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MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE
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| Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)
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Dionysius Bertochus 10 November 1489, Venice - Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, . He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. . His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. § Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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| Treatise on the Art of Silk and the Art of Silk in Florence (Fine Facsimile Edition in Box)
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Giunti. New A box (size 235 x 325 mm, also available with silk-binding) contains the facsimile of the Laurentian Codex Plut. 89. Sup. Cod. 117 (year 1489), of 122 pages, and the anastatic reprint of the 1868 edition of L'arte della seta, from the Riccardi codex 2580 (fifteenth century), of X-344 pages. A WORK IN TWO volumes which is precious and unique in its kind: the facsimile of a famous, antique illustrated codex, and the anastatic edition, put into type for the first time in Florence in 1868 by Barbera, of another fifteenth-century treatise on a parallel subject. Indeed ever since the Middle Ages the silk craft had given renown to Florence among merchants all over the world then known. This caused a proliferation, particularly during the fifteenth century, of treatises, written in polished and lively style, often embellished with magnificent illustrations, shedding light on every aspect of this fascinating artistic practice. The edition in facsimile of the codex, which is preserved in Florence's Laurentian Library, contains exquisitely accurate reproductions of the 59 pages of a richly decorated manuscript dated February 1489, once the property of Emperor Francis III, who donated it to the prestigious Florentine library in 1755. The water-colour illustrations provide charming vignettes of each phase of silk manufacture, following the text step by step. This ends with an interesting book of accounts with marginal sketches showing merchants and book-keepers. The small volume of 1868 on the other hand is the reproduction of another fifteenth-century Florentine treatise on the subject of silk craft that was publicized and annotated by the learned Girolamo Gargiolli who, on sending it to press for the first time in about 1868, endowed it with a documentary appendix, a glossary and a useful index of special words and expressions. Our Promise to You: ALL OUR DUST JACKETS COME WITH CLEAR BRODART PROTECTIVE COVERS. (Please read listing to determine if this book comes with a...
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Costantinides Efthalia
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| Images from the Byzantine Periphery : Studies in Iconography and Style
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Alexandros Press, Leiden 2008 - Title: Images from the Byzantine Periphery: Studies in Iconography and Style Author: Constantinides, Efthalia Price: Euro 350,00.- xx ISBN: 9789080647671 Description: Leiden: Alexandros Press, 2008. 24cm., hardcover, 304pp. text, 309 color, 42 b&w illus. This book contains nine essays published by the author in various journals during the last ten years, except for the last one, which appears here for the first time. Most of the original illustrations have been substituted here by colour ones and new illustrations have been added to them. The material mainly deals with painting in Cyprus and Georgia. The author, known by her superb publication on the church of the Panagia Olympiotissa at Elasson, studied and photographed the monuments in numerous journeys in Greece, Constantinople, Cappadocia, Armenia, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Russia, Cyprus, Georgia, Egypt and Sinai. These studies contribute immeasurably to the knowledge of how Byzantine art, radiating from Constantinople, influenced the entire Orthodox periphery by demonstrating the way the technology and aesthetics of itinerant artists traveling to distant regions preserved the ideology and Iconographic norms of the Capital. The essay on the Monumental Painting in Cyprus during the Venetian Period (1489-1570) examines the Paleologan trends and the synthesis of the Italo-Byzantine cycle in a number of churches. The 16th-century churches of Chrysopantanassa and St. John the Baptist at Aska are distinguished through no less than five extensive narrative cycles in the former, among which a large cycle of St. Nicholas, consisting of sixteen episodes, and subtle personifications of Virtues. The latter church reveals the continuous contact with religious life portrayed by the holy images which kept the Orthodox Faith during the Venetian period alive and deeply inspiring, immortalised despite the passage of time. The large 13th-century icon of St. George at Sinai distinguishes itself by the rarity of its prolific scenes, as well as by the appearance of a Georgian donor, portrayed in a Deesis attitude. The first of the three essays dealing with monumental art in Georgia examines the 11th-century paintings in the church of Zemo-Krikhi in comparison with paintings in the Mani region. The local artists retained intact the Byzantine iconographic program, but created their own style, which distinguished their periphery by the inventive individuality of the monumental painting in its numerous churches. Essay No. 8 investigates the Byzantine influence on the paintings in the Caucasus and the Lowlands during the 11th-14th centuries. It includes monuments such as those in Ateni, Gelati, Svaneti, Vardzia and Saphara. The 14th-century paintings of the Church of the Dormition at Lykhne illustrate the dissemination eastward of the excellent Paleologan painting from Constantinople, the prevailing hagiology of this period and the superb workmanship of Byzantine Art in Georgia. CONTENTS: Preface. 1. The Tetraevangelion Manuscript 93 of the Athens National Library. 2. The Question of the Date and Origin of the Earliest Akathistos Cycles in Byzantine Monumental Painting in the Light of the Akathistos of the Olympiotissa at Elasson. 3. Observations on the Iconography and Style of the Mural Painting in the Church of the Chrysopantanassa at Palaichori on the Troodos Mountain range of Cyprus. 4. Monumental Painting in Cyprus during the Venetian Period (1489-1570). 5. Aspects of the Historical Background and an Iconographic Analysis of the Church of St. John the Baptist in the Village of Aska, Cyprus. 6. Une icône historiée de Saint George du 13e siècle au Monastère de Sainte-Catherine du Mont Sinaï. 7. The Frescoes of the Church of the Holy Archangels of Zemo-Krikhi, Raca (Georgia) and contemporary monuments of Mani in Southern Greece. 8. Byzantine Traditions and Churches of Georgia in the Caucasus and the Lowlands. Iconography, Style and Liturgical Influences. 9. Wall Paintings in the Church of the Dormitio [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Barbour, Master John
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| The Bruce; or, The Metrical History of Robert I King of Scots. Volume I
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Edinburgh [James Ballantyne and Co]. Leather cover G : in Good condition with marbled eps. Cover rubbed and scuffed with light edge wear. Small nick at joint with spine on front cover and small abrasion on top edge of rear cover. Spine scuffed. Foxing to prelims otherwise contents VG. Contents tight xxx, 495pp :: Title page vignette :: 260mm x 200mm (10" x 8") :: Published from a Manuscript dated 1489 with notes and a memoir of the life of the author by John Jamieson English.
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Augustinus, Aurelius
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| De Trinitate
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Johann Amerbach, Basel 1489 - Printed by Johann Amerbach, sine loco [Basel], 1489. (Date from colophon (leaf m3v); name of printer from the twenty-line poem by Sebastian Brant on m6v, ending: . Numine sancte tuo pater o tueare Ioanne[m] De amerbach: presens qui tibi pressit opus.) Text in Latin. SECOND EDITION, which is also the FIRST DATED edition, and the FIRST BASEL edition (first edition of this work was sine datum, sine loco, sine nomine [Strassburg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), not after 1474]). This edition also includes (for the first time) a postfatory poem in ten distichs by Sebastian Brant (1458-1521), renowned German humanist and satirist, the author of the famous Ship of Fools. Very Scarce: only 8 copies in US libraries, according to ISTC. Physical description: FOLIO. Textblock measures 303 mm x 215 mm (12" x 8½"). Mid 20th century boards. Title and printing place and date in black on spine. All edges speckled. 86 unnumbered leaves (forming 172 pages). Signature collation: a-c8 d-l8,6 m6. COMPLETE! Printed in gothic types. Text in double columns, 54 lines per column. Initial spaces with guide-letters. Rubricated with paragraph marks and capitals struck in red, but with initial spaces not filled. One-line title in large gothic type on a1; colophon on m3v. Index (Tabula) on m3v-m6v. 20-line postfatory poem [by Sebastian Brant] indicating Amerbach as the printer after the Index on m6v. Provenance: MS ownership inscription (slightly cropped) of Ioannes Leuberus dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. Extensive MS annotations in Latin contemporary (late 15th- early 16th century) hand on title page (a1r), accompanied with a small drawing of a cross surrounded with initials (of an owner?). Condition: Very good+ to near fine. Binding slightly rubbed on edges. Extensive MS annotations in early hand on title page (a1r); a possession note (slightly cropped) dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. A few further faded marginal notations in early hand to several leaves in the beginning. Title slightly soiled. A small marginal wormhole to a1 and a2 (not affecting text). Otherwise, the text block is extremely clean, bright and fresh. Binding tight. An attractive, unrestored, original, complete exemplar. Bibliographic references: Hain-Copinger 2037; Goff A-1343; GW 2926; BMC III, 751 (IB.37314); Proctor 7581; Walsh (Harvard) 1167; Polain(B) 416; IGI 1054; Heckethorn (Basle), p.36.
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MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE
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| Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)
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Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. § Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171
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HIERONYMUS.
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| EPISTOLAE.
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Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 8 August 1489 - 214 278 leaves the final leaf in each part blank (folios 8-213 in the first part numbered I-CCVIII [i.e. CVI]; folios 7-277 in the second part numbered I-CCLXXI). Double column 56 lines and headline per page gothic type. Two parts in one volume. QUITE PLEASING CONTEMPORARY CALF OVER THICK WOODEN BOARDS panelled covers decorated with floral and trefoil stamps each cover with four elaborate brass cornerpieces and central boss (two back cornerpieces of slightly different design but apparently original) original catchplates newer clasps (with thongs of a slightly lighter shade of leather) carefully rebacked in the 20th century using a large section of a former (probably early 19th century) backstrip with gilt titling text divisions marked with (18 of 20) rawhide tabs. Rubricated throughout: capitals struck with red many two- to four-line initials and 80 initials five lines high and larger. Verso of first leaf of second part with a 14-line woodcut (Schreiber 4226) showing a penitent St. Jerome kneeling before the crucified Christ the saint bleeding where he has torn his breast while beating it with a stone. Printer's device on colophon leaf. Title page with 17th century Latin inscription From the Library of the Blessed Walburga apparently referring to the famous Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburga in Eichstätt. Front and back flyleaves with two large woodcut stamps (approximately 90 x 60 mm.) used four times three depicting the Pietà and one of them showing three haloed saints standing before a masonry background (possibly the women at the empty tomb of Christ). Contemporary ink marginalia marking readings for Matins and other monastic services. The leather with minor scuffing scratches and abrasions but the binding solidly restored and still strikingly attractive because of its well-preserved original elements. Frequent but faint freckled foxing an eight-inch diagonal ink mark (looking like a ribbon shadow) through the text on two facing leaves (and with slight bleed-through on the preceding leaf and following leaf) a small handful of leaves with marginal dampstaining or ink blot (final gathering with slight softening and fraying at fore edge from damp with terminal blank silked) other minor defects but still a pleasing copy internally the attractively rubricated text rather fresh and clean and the margins very commodious. Goff H-171; BMC III, 768. Perhaps the greatest Christian scholar of his age St. Jerome (ca. 340-420) was a translator scriptural commentator biographer and historian who is chiefly remembered for his creation of the Latin Vulgate version of the Scriptures a translation that represents an enduring contribution to Western culture. He frequently participated as one of the most heated of partisans in various theological controversies and his disputations and protestations in connection with such debates comprise a good deal of the text of the letters contained here. The letters were particularly admired in the early Middle Ages were among the earliest books to be printed (by Sweynheym and Pannartz in 1468) and are valuable today for their history of the man and his times. According to Enenkel Erasmus is known to have consulted the present printing of Jerome's letters when preparing his own edition and commentary. Given the Walburga reference our volume was obviously used in a monastery where the writings of Jerome and other Church Fathers would have been read as lectio divina during daily prayers or meals. Walburga an Anglo-Saxon nun came to Germany with her brothers Willibald and Wunibald as missionaries in the eighth century. Willibald was the first bishop of Eichstätt while Walburga eventually became abbess of the double monastery founded by her brothers at Heidenheim. In 870 her relics were translated to Eichstätt where the Abbey of St. Walburga was established in 1035. The large woodcut stampings that appear on the flyleaves here are most unusual. They seem to be 16th century German and the work of an amateur wit [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]
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PETTAS, WILLIAM
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| A History & Bibliography Of The Giunti (junta) Printing Family In Spain 1526 - 1628, Covering The Junta (giunti) Press And The Imprenta Real In Burgos, Salamanca & Madrid With A Brief History Of The Several Giunti Presses In Venice, Florence And Lyon And A Bibliography Of The Press Of Juan Bautista Varesio In Burgos, Valladolid & Lerma.
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Oak Knoll Press, New Castle: 2004. h Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Brand new bo This monumental work opens with a 170 page history of the Giunti publishing family that covers their achievements in Italy, Spain and France from 1489 to 1628. As the great rivals of the Aldine Press, the Giunti aggressively captured large portions of the lucrative governmental and Church's printing business. From their base in Florence and Venice, family members set up printing presses in Burgos, Salamanca, Madrid, Valladolid, Lerma and Lyons. In Spain they became printers to the most powerful King in the world and established "The Imprenta Real," changing their name to "Junta." The comprehensive, 700 page bibliography of the books they published while in Spain is annotated with more than 148 woodcuts of their ornate title page art, imprints, and other identifying ornaments. The text also features the genealogical charts of the family, library holdings, and a documentary chronology. The author, William Pettas, has researched this early printing family for over twenty years, and this is his second work on this important clan. A very readable and valuable contribution to the history of the book and an important bibliography and reference work. Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Brand new bo
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HIERONYMUS.
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Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 8 August 1489 - 214 278 leaves the final leaf in each part blank (folios 8-213 in the first part numbered I-CCVIII [i.e. CVI]; folios 7-277 in the second part numbered I-CCLXXI). Double column 56 lines and headline per page gothic type. Two parts in one volume. QUITE PLEASING CONTEMPORARY CALF OVER THICK WOODEN BOARDS panelled covers decorated with floral and trefoil stamps each cover with four elaborate brass cornerpieces and central boss (two back cornerpieces of slightly different design but apparently original) original catchplates newer clasps (with thongs of a slightly lighter shade of leather) carefully rebacked in the 20th century using a large section of a former (probably early 19th century) backstrip with gilt titling text divisions marked with (18 of 20) rawhide tabs. Rubricated throughout: capitals struck with red many two- to four-line initials and 80 initials five lines high and larger. Verso of first leaf of second part with a 14-line woodcut (Schreiber 4226) showing a penitent St. Jerome kneeling before the crucified Christ the saint bleeding where he has torn his breast while beating it with a stone. Printer's device on colophon leaf. Title page with 17th century Latin inscription From the Library of the Blessed Walburga apparently referring to the famous Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburga in Eichstätt. Front and back flyleaves with two large woodcut stamps (approximately 90 x 60 mm.) used four times three depicting the Pietà and one of them showing three haloed saints standing before a masonry background (possibly the women at the empty tomb of Christ). Contemporary ink marginalia marking readings for Matins and other monastic services. The leather with minor scuffing scratches and abrasions but the binding solidly restored and still strikingly attractive because of its well-preserved original elements. Frequent but faint freckled foxing an eight-inch diagonal ink mark (looking like a ribbon shadow) through the text on two facing leaves (and with slight bleed-through on the preceding leaf and following leaf) a small handful of leaves with marginal dampstaining or ink blot (final gathering with slight softening and fraying at fore edge from damp with terminal blank silked) other minor defects but still a pleasing copy internally the attractively rubricated text rather fresh and clean and the margins very commodious. Goff H-171; BMC III, 768. Perhaps the greatest Christian scholar of his age St. Jerome (ca. 340-420) was a translator scriptural commentator biographer and historian who is chiefly remembered for his creation of the Latin Vulgate version of the Scriptures a translation that represents an enduring contribution to Western culture. He frequently participated as one of the most heated of partisans in various theological controversies and his disputations and protestations in connection with such debates comprise a good deal of the text of the letters contained here. The letters were particularly admired in the early Middle Ages were among the earliest books to be printed (by Sweynheym and Pannartz in 1468) and are valuable today for their history of the man and his times. According to Enenkel Erasmus is known to have consulted the present printing of Jerome's letters when preparing his own edition and commentary. Given the Walburga reference our volume was obviously used in a monastery where the writings of Jerome and other Church Fathers would have been read as lectio divina during daily prayers or meals. Walburga an Anglo-Saxon nun came to Germany with her brothers Willibald and Wunibald as missionaries in the eighth century. Willibald was the first bishop of Eichstätt while Walburga eventually became abbess of the double monastery founded by her brothers at Heidenheim. In 870 her relics were translated to Eichstätt where the Abbey of St. Walburga was established in 1035. The large woodcut stampings that appear on the flyleaves here are most unusual. They seem to be 16th century German and the work of an amateur wit [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]
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VALERIUS MAXIMUS
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| Facta et dicta memorabilia [in the French translation of Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse]. Lyon, Mathias Huss, "23 June
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- 9 fine half-page woodcuts (c. 170 x 165mm.) one at the beginning of each book; large printer's device on verso of penultimate leaf (Polain 44). Large folio. (335 x 240mm.) 308ff. (of 312 - lacks a1(title-page), bifolium G1&G8 (replaced with repeated bifolium G2&G7), and blank final leaf (S8); 3 other blanks present). 56 lines and headline. Late 17th/early 18th century mottled calf (expertly rebacked, corners and lower cover restored). 1489. Extremely rare third edition of the French translation of Valerius Maximus and the second to be illustrated. Huss's first illustrated edition was published in 1485 and this is a reprint of that edition with the same woodcuts and with the error of imposition in the table of contents of book viii corrected. The translation was begun by Simon de Hesdin in 1375, for Charles V, and completed by Nicholas de Gonesse at the request of Jaquemin Courau, treasurer of Jean, duc de Berry, and finished 1401. It was popularly produced as a luxury illuminated manuscript in the 15th century and the first edition of 1475-77 (Southern Netherlands, Printer of Flavius Josephus) left a space of half a page at the beginning of each book for the insertion of a miniature. Examples from the incunable editions of the French translation (a fourth edition was published by Verard in 1499) are scarce with only a very few copies located in institutional collections (see ISTC) or found on the market. The only copy that we can trace on ABPC-online of any of these editions is the Bute copy (part two only, 152ff.) of the 1489 printing sold at auction in 1995. Sadly our copy lacks the title-page and the bifolium G1&G8 is replaced by the repeated bifolium G2&G7, an error which must have taken place in the printer's shop. Provenance. Manuscript notes in a near contemporary French hand on ff 11-13, 159, 168 and 312. 18th/19th century bibliographical notes inside front cover. Ownership stamp on f. a2 of "C.P. Carey". A few small holes to f. a2, mostly marginal, a little dampstained in places, especially towards the end with final leaf frayed at edges, otherwise a fine, well-margined and unwashed copy. BMC VIII, p. 263 (imperfect - wanting ff. 109-16, quire, and last blank). CR 5933. Pr 8563. IGI 10077. Goff V45. ISTC (locates: France - 3 copies; United Kingdom & U.S.A - 2 copies each; Germany, Italy & Netherlands - 1 copy)
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BIBLIA LATINA
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| Biblia latina con le ‘Postillae’ di Nicolo di Lyra, le ‘Additiones’ di Paulus de Sancta Maria, le ‘Replicationes’ di Matthias Doring ed il commento di Gulielmus Brito sul Prologo di S. Girolamo. Edita da Paulus da Mercatello con le addizioni di Franciscus Moneliensis.
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Venezia, Boneto Locatello per Ottaviano Scoto 8 Agosto 1489 - Folio (cm 36), pelle maculata seicentesca su assi di legno, dorso a nervi (posteriore) con titolo su tassello in pelle rossa. Fresco esemplare. Trattasi del solo volume III, con 16 belle figure incise in xilografia, raffiguranti la veduta di Gerusalemme, nonchè pianta, alzato ed elementi architettonici del tempio di Gerusalemme, colorate da mano coeva, di notevole fascino. Le carte a1 e QQ5 non rubricate, forse da un altro esemplare. Questa edizione di Scoto del 8/VIII/1489 è la prima bibbia incunabola figurata stampata sul territorio italiano, e questo è uno dei 2 volumi che contengono le figure (l’altro è il I vol., il II ed il IV non ne hanno). Volumi singoli si trovano usualmente sul mercato, poiché il set completo della bibbia è notevolmente raro. Le raffigurazioni architettoniche contenute sono indubbiamente tra le prime del genere. This edition of the bible is the first incunabula illustrated printed in Italy, and only vols. I and III (this one) have illustrations. This is one of the first appearances of architectonic illustrations in the spread of printing. Hain/Cop. *3168; GW 4291; BMC V, 437; IGI 1688; Goff B-616; Essling 132; Sander 988.
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JUSTINUS.
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| Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii Historias]. Justinus Historicus
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Joannes Rubeus Vercelleni's, Venice 1489 - Folio, old stiff vellum boards, joints split, boards discolored, waterstained throughout with heavy damp stains at upper outer corner rendering paper a bit fragile and with minimal fraying at extreme outer blank edge not affecting text, few minor wormholes touch a letter or two but do not affect legibility. One larger wormhole at foot of pages in inner blank gutter margin touches the occasional letter or two; complete with the first leaf bearing title. This copy has the Epitome of Lucius Annaeus Florus added; the editor was Marcus Antonius Sabellicus. Hain-Copinger 9653; Goff J 619. Becausse of the value of this item, extra postal insurance or registry fees may be required.
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Augustinus, Aurelius
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Johann Amerbach Folio, 12" x 8 1/2" Basel 1489 Printed by Johann Amerbach, sine loco [Basel], 1489. (Date from colophon (leaf m3v); name of printer from the twenty-line poem by Sebastian Brant on m6v, ending: ... Numine sancte tuo pater o tueare Ioanne[m] De amerbach: presens qui tibi pressit opus.) Text in Latin. SECOND EDITION, which is also the FIRST DATED edition, and the FIRST BASEL edition (first edition of this work was sine datum, sine loco, sine nomine [Strassburg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), not after 1474]). This edition also includes (for the first time) a postfatory poem in ten distichs by Sebastian Brant (1458-1521), renowned German humanist and satirist, the author of the famous Ship of Fools. Very Scarce: only 8 copies in US libraries, according to ISTC. Physical description: FOLIO. Textblock measures 303 mm x 215 mm (12" x 8 "). Mid 20th century boards. Title and printing place and date in black on spine. All edges speckled. 86 unnumbered leaves (forming 172 pages). Signature collation: a-c8 d-l8,6 m6. COMPLETE! Printed in gothic types. Text in double columns, 54 lines per column. Initial spaces with guide-letters. Rubricated with paragraph marks and capitals struck in red, but with initial spaces not filled. One-line title in large gothic type on a1; colophon on m3v. Index (Tabula) on m3v-m6v. 20-line postfatory poem [by Sebastian Brant] indicating Amerbach as the printer after the Index on m6v. Provenance: MS ownership inscription (slightly cropped) of Ioannes Leuberus dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. Extensive MS annotations in Latin contemporary (late 15th- early 16th century) hand on title page (a1r), accompanied with a small drawing of a cross surrounded with initials (of an owner?). Condition: Very good+ to near fine. Binding slightly rubbed on edges. Extensive MS annotations in early hand on title page (a1r); a possession note (slightly cropped) dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. A few further faded marginal notations in early hand to several leaves in the beginning. Title slightly soiled. A small marginal wormhole to a1 and a2 (not affecting text). Otherwise, the text block is extremely clean, bright and fresh. Binding tight. An attractive, unrestored, original, complete exemplar. Bibliographic references: Hain-Copinger 2037; Goff A-1343; GW 2926; BMC III, 751 (IB.37314); Proctor 7581; Walsh (Harvard) 1167; Polain(B) 416; IGI 1054; Heckethorn (Basle), p.36. Very Good Condition
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Albertanus.
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| Tractatus de arte loquendi et tacendi. [Colophon]: Explicit liber de doctrina loquendi [et] tacendi ab Albertano causidico brixiesi. Ad instructionem filiorum suorum compositus. Impressus ac finit[us] Meming[en] p[er] Albertis Kun[n]e de Duderstat.
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Memmingen: Albrecht Kunne. , 1489 - 42 lines, printed in two columns, 12-line manuscript inscription in two early hands on the title-leaf, some capitals letters in red ink, a few words underlined in red or black ink, single wormhole through text, early manuscript annotations, upper blank margins touched by damp, 8 leaves, small 4to, modern vellum over stiff boards, spine with gilt title lettering vertically, good Albertanus of Brescia (c.1195 to 1251) wrote the treatise De doctrina dicendia et tacendi ("On teaching about speech and silence") in 1245. In them he discusses the place of notaries in public life, and more generally explores the newly emerging role of the professional in public life. The first edition was published in Basle in 1474, and it proved to be a popular text. Possibly because in his writing Albertanus wished to present a rule of life that would lay the foundation for a good society. He believed in the importance of moral restraint based on voluntary participation in a community. Albertanus was very influential, his works were known and used by, amongst others John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Antonio de Torquemada. There were many translations of his works into French, German, Tuscan, Venetian, Spanish and Dutch, with wide circulation well into the 15th and early 16th centuries, a testament to his broader influence on society. The manuscript poem begins in Latin, whilst the last six lines are in German. (Goff A200; BMC II, 605; Proctor 2785) [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]
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MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE
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| Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)
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Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. § Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171
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Maimonides Moses
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| APHORISMI SECUNDUM DOCTRINAM GALENI
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Bologna Franciscus de Benedictis for Benedictus Hectorism 1489 - Scarce First Edition. Pages hand-numbered in red and with contemporary manuscript marginal notations in red. Small 4to, contemporary blindstamped half calf over wooden boards, with remnants of brass clasps, endpapers at some time renewed. Bound with 5 pages of contemporary, or near-contemporary, manuscript notes. 129 leaves A very handsome and well preserved copy, the back long ago renewed, with wear and aging to the binding, occasional but minor evidence of age throughout, marginal notations throughout in several differing hands indicative of generations of scholarly use. SCARCE INCUNABULA EDITION OF MAIMONIDES CLASSIC TEXT ON THE REGIMEN OF HEALTH, ONE OF THE PRIMARY WORKS OF MAIMONIDES, ONE OF THE GREATEST JEWISH SCHOLARS OF ALL TIME. This is the only incunabula of Moses Maimonides to be printed at Bologna and is believed to be the only Jewish author de Benedictis published. ÒIf one did not know that Maimonides was the name of a man, Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, one would assume it was the name of a university. The writings and achievements of this twelfth-century Jewish sage seem to cover an impossibly large number of activities. Maimonides was the first person to write a systematic code of all Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah; he produced one of the great philosophic statements of Judaism, The Guide to the Perplexed; published a commentary on the entire Mishna; served as physician to the sultan of Egypt; wrote numerous books on medicine; and, in his "spare time," served as leader of Cairo's Jewish community MaimonidesÕ full name was Moses ben Maimon; in Hebrew he is known by the acronym of Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, Rambam. He was born in Spain shortly before the fanatical Muslim Almohades came to power there. To avoid persecution by the Muslim sect Ñ which was wont to offer Jews and Christians the choice of conversion to Islam or death Ñ Maimonides fled with his family, first to Morocco, later to Israel, and finally to Egypt. He apparently hoped to continue his studies for several years more, but when his brother David, a jewelry merchant, perished in the Indian Ocean with much of the family's fortune, he had to begin earning money. He probably started practicing medicine at this time. MaimonidesÕ major contribution to Jewish life remains the Mishneh Torah, his code of Jewish law. His intention was to compose a book that would guide Jews on how to behave in all situations just by reading the Torah and his code, without having to expend large amounts of time searching through the Talmud. Needless to say, this provocative rationale did not endear Maimonides to many traditional Jews, who feared that people would rely on his code and no longer study the Talmud. Despite sometimes intense opposition, the Mishneh Torah became a standard guide to Jewish practice: It later served as the model for the Shulkhan Arukh, the sixteenth-century code of Jewish law that is still regarded as authoritative by Orthodox Jews.Ó -Joseph Telushkin [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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AESOP.
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| Fabulas de Esopo.
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- With the small ownership signature of art historian Meyer Schapiro. Reproduccion en facsimile de la Primera Edicion de 1489. Publicala la Real Academia Espanola. Numerous woodcut illustrations. Folio, untrimmed, original stiff printed wrappers (1" tear at base of spine). Madrid: Tipografia de Archivos, 1929. Very Good. [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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Boethius Isidor von Sevilla
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| LIBER ETHIMILOGIARUM. Jsidori Hyspalensis epi(scopi). [Bound with] BOETHIUS - De consolatione Philosphiae. Cum editione commentaria beati Thome de Aquino ordinis praedicatorum [Bound With] ISIDOR Hispalensis - De summo bono
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Basel [and] Nuremberg [and] Venedig M. Furter [and] Anton Koberger [and] Perrum loslein de Langencen 1489, 1486, 1483 - Three titles bound as one volume. Folio, contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, beautifully blind tooled in Renaissance design, with brass corner pieces, bosses and clasps. A beautiful, very well preserved and very handsome copy. A BEAUTIFUL VOLUME AND A SUPERB EDITION. Concerning the Boethius, DE CONSOLATIONE was the most famous of BoethiusÕ works and was written while he was in prison on false charges. "De Consolatione" is described by Gibbon as "Ôa golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.Õ" [Ency Brit]. The text is arranged in five books and the style is both prose and verse. As Plato argued before him, Boethius claims that contrary to appearances, "vice is never unpunished nor virtue unrewarded." [Ency Brit] He claims as his own sources: Plato, Aristotle, Nicomachos, Ptolemy and Albinus. He was a statesman as well as a philosopher, and was appointed Consul in Rome under Theodorie the Ostrogoth in 510. Because he was eventually put to death, he was soon characterized as a martyr for the Christian cause. Later, BoethiusÕ work was greatly instrumental in bringing back a focus on Plato and Aristotle and it was highly esteemed throughout the Middle Ages. Alfred the Great translated it into Anglo-Saxon and Chaucer turned it into English, while before the end of tghe eighteenth century versions had appeared in French, Italian, Spanish, German and Greek. The commentary is ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Theodulus
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| Egloga theoduli.
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Leipzig, Kachelofen, 1489. - 4°. 61 (statt 62) ff. Neuerer Karton HC 15482; BMC III, 624; BSB-Ink T-152; Goff T-148 (nur 3 Exemplare in Amerika). Schöne Inkunabel-Ausgabe der Ecloga Theoduli, einem Streitgespräch im Wechselgesang zwischen den Hirten Pseustis (Lügner) und Alithia (Wahrheit) über den Vorrang von Christen- oder Heidentum. Der Text stammt aus dem neunten oder zehnten Jahrhundert und ist einer der Höhepunte mittelalterlicher Bukolik. Der reiche Kommentar wird (wohl fälschlich) Stephanus de Patrington zugeschrieben. - Es fehlt hier das Titelblatt mit dem Holzschnitt, Text und Kommentar sind komplett. - Schönes Exemplar, druchgehend rubriziert, und mit roten Initialen (die erste blau), wenig gebräunt, teils schwacher Wasserrand, teils kleine Wurmspur im oberen, weissen Rand (ohne Textverlust). - Rare and early incunabula edition of the Ecloga Theoduli with rich commentary. Lacking the first leaf with woodcut, text complete. Nice copy, rubricated and with red and blue initials. Light browning or little staining, little worming in upper white margin for some parts, not affecting text. In modern cardboard. [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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Augustinus, Aurelius
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| De Trinitate
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Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1489 Printed by Johann Amerbach, sine loco [Basel], 1489. (Date from colophon (leaf m3v); name of printer from the twenty-line poem by Sebastian Brant on m6v, ending: ... Numine sancte tuo pater o tueare Ioanne[m] De amerbach: presens qui tibi pressit opus.) Text in Latin. SECOND EDITION, which is also the FIRST DATED edition, and the FIRST BASEL edition (first edition of this work was sine datum, sine loco, sine nomine [Strassburg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), not after 1474]). This edition also includes (for the first time) a postfatory poem in ten distichs by Sebastian Brant (1458-1521), renowned German humanist and satirist, the author of the famous Ship of Fools. Very Scarce: only 8 copies in US libraries, according to ISTC. Physical description: FOLIO. Textblock measures 303 mm x 215 mm (12" x 8!"). Mid 20th century boards. Title and printing place and date in black on spine. All edges speckled. 86 unnumbered leaves (forming 172 pages). Signature collation: a-c8 d-l8,6 m6. COMPLETE! Printed in gothic types. Text in double columns, 54 lines per column. Initial spaces with guide-letters. Rubricated with paragraph marks and capitals struck in red, but with initial spaces not filled. One-line title in large gothic type on a1; colophon on m3v. Index (Tabula) on m3v-m6v. 20-line postfatory poem [by Sebastian Brant] indicating Amerbach as the printer after the Index on m6v. Provenance: MS ownership inscription (slightly cropped) of Ioannes Leuberus dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. Extensive MS annotations in Latin contemporary (late 15th- early 16th century) hand on title page (a1r), accompanied with a small drawing of a cross surrounded with initials (of an owner?). Condition: Very good+ to near fine. Binding slightly rubbed on edges. Extensive MS annotations in early hand on title page (a1r); a possession note (slightly cropped) dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. A few further faded marginal notations in early hand to several leaves in the beginning. Title slightly soiled. A small marginal wormhole to a1 and a2 (not affecting text). Otherwise, the text block is extremely clean, bright and fresh. Binding tight. An attractive, unrestored, original, complete exemplar. Bibliographic references: Hain-Copinger 2037; Goff A-1343; GW 2926; BMC III, 751 (IB.37314); Proctor 7581; Walsh (Harvard) 1167; Polain(B) 416; IGI 1054; Heckethorn (Basle), p.36.. Very Good Condition. Folio, 12" x 8 1/2".
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Maimonides, Moses.
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(Bologna: Franciscus de Benedictis for Benedictus Hectorism , 1489) Scarce First Edition. Pages hand-numbered in red and with contemporary manuscript marginal notations in red. Small 4to, contemporary blindstamped half calf over wooden boards, with remnants of brass clasps, endpapers at some time renewed. Bound with 5 pages of contemporary, or near-contemporary, manuscript notes. 129 leaves A very handsome and well preserved copy, the back long ago renewed, with wear and aging to the binding, occasional but minor evidence of age throughout, marginal notations throughout in several differing hands indicative of generations of scholarly use. SCARCE INCUNABULA EDITION OF MAIMONIDES CLASSIC TEXT ON THE REGIMEN OF HEALTH, ONE OF THE PRIMARY WORKS OF MAIMONIDES, ONE OF THE GREATEST JEWISH SCHOLARS OF ALL TIME. This is the only incunabula of Moses Maimonides to be printed at Bologna and is believed to be the only Jewish author de Benedictis published. ÒIf one did not know that Maimonides was the name of a man, Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, one would assume it was the name of a university. The writings and achievements of this twelfth-century Jewish sage seem to cover an impossibly large number of activities. Maimonides was the first person to write a systematic code of all Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah; he produced one of the great philosophic statements of Judaism, The Guide to the Perplexed; published a commentary on the entire Mishna; served as physician to the sultan of Egypt; wrote numerous books on medicine; and, in his "spare time," served as leader of Cairo's Jewish community MaimonidesÕ full name was Moses ben Maimon; in Hebrew he is known by the acronym of Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, Rambam. He was born in Spain shortly before the fanatical Muslim Almohades came to power there. To avoid persecution by the Muslim sect Ñ which was wont to offer Jews and Christians the choice of conversion to Islam or death Ñ Maimonides fled with his family, first to Morocco, later to Israel, and finally to Egypt. He apparently hoped to continue his studies for several years more, but when his brother David, a jewelry merchant, perished in the Indian Ocean with much of the family's fortune, he had to begin earning money. He probably started practicing medicine at this time. MaimonidesÕ major contribution to Jewish life remains the Mishneh Torah, his code of Jewish law. His intention was to compose a book that would guide Jews on how to behave in all situations just by reading the Torah and his code, without having to expend large amounts of time searching through the Talmud. Needless to say, this provocative rationale did not endear Maimonides to many traditional Jews, who feared that people would rely on his code and no longer study the Talmud. Despite sometimes intense opposition, the Mishneh Torah became a standard guide to Jewish practice: It later served as the model for the Shulkhan Arukh, the sixteenth-century code of Jewish law that is still regarded as authoritative by Orthodox Jews.Ó -Joseph Telushkin
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Augustinus, Aurelius
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| De Trinitate
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Basel Johann Amerbach 1489. Printed by Johann Amerbach, sine loco [Basel], 1489. (Date from colophon (leaf m3v); name of printer from the twenty-line poem by Sebastian Brant on m6v, ending: ... Numine sancte tuo pater o tueare Ioanne[m] De amerbach: presens qui tibi pressit opus.) Text in Latin. SECOND EDITION, which is also the FIRST DATED edition, and the FIRST BASEL edition (first edition of this work was sine datum, sine loco, sine nomine [Strassburg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), not after 1474]). This edition also includes (for the first time) a postfatory poem in ten distichs by Sebastian Brant (1458-1521), renowned German humanist and satirist, the author of the famous Ship of Fools. Very Scarce: only 8 copies in US libraries, according to ISTC. Physical description: FOLIO. Textblock measures 303 mm x 215 mm (12" x 8½"). Mid 20th century boards. Title and printing place and date in black on spine. All edges speckled. 86 unnumbered leaves (forming 172 pages). Signature collation: a-c8 d-l8,6 m6. COMPLETE! Printed in gothic types. Text in double columns, 54 lines per column. Initial spaces with guide-letters. Rubricated with paragraph marks and capitals struck in red, but with initial spaces not filled. One-line title in large gothic type on a1; colophon on m3v. Index (Tabula) on m3v-m6v. 20-line postfatory poem [by Sebastian Brant] indicating Amerbach as the printer after the Index on m6v. Provenance: MS ownership inscription (slightly cropped) of Ioannes Leuberus dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. Extensive MS annotations in Latin contemporary (late 15th- early 16th century) hand on title page (a1r), accompanied with a small drawing of a cross surrounded with initials (of an owner?). Condition: Very good+ to near fine. Binding slightly rubbed on edges. Extensive MS annotations in early hand on title page (a1r); a possession note (slightly cropped) dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. A few further faded marginal notations in early hand to several leaves in the beginning. Title slightly soiled. A small marginal wormhole to a1 and a2 (not affecting text). Otherwise, the text block is extremely clean, bright and fresh. Binding tight. An attractive, unrestored, original, complete exemplar. Bibliographic references: Hain-Copinger 2037; Goff A-1343; GW 2926; BMC III, 751 (IB.37314); Proctor 7581; Walsh (Harvard) 1167; Polain(B) 416; IGI 1054; Heckethorn (Basle), p.36. Folio, 12" x 8 1/2". Very Good Condition
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Theodulus:
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| Egloga theoduli.
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Leipzig, Kachelofen, 1489.. 4°. 61 (statt 62) ff. Neuerer Karton. HC 15482; BMC III, 624; BSB-Ink T-152; Goff T-148 (nur 3 Exemplare in Amerika). Schöne Inkunabel-Ausgabe der Ecloga Theoduli, einem Streitgespräch im Wechselgesang zwischen den Hirten Pseustis (Lügner) und Alithia (Wahrheit) über den Vorrang von Christen- oder Heidentum. Der Text stammt aus dem neunten oder zehnten Jahrhundert und ist einer der Höhepunte mittelalterlicher Bukolik. Der reiche Kommentar wird (wohl fälschlich) Stephanus de Patrington zugeschrieben. - Es fehlt hier das Titelblatt mit dem Holzschnitt, Text und Kommentar sind komplett. - Schönes Exemplar, druchgehend rubriziert, und mit roten Initialen (die erste blau), wenig gebräunt, teils schwacher Wasserrand, teils kleine Wurmspur im oberen, weissen Rand (ohne Textverlust). - Rare and early incunabula edition of the Ecloga Theoduli with rich commentary. Lacking the first leaf with woodcut, text complete. Nice copy, rubricated and with red and blue initials. Light browning or little staining, little worming in upper white margin for some parts, not affecting text. In modern cardboard.
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Maimonides, Moses.
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| APHORISMI SECUNDUM DOCTRINAM GALENI
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(Bologna: Franciscus de Benedictis for Benedictus Hectorism , 1489) Scarce First Edition. Pages hand-numbered in red and with contemporary manuscript marginal notations in red. Small 4to, contemporary blindstamped half calf over wooden boards, with remnants of brass clasps, endpapers at some time renewed. Bound with 5 pages of contemporary, or near-contemporary, manuscript notes. 129 leaves A very handsome and well preserved copy, the back long ago renewed, with wear and aging to the binding, occasional but minor evidence of age throughout, marginal notations throughout in several differing hands indicative of generations of scholarly use. SCARCE INCUNABULA EDITION OF MAIMONIDES CLASSIC TEXT ON THE REGIMEN OF HEALTH, ONE OF THE PRIMARY WORKS OF MAIMONIDES, ONE OF THE GREATEST JEWISH SCHOLARS OF ALL TIME. This is the only incunabula of Moses Maimonides to be printed at Bologna and is believed to be the only Jewish author de Benedictis published. ÒIf one did not know that Maimonides was the name of a man, Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, one would assume it was the name of a university. The writings and achievements of this twelfth-century Jewish sage seem to cover an impossibly large number of activities. Maimonides was the first person to write a systematic code of all Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah; he produced one of the great philosophic statements of Judaism, The Guide to the Perplexed; published a commentary on the entire Mishna; served as physician to the sultan of Egypt; wrote numerous books on medicine; and, in his "spare time," served as leader of Cairo's Jewish community MaimonidesÕ full name was Moses ben Maimon; in Hebrew he is known by the acronym of Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, Rambam. He was born in Spain shortly before the fanatical Muslim Almohades came to power there. To avoid persecution by the Muslim sect Ñ which was wont to offer Jews and Christians the choice of conversion to Islam or death Ñ Maimonides fled with his family, first to Morocco, later to Israel, and finally to Egypt. He apparently hoped to continue his studies for several years more, but when his brother David, a jewelry merchant, perished in the Indian Ocean with much of the family's fortune, he had to begin earning money. He probably started practicing medicine at this time. MaimonidesÕ major contribution to Jewish life remains the Mishneh Torah, his code of Jewish law. His intention was to compose a book that would guide Jews on how to behave in all situations just by reading the Torah and his code, without having to expend large amounts of time searching through the Talmud. Needless to say, this provocative rationale did not endear Maimonides to many traditional Jews, who feared that people would rely on his code and no longer study the Talmud. Despite sometimes intense opposition, the Mishneh Torah became a standard guide to Jewish practice: It later served as the model for the Shulkhan Arukh, the sixteenth-century code of Jewish law that is still regarded as authoritative by Orthodox Jews.Ó -Joseph Telushkin
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Johannes de Capua (Bidpai):
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| Directorium humanae vitae. Blatt aus Cap. V (Hain 411 (B).
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Strassburg, Johann Prüß, nicht nach 1489. Type 4, 7, 10.. Einspaltiges, 50-zeiliges O-Inkunabelblatt mit zwei fast halbseitigen Holzschnitten (jeweils 11,5 x 8,7 cm) auf einer Seite, fachgerecht hinterlegter Einriss (8,5 cm) vom oberen Blattrand, Wasserzeichen: Ochsenkopf. Blattgröße: 18 x 26,8 cm.. Rar. Erster Druck der ersten lateinischen Ausgabe. Das vollständige Werk umfasst 82 Blätter mit 119 Holzschnitten. Diese Fabelsammlung des "Directorium Humanae Vitae" ist eine Übersetung aus der älteren hebräischen Version des Kalila wa-Dimna, die im 13. Jhd. von Johannes von Capua angefertigt wurde. Die arabische Version geht wiederum auf eine syrische zurück, die ihrerseits aus einer indischen Quelle (Bidpai) stammt, die im 3. Jhd. n. Chr. jungen Fürsten rechtes Verhalten und politische Klugheit lehren sollte. Die Holzschnitte dieses Blattes wurden erstmals in der deutschen Ausgabe des Werkes von Konrad Fyner in Urach 1481 gedruckt. Prüss erwarb diese in den achtziger Jahren des 15. Jhd.. Das Wasserzeichen im Blatt zeigt einen Ochsenkopf mit Augen- und Nasenlöchern, darüber einen einkonturigen Stern ohne weitere Beizeichen. Das Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart verzeichnet ein vergleichbares Wasserzeichen in seinem Bestand 'J 340' in der Wasserzeichenkartei Piccard unter der Nr. 074323 und gibt die Herkunft mit Nicolaus Keßler Basel 1489 an.
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(400 INCUNABOLO-VOLGARE-RAR0). PIUS
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| HISTORIA DE DUOBUS AMANTIBUS (IN ITALIANO) TRAD. ALESSANDRO BRACCIO. FIRENZE, FRANCESCO DI DINO, 20 IX, 1489.
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(cm 20,5) Bella mz. pergamena antica ottimamente restaurata, sguardie antiche; cc. 32 nn. (di 60), carattere romano, 26 e 27 linee. Testo in volgare di questa celebre opera di Enea Silvio Piccolomini: La soria dei due amanti, Eurialo e Lucrezia. E' composto dalle prime 24 carte complete con segnatura a8, b8, c8, poi manca il quaterno d (d8), e' invece presente tutto il quaterno e (e8), e manca tutto il resto. Confronta Copinger II 77, che descrive una copia con minime differenze nella scansione del titolo. Incunabolo assolutamente raro, una sola copia in America e 3 copie in Italia secondo Igi e Goff. Hain lo cita senza averlo visto, manca a Polain, Harvard, Oates in Cambridge e al BMC. Non si registrano vendite in Sander Prices of incunabola e neppure nei grandi cataloghi di Olschki, Baer e Rosenthal, Monaco 1900. Lievi fioriture alle prime due carte, peraltro esemplare molto bello, nitido e ben marginato. Hain 247; Pellechet 171; Rhodes 588; Goff P 688; Igi 7815.
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MARTINUS POLONUS.
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| MARGARITA DECRETI SEU TABULA MARTINIANA DECRETI . IMPRESSUM ARGENTINAE, ANNO DOMINI 1489, FINITA IN DIE SABBATI POST PENTECOSTE [STRASSBURG, GEORG HUSNER, 13 GIUGNO1489].
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In 4 (mm.263 x 188), fascinosa legatura lionese del XVI secolo, piena pelle con impressioni a secco (alcuni antichi restauri), realizzata dall'atelier del celebre tipografo-legatore Jean David "La mouche" (se ne veda la riproduzione a piena pagina in Baudrier,V, 138/5 ), testo in gotico su due colonne, 52 linee per pagina, tagli rossi, copia freschissima ad ampi margini.Eccellente e rara ( due sole copie in biblioteche italiane.Aosta, Bib.Cap.; Torino, BN) edizione quattrocentesca di uno dei lessici canonistici piu' celebri dell'epoca, la Margarita di Martino di Troppau, teologo domenicano, cappellano papale, penitenziere di Clemente IV e autore di una Chronica Pontificum et Imperatorum. che divenne un vero e proprio best-seller nel tardo medioevo.Ref: Goff M325 ; Hain 10845 ,Polain(B) 2625 , IBE 3863 ; IGI 6241 ; Pr 650 ; BMC I 139 ; BSB-Ink M-234. Oclc 27926858
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MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE
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| Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)
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Dionysius Bertochus 10 November 1489, Venice - Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, . He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. . His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. § Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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Jacobus, de Voragine
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| Lombardica historia que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sa[n]ctorum appellatur.
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[Arge[n]tine: {Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)}, 1489]. Small folio (27 cm). [260 of 264] ff. Georg Husner, popularly known as "the Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg," produced several editions of the Legenda aurea, the most famous late medieval/early Renaissance compilation of biographies of Christian saints. The first appeared in 1485, and this is apparently the first of a number of page for page reprints. The imprint information is from the colophon on H5r. This is an uncommon edition in the U.S, though heavily held in Europe; Goff and ISTC locate only two copies (in U.S.), this being the deaccessioned copy of one of those two! The text is printed in double-column format in gothic type. In this copy, virtually all of the initials are nicely accomplished in red or blue. Copinger, II, 6452; ISTC ij00122000; Proctor 618; Goff J122. 19th-century quarter German calf with black mottled paper sides. Various waterstaining throughout, with other stray stains; copy missing first two and final two leaves of text, and the leaves at front and back remargined (with some others repaired). Priced according to faults, not pleasures!
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PETTAS, WILLIAM
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| A History & Bibliography Of The Giunti (junta) Printing Family In Spain 1526 - 1628, Covering The Junta (giunti) Press And The Imprenta Real In Burgos, Salamanca & Madrid With A Brief History Of The Several Giunti Presses In Venice, Florence And Lyon And A Bibliography Of The Press Of Juan Bautista Varesio In Burgos, Valladolid & Lerma.
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Oak Knoll Press, New Castle: 2004. h Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Brand new bo This monumental work opens with a 170 page history of the Giunti publishing family that covers their achievements in Italy, Spain and France from 1489 to 1628. As the great rivals of the Aldine Press, the Giunti aggressively captured large portions of the lucrative governmental and Church's printing business. From their base in Florence and Venice, family members set up printing presses in Burgos, Salamanca, Madrid, Valladolid, Lerma and Lyons. In Spain they became printers to the most powerful King in the world and established "The Imprenta Real," changing their name to "Junta." The comprehensive, 700 page bibliography of the books they published while in Spain is annotated with more than 148 woodcuts of their ornate title page art, imprints, and other identifying ornaments. The text also features the genealogical charts of the family, library holdings, and a documentary chronology. The author, William Pettas, has researched this early printing family for over twenty years, and this is his second work on this important clan. A very readable and valuable contribution to the history of the book and an important bibliography and reference work. Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Brand new bo
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Boethius, Isidor von Sevilla.
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| LIBER ETHIMILOGIARUM. Jsidori Hyspalensis epi(scopi). [Bound with] BOETHIUS - De consolatione Philosphiae. Cum editione commentaria beati Thome de Aquino ordinis praedicatorum [Bound With] ISIDOR Hispalensis - De summo bono
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(Basel [and] Nuremberg [and] Venedig: M. Furter [and] Anton Koberger [and] Perrum loslein de Langencen, 1489, 1486, 1483) Three titles bound as one volume. Folio, contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, beautifully blind tooled in Renaissance design, with brass corner pieces, bosses and clasps. A beautiful, very well preserved and very handsome copy. A BEAUTIFUL VOLUME AND A SUPERB EDITION. Concerning the Boethius, DE CONSOLATIONE was the most famous of Boethius’ works and was written while he was in prison on false charges. "De Consolatione" is described by Gibbon as "‘a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.’" [Ency Brit]. The text is arranged in five books and the style is both prose and verse. As Plato argued before him, Boethius claims that contrary to appearances, "vice is never unpunished nor virtue unrewarded." [Ency Brit] He claims as his own sources: Plato, Aristotle, Nicomachos, Ptolemy and Albinus. He was a statesman as well as a philosopher, and was appointed Consul in Rome under Theodorie the Ostrogoth in 510. Because he was eventually put to death, he was soon characterized as a martyr for the Christian cause. Later, Boethius’ work was greatly instrumental in bringing back a focus on Plato and Aristotle and it was highly esteemed throughout the Middle Ages. Alfred the Great translated it into Anglo-Saxon and Chaucer turned it into English, while before the end of tghe eighteenth century versions had appeared in French, Italian, Spanish, German and Greek. The commentary is ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas.
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Boethius, Anicius M.T.S.
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| DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIAE [with] DE DISCIPLINA SCHOLARIUM [with theCommentary of Thomas Aquinas].
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Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus. Venice Jan 9, 1489 n Folio. ff.(102) complete. Double column text. Woodcut printerís device on recto of final leaf. Nicely bound in modern brown calf, tooled in antique style with blind stamped panels and geometrical design, with gilt tooled flowers. A very attractive and appropriate binding. This copy with some minor worming to the first 8 leaves and the final 2 leaves. Some light soiling & some early annotations to the text. A scarce edition of this very popular and often reprinted text in the 15th century. No copy has appeared in the American auction records in the past 30 years. Goff B786; BMC V, 437. There are two issues of this work; ours is the one which has A1 recto blank.
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Maimonides, Moses.
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| APHORISMI SECUNDUM DOCTRINAM GALENI
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(Bologna: Franciscus de Benedictis for Benedictus Hectorism , 1489) Scarce First Edition. Pages hand-numbered in red and with contemporary manuscript marginal notations in red. Small 4to, contemporary blindstamped half calf over wooden boards, with remnants of brass clasps, endpapers at some time renewed. Bound with 5 pages of contemporary, or near-contemporary, manuscript notes. 129 leaves A very handsome and well preserved copy, the back long ago renewed, with wear and aging to the binding, occasional but minor evidence of age throughout, marginal notations throughout in several differing hands indicative of generations of scholarly use. SCARCE INCUNABULA EDITION OF MAIMONIDES CLASSIC TEXT ON THE REGIMEN OF HEALTH, ONE OF THE PRIMARY WORKS OF MAIMONIDES, ONE OF THE GREATEST JEWISH SCHOLARS OF ALL TIME. This is the only incunabula of Moses Maimonides to be printed at Bologna and is believed to be the only Jewish author de Benedictis published. ÒIf one did not know that Maimonides was the name of a man, Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, one would assume it was the name of a university. The writings and achievements of this twelfth-century Jewish sage seem to cover an impossibly large number of activities. Maimonides was the first person to write a systematic code of all Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah; he produced one of the great philosophic statements of Judaism, The Guide to the Perplexed; published a commentary on the entire Mishna; served as physician to the sultan of Egypt; wrote numerous books on medicine; and, in his "spare time," served as leader of Cairo's Jewish community MaimonidesÕ full name was Moses ben Maimon; in Hebrew he is known by the acronym of Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, Rambam. He was born in Spain shortly before the fanatical Muslim Almohades came to power there. To avoid persecution by the Muslim sect Ñ which was wont to offer Jews and Christians the choice of conversion to Islam or death Ñ Maimonides fled with his family, first to Morocco, later to Israel, and finally to Egypt. He apparently hoped to continue his studies for several years more, but when his brother David, a jewelry merchant, perished in the Indian Ocean with much of the family's fortune, he had to begin earning money. He probably started practicing medicine at this time. MaimonidesÕ major contribution to Jewish life remains the Mishneh Torah, his code of Jewish law. His intention was to compose a book that would guide Jews on how to behave in all situations just by reading the Torah and his code, without having to expend large amounts of time searching through the Talmud. Needless to say, this provocative rationale did not endear Maimonides to many traditional Jews, who feared that people would rely on his code and no longer study the Talmud. Despite sometimes intense opposition, the Mishneh Torah became a standard guide to Jewish practice: It later served as the model for the Shulkhan Arukh, the sixteenth-century code of Jewish law that is still regarded as authoritative by Orthodox Jews.Ó -Joseph Telushkin
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