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| [APPIANI ALEXANDRINI ROMANARUM HISTORIARUM] [APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA]. Historia romana. [And:] De bellis civilibus. [Translated from Greek into Latin by Petrus Candidas Decembrius]
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(Venice: Bernard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477) 2 volumes. First complete edition of the surviving portions of Appian's History of Rome (As a matter of note, Part II only, De bellis civilibus, was printed by Vindelinus de Spira in 1472) Roman letter. Thirty-two lines, printed marginalia. Four-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part I printed in red, three-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part II printed in black, both possibly by Bernhard Maler. Nine- and five-line white-on-black woodcut initials. Headlines consisting of book numbers or titles supplied erratically. Large quarto volumes (10 15/16 x 8 inches; 278 x 204 mm.) , early twentieth-century English niger morocco. Covers panelled in gilt, gilt-lettered spines with raised bands, turn-ins ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. [132] and [212] leaves. Complete with both initial blanks. A superb copy of this typographical masterpiece. Volume I with two wormholes to lower blank margin of last few leaves and light dampstaining to last two leaves (o9-o10). Volume II with short repaired tear to lower corner of initial blank leaf and small stain to leaves h8-h10. Occasional minor dampstaining to extreme lower margins, scattered light marginal foxing, mainly in Volume II. Ink presentation inscription from Joachim Erckstede to Dr. Valentin de Teteleben (dated November 1522) on verso of final leaf in Volume I and on recto of initial blank leaf in Volume II. A few contemporary ink marginalia in Book II of De bellis civilibus. Bookplate of William Harrison Woodward. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. A SUPERB COPY OF THIS TYPOGRAPHICAL MASTERPIECE. The third book from Ratdolt's press at Venice. The translator's division of the extant books into two parts differs slightly in its order from the Greek originals. He dedicated the first part to Pope Nicholas V and the second part to Alfonso, King of Aragon and the Two Sicilies. Book III (Parthicus) in Part I of this and the following editions is a Byzantine compilation. The lower part of c1 verso (eleven lines) and all of c2 recto in Part I were left blank by the printers to indicate a gap in Appian1s manuscript, with a printed marginal note to that effect. These volumes represent the earliest example of the use of a fully-developed woodcut border in a Venetian book. Ratdolt's first border, a three-sided, simple black-on-white title designed for the Calendarium of 1476, is composed of fairly conventional plants growing out of vases. The borders for the Historia romana and De bellis civilibus, by contrast, are scrolling white vines and acanthus leaves, full and lush, black-on-white (in some copies, red-on-white), with a medallion for the owner1s arms in the lower edge. Ratdolt's initial letters, which replaced the illuminated or rubricated initials, are also of the utmost importance in the history of book-decoration (see Hind, A History of Woodcut, II, pp. 459-462). THIS COPY IS ONE OF A FEW IN WHICH THE FIRST WOODCUT BORDER IS PRINTED IN RED. In most copies both borders were printed in black. The partnership of the printers Erhard Ratdolt and Bernhard Maler and the corrector and editor Peter Löslein lasted from 1476 to 1478. The exceptional beauty of the books printed at their press is characterized by the use of a series of very fine woodcut borders and initials along with a strikingly clear and pleasing roman type. Although traditionally credited to Ratdolt, the design of the woodblocks and possibly of the type is more likely to have been the work of Bernhard Maler, the painter, who was in charge of the press. When Ratdolt set up his own press in 1480, he apparently brought only one of the border blocks with him, the one that appears in Part II of the present work, which he used again for the 1482 Euclid. The border used in Part I appears in this edition only. "To my mind there are few printed books of any age which can be compared with the Appian of 1477, with its splendid black ink, its vellum-like paper, and the finished excellency of its typography" (Redgrave).
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MORETTE Jean
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| LES GRANDS LORRAINS VUS PAR FANCHETTE
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- METZ, Le Républicain Lorrain, Gd IN4 Br., ouvrage en feuillets non reliés, sous chemise souple ornée d'une illustration en couleurs d'après un dessin de Jean MORETTE, titre imprimé en rouge et bleuAvant propos de Marguerite PUHL-DEMANGEExemplaire orné de 22 planches in plano illustrées d'après des dessins originaux et texte de Jean MORETTE :- L'Elixir à remonter le temps- Casicos- Lupio Eustachio- Brunehaut, reine d'Austrasie- Charlemagne- Prény- Pierre Perrat, Maître masson - Comment maître Pierre Perrat trompa le Diable- 1477- Jeanne d'Arc- François de Guise et le Siège de Metz- Le Maréchal Fabert- Jacques Callot- Georges de la Tour- Ligier Richier 1500-1566- Jean Lamour- Chevert- Pilatre de Rozier- Lasalle- Ney- A l'Ecole de nos Grand-mères- LyauteyTrès bel exemplaire, ouvrage rare en bel état de fraîcheur
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HEROLT, Johannes, O. P.
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| INCUNABLE] SERMONES DISCIPULI DE TEMPORE ET DE SANTIS CUM PROMPTUARIO EXEMPLORUM ET DE MIRACULIS B. MARIAE VIRGINIS. [Parte III]: PROMPTUARIUM EXEMPLORUM.
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- Infolio. Enc. en piel sobre tabla, (expertamente restaurada de antiguo) sin los cierres. Planos ornados en frío con filetes rectos y hierros monásticos (aguilas losanje en rombos, lises y "agnus dei" redondos), lomera con cuatro nervios restaurada, guardas modernas. [174 ff.] en dos columnas de 36 líneas. [Colonia. Ulrich Zell, 25 de marzo de 1477] Tercera parte, completa en sí misma, de un voluminoso manual en 4 partes para el uso de los predicadores, por el teólogo dominico alemán Johann Herolt (1380-1468). No se conocen más que cuatro ejemplares completos de las cuatro partes (2 en París, 1 en Colonia y 1 en Göttingen). Bello ejemplar con grandes márgenes, enteramente rubricado en rojo con las capitulares ocupando los márgenes.Según notas manuscritas antiguas en una hoja suelta que acompaña al ejemplar y manuscritas por el librero de Gante del siglo XIX C. Vyt este ejemplar proviene de la Abadía de Saint-Bavon en Gante.Ref. ISTC ih0099000 (C: 13 ejemplares sólamente de esta parte aquí descrita) - GW 12342 (III) - Goff H-99 (B) - Polain 1890 (1: Bollandistes) - Vouillème Köln 564 - No poseen esta obra BCM, IDL, IGI, BSB München, Sheehan Vaticana, Walsh Harvard.
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Quinby, Jane; Allan Stevenson; Rachel
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| Catalogue of Botanical Booksin the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, 3 Vols.; The Hunt Botanical Catalogue
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The Hunt Botanical Library, Pittsburgh - Three volumes (vol. I, 1477-1700; vol. II, introduction to 1701-1800; vol. III, 1701-1800). Published 1958, 1961, 1961. Cloth hardbounds, 517 + ccxliv + 655, clean unmarked texts. All three volumes about near fine with very minor rubbing to edges. All three volumes signed and with the small bookplate of Gavin Bridson, a major bibliographer at Hunt Library. With a review laid in. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]
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Torquemada, Juan de
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| Questiones euangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis.
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Juan Schurener de Bopardia, 1477, 30 de abril, Roma: - 238 hojas de 240, sin la primera y la última blancas. Signaturas [a-o10, p8, q-z10, r12]. 39 lineas en letra romana del tipo 101 R2. Ejemplar completamente rubricado con dos grandes iniciales en oro y colores azul, rojo y verde, con extensiones en los márgenes y una miniatura de la Cruz con los instrumentos de la Pasión también pintada contemporáneamente. Encuadernado en plena piel del siglo xix. Anotaciones marginales de época, algunas cortadas. Algunas manchas antiguas de óxido y de suciedad difusa. Palau 334978. Copinger 5891. Goff T-544. BMC iv, 58. IBE 5676. Obispo Vertue, Stonyhurst College, sello en las hojas de respeto del principio y fin. Primera edición.Las exposiciones sobre el Evangelio fueron fundamentales en la oratoria sagrada del siglo xv. El Cardenal Torquemada, nacido en Valladolid y una de las figuras políticas más importantes del siglo xv, fue impulsor de concilios y reconciliador de las iglesias cristianas después de la caída de Constantinopla; fue también la figura cumbre para la introducción de la imprenta en Roma hacia 1465.
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JOHANNES ,Chrisostomus.
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| Opuscola.
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4° ( 203x145 mm ).48 carte anticamente numerate a penna ( a-f 8 ).Caratteri romani,28 linee,le iniziali guida rubricate in rosso.Qualche occasionale lieve macchia o gora al margine alto interno di poche carte.Vitello moderno impresso a freddo in stile del Roma ( Ulrich Han ), 1477 circa incunable Edizione principe.E' composto di sei libri:De Penitentia,Tractatus super Psalmum quinquagesimum,Exortatio ad martyrium,Libellus de ve mundo à scandalis-De morte oratio-De virtute et malicia.Giovanni " dalla bella bocca", di Antiochia,uno dei Padri della C
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Quinby, Jane; Allan Stevenson; Rachel
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| Catalogue of Botanical Booksin the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, 3 Vols.; The Hunt Botanical Catalogue
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Pittsburgh: The Hunt Botanical Library. H Cloth. Near Fine. Three volumes (vol. I, 1477-1700; vol. II, introduction to 1701-1800; vol. III, 1701-1800). Published 1958, 1961, 1961. Cloth hardbounds, 517 + ccxliv + 655, clean unmarked texts. All three volumes about near fine with very minor rubbing to edges. All three volumes signed and with the small bookplate of Gavin Bridson, a major bibliographer at Hunt Library. With a review laid in.
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Barante, M De.
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| HISTOIRE DES DUCS DE BOURGOGNE: DE LA MAISON DE VALOIS 1364-1477.
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No date Furne et Cle - TEXT IN FRENCH. The celebrated and often reissued main work by the French statesman, historian, and political writer Prosper de Brasant. A liberal representative under the Bourbon restoration he became one of the leading members of the narrative school of Romanticist historians who portraye historical episodes with high literary style and in the vivid and intimate manner of a reportage of current events. French. Hard Cover. Book - Good, wear to extremities, quarto leather bound, gilt titles on spine. 9x6. B/w line illus tissue guarded frontis. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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NOTITIA DIGNITATUM].
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| NOTITIA UTRAQUE cum orientis tum occidentis ultra Arcadii Honoriique Caesarum tempora . Praecedit . Andreae Alciati libellus, De magistratib. civilibusq; ac militaribus officijs . cui succedit descriptio urbis Romae, quae sub titulo Pub. Victoris circumfertur: & altera urbis Constantinopolitanae incerto autore. Sub iungitur Noticijs vetustus liber De Rebus Bellicis . Item . Disputatio Adriani Aug. & Epicteti philosophi. Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1552. 7 parts in 1. Folio. With printer's device on title and verso last leaf, foliated and historiated woodcut initials, c. 106 woodcut illustrations (91 full-page, 10 half-page, 5 small ones), 1 double-page topographical map of Rome. Old vellum-backed boards.
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- (108) ll. Adams N-354; BMC STC German, p. 747; Brunet IV, col. 111; Graesse IV, p. 691; Machiels N-689; Rosenwald 909; Wellcome 4582; NBG XX, cols. 373-374.First edition of this collection of works on the classical world, edited by Sigismund Gelenius (1477-1554). The fifth and largest work, Notitia, is an almanac with a survey of the offices, officials and other aspects of the governmental organization in the eastern and western part of the Roman Empire till the time of the emperors Arcadius (Constantinople; 383-408) and Honorius (Rome; 393-423). It was composed c. 408. The editor Gelenius found this work in old and rare manuscripts. They may all be derived from one manuscript in Speyer, which has since been lost (Graesse). The woodcut illustrations show insignias, official badges, coins, and allegorical depictions of cities and countries. The present volume also contains Beatus Rhenanus's Illyrici provinciarum utrique imperio cum romano tum constantinopolitano seruientis, descriptio (with two nice woodcut views of Rome and Constantinople), and Andrea Alciatus's Iuris consulti, de magistratibus, civilibusque et militaribus officijs. Alciatus is followed by a double-page map of Rome by Johannes Oporinus, dated 1551. De Rebus Bellicis is accompanied by attractive illustrations of chariots, engines of war, and other weapons. The final tract, a dialogue between the Emperor Hadrian and the philosopher Epictetus is opened by a full-page woodcut of both men engaged in a discussion.The present copy is the first edition. It was reprinted several times and each of these editions contains additions and omissions. Some occasional soiling; a good copy.
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Johannes de Verdena.
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| Sermones Dormi secure de tempore.
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[Nürnberg, Friedrich Creussner, zwischen 1477 und 1483]. - Fol. Got. Typ., durchg. rubriziert u. mit zahlr. eingemalten Initialen in Rot. 152 Bll. (ohne das erste u. letzte weiße), Mod. HPgmt. Frühe und seltene Ausgabe dieser Predigtsammlung, die in einem Zeitraum von fast 100 Jahren nahezu 90 Auflagen erlebte. Der Kompilator dieser „Predigten des ruhigen Schlafes", Johannes de Verdena, war ein Franziskanermönch aus Westfalen (lebte um 1300). - Das erste Bl. unten u. am rechten Rand bis an den Satzblock verstärkt. Die ersten Bll. im Falz verstärkt. Durchg. einige zeitgen. Marginalien. Tlw. etw. fleckig. Einige kl. Wurmöcher im weißen Rand. - Hain C 5976; IGI 5370; IBP 3252; Sajó-Soltész 1961; Voulliéme, Berlin 1829,5; Borm 1602; Proctor 2176; BMC II, 452; BSB-Ink I-540; ISTC No: ij00444500 (nur 1 Exemplar in den USA).
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Nicolaus de Lyra [Heinrich von
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| Preceptorium Nicolai de Lira ordinis seraphici francisci sive expositio tripharia brevis et utilis in decalogum legis divine
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[Johann Landen] 1477 [1497?], Cologne - 8vo (14 x 10cm), 88 unnumbered leaves. Rubricated initials throughout, woodcut medallions on verso of final leaf. Title page somewhat darkened, notation on verso of title page, subsequently scribbled out (both in brown ink, old hand). Modern leather binding, very slightly scuffed, title in gilt and embossed leaf ornaments at spine, blind ruling on front and back, all edges stained red. Two leaves (L1 and L6) with minor marginal repairs to paper, text not affected. Near fine condition overall. Hain 10401, ISTC no. 00144400 (According to ISTC, the author is Heinrich von Freimar, but the work is traditionally attributed to Nicolaus de Lyra. ) [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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BARANTE (A. G. P. Brugière, Baron
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| Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de Valois
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- (1346-1477) Paris, Ladvocat, 1824-1826, 13 vol. in 8º. pl. veau raciné époque, dos lisse orné, p.de t. rouges, tr. jaunes, qq. coiffes usées et qq. petites taches, nombreuses rousseurs sinon reste un bon exemplaire bien complet du volume de table. (ex-libris Biblioth. de Cirey). Edition originale. Philippe le hardi, Jean sans peur, Philippe le bon, Charles le téméraire, Marie de Bourgogne. Brunet I.643 "Cet ouvrage interessant appartient à la nouvelle école historique qui, comme on sait, se rapproche beaucoup de la manière de notre excellent chroniqueur Froissart" - Saffroy nº10761 "C'est une oeuvre écrite avec scrupule et honnêteté" - Vicaire I.283. [Attributes: First Edition]
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Platea, Franciscus
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| Opus restitutionum
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PLATEA [PIAZZA], Franciscus de. Opus restitutionum usuarum et excomunicationum edita per venerabilem Dominvm Fratrem Franciscvm de Platea Ordinis Minorvm. [colophon: ] Venice, Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Mathen, 22 January 1477. A fine unsophisticated copy of an incunable edition of the first printed book to deal with economics. Platea's Opus restitutionum, first printed in 1472 is the first, and earliest, book in the Goldsmith and Kress catalogues respectively. Platea, (also known as Fra Francesco Piazza) (?-1460), a Professor of law at the University of Bologna and a well-known and acclaimed preacher, includes a detailed discussion of monetary questions, the taking of interest and usury in this treatise on canon law. The first part of the Opus Restitutionum deals with the return of illicit gains. Also discussed are commercial transactions under a variety of different legal circumstances, such as two creditors competing for the spoils of one debtor. The second part concentrates on usury, which, as in all canon law, denotes not just high interest but all interest. Platea is firmly aligned within the church authorities in his condemnation of usury. The final section, De Excommunicationes deals with the judicial exclusion of offenders from the rights and privileges of the Christian community.The printers de Colonia and Mathen had already published an earlier edition of Platea's popular work in 1474. Chancery 4to, (200 x 151 mm), ll. [152] including initial and final blank; in double columns, printed in Gothic letter, with initial spaces, some with guide letters; a few leaves with insignificant marginal dampstaining, some dust-soiling; contemporary full vellum, out of a fifteenth century rubricated legal manuscript leaf, some wear to spine with splits, and worm hole to upper cover; early manuscript ownership inscription of ?Davitis, and a few contemporary marginal annotations; a fresh unsophisticated copy in a contemporary binding. Bodleian Library XVth Century Books, P-337; Hain-Copinger 13040; BMC V, 227; Goff P-758; Proctor 4312A; Walsh 1695; see Goldsmiths'-Kress 1 for first edition.
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Bonaventura
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| Scriptum super secundum Sententiarum.[edito da Thomas Pencket]
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religione - incunabolo, Venezia 1477 - In-folio (291x202 mm), [336] c., la prima bianca. Carattere gotico (77 G), testo su due colonne di 50 linee, spazi per iniziali con letterine guida. Alla prima carta di testo una grande iniziale su venti linee in rosso e verde, tutto il testo rubricato con iniziali di diversa grandezza. Legatura inglese dei primi anni del XX secolo in marocchino bordeaux, i piatti inquadrati da una decorazione geometrica impressa a secco, dorso a quattro nervi con titolo in oro. Provenienza: Monastero di Botendale (iscrizione del XV secolo alla prima carta); Marburg (nota alla prima carta); Albert Herman (monogramma); Willialm Foyle (ex libris). Bell’esemplare, le prime e le ultime carte presentano nei margini qualche foro di tarlo anticamente riparato, uno strappo nel margine bianco della carta g2, qualche postilla di mano coeva. Abrasioni ai piatti e agli angoli della legatura. Seconda edizione, uscita a brevissima distanza dalla prima (Treviso 1477), del commento di San Bonaventura al secondo libro delle sentenze di Pietro Lombardo. Composti intorno al 1150 i Libri Sententiarum di Pietro Lombardo rappresentano uno dei testi più importanti della teologia medioevale costituendo, almeno fino alla fine del XVI, quando verranno sostituiti dalla Summa di San Tommaso, la principale base dell’insegnamento teologico. L’opera, la prima a racchiudere in un contesto organico e sistematico l’intero materiale dogmatico, ricchissima di citazioni tratte non solo dai Padri della Chiesa ma anche dai teologi contemporanei,– Pietro fu uno dei primi ad utilizzare ampiamente il Decretum di Graziano e il De fide ortodoxa di Giovanni Damasceno nella nuovissima traduzione di Burgundio da Pisa oltre alle opere di Abelardo e Ugo da San Vittore – si articola in quattro libri: nel primo si tratta dell’unità e trinità di Dio, il secondo contiene la dottrina degli angeli e della loro caduta, la creazione dell’uomo e del peccato originale oltre ad un ampia parte relativa al peccato in genere, il terzo tratta del ritorno dell’uomo a Dio per mezzo di Gesù fattosi uomo e il quarto si occupa dei sacramenti. Le Sentenze di Pietro Lombardo verranno commentate tra gli altri da San Tommaso, San Alberto Magno e John Dun Scotus; il commento di Bonaventura, composto fra il 1250 e il 1254, è concordemente ritenuto il più completo. Rinaldo di Novimagio, originario di Nijmegen in Olanda iniziò la propria attività a Venezia nel 1477 in collaborazione con il compatriota Teodoro de Reynsburch; insieme stamparono solo sei libri utilizzando due differenti tipi di caratteri gotici. Dal 1478 Rinaldo di Novimagio, sciolta la società, continuò a stampare da solo fino ad ottobre del 1495; in questo lungo periodo in cui l’attività fu più volte interrotta, provò a dedicarsi anche alla pubblicazione di autori classici utilizzando caratteri romani, esperimento questo di scarso successo se, nel breve volgere di due anni, Novimagio tornò ad utilizzare esclusivamente caratteri gotici e a stampare autori "moderni". IGI 1885; GW 4659; BMC V, 254.
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Lucano, Marco Aneo.
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| Pharsalia.
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Guerinus, 1477, 14 de mayo, Venecia: - 119 folios, sin la última blanca. Signaturas *2, a-o8, p6. 35 lineas. Tipo 114 R. Magníficos márgenes. Ejemplar suavemente lavado.Bella encuadernacion del siglo xix en pleno marroquín granate con hierros dorados y secos en lomo y planos, filetes y ruedas en cantos y contracantos. Cortes dorados. Firmada Trautz-Bauzonnet. Hain & Copinger 10233*. Goff L-296. BMC V 252; BSB-Ink L-230. CIBN L-231. IGI 5813. IBE 3565, sólo 1 ejemplar completo, en la Biblioteca de la Duquesa de Alba. En la guarda ex-libris "Es-Museo Double Bello ejemplar. Esta edición de Lucano es la única producción del impresor Guerinus en que consta su nombre. La Farsalia de Lucano (Córdoba, 39 - Roma, 65) es el primer éxito editorial escrito por un hispano. Antes que las obras de su paisano Séneca, esta historia vio la tinta por primera vez en 1469 y se reeditó en al menos 22 ocasiones hasta 1500, viendo la época incunable incluso una refundición en francés y otra en italiano. Para muchos historiadores es quizá le mejor descripición de la época de Julio César (aparte, claro, la que hace el propio emperador). [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Dante [Alighieri]
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| DIVINA COMMEDIA]; [THE DIVINE COMEDY with the supposed commentary of Benvenuto da Imola]. (Incipit:) Qui comincia la vita e costumi dello excellente poeta vulgari Dante Alighieri di Firenze honore e gloria delidioma fiorentino.
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Venice Vindelinus de Spira 1477 - First edition with commentary of the Divine Comedy and the fifth overall and probably the earliest obtainable printing. Folio, antique, but later calf over boards, probably of the early 19th or very late period of the 18th century. The spine panel ruled and decorated in blind, lettered in blind. A pleasing copy, generously margined, this copy textually complete containing the complete COMMEDIA as printed as well as the additional Dante material, but without the preliminary introductory materials concerning the author, as is sometimes the case. Antique calligraphy to the lower foredge as would be typical in the Renaissance. VERY RARE AND OF THE GREATEST IMPORTANCE. First edition of the Divine Comedy with commentary and the fifth absolute. The present edition, printed by Vindelinus who also printed the Petrarca, shows his clear intention of publishing the great Italian authors and considering them at the same level as the traditional Latin ones. In fact, the text of the Divine Comedy is proposed together with BenvenutoÕs commentary, though in reality the author was Iacopo della Lana. At the end of the poem we also find the Credo, some poems of Busone da Gubbio, a sonnet, wrongly ascribed to Boccaccio by the tradition, and another sonnet having the function of colophon, ascribed to the editor Cristoforo Berardi da Pesaro. So this can be considered the first edition of DanteÕs great poem published with historical and didactic purpose. The gothic type used by Vindelinus bears witness to the reference of the printer to the manuscript tradition and to the printed tradition of religious works. It is interesting to note that, even as the adjective ÔdivineÕ would be utilized to define the poem in the edition of 1555 by Giolito, in the ordinary final sonnet the word appears referring to the poet himself ("inclito e divo Dante"). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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INCUNABULA. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of
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| De Civitate Dei.
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Mathias Moravus, Naples. . 1477 - Folio (266 x 209 mm), a8 b10; a-z10 aa-dd10, 298 leaves, a1, b10, dd10 blank, (this copy wanting the three blank leaves), 43 lines to the page, spaces for initials with printed guide-letters, a wide-margin copy, a few wormholes at beginning and end, 4 leaves repaired in margins just reaching text, nineteenth century blue polished calf, embossed in blind within gilt roll-tooled border, spine elaborately gilt in six compartments, a nice copy. Floral border on the inner margin on (2)a1 recto at the beginning of the text of Book I, with flowers in blue and dark pink, green leaves, extended with gold balls. Eight-line Initial I in gold on a squared background of pink and blue with small white penwork decoration. The beginning of each of the 21 following books is marked with a 6-line initial in gold with infills in pink, blue or green, all with white penwork decoration. The gold initial marking the beginning of Book XXI (aa 5 verso) is not filled in with colour. The painted initials are protected with tissue paper, probably inserted at the time of the present binding. Within the books each chapter is marked with a 3-line plain initial, alternating in red and blue. Comparison with other work by Mathias Moravus yields strong arguments for assuming that the illumination and decoration were carried out in his printing house. (see below). Some early notes, partly erased or washed. There are no marks of early ownership. After the colophon the figures '7,1 - 6 -' are written in a hand of the nineteenth, possibly late eighteenth century. This is probably the notation of a price in pounds, shillings and pence, indicating the presence of this volume in the British Isles at this time. The elegant binding does not contradict this. On the verso of the first fly-leaf the bookplate of Charles and Mary Lacaita and their children, Selham, Sussex. Charles Carmichael Lacaita, Liberal MP for Dundee and botanist (1853-1933) was the only son of Sir James Philip Lacaita (1813-95), a Neapolitan lawyer and statesman, for a long time living in exile in England (ODNB). The elder Lacaita was a scholar and had a reputation as an excellent bibliographer. Presumably he was the buyer of this book associated with his home-town, and it was later owned by his son and his family. On several points the present book, its printer, its type, as well as its illumination are remarkable witnesses to the movement of craftsmen, their materials, and their stylistic traditions over Europe in the first decades after the invention of printing. Such movement existed already in the world of scribal traditions, but was exponentially accelerated once books were multiplied in print. Book production became a veritable melting pot of influences: printers and artists adapted to new environments while at the same time maintaining skills and styles brought from elsewhere. This can well be shown in the present volume. The text, St Augustine's De Civitate Dei, was, and still is, one of the most widely read patristic texts; the plain text was ten years earlier printed at the Benedictine abbey of Subiaco among the first books printed in Italy, and this version was steadily reprinted in Rome and Venice. The present edition is the eighth in this sequence, and both the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke and BMC note that it is a page-for page reprint of the edition printed in Venice in 1475 by Gabriele di Pietro. Meanwhile a version with the commentary of Thomas Waleys was printed from 1468 in Strasbourg, Mainz and Basel. The Naples edition does not follow the layout of its exemplar, which was printed over two columns, but by printing it with long lines the book was given a more humanistic character. The type, however, resembled that used for its model, and also a type Mathias Moravus had used himself for the two books he printed in 1474 in Genoa before moving to Naples. It is a 'fere-humanistica' appropriate for this kind of texts and for classics, and economical in use. After Moravus used it in Napl [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Naples Mathias Moravus 1477 In-4 de 296 ff. (sur 298, sans le 1er et le dernier ff. blancs, le f. b10 blanc est présent); maroquin rouge, dos à nerfs orné, encad. doré avec fleurons d'angle, dent. sur les coupes et int., tr. dorées (Reliure du XVIIIe siècle). Goff, A-1237; BMC, VI, 862; Pellechet, 1552; Polain B, 361; GW, 2881. Belle édition, la huitième de la Cité de Dieu, qui copie l'édition publiée à Venise en 1475, par G. di Pietro. Après avoir publié un ouvrage à Gênes avec Michael de Monacho, l'imprimeur Mathias Moravus s'installa à Naples à partir de 1475 et ce jusqu'à la fin de 1491. Il utilise ici un petit caractère encore très proche de celui de Gênes. Exemplaire entièrement rubriqué en rouge et bleu; en-tête du texte, initiale enluminée à l'or et enluminures de rinceaux et feuillages sur trois côtés, avec, dans la marge inférieure deux anges en demi-teinte portant un blason au soleil d'or, non identifié. On a placé en tête du volume un titre imprimé postérieur, du même ouvrage. Quelques notes manuscrites de l'époque dans les marges; jeu de plume dans la marge inférieure de 5 feuillets et encadrement à la plume assez maladroit en tête de la table des matières; deux réparations en marge, salissures à quelques feuillets, mais dans l'ensemble très bon exemplaire. Ex-libris manuscrit Come du Guidi (1836) et ex-libris gravé A. Brölemann.
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| [APPIANI ALEXANDRINI ROMANARUM HISTORIARUM] [APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA]. Historia romana. [And:] De bellis civilibus. [Translated from Greek into Latin by Petrus Candidas Decembrius]
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Venice Bernard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Lšslein 1477 2 volumes. First complete edition of the surviving portions of AppianÕs History of Rome (As a matter of note, Part II only, De bellis civilibus, was printed by Vindelinus de Spira in 1472) Roman letter. Thirty-two lines, printed marginalia. Four-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part I printed in red, three-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part II printed in black, both possibly by Bernhard Maler. Nine- and five-line white-on-black woodcut initials. Headlines consisting of book numbers or titles supplied erratically. Large quarto volumes (10 15/16 x 8 inches; 278 x 204 mm.) , early twentieth-century English niger morocco. Covers panelled in gilt, gilt-lettered spines with raised bands, turn-ins ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. [132] and [212] leaves. Complete with both initial blanks. A superb copy of this typographical masterpiece. Volume I with two wormholes to lower blank margin of last few leaves and light dampstaining to last two leaves (o9-o10). Volume II with short repaired tear to lower corner of initial blank leaf and small stain to leaves h8-h10. Occasional minor dampstaining to extreme lower margins, scattered light marginal foxing, mainly in Volume II. Ink presentation inscription from Joachim Erckstede to Dr. Valentin de Teteleben (dated November 1522) on verso of final leaf in Volume I and on recto of initial blank leaf in Volume II. A few contemporary ink marginalia in Book II of De bellis civilibus. Bookplate of William Harrison Woodward. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. A SUPERB COPY OF THIS TYPOGRAPHICAL MASTERPIECE. The third book from RatdoltÕs press at Venice. The translatorÕs division of the extant books into two parts differs slightly in its order from the Greek originals. He dedicated the first part to Pope Nicholas V and the second part to Alfonso, King of Aragon and the Two Sicilies. Book III (Parthicus) in Part I of this and the following editions is a Byzantine compilation. The lower part of c1 verso (eleven lines) and all of c2 recto in Part I were left blank by the printers to indicate a gap in Appian1s manuscript, with a printed marginal note to that effect.
These volumes represent the earliest example of the use of a fully-developed woodcut border in a Venetian book. RatdoltÕs first border, a three-sided, simple black-on-white title designed for the Calendarium of 1476, is composed of fairly conventional plants growing out of vases. The borders for the Historia romana and De bellis civilibus, by contrast, are scrolling white vines and acanthus leaves, full and lush, black-on-white (in some copies, red-on-white), with a medallion for the owner1s arms in the lower edge. RatdoltÕs initial letters, which replaced the illuminated or rubricated initials, are also of the utmost importance in the history of book-decoration (see Hind, A History of Woodcut, II, pp. 459-462).
THIS COPY IS ONE OF A FEW IN WHICH THE FIRST WOODCUT BORDER IS PRINTED IN RED. In most copies both borders were printed in black. The partnership of the printers Erhard Ratdolt and Bernhard Maler and the corrector and editor Peter Lšslein lasted from 1476 to 1478. The exceptional beauty of the books printed at their press is characterized by the use of a series of very fine woodcut borders and initials along with a strikingly clear and pleasing roman type. Although traditionally credited to Ratdolt, the design of the woodblocks and possibly of the type is more likely to have been the work of Bernhard Maler, the painter, who was in charge of the press. When Ratdolt set up his own press in 1480, he apparently brought only one of the border blocks with him, the one that appears in Part II of the present work, which he used again for the 1482 Euclid. The border used in Part I appears in this edition only.
To my mind there are few printed books of any age which can be compared with the Appian of 1477, with its splendid black ink, its vellum-like paper, and the finished excellency of its typography (Redgrave).
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BARANTE (A. G. P. Brugière, Baron
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| Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de Valois
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(1346-1477) Paris, Ladvocat, 1824-1826, 13 vol. in 8°. pl. veau raciné époque, dos lisse orné,, p. de t. rouges, tr. jaunes, qq. coiffes usées et qq. petites taches, nombreuses rousseurs sinon reste un bon exemplaire bien complet du volume de table. (ex-libris Biblioth. de Cirey) Edition originale. Philippe le hardi, Jean sans peur, Philippe le bon, Charles le téméraire, Marie de Bourgogne. ¦ Brunet I.643 "Cet ouvrage interessant appartient à la nouvelle école historique qui, comme on sait, se rapproche beaucoup de la manière de notre excellent chroniqueur Froissart" - Saffroy n°10761 "C'est une ïuvre écrite avec scrupule et honnêteté" - Vicaire I.283.
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PLUTARCH.
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[Trans. By Joannes Petrus Lucensis & edited by Joannes Calphurnius]. 66 leaves, 23 lines, Roman & Greek letter, one 5-line initial space. 4to (197 x 144 mm.), late 18th cent. green half-sheep & marbled boards, flat spine gilt. [Venice]: D. de Siliprandis, [ca. 1477]. First edition and one of only two books known from this press. The only other book issued by this press is an edition of Petrarch's Canzoniere completed not earlier than 8 May 1477. The translator, Gianpietro d'Avenza (d. 1457), was professor of literature at Lucca. In a notice to the reader, the editor Calphurnius (d. 1503), explains that certain blank portions in the text are due to the incompleteness of the Greek manuscript. This is a Latin translation of Plutarch's Quaestiones Romanae, in which Plutarch attempts to explain 113 Roman customs, the majority of which deal with social and religious matters. The original Greek text was published much later. Fine copy with some contemporary annotations in the margins. First five leaves with a small marginal wormhole neatly filled-in. Goff B-828. Klebs 788.1.
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SADOLETO, Jacopo.
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| Epistolarum libri sexdecim.Lyon, heirs of Sebastian Gryphius, 1560. 8vo. Title-page with woodcut publisher's device, and a different Gryphius device on the last leaf. With 19 decorative woodcut initials from two series. Sixteenth-century blind and gold-tooled calf.
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- 716, (2) pp. Adams S-65; BMC STC French, p. 389; OCLC WorldCat (6 copies).A collection of letters in sixteen chapters by the bishop of Carpentras, the Italian Humanist and Maecenas Jacopo Sadoleto (1477-1547), to various abbots, bishops, archbishops and cardinals, as well as prominent lay people. Amongst these are famous names such as Alexander Farnese and Francesco Guicciardini. The letters are followed by a letter to Sadoleto's nephew Paul Sadoleto and a short biography. Much of Sadoleto's correspondence discusses possibilities to mediate between the Catholic Church and early Protestants through Counter-Reformation measures. He was condemned by prominent members of the clergy for his eagerness to reach a theological compromise, but the Pope appreciated Sadoleto's efforts and appointed him a member of an early Counter-Reformation commission. With an index listing the recipients of the letters. With several early owners' inscriptions -- including "Petri Stellæ et amicor," that is Pierre de l'Estoile (1546-1611), who shared the author's tolerant Catholicism, and his friends -- and several library stamps. A good copy. Binding rubbed and spine tattered, with a clumsy repair. An interesting collection of letters by an early agent of the Counter-Reformation.
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[PSALMBOOK - LATIN]. SNOYGOUDANUS,
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| Psalterium Paraphrasibus illustratum, servata ubique ad verbum Hieronymi translatione... Magni Athanasij Opusculum in Psalmos. Lyon, Jean and François Frellon (colophon: printed by Jean Barbou), 1542. 8vo. With woodcut engraved printer's device on title. Later half calf.
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491, (5) pp. Baudrier V, p. 187; BMC STC French, p. 59; De Graaf, Bibliographies of Dutch Humanists II, no. 13. Lyonese edition of Snoygoudanus's famous paraphrase of Book of Psalms. Reynerus Snoygoudanus (c. 1477-1537) came from a wealthy family in Gouda. After a brief career as a physician (he had a doctor's degree from the University of Bologna) and a magistrate in his hometown, he devoted his life to theological studies. In the present work, Snoygoudanus alternated the biblical text of the Book of Psalms, based on the Vulgate and printed in roman type, with additional explanatory phrases, printed in italic type. The work was finished in June 1533 (see end of preface) and first published in Antwerp in 1535 by Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten. It became hugely popular, going through numerous editions. The Magni Athanasij in Psalmos opusculum , written by Athanasius is often printed with Snoygoudanus's work. It was translated into Latin by Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494). Erased ownership entry on title, ownership entry first endleaf; some minor wormholes, in a few leaves very slightly affecting text, some leaves misnumbered; binding slightly rubbed and top of spine damaged; new endpapers. A good and clean copy of this famous paraphrase of the Book of Psalms.
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Augsburg, Günther Zainer, 1477, Type 2.. Drei zweispaltige, 51-zeilige Original-Inkunabelblätter (40 x 27,5 cm), mit Wurmlöchern und etwas fingerfleckig, erstes Blatt mit Eckfehlstelle und dem Wasserzeichen "neun-blättrige Blume". Blattzählung auf der Vorder- und Rückseite. Incunabula text leafs.. Die drei aufeinanderfolgenden Bibelblätter aus der Offenbarung entstammen der sechsten Deutschen Bibel. "Durch Günther Zainer von Reutlingen ist die Kunst des Buchdruck nach Augsburg verpflanzt worden. ... Seine zweite Schriftart ist eine Urtype, d. h. sie ist nicht im Anschluss an eine bereits für den Buchdruck verwendete Schriftart entworfen, sondern nach handschriftlichen Vorbildern gestaltet." (Konrad Haebler, der Deutsche Wiegendruck, 1927, Seite 15).
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Johannes de Verdena.
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| Sermones Dormi secure de tempore.
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[Nürnberg, Friedrich Creussner, zwischen 1477 und 1483].. Fol. Got. Typ., durchg. rubriziert u. mit zahlr. eingemalten Initialen in Rot. 152 Bll. (ohne das erste u. letzte weiße), Mod. HPgmt.. Frühe und seltene Ausgabe dieser Predigtsammlung, die in einem Zeitraum von fast 100 Jahren nahezu 90 Auflagen erlebte. Der Kompilator dieser "Predigten des ruhigen Schlafes", Johannes de Verdena, war ein Franziskanermönch aus Westfalen (lebte um 1300). - Das erste Bl. unten u. am rechten Rand bis an den Satzblock verstärkt. Die ersten Bll. im Falz verstärkt. Durchg. einige zeitgen. Marginalien. Tlw. etw. fleckig. Einige kl. Wurmöcher im weißen Rand. - Hain C 5976; IGI 5370; IBP 3252; Sajo-Soltesz 1961; Voullieme, Berlin 1829,5; Borm 1602; Proctor 2176; BMC II, 452; BSB-Ink I-540; ISTC No: ij00444500 (nur 1 Exemplar in den USA).
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| [APPIANI ALEXANDRINI ROMANARUM HISTORIARUM] [APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA]. Historia romana. [And:] De bellis civilibus. [Translated from Greek into Latin by Petrus Candidas Decembrius]
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(Venice: Bernard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter L slein, 1477). 2 volumes. First complete edition of the surviving portions of Appian's History of Rome (As a matter of note, Part II only, De bellis civilibus, was printed by Vindelinus de Spira in 1472) Roman letter. Thirty-two lines, printed marginalia. Four-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part I printed in red, three-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part II printed in black, both possibly by Bernhard Maler. Nine- and five-line white-on-black woodcut initials. Headlines consisting of book numbers or titles supplied erratically. Large quarto volumes (10 15/16 x 8 inches; 278 x 204 mm.) , early twentieth-century English niger morocco. Covers panelled in gilt, gilt-lettered spines with raised bands, turn-ins ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. [132] and [212] leaves. Complete with both initial blanks. A superb copy of this typographical masterpiece. Volume I with two wormholes to lower blank margin of last few leaves and light dampstaining to last two leaves (o9-o10). Volume II with short repaired tear to lower corner of initial blank leaf and small stain to leaves h8-h10. Occasional minor dampstaining to extreme lower margins, scattered light marginal foxing, mainly in Volume II. Ink presentation inscription from Joachim Erckstede to Dr. Valentin de Teteleben (dated November 1522) on verso of final leaf in Volume I and on recto of initial blank leaf in Volume II. A few contemporary ink marginalia in Book II of De bellis civilibus. Bookplate of William Harrison Woodward..
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DUNS SCOTUS John (1266-1308)
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| QUODLIBETA (1477) [Liber quodlibetorum ]....Uncte res difficiles ait Sal'on. Ec. i. ... - Quaestiones quodlibetales Johannis Duns Scoti, a Thoma Penketh emendatae - [INCUNABLE]
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un volume, reliure XVIIIème plein veau havane raciné moucheté (encre bleue et rouge) et marbré (binding full calfskin) in-folio (19,5x28 centimètres), dos long (spine without raised band) décoré or (gilt decoration) filets or (gilt line) - fers spéciaux (specials blocking stamps) - titre frappé or (gilt title) - tomaison (volume numbering) - 2 pièces de titre sur fond vert foncé (label of title) avec filet or (label of title with gilt line), fers or motif feuillage et roulette or, une pièce pour le titre et l'auteur, une pour la date, plats décorés d'un double filet à froid (with double blind stamping line), roulettes à froid sur les coupes (fillets on the cuts) et dentelle intérieure à froid, tranches lisses (smooth edges) - peignées (painting edges) bleu sombre, gouttière rognée (fore-edge smooth), texte 2 colonnes (text - 2 coloumns) , sans illustration (no illustration) mais trés finement orné de deux belles lettrines en rouge et bleu clair en première page, des lettrines en rouge et des petites lettres manuscrites en rouge parsemées dans le texte (ms. hand. Part of the capitals and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue), impression Gothique sur 2 colonnes de 51 lignes, la pagination par feuillet est aussi notée en rouge à la main, colophon, Signatures: a10 b-e8 f6 2f6 g-k8 l-m10, 1er et dernier feuillet blanc, 104 feuillets index inclus, 1477 Venice: Impens Ioh[ann]is de Colonia socijq[ue] eius Iohanes Manthen, 1477 die 7 mesis Octobris, Thomas Penketh Editeur, (Edited by Thomas Penketh. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: a10 b-e8 f6 2f6 g-k8 l-m10, First and last leaves blank. Includes index.) Texte en latin. Rare INCUNABLE en superbe état...... John Duns Scot (vers 1266 - 1308), surnommé le docteur subtil, théologien et philosophe écossais, fondateur de l’Ecole Scolastique dite "Scotiste".........Scot entra chez les franciscains, qu'il enseigna avec grand succès dans l'université d'Oxford. Sa renommée et ses succès le suivirent dans l'université de Paris ou il enseigna en 1306-1307; de là, par l'ordre de ses supérieurs, il passa à Cologne où il finit ses jours en 1308. La philosophie de Duns Scot est contenue principalement dans ses commentaires sur les livres "De Anima", sur la "Métaphysique d'Aristote" et dans ses "Quodlibet" . Duns Scot étant catholique et religieux, les principales solutions de sa philosophie sont par là même connues. Ce qui caractérise son originalité comme penseur, c'est la critique rigoureuse à laquelle il a soumis les arguments et les théories de ses devanciers, Celui qu'il attaque le plus ordinairement et dont il prend, pour ainsi dire, constamment la contre-partie est saint Thomas d'Aquin.....et Averroès........ John Duns Scot a été canonisé par le Pape Jean Paul 2 en 1993........ Références : Brunet 5 colonne 240, Smithsonian Call Number: BT40 .D92 1477, Hain N°6434, GOFF D-0393, .............Rarissime......et en très bel état (fine condition).
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| [APPIANI ALEXANDRINI ROMANARUM HISTORIARUM] [APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA]. Historia romana. [And:] De bellis civilibus. [Translated from Greek into Latin by Petrus Candidas Decembrius]
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(Venice: Bernard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter L slein, 1477). 2 volumes. First complete edition of the surviving portions of Appian's History of Rome (As a matter of note, Part II only, De bellis civilibus, was printed by Vindelinus de Spira in 1472) Roman letter. Thirty-two lines, printed marginalia. Four-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part I printed in red, three-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part II printed in black, both possibly by Bernhard Maler. Nine- and five-line white-on-black woodcut initials. Headlines consisting of book numbers or titles supplied erratically. Large quarto volumes (10 15/16 x 8 inches; 278 x 204 mm.) , early twentieth-century English niger morocco. Covers panelled in gilt, gilt-lettered spines with raised bands, turn-ins ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. [132] and [212] leaves. Complete with both initial blanks. A superb copy of this typographical masterpiece. Volume I with two wormholes to lower blank margin of last few leaves and light dampstaining to last two leaves (o9-o10). Volume II with short repaired tear to lower corner of initial blank leaf and small stain to leaves h8-h10. Occasional minor dampstaining to extreme lower margins, scattered light marginal foxing, mainly in Volume II. Ink presentation inscription from Joachim Erckstede to Dr. Valentin de Teteleben (dated November 1522) on verso of final leaf in Volume I and on recto of initial blank leaf in Volume II. A few contemporary ink marginalia in Book II of De bellis civilibus. Bookplate of William Harrison Woodward..
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| Psalterium, Paraphrasibus illustratum, servataubique adverbum Hieronymi translatione. Magni Athanasij opusculum in Psalmos. Paris, Vivant Gaultherot (colophon: printed by P. de la Vidoue), 1540. 8vo. Title-page with woodcut architectural border. Modern half vellum.
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- 468, (4) pp. De Graaf, Bibliographies of Dutch Humanists II, no. 10 (edition divided between L'Angelier, Foucher and Gaultherot); not in Adams, BMC STC French. Parisian edition of Snoygoudanus's famous paraphrase of Book of Psalms. Reynerus Snoygoudanus (c. 1477-1537) came from a wealthy family in Gouda. After a brief career as a physician (he had a doctor's degree from the University of Bologna) and a magistrate in his hometown, he devoted his life to theological studies. In the present work, Snoygoudanus alternated the biblical text of the Book of Psalms, based on the Vulgate and printed in roman type, with additional explanatory phrases, printed in italic type. The work was finished in June 1533 (see end of preface) and first published in Antwerp in 1535 by Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten. It became hugely popular, going through numerous editions. According to De Graaf, the present edition was divided between Arnoul & Charles L'Angelier, Jean Foucher and Vivant Gaultherot. He lists one copy of the edition published with Vivant Gaultherout's name. The Magni Athanasij in Psalmos opusculum, written by Athanasius is often printed with Snoygoudanus's work. It was translated into Latin by Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494). Hand-written note and faint library stamp on title and first endleaf, outer margin shaved, causing loss of image on title and loss of marginal comments, several underlinings in brown ink, outer margins slightly waterstained, minor wormhole inner margin throughout, only sometimes very slightly affecting text. Despite these defects, a good copy of this famous paraphrase of the Book of Psalms.
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[NOTITIA DIGNITATUM].
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| NOTITIA UTRAQUE cum orientis tum occidentis ultra Arcadii Honoriique Caesarum tempora ... Praecedit ... Andreae Alciati libellus, De magistratib. civilibusq; ac militaribus officijs ... cui succedit descriptio urbis Romae, quae sub titulo Pub. Victoris circumfertur: & altera urbis Constantinopolitanae incerto autore. Sub iungitur Noticijs vetustus liber De Rebus Bellicis ... Item ... Disputatio Adriani Aug. & Epicteti philosophi. Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1552. 7 parts in 1. Folio. With printer's device on title and verso last leaf, foliated and historiated woodcut i...
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(108) ll. Adams N-354; BMC STC German, p. 747; Brunet IV, col. 111; Graesse IV, p. 691; MachielsN-689; Rosenwald 909; Wellcome 4582; NBG XX, cols. 373-374 .First edition of this collection of works on the classical world, edited by Sigismund Gelenius (1477-1554). The fifth and largest work, Notitia , is an almanac with a survey of the offices, officials and other aspects of the governmental organization in the eastern and western part of the Roman Empire till the time of the emperors Arcadius (Constantinople; 383-408) and Honorius (Rome; 393-423). It was composed c. 408. The editor Gelenius found this work in old and rare manuscripts. They may all be derived from one manuscript in Speyer, which has since been lost (Graesse). The woodcut illustrations show insignias, official badges, coins, and allegorical depictions of cities and countries. The present volume also contains Beatus Rhenanus's Illyrici provinciarum utrique imperio cum romano tum constantinopolitano seruientis, descriptio (with two nice woodcut views of Rome and Constantinople), and Andrea Alciatus's Iuris consulti, de magistratibus, civilibusque et militaribus officijs . Alciatus is followed by a double-page map of Rome by Johannes Oporinus, dated 1551. De Rebus Bellicis is accompanied by attractive illustrations of chariots, engines of war, and other weapons. The final tract, a dialogue between the Emperor Hadrian and the philosopher Epictetus is opened by a full-page woodcut of both men engaged in a discussion.The present copy is the first edition. It was reprinted several times and each of these editions contains additions and omissions. Some occasional soiling; a good copy.
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Platea, Franciscus
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| Opus restitutionum
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PLATEA [PIAZZA], Franciscus de. Opus restitutionum usuarum et excomunicationum edita per venerabilem Dominvm Fratrem Franciscvm de Platea Ordinis Minorvm. [colophon: ] Venice, Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Mathen, 22 January 1477. A fine unsophisticated copy of an incunable edition of the first printed book to deal with economics. Platea's Opus restitutionum, first printed in 1472 is the first, and earliest, book in the Goldsmith and Kress catalogues respectively. Platea, (also known as Fra Francesco Piazza) (?-1460), a Professor of law at the University of Bologna and a well-known and acclaimed preacher, includes a detailed discussion of monetary questions, the taking of interest and usury in this treatise on canon law. The first part of the Opus Restitutionum deals with the return of illicit gains. Also discussed are commercial transactions under a variety of different legal circumstances, such as two creditors competing for the spoils of one debtor. The second part concentrates on usury, which, as in all canon law, denotes not just high interest but all interest. Platea is firmly aligned within the church authorities in his condemnation of usury. The final section, De Excommunicationes deals with the judicial exclusion of offenders from the rights and privileges of the Christian community.The printers de Colonia and Mathen had already published an earlier edition of Platea's popular work in 1474. Chancery 4to, (200 x 151 mm), ll. [152] including initial and final blank; in double columns, printed in Gothic letter, with initial spaces, some with guide letters; a few leaves with insignificant marginal dampstaining, some dust-soiling; contemporary full vellum, out of a fifteenth century rubricated legal manuscript leaf, some wear to spine with splits, and worm hole to upper cover; early manuscript ownership inscription of ?Davitis, and a few contemporary marginal annotations; a fresh unsophisticated copy in a contemporary binding. Bodleian Library XVth Century Books, P-337; Hain-Copinger 13040; BMC V, 227; Goff P-758; Proctor 4312A; Walsh 1695; see Goldsmiths'-Kress 1 for first edition.
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JOHANNES ,Chrisostomus.
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4° ( 203x145 mm ).48 carte anticamente numerate a penna ( a-f 8 ).Caratteri romani,28 linee,le iniziali guida rubricate in rosso.Qualche occasionale lieve macchia o gora al margine alto interno di poche carte.Vitello moderno impresso a freddo in stile del Roma ( Ulrich Han ), 1477 circa incunable Edizione principe.E' composto di sei libri:De Penitentia,Tractatus super Psalmum quinquagesimum,Exortatio ad martyrium,Libellus de ve mundo à scandalis-De morte oratio-De virtute et malicia.Giovanni " dalla bella bocca", di Antiochia,uno dei Padri della C
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INCUNABULA. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of
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Mathias Moravus, Naples. 1477. Folio (266 x 209 mm), a8 b10; a-z10 aa-dd10, 298 leaves, a1, b10, dd10 blank, (this copy wanting the three blank leaves), 43 lines to the page, spaces for initials with printed guide-letters, a wide-margin copy, a few wormholes at beginning and end, 4 leaves repaired in margins just reaching text, nineteenth century blue polished calf, embossed in blind within gilt roll-tooled border, spine elaborately gilt in six compartments, a nice copy. Floral border on the inner margin on (2)a1 recto at the beginning of the text of Book I, with flowers in blue and dark pink, green leaves, extended with gold balls. Eight-line Initial I in gold on a squared background of pink and blue with small white penwork decoration. The beginning of each of the 21 following books is marked with a 6-line initial in gold with infills in pink, blue or green, all with white penwork decoration. The gold initial marking the beginning of Book XXI (aa 5 verso) is not filled in with colour. The painted initials are protected with tissue paper, probably inserted at the time of the present binding. Within the books each chapter is marked with a 3-line plain initial, alternating in red and blue. Comparison with other work by Mathias Moravus yields strong arguments for assuming that the illumination and decoration were carried out in his printing house. (see below). Some early notes, partly erased or washed. There are no marks of early ownership. After the colophon the figures '7,1 - 6 -' are written in a hand of the nineteenth, possibly late eighteenth century. This is probably the notation of a price in pounds, shillings and pence, indicating the presence of this volume in the British Isles at this time. The elegant binding does not contradict this. On the verso of the first fly-leaf the bookplate of Charles and Mary Lacaita and their children, Selham, Sussex. Charles Carmichael Lacaita, Liberal MP for Dundee and botanist (1853-1933) was the only son of Sir James Philip Lacaita (1813-95), a Neapolitan lawyer and statesman, for a long time living in exile in England (ODNB). The elder Lacaita was a scholar and had a reputation as an excellent bibliographer. Presumably he was the buyer of this book associated with his home-town, and it was later owned by his son and his family. On several points the present book, its printer, its type, as well as its illumination are remarkable witnesses to the movement of craftsmen, their materials, and their stylistic traditions over Europe in the first decades after the invention of printing. Such movement existed already in the world of scribal traditions, but was exponentially accelerated once books were multiplied in print. Book production became a veritable melting pot of influences: printers and artists adapted to new environments while at the same time maintaining skills and styles brought from elsewhere. This can well be shown in the present volume. The text, St Augustine's De Civitate Dei, was, and still is, one of the most widely read patristic texts; the plain text was ten years earlier printed at the Benedictine abbey of Subiaco among the first books printed in Italy, and this version was steadily reprinted in Rome and Venice. The present edition is the eighth in this sequence, and both the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke and BMC note that it is a page-for page reprint of the edition printed in Venice in 1475 by Gabriele di Pietro. Meanwhile a version with the commentary of Thomas Waleys was printed from 1468 in Strasbourg, Mainz and Basel. The Naples edition does not follow the layout of its exemplar, which was printed over two columns, but by printing it with long lines the book was given a more humanistic character. The type, however, resembled that used for its model, and also a type Mathias Moravus had used himself for the two books he printed in 1474 in Genoa before moving to Naples. It is a 'fere-humanistica' appropriate for this kind of texts and for classics, and economical in use. After Moravus used it in Naples in 1476 and 1477, the fount passed on to Rome where, with slight adaptations, we see it in 1478 and 1479 in the hands of the printer there named 'Johannes Bulle de Bremen'. His identity is problematic, for when we see the same fount again, in 1480 and 1481, it is in the first books printed in London, also printed by a printer named Johannes but this time with the surname 'Lettou', which may indicate his origin from Latvia. He is recorded as Theutonicus' in the London registers of aliens. Whatever the identity of the printer, we find the first books printed in London printed in types first selected a few years earlier by Mathias Moravus in Naples. Naples is not the birthplace of Mathias Moravus. He was a friar, born in the village of Cetechowitz near Olomouc in Moravia, in the east of the modern Czech Republic. Before settling as a printer he left a (sporadic) trail as a scribe and probably illuminator. The main source is a two-volume manuscript of the letters of St Jerome, written in 1468, probably in Vicenza, for Moses Buffarello, bishop of Belluno and temporarily of Vicenza. It is now in the Musée Condé in Chantilly. It is written in a fine rotunda hand, and we shall return to its outstanding illumination. Another manuscript, probably written in Verona and containing miscellaneous Latin texts (including one by Cicero), was sold in 1927 in Milan at an auction by Hoepli; from an illustration we can see that its script is rather similar to the style of the type of the St Augustine. Apparently it was not decorated, but we can learn from it at least that as a scribe Mathias Moravus was able to vary his styles as the occasion demanded, in the same way as printers could vary their founts (provided they possessed them). Thus we can follow what must be the final part of Mathias's itinerary from Moravia to the Veneto in the late 1460s, hence to Genoa, where he printed two very substantial books in 1474 (one in association with a Michael de Monacho), to settle for good in Naples, where he produced between 1475 and 1492 more than 60 titles. Printing in Naples had a character unique among the Italian centres of printing due to its royal court, a court that showed an active interest in book production and protected printers. Mathias Moravus was the second major printer to settle there, preceded in 1471 by Sixtus Riessinger, who worked in partnership with an Italian, Francesco del Tuppo, who later took over the business supported by his three 'fidelissimi Germani' who stayed after Riessinger had left. Naples had in common with all printing in Italy that in the early decades it was overwhelmingly carried out by Germans and others from north of the Alps, and del Tuppo's 'fidelissimi' may remind us that not only the named printers moved to Italy, but that they took with them craftsmen to work in their printers shops, contributing their skills and their own traditions. In Naples alone there were in the fifteenth century about twenty named printers from north of the Alps, many of them staying for only a short time. How many workmen they brought remains a matter for speculation. Mathias Moravus was a very competent printer, with perhaps a slight penchant for technical bravura: his formats range from very large (royal) folio to a miniature book of hours in 320 - highly exceptional at that date. One of the special skills he brought to book production may have been refined illumination. When we compare a sample of illuminated copies of his books (to date admittedly a small sample, based on those available in the British Library), and also compare them with the manuscript of 1468 (of which the two opening leaves of the two volumes are available in reproductions), we find characteristic elements common to them all. Perhaps the most striking characteristic is the mixture of Italian and North-European, or rather German stylistic elements. The other not less striking element is the high quality of the miniature painting and drawings incorporated in the designs. All the relevant items in the British Library including the BL copy of the St Augustine (IB. 29405) have painted initials to mark textual divisions, the initial a plain form in gold with infills of contrasting dark blue, pink or green with small decorations in criblé-style penwork. The same kind of initials are found throughout the present copy of the St Augustine, apparently following the same instruction; the only difference is that here (with the exception of the opening initial at the beginning of the text) there are no square backgrounds as found elsewhere. Such initials are of a style that is familiar in countless examples in German illumination of the period, rather than Italian. Purely Italian, however, are the borders in the Chantilly manuscript, of white vine-stems in a complicated geometric pattern. It is a very common Italian style, and here they are not only embellished by roundels with tiny miniatures of birds and animals (also seen in Italy in fine illumination), but very small putti are darting though the stems. A similar vine-stem border and initial are present on the opening page of the very fine vellum copy of Caracciolus, Sermones (G. 11747), dedicated to Beatrice of Aragon, queen of the Hungarian bibliophile king Mathias Corvinus, and sister of the king of Naples. The opening page may look Italian, but the fine initials in the rest of the book are painted in the same Germanic style as those in the St Augustine and elsewhere. Smaller initials, however, are executed in an Italian style with vertical lines in red penwork. Throughout the decoration of the book is a hybrid, or possibly intended as a specimen of all the styles of which the workshop was capable, but not less elegant for that. The decoration of the opening pages of the Chantilly manuscript includes miniatures of St Jerome of a very high level of execution, 'plutôt des peintures à petite échelle' wrote Jacques Meurgey who described the manuscript in 1930. A miniature representing St Sebastian, smaller but of the same hand, is found in the Missale Ordinis Praedicatorum in the British Library (IB. 29423). Here it is incorporated in a beautiful border of flowers and leaves in purple, blue and green, with gold leaves. The border includes a finely painted vase and a cameo-style grisaille of the profile of a young man. Painted initials throughout the work are as in the St Augustine and Caracciolus. The border of flowers and leaves in the BL copy of the St Augustine is similar to that in the Missale; here a delightful grisaille drawing of a young child is half-hidden among the flowers. The slightly scrolled shapes of leaves and flowers in these borders belong more to traditions seen in German illumination than the styles of floral borders we can recognize as belonging to, for example, Florence, Ferrara or the Emilia Romagna. The common features in this admittedly small sample of books printed by de Moravia, combined with what we can learn from the illumination of the Chantilly manuscript, lead to the conclusion that it is very likely that Mathias Moravus himself was responsible for the illumination of part of the books that left his presses. The present copy of St Augustine fits in very well with the general aspect of these books. Small differences in execution in this general pattern suggest that some of this work was carried out in the workshop rather than by the master, probably by a ‘fidelissimus Germanus’ who belonged to his outfit. With thanks to Lotte Hellinga for providing the above observations. HC 2053; MBC VI p. 862-3; IGI 973; GW 2881; Goff A1237.
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GELLIUS AULUS
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Venezia, Andrea de Paltasichis, 1477, in-folio (295x203 mm.), ff.197 (su 198, mancando il primo f. bianco; a10, b-x8, y-z6, A-B8), legatura ottocentesca in marocchino rosso con piatti e dorso finem. decorati in oro. Impresso in elegante carattere tondo romano con vari importanti passi in carattere greco, testo su 1 col. di 36 ll. Gran numero di paragrafi e iniziali di varia altezza in inchiostro alternativamente rosso e blu; f. a2r P(lutarchus), bella e grande iniziale in inchiostro rosso e blu con filigrane. I 16 ff. d'indici sono posti in fine anziche' all'inizio del volume. Quarta edizione quattrocentesca del noto testo di Gellius, formato da venti capitoli di dotta miscellanea critica che trattano la letteratura, la filosofia, la storia, il diritto e la matematica, secondo le conoscenze e la cultura greca del II secolo. E' il terzo incunabolo uscito dai primi torchi del Paltasichis, attivo a Venezia dal 1477 al 1479 e dal 1482 al 1493. Bellissimo e raro incunabolo ottimamente impresso su carta forte, esemplare grande di margini, rare postille. "Belle edition faite sur d'autres manuscrits que les trois precedentes, et plus correctement imprimee" (Brunet). BMC V, 251; Brunet 1523; Goff G-121.
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