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Burlaeus Gualtherus
Expositio in Artem Veterem Porphyrii Et Aristotelis
IN FINE: VENETA, ANDREAE DE PALTASICHIS CATHARENSIS DIE 21 JENUARII. 1492, 1492. [INCUNABOLO-RARO] (cm. 31) piena pergamena secolo XVIII con dorso restaurato dell' epoca, 2 sguardie antiche rimontate. --cc. 89 (di 92) caratteri gotici grandi e piccoli, testo su due colonne, 70 linee. Manca la prima carta bianca + la prima carta con il testo segnata a2 + l' ultima carta bianca. Ovvero manca solo la prima carta con il testo: " Preclarissimi viri Gualterii burlei anglici..". Il testo contiene 16 figure schematiche di circa cm. 6x6. Burlaeus (1275-1345? ) fu uno dei pochi del XIV secolo cui fu attribuita la cultura del rinascimento in Inghilterra. Studiò a Parigi ed ebbe come tutore Duns Scotus, fu un importante commentatore di Aristotele. Non fu uno studioso innovativo ma il suo successo stà nel fatto che le sue opere sono chiare, brevi e comprensive non chè ben scritte, qualità raramente riscontrabili nelle pubblicazioni di quel periodo. La presente edizione è una delle prime col commento del Burlaeus sul testo di Aristotele ed è la prima edizione curata dallo studioso italiano Campagna. Purtroppo modesto esemplare da studio con difetti, alcune macchie e restauri che intaccano il testo alla prima e ultima carta, alcune carte ombreggiate, ma esemplare con buoni margini privo di una sola carta di testo. Curiosamente, l' antico possessore, al posto della prima carta bianca mancante ha inserito una carta a stampa con l' inizio di un altro incunabolo non identificato: "expositio apollinaris offredi cremonensis in libros de aia...." al verso il prolugus: "Apollinaris offredi cremonensis. philosophi et medici. in libros arist. de aria..". Con grande capolettera figurato a fondo nero. Al recto antico ex libris manoscritto: "Ex libris Joseph. Campanella Sac...pisani". Esemplare ben accettabile per la sua rarità: I.G.I. registra solo 8 copie in Italia, GOFF 4 copie in America, Sander nessuna vendita. Manca ad HAIN, POLAIN, OATES IN CAMBRIDGE, HARVARD e a vari grandi cataloghi di OLSCHKI "MONUMENTA", "INCUNABULA" di HARPER, MAGGS Ecc. COPINGER II 1392; I...< [Bookseller: Alibris]
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BURLAEUS GUALTHERUS
EXPOSITIO IN ARTEM VETEREM PORPHYRII ET ARISTOTELIS.
IN FINE: VENETA, ANDREAE DE PALTASICHIS CATHARENSIS DIE 21 JENUARII. 1492, VENETA - [INCUNABOLO-RARO] (cm. 31) piena pergamena secolo XVIII con dorso restaurato dell' epoca, 2 sguardie antiche rimontate.-- cc. 89 (di 92) caratteri gotici grandi e piccoli, testo su due colonne, 70 linee. Manca la prima carta bianca + la prima carta con il testo segnata a2 + l' ultima carta bianca. Ovvero manca solo la prima carta con il testo: " Preclarissimi viri Gualterii burlei anglici.". Il testo contiene 16 figure schematiche di circa cm. 6x6. Burlaeus (1275-1345?) fu uno dei pochi del XIV secolo cui fu attribuita la cultura del rinascimento in Inghilterra. Studiò a Parigi ed ebbe come tutore Duns Scotus, fu un importante commentatore di Aristotele. Non fu uno studioso innovativo ma il suo successo stà nel fatto che le sue opere sono chiare, brevi e comprensive non chè ben scritte, qualità raramente riscontrabili nelle pubblicazioni di quel periodo. La presente edizione è una delle prime col commento del Burlaeus sul testo di Aristotele ed è la prima edizione curata dallo studioso italiano Campagna. Purtroppo modesto esemplare da studio con difetti, alcune macchie e restauri che intaccano il testo alla prima e ultima carta, alcune carte ombreggiate, ma esemplare con buoni margini privo di una sola carta di testo. Curiosamente, l' antico possessore, al posto della prima carta bianca mancante ha inserito una carta a stampa con l' inizio di un altro incunabolo non identificato: "expositio apollinaris offredi cremonensis in libros de aia." al verso il prolugus: "Apollinaris offredi cremonensis.philosophi et medici.in libros arist. de aria.". Con grande capolettera figurato a fondo nero. Al recto antico ex libris manoscritto: "Ex libris Joseph. Campanella Sac.pisani". Esemplare ben accettabile per la sua rarità: I.G.I. registra solo 8 copie in Italia, GOFF 4 copie in America, Sander nessuna vendita. Manca ad HAIN, POLAIN, OATES IN CAMBRIDGE, HARVARD e a vari grandi cataloghi di OLSCHKI "MONUMENTA", "INCUNABULA" di HARPER, MAGGS Ecc. COPINGER II 1392; I.G.I. 2262; GOFF B 1311; GW 5770; PELLECHET 3073; PROCTOR 4783; SARTON III I 563; ROSENTHAL CAT. 24(MONACO 1900) "INCUNABULA TYPOGRAPHICA" n° 403 un esemplare scompleto a caro prezzo; BMC V 355. [Bookseller: LIBRI ANTICHI E RARI FRANCESCO&CLAUDIA]
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Thomas W. Paradis
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Homes Through American History: Four Volumes]
Greenwood Press. Beginning with the homes of the first European settlers to the North American colonies, and concluding with the latest trends in construction and design of houses and apartments in the United States, Homes through American History is a four-volume set intended for a general audience. From tenements to McMansions, from wattle-and-daub construction in early New England to sustainable materials for "green housing, " these books provide a rich historical tour through housing in the United States. Divided into 10 historical periods, the series explores a variety of home types and issues within a social, historical, and political context. For use in history, social studies, and literature classes, Homes through American History identifies A brief historical overview of the era, in order provide context to the discussion of homes and dwellings. Styles of domestic architecture around the country. Building material and manufacturing. Home layout and design. Landscaping and outbuildings. Furniture and decoration. Landscaping and outbuildings, Special sidebars highlight unusual homes or features in homes that tell us about the people who lived in them; timelines for each period detail important events in domestic architecture as well as in history; resource guides provide information on important books, articles, Web sites, and videos for further study. The set includes a glossary and comprehensive index. The four volumes in the set are each divided into two or three eras. Highlights of each volume include the following. Volume One, 1492-1820, includes Homes in the Colonial Era, 1492-1781 Information about regional home-building material and techniques such as wattle and daub in the Northeast; brick and mortar in Virginia; wood for Massachusetts; adobe for the Southwest; and tabby in the Southeast The gradual move to a new colonial style, including the saltbox style in the Northeast; Dutch colonial in the Middle colonies; and eventually Georgian and classical revival styles... [Bookseller: Alibris]
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ALCIATUS ANDREAS
De verborum significatione, libri quatuor. Eiusdem in tractatum eius argumenti veterum iureconsultorum, commentaria. Ex ultima autoris recognitione. Lugduni, Iacobus Giunta, 1540. Pp. 222 (2); 530 (6). Preceduto da: Elenchi dictionum, quae enodantur in libris quatuor De verbo. signifi. Do. Andreae Alcia. Stessi dati Tip. Pp. (56)
- Tre parti (con due frontespizi) in un volume di cm. 16,5. Bel marchio tip. giuntino ai frontespizi ed alcuni graziosi capilettera xilografici. Leg. coeva in piena perg. floscia con titoli ms. a dorso e taglio di piede. Lievi fioriture sparse e qualche sporadico e marginale alone (più evidenti alle prime ed ultime cc.), peraltro esemplare nel complesso ben conservato. Importante edizione del trattato De verborum significatione, seguito dai relativi commentari, fondamentali per la piena comprensione del pensiero giuridico del grande giurista milanese (1492-1550). Cfr., per approfondimenti bio-bibliografici, Diz. Biogr. degli Italiani (alla voce Alciato curata dal prof. R. Abbondanza). Non comune e sempre ricercato. Cfr., per approfondimenti sul ruolo centrale dell’Alciato nell’umanesimo giuridico, D. Maffei, Gli inizi dell’umanesimo giuridico, Milano, 1972. Cfr. anche Baudrier, VI, 188, a cui mancano i Libri quatuor, qui preceduti dagli Elenchi e seguiti dai Commentaria; Kvk; non in Sapori. (S125) [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Apuleio]
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Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 4: History of Indian-White Relations (Handbook of North American Indians)
Smithsonian Institution. New 0160045835 William C. Sturtevant, General Editor; Wilcomb E. Washburn, Volume Editor. Provides a basic reference work on the history of the interactions in North America between the Native American peoples and those, primarily from Europe and Africa, who arrived after 1492. Includes essays on: national policies; military situation; political relations; economic relations; religious relations; and the concept of Indians in literature, popular culture, and movies. Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909-D-1. Brand New, never read copy. Pages are clean and bright and unmarked. Binding fine. All books are sent from the United Kingdom. Please allow sufficient delivery time. All books despatched immediately-selecting expedited shipping does not enhance delivery times. Delivery time typically 5-10 working days to USA with tracking number as standard. Please consider this when placing your order. Professional, full-time bookseller since 1987. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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Petrus Haedus
Anterotica, Sive De Amoris Generibus
Gerardus De Lisa De Flandria, Treviso 1492 - Quarto, nineteenth-century half morocco, trifle worn, minor spotting, light stain on first few leaves, minor worming in blank inner margin of a dozen or so leaves not tourching text, signature of noted bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin's friend, Henry Drury, with date 1824. Without the final blank leaf, else good. Gerardus de Lisa, the first printer in Treviso, has given us a fairly remarkable text, and presented it in a most distinctive roman type font. The author, also known as Pietro Cavretto, estalishes a dialogue between a poet and a priest; the poet praises various aspects of love, and the priest takes the opposing view while attempting to establish that misery and suffering are among the many end results of love and of sex. Among other topics covered by this wide-ranging Renaissance treatise on the sexual, moral, psychological, and romantic aspects of love are those of prostituion, rape, the cosmetic arts, etc. This is the only edition to appear during the author's lifetime; a second edition appeared slightly over a century later. Hain-Copinger 9343; Goff H2. The very rare first edition. [Bookseller: G. W. Stuart, Jr.Emeritus Member,ABAA]
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ORLANDINI RUDULPHINI
SUMMA ORLANDINA VENEZIA SENZA NOTE EDITORIALI SENZA DATA
In 4, piena pergamena coeva con qualche mancanza. Cc. 94 non numerate + 1 bianca con annotazioni manoscritte. Esemplare mancante della carta m2. Numerose chiose ed annotazioni di mano coeva sono presenti per tutto il testo. Nelle prime tre righe "Orlandini Rudolphini bononiensis viri praestantissimi in summam artis notariae praefatio..." non e' piu' presente l'errore (bonontensis) rilevabile nell'edizione veneziana del 1492, ma il presente esemplere ne sembrerebbe una copia appena successiva (Hain 12087). Nel finis si trova "Clarissimi &Eccellentissimi Doctoris d. Orlandini bononiensis in arte notariae opus utilissimum maxima cum diligentia revisum ac fideli studio emendatum: sicut ipsum opus fatis attestabitur", segue "Impressum Venetiis" e Registro. Come numerazione di carte (e stampa a due colonne) il presente esemplare corrisponderebbe al n 4536 del Copinger, (carte 94 + 1 bianca + 1 mancante). Un taglio nettissimo, combaciante e quindi facilmente riprendibile alla carta 37. Molto bella mi sembra, la pagina che i Musei Universitari bolognesi hanno dedicato a Rolandio in occasione del nono centenario della nostra universita': " Chiedete a qualsiasi notaio se conosce il nome di Rolandino de' Passeggeri. Sono infatti il padre dell'arte sua, di cui ho scritto una SUMMA che continuo' ad essere usata in tutta Europa sino a tutto il secolo XVII. Con essa portai a perfezione il diritto civile, lo strumento su cui era cresciuta l'economia di scambio e la forza stessa di Bologna. Fui anima politica del Comune del Popolo, che seppe affermare la propria indipendenza sia dal potere ecclesiastico che da quello imperiale. Io fui a redigere gli ORDINAMENTI SACRATI E SACRATISSIMI che fissano la supremazia del popolo e del ceto medio sopra i notabili della citta'; fui io a cacciare i ghibellini dei Lambertazzi e a menar vanto di Re Enzo imprigionato. Fui io, parimenti, a costruire l'originale del falso documento che fonda lo STUDIUM per mano dell'Imperator Teodosio, consentendo che Bologna e solo Bologna avesse l'Universita', col suo sapere e sua ricchezza. Io, per me, non ho voluto mai potere: e la mia unica ricchezza e' l'arca ove riposo" [Bookseller: Libreria SEAB - Bologna - Italy]
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Atlas De Mapas Antiguos De La Peninsula De Yucatan
Gobierno Del Estado De Campeche, Mexico - A collection of 147 maps which feature or encompass the Yucatan Peninsula area of Mexico and Central America, mostly in Spanish, but some in English. This collection is a companion to the book, Historia Cartografica de la Peninsula de Yucatan. The 79 sheets containing from one to four maps per sheet, cover the period from 1492 through the mid- to latter-1800s. Some of the maps could be considered "world" maps in that they picture most of the known world at the time of their creation. Many of the maps reveal extent of settlement or exploration in what is the United States during the 1700s and 1800s. The map sheets are 12.5" x 17.5" in dimensions. The map collection is housed in a paper map case. [Bookseller: Sessions Book Sales]
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Jean Poyet
PRAYER BOOK OF ANNE DE BRETAGNE (DAS GEBETBUCH DER ANNE DE BRETAGNE) Fine Facsimile Illuminated Edition of 15th Century
Faksimile Verlag Luzern. Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne, 15th century - Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, MS M.50A Queen´s Ornate Treasure A very personal Prayer Book The carefully designed prayer book was commissioned by Anne of Brittany, wife of two successive kings of France, Charles VIII and Louis XII and thus twice Queen of France, for herself and her son Charles-Orland. It was made in Tours from 1492 to 1495 and is now preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. The book fascinates in its rich illustration and its 34 airy, light flooded miniatures which are among the most delicate examples to be found at the end of the 15th century. They are the work of an excellent illuminator of the time, Jean Poyet, who is mentioned by contemporary authors in the same breath as Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes and Jean Fouquet. His extraordinary talent is shown in his extremely spacious and vaporous landscapes. The soft carnation of his faces, the graciously presented figures as well as his bright and frequently unusual combination of colours used for clothing, and last but not least the architecture of Italian influence so typical of his miniatures, announce the advent of the Renaissance in France. A Testimony to Motherly Love The decoration of the Prayer Book reflects Anne's personal ideas. To live in faith was a great aspiration of hers which is widely expressed in this magnificent uvre. Anne obviously wished to pass on this philosophy to her son, the future King of France, as the sequence of prayers in this manuscript was conceived as a spiritual aid and moral support for a young boy of his age. The richly illustrated little book was designed so that Anne could sit down with her son and teach him to pray. The unfinished prayers were thought of as cues for the young Dauphin. With regard to his future function as a king of France, his mother inserted a prayer specially designed for this purpose. It is a supplication for the wisdom the king would need. However, destiny decided otherwise. Charles-Orland died at the age of three. His small prayer book has survived until today, as a testimony to motherly love and care. Moreover, its lay-out and decoration later served as an example for another prayer book commissioned by the loving mother for Renee de France, her youngest daughter of her marriage with King Louis XII. The Flowers Prayer Book of Renee de France has also been reproduced by Fine Art Facsimile Publishers Lucerne and is now out of print. A Bibliophile Sovereign and Royal Patron of Art For all of her life, Anne was a tireless and generous patron not only of the visual arts but also of literature and music. She bought numerous manuscripts and financed artists of the court as well as poets and musicians. Reputed authors served her as secretaries and chroniclers. Anne's personal library comprised more than 3000 volumes, including religious, historic and literary books, mainly of Italian origin. Anne's library is a testimony to her high level of education: she had a good command of Latin and Greek and some knowledge of Hebrew. Jean Poyet - A Most Extraordinary, Universal Artist The miniaturist whom Anne charged with the execution of her Prayer Book has often been compared to the greatest artists of his century. Like Fouquet, he worked in Tours and was the undisputed successor of the great Jean Bourdichon after his death. The artist was highly esteemed by three royal courts: official painter under Louis XI, he became a greatly admired illuminator at the courts of Anne of Brittany, Charles VIII and Louis XII and also organised and furnished the solemn ceremonial entries of the royal couple. In the 19th century, Jean Poyet fell into undeserved oblivion. The facsimile reproduction of one of his most beautiful works helps bringing him back to the position he deserves among Western book painters. The Fine Art Facsimile Edition The facsimile edition reproduces the magnificent manuscript in its original format 125 x 80 mm down to the most minute detail. It boasts an enormous wealth of illustrations: 34 full page miniatures, all by a masterly hand and framed with large ornamental borders containing the letters A, N and E, ornate its 62 pages. The name letters are formed by or interlaced with the Franciscan cord and the use of this emblem of Anne of Brittany further indicates the highly personal character of this book. Numerous coloured initials decorated with flowers, partly on gilded ground or interlaced with golden rinceaux on red or blue ground, subdivide the prayer texts which are mostly written in Latin, with the exception of one which is written in Middle French. The binding is carried out in burgundy red velvet. The Fine Art Facsimile Edition is published in co-edition and limited to 1980 copies world-wide. The edition reserved for the German speaking countries is limited to 980 copies. The Commentary Volume The expert commentary comprises articles by Roger S. Wieck, curator of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York and Michelle Hearne who deals with the personality of the Queen, a patron of the arts and a loving mother. The work of Jean Poyet is explained in context with the rest of his uvre. The commentary also contains a full transcription and translation of all the prayers to help make the manuscript accessible for today's readers. The complete edition, consisting of a facsimile and a commentary volume, is available in a protective case covered with scarlet leather. The decoration of the case corresponds in its entirety with the original of the Pierpont Morgan Library. , New [Bookseller: New Boston Used Books]
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JUSTINIANUS BERNARDO
HISTORIA DE ORIGINE URBIS VENETIARUM.
IN FINE: IMPRESSUM VENETIIS PER BERNARDINUM BENALIUM, VENETIIS [NON PRIMA DEL 31 GENNAIO 1492-3] - [INCUNABOLO-VENEZIA] (cm 29) bella mz. pergamena XX sec., realizzata con pergamena antica, piatti a stampa del XVI sec., sguardie antiche.-- cc. 116 nn. (su 120) carattere rotondo, 40 linee. a-n8 - o - p6. Editio princeps assai importante per la storia veneta della quale oggi si conoscono pochi esemplari e che fu stampata una sola volta nel '400. Nel XVI sec. sono apparsi esemplari con nuovo titolo e datati 1534. Poi Lodovico Domenichi ne fece una traduzione in volgare nel 1545. Mancano le prime 4 carte segnate A maiuscolo (bianca la prima). Il nostro esemplare inizia con a1 dove inizia il testo ben completo fino alla fine. Il colophon è a carta 120 e al verso contiene "oratio in funere Caroli Zeni". Difetti all' ultima carta con vecchi restauri e minima perdita di alcune lettere; alcuni forellini di tarlo ben restaurati al margine bianco di carta 118 e 119. Altrimenti esemplare veramente bello nitido e a grandi margini di questa preziosa opera. SANDER "PRICES" registra una sola vendita, GOFF solo otto copie in America. Manca a POLAIN e al CAT. di ROSENTHAL "INCUNABULA TYPOGRAPHICA" che nel 1900 a Monaco mette in vendita ben 3500 incunaboli! HAIN 9638; IGI 5547; GOFF J 605; PROCTOR 4879; OATES IN CAMBRIDGE 1918; HARVARD LIBRARY 2102; OLSCHKI "MONUMENTA" 863; OLSCHKI "INCUNABULA TYPOGRAPHICA" 811; BMC V 374. [Bookseller: LIBRI ANTICHI E RARI FRANCESCO&CLAUDIA]
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CLAVASIO DE ANGELU FRATE
SUMMA ANGELICA
GEORGIU DE ARRIVABENIS, VENETIIS 1492 - Rilegatura antica in piena pergamena con traccie di legacci. Titolo manoscritto in gotico al dorso con tre nervi. H. 26 Fogli 7 n.n., 510, 12, (3) tutto su due colonne. Marca dell' editore silografata alla fine. Chiose manoscritte coeve al frontespizio e su qualche bordo. Raro incunabolo, in condizioni ottime. Graesse I / 128 [Bookseller: DE BERNARDI GRAFICA di BELLONI CAR]
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LAPIDE JOHANNES (DE)
RESOLUTORIUM DUBIORUM CIRCA CELEBRATIONEM MISSARUM OCCURRENTIUM. (in fine): BASILEE, PER JOHANNEM FROBEN DE HAMELBURG 1492
PER JOHANNEM FROBEN DE HAMELBURG, BASILEE 1492 - (cm. 16) ottima piena pergamena antica rimontata, sguardie antiche. cc 36 nn., caratteri gotici di due grandezze, 37 linee, spazi per lettere capitali. Segnatura a-c8, d4, e8. PRIMA EDIZIONE CON DATA STAMPATA A BASILEA veramente rara. Goff ha 2 sole copie in America e IGI registra una sola copia nelle biblioteche italiane (Bolzano) inoltre è il secondo libro stampato da Froben a Basilea. Preceduto da una "biblia latina" del 27 Giugno 1491. Sander "prices" registra solo 3 vendite. manca anche a vari cataloghi di OLSCHKI, BAER, ROSENTHAL, MAGGS ecc.Margine alto e verticale, corto che in alcune carte intacca il titolo in alto e le note ai margini. Altrimenti esemplare molto bello, nitido e ben completo. HAIN 9905; IGI 5679 GOFF J 357 POLAIN 1936 PROCTOR 7756 HARPER (1930) N°737 BMC. III 790 [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: LIBRI ANTICHI E RARI FRANCESCO&CLAUDIA*]
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BARBARO, Ermolao.
Castigationes Plinii et Pomponii Melae.
348 leaves, 39 lines & headline, Roman & Greek type, 4-line initial spaces with printed guides. Two parts in one vol. Folio (290 x 205 mm.), 18th-cent. French red morocco (minor rubbing, first & last leaves with some inoffensive worming & soiling, minor dampstaining to a few leaves), triple gilt fillet round sides, spine richly gilt, a.e.g. Rome: E. Silber, 24 Nov. 1492 & 13 Feb. 1493. First edition of an important and massive work in the famous controversy regarding errors in Pliny, in which Leoniceno took the opposing side; this work was immediately saluted as the most authoritative discussion of Pliny’s Historia Naturalis available. Barbaro (1454–93), was one of the leaders of humanism. Crowned as a poet at the age of fourteen by Frederick III, he became a doctor at Padua in 1477, made a careful translation of Aristotle, held public office, taught Greek in public, and gathered about him the most illustrious scientists of the end of the century. In 1486, he was Venetian Ambassador to the Emperor Frederick, and in 1489 was Ambassador to Innocent VIII, who created him Cardinal and Patriarch of Aquileia. He died in 1493, leaving behind him a surprising amount of erudite work that showed a wide knowledge of Greek and of ancient literature. “In 1490 Leoniceno inaugurated a famous controversy on the errors of Pliny the elder. In this year he sent to Politian a critique of Ibn Sina, in which he noted in passing that Pliny seems to have confused the two herbs ivy and cistus because of the similarity of their Greek names; Politian commended Leoniceno’s castigation of Ibn Sina but politely challenged his criticism of Pliny. Leoniceno responded with a tract, On the errors of Pliny and others in medicine (1492), in which he not only defended his original point but charged Pliny with many other errors stemming from verbal confusion.”–D.S.B., VIII, p. 249. Leoniceno’s book aroused a great storm of protest, indignation, and malediction. In the present work, Barbaro responded indirectly. “He claimed to have freed the text from some five thousand errors of copyists and printers, but did not wish anyone to think that Pliny himself had erred and affirmed that his reputation could in no way be overthrown. Without mentioning Leonicenus by name, Barbarus expressly refuted — and that rather sharply — some of his criticisms of Pliny.”–Thorndike, IV, p. 601. A very good and fresh copy. ❧ Goff B-100. Klebs 143.1. Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science during the First Century of Printing, 592. [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.]
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ALCIATUS ANDREAS
De verborum significatione, libri quatuor. Eiusdem in tractatum eius argumenti veterum iureconsultorum, commentaria. Ex ultima autoris recognitione. Lugduni, Iacobus Giunta, 1540. Pp. 222 (2); 530 (6). Preceduto da: Elenchi dictionum, quae enodantur in libris quatuor De verbo. signifi. Do. Andreae Alcia. Stessi dati Tip. Pp. (56)
- Tre parti (con due frontespizi) in un volume di cm. 16,5. Bel marchio tip. giuntino ai frontespizi ed alcuni graziosi capilettera xilografici. Leg. coeva in piena perg. floscia con titoli ms. a dorso e taglio di piede. Lievi fioriture sparse e qualche sporadico e marginale alone (più evidenti alle prime ed ultime cc.), peraltro esemplare nel complesso ben conservato. Importante edizione del trattato De verborum significatione, seguito dai relativi commentari, fondamentali per la piena comprensione del pensiero giuridico del grande giurista milanese (1492-1550). Cfr., per approfondimenti bio-bibliografici, Diz. Biogr. degli Italiani (alla voce Alciato curata dal prof. R. Abbondanza). Non comune e sempre ricercato. Cfr., per approfondimenti sul ruolo centrale dell’Alciato nell’umanesimo giuridico, D. Maffei, Gli inizi dell’umanesimo giuridico, Milano, 1972. Cfr. anche Baudrier, VI, 188, a cui mancano i Libri quatuor, qui preceduti dagli Elenchi e seguiti dai Commentaria; Kvk; non in Sapori. (S125) [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Apuleio]
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Lapide Johannes (De)
Resolutorium Dubiorum Circa Celebrationem Missarum Occurrentium. (in Fine): Basilee, Per Johannem Froben De Hamelburg 1492
PER JOHANNEM FROBEN DE HAMELBURG, 1492. (cm. 16) ottima piena pergamena antica rimontata, sguardie antiche. cc 36 nn., caratteri gotici di due grandezze, 37 linee, spazi per lettere capitali. Segnatura a-c8, d4, e8. PRIMA EDIZIONE CON DATA STAMPATA A BASILEA veramente rara. Goff ha 2 sole copie in America e IGI registra una sola copia nelle biblioteche italiane (Bolzano) inoltre è il secondo libro stampato da Froben a Basilea. Preceduto da una "biblia latina" del 27 Giugno 1491. Sander "prices" registra solo 3 vendite. manca anche a vari cataloghi di OLSCHKI, BAER, ROSENTHAL, MAGGS ecc...Margine alto e verticale, corto che in alcune carte intacca il titolo in alto e le note ai margini. Altrimenti esemplare molto bello, nitido e ben completo. HAIN 9905; IGI 5679 GOFF J 357 POLAIN 1936 PROCTOR 7756 HARPER (1930) N°737 BMC. III 790. [Bookseller: Alibris*]
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Mishna The First Print. With Commentary of Haramban (Rabbi Moshe Ben Nahman).
- Facsimile Edition of the first Mishna ever been printed. This Mishna was printed by Yehoshu'a Shlomo Shontzino in Napoli 1492. 2 volumes. 8vo [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Byblos Antiquarian & Rare Books Ltd.]
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Boethius
Arithmetica, Geometrica et Musica
- Venice, de Gregorius brothers, 1492 (Hain 3351; BMC V; Goff B-767; Wolffheim Bibliothek 521; PMM nr 34). Folio, half vellum (early XX century), 68 leaves (complete). Printed title page, printers device last page. Richly illustrated with woodcuts all through the text. Small wurm hole central fold, first two gatherings, else fine. This book is part of the opera omnia by Boethius, but it is known to be produced separately as well. Interesting contemporary marginalia in de Musica. ".this, though basically a synthesis, was the first work of musical theory written in the Christian west and as such sidely influenced musical thought right through the Middle Ages" (PMM, page 19). [Bookseller: Frederik Muller Rare Books BV*]
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Expositio himnorum
cum notabili commento quod semper implicat historias cum optimis allegationibus sacre scripture illorum sanctorum vel sanctarum de quibus tales hymni decantantur, ex quibus possunt faciliter de eisdem sanctis colligi sermones [.].
Köln, Heinrich Quentell, 14. Juli 1492. - 4°. Mit großem Titelholzschnitt. 76 num., 1 nn. Bll., Mod. HPgmt. Erste von Quentell gedruckte Ausgabe dieser Sammlung von 122 Hymnentexten für das ganze Kirchenjahr. Der reiche, die Hymnen umgebende Kommentar wird einem gewissen Hilarius zugeschrieben. - „Seit dem 12. Jahrh. regte sich das Bestreben, auch gesonderte, eingehende Kenntnis u. Würdigung der latein. Hymnen zugänglich zu machen. Verschiedene Handschriften [.] enthalten eine Hymnen- bzw. Sequenzensammlung [.] nebst Erklärung, die einem gewissen Hilarius zugeschrieben werden u. die die Drucker des 15. u. 16. Jahrh. viel beschäftigten [.]" (LThK V, 230). - Der christliche Hymnengesang, eine Frühform des Kirchenliedes, übte auch wesentlichen Einfluss auf die weltliche Lyrik des Mittelalters und den Minnesang aus. - Der schöne Accipies-Holzschnitt zeigt einen Lehrer mit zwei Schülern in einer Studierstube. - Titel mit altem Eintrag der Hain-Nummer u. winzigem Papierdurchbruch. Einige alte Marginalien in brauner Tinte. Gering (stock-) fleckig u. vereinzelt etw. wasserrandig. - Hain 6784; BMC I, 276; Goff E-149; Pellechet 4682; Schreiber 3933; Proctor 1309; Voulliéme 604; Oates 747; zum latein. Hymnus vgl. auch ausführlich MGG VI, 993ff.; nicht bei Stillwell. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Friebes]
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BARBARO, Ermolao.
Castigationes Plinii et Pomponii Melae.
- 348 leaves, 39 lines & headline, Roman & Greek type, 4-line initial spaces with printed guides. Two parts in one vol. Folio (290 x 205 mm.), 18th-cent. French red morocco (minor rubbing, first & last leaves with some inoffensive worming & soiling, minor dampstaining to a few leaves), triple gilt fillet round sides, spine richly gilt, a.e.g. Rome: E. Silber, 24 Nov. 1492 & 13 Feb. 1493. First edition of an important and massive work in the famous controversy regarding errors in Pliny, in which Leoniceno took the opposing side; this work was immediately saluted as the most authoritative discussion of Pliny’s Historia Naturalis available. Barbaro (1454–93), was one of the leaders of humanism. Crowned as a poet at the age of fourteen by Frederick III, he became a doctor at Padua in 1477, made a careful translation of Aristotle, held public office, taught Greek in public, and gathered about him the most illustrious scientists of the end of the century. In 1486, he was Venetian Ambassador to the Emperor Frederick, and in 1489 was Ambassador to Innocent VIII, who created him Cardinal and Patriarch of Aquileia. He died in 1493, leaving behind him a surprising amount of erudite work that showed a wide knowledge of Greek and of ancient literature. "In 1490 Leoniceno inaugurated a famous controversy on the errors of Pliny the elder. In this year he sent to Politian a critique of Ibn Sina, in which he noted in passing that Pliny seems to have confused the two herbs ivy and cistus because of the similarity of their Greek names; Politian commended Leoniceno’s castigation of Ibn Sina but politely challenged his criticism of Pliny. Leoniceno responded with a tract, On the errors of Pliny and others in medicine (1492), in which he not only defended his original point but charged Pliny with many other errors stemming from verbal confusion."–D.S.B., VIII, p. 249. Leoniceno’s book aroused a great storm of protest, indignation, and malediction. In the present work, Barbaro responded indirectly. "He claimed to have freed the text from some five thousand errors of copyists and printers, but did not wish anyone to think that Pliny himself had erred and affirmed that his reputation could in no way be overthrown. Without mentioning Leonicenus by name, Barbarus expressly refuted — and that rather sharply — some of his criticisms of Pliny."–Thorndike, IV, p. 601. A very good and fresh copy. ? Goff B-100. Klebs 143.1. Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science during the First Century of Printing, 592. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.]
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Mishnah Sedarim, Zeraim, Moed, Nashim. Unknown Edition Printed in Pisaro or Constantinopole.
Hardcover Fine A facsimile edition of the only extant copy at the National and Hebrew University Library, Jerusalem. The importance of this unknown edition of the Mishna has been stressed by the noted Taimudist V. N. Epstein both in articles ararynd in his monumental "Introduction to the Text of the Mishna" ("Mayo LeNusach HaMishna"). In the chapter devoted to this edition ("Mayo", p. 1279 f. ) Epstein points out that the text before us is in many ways similar to certain manuscripts, and that additions to the Mishna included in later printed texts were not Incorporated in this edition. Nor is the text of this unknown edition completely identical with the Sitlo princeps of the Mishna (Naples 1492) , and thus the value of this Mishna text is not inferior to that of the early Mishna manuscripts, although the interesting variants within the text have yet to be systematically studied. According to Epstein a copy of this edition was part of the Abraham Merzbacher collection, and it was this copy that was used by Rabinowitz in his "Dikduke Soferim", albeit for only a portion of Seder Moed. The copy subsequently disappeared. But another copy (reaching the end of Nashim) was discovered in 1946 and purchased by the National and Hebrew University Library, and as far as is known is the only remaining copy in existence. Upon its discovery the text was described by both Epstein and A. Vaari (cf. Tarbiz vol. Xvii; Kiryat Sefer 1946). Rabinowitz referred to this text as the "Pisaro edition", whereas Epstein is convinced that the text was printed in Constantinopole. A number of lacunae exist throughout the text, and these were completed by hand, in Yemenite script. Fine [Bookseller: Byblos Antiquarian & Rare Books Ltd.]
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Abraham Gross
Iberian Jewry From Twilight to Dawn: the World of Rabbi Abraham Saba
Brill Academic Publishers. The Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492. Those surviving the ordeals they encountered tried to rebuild their personal lives and to reconstruct Sefardic religious and cultural traditions in North Africa and in the East. This volume tries to depict the world of one of the refugees who formed part of the cultural bridge between Spain and the new havens of the Sefardim. Rabbi Abraham Saba of Zamora was a preacher, cabbalist, and biblical exegete. He attempted to settle in Portugal, suffered the persecutions instigated by the Crown with his coreligionists and was finally expelled to North Africa. His literary works and thought are put in the proper cultural context and are analyzed against the background of historical reality. ISBN10: 9004100539. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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BERNARD DE
Divi Bernardi abbatis ad sororem modus bene vivendi in christianam religionem
Bernardinus de Belaniis Venise 1492 - In-8, 92 feuillets non chiffrÈs, le dernier blanc, signÈs a-k8, l-m6. Initiales rubriquÈes. VÈlin souple XIXËme. (Quelques salissures sur le titre. ) Conseils de Bernard de Clairvaux (1091-1153) ‡ sa soeur Humbeline pour vivre conformÈment ‡ la religion : charitÈ, mÈpris des futilitÈs du monde, compassion, discipline et maÓtrise de soi, tolÈrance, humilitÈ etc.RÈflexions sur la briÈvetÈ de la vie, sur les songes, sur l'ivresse, la tentation, la fornication - sur la continence, l'abstinence et la virginitÈ. Humbeline, "coquette et frivole", quitta son Èpoux pour entrer dans les ordres en 1124, apparemment sensible aux remontrances de son frËre. Les nombreuses Lettres (on en connaÓt plus de 400) de Saint Bernard de Clairvaux connurent un grand succËs ‡ la fin du Moyen-Age et au dÈbut de la Renaissance. La premiËre Èdition de ce Modus bene vivendi est publiÈe ‡ Venise en dÈcembre 1490 par ce mÍme Bernadinus Benalius, alors associÈ ‡ Matteo Capcasa, en format in-4? Cette Èdition achevÈe le 30 mai 1492 est la deuxiËme. Elle sera suivie, avant 1500, d'une autre Èdition vÈnitienne, de 2 Èditions parisiennes, et de 3 Èditions de la traduction en italien. (Goff, B 414 ; Hain et Copinger 2896. Pellechet, 2139). [Bookseller: Jean-Paul Veyssière]
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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 1492 - First printed bible in octavo, the so-called "Poor Man's Bible." Short octavo (6 3/16 x 4 5/16 inches; 157 x 110 mm; title somewhat smaller (6 2/16 x 4 inches; 154 x 102 mm)). [493] of 496 leaves (bound without a1, the final leaf of the Summarium, and e7 and e8, the two final blanks). Fifty-six lines of gothic type in two- and three-columns. Nearly every page ruled in red by a contemporary hand. Many pages, especially preliminaries, with rubrication. Manuscript three-line capitals in red and blue throughout, title within a decorative manuscript red scroll.Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with expert joint restoration. Boards with triple-filleted and foliate borders, and floral ornaments and deer and griffin stamps within a lattice of triple-filleted rules. Spine in compartments, manuscript paper label. Original brass catch-and-clasp fasteners, partially renewed, with new straps. New endpapers. Contemporary ownership inscription at foot of leaf 2 recto. From the library of Swedish bibliophile Per Hierta (1864-1924), with his notations on a leaf of parchment bound in place of a front free endpaper, the parchment also with notes by Swedish philosopher Alf Ahlberg (1892-1979). Occasional light spotting. Leaf 2 trimmed somewhat close. Pinhole sized worming from first leaf to c2. Some insect damage to front board. Overall an excellent copy; clean, fresh and in a contemporary binding. Housed in a parchment-backed clamshell box.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. Bound without the final two blanks, as is often 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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Dione di Prusa
Dionis Chrisostomi Prusensis philosophi ad Ilienses Ilii captivitatem non fuisse.
classici - incunabolo 22 luglio 1492, Cremona - In 4° (193x144 mm), [19] c., manca la prima bianca. Collazione: a-b8; c6. (a1 bianca, a2r lettera dedicatoria di Francesco Filelfo a Leonardo Aretino, a3v testo, c3v lettera di Nicolò Lucaro a Borsio Cavitello, c4r colophon). Colophon: Ingeniosissimi & Diligentis chalcographi Bernardini de misintis Papiensi / opera: una cum Cesare Parmense Dion Chrisostomus Pru / sensis in lucem elegans:splendens: & integre: rediit Cremone Impres- / sus: Anno ab incarnatione sacralissime virginis. 1492. undecimo Ka- / lendas Augustas. Carattere romano (80R), testo su 34-38 linee, un’iniziale istoriata su 10 linee. Legatura ottocentesca in mezza pergamena con doppio tassello al dorso. Ottimo esemplare, uno strappo restaurato nel margine interno della carta a7. Prima traduzione latina ad opera di Francesco Filelfo della celebre orazione in cui Dione Crisostomo dimostra, grazie alla sua erudizione e alle sue spiccate doti dialettiche, che quanto Omero e la tradizione da lui derivata ci tramandano in merito alla presa di Troia, non corrisponde al vero. Dione usa una tecnica retorica ben precisa, quella della recusatio, per la rielaborazione di un testo poetico, al fine di trasmettere un chiaro messaggio politico; in piena età imperiale, appariva più conveniente contestare una fine cruenta del conflitto fra Greci e Troiani quale ci è tramandata dalle fonti antiche e sottolineare, contrariamente alla tradizione, un esito concordato delle ostilità quasi a sottintendere, in perfetta sintonia con l’idea della pax romana, un processo di coesione fra il mondo orientale e quello ellenico e occidentale. L’orazione, volta a dimostrare che Troia non cadde in mano ai Greci e quindi che i Troiani furono i veri vincitori del conflitto, è divisa in tre parti: la prima è tutta incentrata sull’evidenziazione di errori e omissioni commessi da Omero nella ricostruzione storica della guerra di Troia; la seconda verte sulla figura di Elena che non sarebbe stata rapita bensì regolarmente sposata con Paride, mentre nella terza parte Dione, dopo aver sottoposto il testo omerico ad una critica serrata, dimostra come la superiorità dei Troiani abbia condotto questi ultimi alla vittoria. L’orazione si conclude con l’asserzione che la guerra di Troia finì con la stipula di un trattato di pace fra i contendenti che salvaguardò i diritti degli uni e degli altri e che, terminata la guerra, alcuni dei capi troiani, Enea in primis, furono inviati a fondare colonie in Occidente. La società fra il pavese Bernardino de Misintis e Cesare da Parma che, in precedenza aveva collaborato con Bernardino Celerio, iniziò ad operare a Brescia all’inizio del 1492 utilizzando dei caratteri tipografici ottenuti dai fratelli Angelo e Jacopo de Britannicis. Dopo aver stampato tre soli libri i due tipografi si trasferirono a Cremona; qui, nel breve volgere di quindici mesi, stamparono circa otto opere prima di sciogliere la società. Bernardino de Misintis fece quindi ritorno a Brescia dove operò fino al 1502 mentre Cesare da Parma, rimasto a Cremona, collaborò con Rafainus Ungaronus fra il 1494 e il 1496. IGI 3448; GW 8370;BMC VII, 956; Dione di Prusa,Troiano, or. XI, edizione critica, traduzione e commento a cura di G. Vagnone, Roma 2003. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: MEDA RIQUIER RARE BOOKS]
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Justinianus Bernardo
Histiria De Origine Urbis Venetiarum
IN FINE: IMPRESSUM VENETIIS PER BERNARDINUM BENALIUM, 1492. [INCUNABOLO-VENEZIA] (cm 29) bella mz. pergamena XX sec., realizzata con pergamena antica, piatti a stampa del XVI sec., sguardie antiche. --cc. 116 nn. (su 120) carattere rotondo, 40 linee. a-n8-o-p6. Editio princeps assai importante per la storia veneta della quale oggi si conoscono pochi esemplari e che fu stampata una sola volta nel '400. Nel XVI sec. sono apparsi esemplari con nuovo titolo e datati 1534. Poi Lodovico Domenichi ne fece una traduzione in volgare nel 1545. Mancano le prime 4 carte segnate A maiuscolo (bianca la prima). Il nostro esemplare inizia con a1 dove inizia il testo ben completo fino alla fine. Il colophon è a carta 120 e al verso contiene "oratio in funere Caroli Zeni". Difetti all' ultima carta con vecchi restauri e minima perdita di alcune lettere; alcuni forellini di tarlo ben restaurati al margine bianco di carta 118 e 119. Altrimenti esemplare veramente bello nitido e a grandi margini di questa preziosa opera. SANDER "PRICES" registra una sola vendita, GOFF solo otto copie in America. Manca a POLAIN e al CAT. di ROSENTHAL "INCUNABULA TYPOGRAPHICA" che nel 1900 a Monaco mette in vendita ben 3500 incunaboli! . HAIN 9638; IGI 5547; GOFF J 605; PROCTOR 4879; OATES IN CAMBRIDGE 1918; HARVARD LIBRARY 2102; OLSCHKI "MONUMENTA" 863; OLSCHKI "INCUNABULA TYPOGRAPHICA" 811; BMC V 374. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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JUSTINIANUS BERNARDO
HISTORIA DE ORIGINE URBIS VENETIARUM.
IN FINE: IMPRESSUM VENETIIS PER BERNARDINUM BENALIUM, VENETIIS [NON PRIMA DEL 31 GENNAIO 1492-3] - [INCUNABOLO-VENEZIA] (cm 29) bella mz. pergamena XX sec., realizzata con pergamena antica, piatti a stampa del XVI sec., sguardie antiche.-- cc. 116 nn. (su 120) carattere rotondo, 40 linee. a-n8 - o - p6. Editio princeps assai importante per la storia veneta della quale oggi si conoscono pochi esemplari e che fu stampata una sola volta nel '400. Nel XVI sec. sono apparsi esemplari con nuovo titolo e datati 1534. Poi Lodovico Domenichi ne fece una traduzione in volgare nel 1545. Mancano le prime 4 carte segnate A maiuscolo (bianca la prima). Il nostro esemplare inizia con a1 dove inizia il testo ben completo fino alla fine. Il colophon è a carta 120 e al verso contiene "oratio in funere Caroli Zeni". Difetti all' ultima carta con vecchi restauri e minima perdita di alcune lettere; alcuni forellini di tarlo ben restaurati al margine bianco di carta 118 e 119. Altrimenti esemplare veramente bello nitido e a grandi margini di questa preziosa opera. SANDER "PRICES" registra una sola vendita, GOFF solo otto copie in America. Manca a POLAIN e al CAT. di ROSENTHAL "INCUNABULA TYPOGRAPHICA" che nel 1900 a Monaco mette in vendita ben 3500 incunaboli! HAIN 9638; IGI 5547; GOFF J 605; PROCTOR 4879; OATES IN CAMBRIDGE 1918; HARVARD LIBRARY 2102; OLSCHKI "MONUMENTA" 863; OLSCHKI "INCUNABULA TYPOGRAPHICA" 811; BMC V 374. [Bookseller: LIBRI ANTICHI E RARI FRANCESCO&CLAUDIA]
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Séneca, Lucio Anneo.
Tragedie Senece cum commento.
Lázaro Soardis de Saviliano, 1492, 12 de diciembre, Venecia: - 140 hojas. Signaturas: a8, b-z6. Texto en 60 líneas para el comentario que rodea el texto. Encuadernación italiana del siglo xviii en media piel y puntas. Puntos de polilla en el cabezal y pié del lomo. Mancha de antiguo en el ángulo superior, evidente en las primeras y últimas hojas. Hain Copinger 14666. Goff S-436. BMC v, 491. IGI 8908. IBE 5199 dos ejemplares, BNE y Biblioteca Pública de Toledo. Firma de anterior poseedor del siglo xvii en la portada: Di Aless[and]ro Padoani. Segunda edición con los extensos comentarios de Gellio Bernardino Marmita y una de las pocas impresiones con los tipos creados por Lazaro de Soardis.Los comentarios de Marmita fueron publicados por vez primera por Antonio Lambillon y Marino Saracenus en Lion en 1491.Cima por demás del teatro antiguo, parece que las tragedias de Séneca han pasado sobre raya gracias al interés que los americanistas han puesto en las palabras de Hernando Colón cuando dice que su padre tenía señalados en su ejemplar estos versos como profecía que él había de ver cumplida: "Veniunt annis / secula seris quibus oceanus / Vincula rerum laxet & ingens / Pateat tellus tiphisque novos" y que aparecen entre otras de la esotérica Medea (ver Palau 308294). Para el lector no americanista, basten media docena de versos de cualquier Edipo para ponderar con creces la excelencia senequista y el interés de esta edición. [Bookseller: Els Llibres del Tirant]
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Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan.
Operu(m) sancti Ambrosii pars tertia. Opus primu(m) Epistolaru(m).i. Libri Epistolarum. ii. De fide ad Gratianu(m) Augustu(m). iii. De Spiritusancto ad Gratinu(m), iiii. De fide contra arrianos. v.De Incarnationis d(omi)nice sacrame(n)to. vi. De Mysterio pasche. vii. De Excessu fratris. viii. De fide resurrectionis. ix. De Penitentia. x. Adhoratio ad penitentia. xi. De Viginibus. xii. De Viduis. xiii. Adhoratio ad virginis. xiiii.De Virginis institutione. xv. Ad Virginem denotum. xvi. Ad Virginum corruptam. xvii. Ad Corruptore(m) v(er)ginis obiurgatio. xviii. Ad Virgine(m) corrupta(m) exhoratio. xix. Opus sermonum.
Johann Amerbach, Basle: 1492. - Folio. a8,b6,c8,d6,e8,f6,g8,h6, i8,k-o6; 1,(2)a-b6,c-h8,i6,j6,k6,l-n8; (3)a8,b6,c8,d-f6;(4)a8,b6,c8,d6,e8,f6,g10. [580]p. 19th c. 1/2 vellum over marbled boards, leather titling label, front hinge split at top. piece from vellum at spine bottom, edges marbled; bookplate of Swindon Public Library (withdrawn stamp), contemp. annotation on the work on bottom of t.p.,extensive inner margin worming repaired throughout ( some text affected),same occ. dampstains, library stamp in lower margin of last leaf. St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397; born probably 340, at Trier, Arles, or Lyons; died 4 April, 397. He was one of the most illustrious Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and fitly chosen, together with St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, and St. Athanasius, to uphold the venerable Chair of the Prince of the Apostles in the tribune of St. Peter's at Rome.This volume of his collected works contains his complete letters with several additional important shorter treatises.The largest part of this volume contains the important letters of St Ambrose but it is supplemented by various shorter works, including several important treatises on virginity."He wrote several works on virginity, or rather published a number of his discourses on that virtue, the most important of which is the treatise "On Virgins" addressed to his sister Marcellina, herself a virgin consecrated to the divine service. St. Jerome says (Ep. xxii) that he was the most eloquent and exhaustive of all the exponents of virginity, and his judgment expresses yet the opinion of the church." [CE]Our volume contains:De Virginibus. Three books concerning Virgins, addressed to his sister Marcellina in the year 377, probably, like most of the treatises of St. Ambrose, revised from addresses, the first of which was delivered on the festival of St. Agnes, January 21. This would seem to have been perhaps the very earliest of the writings of St. Ambrose, judging from the opening chapter. The treatise is referred to by St. Jerome, St. Augustine, Cassian, and others.2. De Viduis. This shorter work, concerning Widows, was probably written not very long after the last mentioned treatise.3. De Virginitate. A treatise on Virginity, the date of which cannot certainly be fixed, but the writing De Viduis is referred to in chapter 9.4. De Institutione Virginis. A treatise on the training and discipline of a Virgin, addressed to Eusebius, either bishop or a noble of Bologna, after St. Ambrose had admitted his niece to the rank of Virgins, probably about a.d. 391 or 392.5. Exhortatio Virginitatis. A commendation of Virginity preached on the occasion of the consecration of a church at Florence by St. Ambrose, a.d. 393 or 394.The Letters of St. Ambrose:1. To the Emperor Gratian, in reply to his request for a treatise on the Faith. Written a.d. 379, before August, as Gratian came to Milan in that month.2. To Constantius, a bishop, on episcopal duties, and commending to him the care of the vacant see of Forum Cornelii, or Imola. Probably written about a.d. 379.3, 4. To Cornelius, Bishop of Comum, the first a friendly letter, the second containing also an invitation to the consecration of a church by Bassianus, Bishop of Laus Pompeia, now Lodi Vecchio, near Milan. Written probably after a.d. 381.5, 6. To Syagrius, Bishop of Verona. On a charge falsely brought against the Virgin Indicia. They may have been written a.d. 380.xx7, 8. To Justus, perhaps Bishop of Lyons. On holy Scripture. If the conjecture that Justus was the Bishop of Lyons is correct, written about 380 or 381.9Ð12. Letters concerning the Council of Aquileia, held a.d. 381, to the bishops of the provinces of Gaul, to the Emperor Gratian and his colleagues. Two men, Palladius and Secundianus, held Arian opinions, and the former appears to have asked Gratian to convoke a General Council, pleading that he was unjustly condemned. St. Ambrose pointed out to the Emperor that such a question as the orthodoxy of two persons could be set [Bookseller: Krown & Spellman, Booksellers]
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Hilarius).
Expositio hymnorum perutilis omnibusque salubris.
(Strassburg, Johann Prüss, nicht nach 1492). - 8° (20,6x14,5 cm). 56 n.n. Bl. [A8, b6, c8, d-e6, f8, g6, h8]. Moderner Pergamentband. Breitrandiges, schönes Exemplar der seltenen Strassburger Inkunabel des bis ins 16. Jhdt. hinein populärsten mittelalterlichen Hymnenkommentars. Der als Urheber vermutete Hilarius stellte die als „Liber hymnarium" bekannte Sammlung von Hymnen und Sequenzen wahrscheinlich im 12. Jhdt. zusammen. Der am Beginn stehenden Einleitung („Iste liber dicitur") folgt die eigentliche Expositio. Das Schlussblatt mit der „Tabula hymnorum" verzeichnet insgesamt 94 Hymnen. Die grosse Verbeitung dieses Hymnenlehrbuchs, es sind mehr als vierzig Inkunabeldrucke verzeichnet, erklärt sich aus dem Umstand, dass die Hymnen im Mittelalter ‚klassische' Dichtung und liturgischer Lernstoff zugleich darstellten. Sie waren bei der Geistlichkeit in täglichem Gebrauch und selbst für den gebildeten Laien Schulpensum. Die „Expositio hymnorum" in ihren verschiedenen kontinentalen und englischen Formen verlor dann in der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jhdts. Ihre hervorragende Bedeutung, nicht zuletzt, weil nun zahlreiche neue Hymnenkommentare namentlich bekannter Verfasser erschienen. - Diverse Interlinear-Marginalien sowie auf Bl. hiii-iv unbeschnittene vielzeilige Marginalien einer zeitgenössischen Hand. - Vereinzelte (1-5) Wurmlöcher im Text. - Auf der Rückseite des Schlussblattes Monogrammstempel VF in rundem Kranz. Auf dem Vorsatz montiert eine Reproduktion des Holzschnittes (Hl. Jungfrau auf der Mondsichel mit Jesuskind im Strahlenkranz) aus der Reutlinger Druckausgabe von 1496. Wide margined fine copy of this scarce Strasbourg incunabulum of the most popular commentary of the hymns presumably collected by Hilarius in the 12th century. The introduction ("Iste liber dicitur") is followed by the proper Expositio. The "Tabula hymnorum" on the final leaf recto lists 94 hymns. The reason for its great popularity - over forty incunable editions are recorded - is explained by the fact that the hymns in the Middle Ages were 'classic' poetry and tutorial liturgical texts at the same time. Hilarius' Expositio hymnorum lost its importance early in the 16th century. - Few minor wormholes in the text. - Monogram stamp FV in round garland on last leaf verso. On the first fly-leaf mounted the reproduction of the woodcut (Maria with child within radial garland) from the Reutlingen edition of 1496. - Modern vellum. GW 0437. - Goff E-148. - Hayn 6779. - BN-Inc H-344. - Voullième (B) 1963. - Hubay, (Augsburg), 1102; Hubay, (Eichstätt), 518. - BSB-Ink H-263. - Bohatta, Liturgische Bibliographie des XV. Jhdts., 660 (nennt Michael Greyff von Reutlingen als Drucker). - Goff E-148 (nennt ebenfalls Reutlingen und datiert „circa 1489-93"). - Ann Moss, Latin liturgical hymns and their early printing history, 1470-1520, in: Humanistica Lovaniensia XXXVI (1987), 112ff. [Bookseller: Biblion Antiquariat]
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Thomas Aquinas, .
COMMENTARIA SUPER LIBROS PHYSICOR[UM]
(Venice: Ioan[n]nem and Gregoriuu[n] de Gregoriis, fraters, May 9th, 1492). RARE. Illustrated with diagrams throughout the text. Folio, contemporary wooden boards with remnants of clasps and chains remaining, at some time rebacked in correct period style with brown calf. 123 ff. A handsome and proper copy, with early marginal notation in scholarly hand, some evidence of worming, light throughout most of the book but somewhat heavy towards the beginning and end.. [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks Inc.]
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Thomas Aquinas
COMMENTARIA É SUPER LIBROS PHYSICOR[UM]
Venice Ioan[n]nem and Gregoriuu[n] de Gregoriis, fraters May 9th, 1492 - RARE. Illustrated with diagrams throughout the text. Folio, contemporary wooden boards with remnants of clasps and chains remaining, at some time rebacked in correct period style with brown calf. 123 ff. A handsome and proper copy, with early marginal notation in scholarly hand, some evidence of worming, light throughout most of the book but somewhat heavy towards the beginning and end. VERY RARE INCUNABLE EDITION OF AQUINASÕ COMMENTARY ON ARISTOTLEÕS PHYSICS, an attempt to give a more technical form to the propositions and their demonstrations. The work includes early and important examples of scientific illustration, such as one in Book VI were we have a diagram showing that when bodies move, the time and the magnitude (that is, the space described), are divided similarly ; with many like propositions. In Book VIII there is demonstration that a finite mover (movens) cannot move anything in an infinite time.' This is illustrated by a diagram in which two hands are represented as engaged in moving a whole sphere, and one hand in moving a hemisphere. This mode of representing force, in diagrams illustrative of mechanical reasonings, by human hands pushing, pulling, and the like, is still employed in text books and this is most probably the first example of such a mode of representation. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc. ABAA]
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Plotinus
Opera. [nella traduzione e con il commento di Marsilio Ficino]
filosofia - incunabolo 9 maggio 1492, Firenze - In-folio (332x218 mm.), [441] carte, manca la prima bianca. Collazione: a10, b8, c-n10, pq10, r-z10, &10, aa-uu10, [2]. Colophon:MAGNIFICO SVMPTV LAURENTII / MEDICES PATRIAESERVATORIS / IMPRESSIT EX ARCHETYPO / ANTONIVSMISCOMINVS / FLORENTIAE / ANNO M CCCC. LXXXXII /NONIS MAI. Carattere romano (112 R), testo su una colonna di 45linee, spazi per iniziali con letterine guida, marca tipografica di Miscomini al piede del colophon. Legatura inglese dell’inizio del secolom XIX in marocchino blu, i piatti inquadrati da una elaborata cornicedorata che ne racchiude una più interna con impressioni a secco, dorso riccamente decorato in oro con titolo e dati tipografici, dentelles dorate, tagli in oro. Provenienza: una antica firma lavata alla prima carta, Sir John Hayford Thorold (ex libris), Syston Park (ex libris), J.W. Pease, Lord Wardington (ex libris al contropiatto posteriore). Ottimo esemplare, la prima e l’ultima carta sono state lavate, due antichi restauri nei margini bianchi all’inizio e alla fine.Minime abrasioni alle cerniere della legatura Editio princeps delle Enneadi di Plotino (Licopodi ca. 205-270), precedute dalla vita dell’autore ad opera di Porfirio, suo discepolo che ne aveva raccoltogli scritti in un corpus omogeneo destinato a divenire il primo testo neoplatonico. Il pensiero di Plotino esercitò una azione determinante e duratura su mistici e metafisici cristiani, ebrei, musulmani e gnostici e fu considerato anche il precursore della psicoanalisi e lo scopritore dell’inconscio; con la sua dottrina della «doppia anima» influenzò fortemente pensatori come R.W. Emerson, C.G. Jung e I.M. Blanco. La traduzione dal greco ed il commento sono opera di Marsilio Ficino (Figline 1433-1499) massimo filosofo del Rinascimento fiorentino e figura centrale di quell’Accademia platonica, fondata a Firenze grazie al mecenatismo di Cosimo de’ Medici, e che ispirò poeti, pittori, architetti e musicisti rinnovando le arti attraverso il recupero della classicità. Ficino iniziò a dedicarsi alla traduzione e al commento delle opere di Plotino nel 1484, su esortazione di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola e del suo stesso mecenate, Lorenzo de’ Medici cui l’opera è dedicata. «il Plotino ficiniano, quel Plotino che si diffonderà in tutta Europa, e non solo nel Cinquecento,ma lungo il Seicento, dai Platonici di Cambridge a poeti metafisici come Traherne, e poi nel Settecento in testi come la Siris di Berkeley, e infine nella meditazione dei romantici tedeschi – questo Plotino è l’ultimo frutto dell’estremo Quattrocento fiorentino teso fra i sogni irenici della pia philosophia e le più torbide fantasie magiche e teurgiche [ ] L’esegesi di Plotino diventa lettura in trasparenza, ossia ritrovamento di un archetipo arcano, che Plotino ha liberato dai veli poetici e che Ficino torna a vestire di forme che lo rendano accessibile [ ] Il commento ficiniano è una sistematica riduzione di Plotino entro una prospettiva fedele insieme e infedele [ ] proprio per lo spostamento, a volte sottile e quasi sfuggente, del centro dell’intera ricerca – che non è più l’Uno ma l’anima, non Dio ma l’uomo» (E.GARIN, Plotino nel Rinascimento, in Atti del convegno internazionale sul tema: Plotino e il neoplatonismo in Oriente e in Occidente Roma 1974, p. 548). Ficino inserì dunque Plotino nella propria concezione e rivestì la propria filosofia di abiti plotiniani. Buona parte del commento riguarda argomenti di magia e astrologia, sul cielo e gli influssi celesti, sull’anima e l’immortalità, sull’uomo e sul mondo, sulle stelle e il fato, su alchimia e demonologia. «Si potrebbe dimostrare che il Ficino ha modificato deliberatamente lo schema plotiniano, in parte per renderlo più simmetrico, in parte per attribuire il posto privilegiato al centro di esso all’anima umana, assicurando così una sorta di oggettivazione e sensazione metafisica a quella dottrina della dignità dell’uomo che aveva ereditato dai primi umanisti» (P.O. KRISTELLER, Otto pensatori del Rinascimento italian [Bookseller: MEDA RIQUIER RARE BOOKS*]
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TEGRIMI, NICOLO’
Lucensium Oratio luculentissima Pont. maximo Alexandro sexto per Nicolaum Tygrinum Lucensem utriusque iuris doctorem: elegantissime habita in Consistorio publico pro obedientia prestanda. Anno Mcccclxxxxij die xxv mensis Octobris.
Roma, Andreas Freitag 1492 - 4to (cm 20), cartoncino ottocentesco, ben conservato all’interno. Testo su una sola colonna, 28-29 ll. per pag., carattere gotico, cc. (4 nn.). Nello stesso anno 1492 uscirono tre edizioni dell’orazione del Tegrimi con il ‘saluto’ del "popolo lucchese" ad Alessandro VI (eletto papa nell’agosto): due presso lo stesso Freitag e una presso Plannck (considerata la prima). Questa è l’ultima e la più corretta, in quanto presenta le tracce di una revisione del testo a partire dalla data nel titolo, cambiata da 26 a 25 ottobre (il 26 era una venerdì, giorno in cui non si usa tenere il Concistoro). Niccolò Tegrimi (Lucca 1447-1527) fu un valente giureconsulto, storico e oratore, ed è noto, oltre che per aver scritto una notevole Vita di Castruccio Castracani, per aver portato l’arte tipografica a Nozzano, vicino a Lucca, chiamando nella propria casa di campagna i tipografi Enrico di Colonia e Enrico di Harlem (che diedero alla luce nel 1491 l’unico libro ivi stampato: la ‘Disputatio iuris’ di Paolo Turrettini). BMC IV 137; Goff T 563; HC 15751; IGI 9670; Proctor 3968; Cat. Martini 310. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Paolo Rambaldi]
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ALBERTUS MAGNUS
De secretis mulierum et virorum
[Konrad Kachelofen] [Leipzig] [ca. 1492] Recased in 16th century blind tooled calf with new end-papers 4to . Rare medical incunable of this popular book on the the physiology and procreative "secrets" of women which became very popular. It was long attributed to Albertus Magnus but is now thought to be perhaps by one of his disciples. It is compendium of medieval medicinal knowledge, magic, and folklore related to childbirth that remained popular throughout the Renaissance. An English translation has recently been published: "Women's Secrets: A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus's De Secretis Mulierum With Commentaries" (S U N Y Series in Medieval Studies) by Helen Rodnite Lemay. Goff locates only one copy (National Library of Medicine) [88] pp. With initials rubricated and 2 large initials colored in red and blue. Some very light toning to some leaves with an occasional damp mark, a bit stronger on the last few leaves. Few inner margins reinforced. A very handsome, wide margined copy § GW 731; Hain 554; Goff A 310; Klebs 26.13 [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]
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[MAXIMILIAN I]
Contra falsas Francorum litteras pro defensione honoris serenissimi Romanorum Regis.
Augsburg Erhard Ratdolt 1492 olio [33 x 22.5 cm], (6) ff. of which two bear signatures, Gothic type, ca. 50 lines per page. With 2 woodcut initials. In cloth case. Very rare early printing of this piece of anti-French propaganda with which King Maximilian (Emperor 1493-1519) reacted to a double affront by Charles VIII of France who had stolen his wife and snubbed his daughter. Maximilian, whose first wife had died in 1482, had married Anne of Brittany by proxy in 1491. He had also earlier betrothed his three-year-old daughter Margaret to the then-dauphin Charles as part of the Treaty of Arras, hoping to secure Habsburg control over France, with which the empire had been continually at odds. Margaret grew up at the court of Paris alongside her fiancé who was also still a minor. When Charles came of age, however, he invaded Brittany and put pressure on Anne to back out of her unconsummated marriage to Maximilian and marry him instead. Charles cited a clause from the Treaty of Verger which stipulated that any marriage by the Duchess of Burgundy would have to be vetted by the French king. Anne, besieged in Rennes with no help from the Habsburgs who were busy fighting in Hungary, was forced to give in and accept the hand of Charles. In a single moment, Maximilian saw his wife taken and his daughter jilted by his main European rival. The fallout from the event initially favored Charles. Pope Innocent VIII validated the marriage of Charles and Anne despite vociferous protests from Maximilian, who, aside from his own betrothal to Anne and his daughter’s engagement to Charles, cited coercion as an argument against the union. The present text, printed in several editions in Latin and German, is part of this campaign. However, Pastor’s account indicates that the pope favored discretion in this matter: “Charles VIII … now required a Papal dispensation to set [Anne] free from her betrothal; and other dispensations were needed, as Charles was himself betrothed to Margaret of Burgundy, and was also related to Anna. These dispensations were granted, but privately, and disavowed by Innocent and the Ambassadors.” (Pastor V, p. 286) In time, however, Charles’s power crumbled due to his political isolation in Europe. He lost Artois and Burgundy to the Habsburgs, Cerdagne and Roussillon to Spain, and was forced to pay off England to stop it from invading. Maximilian meanwhile married the daughter of the Duke of Milan, strengthening his influence in the Franco-Italian wars. His further matchmaking efforts, especially on behalf of his grandchildren, all proved successful and expanded the Habsburg territory, landing him the epitaph Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube: “While others wage war, you, fortunate Austria, marry.”There are three printings of the current text in Latin and four of an edition in Latin and German; none bear a date, but would have to have been printed not before 1492. Copies in American libraries are: Augsburg, Anton Sorg (Huntington)Augsburg, Erhard Ratdot (Penn, Yale)Rome, Eucharius Silber (Yale) Hain/Copinger 10931; Goff M 388; GW M22132; Proctor 1896; BMC II 386; BSB-Ink C-533. ISTC im00383650. [Bookseller: Martayan Lan, Inc.]
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HAEDUS, Petrus;
De Amoris Generibus.
Trevise Gerardus de Lisa 1492 In-4 de 6 ff.n.ch., 97 ff.ch. (sans le dernier blanc); placé dans une reliure de peau de truie estampée à froid du XVIe siècle. Hain-Copinger, 8343; BMC, VI, 885; Goff, H-2; Polain, 1843; IGI, 4642; Wellcome, 3040; manque au Comte d'I. Edition originale. Etonnant ouvrage dans lequel l'auteur se met en scène dialoguant avec deux de ses amis, le poète Emiliano Cimbriaco, qui prend le parti de l'amour, et le prêtre Antonino Filermo, qui expose tous les maux dont cette passion est la source. Haedus se place du coté de Filermo et donne des moyens de s'en préserver. Ce traité de vertu, adressé au neveu de l'auteur, était sans doute destiné à prévenir le jeune homme contre les péchés du monde et particulièrement celui de la chair. Petrus Haedus (1427-1504), ou Capretto était curé de sa ville natale de Pordenone dans le Friul et Emiliano Cimbriaco était professeur de Grec dans la même ville. Le premier cahier du volume a été lavé. Bon exemplaire de ce livre très joliment imprimé, que Brunet considérait déjà comme rare. [Bookseller: Librairie Thomas-Scheler]
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(Hilarius).
Expositio hymnorum perutilis omnibusque salubris.
(Strassburg, Johann Prüss, nicht nach 1492).. 8° (20,6x14,5 cm). 56 n.n. Bl. [A8, b6, c8, d-e6, f8,