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ORBIGNY, Alcide Dessalines d'.
Cours Élémentaire de Paléontologie et de Géologie Stratigraphiques.Paris, Victor Masson, 1849-1852. 8vo & 4to. 3 volumes. With 628 mostly wood-engraved figures in the text (except for 1 folding cross-section) and 17 numbered tables (16 folding, 1 full-page). Volumes 1 and 2 (8vo text) contemporary half morocco, marbeled side and endpapers. Volume 3 (4to tables) original printed wrappers with green cloth spine.
(4), 300, 258; (4), 259-847, (1); (3) pp. + 1 folding cross-section & 17 tables. BMC NH, p. 1475; Ward 1684; DSB X, pp. 221-222; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (4 copies); OCLC WorldCat (5 copies). A basic work on stratigraphy and paleontology by the famous d'Orbigny, one of the founders of biostratigraphy, with hundreds of illustrations finely engraved in wood by E. Salle. The illustrations show an enormous variety of plant and animal fossils, from tiny invertebrates to gigantic dinosaurs. The figures also include maps and geological cross-sections. d'Orbigny's precise rendition of surviving skeletons placed in the black background of the reconstructed figure of the animal gives the book a remarkably modern appearance. Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-1857) lectured and published on his new classification of fossils based on his research on geological strata, establishing the vital link between paleontology and stratigraphic geology that has proved so fruitful for both disciplines. Many contemporary geologists opposed his stratigraphic ideas, but despite this controversy he was appointed professor of paleontology at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris in 1853. As a pre-evolutionist d'Orbigny believed in the theory of the successive destruction and creation of animals in the earth's history, corresponding to Curvier's theory of catastrophy. Darwin's theory of evolution eventually put an end to all such ideas about new creations, including d'Orbigny's, but important elements of d'Orbigny's theories remain valid. He also introduced a great number of new species and many of his names for species and geological eras continue in use. d'Orbigny may thus be considered one of the founders of modern biostratigraphy.The present work is especially rare complete with the volume of tables. [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]
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BRIGGS, L. Vernon
History and Genealogy of the Cabot Family
0. (CABOT). BRIGGS, L. Vernon. History and Genealogy of the Cabot Family 1475-1927. Boston: Goodspeed, 1927. 2 vols. Illus. Fine in orig. cloth. [Bookseller: George S. MacManus Company]
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PFORZHEIMER, CARL H.
THE CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1475-1700. NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE AND LOS ANGELES: OAK KNOLL PRESS & HERITAGE BOOK
Three volumes. Small 4to., cloth, 1350pp. Limited to 700 copies. As Library, one of the foremost American collections of early English ound the $8,000 mark), fully describes all the books and manuscripts in scription into various contexts: authorship, textual authority, re. Begun by Emma V. Unger and completed by William A. Jackson, the uthor. These can be readily found through full cross references and in [Bookseller: MARTINO PUBLISHING - Mansfield Centre CT]
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Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
Oliver Cromwell
LondonLondon: Goupil & Co. 1899. Near Fine. 1/1475 (this number 476). Folio, full-leather with gilt-decorations, raised bands, clean unmarked text, illustrated, 216 pp., near fine copy with slightest rubbing to edges/tips. Binding is Full-Leather. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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Adelaide Bennet, Walter Cahn, Bert Cardon, Karen De Coene, Brigitte Dekeyzer, Christopher De Hamel, Samuel Ijsseling, Lawrence Nees, William Noel, Herman Pleij, Dominique Vanwijnsberghe.
Meesterlijke Middeleeuwenminiaturen Van Karel De Grote Tot Karel De Stoute (800-1475).
Waanders Publishers,. New.. 978 90400 87363, Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- Text in Dutch. 344 pages; 160 colour photographs. SHIPPING IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE OF THE ITEM [Bookseller: Liber Norette]
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ST. CLARE
Historiated intitial in gold with minature of St. Clare on a vellum leaf from an Antiphonary Sanctorale with Franciscan saints. Northern Italy (Lombardy), c.
Large capital "I" in burnished gold, with illuminated miniature on a red and gold ground of of St. Clare holding a bunch of lilies and a book; square musical notation on red 4-line staves, headings in red. Size of leaf: 549 x 391mm. 6 lines of interlinear gothic text. 1475. A finely drawn miniature of St. Clare of Assissi, a devoted follower of St. Francis and a supreme exponent of the Franciscan ideal of poverty. In 1212, she seceretly joined St. Francis, later becoming the founder of the second order of St. Francis which became known as the Order of Poor Clares. The initial introduces the antiphon ("Nam Sancte Clare. ") for the feast of this saint (August 11). The rendering of the saint and the decorative pattern of the background pount to a Lombard illuminator in the second half of the 15th century; in particular the motifs in gold are widely used by Lombad illuminators, but a more precise attribution is difficult in absenmce of close comparisons. However, the high quality of the illumination, as well as the extended punch work on the gold, indicate that the leaf comes from a manuscript made for an important commission. In a few places, a few holes caused by oxidisation of the black ink [Bookseller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA ILAB BA]
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BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, Saint (BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS).
Sermones [de Tempore et de Sanctis] Bernardi in Duytssche.[Colophon:] Zwolle, Peter van Os, 27 May 1495. Folio (27.5 x 20.5 cm). Sermons, translated from the Latin into Dutch, with a full-page woodcut on the title-page (with the letterpress title above it) showing Mary and Jesus appearing before the author, a full-page woodcut of the Annunciation, a full-page woodcut of Jesus at the end ("speciosus forma pre filys homi[num]" Psalm 45:3), 17 smaller woodcut illustrations plus 1 repeat (mostly 10.5 x 8 & 7.5 x 6 cm) in the text (6 flanked by any 2 of 6 woodcut decorative strips), and the woodcut armorial device of the printer-publisher (plus 1 repeat). Set in textura types. With 2 large blue manuscript uncial initials with interior decoration
(4), cclxxiiii, (1) ll. Arnim, Bib. Otto Schäfer 43; BMC IX, p. 88 (lacking final leaf with full-page woodcut); Goff B-435; GW 3948; Hermans, Zwolse Boeken ZD 107; Hind, Intro. Hist. Woodcut, pp. 582-583; Incunabula in Dutch Libraries 762; V. Thienen & Goldfinch 391; ISTC IB00435000. Second Dutch-language edition (the first extensively illustrated edition in any language) of the Sermones de Tempore et de Sanctis by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), first published in Latin at Mainz in 1475. The first Dutch edition, by the same printer-publisher (1484-85), has no woodcuts except that of Mary and Jesus appearing before the author ("one of the best Dutch woodcuts of the period" -- Hind) and that with the publisher's armorial device. Van Os used the full-page Annunciation woodcut in 1490 and Gerard Leeu in Antwerp used 9 of the other cuts (plus the decorative strips) in 1487 and 1488. The BMC notes no earlier use for the remaining nine woodcuts, including a matching series of six (7.5 x 6 cm) illustrating scenes from the lives of Jesus and Mary.With extensive marginal restorations in a few leaves, not affecting the text or woodcuts, and with the title-page slightly worn, but otherwise in very good condition and with generous margins. The binding is worn and the original wooden boards have been replaced by modern ones, but most of the tooling is still clear enough to identify. The first well-illustrated edition of Saint Bernard's sermons. [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]
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ST. CLARE
Historiated intitial in gold with minature of St. Clare on a vellum leaf from an Antiphonary Sanctorale with Franciscan saints. Northern Italy (Lombardy), c.
Large capital "I" in burnished gold, with illuminated miniature on a red and gold ground of of St. Clare holding a bunch of lilies and a book; square musical notation on red 4-line staves, headings in red.Size of leaf: 549 x 391mm. 6 lines of interlinear gothic text. 1475. A finely drawn miniature of St. Clare of Assissi, a devoted follower of St. Francis and a supreme exponent of the Franciscan ideal of poverty. In 1212, she seceretly joined St. Francis, later becoming the founder of the second order of St. Francis which became known as the Order of Poor Clares. The initial introduces the antiphon ("Nam Sancte Clare. . . ") for the feast of this saint (August 11).The rendering of the saint and the decorative pattern of the background pount to a Lombard illuminator in the second half of the 15th century; in particular the motifs in gold are widely used by Lombad illuminators, but a more precise attribution is difficult in absenmce of close comparisons. However, the high quality of the illumination, as well as the extended punch work on the gold, indicate that the leaf comes from a manuscript made for an important commission.In a few places, a few holes caused by oxidisation of the black ink [Bookseller: Maggs Bros Ltd.]
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Josephus, Flavius.
OPERA
(Belgium: , Not after 1475). RARE PRINTING AND A HIGHLY ELUSIVE EDITION. ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS PRINTED IN BELGIUM. Handsomely illuminated: 9-line initial in gold on [a]1; 18-line initial in blue and white on [a]2; 7- to 11-line book opening initials in red and blue with pen-work decoration; 3-line chapter-opening initials in red or blue; [aa]1 with leafy borders on both side of leaf. Early annotations in a fine calligraphic hand. Folio [390 x 281 mm.] , bound in contemporary Renaissance styled half pigskin over wooden boards, the spine with raised bands. 417 leaves (of 420). A beautiful and finely preserved copy. Without the blank leaves at the end of each text) only; [aa]1 remargined and probably supplied from another copy; and with the tabula complete and bound at the front.. [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks Inc.]
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(CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY).
THE CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1475-1700..
New Castle, 1997. 3 vols. 1350 pages. Deluxe copy in full black morocco leather, gold tooled. In a matching slipcase.This three-volume work fully describes over 1,300 English literary rare books and manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, one of the foremost American collections of eraly English literature now housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Center at the University of Texas at Austin. A valuable reference for the scholar, researcher, librarian, book collector and bookseller, the bibliography also puts each description into various contexts: authorship, textual authority, sequence of editions and publishing history, reference concordance and rarity.Begun by Emma V. Unger and completed by William A. Jackson, the catalogue is primarily arranged in alphabetical order by author. Translations and anonymous books in most cases have been placed under the name of the translator or the attributed author. In addition, an addendum has been added, consisting of thirteen pages of books added later to the Library.Produced with great care and attention, this new printing preserved Jackson's matchless style and Roger's design. A legendary bibliography! [Bookseller: KNUF Antiquarian Books - Vendome - Franc*]
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Wing, D.G.
Short-Title Catalogue of Books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700. [ 3 vols, Complete set ]
Publisher: Printed for the Index Society by Columbia University Press, NewA continuation of Pollard's & Redgrave's A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland & Ireland, and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640, London, Bibliographical Society, 1926. Contents: v. 1. A1-E2926 - v. 2. E2927-O1000 - v. 3. P1-Z28 [Bookseller: Wykeham Books]
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Rudimentum novitiorum. Blatt Ptolomaeus und Virgilio (GW M39062, H 4996).
Lübeck, Lukas Brandis, 5. August 1475. Type 1.. Zweispaltiges Original-Inkunabelblatt mit einem Holzschnitt 4 x 4,5 cm, zwei 4-zeiligen roten Lombarden, rotgestrichenen Versalen und Rubriken. Blattgröße: 27,5 x 36,5 cm. Sauberes und festes Blatt. Incunabula text woodcut leaf.. "Lucas Brandis aus Delitzsch, der 1473 und 1474 in Merseburg tätig war, vollendete als Erstdrucker Lübecks, am 5. August 1475 in Lübeck sein Hauptwerk, Rudimentum novitiorum, eine sehr umfangreiche, auf Kompilation beruhende, wahrscheinlich von einem Geistlichen verfasste Weltchronik von 474 Blättern [Hain 4996], die mit einer kräftigen rundgotischen, den Einfluss der Typen Peter Schöffers verratenden Schrift gedruckt ..." ist. (Geldner 1968 I, 208f). Bogeng bezeichnet die "Epitoma Historiarum ac Chronicarum dictum: Rudimentum Novitiorum" als Brandis "Buchdruckermeisterstück". (Bogeng, Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst 1973, 345). Frühes Blatt, zu Beginn des Buchdruckes in Lübeck, in gutem Zustand auf festem Papier First edition of this comprehensive history of the world derived from the Bible, the Church Fathers, pagan mythology and compilations such as that of Vincent of Beauvais, offering the basics of historical knowledge to young clerics. For the chronological arrangement use has been made of genealogical charts which are illustrated with portraits and scenes, including the first printed map of the world. The Rudimentum served as the primary source for Rolewinck's Fasciculus temporum for the more recent events. A voluminous and complicated production. [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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CANONICUS, Joannes.
Q(uaesti)ones super. VIII. lib(ros). phy(sicorum). Aristo(telis). perutiles: ... [colophon:] Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 8 May 1520. Folio (31 x 21 cm). With 38 decorative woodcut initials and a woodcut publisher's device. Set in 4 sizes of rotunda (round gothic) types. Modern vellum, marbled endpapers.
8, 65, (1 blank) ll. Adams, J-229 (1 copy); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (2 copies); OCLC WorldCat (1 copy); cf. BMC STC Italian, p. 356 & supp., p. 45 (6 eds. 1475-1516); Ist. Cent. Cat. Unico (4 eds. 1487-1516).Rare last edition of a commentary by the Franciscan cleric Johannes Canonicus (active 1320) on part VIII of Aristotle's physics, which deals with concepts of movement, time and change, and serves as the basis of his theory of causation, often applied by medieval scholars to prove the existence of God. It comprises 33 questions in 6 chapters, printed in two columns. With a 14-page alphabetical index at the front. The register statement below the colophon implies a collation A10 a-g8 h10, but this is clearly an error, for the text is complete and all copies collate A8 a-g8 h10. There appear to have been eight editions published, from 1475 to 1520, those of 1492 and the present 1520 by Scotus. We have located only five other copies.With an early inscription on the title-page and two modern bookplates. A very good copy of a medieval commentary on Aristotle's physics. [Bookseller: Asher Rare Books (Since 1830)]
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Conradus Gritsch:
Quadragesimale. (GW 11539 H 8063).
Ulm, Johann Zainer d. Ä., 20. Oktober 1475. Type 1.. Zweispaltiges Original-Inkunabelblatt mit einer 10-zeiligen, floralverzierten Holzschnittinitiale d. Buchstaben A. Wasserrand in einer Ecke. Wasserzeichen: siebenblättrige Blume. Kleine Glosse im Randbereich. Blattgröße: 28 x 40,3 cm. Incunabula text leaf.. Ein Bild des Inkunabelblattes wird gerne auf Wunsch per email zugesandt. [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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SAVOYARD ARTIST
King David in Prayer.
Southern France, circa 1475 Arched miniature depicting King David kneeling in prayer, 91 x 65mm., set in elaborate illuminated border on three sides; 4-line illuminated initial D (of "Domine" - O Lord), eight lines of gothic text on recto; minor sealed marginal tear upper right, otherwise fine, framed. A superb miniature of King David from a French Book of Hours. The miniature of David, with his harp, kneeling in prayer, introduces the opening of the Seven Penitential Psalms. Traditionally David was identified as the author of the psalms, and also as a model of penitence. After his commission of the dual crimes of adultery, with Bathsheba, and the murder of her husband Uriah, by sending him to be killed in battle, David was rebuked by the prophet Nathan and reprimanded by God. He repented and withdrew to live in exile, devoting himself to prayer. The quality of this miniature is very fine; the king's face, drapery and the naturalistic landscape in which he kneels are all delicately rendered. The intense colours, differentiated landscape, and the elaborate border decoration of acanthus and gold leaves and flowers on swirling hairline stems all point to an artist in southern France. [Bookseller: Hordern House]
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Conradus Gritsch:
Quadragesimale (GW 11539, H 8063).
Ulm, Johann Zainer, 20. Oktober 1475 / 76. Type 1.. Zweispaltiges Original-Inkunabelblatt mit einer 6-zeiligen Lombarde. Kleiner hellbrauner Fleck im Randbereich. Blattgröße: 40,5 x 27,8 cm. Incunabula text leaf.. Die Erstausgabe dieser, kurz vor 1440 verfassten Predigersammlung des Baseler Franziskaners Johannes Gritsch erfreute sich großer Beliebtheit. Johann Zainer war der Erstdrucker in Ulm! Johann Zainer ein Bruder des Augsburger Druckers Günther Zainer, stammte wie dieser aus Reutlingen. Er ist auch ebenso vor seiner Druckertätigkeit in Straßburg gewesen und hat dort seine Frau gefunden. Auch seine Druckerwerkstätte bekundet diese Verwandtschaft. Seine älteste Textschrift ist eine ziemliche getreue Nachbildung von Günther Zainers Type 1 - natürlich nicht ohne einige kleine Eigenheiten (h). (Haebler 1927, S. 70f). Eine Text- und Seitengenaue zweite Ausgabe druckte Johann Zainer 1476 (H 8064). Das Blatt kann auch aus dieser Ausgabe stammen. [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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Adelaide Bennet, Walter Cahn, Bert Cardon, Karen De Coene, Brigitte Dekeyzer, Christopher De Hamel, Samuel Ijsseling, Lawrence Nees, William Noel, Herman Pleij, Dominique Vanwijnsberghe
Meesterlijke Middeleeuwenminiaturen Van Karel De Grote Tot Karel De Stoute (800-1475)
Waanders Publishers Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- Text in Dutch. 344 pages; 160 colour photographs. [Bookseller: Atelier Books & Art]
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BENNETT, H. S.
English Books & Readers 1475 to 1640. Three volumes.
Bennett, H. S. English Books & Readers 1475 to 1557: Being a Study in The History of The Book Trade From Caxton To the Incorporation of The Stationers' Company. Cambridge: At The University Press, 1952. xiii, 336, [1] pp. Original red cloth, slightly dusty with gilt spine stamps. Very good. [with] English Books & Readers 1558 to 1603: Being a Study in The History of the Book Trade in the reign of Elizabeth I. Cambridge: At The University Press, 1965. xvii, 319, [1] pp. Original red cloth, slightly dusty with ex-library, gilt call numbers, cancellation stamp on spine and all edges. Very good. [with] English Books & Readers 1603 to 1640: Being a Study in The History of the Book Trade in the reigns of James I and Charles I. Cambridge: At The University Press, 1970. xiv, 253 pp. With dust jacket. Fine. Together three books. $350. [Bookseller: Lawbook Exchange]
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Rudimentum novitiorum. Blatt: Varrone und Cratone (GW M39062, H 4996).
Lübeck, Lukas Brandis, 5. August 1475. Type 1.. Zweispaltiges Original-Inkunabelblatt mit zwei Holzschnitten, 4-zeiligen roten Lombarden, rotgestrichenen Versalen und Rubriken. Wasserzeichen: dreizackige Lilienkrone. Blattgröße: 27,5 x 36,5 cm. Sauberes und festes Blatt. Incunabula text woodcut leaf.. "Lucas Brandis aus Delitzsch, der 1473 und 1474 in Merseburg tätig war, vollendete als Erstdrucker Lübecks, am 5. August 1475 in Lübeck sein Hauptwerk, Rudimentum novitiorum, eine sehr umfangreiche, auf Kompilation beruhende, wahrscheinlich von einem Geistlichen verfasste Weltchronik von 474 Blättern [Hain 4996], die mit einer kräftigen rundgotischen, den Einfluss der Typen Peter Schöffers verratenden Schrift gedruckt ..." ist. (Geldner 1968 I, 208f). Bogeng bezeichnet die "Epitoma Historiarum ac Chronicarum dictum: Rudimentum Novitiorum" als Brandis "Buchdruckermeisterstück". (Bogeng, Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst 1973, 345). Frühes Blatt, zu Beginn des Buchdruckes in Lübeck, in gutem Zustand auf festem Papier First edition of this comprehensive history of the world derived from the Bible, the Church Fathers, pagan mythology and compilations such as that of Vincent of Beauvais, offering the basics of historical knowledge to young clerics. For the chronological arrangement use has been made of genealogical charts which are illustrated with portraits and scenes, including the first printed map of the world. The Rudimentum served as the primary source for Rolewinck's Fasciculus temporum for the more recent events. A voluminous and complicated production. [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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TOMMASI TOMMASO (PSEUD. DI GREGORIO LETI?)
Vita di Cesare Borgia detto poi il duca Valentino. S.n.l. (Firenze?), 1789
Due parti in un volume di cm. 17, pp. xv (1), 269 (1) + 1 c.b.; vii (1), 294 + 1 c.b. Ottima leg. coeva in perg. rigida con titoli in oro su tass. al dorso, tagli spruzzati. Ottimamente conservato. Celebre biografia di Cesare Borgia (1475-1507), uomo politico dalla vita tanto breve quanto avventurosa. A proposito dell'attribuzione cfr. Melzi, III, p. 233: "Dal Catalogo Farsetti assegnasi per vero autore di questa Vita Gregorio Leti, che sembra essersi voluto occultare sotto il finto nome di Tommaso Tommasi. Ma. il non vedere di quest'opera fatto cenno fra le anonime, o pseudonime, delle quali lo stesso Leti ci somministra l'elenco nella sua Vita di Cromwell, ci fa nascere il dubbio che non sia veramente tutto suo lavoro. Ch'egli però vi abbia posto mano e fattevi delle aggiunte. Arroge a ciò che un Tommaso Tommasi ha veramente esistito". Cfr. Iccu. (S126) [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Apuleio]
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BIRAGO (Giovan Pietro)
Large historiated initial "I" (70 x 70mm.) of two unidentified martyr saints. N. E. Italy, c. 1470-
The initial divided into two compartments each of which is composed of a half-length figure of martyr holding a book and a palm; the initial painted in green, mauve and orange on a burnished gold ground, border of blue and acanthus, green leaves and gold bezants.Size of cutting: 360 x 101mm. With square musical notation 1475. Another cutting illuminated by Birago, from the same manuscript as the previous item.From the collection of Dr. F. G. Zeileis. A little wear to burnished gold but generally good condition. [Bookseller: Maggs Bros Ltd.]
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SAVOYARD ARTIST
King David in Prayer.
Southern France, circa 1475 Arched miniature depicting King David kneeling in prayer, 91 x 65mm., set in elaborate illuminated border on three sides; 4-line illuminated initial D (of "Domine" - O Lord), eight lines of gothic text on recto; minor sealed marginal tear upper right, otherwise fine, framed. A superb miniature of King David from a French Book of Hours. The miniature of David, with his harp, kneeling in prayer, introduces the opening of the Seven Penitential Psalms. Traditionally David was identified as the author of the psalms, and also as a model of penitence. After his commission of the dual crimes of adultery, with Bathsheba, and the murder of her husband Uriah, by sending him to be killed in battle, David was rebuked by the prophet Nathan and reprimanded by God. He repented and withdrew to live in exile, devoting himself to prayer. The quality of this miniature is very fine; the king's face, drapery and the naturalistic landscape in which he kneels are all delicately rendered. The intense colours, differentiated landscape, and the elaborate border decoration of acanthus and gold leaves and flowers on swirling hairline stems all point to an artist in southern France. [Bookseller: Hordern House]
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH A FINE HISTORIATED INITIAL FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.
TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF THE OFFICE OF THE DEAD.
Florence, ca. 1475 Single column 12 lines of text in a very neat uncluttered gothic book hand. Rubrics in red four one-line initials in red or blue recto WITH A BEAUTIFUL DENSE FULL BORDER with much foliage many flowers very numerous small gold bezants and at the middle top a skull as well as WITH A FINE HISTORIATED "D" painted in several colors on a burnished gold ground ENCLOSING A SKELETON (from the fourth rib upwards) against a powder blue background the border text and initial within a fine modelled frame of brown and gold. The leaf carefully inlaid into a larger piece of vellum (measuring approximately 8 1/8 x 5 5/8) the black ink of the text somewhat faded (a few letters neatly retouched); in all other ways AN EXTREMELY FINE EXTRAORDINARILY BRIGHT LEAF with its gilt still shimmering. This leaf comes from a manuscript executed in the style of Mariano del Buono (1433-1504) a leading Florentine illuminator during the 1470s. Three of the splendid manuscripts that he painted appear as nos. 49 68 and 69 in the catalogue entitled "The Painted Page" done for the magnificent exhibition held in 1994-95 at the Royal Academy in London and then the Morgan Library in New York. The historiation on both leaves is first rate and the borders are simply superb. The inlaying of leaves into vellum as here is characteristic of items from the library of John Boykett Jarman. $3000 [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)]
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BIRAGO (Giovan Pietro)
Large historiated initial "G" (75 x 71mm.), introducing the first antiphon of the vespers of the feast of saints Peter and Paul ("Gloriosi principes terre quomodo in vita sua"), on a cutting from an antiphonal N. E. Italy, c. 1470-
Two half-length figures of SS. Peter and Paul, each holding their particular attributes (St. Peter's keys and St. Paul's sword), both with large gold haloes; the initial painted in green on a burnished gold ground; full foliate border of mauve, green and blue acanthus and gold bezants.Size of cutting: 360 x 114mm. With square musical notation on red 4-line staves. 1475. This and the following illumination of two martyrs are both very close in style to works attributed to Giovan Pietro Birago (c. 1450-1513), in particular those of his early years (see the entry under "Birago, Giovan Pietro" in Dizionario biografico dei miniatori italiani, ed. Milvia Bollati, Milan, 2004, pp. 104-110 [L.P.Gnaccolini]. Birago was proilific artist whose activity is known from 1471 when he illuminated the choirbooks for the cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore de Dom in Brescia and continued through prestigious commissions (such as the Book of Hours of Bona Sforza, now in the British Library) until at least 1513 when Massimilian Sforza made his return to Milan. Both this cutting of SS. Peter and Paul and that of the two martyrs are almost certainly from a dispersed Antiphonal, possibly made for the Olivetan order, of which 16 fragments are in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich, one leaf is the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin (n. 12930), and one more cutting is in Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, Elmer L. Andersen Library, Ms. 40. These works have been attributed to Birago himself in Ulriche Bauer-Eberhardt (Die italiensche Miniaturen des 13.-16. Jahrhunderts, München, 1984, pp. 47-52, and the attribution has recently been confirmed by Jonathan Alexander in Giovan Pietro da Birago, illuminator of Milan: some initials cut from choir books, in Excavating the medieval image: manuscripts, artists, audiences: essays in honour of Sandra Hindman, ed. by David S. Areford and Nina A. Rowe, Aldershot, 2004, pp. 226-246).The facial types in these illuminations as well as the shape of the letter show significant similarities to the works of Birago in the Brescia choir books. The attribution of these two fragments to the same manuscript as the Munich cuttings is confirmed by an analysis of the script which appears to be by the same scribe. The cuttings were removed from the manuscript at the same time as those in Munich, and this can be confirmed by the fact that these cuttings are a similar shape. These works can be dated to the early phase of the career of Birago, probably close in time to the decoration of the Brescia choir books in the 1470's and are important for illustrating the early style of this artist.PROVENANCE: Collection of Dr. F. G. Zeileis (see his catalogue: Più ridon carte: Buchmalerei aus Mittelalter un Renaissance, 2004, item 118). Old accession no. 177 at left of lower margin.Excellent condition. [Bookseller: Maggs Bros Ltd.]
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Schedel, Hartmann
Das buch der Chroniken. Deutsche Ausgabe. 1493
Nurnberg, Koberger. Buchholzschnitte auf jeweils ganzer Folio-Seite und a. von Michael Wolgemut und Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Blattgro!e je ca. 42,5 x 31 cm. Daraus das Einzelblatt - CCLIII. Sabac an der Save (Serbien). Phantasieansicht der Festung. 24 x 23 cm. Mit Text: Eroberung durch Matthias Corvinus 1475. - Hain 14510 (vgl.) - Goff S-309 (vgl.) - . - Ruckseite: Papste. Sixtus IV., Innocenz VIII. - Am Bund und im Unterrand Wurmlocher. [Bookseller: Wenner Antiquariat]
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PERALDUS GUIL.
De fide et legibus.
(Augsburg, Günther Zainer, 1475-1476). Small folio. Contemporary richly blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, with two brass clasps, blue painted edges. With all initials supplied in red, rubricated throughout. (139) leaves. Editio princeps of a mediaeval work on Church Law by Guilielmus Peraldus, or Guillaume Pérault or Peyraud, doctor at the Paris University and bishop of Lyon (ca. 1190-1255). The work is mostly ascribed to Guillermus or Guillelmus Arvernus, bishop of Paris, and a very popular author, who died in 1248. In our copy the author is called: "Wilhelmi Epilugdunensis", and "doctoris parisiensis". The present, somewhat mysterious edition, was probably the only edition and published by the first printer of Augsburg, Günther Zainer. His first book, the "Meditationes" of Bonaventura was published in 1468 and Zainer died on April 13, 1478. Hain and Polain date the present work at ca. 1469, but other bibliographers date the work at ca. 1475-1476. The book is well produced, printed in a fine small Roman type, with 43 lines to a page, and is finished by hand and rubricated throughout. The first blank is lacking. On top of the first text-leaf a contemporary ms. note reads: "Cart. in Buxheim", and a small stamp of the "Bibl. Buxheim:" is present at the bottom. So the book originally belonged to the Carthusians at Buxheim in Germany. The publisher Zainer was after his death remembered for his gifts to the Carthusian Monastry at Buxheim, and our copy may have been one of these. The Monastry's library was sold in the 19th century. Our copy has also an interesting contemporary German binding. Fine large paper copy, with the additional bookplate of the Library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead.- (Binding sl. stained and rubbed). Goff G 711; Proctor 1556; BMC II 323; Hain-Copinger 8317; Polain 1807; Oates 883; IGI 4602; STC German p. 681. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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Josephus, Flavius
OPERA
Belgium 1475 RARE PRINTING AND A HIGHLY ELUSIVE EDITION. ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS PRINTED IN BELGIUM. Handsomely illuminated: 9-line initial in gold on [a]1; 18-line initial in blue and white on [a]2; 7- to 11-line book opening initials in red and blue with pen-work decoration; 3-line chapter-opening initials in red or blue; [aa]1 with leafy borders on both side of leaf. Early annotations in a fine calligraphic hand. Folio [390 x 281 mm.] , bound in contemporary Renaissance styled half pigskin over wooden boards, the spine with raised bands. 417 leaves (of 420). A beautiful and finely preserved copy. Without the blank leaves at the end of each text) only; [aa]1 remargined and probably supplied from another copy; and with the tabula complete and bound at the front. ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS PRINTED IN BELGIUM. THE RAREST OF ALL INCUNABLE PRINTINGS OF JOSEPHUS - and very probably the rarest of all printings of Josephus altogether - this book remains a bibliographic "mystery." No printer (or town) has been assigned to this book and the dating is a terminus ante quem based on an acquisition note (dated "1475") in the British Library copy. The text appears to have been based on a corrupt manuscript source, and this particular copy has been closely read and neatly corrected in the text body at an early date. Goff lists this edition second in his Josephus entry in Incunabula in American Libraries, suggesting that it's actual dating may in fact be earlier than 1475. We think that the bibliographic study of this particular copy -- the comparison of its text and corrections with other early editions -- may reveal this edition's relative positioning to other incunable editions with greater certainty. As it stands, the current ascription of this edition to "Belgium, not after 1475" makes this One of the First Books Printed in Belgium. Only a very small number of copies of this edition are known to exist: some 3 or 4 copies are in American libraries; the British Library and Oxford own copies; but there is apparently no copy at the Bibliotheque Nationale, and no copies are listed in the World Catalog. [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc.]
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CANONICUS, Joannes.
Q(uaesti)ones super. VIII. lib(ros). phy(sicorum). Aristo(telis). perutiles: . [colophon:] Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 8 May 1520. Folio (31 x 21 cm). With 38 decorative woodcut initials and a woodcut publisher's device. Set in 4 sizes of rotunda (round gothic) types. Modern vellum, marbled endpapers.
8, 65, (1 blank) ll. Adams, J-229 (1 copy); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (2 copies); OCLC WorldCat (1 copy); cf. BMC STC Italian, p. 356 & supp., p. 45 (6 eds. 1475-1516); Ist. Cent. Cat. Unico (4 eds. 1487-1516).Rare last edition of a commentary by the Franciscan cleric Johannes Canonicus (active 1320) on part VIII of Aristotle's physics, which deals with concepts of movement, time and change, and serves as the basis of his theory of causation, often applied by medieval scholars to prove the existence of God. It comprises 33 questions in 6 chapters, printed in two columns. With a 14-page alphabetical index at the front. The register statement below the colophon implies a collation A10 a-g8 h10, but this is clearly an error, for the text is complete and all copies collate A8 a-g8 h10. There appear to have been eight editions published, from 1475 to 1520, those of 1492 and the present 1520 by Scotus. We have located only five other copies.With an early inscription on the title-page and two modern bookplates. A very good copy of a medieval commentary on Aristotle's physics. [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]
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Stundenbuch von Rouen N.S. Maitre de l‘Échevinage "La Livre d‘Heures de Nôtre Seigneur".
Rouen, 1475. Erstausgabe Madrid 1997. Vollständiges Testimonio-Faksimile der Pergament-Handschrift in der Biblioteca National^de Lisboa mit der Signatur IL 42 (olim Z-3-7 Melo de Manuel). Deutscher Kommentarband: claus Weinert., Ganzleder-Einband mit Blindprägung. Kommentar: Martim de Albuquerque, Lissabon. 142 S. Im originalen Oktav-Format (20,5 x 14,5 cm) mit 29 ganzseitigen Miniaturen und dem Stundenbuchtext nach dem Gebrauch von Rom. Zustand (I) Bei Kaufinteresse unverbindliche Ansicht möglich., Numerierte und auf 980 Exemplare limitierte Auflage. Aus der Schule von Rouen sind hervorragende Livre d‘Heures erhalten, unter denen der Codex de Lisboa wegen seiner Zuschreibung an den Maitre de l‘Échevinage (den "Magistratsmeister") einen besonderen Rang einnimmt. Zudem stammt die marianische Handschrift aus der reichen Sammlung Don Franciscos de Melo Manuel, aus der auch zwei andere Stundenbücher mit goldverzierten Miniaturen des James Marrow (Princeton) als typische Rouennais-Werke bewertet werden. Der Maitre de l‘Échevinage de Rouen war ein äußerst kreativer Buchmaler, der zwischen 1450 und 1480 in Hauptstadt des Seine-Maritime nachweisbar ist. Er ist auch berühmt unter dem Namen Maitre de Genève Latini nach Bruno Latinis Le trésor in Genf. Für seine Chroniken und insbesondere für seine Stundenbücher unterhielt der Meister eine enorm produktive Werkstatt. Faksimile, Bbiliophilia, Mittelalter, Buchmalerei [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Karl Heinz Schmitz]
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Bennett, H. S
English Books & Readers 1475 to 1640. Three volumes.
English Books & Readers 1475 to 1557: Being a Study in The History of The Book Trade From Caxton To the Incorporation of The Stationers' Company. Cambridge: At The University Press, 1952. xiii, 336, [1] pp. Original red cloth, slightly dusty with gilt spine stamps. Very good. [with] English Books & Readers 1558 to 1603: Being a Study in The History of the Book Trade in the reign of Elizabeth I. Cambridge: At The University Press, 1965. xvii, 319, [1] pp. Original red cloth, slightly dusty with ex-library, gilt call numbers, cancellation stamp on spine and all edges. Very good. [with] English Books & Readers 1603 to 1640: Being a Study in The History of the Book Trade in the reigns of James I and Charles I. Cambridge: At The University Press, 1970. xiv, 253 pp. With dust jacket. Fine. Together three books. [Attributes: Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket] [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB]
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SAWYER, CH. J. & F. J. HARVEY DARTON.
ENGLISH BOOKS 1475-1900. A SIGNPOST FOR COLLECTORS..
Vol. I Caxton to Johnson. Westminster, 1927. xvi + 368pp. 100 plates in b/w. (T.e.g.). Vol. II Gray to Kipling. viii + 423pp. 100 illus. in b/w. Cloth. Dustjacket (used & sl. foxed). 2 Vols. [Bookseller: KNUF Antiquarian Books - Vendome - Franc]
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OROSIUS PAULUS.
HISTORIAE.
The Broxbourne Library Copy of Liechtenstein’sFirst Book with Beautiful Illuminated Capitals [Vicenza]: Hermannus Liechtenstein, ca. 1475 280 x 200 mm. (11 x 7 7/8""). [100] leaves. Single column roman type 39 lines to a page. Second Printing, First Printing of this Edition. Modern stiff vellum flat spine brown morocco spine label. Paragraph marks in red or blue 4 two-line 23 three-line and 128 four-line initials in burnished gold on a ground of blue magenta or green enlivened by ornamental painted scrollwork in a contrasting color first leaf of text with an armorial crest of the Caroli family of Bologna at the bottom (three gold stars surrounded by a laurel wreath) and SEVEN BEAUTIFUL HAND-PAINTED WHITE-VINE INITIALS IN SEVERAL COLORS AND BURNISHED GOLD THE ONE ON THE FIRST PAGE OF TEXT 15 LINES TALL (the others: three seven-line two six-line and one four-line). Front pastedown with the armorial bookplate of Albert Ehrman rear pastedown with the bookplate of the Broxbourne Library (containing the initials of his son John Ehrman [J. P. W. E.] and “ex dono A. & R. E.” indicating that the book came to him from his father and mother). Upper corner of front cover rather bumped but the binding solid clean and otherwise in excellent condition. First 40 leaves with a half dozen small round skillfully filled-in wormholes all in the fore margin except one (which affects text only minimally) frequent but always light foxing minor occasional thumbing else IN EXCELLENT CONDITION INTERNALLY especially fresh and bright and THE FINE GILT AND PAINTED INITIALS BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED. Goff O-97; BMC VII, 1035. This is an important early Christian book offered here in a beautifully illuminated copy from an edition with a noteworthy place in printing history as well as with fine modern provenance. Written in the wake of the Visigoths’ sack of Rome in 410 Orosius’ “Histories” is in Britannica’s words “a pragmatical chronicle of the calamities that have happened to mankind from the Fall down to the Gothic period . . . the first attempt to write the history of the world as a history of God guiding humanity. Its purpose gave it value in the eyes of the orthodox” and it remained influential for centuries. Orosius a priest from Roman Spain came to Hippo in North Africa in 413 to sit before St. Augustine at whose suggestion the history was undertaken and to whom it is dedicated. Like Augustine in his great “City of God” Orosius attempts to counter the prevailing view among the pagans that their divinities had permitted the sack to punish the Romans for abandoning traditional worship in favor of Christianity. Through his narrative Orosius demonstrates that the history of humankind has always been abundantly provided with a variety of horrors shows that the dawn of the new religion did not measurably increase such catastrophes and proffers the theme of a beleaguered Christianity triumphant an emphasis that made the book understandably popular. Our second printing of Orosius (the original edition was issued in Vienna in 1471) is believed to be the first work produced at the press in Vicenza of Hermann Liechtenstein. BMC draws this conclusion because ours is the only Liechtenstein volume printed without signed gatherings a feature that became less and less typical as the incunabular period progressed. Our editor Aeneas Vulpes of Vicenza describes himself as prior of Holy Cross and subsequent printings relied on his edition. Liechtenstein who came from Cologne printed 12 books in Vicenza between 1475 and 1480. The Orosius is rare and the present copy is particularly lovely because of its hand-illuminated initials done in the white-vine style characteristic of Italian 15th century decoration. The gold for the initials is lavishly laid on and the white vines embrace the letters in intricate loops subtending a patchwork of blue red and green areas sowed with white dots clustered in threes. This copy comes from the celebrated Broxbourne library of Albert Ehrman (1890-1969) a diamond merchant who gathered a fine collection of books at his home at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire. He spent half a century collecting books specializing in incunabula and early bindings (as well as early type specimens and bibliographies). Feather says that “his collecting was intelligent and scholarly for he sought to illustrate the history of printing and the book trade and the early development of trade binding.” Ehrman also authored learned articles on fine bindings and the history of printing. [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscri]
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CODICE OLIVERIANO I. CODICE MEMBRANACEO DELL'ANNO 1475 NOTO COME \"PSALTERIUM\" CUSTODITO PRESSO LA BIBLIOTECA E I MUSEI OLIVERIANI DI PESARO. PREZIOSA RIPRODUZIONE SU CARTA SPECIALE. IL FAC-SIMILE, PERFETTAMENTE IDENTICO AL MANOSCRITTO ORIGINALE ANCHE NEI " " " "ROMA," "IST.POLIGRAFICO E ZECCA DELLO STATO- ARCHIVI DI STATO" "
" "cm.17,5x24,5," "194 carte," "leg.eseguita a mano,capitelli in corda, cop.in pelle rossa, con fregi e iscrizioni ai piatti e" "dorso, Coll.I Codici." " [Bookseller: Libreria CHIARI - Firenze - Italy]
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DANTE.
La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Aligheri, in Italian and English.
One of 1475 copies. Ex-libris of previous owner. Italian text edited by Mario Casella; English version by H. F. Cary. 42 illus. after drawings by Sandro Botticelli. 4to, full orange vellum, (very light soiling to binding). (London): Nonesuch Press, 1928. [Bookseller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB]
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BIBLE
Manuscript Psalter
(BIBLE-PSALTER) Illuminated Manuscript Psalter on parchment. Southeastern France, likely Savoy, circa 1475. Small octavo (4 by 5-1/2 inches), modern full brown calf, raised bands, brass clasps, uncut; ff. 184. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $26,000. Illuminated 15th-century manuscript psalter on parchment with a miniature of King David with a harp, illuminated throughout in gold, green, red, blue, brown and black inks. Written in dark brown ink in a batarde bookhand on 22 lines, rubricated in red, with alternating red and blue capitals, two-line gold initials with white tracery infill on blue and red parti-colored grounds, occasional three- and four-line initials in blue or red on highly burnished gold backgrounds. Most pages have several ascenders, occasionally with elaborate strapwork. The miniature, prefacing the Psalter, depicts King David with a harp in a landscape, framed by craggy mountains, in the background a sea with boats and in the distance a castle: tiny red and white flowers decorate the landscape, and the name "David Davides" is written in the sky above his head. Surrounding the image-and seven other pages-is a full foliate border of acanthus leaves, fruit, flowers and animals and grotesques, in red, green, blue and brown inks and liquid gold. The style of the miniature and of the borders recalls that of Savoyard illumination at the end of the third quarter of the 15th century, including the highly saturated colors and the red used in the turrets of the castles in the miniature, both reminiscent of Peronet Lamy and other artists working at the courts of the dukes of Savoy. This Ferial Psalter was made for an ecclesiastic (probably a bishop), whose unidentified arms, a red rampant lion on a gold ground with a blue star, occur in the lower margin on folio 47 and whose cross and initials appear in the border of the miniature on folio 26. At one point it was in the possession of the Jesuit College of Nancy (with their inscription on folio 1, dated 1755, from where it was likely deaccessioned with the suppression of the Jesuits in France. The psalter itself is preceded by a calendar, the Nativity Office of the Virgin Mary, a Short Office of the Dead, and other prayers, comprising the first 25 folios. The remaining 159 folios are the Psalter, in the usual eight divisions. Ferial Psalters are uncommon from this time period, when the favored type of manuscript had become the Book of Hours. Without at least one folio of the calendar at the beginning, rest complete. Bookplate. Old auction description to front free endpaper. Expected marginal embrowning. A wonderful item. [Bookseller: Bauman Rare Books]
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(Jacobus de Voragine):
Der Heiligen Leben. (GWM11352, H 9970).
Augsburg, Johann Bämler, 1475. Type 1a, 2.. Einspaltiges, 28-zeiliges O-Inkunabelblatt mit einem farbig koloriertem Holzschnitt (7,9 x 6,7 cm) des Heiligen Sankt Agapito. Blatt etw. fleckig. Blattgröße: 15,5 x 22,7 cm. Incunabula text woodcut leaf.. Seltenes Exemplar! Nur zwei Exemplare in Deutschland. Der italienische Prediger und Schriftsteller Jacobus de Voragine (Viraggio) aus dem heutigen Varazze bei Genua lebte von 1230 - 1298. Der Dominikaner Jacobus de Voragine fügte aus der Bibel, den Apokryphen, verschiedenen Akten sowie überlieferten Geschichten, die Lebensgeschichten der Heiligen zur Legenda Aurea. Das Werk in volkstümlicher lateinischer Sprache geschrieben, wurde zum populärsten religiösen Volksbuch des Mittelalter. Die deutschen Übersetzungen der Legenda Aurea wurden das Leben der Heiligen oder Der Heiligen Leben genannt. Zahlreiche Anzeichen deuten heute darauf hin, dass zwischen 1384 und 1421 im Umkreis des Dominikanerordens in Nürnberg eine neue Kompilationen der Heiligenlegenden entstand, die unter Einbeziehung der Legenda aurea, stärker auf den deutschsprachigen Glaubensraum bezogen waren. So wurden in diesem Legendar Bonifazius, Gallus, Kilian oder Magnus von Füssen aufgenommen. Dieser deutsche Legendar übertraf in seiner Verbreitung die Leganda Aurea. (Becker; Overgaauw: Aderlass + Seelentrost 2003, 219) [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, Saint (BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS).
Sermones [de Tempore et de Sanctis] Bernardi in Duytssche.[Colophon:] Zwolle, Peter van Os, 27 May 1495. Folio (27.5 x 20.5 cm). Sermons, translated from the Latin into Dutch, with a full-page woodcut on the title-page (with the letterpress title above it) showing Mary and Jesus appearing before the author, a full-page woodcut of the Annunciation, a full-page woodcut of Jesus at the end ("speciosus forma pre filys homi[num]" Psalm 45:3), 17 smaller woodcut illustrations plus 1 repeat (mostly 10.5 x 8 & 7.5 x 6 cm) in the text (6 flanked by any 2 of 6 woodcut decorative strips), and the wood...
(4), cclxxiiii, (1) ll. Arnim, Bib. Otto Schäfer 43; BMC IX, p. 88 (lacking final leaf with full-page woodcut); Goff B-435; GW 3948; Hermans, Zwolse Boeken ZD 107; Hind, Intro. Hist. Woodcut, pp. 582-583; Incunabula in Dutch Libraries 762; V. Thienen & Goldfinch 391; ISTC IB00435000. Second Dutch-language edition (the first extensively illustrated edition in any language) of the Sermones de Tempore et de Sanctis by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), first published in Latin at Mainz in 1475. The first Dutch edition, by the same printer-publisher (1484-85), has no woodcuts except that of Mary and Jesus appearing before the author ("one of the best Dutch woodcuts of the period" -- Hind) and that with the publisher's armorial device. Van Os used the full-page Annunciation woodcut in 1490 and Gerard Leeu in Antwerp used 9 of the other cuts (plus the decorative strips) in 1487 and 1488. The BMC notes no earlier use for the remaining nine woodcuts, including a matching series of six (7.5 x 6 cm) illustrating scenes from the lives of Jesus and Mary.With extensive marginal restorations in a few leaves, not affecting the text or woodcuts, and with the title-page slightly worn, but otherwise in very good condition and with generous margins. The binding is worn and the original wooden boards have been replaced by modern ones, but most of the tooling is still clear enough to identify. The first well-illustrated edition of Saint Bernard's sermons. [Bookseller: Asher Rare Books (Since 1830)]
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CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de.
Catalogus Plantarum Horti Botanici Monspeliensis, addito observationum circa species novas aut non satis cognitas fasciculo. Montpellier, J. Martel, 1813. 8vo. Modern brown half goatskin, decorative paper sides and marbled endpapers.
(8), 155 pp. BMC NH, p. 310; Pritzel 1475; Stafleu & Cowan 991; DSB III, pp. 43-45. Rare first edition of Candolle's catalogue of plants in the botanical garden in Montpellier. From 1808 till 1816 Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was professor of botany in Montpellier. His professional obligations at the university in this quiet provincial town left him ample time to publish his research. The present work contains an alphabetical list of species found in the botanical garden, followed by 230 annotations on unknown or relatively unknown species. Some hand-written annotations in ink and pencil; p. 115: part of outer margin missing, not affecting text. A very good copy of an uncommon botanical catalogue. [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]
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Codice Oliveriano I. Codice Membranaceo Dell'Anno 1475 Noto Come \"Psalterium\" Custodito Presso La Biblioteca E I Musei Oliveriani Di Pesaro. Preziosa Riproduzione Su Carta Speciale. Il Fac-Simile, Perfettamente Identico Al Manoscritto Originale Anche...
Ist. Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato-Archivi di Stato. Codice membranaceo dell'anno 1475 noto come \"Psalterium\" custodito presso la Biblioteca e i Musei Oliveriani di Pesaro. Preziosa riproduzione su carta speciale. Il fac-simile, perfettamente identico al manoscritto originale anche nei più raffinati e minuziosi particolari dei colori, delle dorature, delle tracce d'antico delle pergamene e della rilegatura, è corredato da un commentario di Christph Eggenberger e Luisa Miglio. Il tutto è custodito in un cofanetto in plexiglas. Stampa in offset, a nove colori, oro in polvere e in lamina trasferito a caldo, fustella per i bordi. Il commentario di cm.18x24, 7, carta vergata avorio, leg. in mz. pergamena e piatti in carta stampata. Commissionato da un ignoto e colto personaggio di fine Quattrocento, il prezioso codice e` un piccolo, raffinato gioiello nel panorama dei libri di devozione privata. Un frammento di una vicenda personale che si illumina, poco a poco, sfogliandone le pagine, alla luce della storia e dell'arte. Cm.17, 5x24, 5, 194 carte, leg. eseguita a mano, capitelli in corda, cop. in pelle rossa, con fregi e iscrizioni ai piatti e. Dorso, Coll. I Codici. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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LEONICENUS, OMNIBONUS
COMMENTARIUM IN LUCANUM FILIPPO DI PIETRO VENEZIA
LEONICENUS, OMNIBONUS. Commentarium in Lucanum. [precede:] Vita Lucani. [seguono:] Disticha. [al colophon:] Venetiis. M.CCCC.Lxxv. xii. Kalendas Augusti. [Venezia, Filippo di Pietro, 21 luglio 1475]. In-folio (303 x 205mm), attraente legatura coeva (dorso rinnovato) in cuoio impresso a secco, cornice esterna con foglie di acanto, pannello interno decorato con impressioni raffiguranti un cane mastino, un unicorno e piccole rosette, altre rosette piu' grandi nelle intersezioni, borchie in ottone (tutte presenti), resti di fermagli, cc. (372). 34 linee. Carattere: 2:115 (113) R; 115 Gr. Registro: a-c10, C8, D6, d-k8, l-r10, ?10, s10, ??10, ?t10, ?l12, t-z8, &8, aa-bb8, cc-gg10, hh-kk12. PRIMA E UNICA edizione quattrocentesca contenente il solo commentario del Leoniceno, che apparira' insieme al testo della Pharsalia nell'impressione del Britannico del maggio 1496, e poi in molte edizioni successive. La splendida legatura coeva e' probabilmente attribuibile al maestro conosciuto come Mair bb di Bamberga (ossia Ulrich Meyer, cfr. Kyriss, 50): il ferro con l'unicorno e' identificato nell'archivio Schwenke come tipico di Mair, sebbene Kyriss (tavola 103) non riporti l'unicorno o altri simili ferri per questa bottega. Goldschmidt identifica Mair come un legatore di origine ebraica, autore di eccellenti lavori su cuoio e legature cesellate, anche se Kyriss dubita che egli fece mai lavori di questo genere. Un velo di polvere alle prime pagine, alcune macchie al margine inferiore di poche carte. Una gora nel margine inferiore dei tre quaderni finali. Ottimo e freschissimo esemplare, a pieni margini (alcune carte sono in barbe) e impresso su carta forte. PROVENIENZA: I. Nota di possesso in grafia settecentesca Saigan O Dalu in lingua gaelica al r