De aecentibus"; a compendium on declensions ("Institutio de nomine et pronomine at verbo").But he is chiefly celebrated for a great work of which the last-named is an extract, the eighteen books of the "Institutiones Grammaticae", the most important grammatical work of antiquity which we possess. Each of these eighteen books has its own special title and subject. The first sixteen, often separately copied ("Priscianus Maior") treat of forms ("De accidentibus"); the last two ("Priscianus Minor") of syntax. They are dedicated to a certain Julianus, consul and patrician. In this preface Priscian declares that he borrows his doctrines from the enormous volumes (spatiosa volumina) of Appollonius Dyscolus and from "the sea" (pleagus) of Herodian. He also cites Juba, Heliodorus, and Hephaestion. Moreover, he follows his sources servilely, as is proved by comparison with the extant fragments of Apollonius. His knowledge of Latin authors is chiefly derived from his predecessor Flavius Caper (end of second century). Priscian lacks judgment and taste, but he is valuable because he has preserved for us the theories of the Greek grammarians, and numerous Latin quotations for which he is our sole authority. Ò [CE]"Dionysius Periegetes (literally, Dionysius of The Description) was the author of a description of the habitable world in Greek hexameter verse written in a terse and elegant style. His life dates, and indeed his origins, are not known, but he is believed to have been from Alexandria and to have flourished around the time of Hadrian, though some put him as late as the end of the 3rd century. The work enjoyed a high degree of popularity in ancient times as a schoolbook. It was translated into Latin by Rufus Festus Avienus, and by the grammarian Priscian.Ó[wkpd] Jacobus de Fivizzano learned his trade in Venice before printing under his own name at Fivizzano in the Lunigiana in 1472; by 1476 he had moved back to Venice and began printing in the house of Marcus de Comitibus. This is one of only two works surviving (the other is Goff P305 dated 17 January 1476) with Gerardus Alexandrinus named in the imprint.Benedetto Brognoli [Prunulus] (1427-1502)born in Verona was a professor of philosophy at Venice where he taught Greek and Latin for nearly 50 years. He was corrector for the presses of Nicolaus Jensen and Phillippus Pincius. Goff P965 ; HCR 13358 ; Klebs 806.6 ; Pell Ms 9743 (9560) ; CIBN P-597 ; Zehnacker 1933 ; IGI
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Alessandro Ariosto
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| Itinerarium (1476-1479)
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- 644p. Ed. dell'Orso. Sorretto da auctoritates quali Plinio, Diodoro Siculo, Mela, Solino, Lattanzio, Cipriano, e da autori più ‘moderni’ come Mandeville e Niccolò de’ Conti, l’Itinerarium di Alessandro Ariosto prende forma intorno a tre grandi blocchi narrativi: una prima parte incentrata principalmente sul viaggio verso la Terra Santa, su Gerusalemme e sui luoghi santi; una seconda che presenta il Mar Rosso, il Sinai e, più in generale, l’Egitto con i suoi mirabilia (il Nilo e le piramidi in particolare); una terza dove grande risalto hanno l’India e le terre dell’Oriente più remoto. Per accompagnare il lettore sulle vie di questa peregrinatio (non priva, com’è ovvio, di richiami vetero e neotestamentari) e per arrecare una maggiore voluptas alla narrazione, l’Ariosto si affida alla forma dialogica. Il ‘tu’ con il quale egli dialoga è il cugino arciprete Ludovico, erudito ed esperto dei misteri celesti e delle res humanae. Il dialogo tra Alessandro
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THOMAS VON AQUIN
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| Catena aurea super quattor Evangelistas.
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Basel, Michael Wenssler 1476. 39 x 24 cm. (1 w.), 436 (ohne das letzte weisse) nicht numeriert Bl., 2 Sp., 62 Z. mit 4 grossen und zahlreichen kleineren rot ausgemalten Initialen, rot rubriziert. Blindgeprägter Lederband der Zeit auf Holzdeckeln mit 2 Messingschliessen ¶ - Hain 1332 - Goff T-229 - Panzer, Annales IV, 15, 93 - Haegen, Basel 5, 23 - Madsen 3886; IDL 4352; BM STC 113; Voulliéme, Bonn, 1131 (enthält nur Matthäus und Markus). Selten. Einer der wichtigsten neutestamentlichen Kommentare, der eine aus vielen Kirchenvätern hergestellte fortlaufende Erklärung der Evangelien enthält. Begonnen ist das Werk unter Urban IV. (Realenz. XIX, 708). Michael Wenssler, aus Strassburg stammend, war neben Ruppel und Richel einer der ersten Basler Drucker (Voulliéme, Deutsche Drucker des 15. Jahrh. 19ff). Einbanddecken mit breiten Rahmen, die Buckel in den Eckquadraten fehlen. In den Mittelfeldern Rauten, darin Einzelstempel: Lilien und Agnus Dei(?). In den Umrandungen oben und unten "Maria" und links und rechts davon Einzelstempel Greif(?). Im ganzen gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Rücken und Ecken restauriert unter weitgehender Verwendung des alten Materials, Bibl.-Titelschild entfernt, Kettenhalterung als Fragment vorhanden. Im vorderer Innendeckel alter Besitzeintrag, durchgängig wenig störender Feuchtigkeitsrand, letzte 6 Blatt einzelne Wurmlöcher im weissen Rand, das erste und die letzten 3 Blatt in der oberen Ecke restauriert. - Sprache / Language: Lateinisch / Latin -
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[USSELINCX, Willem?]. ADAMS, Yemant
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| Den Nederlandtschen Bye-Corf: waer ghy beschreven vint, al het gene dat nu uytgegaen is, op den Stilstant ofte Vrede ... beghinnende in Mey 1607. ende noch en hebben wy het eynde niet. Ende is ghestelt op een t'samen-sprekinge, tusschen een Vlamyng ende Hollander. Noch is hier by ghevoecht, een Ghedicht ...[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to. With 1 decorated woodcut initial letter. Disbound.
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(8) pp. Alden & Landis 608/118 (3 copies); Asher 28/1 & Add.; Knuttel 1476; Muller, America 418/1; Sabin 98201 note; Tiele 686; OCLC WorldCat (1 copy); STCN (6 copies); cf. Simoni U-10 (2nd ed.). The last edition of the famous Nederlandtsche Bye-Korf (Dutch Beehive), printed to advertise and introduce a collective issue of thirty-seven anonymous pamphlets (more than the earlier editions) agitating against the proposed truce between Spain and the Netherlands in the middle of the Eighty Years' War, and warning the Dutch not to sacrifice their West Indian trade to the pursuit of peace. The anonymous publisher notes that a friend had urged him to gather together "all that has been published about the ceasefire and peace" because many people wished to collect the pamphlets and have them bound together, but since not even the booksellers know exactly what has been published, no one knows whether their collections are complete. He therefore brought together "all that I could get hold of" and added the present dialogue to be bound before them. In fact he included only pamphlets against the truce: none in favour of the truce! The main text of the present introductory pamphlet takes the form of a conversation between a Hollander (from the Dutch Republic in the Northern Netherlands) and a Flemish refugee (from the Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands), the Hollander selling the Fleming the pamphlets, which are named individually. The present pamphlet therefore serves as a sort of catalogue, as well as a general introduction to the subject. The poem at the end, about Spain's untrustworthiness and the dangers of trying to make a peace settlement with them, is signed "Yemant Adams" (Someone Adams, a pseudonym probably meaning merely a descendent of Adam).On 4 May 1607, after forty years of war, Spain and the Dutch Republic began a ceasefire and peace negotiations that were to lead to the twelve-year truce two years later. The sharply divided opinions on the acceptable terms for peace and on the benefits and harm a truce might bring to the Republic set off a flood of pamphlets. The Dutch were considering establishing a West India Company, and Spain's wish to limit Dutch trade in the West Indies was the biggest stumbling block in the negotiations. The present pamphlet appeared in at least three editions (the STCN notes a fourth variant) listing an increasing number of pamphlets (from 30 in the first to 37 in the present third edition, including the introduction). All three are dated 1608 and apparently appeared after Easter (6 April) but before most of the pamphlets were banned on 27 August 1608, for the ban specifically mentions two pamphlets listed only in the third edition. One pamphlet issued with the second and third editions discusses a letter written on 6 June 1608 and not generally known until 1 July 1608, so the second edition probably appeared around July and the present third in or shortly before August. Several of the key pamphlets in the collection were written by Willem Usselincx, but it is not known whether he had a hand in the introduction. His most beloved project was to establish the West India Company, and the present introduction mentions both the Spanish intent to snatch away the best part of the Indies trade and how important it is to safeguard the Republic's free trade in the West Indies. The Hollander in the dialogue explicitly notes (as in the first two editions) that some of the pamphlets are "difficult to find" and that one pamphlet exists under two different titles, so it had clearly gone through two editions before the first edition of the introduction. Some pamphlets listed in all three editions of the Bye-Korf , appear to have been printed only once, while some mentioned only in the third edition survive in several printings. Clearly the pamphlets were reprinted at irregular intervals as supplies ran out, and more study is needed to determine the order of the editions and which were issued with which editions of the Bye-Korf . Nearly all are Pot quartos.With some nineteenth-century manuscript notes. In very good condition and only slightly browned. The last edition of the Bye-Korf , with the most complete list of pamphlets.
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Filelfo, Francesco (1398-1481)
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| Satyrarum Hecatostichon Decades Decem
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Milan, Christopher Valdarfer, 13th November, 1476. - First Edition. 4to; 10.8 in x 7.7 in. 150 leaves (a-s8, tg). Goff P615, Hain 12917*, WG M33062, CIBN P-329 Later full vellum binding. Good condition. The " Satyrarum Hecatostichon Decades Decem" consists as the name suggests of ten books or decades. Each decade includes ten satires, which in turn are made up of exactly 100 verses. The first decade was most probably written in the winter of 1432. The whole cycle was finished in December 1448. The text is set elegantly simple reflecting the lyrical form. The initial letters if each line are printed in capitals and are a bit removed to the left. The headlines of the decades and satires are aligned to the middle and completely capitalised. By moving the next three lines in the printer achieved improved readibility and a better understanding of the poems. This simple but effective way of setting a text shows the age of this incunable. Even though Italy got its first printing workshop in 1465, Milan did not have a press until late in 1470. The work at hand therefore counts amongst the first works ever to be printed in Milan's workshops. Later full vellum binding, all edges of the book block red. Author and title of this incunabulum as well s the printing location and year are written in beautiful hand on the spine. [ Condition of the binding: Good (+) / Condition of the paper: Good / Further remarks: The binding is slightly rubbed. Paper is very well preserved, with occasional, very light foxing in the margins. First leaf with stronger foxing and two holes by an old ink mark. Text not affected. Last 12 leaves with small worm holes, some single letters touched. On the whole this is a very impressive early incunablua edition of the first printing workshops in Milan of one of Italy's greatest men of the renaissance. ] Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481) was an important Italian humanist of the renaissance period. He pioneered the discovery of classic Greek antiquity for Italian culture. While Petrarch and the Florentine students formed the beginning of the renaissance in the late 14th century by reintroducing Roman authors and promoting the study of Latin at university, Filelfo concentrated mostly on the studies of ancient Greece. After studying rhetorics and Latin the Venetian state sent him on diplomatic missions to Constantinople where Filelfo learned Greek under the famous teacher Chrysoloras. He also aquired a considerable collection of Codices which he imported to Italy for further studies. Apart from his pioneering translations of Aristotle, Plutarch, Xenophon and Lysias, Filelfo also wrote numerous lyrical texts. The poetic cycle at hand was written in the style of classic Greek satires which Filelfo acquired from his studies and introduced to his contemporaries. His work attitude was typical for the renaissance as he intensively studied the antique authors, taught at several universities and published various books. Feancesco Filelfo was one of the pioneers of humanism and paved the way for scholars like Erasmus of Rotterdam or the Italian humanist and poet Angelo Poliziano. The poetry cycle at hand was written at the height of Filelfo's artistic period. This first incunabula edition is therefore especially rare and preserved in truly beautifully condition. [Attributes: First Edition]
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PHILELPHUS FRANCISCUS.
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Milan: Christophorus Valdarfer, 1476 - [149] leaves missing the final blank. Single column roman type 35 lines of text per page. FIRST PRINTING. Attractive 19th century calf over thick bevelled boards very elaborately blind tooled in the style of 15th century books raised bands six spine panels two of them decorated with florals four with a pair of heraldic griffins. With initial spaces. Two small book labels on front pastedown: H.N.F. (Helmut N. Friedlaender) and a.r.s. Joints rather worn (though with no cracks) minor wear to corners and raised bands front cover with small area of lost patina but the binding solid bright and otherwise well preserved. First 44 leaves with small round wormholes in margin (beginning with eight and quickly decreasing the text unaffected) final 36 leaves similarly wormed with one small hole becoming five in the text and a half dozen more forming in the margin near the end (the holes in the text area so small as to scarcely affect any letters the final five leaves with one hole slightly elongated but this hole well away from the text) otherwise in fine condition internally the leaves almost entirely clean as well as remarkably fresh and bright. Despite its defects AN ATTRACTIVE COPY THE LEAVES EXTRAORDINARILY FRESH AND CLEAN. Goff P-615; BMC VI, 726-27. This is the Friedlaender copy in typically excellent condition of the very scarce first printing of a secular incunable from the 1470s. The 100 satires that make up the text here reveal the life and intrigues of Italian courts and scholarly circles in the middle of the 15th century at the height of enthusiasm for Renaissance ideas. Philelphus' satires like those of his model the Roman poet Horace are conversational in tone sometimes coarse and sometimes scholarly with many references to ancient history and literature. Written in dactylic hexameter each poem contains 100 lines (hence Philelphus gives them the learned name of hecatosticha). The author tells us he finished the satires in Milan in 1448 although they did not appear until our first printing some 28 years later. Franciscus Philelphus (Francesco Filelfo 1398-1481) had a checkered career as a wandering scholar and his satires reflect both his troubles and his triumphs. He believed that Cosimo de' Medici had tried to have him assassinated and he was ardent in his denunciations of this merchant prince of Florence. At the same time he was grateful for the patronage of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan and his powerful condottiere Francesco Sforza and he was not above lavishing flattery upon them and other powerful figures such as Alfonso of Aragon the ruler of Naples. Philelphus studied in Padua and was teaching in Venice before he was 20 years old. That republic sent him on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople where he learned Greek and married the daughter of a Greek scholar. Later he served the emperor Sigismund as a diplomat and by 1429 he had migrated to Florence where at first he was popular as a teacher of literature. His temper however was his undoing and he quarrelled bitterly with his fellow humanist Poggio as well as Cosimo de' Medici. By 1439 he was forced to take his teaching skills to Milan penning an epic Sforziade in honor of Francesco Sforza who rose to the position of duke after the death of Visconti. After Sforza's death in 1466 Philelphus now in his old age recommenced his wandering life teaching in Rome Siena and Pavia before returning to Florence to die in poverty. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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VORAGINE, Jacobus de.
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| Printed by the first printers in France Legenda aurea.
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Paris, Martin Crantz, Ulrich Gering and Michael Friburger, (ca. 1476). - Folio. 18th century light brown calf, gilt fillets along the edges, spine gilt in compartments with two red labels with gilt lettering: 'Legenda sanctorum' and 'Parisiis absque anno', gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges. Rubricated throughout with the capitals painted alternately in red and blue, the first initial in gold against a blue and red background, heightened with white interlace, with penwork extending into the right margin. Printed in two columns, 45 lines to a page. Type: 114SG. Collation: (a)-(m)10 (n)12 (o)-(z) (A)-(F)10. (292) lvs, complete with the first and last blank. One of the early incunable editions of the famous Legenda aurea, written and composed between 1260 and 1267 by Jacopo de Varazze - better known as Jacob de Voragine - in the Dominican monastery at Genua. Certainly it is the most popular and highly influential compilation of Saints' lives from the Middle Ages: at least 91 Latin, and 7 Italian, 5 English, 20 French, 2 German and 33 Dutch editions have been printed before the year 1500. The Legenda aurea contain ca. 160 lives of saints and 20 treatises on the principal feasts of the church. As there are a number of undated early editions, it is difficult to say which edition is the first, but probably the Zainer edition printed in Augsburg in 1468-70 can be considered as such.is the splendid and rare second Paris edition of the Legenda printed by the well-known combination of the three printers Martin Crantz from Strasbourg, Ulrich Gering from Constance and Michael Friburger from Colmar - all three being members of the intellectual set at the Sorbonne at Paris - who had started producing books with the financial backing of Guillaume Fichet and Jean Heynlin in the later part of 1470, establishing the very first press on French soil. After three years they moved their printing house, named 'Le soleil d'or', or 'In sole aureo', to the Rue Saint Jacques. On the first of September in 1475 their first edition of the Legenda aurea was published. The present undated edition appears to be the later one and is generally considered to be printed in the course of 1476.Contents:f. 1: blank. 2r: Prologus: Incipit prologus super legendas sanctorum; quas compilavit frater Iacobus Ianuensis natione, de ordine fratrum predicatorum; [U]NIVERSUM tempus. 2v-3v: Contents. 3v-281 r: (col. 2) Incipiunt legende sanctorum. Et primo de tempore renovationis agitur quod est adventus domini. 281v-282v: blank. 283r-291r: Tabula super legendas sanctorum incipit. 291r: Colophon: Tabula continens fere omnia notabilia legende auree desinit feliciter. Pulchre transcripta parisius per Martinum chrancz, Undalricum gering, et Michaelem friburger impressorie artis magistros. 292: blank Very beautiful copy of this extremely rare early 'Legenda aurea' edition printed by the first printers active in France; with wide margins and complete with the mostly lacking first and last blanks.- (Some occ. insignificant soiling). Cop. 6394; Oates 2876; Polain 6455 (only 4 copies, the copy in the Bibl. Nat. at Paris is incomplete); Claudin I, p. 79 (with plates of the first and last pages on p. 80-81); Hist. de l'édition franç. I, p. 166; not in NUC or Goff; cf. BMC VIII, p. 7 (1475 ed.: 294 lvs., 2 cols., and 45 lines). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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| LES CHRONIQUES ET ANNALES DE FLANDRES: CONTENANTES LES HEROICQUES ET TRESVICTORIEUX EXPLOICTS DES FORESTIERS, & COMTES DE FLANDRES, & LES SINGULARITES & CHOSES MEMORABLES ADVENUES AUDICT FLANDRES, DEPUIS L'AN DE NOSTRE SEIGNEUR IESUS CHRISTI VIC.620, JUSQUES A L'AN 1476. ANVERS, JEAN WITHAGEN, POUR CHRISTOPHE PLANTIN, 1571. IN-4, VEAU HAVANE, DOS A' NERFS ORNE', PIECE DE TITRE DE MAROQUIN ROUGE, TRANCHES ROUGES. REL. EPOQUE.
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Edition originale, imprimee avec les caracteres de Plantin.Historien Flamand, Pierred'Oudeghers (1540-1592), est ne' a' Lille. Il etudia le droit a' Louvain, fut mele' aux affaires de son temps a' la Cour de Maximilien II, puis en Espagne, ou il mourut.Dediees a' Maximilien II, les Chroniques et Annales de Flandres, couvrent la periode 620-1476, date de la mort de Charles le Temeraire. Elles sont rediges sur des documents authentiques, avec l'ambition de supplanter l'histoire ecrite par son contemporain Antonius de Meyere, egalement publiee par Plantin en 1556.Exemplaire de choix, en veau decore' du XVIII siecle. Rahir, 566 - Voet, IV, 1841.
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TURRECREMATA, JOHANNES DE [JUAN DE
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| EXPOSITIO SUPER PSALTERIO.. [COLOPHON:] ROME: WOLF HAN (LUPUS GALLUS), 21 FEBRUARY 1476.
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4to. 240 x 153 mm. [ff. 204, including the final register leaf]. 33 lines. roman type. initials, underlines & some paragraph marks supplied in red, other paragraph marks stroked in red. 8-line initial spaces on folios 1 & 3 left empty except for small letters written in ink in later hand. modern limp vellum (some leaves browned owing to the quality of the paper - a few severely, ownership inscription crossed out on). a few old marginal ms. notes. page book-label of F.S.Ferguson. ex libris Solomon Pottesman. the Bergendal copy. THE ONLY KNOWN SIGNED AND DATED BOOK FROM PRESS OF WOLF HAN. IN 1475 ULRICH HAN SET UP HIS BROTHER WITH TWO FOUNTS TYPE, WHICH HE REPRINTED, ALMOST PAGE FOR PAGE, ULRICH'S ROME 1470 FIRST EDITION OF THIS COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS BY THE FAMOUS CARDINAL AND UNCLE OF THE SPANISH GRAND INQUISITOR TOMAS DE TORQUEMADA. FIVE OTHER, UNSIGNED, BOOKS ARE TRANSFERRED TO WOLF IN THE BMC ON ACCOUNT OF A FURTHER ADMIXTURE OF GOTHIC MAJUSCULES IN THE ROMAN TEXT TYPE, THIS NOT BEING FOUND IN BOOKS SIGNED BY ULRICH. BMC IV 74. GOFF T-521. HAIN-COPINGER 15700. OATES 1437. PROCTOR 3605. Hardcover
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Nürnberg, Andreas Frisner und Johann Sensenschmidt, 1476-78. Type 4.. Zweispaltiges Original-Inkunabelblatt auf festem Papier. Dreizeilige rote Lombarde, rotgestrichenen Versalbuchstaben und roten Rubriken. Kleine Wurmspur im äußeren Randbereich. Blattgröße: 28 x 41 cm. Incunabula text leaf.. Sensenschmidt aus Eger führte 1470 den Buchdruck in Nürnberg ein und arbeitete u. a. mit dem Magister der freien Künste Andreas Frisner zusammen. Sensenschmidt hat das Buchdruckerhandwerk wohl in Mainz erlernt.
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Filelfo, Francesco (1398-1481)
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| Satyrarum Hecatostichon Decades Decem
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Milan, Christopher Valdarfer, 13th November, 1476.. First Edition. 4to; 10.8 in x 7.7 in. 150 leaves (a-s8, tg). Goff P615, Hain 12917*, WG M33062, CIBN P-329 Later full vellum binding. Good condition.; 1. LiteratureThe " Satyrarum Hecatostichon Decades Decem" consists as the name suggests of ten books or decades. Each decade includes ten satires, which in turn are made up of exactly 100 verses. The first decade was most probably written in the winter of 1432. The whole cycle was finished in December 1448. The text is set elegantly simple reflecting the lyrical form. The initial letters if each line are printed in capitals and are a bit removed to the left. The headlines of the decades and satires are aligned to the middle and completely capitalised. By moving the next three lines in the printer achieved improved readibility and a better understanding of the poems. This simple but effective way of setting a text shows the age of this incunable. Even though Italy got its first printing workshop in 1465, Milan did not have a press until late in 1470. The work at hand therefore counts amongst the first works ever to be printed in Milan's workshops. Later full vellum binding, all edges of the book block red. Author and title of this incunabulum as well s the printing location and year are written in beautiful hand on the spine. [ Condition of the binding: Good (+) / Condition of the paper: Good / Further remarks: The binding is slightly rubbed. Paper is very well preserved, with occasional, very light foxing in the margins. First leaf with stronger foxing and two holes by an old ink mark. Text not affected. Last 12 leaves with small worm holes, some single letters touched. On the whole this is a very impressive early incunablua edition of the first printing workshops in Milan of one of Italy's greatest men of the renaissance. ] Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481) was an important Italian humanist of the renaissance period. He pioneered the discovery of classic Greek antiquity for Italian culture. While Petrarch and the Florentine students formed the beginning of the renaissance in the late 14th century by reintroducing Roman authors and promoting the study of Latin at university, Filelfo concentrated mostly on the studies of ancient Greece. After studying rhetorics and Latin the Venetian state sent him on diplomatic missions to Constantinople where Filelfo learned Greek under the famous teacher Chrysoloras. He also aquired a considerable collection of Codices which he imported to Italy for further studies. Apart from his pioneering translations of Aristotle, Plutarch, Xenophon and Lysias, Filelfo also wrote numerous lyrical texts. The poetic cycle at hand was written in the style of classic Greek satires which Filelfo acquired from his studies and introduced to his contemporaries. His work attitude was typical for the renaissance as he intensively studied the antique authors, taught at several universities and published various books. Feancesco Filelfo was one of the pioneers of humanism and paved the way for scholars like Erasmus of Rotterdam or the Italian humanist and poet Angelo Poliziano. The poetry cycle at hand was written at the height of Filelfo's artistic period. This first incunabula edition is therefore especially rare and preserved in truly beautifully condition.
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Facsimile Editions. MS. Kennicott 1. The most exquisite of all Hebrew bibles, written and illuminated in mediaeval Spain in 1476, just 16 years before the Expulsion. A strictly limited edition of 550 copies. 922 pages, 238 illuminated pages with gold and silver. 24 canonical book headings. 49 parasha headings structured with gold in different motifs featuring zoomorphic figures in many colours. 27 lavishly-illuminated arcaded pages framing the text of the Sefer Mikhlol. 9 fully illuminated carpet pages. 150 psalm headings, numbered and illuminated with gold and silver. Page size 320 x 262 x 100mm (12½" x 10?" x 4"). Specially and exclusively milled for this facsimile. Neutral pH, 160gsm, vegetable parchment paper. Opacity, feel and thickness almost identical to the original manuscript. Laser scanning and skilled hand correction. Perfect colour matching by constant comparison to the original in Oxford. Up to four sets of proofs made for each page. . Offset lithography in eleven colours. Publishers personally supervised the production of every sheet. Gold and silver metal foils applied by hand to each illumination taking seven craftsmen over four months to complete. . Fine Italian morocco goatskin box-binding over specially prepared boards. Interlacing geometric designs on all six sides embossed with handmade dies. Facsimile edges gilt with 23 carat gold leaf. Facsimile and Commentary volume enclosed in velvet lined, portfolio box. Beautifully decorated gift certificate with a personal inscription can be provided at no additional charge. . Strictly limited to 550 copies. 500 numbered 1-500. 50 ad personam copies numbered I - L. Each volume discreetly numbered by hand inside the leather binding using minute steel dies. Each volume accompanied by a numbered certificate carrying the stamp of the Bodleian Library. Printing plates were destroyed (in accordance with halachic requirements). . Price includes robust protective packaging, worldwide courier delivery and insurance. Courier service, usually by UPS. International overnight service usually available at no extra charge. If you would like to have your copy dedicated, please supply us with the inscription separately upon placing your order. . Our Promise to You: ALL OUR DUST JACKETS COME WITH CLEAR BRODART PROTECTIVE COVERS. (Please read listing to determine if this book comes with a dust jacket.) Your order will be CAREFULLY PACKAGED IN A BOX for safe transition. We strive for 100% customer satisfaction!; 12.5"x 10.3"x4"; 922 pages, New
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ALBERTUS,magnus .
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| Compendium theologicae veritatis.
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in 4° piccolo ( 185x131 mm ).Carte 159 ( di 160:manca l'ultima carta bianca ) non numerate e non segnate,caratteri semigotici,35 linee.Un alone nei margini interni di due quaderni,altri,lievi,in quelli inferiori,alcune note ms coeve di incerta grafìa,qual Venezia,Christophorus Arnoldus alemannus, 5 Aprile 1476 incunable Prima edizione a stampa in Italia.Quest'opera,scritta intorno al 1270,tratta della fine del mondo,dell'Anticristo, dell'Inferno e del Purgatorio,del libero arbitrio e della predestinazione,dell'arte della memoria,dei dèmoni. Alberto ebbe la più vasta cono
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THOMAS VON AQUIN
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| Catena aurea super quattor Evangelistas.
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Basel, Michael Wenssler 1476. 39 x 24 cm. (1 w.), 436 (ohne das letzte weisse) nicht numeriert Bl., 2 Sp., 62 Z. mit 4 grossen und zahlreichen kleineren rot ausgemalten Initialen, rot rubriziert. Blindgeprägter Lederband der Zeit auf Holzdeckeln mit 2 Messingschliessen ¶ - Hain 1332 - Goff T-229 - Panzer, Annales IV, 15, 93 - Haegen, Basel 5, 23 - Madsen 3886; IDL 4352; BM STC 113; Voulliéme, Bonn, 1131 (enthält nur Matthäus und Markus). Selten. Einer der wichtigsten neutestamentlichen Kommentare, der eine aus vielen Kirchenvätern hergestellte fortlaufende Erklärung der Evangelien enthält. Begonnen ist das Werk unter Urban IV. (Realenz. XIX, 708). Michael Wenssler, aus Strassburg stammend, war neben Ruppel und Richel einer der ersten Basler Drucker (Voulliéme, Deutsche Drucker des 15. Jahrh. 19ff). Einbanddecken mit breiten Rahmen, die Buckel in den Eckquadraten fehlen. In den Mittelfeldern Rauten, darin Einzelstempel: Lilien und Agnus Dei(?). In den Umrandungen oben und unten "Maria" und links und rechts davon Einzelstempel Greif(?). Im ganzen gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Rücken und Ecken restauriert unter weitgehender Verwendung des alten Materials, Bibl.-Titelschild entfernt, Kettenhalterung als Fragment vorhanden. Im vorderer Innendeckel alter Besitzeintrag, durchgängig wenig störender Feuchtigkeitsrand, letzte 6 Blatt einzelne Wurmlöcher im weissen Rand, das erste und die letzten 3 Blatt in der oberen Ecke restauriert. - Sprache / Language: Lateinisch / Latin -
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BOUCHET (Jean)
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| Sensuit le labyrinht (sic) de fortune et de Séjour des trois nobles dames. Composé par lacteur des Regnards traversans et loups ravissans surnommé le traveseur des voyes périlleuses (et autres oeuvres). Paris, Philippe le Noir (vers 1526). Petit in-4 gothique: maroquin rouge, décor "à la fanfare" sur les plats, armes au centre, dos à nerfs orné, filets sur les coupes, dentelle intérieure, tranches dorées sur marbrure (Belz-Niedrée).
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Belle édition gothique. Elle est dédiée à Marguerite de Valois. Le titre imprimé en rouge et noir est orné d'une grande lettrine et de la marque de Philippe Le Noir. Deuxième édition de ce traité poétique sur les malheurs qui accablent les hommes de toutes conditions. Jean Bouchet (1476-1557), poète et historien poitevin, fut le dernier des grands rhétoriqueurs. C'est à Poitiers que son Labyrinthe de fortune vit le jour (1522, et seconde émission en 1524) puis à Paris (Michel Le Noir, 1526, 1529 et 1534) et enfin chez Alain Lotrian (vers 1528). L'inventaire chronologique a ainsi permis de modifier et de compléter la séquence des éditions décrites par Tchermerzine. Spectaculaire reliure décorée "à la fanfare", exécutée avec maestria par le doreur Jean-Philppe Belz. Elle porte au centre les armes du baron Seillière (1890, numéro 444). Ex-libris Marcel Bénard (cat.1925, numéro 56). L'exemplaire figurait à l'exposition Dix siècles de livres français (Lucerne, 1949, numéro 90); il est le seul cité par Tchermerzine.
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AGOSTINO Aurelio Santo
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| La Città di Dio.
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Senza note tipografiche (Venezia, Antonio di Bartolomeo Miscomini, 1476-1478), in-folio, 324 ff: n.n. (la prima e l’ultima bianche), preziosa legatura tardo '600 in vitello alle armi di Federico Baldeschi Colonna, cornice di grandi ferri floreali ai piatti, tagli dor. (restauri alle cerniere). Car. romano su due colonne, 47 linee per pag. F.2: “Tavola et capitoli del primo libro di sancto Augustino de la cita d’ dio”. F.323 Colophon: “Deo Gratias… Gloria et honore al padre et al figliuolo et allo spirito sancto omnipotente idio in excielsis in secula seculorum. Amen”. Prima edizione in italiano ed in ogni altra lingua moderna del De Civitate Dei, universalmente stimata come una delle più alte produzioni dell’ingegno umano, la prima delle grandi Utopie. La traduzione fu attribuita a Jacopo Passavanti, mentre la stampa è assegnata ai torchi di Venezia del Miscomini, e precede, per la freschezza e nitidezza d’impressione delle singole lettere, quella del Tito Livio del 1478. Anche la filigrana della carta del presente incunabulo è quella usata a Venezia in quegli anni. Magnifico esemplare, molto marginoso, in superba legatura alle armi del cardinale Federico (1625-1691), membro della famiglia Baldeschi Colonna, ricoprì importanti incarichi ecclesiastici in Italia e all'estero (piccoli fori di tarlo agli ultimi ff.). Splendido e importante incunabulo. HC.2071. BMC VII, 1136. Vaticana A-531. Gamba 3. Zambrini, Opere Volgari, 5.Goff A-1248. Printing and the Mind of Man 3 (ediz. Latina 1467): “God’s government on earth… The City of God pervaded the whole Middle Ages… remained authorative until the 17th and 18th century”
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REGIOMONTANUS (D.I. JOHANNES MÜLLER VON
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| [Calendarium latinum:] Avreus hic liber est: non est preciosor ulla Ge[m]ma kalendario: quod docet istud opus...
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Venedig, Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Petrus Löslein und Erhard Ratdolt, 1476. 4°. Römische Type; 28-30Zeilen. In Rot und Schwarz gedruckt. 28 unnum. Bl. (statt 32 Bl.; ohne die vier Blätter mit den astronomischen Figuren; ohne Lagenbezeichnung; ursprüngliche Lagen aufgelöst, die Blätter auf neue Fälze montiert). Mit einer schönen fünfteiligen Holzschnitt-Titelbordüre, 13 in Rot gedruckten Initialen und 12 floralen Initialen in Schwarz sowie 60, teils gelb kolorierten Holzschnitten für die Eclipsen. Moderner, hellbrauner Halbschweinslederband (sign. Hedberg, Stockholm). – Hain-Copinger 13776. BMC V 243 (IB 20481). Goff R-93. Proctor 4365. Klebs 836.2. Schramm 6400. Nicht bei Schreiber. Zweite lateinische Ausgabe des Kalenders von Regiomontanus, das erste von Ratdolt in Venedig gedruckte Buch. Das erste Buch, das einen Titel mit einer Bordüre aufweist, auf dem der Autor, der Druckort sowie die Drucker und das Druckdatum gegeben werden. In den Conjunctions- und Oppositionstabellen und im Kalender sind einzelne Daten und Heiligen-Festtage in Rot eingedruckt, ebenfalls in der Tabelle der beweglichen Festtage. Die teils gelb kolorierten Holzschnitte der Blätter 14-18 zeigen die Eclipsen bis ins Jahr 1530. - Am Kopf der Conjunctions- resp. Oppositionstabellen handschriftliche Ergänzungen für den Neu- und Vollmond, von derselben Hand handschriftliche astronomische Eintragungen auf Blatt 19. – Unserm Exemplar fehlen die vier Blätter mit den ganzseitigen Holzschnitten der astronomischen Instrumente. E.P. Goldschmidt bot in seinem Katalog 6 (Januar 1925, Nr. 48) ein vollständiges Exemplar an und pries es als „one of the finest, rarest and most interesting of early printed books“. Um die Seltenheit des Werke herauszustreichen, verweist Goldschmidt auf das Exemplar der Sammlung C.W. Dyson Perrins, dem dieselben vier Blätter fehlen wie unserm Exemplar. - Gutes, breitrandiges Exemplar. Aus einem Sammelband ausgelöst, mit alter handschriftlicher Foliation am Kopf. Nur unbedeutend fleckig.
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TURRECREMATA, JOHANNES DE [JUAN DE
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| EXPOSITIO SUPER PSALTERIO.. [COLOPHON:] ROME: WOLF HAN (LUPUS GALLUS), 21 FEBRUARY 1476.
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4to. 240 x 153 mm. [ff. 204, including the final register leaf]. 33 lines. roman type. initials, underlines & some paragraph marks supplied in red, other paragraph marks stroked in red. 8-line initial spaces on folios 1 & 3 left empty except for small letters written in ink in later hand. modern limp vellum (some leaves browned owing to the quality of the paper - a few severely, ownership inscription crossed out on). a few old marginal ms. notes. page book-label of F.S.Ferguson. ex libris Solomon Pottesman. the Bergendal copy. THE ONLY KNOWN SIGNED AND DATED BOOK FROM PRESS OF WOLF HAN. IN 1475 ULRICH HAN SET UP HIS BROTHER WITH TWO FOUNTS TYPE, WHICH HE REPRINTED, ALMOST PAGE FOR PAGE, ULRICH'S ROME 1470 FIRST EDITION OF THIS COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS BY THE FAMOUS CARDINAL AND UNCLE OF THE SPANISH GRAND INQUISITOR TOMAS DE TORQUEMADA. FIVE OTHER, UNSIGNED, BOOKS ARE TRANSFERRED TO WOLF IN THE BMC ON ACCOUNT OF A FURTHER ADMIXTURE OF GOTHIC MAJUSCULES IN THE ROMAN TEXT TYPE, THIS NOT BEING FOUND IN BOOKS SIGNED BY ULRICH. BMC IV 74. GOFF T-521. HAIN-COPINGER 15700. OATES 1437. PROCTOR 3605. Hardcover
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USSELINCX, Willem?]. ADAMS, Yemant
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| Den Nederlandtschen Bye-Corf: waer ghy beschreven vint, al het gene dat nu uytgegaen is, op den Stilstant ofte Vrede . beghinnende in Mey 1607. ende noch en hebben wy het eynde niet. Ende is ghestelt op een t'samen-sprekinge, tusschen een Vlamyng ende Hollander. Noch is hier by ghevoecht, een Ghedicht .[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to. With 1 decorated woodcut initial letter. Disbound.
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- (8) pp. Alden & Landis 608/118 (3 copies); Asher 28/1 & Add.; Knuttel 1476; Muller, America 418/1; Sabin 98201 note; Tiele 686; OCLC WorldCat (1 copy); STCN (6 copies); cf. Simoni U-10 (2nd ed.). The last edition of the famous Nederlandtsche Bye-Korf (Dutch Beehive), printed to advertise and introduce a collective issue of thirty-seven anonymous pamphlets (more than the earlier editions) agitating against the proposed truce between Spain and the Netherlands in the middle of the Eighty Years' War, and warning the Dutch not to sacrifice their West Indian trade to the pursuit of peace. The anonymous publisher notes that a friend had urged him to gather together "all that has been published about the ceasefire and peace" because many people wished to collect the pamphlets and have them bound together, but since not even the booksellers know exactly what has been published, no one knows whether their collections are complete. He therefore brought together "all that I could get hold of" and added the present dialogue to be bound before them. In fact he included only pamphlets against the truce: none in favour of the truce! The main text of the present introductory pamphlet takes the form of a conversation between a Hollander (from the Dutch Republic in the Northern Netherlands) and a Flemish refugee (from the Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands), the Hollander selling the Fleming the pamphlets, which are named individually. The present pamphlet therefore serves as a sort of catalogue, as well as a general introduction to the subject. The poem at the end, about Spain's untrustworthiness and the dangers of trying to make a peace settlement with them, is signed "Yemant Adams" (Someone Adams, a pseudonym probably meaning merely a descendent of Adam).On 4 May 1607, after forty years of war, Spain and the Dutch Republic began a ceasefire and peace negotiations that were to lead to the twelve-year truce two years later. The sharply divided opinions on the acceptable terms for peace and on the benefits and harm a truce might bring to the Republic set off a flood of pamphlets. The Dutch were considering establishing a West India Company, and Spain's wish to limit Dutch trade in the West Indies was the biggest stumbling block in the negotiations. The present pamphlet appeared in at least three editions (the STCN notes a fourth variant) listing an increasing number of pamphlets (from 30 in the first to 37 in the present third edition, including the introduction). All three are dated 1608 and apparently appeared after Easter (6 April) but before most of the pamphlets were banned on 27 August 1608, for the ban specifically mentions two pamphlets listed only in the third edition. One pamphlet issued with the second and third editions discusses a letter written on 6 June 1608 and not generally known until 1 July 1608, so the second edition probably appeared around July and the present third in or shortly before August. Several of the key pamphlets in the collection were written by Willem Usselincx, but it is not known whether he had a hand in the introduction. His most beloved project was to establish the West India Company, and the present introduction mentions both the Spanish intent to snatch away the best part of the Indies trade and how important it is to safeguard the Republic's free trade in the West Indies. The Hollander in the dialogue explicitly notes (as in the first two editions) that some of the pamphlets are "difficult to find" and that one pamphlet exists under two different titles, so it had clearly gone through two editions before the first edition of the introduction. Some pamphlets listed in all three editions of the Bye-Korf, appear to have been printed only once, while some mentioned only in the third edition survive in several printings. Clearly the pamphlets were reprinted at irregular intervals as supplies ran out, and more study is needed to determine the order of the editions and which were issued with which editions
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Thomas, Aquinas, santo
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| Quaestiones disputatae de veritate.
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Roma, Arnold Pannartz, 20 gennaio 1476. "In-folio (mm 334x230). Segnatura: [?4, a-f10.8, g8, h10, i-q10.8, r-s8, t-v10, x-z8.10, A-N8.10, O-P8]. 344 carte non numerate. Carattere 106(108)R, testo su due colonne di 42 linee. Legatura ottocentesca in marocchino biondo con ricca decorazione dorata ai piatti e al dorso, tagli originali con titolo manoscritto. Esemplare ad ampi margini in ottimo stato di conservazione. Numerose postille di mano coeva nel testo. Copia appartenuta ai Principi Massimo, con i pezzi araldici (leone coronato) impressi in oro sui piatti e sul dorso della legatura. Prezioso incunabolo, il penultimo impresso dal primo tipografo italiano ‘in domo Petri de Maximo’, in una zona intermedia tra Piazza Navona e Campo de’ Fiori, là dove più tardi fu costruito Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne. Il sodalizio dei due celebri prototipografi tedeschi Conrad Sweynheym e Arnold Pannartz cessò nel 1473 per la morte del primo, mentre il secondo proseguì la sua attività (impressit Rome ingeniosus vir Arnoldud Pannartz natione germanus in domo clari civis Petri de Max[imo]) fino al 1476, realizzando – secondo le linee editoriali della precedente collaborazione - ancora edizioni di notevole impegno culturale e di pregevole qualità tipografica. La raccolta di Questiones, qui in seconda edizione che segue la princeps di Colonia dell’anno precedente, comprende il De Veritate, testo fondamentale della patristica cristiana, in cui San Tommaso affronta i problemi ontologici connaturati all’idea di verità e verosimiglianza. HC 1420; BMC iv, 62; Goff T, 180; IGI 9561; Pellechet 1019. Precious Roman incunable, the penultimate printed by the first Italian prototypographer Arnold Pannartz whom after Sweynheym’s death carried on the press activity, producing books of cultural relevance and valuable typographical quality. Well-preseved copy from the Princes Massimo Library, located in the palace where the two german printers begun their activity in Rome after their first press in Subiaco"
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Paris, Martin Crantz, Ulrich Gering and Michael Friburger, (ca. 1476).. Folio. 18th century light brown calf, gilt fillets along the edges, spine gilt in compartments with two red labels with gilt lettering: 'Legenda sanctorum' and 'Parisiis absque anno', gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges. Rubricated throughout with the capitals painted alternately in red and blue, the first initial in gold against a blue and red background, heightened with white interlace, with penwork extending into the right margin. Printed in two columns, 45 lines to a page. Type: 114SG. Collation: (a)-(m)10 (n)12 (o)-(z) (A)-(F)10. (292) lvs, complete with the first and last blank.. One of the early incunable editions of the famous Legenda aurea , written and composed between 1260 and 1267 by Jacopo de Varazze - better known as Jacob de Voragine - in the Dominican monastery at Genua. Certainly it is the most popular and highly influential compilation of Saints' lives from the Middle Ages: at least 91 Latin, and 7 Italian, 5 English, 20 French, 2 German and 33 Dutch editions have been printed before the year 1500. The Legenda aurea contain ca. 160 lives of saints and 20 treatises on the principal feasts of the church. As there are a number of undated early editions, it is difficult to say which edition is the first, but probably the Zainer edition printed in Augsburg in 1468-70 can be considered as such.is the splendid and rare second Paris edition of the Legenda printed by the well-known combination of the three printers Martin Crantz from Strasbourg, Ulrich Gering from Constance and Michael Friburger from Colmar - all three being members of the intellectual set at the Sorbonne at Paris - who had started producing books with the financial backing of Guillaume Fichet and Jean Heynlin in the later part of 1470, establishing the very first press on French soil. After three years they moved their printing house, named 'Le soleil d'or', or 'In sole aureo', to the Rue Saint Jacques. On the first of September in 1475 their first edition of the Legenda aurea was published. The present undated edition appears to be the later one and is generally considered to be printed in the course of 1476. Contents: f. 1: blank. 2r: Prologus: Incipit prologus super legendas sanctorum; quas compilavit frater Iacobus Ianuensis natione, de ordine fratrum predicatorum; [U]NIVERSUM tempus.... 2v-3v: Contents. 3v-281 r: (col. 2) Incipiunt legende sanctorum. Et primo de tempore renovationis agitur quod est adventus domini.. 281v-282v: blank. 283r-291r: Tabula super legendas sanctorum incipit. 291r: Colophon: Tabula continens fere omnia notabilia legende auree desinit feliciter. Pulchre transcripta parisius per Martinum chrancz, Undalricum gering, et Michaelem friburger impressorie artis magistros. 292: blank Very beautiful copy of this extremely rare early 'Legenda aurea' edition printed by the first printers active in France; with wide margins and complete with the mostly lacking first and last blanks.- (Some occ. insignificant soiling). Cop. 6394; Oates 2876; Polain 6455 (only 4 copies, the copy in the Bibl. Nat. at Paris is incomplete); Claudin I, p. 79 (with plates of the first and last pages on p. 80-81); Hist. de l'edition franc. I, p. 166; not in NUC or Goff; cf. BMC VIII, p. 7 (1475 ed.: 294 lvs., 2 cols., and 45 lines).
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| LEGENDA AUREA. PARIS, MARTIN CRANTZ, ULRICH GERING AND MICHAEL FRIBURGER, (CA. 1476).
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Folio. 18th century light brown calf, gilt fillets along the edges, spine gilt in compartments with two red labels with gilt lettering: 'Legenda sanctorum' and 'Parisiis absque anno', gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges. Rubricated throughout with the capitals painted alternately in red and blue, the first initial in gold against a blue and red background, heightened with white interlace, with penwork extending into the right margin. Printed in two columns, 45 lines to a page. Type: 114SG. Collation: (a)-(m)10 (n)12 (o)-(z) (A)-(F)10. (292) lvs, complete with the first and last blank. One of the early incunable editions of the famous Legenda aurea, written and composed between 1260 and 1267 by Jacopo de Varazze - better known as Jacob de Voragine - in the Dominican monastery at Genua. Certainly it is the most popular and highly influential compilation of Saints' lives from the Middle Ages: at least 91 Latin, and 7 Italian, 5 English, 20 French, 2 German and 33 Dutch editions have been printed before the year 1500. The Legenda aurea contain ca. 160 lives of saints and 20 treatises on the principal feasts of the church. As there are a number of undated early editions, it is difficult to say which edition is the first, but probably the Zainer edition printed in Augsburg in 1468-70 can be considered as such.is the splendid and rare second Paris edition of the Legenda printed by the well-known combination of the three printers Martin Crantz from Strasbourg, Ulrich Gering from Constance and Michael Friburger from Colmar - all three being members of the intellectual set at the Sorbonne at Paris - who had started producing books with the financial backing of Guillaume Fichet and Jean Heynlin in the later part of 1470, establishing the very first press on French soil. After three years they moved their printing house, named 'Le soleil d'or', or 'In sole aureo', to the Rue Saint Jacques. On the first of September in 1475 their first edition of the Legenda aurea was published. The present undated edition appears to be the later one and is generally considered to be printed in the course of 1476.Contents:f. 1: blank. 2r: Prologus: Incipit prologus super legendas sanctorum; quas compilavit frater Iacobus Ianuensis natione, de ordine fratrum predicatorum; [U]NIVERSUM tempus.... 2v-3v: Contents. 3v-281 r: (col. 2) Incipiunt legende sanctorum. Et primo de tempore renovationis agitur quod est adventus domini.. 281v-282v: blank. 283r-291r: Tabula super legendas sanctorum incipit. 291r: Colophon: Tabula continens fere omnia notabilia legende auree desinit feliciter. Pulchre transcripta parisius per Martinum chrancz, Undalricum gering, et Michaelem friburger impressorie artis magistros. 292: blank Very beautiful copy of this extremely rare early 'Legenda aurea' edition printed by the first printers active in France; with wide margins and complete with the mostly lacking first and last blanks.- (Some occ. insignificant soiling). Cop. 6394; Oates 2876; Polain 6455 (only 4 copies, the copy in the Bibl. Nat. at Paris is incomplete); Claudin I, p. 79 (with plates of the first and last pages on p. 80-81); Hist. de l'edition franc. I, p. 166; not in NUC or Goff; cf. BMC VIII, p. 7 (1475 ed.: 294 lvs., 2 cols., and 45 lines).
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AGOSTINO AURELIO SANTO
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| LA CITTA' DI DIO.
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Senza note tipografiche (Venezia, Antonio di Bartolomeo Miscomini, 1476-1478), in-folio, 324 ff: n.n. (la prima e lultima bianche), preziosa legatura tardo '600 in vitello alle armi di Federico Baldeschi Colonna, cornice di grandi ferri floreali ai piatti, tagli dor. (restauri alle cerniere). Car. romano su due colonne, 47 linee per pag. F.2: Tavola et capitoli del primo libro di sancto Augustino de la cita d dio. F.323 Colophon: Deo Gratias Gloria et honore al padre et al figliuolo et allo spirito sancto omnipotente idio in excielsis in secula seculorum. Amen. Prima edizione in italiano ed in ogni altra lingua moderna del De Civitate Dei, universalmente stimata come una delle piu' alte produzioni dellingegno umano, la prima delle grandi Utopie. La traduzione fu attribuita a Jacopo Passavanti, mentre la stampa e' assegnata ai torchi di Venezia del Miscomini, e precede, per la freschezza e nitidezza dimpressione delle singole lettere, quella del Tito Livio del 1478. Anche la filigrana della carta del presente incunabulo e' quella usata a Venezia in quegli anni. Magnifico esemplare, molto marginoso, in superba legatura alle armi del cardinale Federico (1625-1691), membro della famiglia Baldeschi Colonna, ricopri' importanti incarichi ecclesiastici in Italia e all'estero (piccoli fori di tarlo agli ultimi ff.). Splendido e importante incunabulo. HC.2071. BMC VII, 1136. Vaticana A-531. Gamba 3. Zambrini, Opere Volgari, 5.Goff A-1248. Printing and the Mind of Man 3 (ediz. Latina 1467): Gods government on earth The City of God pervaded the whole Middle Ages remained authorative until the 17th and 18th century
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TURRECREMATA, Johannes De [Juan de
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| Expositio Super Psalterio.
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[Colophon:] Rome: Wolf Han (Lupus Gallus), 21 February 1476. - 4to. 240 x 153 mm. [ff. 204, including the final register leaf]. 33 lines. roman type. initials, underlines & some paragraph marks supplied in red, other paragraph marks stroked in red. 8-line initial spaces on folios 1 & 3 left empty except for small letters written in ink in later hand. modern limp vellum (some leaves browned owing to the quality of the paper - a few severely, ownership inscription crossed out on). a few old marginal ms. notes. page book-label of F.S.Ferguson. ex libris Solomon Pottesman. the Bergendal copy. THE ONLY KNOWN SIGNED AND DATED BOOK FROM PRESS OF WOLF HAN. IN 1475 ULRICH HAN SET UP HIS BROTHER WITH TWO FOUNTS TYPE, WHICH HE REPRINTED, ALMOST PAGE FOR PAGE, ULRICH'S ROME 1470 FIRST EDITION OF THIS COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS BY THE FAMOUS CARDINAL AND UNCLE OF THE SPANISH GRAND INQUISITOR TOMÁS DE TORQUEMADA. FIVE OTHER, UNSIGNED, BOOKS ARE TRANSFERRED TO WOLF IN THE BMC ON ACCOUNT OF A FURTHER ADMIXTURE OF GOTHIC MAJUSCULES IN THE ROMAN TEXT TYPE, THIS NOT BEING FOUND IN BOOKS SIGNED BY ULRICH. BMC IV 74. GOFF T-521. HAIN-COPINGER 15700. OATES 1437. PROCTOR 3605. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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PHILELPHUS FRANCISCUS.
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| SATYRAE.
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Milan: Christophorus Valdarfer, 1476 278 x 205 mm. (11 x 8""). [149] leaves missing the final blank. Single column roman type 35 lines of text per page. FIRST PRINTING. Attractive 19th century calf over thick bevelled boards very elaborately blind tooled in the style of 15th century books raised bands six spine panels two of them decorated with florals four with a pair of heraldic griffins. With initial spaces. Two small book labels on front pastedown: H.N.F. (Helmut N. Friedlaender) and a.r.s. Joints rather worn (though with no cracks) minor wear to corners and raised bands front cover with small area of lost patina but the binding solid bright and otherwise well preserved. First 44 leaves with small round wormholes in margin (beginning with eight and quickly decreasing the text unaffected) final 36 leaves similarly wormed with one small hole becoming five in the text and a half dozen more forming in the margin near the end (the holes in the text area so small as to scarcely affect any letters the final five leaves with one hole slightly elongated but this hole well away from the text) otherwise in fine condition internally the leaves almost entirely clean as well as remarkably fresh and bright. Despite its defects AN ATTRACTIVE COPY THE LEAVES EXTRAORDINARILY FRESH AND CLEAN. Goff P-615; BMC VI, 726-27. This is the Friedlaender copy in typically excellent condition of the very scarce first printing of a secular incunable from the 1470s. The 100 satires that make up the text here reveal the life and intrigues of Italian courts and scholarly circles in the middle of the 15th century at the height of enthusiasm for Renaissance ideas. Philelphus' satires like those of his model the Roman poet Horace are conversational in tone sometimes coarse and sometimes scholarly with many references to ancient history and literature. Written in dactylic hexameter each poem contains 100 lines (hence Philelphus gives them the learned name of hecatosticha). The author tells us he finished the satires in Milan in 1448 although they did not appear until our first printing some 28 years later. Franciscus Philelphus (Francesco Filelfo 1398-1481) had a checkered career as a wandering scholar and his satires reflect both his troubles and his triumphs. He believed that Cosimo de' Medici had tried to have him assassinated and he was ardent in his denunciations of this merchant prince of Florence. At the same time he was grateful for the patronage of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan and his powerful condottiere Francesco Sforza and he was not above lavishing flattery upon them and other powerful figures such as Alfonso of Aragon the ruler of Naples. Philelphus studied in Padua and was teaching in Venice before he was 20 years old. That republic sent him on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople where he learned Greek and married the daughter of a Greek scholar. Later he served the emperor Sigismund as a diplomat and by 1429 he had migrated to Florence where at first he was popular as a teacher of literature. His temper however was his undoing and he quarrelled bitterly with his fellow humanist Poggio as well as Cosimo de' Medici. By 1439 he was forced to take his teaching skills to Milan penning an epic Sforziade in honor of Francesco Sforza who rose to the position of duke after the death of Visconti. After Sforza's death in 1466 Philelphus now in his old age recommenced his wandering life teaching in Rome Siena and Pavia before returning to Florence to die in poverty. $28000
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