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by Paul Cockerham
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| Continuity and Change: Memorialisation and the Cornish Funeral Monument Industry 1497-1660
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British Archaeological Reports - Memorialisation and the Cornish Funeral Monument Industry 1497-1660 presents an extensive appraisal of several cohesive style groups of monuments, being the products of specific monument workshops in Cornwall, SW England, from the end of the fifteenth century to the Commonwealth. People used memorials to make statements. By examining every Cornish monument from 1497 to 1660ùthe good, the unprepossessing, and the downright badùit is only then, with this mass of information, that one can truly contextualise motivations across the social spectrum and comprehend the contemporary meaning of the monuments to the countyÆs inhabitants. These statements provide direct contemporary evidence as regards the identity of the commemoratedùespecially their Cornishnessùand crucially how they sensed their identity then, rather than how we judge it now. In this work the tombs themselves are described, their iconography, design sources and sculptural perspectives are explored, and the motives of the patrons are deduced. The author goes on to discuss the methods and motives of Cornish memorialisation, identifying an unusualù if not uniqueùsustained surge in monument commissions from Cornish workshops towards the end of the sixteenth century, using slate. The overall context of individual commemoration in Cornwall is analysed using wills and probate accounts as a guide to other means of remembrance, both pre- and post-Reformation, building on the motivations for tomb erection. This paradigm of Cornish memorialisation is compared with trends in Kilkenny, Ireland, and Finistère, France, to open up a matrix of memorialisation in the Celtic / Atlantic periphery. One of the discourses of a tomb which is frequently overlooked is its location in the church itself, therefore the author analyses monument positions to reveal how factors such as lineage status, and monumental continuity, affected the positioning of tombs. In the Appendices, the database of Cornish monuments acts as a reference tool to the arguments in the text of this book. The monuments of Kilkenny and Finistère are similarly itemised, together with analyses of masonsÆ and helliersÆ probate documents, wider sets of Cornish wills, and lists of individually priced burial locations in St Neot and Liskeard. Numerous illustrations of the monuments themselves are also presented, most of which have never been pictured before. 616p (Archaeopress 2006). 9781841719450. Paperback [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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LOCHER, Jacob)
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| Libri philomusi. Panegyrici ad rege(m). Tragedia de Thurcis et Suldano. Dyalog(us) de heresiarchis.
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Strassburg, Johann Grüninger, 1497 - Small 4to. [62]f. Roman & gothic letter. 31 text-and head-lines. With 20 fine woodcuts (including repeats). Pigskin blindtooled in the style of the period. First edition of four neo-Latin compositions by the German poet laureate Jacob Locher (1471-1528), translator of Brant’s “Ship of Fools”, known as “Philomusus” for his love of learning. The third and most substantial piece is the “Tragedy of the Turks and their Sultan”, first performed at the College at Freiburg by Locher’s students in May 1497. The intention of this play, composed in five acts, prose and verse, is to encourage the Christian nations to make war on the Turks. The drama has literary importance as the very first example of its genre. The preceding poems, epigrams, letters and laudatory verses include the author’s panegyric address to the Emperor Maximilian I. Twelve of the 20 woodcuts adorning this volume (mostly composites) were specially designed for it (-see Ritter, Histoire de l’impression alsacienne, (1955), p88, who praises the finesse of the line-work.) Outstanding are the splendid full-page portrait of the author, crowned as imperial court-poet, lecturing at his desk, the charming representation of six putti dancing, and singing from a sheet of music, and a triumphal car with the Emperor Maximilian preceded by singers in a procession. A good copy with occasional contemporary manuscript underlinings and notes in margins. BMC I, 112; Fairfax Murray (German) I, 242; Goff L-264; Hain-Copinger 10153; Schmidt, Grüninger, 32; Schreiber 4513. SEE ILLUSTRATION [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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AUGUSTINUS, A. St.
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| Aurelij Augustini Prima Quinquagena (Explanatio psalmorum)
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Johann Amerbach Basel 1497 17th century vellum (minor wear to head of spine) Folio . Beautiful printed edition of Saint Augustine's commentary on Psalter; "Explanatio psalmorum" (uniform title). This is the fourth appearance of the text and was based on the Amerbach edition of 1489. "Aurelius Augustinus [more commonly "St. Augustine of Hippo," often simply "Augustine"] (354-430 C.E.): rhetor, Christian Neoplatonist, North African Bishop, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. One of the decisive developments in the western philosophical tradition was the eventually widespread merging of the Greek philosophical tradition and the Judeo-Christian religious and scriptural traditions. Augustine is one of the main figures through and by whom this merging was accomplished. He is, as well, one of the towering figures of medieval philosophy whose authority and thought came to exert a pervasive and enduring influence well into the modern period (e.g. Descartes and especially Malebranche), and even up to the present day, especially among those sympathetic to the religious tradition which he helped to shape (e.g. Plantinga 1992; Adams 1999). But even for those who do not share this sympathy, there is much in Augustine's thought that is worthy of serious philosophical attention. Augustine is not only one of the major sources whereby classical philosophy in general and Neoplatonism in particular enter into the mainstream of early and subsequent medieval philosophy, but there are significant contributions of his own that emerge from his modification of that Greco-Roman inheritance, e.g., his subtle accounts of belief and authority, his account of knowledge and illumination, his emphasis upon the importance and centrality of the will, and his focus upon a new way of conceptualizing the phenomena of human history, just to cite a few of the more conspicuous examples" (Stanford Enc. of Philosophy). Fine copy of this handsome example of early Basel printing 3 parts and "Tabula" in 1 volume. [426] leaves. Gothic type; double column; capital spaces with guide letters. Early owner's inscription on title-page. Minor damp stain in outer blank margins of first and last few. Fine copy. § Hain-Copinger 1975 (= Hain 1972); GW 2911; BMC III, 758; Goff A-1274
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Lupoldus Bambergensis (d. i. Leopold
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| Germanorum veterum principum zelus et fervor in christianam religionem deique ministros. [Herausgegeben und mit einem Widmungsbrief an Friedrich von Dalberg (Speyer, 31. III. 1497) von Jacobus Wimpheling sowie zwei Widmungsgedichten von Sebastian Brant].
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Basel, Johann Bergmann von Olpe, 15. Mai 1497. - Fol. Rom. Type, 41 Zeilen. XXVII num. Bll, 1 nn. Bl., HLdr. d. 18. Jhds. m. etw. Rückenverg., goldgepr. Rückenschild u. dreiseitigem Rotschnitt. Der Bischof von Bamberg Lupold von Bebenburg (um 1297-1363) stammte aus einem Geschlecht staufischer Reichsministerialen, wurde früh für den geistlichen Stand bestimmt und mit mehreren Pfründen ausgestattet, darunter einem Domkanonikat in Würzburg. 1316-22 studierte er in Bologna Rechtswissenschaften, wurde Doctor decretorum und kehrte nach Würzburg zurück. Er erwarb weitere Kanonikate und Propsteien im fränkischen und thüringischen Raum sowie die Pfarrei Vacha und wurde 1332 Offizial des Würzburger Bischofs. Seit 1333 engagierte er sich im Streit zwischen Kaiser und Papst als Vertreter der kaiserlichen Sache. Mit seinem Hauptwerk „Tractatus de juribus regni et imperii" von 1340 schuf Lupold ein Handbuch der Reichsrechte, das bis ins 15. Jhd. rezipiert wurde, und verfaßte zahlreiche weitere Schriften zum Reichsrecht. 1353 wurde Lupold zum Bischof von Bamberg gewählt und vom Papst bestätigt. - Vorliegende Schrift sandte Lupold 1342 an Herzog Rudolf von Sachsen. Wimpheling gab sie unter persönlichen Opfern zum Druck. Zum Drucker vgl. Kirchner I, 67: „[.] ist vor allem durch seine enge Verbindung mit Sebastian Brant berühmt geworden, dessen meiste Werke, darunter auch das ‚Narrenschiff' (1494), von ihm gedruckt sind [.]". - Einband etw. berieben u. bestoßen. Kapitale m. kl. Fehlstellen. Vorderdeckel m. Spuren e. tlw. entf. Nummernschildchens. Vorsatzbl. m. mont. Ausschnitt aus altem Antiquariatskatalog u. altem Besitzverm. (verso). Stellenw. etw. fleckig. Die ersten 10 Bll. m. winzigem Wurmloch, die letzten zwei mit Wurmspur im weißen Unterrand, letztes seitlich m. kl. hinterl. Einriß. - Hain/C. 2725; BMC III, 796; Goff L 399; BSB-Ink L 292; Potthast I, 752; Knepper, Wimpheling 68, Anm. 2; Wilhelmi, Brant 434; Stillwell L 356. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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ANTONIUS FLORENTINUS
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| CONFESSIONALE:"DEFECERUNT";TITULUS DE RESTITUTIONIBUS;CONCLUSIONES ET DECISIONES IN FORO COSCIENTAE;VERSUS ETC.
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IN FINE: VENETIIS, PER PETRUM JO. DE QUARENGIIS BERGOMENSEM - 29 NOVEMBRE 1497., VENETIIS - [INCUNABOLO-RARO] (cm. 16,3) ottima e solida legatura del XX secolo in piena pergamena antica, sguardie antiche. Carte 175 (di 176) numerate da 1 a 167, seguono altre nove carte non numerate. Caratteri gotici, testo su due colonne, 34 linee, spazi per lettere capitali. Importante edizione veneziana, qui ampliata per la prima volta. L' autore fu domenicano e vescovo di Firenze (1389-1459). Questo suo confessionale ebbe molto successo e circa 100 edizioni! con il "defecerunt" si conoscono circa 72 edizioni. E' una guida per il confessore, è dedicata al clero e divide le persone in commercianti, medici, vanitosi, orefici, macellai ecc. Il colophon è in fine, il registro è a c. y6 recto e al verso è bianca. Manca la carta numero 8 con segnatura d8. La prima carta (a1) è presente nel nostro esemplare, è bianca al verso e al recto porta solo il titolo "defecerunt" ma presenta una filigrana diversa dalle altre e forse è presa da un' altro esemplare? comunque è molto bella e perfettamente identica all' originale, tuttavia ingenera qualche dubbio a causa della filigrana. Edizione assolutamente molto rara: manca al BMC, HARVARD, BIBLIOTEQUE NATIONALE,POLAIN. GOFF ha un solo esemplare in america, SANDER registra 1 sola vendita e manca a vari grandi cataloghi di BAER, MAGGS compreso il CAT. di HARPER (1930), OLSCHKI n° 53 "MONUMENTA" e OLSCHKI n° 94 "INCUNABOLA TYPOGRAPHICA" nonchè al CAT. n° 24 di ROSENTHAL di Monaco "INCUNABULA" con ben 3500 incunaboli! La carta numerata 2 ha un bel capolettera ornato a fondo nero e il margine bianco basso porta una vecchia integrazione. Ultime carte con lievi difetti ai margini, alcuni aloni e qualche gora appena più evidente all' inizio e in fine. Peraltro esemplare bello, ben marginato con qualche chiosa antica e in fine, al verso bianco dell' ultima carta un ex libris manoscritto coevo: "Franciscus et amicorum, illi qui volunt.". HAIN-C. 1203; I.G.I. 651; GOFF A 830; GW 2136; OATES 2130.
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Jacobus de Gruytode].
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| Lavacrum conscientiae omnium sacerdotum.
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Leipzig, Wolfgang Stöckel, 3. Oktober 1497. - 4°. 86 num. Bll., Blindgepr. Kalbldr.-Bd. a. 3 Bünden im Stil d. Zt. Leipziger Inkunabelausgabe dieses zu seiner Zeit bekannten Werkes, das anhand zahlreicher moralisch-belehrender Geschichten die Nichtigkeit der weltlichen Freuden beweisen soll, und das heute dem deutschen Kartäusermönch Jakob von Gruytode zugeschrieben wird, der Prior im Kloster von Lüttich war und dort 1482 starb (vgl. ADB X, 71). - Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt, nur erstes und letztes Bl. geringfügig stärker. Vereinzelt gering fleckig bzw. min. wasserrandig, wenige Tintenkleckse. - Insgesamt gutes Exemplar in einem dekorativen Einband. - Hain/C. 9961; BSB-Ink. L 73; Goff L-101; nicht in der British Library u. bei Oates.
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Statutes - Merzari
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| Statuti & ordinelli mercanti del practio delli Merzari Cordari venditori & revenditori de merzarie
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[STATUTES OF DRAPERS and MERZARI.] Philippus Dei gratia Hispaniarum &c Rex, & Mediolani Dux &c Revenditoris mercium urbis suburbiorum, & corporum Sanctoru Mediolani quos vulgo Marzarios appellant cum antique statute sui paratici, quae anno 1497 compilata fuerant nuper reformassent ea dato supplici libello petierunt a Senatu nostro approbati. [Milan, ?1627]. The laws regulating the internal organisation of the guild of drapers and mercers, and their trade, with extensive information on their legal obligations etc.Beginning with the license granted under Philip, King of Spain and Duke of Milan in 1497, the first statutes included are those of 1560, followed by those of 1592, and those of 1627.Very specific regulations are given as to their recruitment, financial organisation, licenses, charity, debts and bankruptcy, correct measurements, but also with fraud, passing off of used items as new, and dealing in stolen goods. 4to, pp. 40; some spotting, twentieth century wrappers, manuscript note at head. Chelazzi IV, p. 336; Manzoni II, 49; not in Predari, Bibliografia Enciclopedica Milanese, ossia repertorio. Milano, 1857.
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| Canada's Illustrated Heritage - Complete Set in 16 Volumes
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Toronto: N.S.L. Natural Science of Canada Limited Published in the late 1970s, this magnificently illustrated set brings to life the richness of our real Canadian past, in all its colour and vitality. "There are no fictional embellishments. Some of Canada's best authors have used sensitivity, imagination, and true literary skill to tell Canada's story as it really was. These are not academic textbooks, but a fascinating and accurate 'social history' that should appeal to everyone." - Professor J. Michael Bliss, University of Toronto. "Delivers a totally new and essential look at ourselves, with a broad down-to-realities approach." - Peter C. Newman. Includes the following volumes: The First Canadians, The Colonial Dream 1497-1760 (front endpaper upside-down), Redcoats and Loyalists 1760-1815, Days of the Rebels 1815-1840, Pioneer Days 1840-1860, Dawn of the Nation 1860-1870, The Age of Innocence 1870-1880, Canada Moves Westward 1880-1890, The Naughty Nineties 1890-1900, Into the 20th Century 1900-1910, The Years of Agony 1910-1920, The Crazy Twenties 1920-1930, The Hungry Thirties 1930-1940, A Time of Heroes 1940-1950, The Booming Fifites 1950-1960, The Years of Progress 1960-1970. The occasional volume in Good condition with the balance Very Good or better. Excellent set.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall.
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AUGUSTINUS, A. St.
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| Aurelij Augustini Prima Quinquagena (Explanatio psalmorum)
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Johann Amerbach, Basel 1497 - 17th century vellum (minor wear to head of spine) Folio . Beautiful printed edition of Saint Augustine's commentary on Psalter; "Explanatio psalmorum" (uniform title). This is the fourth appearance of the text and was based on the Amerbach edition of 1489. "Aurelius Augustinus [more commonly "St. Augustine of Hippo," often simply "Augustine"] (354-430 C.E.): rhetor, Christian Neoplatonist, North African Bishop, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. One of the decisive developments in the western philosophical tradition was the eventually widespread merging of the Greek philosophical tradition and the Judeo-Christian religious and scriptural traditions. Augustine is one of the main figures through and by whom this merging was accomplished. He is, as well, one of the towering figures of medieval philosophy whose authority and thought came to exert a pervasive and enduring influence well into the modern period (e.g. Descartes and especially Malebranche), and even up to the present day, especially among those sympathetic to the religious tradition which he helped to shape (e.g. Plantinga 1992; Adams 1999). But even for those who do not share this sympathy, there is much in Augustine's thought that is worthy of serious philosophical attention. Augustine is not only one of the major sources whereby classical philosophy in general and Neoplatonism in particular enter into the mainstream of early and subsequent medieval philosophy, but there are significant contributions of his own that emerge from his modification of that Greco-Roman inheritance, e.g., his subtle accounts of belief and authority, his account of knowledge and illumination, his emphasis upon the importance and centrality of the will, and his focus upon a new way of conceptualizing the phenomena of human history, just to cite a few of the more conspicuous examples" (Stanford Enc. of Philosophy). Fine copy of this handsome example of early Basel printing 3 parts and "Tabula" in 1 volume. [426] leaves. Gothic type; double column; capital spaces with guide letters. Early owner's inscription on title-page. Minor damp stain in outer blank margins of first and last few. Fine copy. § Hain-Copinger 1975 (= Hain 1972); GW 2911; BMC III, 758; Goff A-1274.
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HIERONYMUS.
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| EPISTOLAE (in Italian). [and] LUPUS DE OLIVETO. REGULA MONACHORUM EX EPISTOLIS HIERONYMI (in Italian).
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Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis, de Valentia, 1497 - Incunabulum with Nearly 200 Charming WoodcutsThe First Complete Copy at Auction since 1980 274 leaves (complete): 6 p.l. III-CCLXIX [1] leaves. Double column roman type 48 lines to a page. First Edition in Italian, First Illustrated Edition. Late 19th century English maroon straight-grain morocco by Roger de Coverly double gilt fillet border on covers and turn-ins raised bands flanked by gilt rules. In a (just slightly worn) buckram slipcase with leather spine label. Two xylographic titles attractive woodcut initials in the white vine style 188 VERY CHARMING COLUMN-WIDTH WOODCUTS (approximately 51 x 76 mm.) mostly showing scenes of the life of Jerome typically at his desk and almost always accompanied by the lion (some of the cuts repeated) AND FIVE PAGES DOMINATED BY FULL WOODCUT BORDERS (being two borders used five times) AND LARGE SCENES: the second leaf with wide and elaborate woodcut border enclosing a scene of the birth of Jerome (with the lion peeking in the door) verso of fifth leaf and facing recto of sixth leaf with similar woodcut frame the latter page with two enclosed scenes separated by an arcade showing depictions of Jerome in his study and Pope Damasus receiving this work and two more leaves (introducing the Regula) with similar woodcut borders the second with a scene of the rule being given to a group of kneeling nuns. First and fifth leaves with large ornamental woodcut gothic titling. Front pastedown with small bookplate of H. P. Kraus. Joints somewhat rubbed several mostly shallow scratches on covers (but one more noticeable) one corner bumped but the binding solid bright and generally pleasing. Expertly washed with vague soiling on first few leaves one xylographic title just slightly trimmed at outer margin small wormhole affecting the first 39 leaves but with virtually no damage to text one leaf with 1 1/2 tear in upper margin entering first two lines of text but not affecting legibility a handful of other trivial faults else in excellent condition internally the leaves fresh and with unusually wide margins. Goff H-178; BMC VI, 614; Sander 3404. This is an especially desirable copy--because entirely complete--of an incunabulum with wonderful illustrations. Along with the De Claris Mulieribus (also 1497) this is considered to be the greatest achievement of Ferrarese book illustration. The numerous woodcuts of Jerome in his study his pet lion at his feet have great simplicity and charm and the depictions of the life of nuns that accompany the Regula are if possible even more fetching. Sander (quoting Gruyer) says that the artist here shows a lovable and supple imagination has understood the intimate poetry of all the subjects and has produced varied little scenes executed with a great deal of imagination and taste. Hind says that the woodcuts are evidently inspired by the 'popular designer' at Venice in particular by the cuts in his 'Vitas Patrum' of 1491 and 'Legenda Aurea' of 1494. Our copy is especially precious because it includes the four-leaf life (including title page) of Jerome illustrated with 17 woodcuts which is absent most of the time and the dedication leaf to Eleanor and Isabella d'Este with the date 1495. Ours is the first copy at auction since 1980 with all 274 leaves. It is also unusual in that all five of its woodcut borders often trimmed by the binder's knife are found here within comfortable margins. For much more on Jerome see previous entry. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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| Missale Magdeburgense.
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Magdeburg, 1497. - Folio. Incunabula missale. Incomplete, Contains 22 folio leaves & portions of leaves. Printed by Moritz Brandis. Printed in red & black, initials in red. Dbl. columns. Latin lg. black letter type. Mostly whole or nearly whole leaves of approx. 2/3 to 3/4, a few smaller fragments. Manuscript entry on fly dated 1915 describing how leaves assembled from bindings, 1 leaf presented to an English library, receipt present. Whole leaves, mostly whole leaves, & fragments all carefully assembled & bound between protective pages. Only 2 incomplete copies of this Missale were listed by Goff & Suppl. M-673. Exceptionally rare. Early 20th century 1/4 leather. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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SAMUEL, Rabbi
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| Epistola contra Judaeorum errores]. Rationes breves. [Trans. Alphonsus Boni Hominis]. Cologne, [Heinrich Quentel], "1499" [n.a.
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- Initials suppled in red, paragraph marks, underlinings and initial strokes also in red. 4to. (207 x 140mm.). 24 leaves. 36 lines, gothic letter. 20th century brown morocco. 1497]. The 13th edition of this very popular anti-Jewish tract which first appeared in 1474. "Alphonsus Boni Hominis claims only to have translated the Epistola, but it seems he himself was the author drawing largely from another tract in Arabic" (Encyclopaedia Judaica). Although the imprint of Cologne, 1499, appears at the end, this must be wrong because another copy was bound at Gröningen in 1497. Provenance. Inscription on title-page of W. Attfield. Some foxing and staining. HC 14271. BMC I, 291. Goff S114. BSB-Ink-A443.
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(Leaf Book) Barker, Nicolas.
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| ALDUS MANUTIUS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK SCRIPT AND TYPE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
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With original leaves from the first Aldine editions of Aristotle, 1497; Crastonus' Dictionarium Graecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518. Sandy Hook: Chiswick, 1985. 9 x 13. xiv, 115 pages plus 4 original leaves. 46 illustrations in the text. Red cloth gilt, matching slipcase. One corner of the case is bumped, book is as new, with prospectus. One of 200 copies. The four original Aldine leaves bring together all of Aldus' Greek type, providing a substantial opportunity for comparing them. An important study, beautifully produced by Stephen Harvard & Stinehour Press.
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SUISETH (Swinshead Richard
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| Calculationes.
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Papiae, per Franciscum Gyrardengum, 1497. - Fo, perg. Cc.80. Es. lavato, picc. restauri con sbiaditure e perdita di pochissime lettere di testo in principio, ma nel complesso veramente buono. L'A., detto Calculator, fu il p? famoso matematico del tempo e l'opera matematica con varie note di fisica (caldo, freddo, secco) ? importantissima per aver introdotto la teoria dei flussi ripresa da Newton e vari altri concetti che sono ancora oggi fondamentali. Hain 15138 - Smith "Scarce as a withe raven" riferendosi alle 3 ed. in incunabolo. Rarissimo. ATTENZIONE: la nostra libreria è specializzata in stampe, incisioni, cartoline ed ephemera in generale. Si prega di leggere attentamente la descrizione per indiviuduare la tipologia di articolo (xil= xilografia, lit. = litografia, ecc.). In caso di dubbio contattattateci. PLEASE NOTE: our specialties are maps, prints, and ephemera. Please read carefully the item description: ( xil.= xylography) stampa= print, fotografia= Photograps, Manifesto/locandina= poster, stralcio da periodico= loose magazine pages ).
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HIERONYMUS.
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| EPISTOLAE (in Italian). [and] LUPUS DE OLIVETO. REGULA MONACHORUM EX EPISTOLIS HIERONYMI (in Italian).
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Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis, de Valentia, 1497 - Incunabulum with Nearly 200 Charming WoodcutsThe First Complete Copy at Auction since 1980 274 leaves (complete): 6 p.l. III-CCLXIX [1] leaves. Double column roman type 48 lines to a page. First Edition in Italian, First Illustrated Edition. Late 19th century English maroon straight-grain morocco by Roger de Coverly double gilt fillet border on covers and turn-ins raised bands flanked by gilt rules. In a (just slightly worn) buckram slipcase with leather spine label. Two xylographic titles attractive woodcut initials in the white vine style 188 VERY CHARMING COLUMN-WIDTH WOODCUTS (approximately 51 x 76 mm.) mostly showing scenes of the life of Jerome typically at his desk and almost always accompanied by the lion (some of the cuts repeated) AND FIVE PAGES DOMINATED BY FULL WOODCUT BORDERS (being two borders used five times) AND LARGE SCENES: the second leaf with wide and elaborate woodcut border enclosing a scene of the birth of Jerome (with the lion peeking in the door) verso of fifth leaf and facing recto of sixth leaf with similar woodcut frame the latter page with two enclosed scenes separated by an arcade showing depictions of Jerome in his study and Pope Damasus receiving this work and two more leaves (introducing the Regula) with similar woodcut borders the second with a scene of the rule being given to a group of kneeling nuns. First and fifth leaves with large ornamental woodcut gothic titling. Front pastedown with small bookplate of H. P. Kraus. Joints somewhat rubbed several mostly shallow scratches on covers (but one more noticeable) one corner bumped but the binding solid bright and generally pleasing. Expertly washed with vague soiling on first few leaves one xylographic title just slightly trimmed at outer margin small wormhole affecting the first 39 leaves but with virtually no damage to text one leaf with 1 1/2 tear in upper margin entering first two lines of text but not affecting legibility a handful of other trivial faults else in excellent condition internally the leaves fresh and with unusually wide margins. Goff H-178; BMC VI, 614; Sander 3404. This is an especially desirable copy--because entirely complete--of an incunabulum with wonderful illustrations. Along with the De Claris Mulieribus (also 1497) this is considered to be the greatest achievement of Ferrarese book illustration. The numerous woodcuts of Jerome in his study his pet lion at his feet have great simplicity and charm and the depictions of the life of nuns that accompany the Regula are if possible even more fetching. Sander (quoting Gruyer) says that the artist here shows a lovable and supple imagination has understood the intimate poetry of all the subjects and has produced varied little scenes executed with a great deal of imagination and taste. Hind says that the woodcuts are evidently inspired by the 'popular designer' at Venice in particular by the cuts in his 'Vitas Patrum' of 1491 and 'Legenda Aurea' of 1494. Our copy is especially precious because it includes the four-leaf life (including title page) of Jerome illustrated with 17 woodcuts which is absent most of the time and the dedication leaf to Eleanor and Isabella d'Este with the date 1495. Ours is the first copy at auction since 1980 with all 274 leaves. It is also unusual in that all five of its woodcut borders often trimmed by the binder's knife are found here within comfortable margins. For much more on Jerome see previous entry. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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Bruno, episcopus Herbipolense
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| Psalterium. Gotische Type in mehreren Größen, zwei- und dreispaltiger Druck, 52 Zeilen (Kommentar).
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Nürnberg, Koberger, 1497. - 170 nn.Bll. 4°. Blindgeprägter Hldr.bd.d.Zt. (aus der Koberger-Werkstatt). Goff P 1057; Hain 4013; Proctor 2117; Polain 919. Spätere Ausgabe des oftmals gedruckten Psalteriums, hier in einem schönen Druck Kobergers. Bruno, Bischof von Würzburg (1005-1045) "legte als einer der wenigen literarisch tätigen Bischöfe seiner Zeit einen großen Kommentar zu den Psalmen an, wobei er die Einführung wie auch den Kommentar selbst aus Stücken zusammensetzte, die er den Kirchenvätern entnahm" (NDB II,673). Unser Exemplar ist gut erhalten und praktisch ungebräunt, einige wenige, nicht störende Wurmlöchlein in den weissen Rändern, oberer weisser Rand knapper beschnitten, dadurch manchmal die Überschriften angeschnitten. Titelblatt mit Ausschnitt des gedruckten Titels zur Gänze auf altes Papier montiert. Im originalen Koberger-Einband, die Schließe fehlt. Psalterium.
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Cultrificis, Engelbert.
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| Defensorium privilegiorum fratrum mendicantium. Add: De simonia vitanda; De beatitudine claustrali. Pseudo- Valerius Bergidensis: De institutione novae vitae. Arnulphus de Boheriis: Speculum monachorum
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Hermann Bumgart, 1497, 7 y 25 de septiembre, Colonia: - 88 hojas, A-B8, C-D4, E8, F-G4, H8, J-K4, L8, M-R4. Letra gótica a línea tirada. Rubricado. Encuadernado en piel del siglo xix. Hain 5853*. Copinger 1846. BSB-Ink C-707; GW 7849. IGI VI 3277-A. No en el British Museum Catalogue. No en IBE. Nota bene: De institutione novae vitae is attributed in this edition to Isidorus Hispalensis. Attribution to (Pseudo-) Valerius Bergidensis by BSB-Ink (entered in GW as Pseudo-Ambrosius, De vita perfecta: cf. CIBN B-944). The anonymous text De beatitudine claustrali (or 'Dilige stare in claustro'), introduced by a quotation of Petrus Blesensis, is identified by CIBN J-22 as the work of Cultrificis Cuarta edición (la primera se publicó en 1479). Es una defensa jurídica e histórica de los privilegios de los franciscanos. Responde a los ataques de los párrocos que ven en la pobreza y en la mendicidad una forma de bombardear la confortable vida del cura medieval.
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AUGUSTINUS, A. St.
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| Aurelij Augustini Prima Quinquagena (Explanatio psalmorum)
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Johann Amerbach Basel 1497 17th century vellum (minor wear to head of spine) Folio . Beautiful printed edition of Saint Augustine's commentary on Psalter; "Explanatio psalmorum" (uniform title). This is the fourth appearance of the text and was based on the Amerbach edition of 1489. "Aurelius Augustinus [more commonly "St. Augustine of Hippo," often simply "Augustine"] (354-430 C.E.): rhetor, Christian Neoplatonist, North African Bishop, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. One of the decisive developments in the western philosophical tradition was the eventually widespread merging of the Greek philosophical tradition and the Judeo-Christian religious and scriptural traditions. Augustine is one of the main figures through and by whom this merging was accomplished. He is, as well, one of the towering figures of medieval philosophy whose authority and thought came to exert a pervasive and enduring influence well into the modern period (e.g. Descartes and especially Malebranche), and even up to the present day, especially among those sympathetic to the religious tradition which he helped to shape (e.g. Plantinga 1992; Adams 1999). But even for those who do not share this sympathy, there is much in Augustine's thought that is worthy of serious philosophical attention. Augustine is not only one of the major sources whereby classical philosophy in general and Neoplatonism in particular enter into the mainstream of early and subsequent medieval philosophy, but there are significant contributions of his own that emerge from his modification of that Greco-Roman inheritance, e.g., his subtle accounts of belief and authority, his account of knowledge and illumination, his emphasis upon the importance and centrality of the will, and his focus upon a new way of conceptualizing the phenomena of human history, just to cite a few of the more conspicuous examples" (Stanford Enc. of Philosophy). Fine copy of this handsome example of early Basel printing 3 parts and "Tabula" in 1 volume. [426] leaves. Gothic type; double column; capital spaces with guide letters. Early owner's inscription on title-page. Minor damp stain in outer blank margins of first and last few. Fine copy. § Hain-Copinger 1975 (= Hain 1972); GW 2911; BMC III, 758; Goff A-1274
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English woodblock engraving; woodcuts;
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| Ten printer's specimens, copies of curious alchemical woodblock engravings from the 'Hortus Sanitatis' and other early sources, with captioned title and price.
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Undated: early nineteenth century. - On one side each of two leaves of thin laid paper (quality of tissue). Both leaves are good: lightly creased and spotted on aged paper. The first leaf (roughly 19 x 18 cm) carries six illustrations, arranged 2 x 3, and with the captions reading: 'Price 2s/6d | a way of purifying sea water'; 'Price 1s/6d | preparation Acid Sulphuric'; 'Price of block | 1s/- | Physician Galenical School'; 'Price 1/- | cold still'; 'Price 1/- | Pelican'; '2s/6d | distillation'. Printers blue pencil around third woodcut. The second leaf (roughly 24 x 18.5 cm) carries four illustrations, arranged 2 x 2, the largest two being roughly 8 x 6 cm. The captions read: 'Bufonites' (from the 'Hortus Sanitatis' of 1497, showing a man extracting a bezoar stone from the head of a frog); 'preparation medicinal earths'; 'obtaining draconites' and 'Hippocrates sleeve'. Along one margin: 'Please return specimens'. The 'Bufonites' engraving is certainly a skillful copy, and it may be that the cuts were originally produced for a Roxburghe-Club-type publication, before joining the printer's stock.
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Arnau de Villa Nova (ca. 1240 -
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| Practica Medicinae.
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Otinus de Luna, de Pavía, 1497, 21 de octubre, Venecia: - a-d6, e8, f-l6. La última blanca. Encuadernación moderna en piel. Excelente ejemplar con todos sus márgenes. Palau 365576. Hain & Copinger 1802*. Goff A-1074. BSB-Ink A-742. GW 2529. Klebs 103.4. IGI 868. IBE 582, sólo 1 ejemplar, en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Barcelona. En la guarda posterior: "Perfect. Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Cuarta edición del Breviarium de Arnau de Vilanova. Arnau de Vilanova (València, c.1238 - Genova c.1311). Alquimista, astrólogo, teólogo y médico. El nombre de Vilanova proviene del hecho que posiblemente su lugar de nacimiento fuera el Grau de València, que es ese momento se conocia con el nombre de Vilanova del Grau.Se introdujo en el estudio de la Biblia, del Talmud y del rabinismo en sus lenguas originales, así como de la lengua árabe y parte de la cultura musulmana. Estudió medicina en Montpellier y desde 1281 fue médico de Pedro el Grande y de sus sucesores. Aficionado a la teología, frecuentó a los franciscanos espirituales, lo que le condujo a un exaltado misticismo, hasta ver como inminentes la venida del Anticristo y el fin del mundo. Fue condenado por los teólogos de la Sorbona, aunque el papa mitigó su condena, aconsejándole que se dedicara exclusivamente a la medicina. Fue un médico excelente, razón por la cual se toleraron sus visiones delirantes. Sus numerosas obras médicas (se conservan más de setenta), escritas en latín, abarcan desde opúsculos a versiones de obras árabes, sobre todo de Avicena, aunque sus conocimientos médicos se basaban en el empirismo, mezcla de Galeno y Avicena.
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LActantius (Lucius Coelius
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| De Divinis Institutionibus [Opera]
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Simon Bevilaqua, Venice 1497 - Folio, late 18th century or early 19th century pasteboards, slightly soiled, neat early marginalia, lower tip of several leaves at end lightly damp marked, trifle frayed, minor worming to few blank margins, tall and decent copy. Hain-Copinger 9818; Goff I. 13. Because of the value of this item, extra postal insurance or registry fees may be required.
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Lactancio, Lucios Coelio Firmiano.
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| Opera:] De diuinis institutionibus aduersus gentes. De ira Dei, De opificio Dei seu de formatione hominis. Nephytomon siue epitome institutionum.
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Simón Bevilacqua, 1497, 4 de abril, Venecia: - 140 hojas en signaturas A8, a-b8, c-d6, e8, f-m6, n8, o-p6, q8, r6, s8, t-u6. Encuadernación del siglo xvii en pergamino. Puntos ocasionales de óxido y alguna hoja oscurecida por mala calidad del papel pero buen ejemplar que conserva todos sus márgenes originales. Hain-Copinger 9818. Goff L-13. BMC v, 522. IGI 5630. IBE 3422. En la primera y última hoja sello del siglo xviii de antigua institución religiosa. Lactancio Firmiano tiene el honor de ser uno de los primeros autores clásicos impresos (sus obras estampadas en Subiaco en 1465 y en Roma en 1468 son de una rareza legendaria) y uno de los más reeditados, no en vano se conocen trece ediciones incunables. La influencia de Lactancio (ca. 260 - ca. 325), llamado el Cicerón cristiano, fue enorme durante los primeros tiempos del cristianismo y su esfuerzo por equiparar la tradición del pensamiento de Cristo entre las grandes corrientes del pensamiento filosófico clásico acabó por dar patente intelectual a la filosofía cristiana al lado de la pagana.
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HARTMANN SCHEDEL
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| PERUSIA 1497 AUSBURG
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Veduta fantastica della citta' posta nella parte inferiore del foglio che contiene anche il teste descrittivo, tratto dal Liber cronicarum cum figuris et umaginibus ab initio mudi usus mit temporis rarissima edizione "tascabile" della celebre cronaca del mondo, edita ad Ausburg presso Johann Schonsperger, nel 1496. Prima edizione in tedesco dello Schonsperger. Egli abbrevia sia il testo sia il formato dello Schedel per produrre un edizione che fosse piu' maneggevole a commerciabile di quella di A. Koberger. Silografia, posta nella parte inferiore di un foglio di testo, in ottimo stato di conservazione. Rara. 195 295
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SCHEDEL HARTMANN.
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| Venetia-Venedig.
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1497., Augsburg, 1497 - Silografia eseguita da artista anonimo, 84x335 (foglio completo di testo 340x430). La veduta, inserita nella parte centro-superiore del foglio, è una evidente riduzione semplificata della precedente. Tratta dalla edizione in Folio piccolo di "Liber Chronicarum" la cosiddetta "Piccola Cronaca" pubblicata da Schoensperger nel 1496, 1497 e 1500, di molto maggiore rarità rispetto alla più celebre versione in Folio grande. Ottimo esemplare con gli usuali piccoli restauri al centro. Moretto, Venetia. Le immagini della Repubblica, 7; Schultz, 159. Manca a Cassini.
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CRASTONUS, Johannes, or Giovanni
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| Rare first Aldine edition of this celebrated Greek-Latin dictionary, together with various Greek philological texts Dictionarium graecum copiosissimum secundum ordinem alphabeti cum interpretatione latina. Cyrilli opusculum de dictionibus, quae variato accentu mutant significatum secundum ordinem alphabeti cum interpretatione latina.Ammonius de differentia dictionum per literarum ordinem.Vetus instructio & denominationes praefectorum militum.Significata tou u. Significata tou os.Index oppido quam copiosus, docens latinas dictiones ferè omneis graece dicere & multas etiam multis modis.
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Venice. Aldus I Manutius, December 1497. - Folio. Later vellum with title ('Dicion. Graeca Latin') written in an Italian hand on the spine, remains of ties. Small woodcut initial on f. O1; text printed in 2 cols. of 42 lines (Index in 3 cols. with 55 lines). 244 lvs, including the last blank. Colophon: a-k8, l10, A-K8, L10, M8, N10, O8, p-r8, s6, t8. Rare first Aldine edition of this celebrated Greek-Latin dictionary, originally composed by Johannes Crastonus (ca. 1420-1498) on the basis of an older dictionary by Constantino Lascaris. Together with Marcus Musurus, Aldus has re-published the first edition of Crastonus's work which had been printed by Bonus Accursius in Milan ca. 1478. A second edition was printed in 1483 by Dionysius Bertholus in Vicenza, the first dictionary with the word Lexicon in its title.In his preface (edited by Renouard, pp. 13-4) Aldus doesn't mention the name of the author Crastonus, reason why Aldus is often considered to be the author. He is, however, only responsible for composing the Latin index at the end. In this index Aldus refers to the number of the leaf and line of the Greek dictionary. It is strange, however, that the leaves are not numbered. In his preface (f. 202v) Aldus gives the advice to start with numbering the leaves: 'nota tibi in extremitate libri arithmeticis numeris singulas chartes' ! And indeed our copy is numbered in a contemporary hand from 1-200. Added are several Greek philological texts:Contents:- f. 1r: Title.- f. 1v: Preface by Aldus: 'Aldus Manutius Romanus studiosis omnibus S.P.D.', concluded by two Greek poems by Scipio Fortiquerre (1466-1515) and Markos Musuros (1470-1517).- f. 2r-171v: Greek-Latin dictionary.- f. 171v-181r: (on the title: Cyrillus, but is:) Johannes Philoponus, Collectio dictionum quae differunt significatu secundum ordinem alphabeti.- f. 181v-198r: Ammonius, Hermias, De differentia dictionum per literarum ordinem. (f. 198v: blank).- f. 199r-201v: Vetus instructio & denominationes praefectorum militum.- f. 201v-202r: Two short philological texts: 'Ta tou e semantika' and 'Ta tou oos semantika'.- f. 202v: Aldus preface for the Latin index. -f. 203r-242v: Latin index.- f. 243r-v: catchwords, quire sequence and imprint: 'Venetiis in aedibus Aldi Manutii, Romani Decembri mense M. IIID. Et in hoc quod in caeteris nostris ab Ill. S. V. concessum nobis'.- f. 244: blank. Very good copy with 16th-century (?) ownership's entry in Latin and Greek charaxcters on the title: 'Ludus La Motte', and some 16th and 17th-century annotations, the latter by Padre Derio (on the first fly-leaf occurs the note 'Revisto per il Padre Derio 1629'.- (Half loose, some worm holes towards the end (partly skilfully repaired)). Renouard, Annales Alde, p. 13, nr. 7 (".belle et très rare"); GW 7814; HC* 6151; BMC V, 558; Goff C-960; Proctor 5561; Pell. 4042; Lefèvre 150; Polain (B) 1202; IDL 1424; IGI 3256; Vouillième (B) 4496; Sack (Freiburg) 1188; Walsch, 15th-cent. printed books Harvard 2655-7; Sheenan, Vaticana C-465; Oates 2180; Rhodes (Oxford Colleges) 637; Lowry, The world of Aldus Manutius, p. 112, 114-5; N. Barker, Aldus Manutius and the development of Greek script & type in the 15th century (with original lvs. from the first Aldine editions of. Crastonus' Dictionarium) (1985); on Crastone: Diz. biogr. degli Italiani 30, pp. 578-80. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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Beroaldus [Beroaldo], Fillipo.
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| Opusculum eruditum: Quo continentur Declamatio Philosophi Medici Oratoris De excelle(n)tia discepta(n)tiu(m). Et libellus de optimo statu: & principe.
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Benedictus Hectoris, Bologna: 1497, Dec. 13. - 4to. 2. A-D8,E4. 38ff. Modern 1/4 vellum over boards,lower corner dampstain on A1-2, marginal stains and ink spots on some leaves; small contemporary drawing under colophon. Editio Princeps. First Edition. Beroaldus (1453-1505) one of the most eminent scholars of the fifteenth century, was born in Bologna. He was brilliant scholar, a popular lecturer, and was rewarded with civic and academic honors. "He was fond of the pleasures of the table, and passionately addicted to play, to which he sacrificed all he was worth. He was an ardent votary of the fair sex; and thought no pains nor experience too great for accomplishing his wishes." At length he married and changed his ways. This is the first edition of these two short works.The first is a dispute between three brothers - a philosopher, a physician and an orator - whose father has bequeathed his patrimony to the one whose profession is the most useful to society. Each of the three defends his own profession, first the philosopher, second the physician, and third the orator; but it is, of course, the orator who gets the inheritance because, even though his profession is probably least useful, he is best at defending it. The orator exposes the philosopher's and the physician's fallacies drawing on sources such as Pythagoras, Empedocles, Plato, Hippocrates, Galenus, Avicenna, etc. The second work is an epistle on statecraft and on the optimal form of government. "Filippo Beroaldo begins his De optimo statu with a typology of legitimate regimes, speaking of the status popularis, the status paucarum and even the status unius when refering to monarchy."Filippo Beroaldo endorses the same conclusions (as Campano) in a treatise to which he actually gave the title De optimo statu. The best state, he argues, can be attained only if our our ruler or leading magistrate 'remains oblivious of his own good, and ensures that he acts in everything he does in such a way as to promote the public benefit." [Political Innovation and Conceptual Change. Ed. Terence Ball, James Faarr,et al. Cambridge U.P., 1989.] Goff B473. Hain/Copinger 2963* . Klebs 182.1. Pell 2218. CIBN B-343. Hillard 357. Polain(B) 4203. IBE 972. IGI 1591. IBP 958 .IJL2 74. Saj—-SoltŽsz 588. Mendes 193. Madsen 646. Voull(B) 2781. Sack(Freiburg) 592 . Borm 423. Walsh 3236. Bod-inc B-220. Sheppard 5387, 5388. Bodleian B220. Oates 2499. Proctor 6635. BMC VI 844. BSB-Ink B-371. GW 4126. ISTC ib00473000. Wellcome 810.
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| Missale Magdeburgense. MISSALE, Use of Magdeburg
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Moritz Brandis, Magdeburg 1497 - 14 April 1497. \\\ Royal 2° (394 x 265mm). Collation: \Kp\k8 a-l8 m10 n-q8 2a10 r-z8 \\i \\n \\f8 A-C8 D10 E-F6 (\Kp\k1r blank, \Kp\k1v advertisement, \Kp\k2r register of votive masses, \Kp\k3r calendar, a1 text, 2a1 order and canon, r1r common of saints, etc., F6r colophon, F6v blank). 274 leaves. 38 lines, double column. Type: 8:314G, 6:160G, 5:151G. Printed in red and black, red printed first. ILLUMINATED AND COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND: major initial opening the text in blue on orange and gold ground with white modeling and floral extension, opening canon initial in lavender on orange and gold ground within blue fictive frame, floral extensions, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion on 2a3v coloured with blue, green, orange, brown and ochre, fine large woodcut decorative initials, lombard initials. (Lightly washed, affecting illumination, neatly repaired tears in a few leaves.) 20th-century maroon morocco by Lortic, tooled in gilt and blind, for the Duke of Villafranca, with his arms on sides and cypher at corners and in spine compartments, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges marbled and gilt. Provenance: Charles Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Villafranca (binding, bookplate of his liturgical library) -- Robert de Bourbon, Duke of Parma. A fine, complete copy with contemporary illumination and colouring, from the liturgical library of Charles Louis de Bourbon, of the fourth/fifth edition. The first book printed at Magdeburg was the first edition (1480) of the Magdeburg Missal, printed by Bartholomaeus Ghotan but with the assistance and types of Lucas Brandis. When Lucas's brother, Moritz, moved from Leipzig to Magdeburg, he brought out 2, and possibly 4, editions of the Missal. All are very rare (one is known only in a proofsheet destroyed during World War II) and most are imperfect. No copy of any 15th-century edition has been sold at auction for over 60 years. C 4160; BMC II, 599 (IC. 10957); Weale-Bohatta 573; Meyer-Baer p.17; Schreiber 4724; Goff M-673 (one copy, at the Huntington). EXTREMELY RARE!!!!! Photos available upon request. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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BOLZANIUS, URBANUS [VALERIANUS
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| Institutiones graecae Grammatices.
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Aldus Manutius, Venice 1497 - BOLZANIUS, URBANUS [VALERIANUS BELLUNENSIS]. Institutiones graecae grammatices. [at colophon:] Venetiis in aedibus Aldi Manutii Romani. M.IIID. mense Ianuario. Impetrauit ab. Ill. S.V. & in hoc q(ui)d in caeteris suis. [Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1497]. 4to (195x145 mm), XVIII° century green half calf binding on hand-coloured paper boards, floral decorations at corners and joints, gilt lettered titles on two red leather labels and rich gilt geometrical and floral decorations at spine, cc. (214). Text in Latin and Greek, 27-28 lines. First state of the errata as described by Renouard, Annales de L'imprimerie des Alde, 11, 4: "trois pages, de 28 lignes, avec quatre ligne seulement sur la 4e", but with 3 and not 4 lines on the last page. Register: a1ob-z8 &8 A8 B10 C2. Contents: a1r titlepage, a1v blank, a2r Manutius's dedication to Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, a2v Greek alphabet and prayers in Greek, a3r-B9r text, B9r register, B10r colophon, B10v blank, C1 errata. FULL-PAGE WOODCUT AND LETTERPRESS DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING THE PHONETIC SYSTEM OF ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE. OPENING 7-LINE HISTORIATED WOODCUT INITIAL AND A FEW 3-LINE WOODCUT DECORATIVE INITIALS EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION of the first Greek grammar with rules given in Latin dedicated by Aldus Manutius to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. The work was commissioned to Urbanus by Aldus, who had previously published a Latin translation along with his edition of Constantine Lascaris's grammar (1494/95, the first work from his press). That grammar, however, was written entirely in Greek, and therefore only accessible to scholars already conversant with the language. Urbanus work met an enormous need and was frequently reprinted throughout the 16th century in Italy and France. Renouard comments on the rarity of this first edition, citing a letter from Erasmus, who was unable to find a single copy of this book. Restoration at upper corner of some leaves, sometimes affecting few letters; stains and few restored wormholes in the errata; light trace of use along the text; overall e very good copy of a scarce ad most wanted book, very difficult to find in perfect condition, because of its supposed day by day use. Renouard, Annales de L'imprimerie des Alde, 11, 4: "Ce livre est extrêmement rare. Erasme, dans une de ses lettres, de 1499, dit que dès-loirs il lui fut impossible d'en trouver un seul exemplaire [this book is exceedingly rare. Erasmus, in a 1499 letter, said that he was not able to find a single copy]"; Goff, U66; HC, 2763; BMC, V 558; GW, M48900; IGI, 10029; Ahmanson-Murphy, 22; Sander, 7436 ; Pell, 2030; CIBN, U-27; Aquilon, 668; Lefèvre, 491; Delisle, 1915; Zehnacker, 2319; Polain(B), 3887; IBP, 5486; IDL, 4545; IBE, 5951; Sallander, 1990; Madsen, 4050; Günt(L), 3453; Sack(Freiburg), 3604; Hubay(Eichstätt), 1045; Voull(Trier), 2185; Voull(B), 4490; Schmitt, I 4490; Walsh, 2659, 2660, 2661; Oates, 2171; Bod-inc, U-011; Sheppard, 4645, 4646; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges), 1781; BSB-Ink V-8. Keywords: Aldus Manutius, Aldo Manuzio grammatica greca greek latin grammar aldine press, manutio aldina Alde Manuce Venezia incunabula incunabolo incunaboli incunable [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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Albertus de Saxonia. Hieronymus
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| Questiones subtilissime Alberti de saxonia in libros de celo et mundo.
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Orinus de Luna,Papiensis Venice: 1497, 9 June. - Folio. a-h6,i3.[-i4 blank] 51 (of 52 lacks last blank]ff. 19th c. paste-paper boards, titling piece, some rubbing; foxing throughout, light marginal dampstain on last 4 leaves; last leaf restored in upper outer margin with some loss of text. Albert of Saxony (ca. 1316-1390), Master of Arts at Paris, then Rector of the University of Vienna, and finally Bishop of Halberstadt (Germany). As a logician, he was at the forefront of the movement that expanded the analysis of language based on the properties of terms, especially their reference (in Latin: suppositio), but also in the exploration of new fields of logic, especially the theory of consequences. As a natural philosopher, he worked in the tradition of John Buridan and contributed to the spread of Parisian natural philosophy throughout Italy and central Europe."Albert of Saxony's treatises on physics consist of a "Tractatus proportionum" and questions on Aristotle's "Physics", "De Coelo", and "De generatione et corruptione". These contain, in a clear, precise, and concise form, an explanation of numerous ideas which exercised great influence on the development of modern science, which ideas, however, were not wholly personal to Albert of HelmstŠdt, many of the most important of them being derived from his master, Jean Buridan. He abandoned the old Peripatetic dynamics which ascribed the movement of projectiles to disturbed air. With Buridan he placed the cause of this movement in an impetus put into the projectile by the person who threw it; the part he assigned to this impetus is very like that which we now attribute to living force. With Buridan he considered that the heavens were not moved by intelligences, but, like projectiles, by the impetus which God gave them when He created them. With Buridan he saw in the increase of impetus the reason of the acceleration in the fall of a heavy body. He further taught that the velocity of a falling weight increased in proportion either to the space traversed from the beginning of the fall or to the time elapsed, but he did not decide between these two.The equilibrium of the earth and seas is the subject of a favourite theory of Albert's. The entire terrestrial element is in equilibrium when its centre of gravity coincides with the centre of the world. Moreover, the terrestrial mass has not everywhere the same density, so that its centre of gravity does not coincide with the centre of its figure. Thus the lightest part of the earth is more distant from the centre of gravity of the earth than the heaviest part. The erosion produced by rivers constantly draws terrestrial particles from the continents to the bosom of the sea. This erosion, which, by scooping out the valleys, has shaped the mountains, constantly displaces the centre of gravity of the terrestrial mass, and this mass is in motion to bring back the centre of gravity of the earth to the centre of its figure. Through this motion the submerged portions of the earth constantly push upwards the emerged parts, which are incessantly being eaten away and afterwards replaced by the submerged parts. At the beginning of the sixteenth century this theory of Albert's strongly attracted the attention of Leonardo da Vinci, and it was to confirm it that he devoted himself to numerous observations of fossils. Albert of Saxony, moreover, ascribed the precession of the equinoxes to the similar very slow movement of the terrestrial element." [CE]The "Qu¾stiones in Aristotelis libros de Coelo et Mundo" were published at Pavia in 1481, at Venice in 1492 and 1497. Goff A348. Hain 577*. Klebs 30.3. Pell 388. Arnoult 28. IGI 252. IBE 219. IBP 178.Saj—-SoltŽsz 108. Voull(B) 4519. Ohly-Sack 73. Walsh 2708. Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 45. Pr 5604. BMC V 569. BSB-Ink A-140. GW 797. ISTC ia00348000.
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DURER, ALBRECHT. Durer,
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| IRASCISINE CAUSA
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Friburgi. Februariis, 1497. A leaf from an incunabulum, STUTIFERA NAVIS [NARRENSCHIFF/SHIP OF FOOLS], the legendary moralistic poem of Sebastian Brant, Folio XLVI, "Irascisine Causa," woodblock illustration by Albrecht Durer, the first humorous printed book illustrations. The leaf measures 20cm X 14cm, the woodcut measures 8.5cm X 11.5cm. Taken from the first Latin edition, the verso is text. The motto, freely translated from a later English edition, reads as follows: "Some men would ride morn, noon, and late/If only they could dodge their mate,/But women's fate is obdurate." Except for a small age spot in the lower left-hand corner, this leaf is in very fine, bright, crisp condition. See: Hutt 1354; Schramm 1146; Borer 124.
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BAPTISTA MANTUANUS
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| De patientia aurei libri tres.
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Brescia: B. de Misintis, 1497 FIRST EDITION., 4to., Roman type. 30 lines. Dark brown morocco blind-tooled in antique style; contemporary annotations., First edition of this valuable treatise containing some of the earliest references to diseases in America. The author describes many of the epidemics which were only then being introduced into Europe by explorers returning from their travels. In addition, he includes a discussion on health and diet in order to maintain fitness.
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AUGUSTINUS, A. St.
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| Aurelij Augustini Prima Quinquagena (Explanatio psalmorum)
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Johann Amerbach, Basel 1497 - 17th century vellum (minor wear to head of spine) Folio . Beautiful printed edition of Saint Augustine's commentary on Psalter; "Explanatio psalmorum" (uniform title). This is the fourth appearance of the text and was based on the Amerbach edition of 1489. "Aurelius Augustinus [more commonly "St. Augustine of Hippo," often simply "Augustine"] (354-430 C.E.): rhetor, Christian Neoplatonist, North African Bishop, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. One of the decisive developments in the western philosophical tradition was the eventually widespread merging of the Greek philosophical tradition and the Judeo-Christian religious and scriptural traditions. Augustine is one of the main figures through and by whom this merging was accomplished. He is, as well, one of the towering figures of medieval philosophy whose authority and thought came to exert a pervasive and enduring influence well into the modern period (e.g. Descartes and especially Malebranche), and even up to the present day, especially among those sympathetic to the religious tradition which he helped to shape (e.g. Plantinga 1992; Adams 1999). But even for those who do not share this sympathy, there is much in Augustine's thought that is worthy of serious philosophical attention. Augustine is not only one of the major sources whereby classical philosophy in general and Neoplatonism in particular enter into the mainstream of early and subsequent medieval philosophy, but there are significant contributions of his own that emerge from his modification of that Greco-Roman inheritance, e.g., his subtle accounts of belief and authority, his account of knowledge and illumination, his emphasis upon the importance and centrality of the will, and his focus upon a new way of conceptualizing the phenomena of human history, just to cite a few of the more conspicuous examples" (Stanford Enc. of Philosophy). Fine copy of this handsome example of early Basel printing 3 parts and "Tabula" in 1 volume. [426] leaves. Gothic type; double column; capital spaces with guide letters. Early owner's inscription on title-page. Minor damp stain in outer blank margins of first and last few. Fine copy. § Hain-Copinger 1975 (= Hain 1972); GW 2911; BMC III, 758; Goff A-1274.
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[Hortus Sanitatis]
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| ORTUS SANITATIS. De Herbis et Plantis. De Animalibus & Reptilibus. DeAvibus... Tabula Medicinalis cum Directorio Generali per Omnes Tractatus.
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Johan Pruess Strassburg Not after 21 October, 1497 n Second edition Folio. 360 leaves, complete. Double column text. Illustrated with over 1,000 woodcuts showing plants and herbs, land animals, birds, fishes, stones and minerals (including the magnet). There are 3 full page woodcuts which show a teacher and his students, a human skeleton and a pharmacy (apothecary) with a doctor and a pharmacist. Bound in modern (c. 1900?) plain stiff vellum, with overlapping fore-edge. Title leaf soiled and with some marginal repairs. Old water stain at top outer edge (mostly in the blank margin, but sometimes into a bit of the text as well). Some marginal tears (repaired); 4 leaves have repaired tears which go into the letter- press, but without any loss. The top (blank) outer corner of the final leaves repaired. An untrimmed copy with full margins. The second edition (after the Mainz 1491 printing). It is the first edition to be printed by Pruess, who printed three editions before 1501. One of the most richly illustrated books of the 15th century and one of the great works of medieval science, medicine and botany. The encyclopedic text includes an index of diseases, a long treatise on urine and its properties, a discussion of gemstones, pharmacology, animal husbandry, etc., etc. With approximately half of the text relating to plants & herbs, it is considered one of the great early herbals. BMC I, 124; Goff H487; Hain 8941; Klebs 509.3. Dibner. HERALDS OF SCIENCE #77.
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HOMER.
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| Ilias. [Trans. Laurentius Valla].
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| Brescia, Baptista Farfengus, for Franciscus Laurinus, 6 Sept. 1497. Folio, 90 leaves, printed in roman letter; capital spaces, that on 3a with guide-letter; contemporary MS annotations (see below); a few light marginal stains, but generally in fresh, crisp condition (unwashed), in recent tan niger, lettered in gilt. This is the Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla’s prose translation of the Iliad, the first complete rendering of either the Iliad or the Odyssey to achieve print in the renaissance. It first appeared in 1474 (anticipating the Florence 1488-89 edition of the Greek text by fourteen years). This is the second edition, with a new introduction. Written in a stylish Latin prose, this version was one of George Chapman’s sources for his English translation of 1598–1611. Chapman claimed to have translated from the Greek but even in his own day it was buzzed abroad that he used a Latin version. “Though he refers to it disparagingly, [Chapman] used it more than he chose to admit (cf. Book iv. 308-9). Valla: ‘Illi veteres …hac disciplina, hoc more, hoc animo in bellis usi, multas urbes multaque oppida expugnaverunt’. Chapman imitates Valla’s epanaphora: ‘And with this discipline’, said he, ‘this form, these minds, this trust, Our ancestors have walls and towns laid level with the dust’. ” – H.C. Fay, “George Chapman’s Translation of Homer’s Iliad”, The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 6 (Apr., 1951), pp. 121-128. This copy was read from beginning to end by a contemporary reader who has added annotations (mostly subject headings) throughout in a cursive humanist hand. H8775; BMC VII 986; Goff H312 recording only five complete copies in America (Huntington, Yale, Maryland Diocesan Library, Phyllis & John Gordon, and the Lilly Library).
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ALBERTUS DE SAXONIA. HIERONYMUS
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| QUESTIONES SUBTILISSIME ALBERTI DE SAXONIA IN LIBROS DE CELO ET MUNDO. VENICE: ORINUS DE LUNA,PAPIENSIS 1497, 9 JUNE.
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Folio. a-h6,i3.[-i4 blank] 51 (of 52 lacks last blank]ff. 19th c. paste-paper boards, titling piece, some rubbing; foxing throughout, light marginal dampstain on last 4 leaves; last leaf restored in upper outer margin with some loss of text. Albert of Saxony (ca. 1316-1390), Master of Arts at Paris, then Rector of the University of Vienna, and finally Bishop of Halberstadt (Germany). As a logician, he was at the forefront of the movement that expanded the analysis of language based on the properties of terms, especially their reference (in Latin: suppositio), but also in the exploration of new fields of logic, especially the theory of consequences. As a natural philosopher, he worked in the tradition of John Buridan and contributed to the spread of Parisian natural philosophy throughout Italy and central Europe."Albert of Saxony's treatises on physics consist of a "Tractatus proportionum" and questions on Aristotle's "Physics", "De Coelo", and "De generatione et corruptione". These contain, in a clear, precise, and concise form, an explanation of numerous ideas which exercised great influence on the development of modern science, which ideas, however, were not wholly personal to Albert of Helmstedt, many of the most important of them being derived from his master, Jean Buridan. He abandoned the old Peripatetic dynamics which ascribed the movement of projectiles to disturbed air. With Buridan he placed the cause of this movement in an impetus put into the projectile by the person who threw it; the part he assigned to this impetus is very like that which we now attribute to living force. With Buridan he considered that the heavens were not moved by intelligences, but, like projectiles, by the impetus which God gave them when He created them. With Buridan he saw in the increase of impetus the reason of the acceleration in the fall of a heavy body. He further taught that the velocity of a falling weight increased in proportion either to the space traversed from the beginning of the fall or to the time elapsed, but he did not decide between these two.The equilibrium of the earth and seas is the subject of a favourite theory of Albert's. The entire terrestrial element is in equilibrium when its centre of gravity coincides with the centre of the world. Moreover, the terrestrial mass has not everywhere the same density, so that its centre of gravity does not coincide with the centre of its figure. Thus the lightest part of the earth is more distant from the centre of gravity of the earth than the heaviest part. The erosion produced by rivers constantly draws terrestrial particles from the continents to the bosom of the sea. This erosion, which, by scooping out the valleys, has shaped the mountains, constantly displaces the centre of gravity of the terrestrial mass, and this mass is in motion to bring back the centre of gravity of the earth to the centre of its figure. Through this motion the submerged portions of the earth constantly push upwards the emerged parts, which are incessantly being eaten away and afterwards replaced by the submerged parts. At the beginning of the sixteenth century this theory of Albert's strongly attracted the attention of Leonardo da Vinci, and it was to confirm it that he devoted himself to numerous observations of fossils. Albert of Saxony, moreover, ascribed the precession of the equinoxes to the similar very slow movement of the terrestrial element." [CE]The "Qustiones in Aristotelis libros de Coelo et Mundo" were published at Pavia in 1481, at Venice in 1492 and 1497. Goff A348. Hain 577*. Klebs 30.3. Pell 388. Arnoult 28. IGI 252. IBE 219. IBP 178.Saju-SoltAEsz 108. Voull(B) 4519. Ohly-Sack 73. Walsh 2708. Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 45. Pr 5604. BMC V 569. BSB-Ink A-140. GW 797. ISTC ia00348000.
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Gafurius, Franchinus
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| [Practica musicae].
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| Brescia, Angelo Britannico, 23 settembre 1497. "In-folio (mm 252x179). Segnatura: [*4], a-b8, c6, aa-kk8, ll6. 112 carte non numerate, di cui l’ultima bianca. Testo su una solonna di 38 linee, carattere 160G2 (frontespizio) e carattere 102R (testo). Note stampate a margine del testo, piccole iniziali silografiche. Alla carta a2v grande illustrazione silografica, stampata a piena pagina, raffigurante il diapason secondo le teorie di Pitagora e Guido d’Arezzo. Nel testo, numerosi diagrammi silografici di notazioni musicali (note, pause, legature) ed esempi musicali su pentagramma. Legatura tardo-ottocentesca in vitello nocciola con decorazioni dorate ai piatti e titolo in oro al dorso; tagli dorati, guardie in carta marmorizzata, dentelles interne. Esemplare in buono stato di conservazione, margini esterni di alcune carte sobri. Qualche nota manoscritta coeva in inchiostro marrone nel testo; firma di appartenenza cancellata alla prima carta; all’ultima carta partitura musicale manoscritta. Ex libris ‘Cornelius J. Hauck’; acquistato da Emil Offenbacher nel marzo 1946. Seconda edizione assoluta di questo raro e celebre trattato, che è una ristampa pressoché fedele della princeps – sono infatti stati utilizzati gli stessi legni – stampata a Milano da Le Signerre nel 1496 («Reprinted with the same quiring and mostly with the same page-contents from the edition of Le Signerre [...]. The diagrams and examples appear to be printed from Le Signerre’s original blocks, but the title-cut and borders have not been taken over», BMC). L’edizione milanese e quella bresciana sono inoltre le uniche due ad essere stampate nell’arco del secolo xv. L’opera, dedicata a Ludovico il Moro, venne redatta dal grande teorico e musicista lodigiano Franchino Gaffurio, che fu maestro di cappella del Duomo di Milano, notevole compositore di messe, mottetti e inni, e amico di Leonardo da Vinci, che lo immortalò nel famoso dipinto oggi conservato alla Biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano. «The importance of Gafori’s Practica musicae of 1496 needs little explanation. It is one of the larger summaries of the position of music theory at the end of the fifteenth century and, with its two accompanying treatises, the Theoria musicae and the De harmonia, provides an almost complete picture of the status of music theory at the time, including both speculative and practical elements. It was a popular book, going through five editions by 1512, and was referred to and plagiarized from by most theorists of following generations. Its contents, in four books, treat of plainchant, mensural music, counterpoint, and proportions; each shows Gafori’s erudition, for he quotes at length from nearly all the great earlier writers on music and gives much information about the composers and practice of his own day» (A. Seay, rec. a Franchinus Gafurius: Practica Musicae by Clement A. Miller e a The Practica Musicae of Franchinus Gafurius by Irwin Young, in «Notes», 2nd Ser., vol. 26, n. 2, Dec. 1969, p. 264). HC 7408; GW 10435; BMC VII, 979; IGI 4113; Goff G, 7; Sander 2984; Walsh 3417. A very rare second edition of Gaffurius’ major work, dedicate | |
