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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
Bartholomaeus de Zanis Venice 28. March 1491 Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. ... His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447 [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]
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KETHAM, Johannes de.
Fasciculus Medicinae.
- One of 2800 numbered copies of this facsimile reprint of G.M. 363, "A collection of short medical treatises which circulated widely in manuscript, some as early as the 13th century. The great importance of this book is that it includes the first printed anatomic illustrations of any kind." With prospectus. Illustrated with 10 full-page plates. 80pp of black letter type, printed in double columns with rubrication throughout. Small folio, calf-backed blue printed boards; cardboard slipcase (broken). Venice: Johannes & Gregorius Fratres de Forlivio, 1491; i.e. Arlington Mass.: Medicina Rara, (no date). A near fine copy in a very good(-) slipcase. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB]
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Bonaini F. - Fabretti A. - Polidori
Cronache e storie inedite della città di Perugia dal MCL al MDLXIII seguite da inediti documenti tratti dagli archivj di Perugia di Firenze e di Siena. Parte I - II + indice. Bonifaci Veronensis Eulistea, Annali attribuiti ad uno di Casa Oddi, Cronaca.
- pp. 116-750-43-694, 8°, bross. edit., , .detta del Graziani con supplementi d'altre cronache inedite 1150-1491. Cronaca di Francesco Matarazzo, Memorie di Teseo Alfani, Ricordi dei Bontempi, La guerra del sale di Girolamo Frolliere, Regesto e documenti 1492-1563. Collana Archivio Storico Italiano- voll. 3 Firenze, Vieusseux, 1850-51, (VIEUSSEUX - ARCHIVIO STORICO ITALIANO) [Bookseller: Franco A. Volta]
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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Salzburg].
Statuta Provincialia.
(Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 28. März 1491). - Fol. Mit 53 tlw. großen floralen Holzschn.-Initialen. 17 nn. Bll. (ohne das letzte weiße), Mod. Pgmt. unter Verwendung eines mittelalterlichen Pergament-Manuskriptes mit zahlr. Initialen in Rot u. Blau. Erste lateinisch-deutsche Ausgabe der unter Erzbischof Friedrich V. beschlossenen Salzburger Provinzialstatuten. Eine undatierte lateinische Ausgabe war bei Petri in Passau erschienen, ob sie vor der hier vorliegenden gedruckt wurde, ist nicht gesichert. - Der Salzburger Erzbischof Friedrich V. entstammte dem letzten edelfreien Geschlecht Österreichs, das sich nach der Burg Schaunberg bei Efering nannte. Er studierte ab 1459 an der Wiener Universität, war sei 1469 Domherr in Salzburg und wurde 1484 Stadtpfarrer. - „Trotz seines Studiums war er jedoch ein ausgesprochen roher und ungebildeter Mann, dem es an fürstlichen Manieren und diplomatischem Geschick vollkommen fehlte [.]. Der dringend notwendigen Reform des Klerus sollte eine Provinzialsynode dienen, die Erzbischof Friedrich V. am 19. Oktober abhielt. Die insgesamt 49 Artikel, die von der Kirchenversammlung beschlossen wurden und vor allem der Verweltlichung des Klerus entgegenwirken sollten, wurden durchwegs aus den Beschlüssen früherer Synoden übernommen. Freilich konte die Wirkung unter einem Erzbischof, der mit seinem Lebenswandel selbst diesen Beschlüssen ganz entschieden zuwiederhandelte, nicht besonders groß sein" (Dopsch I/1, 563). - Kl. zeitgen. Eintrag a. Titel u. vereinzelt einige zeitgen. Marginalien. Zu Beginn kl. Wurmspur im weißen Rand. Tlw. schwach gebräunt bzw. (stock-) fleckig, die ersten Bll. min. wasserrandig. - Goff S 753; Copinger 5623; Pellechet 10740; Polain 3597; Sajó-Soltész 3132; Voull. 300; Ohly-Sack 2586; Walsh 633ff.; Sheppard 1339; Proctor 1892; BMC II, 385; BSB-Ink., S-550; ISTC is00753000. [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Friebes]
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The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits
Cambridge University Press. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) obtained papal approval in 1540 for a new international religious order called the Society of Jesus. Until the mid-1700s the 'Jesuits' were active in many parts of Europe and far beyond. Gaining both friends and enemies in response to their work as teachers, scholars, writers, preachers, missionaries and spiritual directors, the Jesuits were formally suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 and restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814. The Society of Jesus then grew until the 1960s; it has more recently experienced declining membership in Europe and North America, but expansion in other parts of the world. This Companion examines the religious and cultural significance of the Jesuits. The first four sections treat the period prior to the Suppression, while section five examines the Suppression and some of the challenges and opportunities of the restored Society of Jesus up to the present. ISBN10: 0521857317. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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BIBLE - LATIN - VULGATE].
Biblia cum summarioru(m) apparatu pleno quadrupliciq(ue) repertorio insignita: .[Colophon:] Lyons, Jacques Sacon, XII Kal. Octobris (20 September) 1515. 8vo. With title-page in red and black with a woodcut illustration and 5 lines of verse, 1 full-page and 7 smaller woodcut illustrations plus about a dozen repeats, and hundreds of decorateduncial woodcut initials. Eighteenth-century vellum with gold-tooled spine label, modern endpapers.
- (30), ccccc, (53), (1 blank) ll. Baudrier XII, p. 337; Cathedral Libraries Cat. B-1061 (1 incomplete copy); cf. Adams B-990 (2 copies of a similar Bible); Darlow & Moule 6093 (similar Bible). An early octavo edition of the Vulgate Old and New Testament, with a commendatory verse by Matthias Sambucellus on the title-page, Franciscus Gothi's "Compendiolum" (a thirty-page appendix providing verse epitomes of the books of the Old and New Testament, intended as a mnemonic aid), the interpretations of the Hebrew names, and marginal notes and cross-references. The woodcut on the title-page shows Saint Jerome with pen in hand at his writing table. Next to him is a table with six bound volumes, two open on a rotating book stand. The full-page woodcut shows six small scenes of the six days of creation, with a decorated border around and between them, and the smaller woodcuts in the text are charming scenes and portraits.Froben published the first octavo Bible at Basel in 1491, bringing the complete Bible text within reach of a larger public, though still limited to those well enough educated to read Latin. Luther promulgated his famous theses only two years after the present edition, and his German translation didn't begin to appear until 1522. The present text is based on Petri and Froben's 1509 folio edition, though indirectly via Mareschal's 1510 Lyons octavo edition. The verse on the title-page first appeared in the 1509 edition, but Mareschal altered the last line to remove the reference to Basel. Mareschal also appears to have added the verse epitomes. Froben's editions were highly regarded for their accurate texts, so they served as the best standard for others to follow.In very good condition, with the with the trim at the head on three pages just touching the running heads, and the title-page reinforced in the gutter. Binding slightly worn. A nice example of the Bible (with woodcuts) reaching out to a broader public on the eve of the Protestant Reformation. [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]
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KETHAM, Johannes de.
Fasciculus Medicinae.
- One of 2800 numbered copies of this facsimile reprint of G.M. 363, "A collection of short medical treatises which circulated widely in manuscript, some as early as the 13th century. The great importance of this book is that it includes the first printed anatomic illustrations of any kind." With prospectus. Illustrated with 10 full-page plates. 80pp of black letter type, printed in double columns with rubrication throughout. Small folio, calf-backed blue printed boards; cardboard slipcase (broken). Venice: Johannes & Gregorius Fratres de Forlivio, 1491; i.e. Arlington Mass.: Medicina Rara, (no date). A near fine copy in a very good(-) slipcase. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB]
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LA FONTAINE, (Jean de)
Fables de La Fontaine. Illustrations de Félix Lorioux.
Paris, Libraire Hachette (à la fin, en bas p. 72, : Imprimé en France BRODARD et TAUPIN Paris - Coulommiers 334-3-1491), 1929, - pt. in-8°, 72 p., illustré en couleurs, imprimé sur papier mat, qqs page renforcés dans la charenière avec du papier collant, page de garde sur fond claire, a la fin manque, garde renfocé avec du papier collant, reliure en demi-toile illustrée d'une image contrecollé sur fond brun/nuagés blanc, dos abimé. Für Schweizer Kunden kommen noch 2,4 % MWST hinzu. Our books are stored in our warehouse, not in the shop. Please notify beforehand, if you want to visit and see a specific book. [Bookseller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.]
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CAVICEO (Jacopo)
Sex urbium dicta ad Maximilianum Federici Tertii caesarius filium Romanorum regem triumphantissimum. [Venice, after 16 Mar.
- Five-line ornamental woodcut initial on first page, first page of text printed within a single rule. Sm. 4to. 6 leaves, the last blank. Later wrappers. 1491]. One of only two editions of this tract which purports to be a collection of speeches addressed to Emperor Maximilian by certain great cities of old (Babylon, Troy, etc.) congratulating him on the occasion of his victory over the Hungarians at Stühlweissenburg (Alba Regia) in November 1490; Babylon, Troy, Byzantium and finally Rome are introduced as speakers, extolling the military prowess of the young king of the Romans, and exhorting him to lead at last the long desired war against the Turks, prophesying a glorious victory for Maximilian and the state of Christendom. The author Caviceo (1443-1571), a native of Parma, became very well known after the publication of his romantic novel Il Peregrino in 1508. GW assigned the printing to Benalius, but this is not accepted by BMC or IGI VI while the second edition is assigned to Matteo Capcasa after 16 Mar. 1491. HC 4805. BMC VII, 1146. IGI 2655. GW 6433. Goff C355. [Bookseller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA ILAB BA*]
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
Bartholomaeus de Zanis Venice 28. March 1491 Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. ... His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447 [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]
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BIBLE IN LATIN]
Biblia integra : summata : distincta : Sup[er]eme[n]data vtriusq[ue] testame[n]ti [con]corda[n]tijs illustrata.
Johann Froben, Basel 1491 - First printed bible in octavo, the so-called "Poor Man's Bible". Short octavo (5 7/8 x 4 3/16 inches; 149 x 106 mm). [493] leaves. Fifty-six lines of gothic type in two- and three-columns. Many pages, especially preliminaries and Hebrew Names, with rubrication. Manuscript three-line capitals in red and in blue throughout, and several much larger initials, most notably on leaf A2r, in red, blue, green, and brown. Early manuscript foliation.Sixteenth century blind-tooled pigskin over beveled wooden boards. Boards with thin-thick-thin borders and pictorial borders rolled in relief, pictorial centerpieces stamped in relief (the year "1554" stamped below the front centerpiece), spine ruled in compartments, four raised bands. Original brass catch-and-clasp fasteners, partially renewed, with new straps. Contemporary manuscript contents ruled in red, written in red and black ink on front pastedown. A few instances of marginalia and notes on the title and rear pastedown in contemporary and near-contemporary hands in red and black ink. A few signatures standing proud. A few leaves trimmed somewhat close, affecting headlines. Occasional light spotting. Light soiling to boards and wear to board extremities. Overall an excellent copy; clean, fresh and complete in a near-contemporary binding.This is a notably handsome, remarkably well-preserved copy of this important work, the first Bible printed by renowned printer Johann Froben, and also the first Bible ever to be printed in an octavo format. The remarkable pictorial elements of the binding, obscure under direct light, become wonderfully apparent when the binding is viewed at an angle. In this way the images cast shadows, revealing roll patterns featuring the four evangelists on the front board and laurel-wreathed busts of pagan poets on the rear, and two Biblical centerpieces: On the front board is the Sacrifice of Isaac, with the Angel of the Lord staying Abraham's hand; on the rear board, Daniel waits in the lion's den next to one of the big cats while two cherubs hold a wreath above the prophet's head.Bound with the final two blanks, which is not usually the case; in the past thirty years, just one copy has come up for auction with both blanks present (Sotheby's, December 15, 1986, lot 158).Prior to the publication of Froben's 1491 Biblia integra, printed Bibles tended to be massive folios that were difficult to transport, making them talismanic objects as much as texts, and therefore primarily suited for ecclesiastical use. Because of its relatively diminutive size Froben's Bible became know as the original "Poor Man's Bible", eminently transportable and therefore eminently accessible. Although Froben's Biblia integra was printed in Latin, because of its small size it should rightly be ranked with Martin Luther's 1534 German Bible, and later sixteenth and seventeenth century Bibles translated into other vernacular European languages that made the Bible increasingly accessible to laypeople in early modern Europe."The earliest edition printed in octavo was printed by Johannes Froben de Hammelburg: Baseileae, 27 June 1491 This edition from its small size is known as the first 'poor man's Bible.' It is noteworthy also as being the first book, or one of the first books, issued by Johann Froben, the celebrated printer of Basel, who was intimately connected with Erasmus and other prominent men of the age, and printed many books in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Froben's Latin Bibles were based on the 'Fontibus ex Graecis' editions, and were highly esteemed for their accuracy" (Darlow & Moule).Darlow & Moule 6086. Goff B-592. Hain 664. Polain 664. [Bookseller: Michael Sharpe Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB]
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Bernardus Claravallensis
Floretus.
(Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, not after 1491). With a splendid nearly full-page title woodcut of a teacher instructing two pupils, a scroll with inscription above, a dove perched on his shoulder and an open book before him. Printed in Gothic type. Capital spaces. 35 - 45 lines and head-line to the page. 56 lvs. 4to. 20th century boards covered with an early printed leaf, printed paper spine label.Hain-Copinger 2912. GKW 4004. BMC I, 276. Goff B-392. Janauschek No. 167. Not in IDL. For the fine "accipies" woodcut see: Schreiber No. 3431, Schramm VIII 20, and Schreiber - Heitz No. 18. First edition with commentary of this often reprinted schoolbook. And the first version of the beautiful "accipies" woodcut, with a scroll inscribed: "Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancti". Heinrich Quentell used this "magister cum discipulis" woodcut for the first time in 1490, and in the following years numerous schoolbooks were illustrated with comparable woodcuts. The "Floretus" consists of a text in rhythmic prose for easy memorization and an anonymous explanatory commentary. The work is ascribed to Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153), Abbot of Clairvaux, which under his direction soon became one of the chief centres of the Cistercian Order. The basic Christian tenets in this work include a.o. the following subjects: "De pr(a)eceptis iuris scripti", "De peccato gul(a)e et de malis sequentibus ebrietatem", "De sententia excommunicationis", "De scientia et ignorantia", "De virginitate & castitate", "De somno et vigilia", "De custodia quinque sensuum, gustus, odoratus, auditus, visio, tactus". - A light marginal waterstain to a very few leaves. A few leaves very slightly browned. Contemporary handwritten marginal annotations and some underlinings, in at least two different hands, one signed by Gebhardus Rem(m)inger (leaf 24 recto). Library stamp inside front-cover of F. Fasting, Rio de Janeiro. A well preserved incunable.[(5132)] [Bookseller: Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariaat*]
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Maioranis, Franciscus de
Sermones ab adventu cum quadragesimali
Bernardino Rizzo de Novara, Venice 1491 - 215 leaves, contemporary full leather binding, from the Franciscan monastery at Villingen with LCV stamped on front cover, the book was bound by an Esslingen workshop active between 1472 and 1498, binding heavily blindstamped with stamps 1-7 (including acorns, flowers and heraldic emblems) of the period, paper spine label, some renovation, remains of clasps, occasional waterstains (particularly to rear) but generally very clean internally, 16th centuy inscription on A2, large 8vo (16x22.5cm), Francois de Meyronnes was an important Provencal Franciscan theologian, his works are quoted by almost all major theologians of the 14th and 15th centuries, [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Flora Books]
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BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS.
Liber de proprietatibus rerum.
[Colophon:] Strassburg: [printer of the 14883 Jordanus de Quedlinburg,] 1491. - Small folio, 258 leaves, including the final blank R6. Printed in double columns, 52 lines plus headline, initial spaces with guide letters rubricated throughout. Contemporary goatskin roll-tooled in blind over beech boards, brass clasps, title written on lower edges, small paper label on upper cover (clasps repaired, spine cracked and restored). Single wormhole through text of first 25 leaves, a few other small wormholes in margin, minor dampstain in lower margin. A superb copy. The first important encyclopedia of all the sciences of the Middle Ages, which by its wide dissemination over three centuries had a profound influence of medieval thought. It is "still important for its information on political geography and its accounts of natural history" (Stillwell). Divided into nineteen books, the contents are as follows: "(1) God; (2) angels and demons; (3) psychology; (4–5) physiology; (6) family life, domestic economy; (7) medicine; (8) cosmology, astrology; (9) time divisions; (10) form and matter, elements; (11) air, meteorology; (12) flying creatures; (13) waters and fishes, dolphins, whales; (14) physical geography; (15) political geography, (in 175 chapters; this contains a number of interesting remarks, notes on economic geography, etc.); (16) gems, minerals, metals; (17) trees and herbs; (18) animals; (19) color, odor, savor; food and drink, eggs; weights and measures; musical instruments" (Sarton, II, p. 586). "Book 16 contains 104 short chapters on as many mineral substances as earths, stone, ores, metals, salts, etc., as well as gemstones, the latter often given names that now defy identification of the materials concerned. Gemstones are alabaster, adamante, amethyst, agate, alabandina, beryl, carbuncle, chrysoprase, chalcedony, chrysolite, rock crystal, coral carnelian, hematite, heliotrope, jet, jasper, hyacinth, pearl, marble, onyx, opal, prase, sapphire, emerald, sard, sardonyx, topaz, turquoise; very brief descriptions with comments on curious or medicinal lore associated with each" (Sinkankas, Gemology, p. 70). This is the second of two editions from this press. This copy has extensive marginalia in a calligraphic hand in Books III–V and occasionally elsewhere by the writer who recorded his ownership on the inside front cover at Beyharting in 1551. BMC, I, 142. GKW 3412. Goff B-410. Klebs 149.11. Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science during the First Century of Printing 1450-1550, p. 186. Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica, 19b. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, 173. Thorndike, II, pp. 401–435. Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, II, pp. 586–587. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Nigel Phillips ABA ILAB]
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GERSON JOANNES
JOANNES GERSON DE IMMITATIONE CHRISTI ET DE CONTEMPTU MUNDI IN VULGARI SERMONE.
PER BERTOLAMIO DI ZANI DA PORTESO, Venetia 1491 - GERSON JOANNES. JOANNES GERSON DE IMMITATIONE CHRISTI ET DE CONTEMPTU MUNDI IN VULGARI SERMONE. Venetia, per Bertolamio di Zani da Porteso. XXIII Decembrio 1491. ( Cm. 21,2 ) bella mz. pergamena antica ben restaurata, piatti con foglio di messale del '500 con due grandi capolettera figurati. --- cc. 72 (di 76) carattere romano, 36 linee, spazi per lettere capitali. La tavola è al verso della prima carta. A carta a2 : " incomincia il primo libro". Opera celebre di ascetica medievale di dubbia attribuzione. Edizione in volgare piuttosto rara, manca a OATES " IN CAMBRIDGE", I.G.I. registra solo 10 copie in Italia e GOFF 6 copie in America, nessuna in BODLEIAN LIBRARY, manca anche a proctor ed è non visto da HAIN. Purtroppo mancano le ultime 4 carte in fine segnate K che contengono l' Epistola " Ad Silvia Vergine.." e il colophon, inoltre, per errore del legatore mancano 4 carte del registro g1 e g2 + le due corrispondenti, e al loro posto sono state inserite doppie g3 e g4 con le relative corrispondenti. Filo di tarlo ben restaurato verso la cerniera di alcune carte interne che tocca a volte il testo, lievi aloni marginali sparsi per lo più all' inizio, qualche lieve difetto, peraltro esemplare bello nitido e ben marginato. Alla prima carta Ex Libris manoscritto coevo: " Questo libro è di Carlo di M. Micalangaelo de li libri ?..Raniere..". --- HAIN-COPINGER 9129;--- I.G.I. 5132;--- GOFF I-50;--- BMC V 431;--- POLAIN 2076;--- HARVARD 2253;--- INOLTRE VEDI CAT. HARPER 1930 N° 107, CATALOGO ROSENTHAL DI MONACO 1900 N° 2482 E OLSCHKI CAT. 94 DEL 1915 " INCUNABULA TYPOGRAPHICA" N° 207; TUTTI AD ALTO PREZZO. [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: LIBRI ANTICHI E RARI FRANCESCO&CLAUDIA]
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Du Rivail, Aymar
Civilis Historiae Juris, Sive in XII Tab. Leges Commentariorum Libri Quinq, Iam Denuo Diligenter Recogniti.
Du Rivail, Aymar [1491- - 1558]. Historiae Item Juris Pont. Liber Singularis. Mainz: [Apud Iuonem Schoeffer], 1533. [xvi], 357 pp. Octavo (6" x 4"). Later quarter calf over patterned paper boards, red and black lettering pieces to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to extremities, a few small scuffs to boards, joints just starting at ends, crack between front free endpaper and following endleaf. Title printed within attractive woodcut architectural border, woodcut decorated initials, large printer device to verso of final text leaf. Toning, light soiling to title page, internally clean. Attractive. * Later edition. Du Rivail, who studied under Alciati, was a humanist jurist, historian and member of the parlement of Grenoble. As Peter Stein has observed, Civilis Historiae Juris, a set of commentaries on the Twelve Tables, was an important contribution to the early-modern recovery of Roman law from the obfuscations of the glossators and Commentators. It was first published in 1515 and went through four subsequent editions, the final in 1539. The laws identified erroneously or questionably as those of the Twelve Tables are included as well. The final section is a historical sketch of canon law entitled Historia Pontificii Iuris Liber Singularis. "He concentrated on the main account of the 'origin of law' in the Digest, the long fragment.from Pomponius, and supplemented it by reference to Livy's account of the early republic. Du Rivail sought to reconstruct the contents of the Twelve Tables, and, since that legislation was said to be inspired by the Athenian laws of Solon, he included all known provisions of Solon's law (Stein). 3 copies of this edition located in North America (at the National Library of Canada, UC-Berkeley Law Schooland library of Congress). Stein, Roman Law in European History 78. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600 R592. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB]
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ALIGHIERI, DANTE
Comedia [DIVINA COMMEDIA ; THE DIVINE COMEDY with the commentary of Landino]
Piero de Plasiis, Venezia 1491 - ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Comedia. [al colophon:] E' impresso in Vinegia per Petro Cremonese dito Veronese: Adi. xviii. di nove[m]brio.M.cccc.Lxxxxi. [Venezia, Piero de Plasiis, 18 novembre 1491]. In-folio (306x210 mm), legatura settecentesca in mezza pelle con angoli su carta colorata, dorso a cinque nervi con titoli e fregi incisi in oro (leggere mende ai margini dei piatti e su un fregio del dorso), cc. (14), 315, (3). Rispetto a GW, 7970 la segnatura AA con la Tabula è legata, in questo esemplare, tra la segnatura a e la segnatura B. CENTO PREGEVOLI XILOGRAFIE NEL TESTO, ATTRIBUITE AD ANDREA MANTEGNA. RARA E RICERCATA edizione della Comedia con il fortunatissimo commento di Cristoforo Landino, apparso per la prima volta nell'edizione fiorentina impressa da Niccolò di Lorenzo nel 1481 e poi altre quindici volte nel corso del Quattrocento, da solo o con il testo di Dante. Nel Cinquecento conobbe otto edizioni, tre delle quali insieme al commento di Alessandro Vellutello. Accurati restauri alla prima carta, con integrazione di alcune linee di testo; un altro restauro agli angoli delle ultime cinque carte, con fastidio a poche lettere (manoscritte); trascurabile foro singolo di tarlo al margine inferiore dell'ultima parte del volume. PROVENIENZA: Glosse coeve manoscritte al margine di alcune carte. MAMBELLI, Gli Annali delle edizioni dantesche, 14: "[ ] L'edizione è assai ricercata per le 100 incisioni in legno, il cui disegno è attribuito al Mantegna [ ]". HCR, 5950; IGI, 364; Goff, D-33; BMC, V 270; GW, 7970; Proctor, 4482; BSB-Ink, D-10; Pellechet, 4118; Arnoult, 505; Buffévent, 170; Jammes, D-1; Lefèvre, 154; Zehnacker, 756; Polain (B), 1225; IBE, 286; IJL2, 147; Essling, 532; Sander, 2314; Walsh, 1777; Oates, 1794 e 1795; Sheppard, 3615 e 3616. [Bookseller: Bibliopathos]
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DANTE ALIGHIERI
La Commedia.
Bernardinus Benalius and Matteo Capcasa 3 March 1491, Venice - Folio (310mm x 220mm). ff [11], 291, [2]; (10, a-z8, &8, 8, 8, A8, B6, C-I8, K6, L8). Roman letter. Twelve-, six-, and four-line woodcut initials, four full page woodcuts (one repeated) and ninety-seven woodcuts in text, sixty-one lines, text surrounded by commentary. Contemporary limp vellum, professionally rebacked to style. Very occasional contemporary marginal annotations. Title page slightly dusty on lower outer corner. Some occasional thumb marks and stains. Sporadic, very light waterstaining to outer blank margins, and very light spotting to margins in places. A small stain on blank upper margins of leaves 129-131, and a small paper flaw in leaf 138 with no loss to text. A small marginal tear restored just touching the border of woodcut on C1, as well as a tiny tear on GIIII just affecting one letter of side notes. A small worm trail in blank inner margins of leaves 180-190, well away from text. Overall, a very good, clean, crisp copy, with excellent impression of the woodcuts, and wholly unsophisticated."Dante's theme, the greatest yet attempted in poetry, was to explain and justify the Christian cosmos through the allegory of a pilgrimage. To him comes Virgil, the symbol of philosophy, to guide him through the two lower realms of the next world, which are divided according to the classifications of the 'Ethics' of Aristotle. Hell is seen as an inverted cone with its point where lies Lucifer fixed in ice at the centre of the world, and the pilgrimage from it a climb to the foot of and then up the Purgatorial Mountain. Along the way Dante passes Popes, Kings and Emperors, poets, warriors and citizens of Florence, expiating the sins of their life on earth. On the summit is the Earthly Paradise where Beatrice meets them and Virgil departs. Dante is now led through the various spheres of heaven, and the poem ends with a vision of the Deity. The audacity of his theme, the success of its treatment, the beauty and majesty of his verse, have ensured that his poem never lost its reputation. The picture of divine justice is entirely unclouded by Dante's own political prejudices, and his language never falls short of what he describes" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Superbly illustrated with one hundred woodcuts, this edition contains not only the commentary of Cristoforo Landino, but also marginal glosses to further orient the reader. Edited by Pietro da Figino, described in the colophon as "master in theology and excellent preacher of the Order of [Friars] Minor." Based on textual evidence, some scholars believe this edition was actually printed on 3 March 1492 and that perhaps the printers simply made an error in dating their work because the Venetian new year, at that time, began on 1 March. The text of Landino's commentary on this edition first appeared in print in the famous illustrated edition of 1481 at Florence, surrounding the text of the poem as here. Landino (1424-1504), poet and humanist philosopher under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, produced his commentary hastily; still, it became the dominant commentary through the end of the sixteenth century.The design of the woodcuts in this edition is attributed to the Master of Pico della Mirandola's Pliny, who also illustrated Boccaccio's Decameron, printed by the Gregori brothers in Venice, 1492 and the astonishing Malermi Bible of 1490. The woodcuts exhibit the highly stylized characteristics of the late 1480s and early 1490s, typical of renaissance Venetian art. Having developed from the German model, earlier woodblocks were usually cut in outline with little ornamentation or embellishment, but by the third decade after Gutenberg's invention, Venetian and Florentine styles emerged. Innovative compositional formats, the emphasis on the human body -- all hallmarks of Italian Renaissance art -- began to make their way into woodcut design. Venetian woodcuts exhibit a freedom of line that emphasizes the naturalness of the human figure and the ease with which it is set [Bookseller: Michael Sharpe Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB]
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MARTIAL, M. Val.
Epigrammaton Libri, Animadversi, Emendati, et Commentariolis, Inculenter explicati [by Thomas Farnaby].
- Brunet III, p. 1491. STC of French Books in the Library of the British Museum, 521. 3 text engravings. [5], 342pp. 12mo, contemporary calf, leather label; (lightly worn, inner hinge strengthened, internally very good). Sedani: Ioannis Iannoni, 1624. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB]
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Cagnolo, Gerolamo
Commentaria in Titulum Digestis [sic] de Regulas Iuris: Omnibus
Cagnolo, Gerolamo [1491- - 1551]. Commentaria in Titulum Digestis [sic] De Regulis Iuris: Omnibus non Minus Utilia Quam Necessaria: Recenti Huic Omnium Editioni Praeter Diligentissimam ab Omnibus Vitiis Castigationem, Novae Ipsius Auctoris Additiones Passim Interiectae Sunt, Ac Huiusmodi Stellulis ** in Fronte Signatae: In Quibus Multa Prius non Absoluta Absoluit, Plura Explicuit, Non Pacuca Exornauit. Cum Summariis, & Indice Longe quam Antea Copiosissimo: Ac Privilegio Summi Pontificis, Senatusq; Veneti. Venice: Apud Lucam Antonium Iuntam, 1566. [xxviii], 295, [1] fols. Main text printed in parallel columns. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-1/2"). Later quarter vellum over marbled boards, endpapers renewed, lettering piece lacking. Light rubbing to extremities, some soiling to spine. Woodcut Giunta lily device to title page, woodcut decorated initials. Light foxing in a few places, interior otherwise fresh. A handsome copy. * This is a commentary on "De Diversis Regulis Iuris Antiqui," a collection of legal maxims that comprises Book 50, Title 17 of the Digest from Corpus Juris Civilis. The maxims are printed in larger type than the commentary. An earlier version without the maxims was published in Venice and Lyon in 1546 with the title Omnium Legum Tituli ff. De Reg. Iur. The first edition with the format and title of our copy was published in 1558. OCLC and KVK locate 4 copies of the 1566 edition in the United States (at Harvard Law School, the Library of Congress, UC-Berkeley Law School and UCLA Law School). This edition not in Adams. Censimento Nazionale delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo (EDIT 16) CNCE 8321. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB]
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Gerson, Ioannes
De Immitatione Christi et de contemptu mundi in vulgari Sermone
Venice: Bartolomeo Zani, 1491. 23 december 1491. In 4°. 76 unnumbered leaves, handwritten initials and woodcut initials, roman type, good copy with full margins, light brownings, little loss of paper on the margins on leaves f4 and g4 (left bottom corner, does not affect the text), CONTEMPORARY BINDING on wooden axis, handwritten title on the board, end-leaves in parchment from a mercantesque XIVth century manuscript, little wormhole on one board. With an acid-free clamshell box. VERY SCARCE EDITION of this book, both given to the theologist Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363 -1429), known as "doctor Christianissimus Cancellarius" from the church and the University Notre-Dame de Paris, and to Thomas from Kempis, (1380 - 1471). Sander 9129; not in ISTC. PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.. VERY GOOD. 16cm x 22cm. [Bookseller: Louis Caron]
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[ANONYMOUS].
[Untitled world map from 'Mer des Hystoires'].
Paris, [c.1491 but issued in 'Mer des Hystoires' 1517-1550] Circular woodcut map, strong impression. Dimensions: (Map) 300mm (12 inches) diameter; (sheet) 330 by 390mm. (13 by 15.25 inches). Scarce. A reduced version of the world map from 'Rudimentum Novitorum'; the monumental encyclopaedia of world history containing the first printed maps. The work was translated into French under the title 'Mer des Hystoires' and two separate blocks can be identified for these French translations; the first in Paris in 1488, and the second in Lyons in 1491. The version printed in Lyon is clearer and includes several corrections to the earlier works: 'Whereas the earlier 'La Mer des Hystoires' map of 1488 remained close to the 'Rudimentum Novitorum' prototype, this second (and reduced) derivation of 1491 betrays the work of a thinking individual' (Campbell). The map derives from Christianised medival traditions without any reference to Ptolemaic or Porolan sources. The map is orientated with East at the top and Jerusalem at its centre. The Pope is shown in the wall city of Rome. Asian and African countries are noted by hills surrounded by water. The extent of the known world reaches to Taprobana, Ethiopia, Tatary and the 'Sea of the Amazons'. The Pillar's of Hercules are shown at the bottom of the map. In lieu of Adam & Eve, two priestly figures are shown in a garden at the top of the map. The outline of Europe and the Mediterranean, along with the names of several countries, appears in a rough outline. Shirley 17; Campbell pp.148-149. [Bookseller: Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books]
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HENRICUS DE VRIMARIA.
Praeceptorium divinae legis [and two other tracts].
[Paris], Philippe Pigouchet, c.1491. 1491 8vo., 80 leaves, gothic letter; initials, paragraph marks, etc., supplied in red and blue; full-page woodcut printer's device of Adam and Eve beneath the Tree of Knowledge on recto of first leaf, another full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion on the verso; piece cut from lower blank margin of second leaf, but in fresh and clean condition; bound up with one other work (see below) in a contemporary French binding of blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, worn, portion of spine missing; in a cloth box. First edition of this treatise on Christian ethics, the author's only work to achieve print in the fifteenth-century. It was formerly attributed to Nicolaus de Lyra, but is in fact by Henricus de Vrimaria (Heinrich von Friemar): see A. Zumkeller, Manuskripte von Werken der Autoren des Augustiner-Eremitenordens, 1966, p.325. Two brief pieces are added at end, one on tithes, De decimis dandis (f. 77 v.), the other on the Antichrist, Compendium de vita Antichristi (ff. 78-80).A German theologian, the author was born at Friemar, a small town near Gotha in Thuringia, about the end of the thirteenth century, and died probably at Erfurt about 1355. At an early age he entered the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine, and was sent to the University of Paris, where he was made master in theology, and taught there until 1318. In that year he was made regent of studies in the monastery of St. Thomas, Prague, and examiner for Germany. Later he was chosen provincial for Thuringia and Saxony. A number of his other works were printed in the sixteenth-and seventeenth centuries: De quadruplici instinctu, divino, angelico, diabolico, et humano (Parma, 1514); Additiones ad libros Sententiarum (Cologne, 1513); and Tractatus de Beatae Mariae Virginis conceptione (Louvain, 1664).Very rare. ISTC lists only five locations: the British Library, Paris (two copies; both imperfect), Brussels, Aosta, and Cornell University. C3717; BMC VIII 114; Goff N140 (sub Nicolaus de Lyra).Bound up with a Paris edition of the Imitatio Christi (Philippe Pigouchet, for E., J., & G. De Marnef, 31 March 1491), Goff I23 (Harvard only). [Bookseller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd.]
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Gerson, Ioannes
De Immitatione Christi et de contemptu mundi in vulgari Sermone
Bartolomeo Zani 16cm x 22cm Venice 1491 23 december 1491. In 4 . 76 unnumbered leaves, handwritten initials and woodcut initials, roman type, good copy with full margins, light brownings, little loss of paper on the margins on leaves f4 and g4 (left bottom corner, does not affect the text), CONTEMPORARY BINDING on wooden axis, handwritten title on the board, end-leaves in parchment from a mercantesque XIVth century manuscript, little wormhole on one board. With an acid-free clamshell box. VERY SCARCE EDITION of this book, both given to the theologist Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363 -1429), known as "doctor Christianissimus Cancellarius" from the church and the University Notre-Dame de Paris, and to Thomas from Kempis, (1380 - 1471). Sander 9129; not in ISTC. PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Very Good Condition [Bookseller: Louis Caron]
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[ANONYMOUS].
[Untitled world map from 'Mer des Hystoires'].
Paris, [c.1491 but issued in 'Mer des Hystoires' 1517-1550] Circular woodcut map, strong impression. Dimensions: (Map) 300mm (12 inches) diameter; (sheet) 330 by 390mm. (13 by 15.25 inches). Scarce. A reduced version of the world map from 'Rudimentum Novitorum'; the monumental encyclopaedia of world history containing the first printed maps. The work was translated into French under the title 'Mer des Hystoires' and two separate blocks can be identified for these French translations; the first in Paris in 1488, and the second in Lyons in 1491. The version printed in Lyon is clearer and includes several corrections to the earlier works: 'Whereas the earlier 'La Mer des Hystoires' map of 1488 remained close to the 'Rudimentum Novitorum' prototype, this second (and reduced) derivation of 1491 betrays the work of a thinking individual' (Campbell). The map derives from Christianised medival traditions without any reference to Ptolemaic or Porolan sources. The map is orientated with East at the top and Jerusalem at its centre. The Pope is shown in the wall city of Rome. Asian and African countries are noted by hills surrounded by water. The extent of the known world reaches to Taprobana, Ethiopia, Tatary and the 'Sea of the Amazons'. The Pillar's of Hercules are shown at the bottom of the map. In lieu of Adam & Eve, two priestly figures are shown in a garden at the top of the map. The outline of Europe and the Mediterranean, along with the names of several countries, appears in a rough outline. Shirley 17; Campbell pp.148-149. [Bookseller: Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books]
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Stephan Fridolin:
Schatzbehalter. 41. und 42. Figur. (GW 10329, H 6236).
Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 8. November 1491. (Lt. Polain 18. November 1491). O-Inkunabelblatt mit zwei ganzseitigen, unkolorierten Holzschnitten. Im Randbereich etw. fingerfleckig. Blattgröße: 20,8 x 29,3 cm. Ein digitales Bild des rückseitigen Holzschnittes senden wir gerne zu. Incunabula text woodcut leaf.. Die Bilder zeigen die kulturhistorisch interessanten Details eines Hochzeitsmales des ausgehenden 15. Jhd.. Der Schatzbehalter ist neben der Schedelschen Weltchronik das schönste deutsche illustrierte Buch der Inkunabelzeit. Von diesem Werk erschien nur eine einzige Ausgabe mit 96 ganzseitigen Holzschnitten, die z.T. unter Mitarbeit von Albrecht Dürer entstanden. Laut Richard Bellm wurde das Werk nur in einer Auflage von 150 Exemplaren gedruckt (P. St. Fridolin, 1962). Der angesehene Nürnberger Franziskaner-Observant Stephan Fidolin (um 1430 - 1498) wirkte seit 1480 als Lektor des Nürnberger Franziskanerklosters und viele Jahre als Prediger und Beichtvater der Klarissen. Diese Aufgaben bestimmten seine schriftstellerische Tätigkeit. Seine erfolgreichsten, anonym erschienenen Erbauungs- und Andachtsbücher waren der Schatzbehalter, der "geistliche Herbst" und der "geistliche Mai". Die Autorenschaft Fridolins ist durch eine zeitgenössische handschriftliche Eintragung aus dem Kloster Rebdorf gesichert. Der "Schatzbehalter", der hundert Betrachtungspunkte (gegenwürff) des Leidens Christi abhandelt, ist für Laien bestimmt. Fridolin war an der Ausarbeitung des ikonographischen Programms beteiligt. Durch die 96 ganzseitigen Illustrationen aus der Nürnberger Werkstatt von Michael Wolgemut und Wilhelm Pleydenwurff erlangte die Druckausgabe Berühmtheit. Die Bedeutung dieser Ausgabe liegt in Gestaltungsabsicht und der Komposition: "... Das ettliche gegenwürff von pildwerck figuren haben, umb der layen willen, für die diß büchlein allermaist entworffen ist ...". Das Blatt belegt den gewachsenen Sinn für Hell und Dunkel im Holzschnitt, das Streben nach Ausdrucksvielfalt und die Weiterentwicklung des linearen Holzschnitts zur malerisch-plastischen Buchillustration. (Becker/Overgaauw: Aderlass und Seelentrost, 2003, 236). [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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Kol Bo (complete ritual).
(Italy, no printer, about 1491). Printed in square Hebrew type, in 2 columns, 48 lines to the page,without vowel-points. 3 leaves, leaves 135-136 (laws of 'Treifut') and leaf 149 (laws of 'Simchot'). Folio. In cardboard porfolio.Vinograd, Italy, No. 5. Goff Heb-67. Offenberg No. 81. Steinschneider No. 3589. Zedner 191 (Naples?, 1490). First edition. A collection of Rabbinic laws written by a still unknown author, probably at the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century. Printed at an unknown press. Offenberg, The dating of the Kol Bo... in: Studia Rosenthaliana 6:1 (1972) pp. 86-106: "The same type is not used in any other known Hebrew incunable... The book was printed somewhere in Italy about 1490 ... Naturally, it can indeed have been printed in Naples, particularly since the greatest part of Hebrew incunabula were published there about 1490, but it is not possible to be certain of this on the evidence of the paper alone". - A few tiny wormholes, just touching a few letters; browned; 2 small tears in blank margins repaired; one blank margin repaired.[(5758)] [Bookseller: Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariaat*]
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BUSCHIUS, H.
Rare first incunable edition of the juvenile poetry of an important humanist Carmina tumultuaria (with additions by Rudolphus Langius and Alexander Hegius).
(Deventer, Richard Paffraet, between 21 June 1491 and 2 Dec. 1497; before 1496?). 4to. Modern boards covered with marbled paper (34) lvs. (a8, b4, c6, d4, e8, f4).. Original first incunable edition of this collection of the early Neo-Latin poems by Hermannus Buschius, or Hermann von dem Busche (Sassenburg, east of Münster in Westphalen, 1468 - Dulmen 1534). Of noble birth, Buschius was sent on an early age to Münster, where he received his first instruction From Prof. Rudolph von Langen (or Langius), a relative who sent him after some time to Deventer to study with the famous Alexander Hegius. Later on, in 1481, he studied also in Heidelberg under Agricola. He was an ardent follower of the new humanistic and renaissance ideas and ideals and after a long journey to Italy where he studied in Rome and Bologne untill 1491, he taught at many German and Dutch Latin Schools, such as Münster, Osnabrück, Hamburg, Wesel, Alkmaar, and Universities (Cologne, Greifswald, Wittenberg, Leipzig (1503), Marburg: professor 1526-1533) as a so-called 'Wanderlehrer. Returned to Cologne Buschius emerged as one of the leading spokesmen in defence of Reuchlin, whose Augenspiegel had been declared to be heretical. He had also friendly relations with Erasmus for almost ten years. His most important work is the Vallum humanitatis , a defence of humanism. At the diet of Worms in 1521 Buschius joined Hutten and his friends in their stand for Luther and he was the main advocate of the Lutheran view at the public discussion in Münster in 1533, opposing the Anabaptist heresies of Bernhard Rothmann.booklet starts with a laudatory poem by Rudolphus Langius, a letter of Buschius to Alexander Hegius, dedicating his two books of poetry to him. Two further laudatory poems by Hegius conclude the book. Very good copy with neat contemporary manuscript annotation on f. a2; from the famous library of Georgius Kloss (see the Catalogue of the library of Dr. Kloss, including many original and unpublished manuscripts and printed books with MS. annotations by Philippus Melanchton. Auction catalogue London, Sotheby's, 1835). This rich collection of Mss., incunables and 16th century books until 1550 was built on the collections of Johannes vob Dalberg, bishop of Worms (d. 1503), Adelmann von Adelmannsted and the Church library of Esslingen. - (Some faint marginal staining at places). IDL 1088 (only 1 copy: RL, The Hague); IPLC 494; Campbell 389; Hain-Copinger* 4157; GW 5797; IBP 1341; IGI 2279, Polain Belge 943; Voullieme (B) 4856; not in Goff. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS.
Liber de proprietatibus rerum.
[Colophon:] Strassburg: [printer of the 14883 Jordanus de Quedlinburg,] 1491. Small folio, 258 leaves, including the final blank R6. Printed in double columns, 52 lines plus headline, initial spaces with guide letters rubricated throughout. Contemporary goatskin roll-tooled in blind over beech boards, brass clasps, title written on lower edges, small paper label on upper cover (clasps repaired, spine cracked and restored). Single wormhole through text of first 25 leaves, a few other small wormholes in margin, minor dampstain in lower margin. A superb copy. The first important encyclopedia of all the sciences of the Middle Ages, which by its wide dissemination over three centuries had a profound influence of medieval thought. It is “still important for its information on political geography and its accounts of natural history” (Stillwell). Divided into nineteen books, the contents are as follows: “(1) God; (2) angels and demons; (3) psychology; (4–5) physiology; (6) family life, domestic economy; (7) medicine; (8) cosmology, astrology; (9) time divisions; (10) form and matter, elements; (11) air, meteorology; (12) flying creatures; (13) waters and fishes, dolphins, whales; (14) physical geography; (15) political geography, (in 175 chapters; this contains a number of interesting remarks, notes on economic geography, etc.); (16) gems, minerals, metals; (17) trees and herbs; (18) animals; (19) color, odor, savor; food and drink, eggs; weights and measures; musical instruments” (Sarton, II, p. 586). “Book 16 contains 104 short chapters on as many mineral substances as earths, stone, ores, metals, salts, etc., as well as gemstones, the latter often given names that now defy identification of the materials concerned. Gemstones are alabaster, adamante, amethyst, agate, alabandina, beryl, carbuncle, chrysoprase, chalcedony, chrysolite, rock crystal, coral carnelian, hematite, heliotrope, jet, jasper, hyacinth, pearl, marble, onyx, opal, prase, sapphire, emerald, sard, sardonyx, topaz, turquoise; very brief descriptions with comments on curious or medicinal lore associated with each” (Sinkankas, Gemology, p. 70). This is the second of two editions from this press. This copy has extensive marginalia in a calligraphic hand in Books III–V and occasionally elsewhere by the writer who recorded his ownership on the inside front cover at Beyharting in 1551. BMC, I, 142. GKW 3412. Goff B-410. Klebs 149.11. Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science during the First Century of Printing 1450-1550, p. 186. Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica, 19b. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, 173. Thorndike, II, pp. 401–435. Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, II, pp. 586–587. [Bookseller: Nigel Phillips]
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PHILELPHUS, FRANCISCUS,
Orationes et opuscula.
Venice, Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 28. March 1491. Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti.In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc. ABAA/ILAB]
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[STATUTES OF SALZBURG]
Statuta Provincialia.
Augsburg: Erhardt Ratdolt 5 April 1491 FIRST EDITION thus. Folio. 17 unnumbered leaves. a-b6, c5,as usual lacking final blank. Gothic letter. Numerous white on black fine, large foliated initials. A very little spotting and browning, not really affecting text. A few small round wormholes, some repaired, touching a few letters, two restored on final leaf. A very good, clean (possibly expertly washed) copy in modern vellum. First bilingual Latin-German edition of the Statutes for the Province of Salzburg, with new, expanded German text, the first having appeared in 1490. The Statuta were drawn up under Friedich V von Schaunberg (or von Schallenburg), Archbishop of Salzburg from 1489-1494, a position which traditionally enjoyed a great deal of autonomy from Rome, and considerable secular legislative powers. Friedrich was educated at the University of Vienna from 1459, becoming Domherr ('canon') in Salzburg in 1469, and proceeding steadily up the hierarchy until he was appointed Archbishop in 1489. He was renowned for being outspoken, but diplomatic. The Statuta provide rulings on various aspects of ecclestiastical administration and law, and the duties and behaviour of clergy and laypeople. They also lay down the wider legal framework of the region's relationship to papal authority. Among their provisions are sections specifying appropriate clerical behaviour ('De vita et honestate clericorum'; 'De continentia clericorum'): it is stressed in several places that clerics should be literate and guard against letting their congregations fall into ignorant ways, and that they should reside in and receive their incomes from one parish alone. Further sections provide rulings on penitence and absolution, admission to communion and the observation of the sabbath. A large number of other, wide-ranging issues are dealt with in the simple, concise style which characterises the Statuta as a whole: they include usury, the quarantine of lepers and baptism, inter alia. Sources cited include Eusebius, St. Benedict and Pope Innocent III. The work concludes with Pope Martin V's 'confirmatio' with the Holy Roman Empire, in Latin and in German, a document which laid the basis for subsequent papal relations with the German lands, and, on a more regional level, for Salzburg's own ecclesiastical autonomy and freedom to create its own local legislation. BMC Ger. II, 385; Goff S-753; Hain IV, 15043. Rare: no copies sold at auction since 1985. L529 [Bookseller: Sokol Books Ltd.]
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Biblia, Ad Romanos, Cap. IV-VIII (GW 4269, HC 3107).
Basel, Johann Froben, 27. Juni 1491. Type 1, 2, 3.. 56-zeiliges, zweispaltiges Original-Inkunabelblatt mit 4 dreizeiligen roten Lombarden. Blattgröße: 10,1 x 14 cm. Incunabula text leaf.. [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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HENRICUS DE VRIMARIA.
Praeceptorium divinae legis [and two other tracts].
[Paris], Philippe Pigouchet, c.1491. 1491 8vo., 80 leaves, gothic letter; initials, paragraph marks, etc., supplied in red and blue; full-page woodcut printer's device of Adam and Eve beneath the Tree of Knowledge on recto of first leaf, another full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion on the verso; piece cut from lower blank margin of second leaf, but in fresh and clean condition; bound up with one other work (see below) in a contemporary French binding of blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, worn, portion of spine missing; in a cloth box. First edition of this treatise on Christian ethics, the author's only work to achieve print in the fifteenth-century. It was formerly attributed to Nicolaus de Lyra, but is in fact by Henricus de Vrimaria (Heinrich von Friemar): see A. Zumkeller, Manuskripte von Werken der Autoren des Augustiner-Eremitenordens, 1966, p.325. Two brief pieces are added at end, one on tithes, De decimis dandis (f. 77 v.), the other on the Antichrist, Compendium de vita Antichristi (ff. 78-80).A German theologian, the author was born at Friemar, a small town near Gotha in Thuringia, about the end of the thirteenth century, and died probably at Erfurt about 1355. At an early age he entered the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine, and was sent to the University of Paris, where he was made master in theology, and taught there until 1318. In that year he was made regent of studies in the monastery of St. Thomas, Prague, and examiner for Germany. Later he was chosen provincial for Thuringia and Saxony. A number of his other works were printed in the sixteenth-and seventeenth centuries: De quadruplici instinctu, divino, angelico, diabolico, et humano (Parma, 1514); Additiones ad libros Sententiarum (Cologne, 1513); and Tractatus de Beatae Mariae Virginis conceptione (Louvain, 1664).Very rare. ISTC lists only five locations: the British Library, Paris (two copies; both imperfect), Brussels, Aosta, and Cornell University. C3717; BMC VIII 114; Goff N140 (sub Nicolaus de Lyra).Bound up with a Paris edition of the Imitatio Christi (Philippe Pigouchet, for E., J., & G. De Marnef, 31 March 1491), Goff I23 (Harvard only). [Bookseller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd.]
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Gerson, Ioannes
De Immitatione Christi et de contemptu mundi in vulgari Sermone
Bartolomeo Zani 16cm x 22cm Venice 1491 23 december 1491. In 4 . 76 unnumbered leaves, handwritten initials and woodcut initials, roman type, good copy with full margins, light brownings, little loss of paper on the margins on leaves f4 and g4 (left bottom corner, does not affect the text), CONTEMPORARY BINDING on wooden axis, handwritten title on the board, end-leaves in parchment from a mercantesque XIVth century manuscript, little wormhole on one board. With an acid-free clamshell box. VERY SCARCE EDITION of this book, both given to the theologist Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363 -1429), known as "doctor Christianissimus Cancellarius" from the church and the University Notre-Dame de Paris, and to Thomas from Kempis, (1380 - 1471). Sander 9129; not in ISTC. PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Very Good Condition [Bookseller: Louis Caron]
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Augustine, Saint
OPUSCULA.
31 March 1491. Parma Angelus Ugoletus.. Edition: n Folio. Roman type. ff.306, the last leaf blank. Full modern calf in antique style, preserving on later front blank fly-leaf the armorial bookplate of H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), sixth son of George III of England and noted bibliophile. Early repair to blank foot of second leaf, several small wormholes to first and last leaves that do not affect legibility, and some contemporary marginalia. A very large example with some uncut edges.. [Bookseller: Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller, Inc.]
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AGOSTINO S.
Opuscula De academicis Libri III. De vita beata Li. I. De ordine Li. II. Soliloquia Li. II. De immortalitate animae Li. I. Gramatica Li. I. Rhetorica Li. I. Dialectica Li. I. De moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae Li. I. De vanitate animae Li. I. De libero arbitrio Li. III. Vita S. Augustini Li. I. De magistro Li. I. De opere Monachorum Li. I. De bono ...
Parma, Angelo Ugoleto, 1491. "In-folio; 304 cc.; legatura settecentesca in tutta pergamena. Ottimo esemplare." Si tratta di una delle prime raccolte di libelli agostiniani, particolarmente importante per il fatto che qui per la prima volta compaiono a stampa molte celebri operette: De academicis, De ordine, De immortalitate animae, Grammatica, Retorica, Dialettica, De magistro e altre susseguenti scritture pseudoagostiniane. La stampa in bei caratteri tondi è una delle più eleganti del principale stampatore parmigiano, Angelo Ugoleto, attivo tra il 1486 e il 1499. HC 1952. IGI 1018. BMC I, 151. GW 2867. Goff A-1220 (7 copie). [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum]
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