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JUDAS ISCARIOT
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| Illuminated miniature of the betrayal by Judas Iscariot on a full leaf from a Book of Hours. France (Paris), c.
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- Illuminated rectangular miniature (107 x 60mm.) which shows Judas betraying Christ with a kiss in front of a large group of soldiers; in the foreground lies the servant Malchus whose ear has just been sliced off by Peter who stands beside Christ. Illuminated border of acanthus and coloured flowers and leaves. Size of leaf: 180 x 123mm. Ruled for 18 lines of gothic text. 1480. A miniature painted by a follower of the Maître François, a highly succesful artist who included among his cliente bibliophiles from the French court and dignitaries in Paris; he influenced many other artists who copied his style and palette. His miniatures are very accomplished productions in which the elongated usually standing figures make a somewhat static appearance; his colours range from beige, brown and mauve in the foreground to azurite blue, lemon and harsh red in the background. At the foot of another leaf from this manuscript, the arms of the family of Aurelle de Villeneuve appear with those of Allaneau, of Anjou. The illuminated border considerably faded due to waterstaining, but the miniature only lightly affected, apart from wear to the blue cloak of Judas.
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MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius
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| Epigrammata. (with commentary by Domitius Calderinus)
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(Printer of the 1480 Martial) Venice 1480 Contemporary blind tooled calf over wooden boards (rebacked and without clasps) Folio . Early printed edition of Martial with the commentary by Calderinus which was first printed in 1474 by De Colonia and Manthen. A very attractive example of early Venetian printing with the original text printed in a large Roman type surrounded by a sea of commentary. This is the work by which this anonymous press has been named. The British Museum Catalogue (vol. V, p. 296) identifies three editions of 1480, signed "Venetus", which constitute the total recognized output of this anonymous printer [223] leaves (instead of 224; without last blank). Roman type; 57 lines; capital spaces; ownership inscription on first blank page; marginal annotations in an early hand; first few leaves with some minor marginal handsoiling; few very minor dampstain in outer blank margin of last few leaves. § Hain-Copinger 10814; Pellechet 7599; IGI (+ Suppl) 6222; Proctor 5660; BMC V, 296; Goff M 304; CIBN M-165; BSB M-195
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Jacobus de Voragine:
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| Legenda aurea, deutsch. (GWM 11362, H 9973). Von sant Benedict.
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Augsburg, Johann Bämler, 26. Juni u. 4. Oktober 1480. Type 3.. Einspaltiges, 31-zeiliges O-Inkunabelblatt mit einem koloriertem Holzschnitt des Hl. Benedict (7,6 x 6,7 cm) und einer 2-zeiligen Holzschnittlombarde. Blatt fleckig und Reste von Papierstreifen der Zeit zur Stabilisierung von drei Einrissen. Randglossen der Zeit. Blattgröße: 18,5 x 26,6 cm. Incunabula text woodcut leaf.. Seltenes Blatt aus der "Legenda Aurea" Heiligenleben des Jacobus de Voragine. Der italienische Prediger und Schriftsteller Jacobus de Voragine (Viraggio) aus dem heutigen Varazze bei Genua lebte von 1230-1298. Der Dominikaner Jacobus de Voragine fügte aus der Bibel, den Apokryphen, verschiedene Akten sowie überlieferte Geschichten, die Lebensgeschichten der Heiligen zur "Legenda Aurea". Das Werk in volkstümlicher, lateinischer Sprache geschrieben, wurde zum populärsten religiösen Volksbuch des Mittelalters. Die deutschen Übersetzungen der "Legenda Aurea" wurden das "Leben der Heiligen" oder der "Heiligen Leben" genannt. Zahlreiche Anzeichen deuten heute darauf hin, dass zwischen 1384 und 1421 im Umkreis des Dominikanerordens in Nürnberg eine neue Kompilation der Heiligenlegenden entstand, die unter Einbeziehung der "Legenda aurea", stärker auf den deutschsprachigen Glaubensraum bezogen war. So wurden in diesem Legendar u. a. die Heiligen Bonifazius, Gallus, Kilian oder Magnus von Füssen aufgenommen. Dieser "deutsche Legendar" übertraf in seiner Verbreitung die "Leganda Aurea". (Becker; Overgaauw: Aderlass + Seelentrost 2003, 219). Bämler, der seit 1453 in Augsburg als als Schreiber nachweisbar ist legt einen ersten nachweisbaren Druck im Jahre 1472 auf. Er gehört zu den fruchtbarsten Augsburger Druckern dessen Werke mehrheitlich der Erbauung und Belehrung dienten. (vgl. F. Geldner: Die deutschen Inkunabel-Drucker, Band 1, S. 138)
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SAMUEL MAROCHITANUS.
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| Epistola contra Judaeorum errores. Based on the translation from the Arabic by Alphonsus Boni Hominis. - PONTIUS PILATUS (pseudo-). Epistola ad Tiberium.
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- Kl.-4to (205 x 147 mm). [22] Bl. [a8, b6, c8]. Pappband. (Rom, Eucharius Silber, um 1480/82). Eines der berühmtesten antisemitischen Schriften des Mittelalters. Sehr seltene römische Inkunabel aus der Frühzeit der Offizin von Eucharius Silber der zwischen 1480 und 1509 aktiv war. Lange Zeit wurde der Druck der Offizin Andreas Freitags in Rom zugeschrieben. Der Text gründet auf der um das Jahr 1072 verfassten Schrift des aus dem marokkanischen Fez stammenden Samuel Ben Jehuda'Abbâs el Maghrebi el-Israel, der in Toledo zum Christentum konvertierte. Seine polemische Schrift Contra Judaeorum errores (Ueber die Irrtümer der Juden) wurde 1339 angeblich von dem spanischen Domikaner Alfonso Buenhombre (Bonihominis) aus dem Arabischen ins Lateinische übersetzt. Steinschneider äusserte aber auch die Vermutung, dass der Verfasser der vorliegenden Polemik identisch mit dem Übersetzter sei. "In the original work Samuel claimed to prove the prophetic character of Jesus and Mohammed, and argued that too many laws were added to the Torah by the Mishnah and Gemara. Buenhombre adapted the tract to present it as a Christian rather than Muslim polemic, and may have drawn on another Arabic tract as well" (Jewish Encyclopedia). Erstmals 1475 in Mantua gedruckt, erschienen gegen zwanzig Inkunabelausgaben sowie weitere Drucke bis ins 18. Jahrhundert. Vor allem die ganz frühen Inkunabelausgaben enthalten wie vorliegend den unechten, frühestens im 5. Jahrhundert entstandenen Brief des Kaisers Tiberius an Pontius Pilatus. Darin zeigt sich der durch Magdalena informierte Tiberius empört über die ungerechte Hinrichtung Jesu und verurteilt Pilatus mitsamt den jüdischen Führern zum Tod, anschliessend wird der Untergang der für Jesu Tod Verantwortlichen geschildert. Die im Campo di Fiore angesiedelte Offizin des dem geistlichen Stand angehörenden Eucharius Silber aus Regensburg gehörte zusammen mit jener von Stephan Planck zu den beiden grossen Druckereien Roms im 15. Jahrhundert. - Erstes unbedrucktes Bl. mit Notizen von alter Hand (Liste von Verben) etwas braunfleckig, Innensteg oben geringfügig wasserfleckig, Schnitt minimal gebräunt, insgesamt ein vorzügliches, breitrandiges Exemplar. Helmut N. Friedlaender (Kat. Christie's, NY 2001, Nr. 113). Goff S-106; IBP 4876; Reichling 722; IGI 8580; Garcia Rojo/Ortiz de Montalvon 1638; Fürst II, 153; Steinschneider, Polemische und apologetische Literatur in arabischer Sprache (1877), S. 137-138; Gutenberg Jb. 1966, S. 112-115; LThK II, 690; Very rare incunabular edition of one of the most widely disseminated medieval anti-Semitic tracts, from the press of Eucharius Silber from Regensburg, Rome's leading printer whose press was active from 1480 to 1509. The text is based on the 14th-century Latin version by the Spanish Dominican Alfonsus Bonihominis (Buenhombre, d.1353) of the 11th-century Arabic treatise Ifham al-Yahud [Confutation of the Jews] by the convert Samuel Abu Nasr ibn Abbas, son of Judah ibn Abbas of Fez. In his original versionl Samuel claimed to prove the prophetic character of Jesus and Mohammed and argued that too many laws were added to the Torah by the Mishnah and Gemara. Buenhombre adapted the tract to present it as a Christian rather than Muslim polemic; he may well have drawn on other Arabic texts as well. - The anti-Semitic work was first printed at Mantua in 1475. About twenty incunabular editions survive, including translations into German, Italian and Spanish. The text maintained its popularity throughout the following two centuries and was translated into most European languages, including Russian. Only early editions contain the spurious letter (written no earlier than the 5th century) of Emperor Tiberius to Pontius Pilate. - The first blank l [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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SAINT JOHN ON PATMOS
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| Small illuminated miniature of St. John on Patmos, on a full leaf from a Book of Hours. France (Paris), c.
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- Small miniature which shows St. writing his gospel on his lap, accompanied by a large eagle. Three sided border composed of a bird, blue and gold acanthus, coloured flowers and leaves, all on a liquid gold ground (border considerably waterstained). Size of leaf: 180 x 123mm. Verso ruled for 18 lines of gothic text. 1480. At the foot of another leaf from this manuscript, the arms of the family of Aurelle de Villeneuve appear with those of Allaneau, of Anjou. The leaf is unfortunately waterstained affecting the illuminated border.
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Calendar Leaf from a French Book of
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| September.
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France: 1480. - Single leaf 115 x 182mm. Leaf from a calendar of a French Book of Hours on vellum.Recto: Calendar in gold, blue and red. Large rectangular "KL" in red, white and gray on a gold background with colored accents. Three rectangular decorative elementson the right. 2 floral and one showing a farmer sewing seeds with two buidings behind him and a city in the distance. Verso also has three rectangles at the lest. 2 floral, and the center with scales. All miniatures weel executed with a variety of colors and liquid gold.
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E. J. Olszewski
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| Italian Drawings from the Sixteenth Century SET
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- DCXXVIII+34 p., 572 b/w ill.+17 colour ill. Brepols. Hardback. English Text: Paintings, sculpture, and classical antiquities are the most valuable resources of any museum, and are the first objects to be published in each museum’s own collection catalogue or online inventory. Collection catalogues, however, have customarily included only a small sample of the riches to be found in Midwestern collections of master drawings. This volume of sixteenth-century drawings has been largely the work of Burton L. Dunbar (University of Missouri-Kansas City), director of the project and a specialist in the arts of northern Europe, and Edward J. Olszewski (Case Western Reserve University), co-editor for the series, a well-known authority on drawings of the Italian Renaissance. This volume covers the sixteenth century, including artists born as a rule between 1480 and 1580, with the exception of Giovanni Baglione (ca. 1573-1644) and the Carracci [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Werfel (Franz) = novel / George Seaton
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| THE SONG OF BERNADETTE. [Revised Final Draft Screenplay]
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8.5" x 11", orange wrappers with original title label, two pins, 255 mimeographed leaves, includingblue and green revision leaves, printed on rectos only. The wrapper cover has the file No. Env. 1480 written in the upper right corner. War time labe l reads "LESS SHOOTING HERE MEANS MORE SHOOTING OVER THERE-SAVE FILM!" Label sticker on spine also. Dated March 8, 1943. Blue revisions dated 4/23/43 green revisions dated 4/9/43 and 4/14/43. File page missing perforated section. Based on Franz We r f el's famous novel, the screenplay is by George Seaton. The 1943 film was directed by Henry King and stars Jennifer Jones and Charles Bickford. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and received four.
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LANDINO, Cristoforo.
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| Disputationum Camaldulensium Libri IV. Ca. 1v: Libro Primo De Vita Activa / Et Contemplativa: / Libro Secondo De Summo Bono / Libro III-IV Allegorie In Virgilium.
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- S.n.t. (Florentiae, Nicolaus Laurentii Alamanus, circa 1480). In 4 (cm. 27,5x19,8), cc.nn. 129, tit. in rosso, spazio per capilettera (con 2 lettere guida), spazi per passi in greco, mm. 175 (188)x114, ll. 31 e titoli correnti (ultima carta: linee 34), le
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ST. JODOCUS
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| Illuminated arched miniature (73 x 49mm.) of St. Jodocus (or Josse), from a Book of Hours. France, c.
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Full figure of St. Jodocus, who is dressed as a pilgrim with thick hair and beard and wearing richly coloured clothes; he stands holding a book in his left hand and a staff and a book-bag in his right hand, full border of blue and gold acanthus and coloured flowers and leaves, including several large daisies. 3-line initial in burnished gold on a mauve and blue ground.Size of leaf: 134 x 94mm. On verso, 16 lines of text in a lettre bâtarde. 1480. Fine illumination initial of St. Jodocus (also known as Josse), a 7th century king in Britanny, some of whose relics were brought to England in the 10th century and enshrined in Winchester Cathedral; hence he was a very popular saint in England in the Middle Ages. In remarkably good condition.
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ILLUMINATED LEAF
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| Leaf from a Book of Hours (The Trinity)
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(ILLUMINATED LEAF). Illuminated Leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Flanders. France, circa 1480. Single leaf on vellum, measuring 3 by 4 inches. Handsomely matted and framed, entire piece measures 9-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches. $8500. Beautiful illuminated full-page miniature from a Book of Hours, depicting the Holy Trinity. The Trinity here shows God elaborately dressed in red and seated to the right on a throne, sceptor in hand. At his left sits his Son, also on a throne and identically clad. The Holy Spirit is depicted as a white dove hovering between the two. Behind them is a cloth panel rendered in rich green. The entire scene is set against a heavenly sky with lapis lazuli clouds at the edges. Bordering the image on all sides are typical Flemish borders featuring sprays of brown acanthus leaves on a grayish-blue background with scattered pieces of fruit in green, pink, red, and peach, an elaborate white flower, and a white and blue snail. Fine condition.
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MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius
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| Epigrammata. (with commentary by Domitius Calderinus)
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(Printer of the 1480 Martial), Venice - Contemporary blind tooled calf over wooden boards (rebacked and without clasps) Folio . Early printed edition of Martial with the commentary by Calderinus which was first printed in 1474 by De Colonia and Manthen. A very attractive example of early Venetian printing with the original text printed in a large Roman type surrounded by a sea of commentary. This is the work by which this anonymous press has been named. The British Museum Catalogue (vol. V, p. 296) identifies three editions of 1480, signed "Venetus", which constitute the total recognized output of this anonymous printer [223] leaves (instead of 224; without last blank). Roman type; 57 lines; capital spaces; ownership inscription on first blank page; marginal annotations in an early hand; first few leaves with some minor marginal handsoiling; few very minor dampstain in outer blank margin of last few leaves. § Hain-Copinger 10814; Pellechet 7599; IGI (+ Suppl) 6222; Proctor 5660; BMC V, 296; Goff M 304; CIBN M-165; BSB M-195. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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| Vélin .
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s.l. [Nord de la France - Nothern France], s.d. [circa 1480]. leaf size 17 x 12 or 6.69 x 4.72 inches, 17 lines in a neat liturgical hand, gothica bastarda, brown ink, attractive floral design in blue, green, red and gold in a panel on the outer margin recto - verso. Latin text : Nostro Ihesu Christo virgo es electus et inter ceteros magis dilectus atque misteriis celestibus ultra omnes imbutus apostolus eius et evvangelista factus es preclarissimus. Te eciam invoco cum Maria matre eiusdem salvatoris nostri ut michi opem tuam cum ipsa conferre digneris. O due gemme celestes Maria et Iohannes, o duo luminaria divinitus ante deum lucencia vestris radiis scelerum meorum effugate nubila. Vos enim estis illi duo in quibus deus pater per filium suum spiritualiter edificavit sibi domum. Et in quibus ipse filius dei obsincerissime virginitatis meritum dilectionis sue confirmavit pri\vilegium in cruce pendensuni vestrum ita dicens, Mulier ecce filius tuus. Deinde ad alium ecce mater tua. In huiusmoditam sacratissimi amoris dulcedine qui tunc hore dominico velut mater et filius adinvicem estis coniuncti. Vobis duobus ego miserrimus peccator commendo hodie corpus meum et animam meam et in omnibus horis atque momentis interius et exterius firmi custodes et pii. -------------------------, dimensions du feuillet 17 x 12 cm,17 lignes manuscrites, gothique bâtarde, encre bistre, jolie décoration florale dans la marge de gouttière recto-verso rehaussée de bleu, rouge, vert et or. Texte en latin: nostro Ihesu Christo virgo es electus et inter ceteros magis dilectus atque misteriis celestibus ultra omnes imbutus apostolus eius et evvangelista factus es preclarissimus. Te eciam invoco cum Maria matre eiusdem salvatoris nostri ut\ michi opem tuam cum ipsa conferre digneris. O due gemme celestes Maria et Iohannes, o duo luminaria divinitus ante deum lucencia vestris radiis scelerum meorum effugate nubila. Vos enim estis illi duo in quibus deus pater per filium suum spiritualiter edificavit sibi domum. Et in quibus ipse filius dei obsincerissime virginitatis meritum dilectionis sue confirmavit privilegium in cruce pendensuni vestrum ita dicens, Mulier ecce filius tuus. Deinde ad alium ecce mater tua. In huiusmoditam sacratissimi amoris dulcedine qui tunc hore dominico velut mater et filius adinvicem estis coniuncti. Vobis duobus ego miserrimus peccator commendo hodie corpus meum et animam meam et in omnibus horis atque momentis interius et exterius firmi custodes et pii.
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GUEVARA, Antonio de.
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| L'Horloge des princes avec l'histoire de Marc Aurele . Traduit de Castillan en François par R.B. de Grise: depuis reveue et corrigé par N. de Herberay, seigneur des Essars. Paris, for Claude Micard (colophon: by George l'Oiselet), 1577. 16mo (12 x 7.5 cm). With woodcut border on title-page. Contemporary calf with gilt centrepiece on covers.
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- (16), 552, (4) ll. Palau 110180; this edition not in Adams, BMC STC French, Brunet, Graesse; NUC (vol. 222, p. 189) lists 1 copy (Yale). French translation of a widely popular courtesy book by Fra Antonio Guevara (1480-1545), first published in Valladolid in 1529. In the present guide, Guevara gives rulers directions with regard to their private and public conduct. The work is divided into three books: On the need for the Prince to be a good Christian; how the Prince should behave towards his wife and children; and how he should govern himself and his country. It contains the life of Marcus Aurelius and his "Letters," full of moral advice and instructions about correct social behaviour. Guevara gives numerous exemplary and instructive stories from a variety of sources, mostly from classical history but some entirely fictitious, as well as proverbs and wise sayings. The present work was translated into French in 1531 and a second revised French translation by Nicolas de Herberay appeared in 1555. The work was extremely popular in France, and the French version was the basis for Sir Thomas North's English translation The Diall of Princes, first printed in 1557. The book was considered in England to be the quintessence of political subtlety, and its maxims were collected and repeated at the court of Elizabeth by every one who aspired to literary taste.This small-sized edition was printed by George L'Oiselet in Rouen for Claude Micard in Paris, and is dated in the colophon "1576." Small defect to title-page; a few lines on page 6/7 partly erased with ink, but still well readable; a bit soiled and slightly discoloured; annotations and old owners entries on flyleaves dated 1585, J. Denant; 1626 de Luynes, Paris; 19th cent. Beauchamp and 1880, Vicomte R. de Courson, Brieux. Copy from the library of H. de la Fontaine Verwey; binding rubbed, upper and lower spine replaced; a bit worn.
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OWNER OF THE MANUSCRIPT
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| Illuminated miniature of the owner of the manuscript kneeling in prayer before the Virgin. France (Paris), c.
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- Illuminated miniature which shows the owner of the manuscript who is dressed in armour, kneeling in prayer before the Virgin. 3-line illuminated initial painted in blue on a liquid gold ground infilled with coloured flowers; illuminated border of acanthus and coloured flowers and leaves. Size of leaf: 180 x 123mm. Ruled for 18 lines of gothic text. 1480. A miniature painted by a follower of the Maître François, a highly succesful artist who included among his cliente bibliophiles from the French court and dignitaries in Paris; he influenced many other artists who copied his style and palette. His miniatures are very accomplished productions in which the elongated usually standing figures make a somewhat static appearance; his colours range from beige, brown and mauve in the foreground to azurite blue, lemon and harsh red in the background. At the foot of another leaf from this manuscript, the arms of the family of Aurelle de Villeneuve appear with those of Allaneau, of Anjou. The illuminated border considerably faded due to waterstaining, which also affects the left side of the miniature.
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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| TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF LAUDS.
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France, ca. 1480 - Single column 15 lines of text (three lines under the miniature) in an attractive gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Rubrics in red seven one-line initials and four line fillers in burnished gold on a ground of blue and magenta with white tracery two very charming initials (one two- and one three-line) enclosing flowers and a bird left margin of verso with a panel border featuring a prominent potted acanthus plant THE RECTO WITH A FULL DIAPERED BORDER OF UNUSUAL COMPLEXITY featuring flowers grapes and birds within alternating clear and brushed gold tiles this border ENCLOSING A LARGE MINIATURE PAINTING OF THE VISITATION. Slight abrasion on the Virgin's face tiny losses of blue paint in insignificant areas small glue stains from mounting on verso otherwise fine the coloring rich and all elements of the miniature and its border well preserved. While this leaf is perhaps more likely to be provincial than Parisian it is not naïve and it has much to recommend it. The faces are skillfully painted there is a lavishness to the gilt garments and the artist has used coloring to enhance the illusion of depth using increasingly darker shades of green to move our eye from foreground to background. Also the turreted buildings in the background here seem to have more readily apparent architectural detail and are generally more convincing than is usually seen in miniatures from the general run of private devotional books. Finally the extraordinarily complex and colorful border gives the impression of encrusted jewelry; it sparkles with gold touches and displays a variety of flowers in its wallpaper pattern. The artist was clearly a good observer of birds showing five different species including the one perched in the initial D. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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| Liber Precum. Andachtsbuch.
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- Limitierte Auflage von 580 Exemplaren. Deutscher Kommentarband: James Marrow, Margarita Logutova., Köln um 1480 / 90 (Faksimile-Nachdruck jüngeren Datums). 198 Seiten im Format 13,1 x 9,3cm. Mit 14 ganzseitigen Miniaturen. Mit der Faksimilierung des St. Petersburger Liber Precum tritt ein bisher kaum bekanntes Meisterwerk der hochgotischen Buchmalerei endlich ins Blickfeld von Sammlern und Wissenschaftlern. Das hervorstechendste Merkmal dieses Gebetbuches ist der wegen seines Umfangs, seiner Erzähldichte und seiner künstlerischen Qualität einzigartige Bilderzyklus, der den faksimilierten ersten Teil der Handschrift, Fols. 1-99, eine Folge von Gebeten zur Vita Christi und eine Litanei, begleitet. Mit seinen 41 ganzseitigen Miniaturen stellt er die vollständigste und ikonographisch reichste Illustrationsfolge zum Leben und Leiden Jesu dar, die aus dieser Epoche erhalten ist.
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Diebold Schilling
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| Great Burgundian Chronicle By Diebold Schilling of Bern (Die Grobe Burgunderchronik Des Diebold Schilling Von Bern) Fine Facsimile Illuminated Edition of 15th Century
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Faksimile Verlag Luzern. New Great Burgundian Chronicle by Diebold Schilling of Bern, 15th century-Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Hs. Ms. A5The Standard Reference Book on the Burgundian Wars Living History The Great Burgundian Chronicle, also called the Zürcher Schilling after the city where it is kept, is the most original and comprehensive reference book on the Burgundian Wars. It was executed around 1480 in the tradition of the Bern chronicles begun by Konrad Justinger in 1420 and carried on by Bendicht Tschachtlan around 1470. Diebold Schilling the Elder is both the author and writer of this fascinating work. The Great Burgundian Chronicle with its 199 lavish illustrations represents an impressive testimony to the history of Bern and the Swiss Confederation. Diebold Schilling the Elder In 1460 Schilling the Elder entered the services of the Chancellery of Bern. Before he had been working in Lucerne, but left the position as a scribe to his brother Hans, father of Diebold Schilling the Younger and author of the Lucerne Chronicle. Here, Schilling the Elder gained first insights into the administration and jurisdiction of a city as well as into the implications of external affairs experienced by one estate of the Old Confederation. In Bern he climbed the career ladder. From 1468 he was a member of the Great Council. In addition he was also active as a judge. He was entrusted with several delicate missions and also participated personally in the Burgundian Wars. As a citizen of Bern, he also got to know Bendicht Tschachtlan, the then leading chronicler of the city. Diebold Schilling the Elder died in 1486. The Great Burgundian Chronicle In 1474 Schilling was commissioned by the Council of Bern to write a chronicle of the city, from its beginnings to contemporary times. Considering the greatness and importance of his home city, Schilling understood this task in creating a work of major significance. Between 1474 and 1483, he created a monumental work, the Official Chronicle of Bern in three...
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SAMUEL, Rabbi
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| Epistola contra Judaeorum errores]. [Rome, Printer of Sixtus IV "Bulla", c.
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- Initials supplied in red, paragraph marks, underlinings and initial strokes also in red. 4to. (203 x 133mm.). 13 unnumbered leaves (lacking the first blank). 48 lines, gothic letter, double columns. Early 20th century wrappers. 1480]. A very rare early edition of this very popular anti-Jewish tract which had first appeared in 1474 in Sant'Orso. ISTC records 12 copies of which only one is in Italy. The work purports to be a letter written in the year 1000 A.D. by Rabbi Samuel of Morocco, a converted Jew, to Rabbi Isaac, and to have been translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Boni Hominis, a Dominican monk, although the Encyclopaedia Judaica claims that he was actually the author drawing largely from another tract in Arabic. According to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, nothing is known about the translator who may actually have been Paul of Burgos. The aim of the work was the refutation of Judaism from scripture, especially the Old Testament. This edition also includes the curious apocryphal letter of Pontius Pilate to the Emperor Tiberius "De indubitata Jesus resurrectione". Provenance. Ownership inscription of "W. Attfield" on upper cover and first leaf. Waterstaining in some upper margins. HC14261. Goff S108. Bodleian S-048. IGI 8579. Not in BMC.
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(BIBLIA latina).
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Venedig, Franz Renner 1480.. 4°. a - h10, I - l12, m10 - s10, t12, v12, x - y10, 1 - 6 10, 7 - 10 12, 11 - 13 10, 14 12, 15 - 17 10, 18 12, A - D12-1. 469 nicht num. Bll. (von 470: ohne das letzte weiße Bl.). Gotische Type, 51 Zeilen. Schöner, zweispaltiger Druck. Kolumnentitel. Fol a 1 nicht im Neusatz (s. BSB/ Ink. und GW). Bl. a1 recto (Beginn des Hieronymus-Kommentars) mit großer (50 x 50 mm) F - Initiale in Mauve auf Goldgrund. Darin ein Portrait des hl. Hieronymus in gouachierter Federzeichnung. Der Buchstabenkörper ist mit Blattranken in Grün und Blau besetzt; diese ziehen sich innen als Randverzierung mehrere cm nach oben und unten. Hier sind sie mit mauvefarbenen Blatt-Teilen, einer Blüte und Fleuronne -Verzierungen mit Goldpunkten besetzt. Bl. a3 verso (zu Beginn der Genesis) mit großer I - Initiale in schattierten Mauve - Tönen und Ocker auf Goldgrund und mit Weißhöhung. Darin in gouachierter Federzeichnung die Figur des Moses mit aufgeschlagenem Buch in einer Hand. Die beiden sichtbaren Seiten des Buchs zeigen die Buchstaben A und ??. Auch diese Initiale ist mit Blattgewinde besetzt, diesmal in Grün, Blau und Mauve, sowie mit feinem Fleuronne und Goldpunkten; das Dekor läuft in den Mittelsteg und in den Kopf der Kolumne aus. Durchgehend mit Lombarden abwechselnd in Blau und Rot, viele davon größer (6 - 9zeilig) und mit Fleuronne - Besatz und Fleuronne - Ausläufern in Rot oder Violett. Die Kolumnentitel ebenfalls in Rot oder Blau markiert. Dunkelrotes Maroquin des auslaufenden 18. Jahrhunderts (etwas berieben, gering bestoßen) mit Monogramm und reicher Goldprägung; zweigeteilter Rückentitel, ein Teil auf grünem Schild. Gelbschnitt. In einem marmorierten braunen Lederschuber (berieben, mit Bezugsdefekten an den Kanten und Feuchtigkeitsrändern), die Kanten vergoldet mit Perlstabbordüren. Eine seltene Ausgabe: Im Jahrbuch d. Auktionspreise seit 1950 ein vollständiges Exemplar. Die dritte Bibel-Ausgabe von Renner; der Text ist ein seitengetreuer Nachdruck der Ausgabe Jensen 1476. Gedruckt in 8°. und 4°. Die Einbandprägung zeigt auf dem Rücken in drei Feldern ein florales Dekor mit einem Lyramotiv, das unterste Feld trägt über einer doppelten Bordüre die ineinander verschränkten Buchstaben "JR". Die Deckel haben einen äußeren Rahmen in Form einer schmalen gezahnten Bordüre mit Fileten, nach innen schließen sich eine Bordüre mit Rocaillen und Blumen an sowie Eckzwickel mit Fleuronstempeln. Die Stehkanten tragen eine Blattrankenbordüre. Exlibris aus dem Innendeckel ungeschickt herausgetrennt. Die Eingangsinitiale tls. stark berieben (Buchstabenkörper) und mit kleineren Goldabplatzungen. Die zweite figürliche Initiale trotz kleinerer Abplatzungen und minimalen Beriebs hervorragend erhalten. Bl. 1 recto von alter Hand: "Impressam 1480". Marginalien von verschiedenen Händen (tls. verblasst). Eine lautet (Bl. 8 7 recto): "Nota, come la presente Profetia si verifico In gran parte in Italia l'anno 1596 ab incar.ne". Einige Bll. mit Braunfleck am äußeren Rand, einzelne Bll. stärker, sonst leicht stock- oder fingerfleckig; Bl. q 6 mit langem Einriss bis in die innere Kolumne hinein (geschlossen, etwas Buchstabenverlust). Wenige Paperschäden im äußeren Rand, Fußsteg ab und zu etwas wasserrandig. Insgesamt ein breitrandiges Exemplar, das vor allem durch das schöne Druckbild, die beiden figürlichen Initialen sowie durch den Einband besticht. HC 3078; GW 4241; BMC V 195; Oates 1674; Goff B-566; BSB/Ink. B-437 (2 Exx, davon eines unvollständig)..
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Rolewinck, Werner
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| Fasciculus temporum
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Erhard Ratdolt, Venice 1480 - Folio (29 x 19 cm), [7 (of 8: lacking first blank)] 68 ff. Woodcut illustrations, decorated initials; most small initial letters and many of the woodcuts carefully embellished with yellow ink. Full calf binding (18th c.?), elaborate gilt border front and back, five raised bands and six compartments at spine, also gilt, with red and black labels containing title and publication year; marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. Leather a bit scuffed, slight loss at corners and spine; interior very good, leaves sound and largely unmarked, save for notes in brown ink (and very early) on final 2 leaves, and a couple of instances of marginalia. Illustration on f. 26 (central figure within frame naming four evangelists at corners) is altered, with the face rubbed out. Final leaf trimmed to about 3 cm shorter than other leaves, but with no loss to text. Front paste-down bears plate of Bath Public Reference Library, with reference to the book's donation by F. H. Huth in 1903, and a small bookseller's label; Bath PRL blind stamp also appears on at least 3 other leaves. Earlier bookplate of Sir Charles Frederick (1709-1785) on verso of front free endpaper. BL ISTC no. ir00261000, Goff R-261, HC *6929 [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Ebenezer Thompson & William Charles
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| The works of Flavius Josephus.
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- Two large volumes 23x28x8cm, tastfully rebound in half calf leather and marbled boards, 1480 pages, many, many engravings, contents are very fine with very occasional slight marking. An exceptional example of this important work which would be a credit to any library. digital photographs and further details available upon request.
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ANONYME
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| Statuta seu decreta synodalia bisuntinae dieecesis
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- publicata ab Anno 1480 ad Annum 1680. Authoritate & Jusu illustrissimi ac Reverendiccimi Domini D. Antonii Petri de Granmont Archiepiscopi Bisuntini S.R.I. Principis collecta in lucem edita. Bisuntii, Ludovicum Rigoine, 1680, in-4 de 12 ff.n.ch. et 190 pp. et Statuta synodalia ab anno 1681 usque ad annam 1685 publicata [Besançon 1685]. 1 f. blanc et pp. 191 à 202, veau brun, dos à nerfs, orné [Rel. anc.]. Non cité par Brunet. Edition rare des Statuts synodaux du diocèse de Besançon, publié sous l'autorité du célèbre archevêque de Besançon Antoine Pierre de Grammmont [1615-1698] qui prit une part active à la défense de Besançon lors de l'invasion de la Franche-Comté par les troupes de Louis XIV en 1668
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ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS]
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| Use of Rheims, Latin and French.
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n.p. c. 1480], [Northern France (perhaps Rheims)] - Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Small quarto (7 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 200 x 135 mm.). 157 leaves, including an inserted preliminary leaf and two leaves which are ruled, but otherwise blank. Lacking a leaf after fol. 54, otherwise complete. Modern pencil foliation 1-156, including the preliminary leaf. Collation: i-ii6 iii5 (of 6, the last leaf cancelled) iv-vii8 viii8 (of 6, the fifth leaf missing) ix-xix8 xx4 xxi8. Vertical catchwords on the verso of the last leaf of most gatherings. Ruled in red for seventeen lines of text. Justification: 4 1/4 x 2 13/16 inches; 108 x 70 mm. Written in brown and dark brown ink in a regular formal gothic liturgical script, with rubrics in red, sometimes in French. Verse initials and line-fillers in gold in a ground of alternating colors: red, blue, red, brown, two-line initials in burnished gold edged with black, on a blue and red ground with white ornament, every page with a two-line initial with an illuminated border the height of the text, with semi-naturalistic foliate and floral ornament, and conventional acanthus, often on geometrically shaped panels such as zig-zags, chevrons, stripes, etc., on grounds of gold, colors, or the plain vellum. Four-line initials under most miniatures, in blue on a gold ground. One small miniature and fourteen large miniatures with full borders, often incorporating birds and sometimes other animals and grotesques.Sewn on five cords and bound in nineteenth-century green velvet over pasteboards. Covers decoratively stamped in blind with a foliate border and a central device incorporating a fleur-de-lis and a crown, all edges gilt and gauffered, pale green silk doublures, parchment flyleaves. Minor worming to the last seven leaves. Generally in very good condition throughout.Provenance: Presumably made for someone living in Rheims in the late fifteenth century. A sonnet on fol. 1v entitled, "Vraye Amour L'Ame nous y alie," in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand, above a cipher in gold within a laurel wreath in green, apparently formed of the letters V, R, A, and Y, possibly intended to spell "VRAYE," in which case this and the title of the sonnet may be clues to the owner's name. A nineteenth-century inscription in French, dated 1820, on fol. 1 refers to the Belles heures and Très riches heures of the Duke of Berry, neither of which had then been identified as extant.Text:Calendar (fols. 2-13v), in French, rather sparse. Major feasts (in red or blue) include Saints Remi and Hilary (13 January), Helen (15 April), Memmius (Menge) (5 August), Firminus (Fruin) (25 September), Denis (9 October), Quentin (31 October), Nicaise (11 October). Feasts in ordinary ink include Regulus (Rieule) (30 March), Thierry (1 July), Aplinus (7 September), Remi (1 October, and Nicaise (14 December); Gospel Extracts (fols. 14-18v); Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rheims, with three lessons at Matins (fols. 19-29v), Lauds (fols. 30-40), Prime (fols. 40v-45v), Terce (fols. 46-49v), Sext (fols. 50-53), None (fols. 53v-56), Vespers (fols. 56v-62v), and Compline (fols. 63-67); a prayer in French rhyming verse, in twelve stanzas: "Ihesucrist a matines fut vostre cher vendue./A prime de crachie en la face batue." (cf. Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II, p. 290; Sonet, Répertoire d'incipit de prières en ancien français, no. 934) (fols. 67v-70); Hours of the Spirit (fols. 70v-73); fol. 73v ruled, otherwise blank; Seven Penitential Psalms (fols. 74-85v); Litany (fol. 85v-89), with Alpinus and Claude last among the confessors; fol. 89v ruled, otherwise blank; Office of the Dead, Use of Rheims (fols. 90-128v); fol. 129 ruled, otherwise blank; "Se sont les. xv. ioies de la magdalaine en maniere doroison. O tres saincte dame Magdalaine des dons de dieu en luminee Par penitence et par ta peine. Lassus es cieulx es couronnee." (not found in Leroquais or Sonet) (fols. 130-134); suffrages (fols. 134-140v) to saints Peter and Paul, Lupus, Sebastian, Nicholas, Christopher (using the masculine forms "famulo
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VISITATION
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| Illuminated miniature of the Visitation, on a full leaf from a Book of Hours. France (Paris), c.
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- Illuminated miniature which shows the meeting of Elizabeth and Mary (accompanied by Joseph) on a path leading to a 15th century house; landscape backround with hills and trees. 3-line illuminated initial painted in blue on a liquid gold ground infilled with coloured flowers; illuminated border of acanthus and coloured flowers and leaves. Size of leaf: 180 x 123mm. Ruled for 18 lines of gothic text. 1480. A miniature painted by a follower of the Maître François, a highly succesful artist who included among his cliente bibliophiles from the French court and dignitaries in Paris; he influenced many other artists who copied his style and palette. His miniatures are very accomplished productions in which the elongated usually standing figures make a somewhat static appearance; his colours range from beige, brown and mauve in the foreground to azurite blue, lemon and harsh red in the background. At the foot of another leaf from this manuscript, the arms of the family of Aurelle de Villeneuve appear with those of Allaneau, of Anjou. The illuminated border considerably faded due to waterstaining, but the miniature only lightly affected.
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SAMUEL MAROCHITANUS.
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| Epistola contra Judaeorum errores. Based on the translation from the Arabic by Alphonsus Boni Hominis. - PONTIUS PILATUS (pseudo-). Epistola ad Tiberium.
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- Kl.-4to (205 x 147 mm). [22] Bl. [a8, b6, c8]. Pappband. (Rom, Eucharius Silber, um 1480/82). Eines der berühmtesten antisemitischen Schriften des Mittelalters. Sehr seltene römische Inkunabel aus der Frühzeit der Offizin von Eucharius Silber der zwischen 1480 und 1509 aktiv war. Lange Zeit wurde der Druck der Offizin Andreas Freitags in Rom zugeschrieben. Der Text gründet auf der um das Jahr 1072 verfassten Schrift des aus dem marokkanischen Fez stammenden Samuel Ben Jehuda'Abbâs el Maghrebi el-Israel, der in Toledo zum Christentum konvertierte. Seine polemische Schrift Contra Judaeorum errores (Ueber die Irrtümer der Juden) wurde 1339 angeblich von dem spanischen Domikaner Alfonso Buenhombre (Bonihominis) aus dem Arabischen ins Lateinische übersetzt. Steinschneider äusserte aber auch die Vermutung, dass der Verfasser der vorliegenden Polemik identisch mit dem Übersetzter sei. "In the original work Samuel claimed to prove the prophetic character of Jesus and Mohammed, and argued that too many laws were added to the Torah by the Mishnah and Gemara. Buenhombre adapted the tract to present it as a Christian rather than Muslim polemic, and may have drawn on another Arabic tract as well" (Jewish Encyclopedia). Erstmals 1475 in Mantua gedruckt, erschienen gegen zwanzig Inkunabelausgaben sowie weitere Drucke bis ins 18. Jahrhundert. Vor allem die ganz frühen Inkunabelausgaben enthalten wie vorliegend den unechten, frühestens im 5. Jahrhundert entstandenen Brief des Kaisers Tiberius an Pontius Pilatus. Darin zeigt sich der durch Magdalena informierte Tiberius empört über die ungerechte Hinrichtung Jesu und verurteilt Pilatus mitsamt den jüdischen Führern zum Tod, anschliessend wird der Untergang der für Jesu Tod Verantwortlichen geschildert. Die im Campo di Fiore angesiedelte Offizin des dem geistlichen Stand angehörenden Eucharius Silber aus Regensburg gehörte zusammen mit jener von Stephan Planck zu den beiden grossen Druckereien Roms im 15. Jahrhundert. - Erstes unbedrucktes Bl. mit Notizen von alter Hand (Liste von Verben) etwas braunfleckig, Innensteg oben geringfügig wasserfleckig, Schnitt minimal gebräunt, insgesamt ein vorzügliches, breitrandiges Exemplar. Helmut N. Friedlaender (Kat. Christie's, NY 2001, Nr. 113). Goff S-106; IBP 4876; Reichling 722; IGI 8580; Garcia Rojo/Ortiz de Montalvon 1638; Fürst II, 153; Steinschneider, Polemische und apologetische Literatur in arabischer Sprache (1877), S. 137-138; Gutenberg Jb. 1966, S. 112-115; LThK II, 690; Very rare incunabular edition of one of the most widely disseminated medieval anti-Semitic tracts, from the press of Eucharius Silber from Regensburg, Rome's leading printer whose press was active from 1480 to 1509. The text is based on the 14th-century Latin version by the Spanish Dominican Alfonsus Bonihominis (Buenhombre, d.1353) of the 11th-century Arabic treatise Ifham al-Yahud [Confutation of the Jews] by the convert Samuel Abu Nasr ibn Abbas, son of Judah ibn Abbas of Fez. In his original versionl Samuel claimed to prove the prophetic character of Jesus and Mohammed and argued that too many laws were added to the Torah by the Mishnah and Gemara. Buenhombre adapted the tract to present it as a Christian rather than Muslim polemic; he may well have drawn on other Arabic texts as well. - The anti-Semitic work was first printed at Mantua in 1475. About twenty incunabular editions survive, including translations into German, Italian and Spanish. The text maintained its popularity throughout the following two centuries and was translated into most European languages, including Russian. Only early editions contain the spurious letter (written no earlier than the 5th century) of Emperor Tiberius to Pontius Pilate. - The first blank l [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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ANONIMO
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| SITIO DE RODAS - THE SIEGE OF RHODES (Facsímil)
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Eds. Reales Sitios - 280 x 195 mm, 225 Folios, 52 miniaturas a toda página pintadas a pincel, con oros y platas, más escudos y grandes capitulares. La impresión está realizada a todo su color sobre papel tipo pergamino con estampación de oros y platas. Encuadernación artesanal con terciopelo sobre tabla. Le acompaña un libro de estudios con el mismo formato que el facsímil con los siguientes apartados: Traducción, estudio crítico, histórico y artístico. Se presenta en caja, alojando ambos libros. Tirada única de 575 ejemplares numerados y certificados ante notario.Este bello códice recoge el sitio de Rodas por la flota y el ejército turco en 1480 y la resistencia heroica de la Isla bajo el mando de Pierre d'Abusson, Gran Maestre de la Orden de los Hospitalarios de San Juan de Jerusalén, por entonces de la Orden de Rodas. El acontecimiento real y verídico, casi en directo, fué magistralmente narrado por Guillermo Caoursin, quién, además de ser Segundo Maestre de la Orden, fué testigo presencial de los Hechos.The siege of Rhodes National Library of France Ms. Lat. 6067 Format: 280 x195 mm. Pages: 225 Folios, 52 miniatures to full page brush painted with golds and silvers, shields and exact as original: velvet on plank. Book of Studies with the same format as facsimil, containing: Translation, Critical Study, Historic and Artistic. Presented in a box, containing both books. Print Run: Unique 575 numbered copies with notarized deed. This beautiful codex collects the siege of Rhodes by the turkish army and fleet in 1480, and the heroic resistance of the island under the command of Pierre d'Abusson, Grand Master of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, by then of the Order of Malta. The real and veridical event, almost in direct, was masterly narrated by Guillermo Caoursin, who, besides being Second Master of the Order was a sight witness of the events. The story was spilled into a magnificient Manuscript, supported by splendid miniatures with golds and silvers made by Cardinal Bourbon's Master, between 1482 and 1483. Apart from the narration, the characters portraits, the position of the turkish fleet and army, and other widely described scenes, make this codex an authentic live article. This victorious episode was vital for the West Christianity and for the Order of Rhodes; as after other events, history made possible its continuity to nowdays, as the "Order of Malta Castellano
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Methuin, Rev. J.J.
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| In The Limelight Or History Of Anadarko(Caddo County) And Vicinity From The Earliest Days
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Okla. City ND - 1st Ed 137pp, plates, photos, dec. cloth nice 6-Guns #1480 Herd #1481 Rader #2389 One of the best county histories. The author was a missionary and teacher, Custer, the Washita, the Kiowas, Quannah Parker, range days, cattle thieves, the "Messiah Craze". [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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GUEVARA, Antonio de.
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| L'Horloge des princes avec l'histoire de Marc Aurele . Traduit de Castillan en François par R.B. de Grise: depuis reveue et corrigé par N. de Herberay, seigneur des Essars. Paris, for Claude Micard (colophon: by George l'Oiselet), 1577. 16mo (12 x 7.5 cm). With woodcut border on title-page. Contemporary calf with gilt centrepiece on covers.
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- (16), 552, (4) ll. Palau 110180; this edition not in Adams, BMC STC French, Brunet, Graesse; NUC (vol. 222, p. 189) lists 1 copy (Yale). French translation of a widely popular courtesy book by Fra Antonio Guevara (1480-1545), first published in Valladolid in 1529. In the present guide, Guevara gives rulers directions with regard to their private and public conduct. The work is divided into three books: On the need for the Prince to be a good Christian; how the Prince should behave towards his wife and children; and how he should govern himself and his country. It contains the life of Marcus Aurelius and his "Letters," full of moral advice and instructions about correct social behaviour. Guevara gives numerous exemplary and instructive stories from a variety of sources, mostly from classical history but some entirely fictitious, as well as proverbs and wise sayings. The present work was translated into French in 1531 and a second revised French translation by Nicolas de Herberay appeared in 1555. The work was extremely popular in France, and the French version was the basis for Sir Thomas North's English translation The Diall of Princes, first printed in 1557. The book was considered in England to be the quintessence of political subtlety, and its maxims were collected and repeated at the court of Elizabeth by every one who aspired to literary taste.This small-sized edition was printed by George L'Oiselet in Rouen for Claude Micard in Paris, and is dated in the colophon "1576." Small defect to title-page; a few lines on page 6/7 partly erased with ink, but still well readable; a bit soiled and slightly discoloured; annotations and old owners entries on flyleaves dated 1585, J. Denant; 1626 de Luynes, Paris; 19th cent. Beauchamp and 1880, Vicomte R. de Courson, Brieux. Copy from the library of H. de la Fontaine Verwey; binding rubbed, upper and lower spine replaced; a bit worn.
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NICOLAUS DE LYRA
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| Postilla super Actus Apostolorum. Epistolas Canonicales et Apocalypsim.
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Mantova, Paulus de Butzbach 30 marzo 1480 - Folio (cm 30), solida legatura settecentesca in tutta pelle maculata, dorso ornato con tassello. Bell’esemplare marginoso e fresco, con sporadiche rubriche coeve in rosso alle prime carte. Cc. 114 (di 116), mancano la prima e l’ultima carta, entrambe bianche; due fogli (I2 e I7) bruniti per la qualità della carta. Prima edizione del commento del grande frate francescano (1270-1349), i cui commenti alle Sacre scritture furono ampiamente diffusi in epoca medioevale. Questo in particolare che riguarda gli atti degli Apostoli, è impresso per la prima volta, con un inusuale impianto tipografico su due colonne, nel carattere semibastoncino adoperato dal Butzbach. BMC, VII-932; Hain-Cop., 10395, Goff, N-115; IGI, 6824.
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| Vellum Leaf from a Book of Hours.
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(In a cardboard folder, marked in pencil: 1480 Florence Book of Hours). - A vellum leaf measuring: 6 3/4 inches x 10 1/2 in., 18 lines of text in Latin on both sides, the side shown in the scan features a very detailed, 9 inch long border of flower and leaf forms in red, blue and green and yellow, with tiny gold leaf dots and inked tendrils, with a gold line with knotted ends, running along the right hand side, with seven small gold capital letters on colored grounds with gold ink details, and a larger capital letter with painted leaf forms on a gold ground; the reverse shows seven small gold capital letters on colored grounds, with gold ink details, both pages show tiny gold and color flourishes at the ends or beginnings of some lines. In a 11 in. x 15 in., front opening cardboard folder, with a central rectangular portion cut out to from a frame; with penciled indentification: 1480 Florence Book of Hours. [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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Illuminated Manuscript -- Horae] Book
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| Book of Hours [Horae] Use of Rome --manuscript on vellum.
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Northern Italy: c1460-1480. - 8vo. 124 x 90mm. (written space 67 x 48mm) [1]12,[2]9, [3]10,[4-9]8, [10]6, [1-13]8, [14]5, [15]8, [16]11,[17]2. lacks c7 leaves. 135 leaves. Modern vellum ,covers bowed, ownership inscription ÒHic Liber est Vincentii BoniiÓ on folio114v; a few leaves dampstained. Written in brown ink in a rounded gothic liturgical hand, rubrics in red, initials in alternate red and blue, numerous 2-line verse initials with contrasting penwork and scrolling flourishes, several calligraphic letters adorned with faces, 8 4-line illuminated initial in blue, red and liquid gold on burnished gold (one very worn). Text: Calendar, f1-12; Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome, f13-64; Compline, followed by the second nocturn for Tuesday and Friday for the canonical Hour of Matins, f65-73; Prayers for Advent and Christmas, f74-81; Office of the Dead, f82-114; Penitential Psalms, f115-125; Litany, and unidentifed prayers, f126-135.
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ROLEVINCK, WERNER.
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| The first printed historical work printed in the Netherlands (Fasciculus temporum).
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Utrecht, Jan Veldener, 1480, 14 February. - Folio. Eighteenth-century calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with red title-label. With 2 woodcut printer's devices, on verso first leaf and at the end, 2 leaves within floral woodcut borders, one with large floral woodcut initial, the other with woodcut illustration, all hand-coloured, and 35 large and small woodcuts, including repeats, numerous armorial woodcuts and other woodcut figures, partly coloured. (8), 330 lvs. First Dutch edition of one of the most important and extensive historical world chronicles of the fifteenth century, and one of the first printed historical works in the Netherlands. The original edition, in Latin, was published by Arnold Therhoernen at Cologne in 1474. Of the author, Werner Rolevinck (1425-1502), not much more is known than that he was a Carthusian from Cologne. His chronicle contains the history of the world from the creation until 1474, the year of publication, with sometimes supplements from the publisher in later editions. The 'Fasciculus Temporum' is a masterpiece for its complicated lay-out: Rolevinck starts his chronicle with Christ's birth, at the same time going back to the creation and going forward through history. To solve the problem of these two opposite chronologies, the biblical events are printed upside down through the other text at specific places to indicate clearly the relevant connections between the biblical and historical events. Even the woodcut illustrations, marking the text at specific places, form an integral part. In this work, form and content are inseparable. This typographical tour de force was executed by Johan Veldener, who worked with Therhoernen. The work was very popular in Germany, but only printed once in the Northern Netherlands. This Dutch edition is of special interest for the many substantial additions, the second part containing extensive chronicles of the different parts of the Netherlands, including Brabant, Utrecht, Holland, Zeeland, Hainault, etc., as well as more detailed chronicles of France and England. A short text on the development of arts in general and the spread of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century is also extra. The text of the supplements is long attributed to the printer Jan Veldener himself, and his fame is still present in the often used title 'Veldenaers Kroniek'. The present edition is printed in gothic type, foliated with many misnumberings, like the omission of number 185, and the presence of number 258 on two different leaves. The woodcuts are from blocks used in the Latin edition by Veldener, published at Louvain in 1475, with the addition of twelve new ones, and a set of coats-of-arms used only in the supplementary chronicles. They represent biblical scenes like the Creation, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, views of Jerusalem, Nineveh, Babylon, Byzantium, Utrecht, Bruges, Gand, Lille, etc. The beautiful large printer's device of Jan Veldener, with his coat-of-arms within floral decoration is present twice: on verso of the first leaf, surrounded by a framework of text from the Gospel of Saint John, and at the end without text. Good copy, with ms. annotations on fly-leaf, and contemporary ms. notes on the blank verso of the last leaf.- (First leaf - recto blank - lacking, printer's device pasted on the verso of the fly-leaf; upper margins of the two lvs. with floral borders cut short; small tears in three lvs.; margins of three lvs. repaired; occas. slightly stained). BMC IX, p. 12; Hain-Copinger 6946; CA 1479; Goff R 278; Polain (B) 3379; IDL 3950. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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CAXTON, William CAXTON, William
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| A leaf from The Chronicles of England]
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[Westminster] [Printed by William Caxton] 1480 - A Leaf from The Chronicles of England Printed by William Caxton [CAXTON, William. LEAF. [A leaf from The Chronicles of England]. [Westminster]: [Printed by William Caxton, 1480]. One quarto leaf (11 3/16 x 8 3/16 inches), from The Chronicles of England, (leaf N3 ?). Forty lines, printed on recto and verso in Caxton's fourth fount (the first state with the short comma); red rubrication. In a brown morocco folding case, cover title stamped in gilt. Leaf with a few light spots and stains, and two marginal contemporary ink annotations. Edges slightly chipped. In a folder of descriptive text. Former owner's bookplate on inside of folding case. Folding case and folder with light dampstain along lower edge. A very good example of early printing in England. A Caxton leaf from The Chronicles of England, often said to be the most popular secular work of the fifteenth century, is far more rare than a leaf from The Polychronicon, which come up quite often. "Caxton, the first English printer.established a press at Westminster in 1476-his first dated book printed there is 'The Dictes or Sayengis of Philosophres', 1477-and printed about 100 books, a number of them his own translations from the French. He used eight founts of type, the first of which he brought from Bruges; he began to use woodcut illustrations c. 1480. His importance in the history of English literature is by no means confined to his works as a printer, for he contributed by his translations to the formation in the 15th cent. of an English prose style." (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 153). [Together with] Jackson, Holbrook. William Caxton; An Essay by Holbrook Jackson. William Robinson Limited. London, 1933. Limited to 100 copies signed by Holbrook, of which 68 are sold with an original leaf from The Chronicles of England. In original grey wrappers. De Ricci 49. HBS 64491. [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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THOMAS (S) DE AQUINO
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| DE VARITATE CATHOLICAE FIDEI (SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES) A PETRO CANTIANO O.P. EDITA.
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(IN FINE): VENETIIS, NICOLAS JENSON GALLICUS YDIBUS JUNIIS (13 GIUGNO), VENETIIS 1480 - [400' INCUNABOLO-TEOLOGIA] (cm27,5) ottimo cartonato secolo XVIII, titolo al dorso.-- cc. 189 nn., (di 194), caratteri gotici assai eleganti, 55 linee, 2 colonne per pagina con spazi per lettere capitali. Opera celeberrima di alta teologia completa in fine dell' epistola di Petro Cantiano all' arcivescovo di Corfù Petro Frigerio, sempre datata 13 giugno 1480. mancano i primi quattro fogli con la "Tabula" segnati a4 e l' ultima carta (194) con il registro bianca al verso. Il testo è completo poichè il volume inizia con carta 5. (b1) : " INCIPIT LIBER PRIMUS CATOLICE FIDEI.". Il colophon è a carta 192 verso, segue carta 193 con l' epistola e al verso è bianca. Piuttosto raro, manca ad HARVARD, OATES IN CAMBRIDGE, HARPER 1930 ad OLSCHKI " INCUNABULA TYPOGAPHICA " 1915 e a vari altri cataloghi celebri consultati. Qualche lievissimo alone al margine bianco vicino alla cerniera e tracce di polvere alla prima carta, peraltro esemplare molto bello, freschissimo, nitido e con buoni margini. In basso alla prima carta ex libris coevo manoscritto: " Ex libris fratris Seraphini de Bonis or pdicato(rum) de Ragusio ". Provenienza: ASTA SOTHEBY' S, FIRENZE 1982, LOTTO n° 67. HAIN 1389; IGI 9571; GOFF T 193; POLAIN 3764; PROCTOR 4125; PELLECHET 989; BMC V 181; CAT. ROSENTHAL MONACO 1900 n° 1380; CAT. 53 OLSCHKI "MONUMENTA TYPOGRAPHICA" 1903 n° 684.
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MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius
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| Epigrammata. (with commentary by Domitius Calderinus)
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(Printer of the 1480 Martial) Venice 1480 Contemporary blind tooled calf over wooden boards (rebacked and without clasps) Folio . Early printed edition of Martial with the commentary by Calderinus which was first printed in 1474 by De Colonia and Manthen. A very attractive example of early Venetian printing with the original text printed in a large Roman type surrounded by a sea of commentary. This is the work by which this anonymous press has been named. The British Museum Catalogue (vol. V, p. 296) identifies three editions of 1480, signed "Venetus", which constitute the total recognized output of this anonymous printer [223] leaves (instead of 224; without last blank). Roman type; 57 lines; capital spaces; ownership inscription on first blank page; marginal annotations in an early hand; first few leaves with some minor marginal handsoiling; few very minor dampstain in outer blank margin of last few leaves. § Hain-Copinger 10814; Pellechet 7599; IGI (+ Suppl) 6222; Proctor 5660; BMC V, 296; Goff M 304; CIBN M-165; BSB M-195
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Leonardo Mattei de Utino.
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| Sermones aurei de Sanctis fratris Leonardi di Utino sacre theologie doctoris ordinis predicatorum.
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Vicenza, Stephan Koblinger (de Vienna), 1480. - 4°. 355 nn. Bll. (das letzte weiß), Got. Type in 2 Größen, 2 Spalten, 38 Zeilen. Späterer HPgmt.-Bd. (um 1800) m. durchzogenen Bünden. Predigtsammlung des Leonhard Matthäi von Udine (um 1400-1469), Theologieprofessor zu Udine und Bologna, erstmals 1473 gedruckt. - „Wegen seiner eindringlichen Beredsamkeit, die mit der strengsten Hingabe an die Theologie des hl. Thomas gepaart war, wurde er nach vielen Städten Italiens als Prediger verlangt und predigte auch 1435 zu Rom vor dem Papst Eugen IV. Er besaß einen außerordentlichen Einfluß auf das italienische Volk, so daß ihm nicht bloß alle Herzen, sondern auch alle Börsen offen standen [.]. Die Predigten Leonardo's sind in der Weise Barletta's gehalten; sie entsprachen daher dem Geschmack seiner Zeit und mußten beim mündlichen Vortrag einen großen Eindruck machen" (Wetzer/Welte VII, 1817f.). Der begehrte Prediger trat auch auf den Konzilien von Florenz und Ferrara in Erscheinung. Seine Werke, in mehreren Sammlungen überliefert, sind bemerkenswerte Beispiele scholastischer Gelehrsamkeit und enthalten umfangreiche Kommentare antiker und mittelalterlicher Autoren, darin auch über die Kirchenväter hinausgehend. - Eines der insgesamt vier aus der Vicenzaner Offizin des Wieners Stephan Koblinger hervorgegangenen Werke, der zunächst für Johann Renner (ebenfalls aus Wien) in Venedig arbeitete und höchstwahrscheinlich dessen Typen erwarb, als Renner 1476/77 seine Werkstatt schloß. Die hier verwendeten Typen ähneln den von Renner noch 1476 benutzten auffallend. Koblinger sollte noch im Jahr des vorliegenden Drucks in seine Heimatstadt zurückkehren und dort wohl die ersten Drucke in Österreich überhaupt herstellen: „Die Frage nach der Person des Druckers [der frühesten österreichischen Druckerzeugnisse] ist noch nicht eindeutig entschieden. Mayer vermutet einen Wanderdrucker; andere Forscher schreiben die Kleindrucke Ulrich Han aus Ingolstadt oder Johann Petri aus Passau zu. In neuerer Zeit haben sich die meisten Autoren der Ansicht von Ignaz Schwarz angeschlossen, als Drucker sei Stefan Koblinger zu betrachten, der bis 1480 in Vicenza gearbeitet habe und dann nach Wien gegangen sei, wo 1481 in den Bürgerlisten einem gewissen Steffan Koglinger (sic!) die Bezahlung einer Taxe zwecks Erwerbung des Bürgerrechts bescheinigt wird. [.]. In diesem Zusammenhang ist der Hinweis Anton Mayers interessant, ein Österreicher namens Ioannes Wiener (de Wienna) habe 1476 in Vicenza einen Vergildruck hergestellt, sei aber später nach Augsburg übersiedelt, wo er 1477 bis 1479 belegbar ist. Sein Nachfolger in Vicenza war aber eben jener genannte Stefan Koblinger. Es wäre also nicht ganz von der Hand zu weisen, daß eine personelle Verbindung zwischen Druckern aus Vicenza und Wien bestanden haben könnte, zumal mehrere der Wiener Kleindrucke ja italienische Kulturbezüge aufweisen" (Durstmüller I, 18f.). - Kanten min. berieben. Zeitgen. Besitzvermerk am ersten Bl. („Francisco Cittadelle"). Ohne das erste weiße Blatt. Vereinzelt schwach (stock-) fleckig, einige Bll. min. wasserrandig. Von alter Hand in roter Tinte foliiert. Insgesamt schönes, breitrandiges Exemplar auf starkem Papier. - Hain IV, 502f. (*16156); BMC, Italian Books 427; BMC VII, 1043; Goff L 162; Madsen 2472; Pellechet Ms 7151 (7094); Polain, Belgique 4521; Rhodes, Oxford Colleges 1088.
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