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Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Giovanna Nepi
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| Giorgione: Myth and Enigma
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SKIRA EDITORE S.P. A. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. This extraordinary exhibition catalogue explores the rare works of one of the most enigmatic painters of the Renaissance, Zorzi da Castelfranco-universally known as Giorgione (Castelfranco Veneto, 1478-Venezia, 1510)-examining 15 out of an oeuvre of his 25 attributed paintings. Fellow student of Titian under Giovanni Bellini in Venice, almost nothing is known of Giorgione's life except that he worked in Venice, undertook various important commissions in oil and fresco, and died of the plague in his early 30s. A major innovator, he is acclaimed as the father of modern Venetian painting of the 16th century. In his revolutionary brushwork he skilfully combined Leonardo's sfumato with the colours and the thin layers of paint favoured by the Old Flemish masters to give a new dimension to light and colour. This monograph features masterpieces by Giorgione such as The Tempest, The Old Woman, The Nude, the recently restored Altarpiece of the Cathedral of Castelfranco, Christ Carrying the Cross, Three Philosophers and Laura as well as the only drawing by Giorgione View of Castel San Zeno at Montagnana and a Sitting Figure. Some seminal examples of works by Bellini, Titian, Dürer and Cranach help to place Giorgione's art in context and to document his influence on later painters. A team of international art historians and critics contribute original essays to the richly illustrated and well-documented book that features new discoveries in Giorgione's technique, an analysis of the results of restoration, and an updated bibliography. ISBN10: 8884918677.
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Thomson, Thomas
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| The Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes
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[1478- 1478 - [Scotland]. Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes. 1495]. [Edited by Thomas Thomson]. [Edinburgh]: Printed by Command of His Majesty King George the Third, 1839. Folio. 430, 60, 33 pp. Contemporary half-calf over boards. Ex-library. Worn, spine rubbed. Covers and a few leaves at beginning and end detached. Some foxing, otherwise good internally. * Published by the Record Commission. Contains judical proceedings in civil matters held before various committees. HLC I: 791. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Ramesh Chaturvedi
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| Brahmavaivarta Purana - A Set of 2 Volumes (Sanskrit+English)
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Parimal Publications - CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Hardcover ~ Condition: NEW ~ Vedavyasa has composed Mahapuranas by resorting to the use of historical episodes, legends, stories, fables etc. in order to lay down clearly the topics described in those special type of episodes addressed as Purana in Vedic era.Brahmavaivarta is the most popular treatise among the eighteen Mahapuranas. This Mahapurana finds its references everywhere in various Puranas and in the inventory of names to these Mahapuranas. Moreover, as per the yardstick ascertained, this Mahapurana contains eighteen thousands hymns in it too. As the preaching delivered by god Krsna to desperate Arjuna considering them as nectar of Srimadbhagavad Gita, the special preaching delivered by the same god Krsna are stored in this Mahapurana too. As this Mahapurana discloses the mystery of Brahman, it is called Brahmavaivarta Mahapurana. This Mahapurana has adduced as an authority by a number of philosopher for their submissions. The commentators has from this angle, accepted the specific significance of Brahmavaivarta Mahapurana in literature on Puranas. Indian culture based in Vedas and the tradition of Indian school of thoughts is seen enumerated to suffice length in this Mahapurana.1478 pages ~ Isbn: n/a ~ language: Multi-Lingual ~ Year: 2001 ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Contents Religion/Hinduism/Scriptures & Hymns [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Sholokhov, Mikhail; (Translation from
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| AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON : A Novel in Four Books
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Moscow, USSR: Foreign Languages Publishing House. Text of all 4 volumes/BRAND NEW. Brown boards to all volumes/Fine. Illustrated DJs/VG; uniform condition w/nips, chips & small losses to edges and surface rubs. Ribbon bookmarks. Book 1 frontispiece, author's photograph. Laid in: Key to Principle Characters. When the Crimean Khanate fell to the Turks (1478), the legendary, hard-riding Cossack warriors settled along river banks in the frontier lands of southern Russian and the Ukraine; they became known as Don, Volga, and Dneiper Cossacks and the like. Mikhail Sholokhov (1905 - ) is a Don Cossack. In his preface to the first English edition (1934) Sholokhov writes: "...I should be happy if in this description of the Don Cossacks, so unfamiliar to Europeans, the reader discerned something else --- those colossal changes in everyday habits, life and human psychology that have taken place as a result of the war and revolution." Preceding this monumental work is an old song: "...Our father, the quiet Don, blossoms with orphans/And the waves of the quiet Don are filled with fathers' and mothers' tears/Oh thou, our father the quiet Don!/Oh why does thou, our quiet Don, so sludgy flow?" The USSR now gone, Cossack groups are reasserting their identity in both Russian and Ukraine ... Sholokhov's voice stays and quiet flows the Don.. Unstated. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by O. Vereisky & Y. Kopylov (Designers).
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SOLDUS, Jacobus.
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| Opus insigne de peste felicit.
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Bologna, Johannes Schriber de Annunciata for Thomas de Bononia. 1478. - Small 4to. [36] leaves. Gothic type. Text printed in double columns; 38 lines to a full column. Initials hand-painted in red. Limp vellum, made up of an antiphonal leaf. First edition of a treatise on the plague and its cure written in 1431 during an epidemic at Florence. Its author, Jacopo Soldi (1370-1440), a physician and humanist scholar, had joined the Order of the Servites, and his plague manual was printed by order of the Dean of the Bolognese Theological Faculty, Thomas de Bononia, a fellow Servite. Soldi’s other medical works remain unpublished. Old collector’s stamp in blank margins of recto of second leaf and on blank verso of last leaf. Bookplate of Hugo Fernandez de Burzago y Barrios. BMC VI, 818; Hain-Copinger 14870; Klebs 921.1; Klebs (Pest) 98; Osler 149; Sudhoff, Erste gedruckte Pestschriften, 98; Wellcome, I, 6001. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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| La Scuola Grande Di San Rocco a Venezia. the Scuola Grande Di San Rocco in Venice
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Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, 2008. New A cura di Franco Posocco e Salvatore Settis. Testo italiano/inglese. Modena, 2008; 2 voll. ril. in seta in cofanetto, pp. 660, 619 ill. b/n col., cm 24, 5x31, 5. (Mirabilia Italiae. Collana diretta da Salvatore Settis. 15). (Volume I: Atlante fotografico e volume II: Testi). Ubicata al fianco della chiesa di San Rocco, santo a cui la città di Venezia si votò durante la grande epidemia di peste del XV secolo, la Scuola Grande di San Rocco, sede dell'omonima confraternita, venne fondata nel 1478 da ricchi cittadini veneziani e godette di particolare prosperità nel primo Cinquecento. Oggi la sua fama è legata soprattutto al vasto ciclo pittorico di Jacopo Tintoretto, che tra il 1564 e il 1578 apprestò per le tre sale della Scuola una serie di "teleri" con Storie dell'Antico e del Nuovo Testamento. Non meno spettacolare è anche il magnifico coro intagliato da Francesco Pianta con una serie di figure allegoriche di grande forza espressiva.
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Posocco Franco E Salvatore Settis a
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| La Scuola Grande Di San Rocco a Venezia// The Scuola Grande Di San Rocco in Venice
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Franco Cosimo Panini, Modena 2008 - FRANCO COSIMO PANINI EDITORE A cura di Salvatore Settis e Franco Posocco La Scuola Grande di San Rocco a Venezia Ubicata al fianco della chiesa di San Rocco, santo a cui la città di Venezia si votò durante la grande epidemia di peste del XV secolo, la Scuola Grande di San Rocco, sede dell’omonima confraternita, venne fondata nel 1478 da ricchi cittadini veneziani e godette di particolare prosperità nel primo Cinquecento. Oggi la sua fama è legata soprattutto al vasto ciclo pittorico di Jacopo Tintoretto, che tra il 1564 e il 1578 apprestò per le tre sale della Scuola una serie di "teleri" con Storie dell’Antico e del Nuovo Testamento. Non meno spettacolare è anche il magnifico coro intagliato da Francesco Pianta con una serie di figure allegoriche di grande forza espressiva. Volume Primo Atlante fotografico, pp. 374 - 402 illustrazioni a colori //Text in Italian and English Language in the Atlas//Testo in lingua Italiana e inglese nell'Atlante Volume Secondo Testi. Saggi e schede, pp. 400 - 217 illustrazioni in bianco e nero Text in Italian Language Prezzo: € 600,00 Codice: [9788824803441] Peso: 6,24 kg [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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SCRIVERIUS, Petrus.
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| Het Oude Goutsche Chronycxken Van Hollandt, Zeelandt, Vrieslandt en Utrecht . Op nieus oversien en verbetert. Als mede met een Byvoeghsel En Toet-steen Vermeerdert. Amsterdam, J.H. Boom, J. Pluymer and C. Commelijn, 1663. 4to. With engraved title and 36 engraved illustrations of Dutch counts. Loosely inserted a full-page engraved portrait of the author by C. de Visscher. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
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- (8), 280 pp. Nijhoff, BHN III, p. 19, no. 227; De Wind, pp. 80-82; 424-428; V.d. Aa VI, pp. 182-185; Wurzbach II, p. 121. Chronicle of 31 successive counts of Holland, ranging from Dirk (Theodorick I), c. 920, till King Philip II of Spain, the last nobleman to hold the title Count of Holland. The chronicle was first published in Gouda in 1478 by Gerard Leeu, and was henceforth always called "Goutsche Chronycxken," and reprinted in Leiden in 1483. The first part, from the middle of the tenth century till 1437, the death of Countess Jacoba of Bavaria, was written by an anonymous author. The continuation till 1477, the death of Charles the Bold, was probably written by Jan van Naaldwijk (see De Wind, pp. 80-82). From 1478 onward, the poet and historian Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660) continues the chronicle till the final Count of Holland, King Philip II of Spain. "After the examples of Dousa and Emmius, Scriverius tried to purify ancient history from fables and aberrations. but he sometimes threw out the good with the bad" (De Wind, p. 425). De Toets-steen, added at the end of the chronicle, has been written as a critical commentary to the text to see "which healthy parts can be retained" ("watter noch ghesondts aan is"). The commentary follows the order of pages of the chronicle. Scriverius's additions were published posthumously in 1663. It is not clear when he actually wrote his contribution. The date of the half-title to the By-voegsel is "1630." The Oude Goutsche Chronycxken contains attractive engravings of the counts of Holland made by Adriaan Matham (Wurzbach). A very good copy with attractive engravings.
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KONRAD SCHWEYNHEIM & ARNOLD
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| PRIMA AFRICAE TABULA 1478 ROMA
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Seconda carta a stampa della regione, basata sul manoscritto di Nicholas Germanus, tratta dalla Geographia di Claudio Tolomeo, Roma 1478/90. Un anno dopo la prima edizione della Geographia, curata da Taddeo Crivelli in Bologna, un nuovo set di mappe fu inciso a Roma per accompagnare il testo dellopera. Pubblicata da Domizio Caldernius e stampata da Konrad Schweynheym, alla loro morte fu ristampata da Arnold Buckinck nel 1490. Successivamente le lastre furono corrette e ristampate nel 1507 e 1508. Incisione in rame su due lastre unite, proiezione trapezioidale, lievi abrasioni nella piega centrale, nel complesso in buono stato di conservazione. Rarissima. Dimensioni 395-475x330." "Second printed map of the region, based on Nicholas Germanus manuscript and taken from Claudio Tolomeos Geographia, Rome 1478/90. A year after the first Geographia edition, edited by Taddeo Crivelli in Bologna, a new set of maps was engraved in Rome to illustrate the text. Published by Domizio Caldernius and printed by Konrad Schweynheym, the map was subsequently reissued by Arnold Buckinck in 1490. Later on, the plates have been corrected and reprinted in 1507 and 1508. Copperplate in two connected plates, trapezoidal projection, light abrasion in centre fold, in general in good condition. Extremely rare.
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INCUNABULA - [GRUYTRODE, JACOBUS
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| Speculum aureum anime peccatricis. Colophon: speculum aureum anime peccatricis, a quodam cartusiense editum: finit feliciter. Impressumque Parisius per magistrum Vdalricum cognomento Gering.
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- Paris, Ulrich Gering [1478 or 79]. a-c10, d12: 42 ff. 4to, 207X143 mm. Rubricated in red throughout. First leaf slightly dusty, a few faint underlinings, but a clean, crisp and unwashed, internally near perfect copy with many uncut edges, preserving the ms catchwords at end of quires b and c. Bound in brown cloth from the second half of the 19th century. * Early (possibly second) edition of a feisty and charming devotional which quickly achieved tremendous popularity, appearing in about 40 known editions in the 15th century, including translations into French, German and English (by Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII). It is divided into seven chapters, one for each day of the week. ** Ulrich Gering was one of the triumvirate of German printers, called to Paris by its university in 1470, who became the first printers in France. Gering worked alone, as here, only around 1478 and 1479. A beautiful example of Gering's antiqua printing (the Roman type was apparently chosen at the insistence of the Paris university).*** References: ISTC 00639000; Goff S639; H 14904; Pell 4309. Very rare: ISTC records only eight copies: four outside France and one only in the US (Chicago, Newberry). [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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PETRARCH, Francesco
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| Trionfi
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1478 1478 - PETRARCH, Francesco. [I Trionfi con commentio di Bernardo Glicini da Siena]. Venice: Reynaldus of Nijmegen and Theodorus of Rendsburg, February 6, 1478. Small, thick folio, later full vellum rebacked, new endpapers. Collation: a10, b8, c6, e8, f10, g8, h-i6, k-J8, l6, m8, n6, o8, p-s6, t10, aa8, bb-ff6, gg10. Housed in custom clamshell box. $12,000. Early edition of the Trionfi, a touchstone for the literature and art of Renaissance Europe, containing Bernardo Lapini's influential commentary, with extensive references to Filelfo's commentary of 1446. Petrarch was crowned poet laureate of Rome in 1341 and is generally considered the poet who ushered in the Renaissance. "He perfected the sonnet form and left behind a body of work in the Tuscan dialect of Italy, the beauty and sensibilities of which justly secured him the reputation as being the first modern lyric poet" (King's College). Trionfi is an allegorical cycle composed in terza rima, the metrical form devised by Dante for the Divine Comedy. The poem is cautionary in nature and takes as its metaphor a triumphal procession of six allegorical figures-Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity-each victorious over its predecessor. Central to Trionfi (as well as to his later Canzoniere) is Petrarch's unrequited love for a woman named Laura, whom he first saw on April 6, 1327 in the church of St. Claire in Avignon and who died of the plague in 1348. "The first two parts, Triumph of Love and the Triumph of Chastity, were probably written within the years 1340-1344, as a work complete in itself. But the death of Laura in 1348 led Petrarch to write the Triumph of Death which he followed soon after with the Triumph of Fame. The last two parts, the Triumph of Time and the Triumph of Eternity, were not written until the last few years of his life and Petrarch constantly reworked the earlier sections of the Trionfi so at the time of his death it was still in an unfinished state" (King's College). "Commentaries on Petrarch's poetry in early printed editions exemplify the kinds of cultural interaction and, at times, of social and political intervention that authorize such texts" (William J. Kennedy). The earliest commentary was composed by Antonio da Tempo in Padua sometime before the 1440 and was reworked by Francesco Filelfo in 1446. "In 1475 Bernardo da Pietro Lapini da Montalcino (also 'Glicino' or 'Illicino') published the most influential of the early commentaries, bound together with the Canzoniere. Lapini established a tradition of interpreting the poem as an allegory of the human soul" (Notre Dame University). First circulated in manuscript form and finally published in 1470, Trionfi had a huge influence on the literature and art of Renaissance Europe. "Guardiani estimates that, in the 16th century alone, over 300,000 short lyrics, mostly sonnets, were written, and that most of them were in imitation of Petrarch. In England, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Donne all owe a debt to Petrarch as do Spenser, Surrey, and Wyatt" (King's College). Trionfi was also an inspiration to Shelley, whose Triumph of Life was also written in terza rima. In this 1478 edition, "the printers established a form followed in all later editions of separating the portions of [Petrarch's] text in rectangular spaces, the commentary filling the rest of the page" (Fiske Petrarch Collection). Rubricated throughout with initial letters and section marks. Without first blank leaf a1; gathering k bound before gathering J. Texts in Italian. Proctor 4429. Goff P381. Thacher 297. Running titles supplied by a later hand; a few annotations and marginal glosses. Occasional scattered light foxing to interior, with small worm-holes to first leaf and occasional worm-holing to
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AQUINAS, St Thomas
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| Summa Theologiae. (Prima pars, secunde partis)
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- Venice; F. Renner de Heilbrun & P. de Bartua, 1478. Folio. 279 unnumbered ll. 67 a-r10 s12 t-y10 1-510 lacking b8 blank. Double column, gothic letter, 47 lines and headline. Large red and red and white initials throughout, very large initial letter in red, white and blue, C16 ms ex libris within. Occasional slight worming, partially erased early armorial library stamp to lower margin of first leaf, infrequent ink and oil splashing to a few ll, mostly marginal except for table and register, here bound before the text. Generally a very good, clean, large copy in early C17 Italian mottled calf, spine gilt with red and brown morocco labels, chipped at head, slightly wormed, snail-pattern marbled endpapers, a little contemp. ms marginalia, face inside one illuminated letter. Blue and white marbled edges. One of a handful of works printed by Renner de Heilbrun during his short-lived partnership (1477-8) with Peter de Bartua, and a rare and early edition of the first and second parts of the Summa; Goff's only precursor is by Schoeffer, Mainz 1471. A handsomely produced and very legible edition of the unfinished "Summa Theologiae" of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest work of medieval philosophy and theology and the preeminent expression of that combined system 'scholasticism' which was to dominate European intellectual life into the C16. Compiling the main Christian teachings for the uninformed reader, the work draws upon scholars of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and especially the Classical world. It is in three parts of which only the two published here are by Aquinas. Beginning with the nature of God, Creation and the physical universe, it discusses the meaning of human life and the code of Christian ethics, with a third part concerning Christ, God and Man completed after Aquinas' death. Perhaps its most famous presentation is that of the 'Quinquae Viae,' the proofs of the existence of God (ex motu, ex causa, ex contingentia, ex gradu, ex fine). A standard format is adopted for discussing each 'questio', beginning with a series of objections to the forthcoming conclusion, a short counter-statement made with reference to authorities, the argument proper where detailed justifications are used, and concluding with individual responses to any objections. Covering a phenomenal amount of material, from the principles of the Just War and Natural Law, the glorification of Theology - the most certain of all sciences, being rooted in omniscience - to the analysis of human knowledge as a combination of natural reason as exemplified by Plato and Aristotle and revelation by faith of natural truth, the Summa Theologicae has exerted unrivalled influence on the intellectual development of Western Christianity, leading Aquinas to be considered one of the greatest theologians and philosophers by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII, in 1567 Pius V ranked the festival of St. Thomas Aquinas with those of the four great Latin fathers. Later, in 1879 Pope Leo XIII stated that Aquinas' theology was a definitive exposition of Catholic doctrine, "equally, it underlies much subsequent theological, political and social inquiry into the nature and position of man in the state or in the universe," Printing and the Mind of Man pp17-18. BMC V 194. Hain 1448. Stilwell T 183. Proctor 4172. Goff T-204. L703
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JACOPI, Johannes (or JACME, Jean or
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| Tractatus de Pestilentia.
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- Gothic type, 20 lines. [12] leaves. Small 4to (197 x 138 mm.), modern boards. [Augsburg: Johann Keller, 1478-82]. First edition of one of the earliest, most popular, and important tracts on the plague. This is an extremely rare book — ISTC locates only four copies: BSB, BL, Countway, and NLM. The in-progress GKW locates another copy at the Cistercian monastery at Wilhering in Upper Austria. The printer of this book, Johann Keller, published only five books and they are, for the most part, very rare. Jacopi (or Jacobi or Jaume or Jacme or Jasme), was a "Catalan physician, and translator from Arabic into Catalan, professor of medicine in Montpellier. His birthplace is unknown, but it was possibly Lleida (Lerida on the Segre), and he may have studied in the university of that city. He was mentioned as early as 1360 in a contested election for the chancellorship of the University of Montpellier, was finally elected to that position in 1364, and retained it until his death in 1384. He was consulting physician to several popes and kings: he attended pope Urban V (1362-70); in 1370 he was called to Avignon to aid pope Gregory XI (1370-78) ; in 1378 he was appointed physician to Charles V the Wise, king of France 1364-80; in 1384 he attended the antipope Clement VII (1378-94) in Avignon. "Joannes wrote a number of medical treatises, notably the Tractatus de pestilentia, the Secretarium practicae medicinae, and the Tractatus de calculis in vesica. "The first of these was probably the first to be composed, about 1373. Judging by the number of early printed editions, Joannes’ treatise on the plague was by far the most popular work of its kind. "His plague treatise is divided into three parts, dealing with the cause of the pestilence, the proper regimen for avoiding it, and the treatment. In part I he says that the plague may be caused by infections coming from bad sanitation, foul stagnant water, corrupt air. The two signs of the disease are fever and apostumes. Various questions concerning the susceptibilities of different people are debated. Part II deals with the precautions against the disease which everyone should take. Suitable dwelling places and proper living conditions are described; methods of fumigation, proper diet and exercise are advised. Bloodletting is to be used with caution. In part III the methods of treatment are discussed; these are purgation, bloodletting, and strengthening drugs."–Sarton, III, Pt. 2, p. 1687. A fine and fresh copy with many edges uncut. ? B.M.C., II, p. 361. Goff J-15. Klebs 542.1. Klebs & Sudhoff, Die Ersten Gedruckten Pestschriften, no. 62 & pp. 145-49. Osler, Incunabula Medica, 190. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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Castiglione Baldassarre
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| La corte ducale di URBINO, Urbino, Regio Istituto belle arti delle Marche, 1927
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- 17,5 x 24, ril. coeva in piena belle con titoli in oro al dorso e sul piatto, qualche spellatura, bs. pp.108. Dal libro "Il Cortegiano" a cura di Luigi Renzetti (che pubblicò all'epoca anche la rivista Urbinium) con quattro xilografie a piena pagina del maestro ALEARDO TERZI (che sarebbe poi divenuto direttore dell'Istituto d'arte di Urbino) 01) Baldassarre Castiglione (1478-1529) 02) Federico II da Montefeltro, duca di Urbino 03) Guidobaldo da Montefeltro 04) Elisabetta Gonzaga Montefeltro, duchessa di Urbino. Rara e preziosa edizione tirata in sole 300 copie, che inizia praticamente la grande stagione delle edizioni dell'Istituto d'arte di URBINO.
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SILVATICO, Matteo.
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| Liber pandectarum medicine: omnia medicine simplicia continens: quem ex omnibus antiquorum libris aggregavit eximius artium.
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[Colophon] Vincentie [Vicenza:] Impressum p[er] Hermanum Lichtenstein [n.d., c. 1478–1480]. - Folio, 319 unnumbered leaves (of 322, lacking two blank leaves and the register leaf, supplied in a convincing facsimile). Text in double columns, Gothic letter, 56 lines, capital spaces with guide letters. Some very minor foxing, last two leaves a bit stained, last few leaves with several small wormholes and wear to corners, pale stain in upper corners, larger stain in last few gatherings (mostly very faint), but generally in very good condition. Full maroon morocco, sides panelled in blind, a fine modern binding. Inscription of an early Neapolitan owner at foot of A1, with short single-line marks against many paragraphs and the occasional word in the margins. Fourth printing. A dictionary of simples and their medicinal use, arranged in alphabetical order and giving the names of plants in Greek, Arabic, and Latin. "Matthaeus Silvaticus, Italian lexicographer, botanist and physician (d. c.1342) kept a botanical garden in Salerno which is the earliest garden of its kind known to us, if conventional herb gardens are not taken into account. In that garden he cultivated not only domestic but also foreign plants, such as Arum colocasia; he sowed it in seeds which he had obtained in Greece. He seems to have traveled extensively, and to have observed plants in many localities and collected information on them. He compiled a large materia medica entitled Pandectae The work, begun c.1297, was completed about 1317 and dedicated to King Robert (in 1337?). It is a reference book on diseases and their remedies in the form of a dictionary of simples The names are followed by descriptions of the simples and their properties according to the ‘authorities’. In some instances he adds his own observations. Many erroneous statements are due to his ignorance of the true names of the plants he dealt with. The Pandectae is much larger than the Synonyma of Simon of Genoa, but generally inferior, except from the purely botanical point of view. His descriptions of plants are more elaborate than Simon’s and he could occasionally refer to his experience as a traveler and a gardener These genuine botanical observations redeem the Pandectae from Haller’s severe judgement, ‘Auctor barbari opus chaoticum’. His main sources were the Synonyma medicinae of Simon of Genoa and the Agregatus in medicinus simplicibus of Serapion the Younger " (Sarton, III, pt. 1, p. 816). Despite the Pandectae’s shortcomings, partly due the the author’s ignorance of the Arabic language, it was very successful, running to ten incunable editions and several others in the sixteenth century. It was also one of the first books on the subject to appear in print. The first two editions, both dated 1474, are now extremely rare. Klebs 919.4. BMC VIII, 1038. Goff S513. Wellcome I, 5971. Meyer, Geschichte der Botanik, IV, pp. 167–177. See Stillwell III, 522 and IV, 697. As in the British Library copy, the table of contents and register is bound at the end.
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Pius II, Pope
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| EPISTOLAE FAMILIARES
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(Cologne Johann Koelhoff 1478). - (Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum, Part One, p.222; Hain, 150). It appears that only one other copy of this edition exists in America in a publicly catalogued collection, and only seventeen other copies of this edition were found in catalogue searches in libraries worldwide. No editions by this printer, Johann Koelhoff, appear in auction records after 1978. Auction records show that three editions of 1478 were sold, but these are printed by Michael Greyff in Reutlingen. This volume contains the correspondence of the great Italian humanist Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (1405-1464). Aeneas was known as something of a rake in his youth; his penchant for adventure and mischief is evidenced by his illegitimate children. He put off taking holy orders until after he was 40 years old. Though his behavior was modified in his early years as a priest, he did not seriously renounce his frivolous lifestyle until much later in his life when he was elected pope (1458). He adopted Pius II as his name, effectively conveying his change of attitude. In fact, he stated his desire to be remembered as the devout Pius, not the dandy Aeneas. He acted as an Imperial secretary to the Austrian emperor Frederick III of the Holy Roman Empire, apostolic secretary to two popes and the anti-pope Felix V. His loyalties shifted often through his career--initially opposed to Pope Eugene IV, he later became a great supporter and a defender of the church. As pope, Pius was more interested in continuing the crusading efforts of his predecessor, Calixtus III, than reviving the arts he enjoyed in his youth. He sought to unite Europe against the threat of Turkish invasion. His ambitions, life experiences and observations survive in a number of writings from throughout his lifetime. He was crowned Poet Laureate by Frederick, though critical appreciation of his poetry has diminished over time. He wrote about the events of his day, including works on general history and geography. Since scandal survives above all else, one of his best remembered works is his youthful romance De Duobus Amantibus, the Tale of Two Lovers, which went through many editions and was, in its time, a best seller in its own right. Late in his life he unsuccessfully tried to suppress the distribution of this popular work. The Epistolae Familiares was printed by Johann Koelhoff the Edler in Cologne just a couple of decades after the first printed book came off the presses of Johann Gutenberg. Koelhoff was a contemporary of William Caxton, who printed the first book in English. Caxton learned the craft of printing in Cologne but left for England soon after the heralded arrival of Koelhoff, the financially well-backed newcomer, in 1472. Other prominent printers moved out of Cologne around this time; though it is tempting to suggest that the new competition drove them away, the numbers are suggestive but not conclusive. Koelhoff trained in Venice, which was an important center for commercial book production through the century. Printed in blackletter. Initials, underlining, paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. First initial letter elaborated in blue and red with a decorative vegetal design scrolling down the entire margin. One other letter in blue. Index tab affixed to one page. The date of publication in the colophon is erroneously printed as 1458 and has been corrected in pen. Three plates affixed to the front pastedown: a library plate, a bookplate of Georgius Kloss, Frankfurt im Maine and an inscription stating, "372 [the '2' scratched out and 374 written above] years old: only 23 years later than the Mazarin Bible celebrated as the First Printed Volume." A handwritten note in the margin of one page, a few pa [Attributes: Signed Copy]
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| Margarita poetica (part I)
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Ulrich Gering, Paris 1478 - 29 November 1478. Royal 4to (11 x 7 inches; 281 x 181 mm). Collation: a-r8 s6 (-s6). [141] leaves (of 142, without final blank.) 36-38 lines. Roman type 5:100. Initial spaces with guide letters. Opening initial in red and blue with handsome floral illumination on a gilt ground by a French hand, other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue throughout. Late 19th-century blind-tooled morocco, edges stained dark brown from an earlier binding; morocco-backed folding case. Condition : Occasional wormholes at beginning and end. Provenance : Anthonius Grouche, priest of St.-Loup, Amiens, with his contemporary ownership inscription huius libri verus est possessor dominus Anthonius grouche , motto semper presumit seva perturbata conscientia written in gothic script, and paraphs at end; given to his brother Petrus Grouche: contemporary inscription Dominus anthonius Grouche sacerdos ecclesie divi lupi de ambianis dedit hunc librum dilecto sibi fratri fratri petri grouche orate pro eo ; Celestines of Amiens, 17th-century ownership inscription ; Paravicini Library, sale, Sotheby's London, 22 June 1818, lot 156, to: Richard Heber, with Heber's inscription: "June 1818, sale of imported books by Sotheby" on front free endpaper (sale, 24 Jan. 1835, lot 1667); Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, with his shelfmark "12.F" (sale, Sotheby's London, 3 July 1897, lot 1539); George Dunn of Woolley Hall, inscriptions and bookplate (sale, Sotheby's London, 22 November 1917, lot 3111); C.S. Ascherson, bookplate; Albert Ehrman, Broxbourne Library, bookplates; W.R.H. Jeudwine, bookplate; George Abrams, bookplate. Rare edition of an early work of German Humanism. Albrecht Eyb, doctor of law, holder of many benefices in Germany and chamberlain to Pius II, compiled this anthology of humanistic rhetoric, whose title honors his mother Margarete von Wolmershausen, as a manual of humanist rhetorical theory. The text contains selected passages from classical and Italian Renaissance authors and poets - Cicero. Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch, et al., formulas for letter-writing, and general instruction in eloquence. The book remained popular for many years. This is the third Paris edition, following two editions, also of part I only, from the shop "Au Soufflet Vert". In early 1478, Ulrich Gering's association with the other Paris prototypographers Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger came to an end; in April 1478 he began printing under his name alone, using two new roman types for editions of classical, humanist, and theological texts. ISTC records only 11 surviving copies, of which at least one is imperfect, and of which only one in America (AnnMary Brown Memorial Library). This is a fine, fresh copy. Goff E-172; HC 6821; GW 9540. BMC VIII, 22; Pell 4705. UNIQUE PIECE!!!!!!!!! PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Mela, Pomponius
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| Cosmographi de situ orbis.
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Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn, 1478 - One of the most sought after of the early editions of this geographic treatise of Pomponius Mela, the first-century earliest Roman geographer, which agrees in most of its views with the great Greek writers from Eratosthenes to Strabo. He writes that the world can be divided east and west into hemispheres, Asia on the east and Erope and Africa on the west. 48 leaves complete. The only defect being that first leave was damaged and the margins have been renewed. The actual leave is slightly damaged with a loss of a few letters of the text. Else a perfect copy with wide margins. Second leave slightly browned. 18th century French full calf front cover detached [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Ptolemy, Claudius
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| World map from Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini philosophi Geographiam Arnoldus Buckinck e Germania Romae.
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Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Buckinck, Rome 1478 - THE FIRST PTOLEMAIC MAP TO BE PRINTED FROM A COPPER PLATE. Copper-plate engraving: 151/2" x 211/2" References: Lloyd Arnold Brown, The World Encompassed, exh. cat. (Baltimore, 1952), n. 36; Rodney W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World (London, 1983), n. 4. The importance of this seemingly simple, elegant world map from the 1478 Rome edition of Ptolemy’s Georgraphia is impossible to overstate. It is considered by most historians to represent the apex of cartographic and technological progress in the fifteenth century (a time of major strides in the development of both printing and mapmaking). In terms of accuracy, beauty and graceful engraving, it remained the finest printed Ptolemaic map for nearly one hundred years after its publication. Ptolemy, the great Greek geographer, mathematician and astronomer, lived most of his life in Alexandria, the cultural center of the Hellenistic world. In about 160 A.D. he completed his "Guide to the Delineation of the World," which--after the New Testament--was the most enduring document of Christian doctrine, lasting for over 1400 years. Although he based much of his work on the information and learning of his predecessors, Ptolemy was the first to systematize geographical knowledge and to approach cartography in a scientific, systematic manner. His projection showed the sphericity of the earth and stressed the importance of determining exact latitude and longitude. Ptolemy, in fact, laid down principles of cartography almost two thousand years ago which in their essentials are in use to this day. Northern European immigrants to Rome, Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Buckinck engraved this world map in the Eternal City in 1478. In 1465, Sweynheym had set up the first printing press in all of Italy, and with the help of mathematicians, he was the first to apply the new art of copper-engraving to the printing of maps. This innovation was a true landmark in the history of map printing, and the copper-plate medium soon became the standard on which all map publications were based. Only thirty-nine copies of the first 1478 edition were known to exist in 1952, perhaps even fewer today. This represents a rare opportunity to acquire an early modern map of outstanding significance.
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Duns Scotus, Johannes. Thomas Penketh,
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| Quaestiones in quattor libros Sententiarum.Part 2. [bound with]Quodlibeta.
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Johannes de Colonia & Johann Manthen, Venice: 1478, 7 January & 1477, 7 October. - Folio. 2 works in 1volume. a10,b-e8, f-g6, h-l8.10,m-mm10,n-p8,q10,r8,s6. Complete with blank.a10, b-e8, f6, ff6, g-k8, l-m10. [lacking b5, text leaf -- with blank inserted incorrectly before b4 & m10 blank.] 19th century vellum-backed paper-boards,fore-edge rubbed; title in old hand; contemporary ownership inscription of ÒBrother Antonius dÕAsralo OMÓ on blank before first t.p. and on last leaf of second work, also ownership inscription of Franciscan library at foot of first text leaf; some contemp. marginalia; a very fine crisp copy with ample margins. First initial letter in contemp. manuscript and decorated in red ink, a few leaves rubricated. Duns Scotus, John (c.1265Ð1308), Franciscan friar and theologian.tThe great commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard contains most of ScotusÕ important contributions to Medieval scholastic philosophy. These volumes are based on his Oxford Lectures and are sometimes referred to as the Opus Oxoniense. Each of the volumes stands alone.ÒIt was part of the duty of a regent master to conduct quodlibetal disputations, so called because Ôthey could be about any topib whatever (de quodlibet) and could be initiated by any member of the audience (a quodlibet). ScotusÕs quodlibetal Questiones were disputed in either Advent 1306 or Lent 1307. Scotus then revised the questions, completing the revision up through the last question, q12.Ó [Cambridge Companion To Duns Scotus]ÒThough less extensive in scope (than the commentary on the Sentences), ScotusÕ Quaestiones Quodlibetales are almost as important; they express his most mature thinking as regent master at Paris.Ó [Ency. of Philosophy]Penketh, Thomas (d. 1487), Augustinian friar and theologian, describes himself in his theological notebook as of the Warrington convent in Lancashire, and evidently studied theology at Oxford before (probably immediately before) 1466; on the basis of his Oxford study he was granted leave to incept at Cambridge in the academic year 1466Ð7, and took the degree of DTh on 31 May 1468. He must have already had some repute within his order, since he was confirmed as prior provincial of England on 22 October 1469; but he evidently returned to Oxford, where he was permitted by his order to study and teach, until in 1474 he vacated the provincialship to study at Padua. He was appointed lector in metaphysics in the university there, almost certainly being the Master Thomas Anglicus confirmed in that post on 22 September 1475, and very probably holding it already in 1474, when he published in Venice his edition of the quodlibetal questions of John Duns Scotus. By 1477, when he brought out an edition of Scotus's commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, he was holding the post of lector in theology, which he still held in 1479 according to his confrre, Brother Iacopo Filippo da Bergamo. He was re-elected prior provincial in 1480 (confirmed 15 March 1481) and again on 1 April 1485, presumably until death. At Easter 1484 he preached a sermon in praise of Richard III, which, according to Sir Thomas More, was afterwards excoriated, but which brought him an annual pension of £10 from the king. He died in London on 20 May 1487.Penketh's principal achievement was to be the first to publish scholarly but usable printed editions of the chief works of Duns Scotus and the Scotist theologian Antonius Andreae. His editorial work was crowded into the five or six years he spent at Padua, where he could be in touch with experienced printers; but it originated in the Scotist teaching of the Oxford and Cambridge theological faculties, as a surviving notebook in his hand shows (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 126). It contains questions on universals by Brother William Russell, probably the Augustinian friar who incepted at Oxford in 1430, some unattributed questions on God and creatures, possibly Penketh's own, and a text of the commentary of Antonius Andreae on Aristotle's Metaphysics which he edited at Padua. All these texts are ex
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Historisch-geographische Karten.
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| Sammlung von 14 Blättern mit geographischen Karten, teilweise koloriert, 19. Jahrhundert, alle in Passepartout von gleichem Format, in Halbleinen-Mappe.
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Die folgenden 13 Karten, ca.15 x 20 cm: Schlacht bei Giornico, den 28 Christmonath 1478, Müllhaupt sc. / Schlacht bey Grandson, 2. März 1476. koloriert / Schlacht bei Nancy. 5 Januar 1477. Müllhaupt sc. koloriert / Belagerung der Stadt Zürich im Jahr 1444. koloriert / Die Schlacht bey St Jacob an der Birs, 26 August 1444, koloriert / Kriegs-Schauplatz von Ende Juni 1476 bis zum 4 Jenner 1477. Müllhaupt sc. / Kriegs-Schauplatz vom 1 bis 21 Juni 1476. Müllhaupt sc. koloriert / Kriegs-Schauplatz im Schwaben-Krieg bis 20. April 1499. Müllhaupt sc. koloriert / Das Schlachtfeld bey Näfels A 1388 / Das Schlachtfeld "Am Stols" A 1405 / Das Schlachtfeld "Bey Arbedo" A 1422 / Carte des Rhein-Tales bey Sargans und Ragatz. koloriert / Die Schlacht bey St. Jacob an der Sihl d. 22 July 1443. J.J. Goll, del et sc. / und 1 Karte: Schlacht bey Murten 22 Jni 1476. Müllhauser sc. koloriert, 12 x 34 cm. English: Collection of 14 leaves with geographical maps, partly colored, 19th century, all in Passepartout of the same size, in half cloth cover. the following 13 maps, about 15 x 20 cm: Battle at Giornico, ... 1478, Müllhaupt sc. / Battle at Grandson, ... 1476. koloriert / Battle at Nancy. ... 1477. Müllhaupt sc. colored / Siege of the town of Zürich ... 1444. colored / Battle at St Jacob an der Birs, ... 1444, colored / Battle fields of the end of June 1476 to the 4th of Jan. 1477. Müllhaupt sc. / Battle fields of 1 to 21 Juni 1476. Müllhaupt sc. colored/ Battle field Schwaben-War until 20. April 1499. Müllhaupt sc. colored / The battle field at Näfels A 1388 / Das Schlachtfeld "Am Stols" A 1405 / Battlefield "Bey Arbedo" A 1422 / Map of the Rhein-Tales at Sargans and Ragatz. colored / Battle at St. Jacob an der Sihl d. 22 July 1443. J.J. Goll, del et sc. / and 1 Map: Battle at Murten 22 Jni 1476. Müllhauser sc. colored, 12 x 34 cm.
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Jacobus de Voragine
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| Legenda Aurea Sanctorum.
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Nürnberg, Koberger 1478.. 42 cm. (2), 274 Blatt, 2 Spalten 50-zeilig. Mit großer Initiale auf Goldgrund, das Jüngste Gericht darstellend, und floraler Randbordüre auf Folio 1r, durchgehend rubriziert mit Kapitel-Initialen in Rot und Blau. Zeitgenössischer (Weihenstephaner?) Klostereinband aus rötlichem Hirschleder mit reicher Verzierung und Papiertitelschild. Rücken restauriert. In den Innendeckeln je ein Manuskriptblatt. Auf Registerblatt 1r Eintragung "Iste Liber attinet Weyhensteven". - Copinger, Rep. Bibl. 6414 - Proctor 1978 - Goff J-90 - Hase, Koberger S. 90 - IDL 2557; Madsen 2173. Impressum am Ende: 11. August 1478. Die ersten Blatt am breiten Rand etwas fingerfleckig und zwei kleine Randeinrisse. Die Einbandverzierung besteht aus zwei verschiedenen geprägten Bordüren. Das Mittelfeld ist in rautenförmige Felder aufgeteilt, Schließen und Beschläge entfernt. Auf beiden Deckeln durch Abschabung kleinere Fehlstellen. - Sprache / Language: Lateinisch / Latin -
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| Margarita poetica (part I)
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Ulrich Gering Hardcover Paris 1478 29 November 1478. Royal 4to (11 x 7 inches; 281 x 181 mm). Collation: a-r8 s6 (-s6). [141] leaves (of 142, without final blank.) 36-38 lines. Roman type 5:100. Initial spaces with guide letters. Opening initial in red and blue with handsome floral illumination on a gilt ground by a French hand, other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue throughout. Late 19th-century blind-tooled morocco, edges stained dark brown from an earlier binding; morocco-backed folding case. Condition : Occasional wormholes at beginning and end. Provenance : Anthonius Grouche, priest of St.-Loup, Amiens, with his contemporary ownership inscription huius libri verus est possessor dominus Anthonius grouche , motto semper presumit seva perturbata conscientia written in gothic script, and paraphs at end; given to his brother Petrus Grouche: contemporary inscription Dominus anthonius Grouche sacerdos ecclesie divi lupi de ambianis dedit hunc librum dilecto sibi fratri fratri petri grouche orate pro eo ; Celestines of Amiens, 17th-century ownership inscription ; Paravicini Library, sale, Sotheby's London, 22 June 1818, lot 156, to: Richard Heber, with Heber's inscription: June 1818, sale of imported books by Sotheby on front free endpaper (sale, 24 Jan. 1835, lot 1667); Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, with his shelfmark "12.F" (sale, Sotheby's London, 3 July 1897, lot 1539); George Dunn of Woolley Hall, inscriptions and bookplate (sale, Sotheby's London, 22 November 1917, lot 3111); C.S. Ascherson, bookplate; Albert Ehrman, Broxbourne Library, bookplates; W.R.H. Jeudwine, bookplate; George Abrams, bookplate. Rare edition of an early work of German Humanism. Albrecht Eyb, doctor of law, holder of many benefices in Germany and chamberlain to Pius II, compiled this anthology of humanistic rhetoric, whose title honors his mother Margarete von Wolmershausen, as a manual of humanist rhetorical theory. The text contains selected passages from classical and Italian Renaissance authors and poets - Cicero. Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch, et al., formulas for letter-writing, and general instruction in eloquence. The book remained popular for many years. This is the third Paris edition, following two editions, also of part I only, from the shop "Au Soufflet Vert". In early 1478, Ulrich Gering's association with the other Paris prototypographers Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger came to an end; in April 1478 he began printing under his name alone, using two new roman types for editions of classical, humanist, and theological texts. ISTC records only 11 surviving copies, of which at least one is imperfect, and of which only one in America (AnnMary Brown Memorial Library). This is a fine, fresh copy. Goff E-172; HC 6821; GW 9540. BMC VIII, 22; Pell 4705. UNIQUE PIECE!!!!!!!!! PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Very Good Condition
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KONRAD SCHWEYNHEIM & ARNOLD
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| PRIMA AFRICAE TABULA 1478 ROMA
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Seconda carta a stampa della regione, basata sul manoscritto di Nicholas Germanus, tratta dalla Geographia di Claudio Tolomeo, Roma 1478/90. Un anno dopo la prima edizione della Geographia, curata da Taddeo Crivelli in Bologna, un nuovo set di mappe fu inciso a Roma per accompagnare il testo dellopera. Pubblicata da Domizio Caldernius e stampata da Konrad Schweynheym, alla loro morte fu ristampata da Arnold Buckinck nel 1490. Successivamente le lastre furono corrette e ristampate nel 1507 e 1508. Incisione in rame su due lastre unite, proiezione trapezioidale, lievi abrasioni nella piega centrale, nel complesso in buono stato di conservazione. Rarissima. Dimensioni 395-475x330." "Second printed map of the region, based on Nicholas Germanus manuscript and taken from Claudio Tolomeos Geographia, Rome 1478/90. A year after the first Geographia edition, edited by Taddeo Crivelli in Bologna, a new set of maps was engraved in Rome to illustrate the text. Published by Domizio Caldernius and printed by Konrad Schweynheym, the map was subsequently reissued by Arnold Buckinck in 1490. Later on, the plates have been corrected and reprinted in 1507 and 1508. Copperplate in two connected plates, trapezoidal projection, light abrasion in centre fold, in general in good condition. Extremely rare.
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Köln, Nicolaus Götz (Gotz), um 1478 / 80, Type 1.. Zweispaltiges 42-zeiliges Original-Inkunabelblatt auf festem sauberen Papier. Eine zweizeilige rote Lombarde zur Einleitung des 3. Kapitel und rotgestrichene Majuskeln. Blattgröße: 21 x 28,7 cm.. Selten! Der Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke verzeichnet für Götz 31 Drucke. Nikolaus Götz aus Schlettstadt wird um 1460 in Mainzer Urkunden als Goldschmied verzeichnet und ist 1470 in der juristischen Fakultät der Universität Köln eingeschrieben. Sein ältester datierter Druck stammt aus dem Jahre 1474 und sein letzter wird 1480 vollendet. Geldner geht davon aus, dass Götz vorwiegend für den Verleger Johann Helman arbeitete. 1477 geriet er in eine politische Auseinandersetzung, bei der die Stadt sein Druckgerät und seine Typen beschlagnahmte. Hierdurch verlor er seine Selbständigkeit und verließ die Stadt bald nach seinem letzten Druck. (Geldner I 1968, 94f.)
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JACOPI, Johannes (or JACME, Jean or
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| Tractatus de Pestilentia.
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Gothic type, 20 lines. [12] leaves. Small 4to (197 x 138 mm.), modern boards. [Augsburg: Johann Keller, 1478-82]. First edition of one of the earliest, most popular, and important tracts on the plague. This is an extremely rare book — ISTC locates only four copies: BSB, BL, Countway, and NLM. The in-progress GKW locates another copy at the Cistercian monastery at Wilhering in Upper Austria. The printer of this book, Johann Keller, published only five books and they are, for the most part, very rare. Jacopi (or Jacobi or Jaume or Jacme or Jasme), was a “Catalan physician, and translator from Arabic into Catalan, professor of medicine in Montpellier. His birthplace is unknown, but it was possibly Lleida (Lerida on the Segre), and he may have studied in the university of that city. He was mentioned as early as 1360 in a contested election for the chancellorship of the University of Montpellier, was finally elected to that position in 1364, and retained it until his death in 1384. He was consulting physician to several popes and kings: he attended pope Urban V (1362-70); in 1370 he was called to Avignon to aid pope Gregory XI (1370-78) ; in 1378 he was appointed physician to Charles V the Wise, king of France 1364-80; in 1384 he attended the antipope Clement VII (1378-94) in Avignon... “Joannes wrote a number of medical treatises, notably the Tractatus de pestilentia, the Secretarium practicae medicinae, and the Tractatus de calculis in vesica... “The first of these was probably the first to be composed, about 1373. Judging by the number of early printed editions, Joannes’ treatise on the plague was by far the most popular work of its kind... “His plague treatise is divided into three parts, dealing with the cause of the pestilence, the proper regimen for avoiding it, and the treatment. In part I he says that the plague may be caused by infections coming from bad sanitation, foul stagnant water, corrupt air. The two signs of the disease are fever and apostumes. Various questions concerning the susceptibilities of different people are debated. Part II deals with the precautions against the disease which everyone should take. Suitable dwelling places and proper living conditions are described; methods of fumigation, proper diet and exercise are advised. Bloodletting is to be used with caution. In part III the methods of treatment are discussed; these are purgation, bloodletting, and strengthening drugs.”–Sarton, III, Pt. 2, p. 1687. A fine and fresh copy with many edges uncut. ❧ B.M.C., II, p. 361. Goff J-15. Klebs 542.1. Klebs & Sudhoff, Die Ersten Gedruckten Pestschriften, no. 62 & pp. 145-49. Osler, Incunabula Medica, 190.
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EYB, Albrecht Von
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| Margarita poetica (part I)
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Ulrich Gering Hardcover Paris 1478 29 November 1478. Royal 4to (11 x 7 inches; 281 x 181 mm). Collation: a-r8 s6 (-s6). [141] leaves (of 142, without final blank.) 36-38 lines. Roman type 5:100. Initial spaces with guide letters. Opening initial in red and blue with handsome floral illumination on a gilt ground by a French hand, other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue throughout. Late 19th-century blind-tooled morocco, edges stained dark brown from an earlier binding; morocco-backed folding case. Condition : Occasional wormholes at beginning and end. Provenance : Anthonius Grouche, priest of St.-Loup, Amiens, with his contemporary ownership inscription huius libri verus est possessor dominus Anthonius grouche , motto semper presumit seva perturbata conscientia written in gothic script, and paraphs at end; given to his brother Petrus Grouche: contemporary inscription Dominus anthonius Grouche sacerdos ecclesie divi lupi de ambianis dedit hunc librum dilecto sibi fratri fratri petri grouche orate pro eo ; Celestines of Amiens, 17th-century ownership inscription ; Paravicini Library, sale, Sotheby's London, 22 June 1818, lot 156, to: Richard Heber, with Heber's inscription: June 1818, sale of imported books by Sotheby on front free endpaper (sale, 24 Jan. 1835, lot 1667); Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, with his shelfmark "12.F" (sale, Sotheby's London, 3 July 1897, lot 1539); George Dunn of Woolley Hall, inscriptions and bookplate (sale, Sotheby's London, 22 November 1917, lot 3111); C.S. Ascherson, bookplate; Albert Ehrman, Broxbourne Library, bookplates; W.R.H. Jeudwine, bookplate; George Abrams, bookplate. Rare edition of an early work of German Humanism. Albrecht Eyb, doctor of law, holder of many benefices in Germany and chamberlain to Pius II, compiled this anthology of humanistic rhetoric, whose title honors his mother Margarete von Wolmershausen, as a manual of humanist rhetorical theory. The text contains selected passages from classical and Italian Renaissance authors and poets - Cicero. Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch, et al., formulas for letter-writing, and general instruction in eloquence. The book remained popular for many years. This is the third Paris edition, following two editions, also of part I only, from the shop "Au Soufflet Vert". In early 1478, Ulrich Gering's association with the other Paris prototypographers Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger came to an end; in April 1478 he began printing under his name alone, using two new roman types for editions of classical, humanist, and theological texts. ISTC records only 11 surviving copies, of which at least one is imperfect, and of which only one in America (AnnMary Brown Memorial Library). This is a fine, fresh copy. Goff E-172; HC 6821; GW 9540. BMC VIII, 22; Pell 4705. UNIQUE PIECE!!!!!!!!! PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Very Good Condition
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SOLDUS, Jacobus.
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| Opus insigne de peste felicit.
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Bologna, Johannes Schriber de Annunciata for Thomas de Bononia. 1478. - Small 4to. [36] leaves. Gothic type. Text printed in double columns; 38 lines to a full column. Initials hand-painted in red. Limp vellum, made up of an antiphonal leaf. First edition of a treatise on the plague and its cure written in 1431 during an epidemic at Florence. Its author, Jacopo Soldi (1370-1440), a physician and humanist scholar, had joined the Order of the Servites, and his plague manual was printed by order of the Dean of the Bolognese Theological Faculty, Thomas de Bononia, a fellow Servite. Soldi’s other medical works remain unpublished. Old collector’s stamp in blank margins of recto of second leaf and on blank verso of last leaf. Bookplate of Hugo Fernandez de Burzago y Barrios. BMC VI, 818; Hain-Copinger 14870; Klebs 921.1; Klebs (Pest) 98; Osler 149; Sudhoff, Erste gedruckte Pestschriften, 98; Wellcome, I, 6001. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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EYB, Albrecht Von
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| Margarita poetica (part I)
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Ulrich Gering Hardcover Paris 1478 29 November 1478. Royal 4to (11 x 7 inches; 281 x 181 mm). Collation: a-r8 s6 (-s6). [141] leaves (of 142, without final blank.) 36-38 lines. Roman type 5:100. Initial spaces with guide letters. Opening initial in red and blue with handsome floral illumination on a gilt ground by a French hand, other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue throughout. Late 19th-century blind-tooled morocco, edges stained dark brown from an earlier binding; morocco-backed folding case. Condition : Occasional wormholes at beginning and end. Provenance : Anthonius Grouche, priest of St.-Loup, Amiens, with his contemporary ownership inscription huius libri verus est possessor dominus Anthonius grouche , motto semper presumit seva perturbata conscientia written in gothic script, and paraphs at end; given to his brother Petrus Grouche: contemporary inscription Dominus anthonius Grouche sacerdos ecclesie divi lupi de ambianis dedit hunc librum dilecto sibi fratri fratri petri grouche orate pro eo ; Celestines of Amiens, 17th-century ownership inscription ; Paravicini Library, sale, Sotheby's London, 22 June 1818, lot 156, to: Richard Heber, with Heber's inscription: June 1818, sale of imported books by Sotheby on front free endpaper (sale, 24 Jan. 1835, lot 1667); Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, with his shelfmark "12.F" (sale, Sotheby's London, 3 July 1897, lot 1539); George Dunn of Woolley Hall, inscriptions and bookplate (sale, Sotheby's London, 22 November 1917, lot 3111); C.S. Ascherson, bookplate; Albert Ehrman, Broxbourne Library, bookplates; W.R.H. Jeudwine, bookplate; George Abrams, bookplate. Rare edition of an early work of German Humanism. Albrecht Eyb, doctor of law, holder of many benefices in Germany and chamberlain to Pius II, compiled this anthology of humanistic rhetoric, whose title honors his mother Margarete von Wolmershausen, as a manual of humanist rhetorical theory. The text contains selected passages from classical and Italian Renaissance authors and poets - Cicero. Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch, et al., formulas for letter-writing, and general instruction in eloquence. The book remained popular for many years. This is the third Paris edition, following two editions, also of part I only, from the shop "Au Soufflet Vert". In early 1478, Ulrich Gering's association with the other Paris prototypographers Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger came to an end; in April 1478 he began printing under his name alone, using two new roman types for editions of classical, humanist, and theological texts. ISTC records only 11 surviving copies, of which at least one is imperfect, and of which only one in America (AnnMary Brown Memorial Library). This is a fine, fresh copy. Goff E-172; HC 6821; GW 9540. BMC VIII, 22; Pell 4705. UNIQUE PIECE!!!!!!!!! PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Very Good Condition
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Jacobus de Voragine
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| Legenda Aurea Sanctorum.
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Nürnberg, Koberger 1478.. 42 cm. (2), 274 Blatt, 2 Spalten 50-zeilig. Mit großer Initiale auf Goldgrund, das Jüngste Gericht darstellend, und floraler Randbordüre auf Folio 1r, durchgehend rubriziert mit Kapitel-Initialen in Rot und Blau. Zeitgenössischer (Weihenstephaner?) Klostereinband aus rötlichem Hirschleder mit reicher Verzierung und Papiertitelschild. Rücken restauriert. In den Innendeckeln je ein Manuskriptblatt. Auf Registerblatt 1r Eintragung "Iste Liber attinet Weyhensteven". - Copinger, Rep. Bibl. 6414 - Proctor 1978 - Goff J-90 - Hase, Koberger S. 90 - IDL 2557; Madsen 2173. Impressum am Ende: 11. August 1478. Die ersten Blatt am breiten Rand etwas fingerfleckig und zwei kleine Randeinrisse. Die Einbandverzierung besteht aus zwei verschiedenen geprägten Bordüren. Das Mittelfeld ist in rautenförmige Felder aufgeteilt, Schließen und Beschläge entfernt. Auf beiden Deckeln durch Abschabung kleinere Fehlstellen. - Sprache / Language: Lateinisch / Latin -
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[SACRO BOSCO, Joannes de and Gerardi
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| Iohannis de sacrobusto anglici uiri clarissimi spera mundi feliciterincipit.
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per Franciscu[m] Renner de Hailbrun [Venetius 1478.] Small 4to, 20.5 cm., collating a-b8, c-d6; e-f10, this copy with 45 (of 48) leaves - lacking e2, and e9-10); 25 lines; types 5:109bR (text), 6:65G (diagram text); incipits to each part pprinted in red; 6 (of 11) woodcut diagrams (2 with hand-coloring), woodcut initials (mostly hand-colored), full contemporary and probably original limp vellum, old manuscript titling on spine, and with a wallet-style wrap-around flap, the vellum worn and soiled. Beginning at ff. [29]: Gerardi cremonensis uiri clarissimi Theorica planetaru[m] feliciter incipit. The Theorica planetarum is usually considered to be by the Cremona astrologer Gherardo da Sabbioneta, although some authorities ascribe it to the Gerardus Cremonensis who died 1187. See DSB, Supplement, p. 189 for a summary of the evidence. Both works were first printed in 1472. In spite of the missing leaves, this is a most interesting copy, having been annotated by the rubricator and colorist, with 11 lines of notes by him on the verso of the blank leaf preceding a1, and notes in the margins of 25 of the pages of the Sphaera mundi, and another 3 more lines of notes on the blank leaf following f10; also with a dated ownership inscription of Caroli Malagesse Benigni, 1636, with his note "Impressum 1478" in ink on the first flyleaf, and with a calligraphic notation on verso of the second rear flyleaf: "Fur cave ne nostrum rapiat tua dextera librum, Ni dare vis lignis colla tenenda tribus: ("Thief, watch that your hand doesn't snatch our book away, Unless you wish your neck to be restrained by three wooden sticks" [i.e., the yoke]. Goff J-402; Hain-Copinger; *14108; Proctor, 4175; BM 15th Century, V, p. 195.
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INCUNABULA - [GRUYTRODE, JACOBUS
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| Speculum aureum anime peccatricis. Colophon: speculum aureum anime peccatricis, a quodam cartusiense editum: finit feliciter. Impressumque Parisius per magistrum Vdalricum cognomento Gering.
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Paris, Ulrich Gering [1478 or 79]. a-c10, d12: 42 ff. 4to, 207X143 mm. Rubricated in red throughout. First leaf slightly dusty, a few faint underlinings, but a clean, crisp and unwashed, internally near perfect copy with many uncut edges, preserving the ms catchwords at end of quires b and c. Bound in brown cloth from the second half of the 19th century.
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Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus
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| [Opera].
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Venezia, Johannes de Colonia e Johannes Manthen, 27 agosto 1478. "In-folio (mm 298x196). Segnatura:a12, b-m10, n8, o-r10, s-x8, y10, z8, 3-48; 228 carte non numerate di cui la prima bianca. Caratteri 109R2 e 110G. Alla carta b1 splendida iniziale miniata ‘M’ con corpo a foglia d’oro, decorata da motivi floreali in rosa, blu, verde, giallo e contenente un ritratto dell’autore coronato d’alloro entro medaglione circolare; al margine inferiore, racchiuse in serto d’alloro, armi non identificate composte da una croce in oro su tre promontori in campo verde con decorazioni floreali ai lati; nel testo dieci belle iniziali con corpo della lettera in oro, miniate in verde, blu, rosa con decorazioni floreali a pennello in bianco sul fondo; gli altri capilettera in blu o in rosso, segni di paragrafo in rosso. Legatura cinquecentesca in pergamena rigida, dorso a tre grandi nervi con titolo e antica segnatura scritti a mano. Esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione, alcune carte con barbe; qualche foro di tarlo alle prime e alle ultime carte. Antica segnatura manoscritta biffata alla prima carta; ex-libris di George Abrams e della Biblioteca Philosophico Ermetica al contropiatto anteriore. Rara edizione veneziana dell’opera del grande apologista cristiano che è una ristampa di quella impressa, sempre a Venezia, da Vindelino da Spira nel 1472. Alcuni esemplari dell’edizione di Vindelino contenevano un quaderno aggiuntivo – mancante nella maggior parte dei casi – recante l’Epitome divinarum institutionum di Lattanzio. Anche Johannes de Colonia e Johannes Manthen stamparono questo quaderno separatamente, dal momento che esso non viene segnalato nel registro, e che si trova, nel nostro esemplare, legato tra la carta 7 e la carta 8 del fascicolo ‘z’. Come tutte le impressioni antiche l’Epitome reca solo i capitoli dal 56 in poi dal momento che la parte iniziale dell’opera (capitoli 1-55) non verrà scoperta e pubblicata fino al 1712. Il poema di Lattanzio Phoenix è seguito da estratti riguardanti la fenice tratti dalle Metamorfosi di Ovidio, dal De resurrectione di Venanzio Fortunato e dall’Inferno di Dante (xxiv, vv. 106-111, qui alla c. 218r). HC* 9814; BMC v, 233; Goff L, 9; IGI 5625. A beautiful well-preserved copy of a rare Venetian Lactantius edition. Decorated by an opening historiated miniature showing the author with a book in his hand. From the George Abrams collection."
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SYLVIUS (Jacob).
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| De Medicamentorum Simplicium Delectu, Praeparationibus, Mistionis modo, Libri tres. Paris, Aegidium Gorbinum, 1562. RELIÉ AVEC (à la suite): 2). MESUE (Ioannis). De Re Medica Libri Tres. Iacobo Sylvio Medico interprete… Paris, Aegidium Gorbinum, 1561. 3). GALIEN. Methodus Sex Librorum galeni differentiis morborum et symptomatorum in tabellas sex... De Signis Omnibus Medicis hoc est Salubribus, Insalubribus et Neutrii, commentarius omnino necessarius medico futuro per Iacobum Sylvium.. Paris, Gorbinum, 1561.
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3 ouvrages en un fort volume in-8. 1). 125ff.ch. 7ff. 2). 8ff. 200pp. 3). 103ff. ch. Pleine basane,dos à nerfs (Reliure du XVIIIs.). 1). Pharmacopée de J. Sylvius (Jacques Dubois) (1478-1555), traitant de la préparation, du mélange et de la propriété des médicaments. 2). Cette Pharmacopée du médecin arabe Mesue (776-855) a eu de nombreuses éditions. Celle-ci est accompagnée des commentaires de J. Sylvius. Les différents chapitres s'intitulent: "Simplicium Medicamentorum", "Condita", "Iuleppa", "Syrupi", "Decocta", "Infusi", "Olea", "Cerata", etc. 3). Ouvrage de Galien traitant notamment des choses salubres et insalubres et en particulier des aliments et des boissons. C'est une version présentée par J. Sylvius sous forme de tableaux synoptiques à l'usage des étudiants. (Marge inférieure des derniers feuillets rongée, loin du texte). Intéressante réunion de 3 ouvrages médicaux rares du XVIs. 1). Durling, 1245. 2). Durling, 3146. 3). Manque à Durling.
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PETRARCH, Francesco
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| Trionfi
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| PETRARCH, Francesco. [I Trionfi con commentio di Bernardo Glicini da Siena]. Venice: Reynaldus of Nijmegen and Theodorus of Rendsburg, February 6, 1478. Small, thick folio, later full vellum rebacked, new endpapers. Collation: a10, b8, c6, e8, f10, g8, h-i6, k-J8, l6, m8, n6, o8, p-s6, t10, aa8, bb-ff6, gg10. Housed in custom clamshell box. $12,000. Early edition of the Trionfi, a touchstone for the literature and art of Renaissance Europe, containing Bernardo Lapini's influential commentary, with extensive references to Filelfo's commentary of 1446. Petrarch was crowned poet laureate of Rome in 1341 and is generally considered the poet who ushered in the Renaissance. "He perfected the sonnet form and left behind a body of work in the Tuscan dialect of Italy, the beauty and sensibilities of which justly secured him the reputation as being the first modern lyric poet" (King's College). Trionfi is an allegorical cycle composed in terza rima, the metrical form devised by Dante for the Divine Comedy. The poem is cautionary in nature and takes as its metaphor a triumphal procession of six allegorical figures-Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity-each victorious over its predecessor. Central to Trionfi (as well as | |
