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Boniface VIII
Liber Sextus Decretalium [and] Clementinae Constitutiones...
1484 Andrea, Joannes, Giovanni' D'Andrea [Boniface VIII, Pope (1235-1303)]. [D'Andrea, Giovanni [c.1270-1348], Glossator. [Liber Sextus Decretalium]. [Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 27 January 1484/1485]. 146 fols. Main text surrounded by linear glosses in parallel columns. Collation: a-R8, S10. [Bound with] [Clement V, Pope (c.1264-1314)]. [D'Andrea, Giovanni (c.1270-1348), Glossator]. [Clementinae Constitutiones]. [Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 15 November 1484]. 76 fols. Main text surrounded linear glosses in parallel columns. Collation: A-F8, G[12], H-I8. Leaves G5-8 supplied in facsimile. Quarto (8-1/2" x 6-1/4"). Contemporary blind-tooled quarter calf over wooden boards, raised bands to spine, early hand-lettered titles to front board, bronze clasp, alum-tawed calf tie partially lacking. Spine rubbed with considerable wear to ends, several tiny worn holes, corners bumped and somewhat worn, pastedowns renewed, front hinge carefully mended, rear hinge cracked. Text in 62-line gothic type printed throughout in red and black with blank capital spaces. Marginalia to several leaves, annotations to front free endpaper and manuscript register to rear endleaf in early hand. Wormholes to some leaves with negligible loss to text, foxing to margins of some leaves, interior otherwise fresh. * With a register of titles and D'Andrea's Super Arboribus Consanguinitatis et Affinitatis. Attempts to codify the body of canon law began in earnest during the Carolingian Empire. These efforts reached fruition between 1020 and 1025 in the twenty-volume Decretum of Burchard, Bishop of Worms. The next great step was taken in 1234 with the Libri Quinque Decretalium (1253) of Gregory IX, which formed the basis of the Corpus Juris Canonici. The Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII (1298), the last great collection of the pre-Reformation era, consists of updates and modifications. The Clementinae Constitutiones (1313) is a collection of papal legislation that modifies portions of the Liber Sextus. It was followed by the Extravagantes Joannes XXII and the Extravagantes Communes in 1325. All of these texts were edited after the Council of Trent in 1582 under the collective [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.]
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Zinn, Johann Gottfried
Descriptio Anatomica Oculi, Humani Iconibus Illustrata
. 4to. 7 engraved b/w plates. (14), 272 pp. First edition of the landmark book on the anatomy of the eye. "Zinn published a fine atlas of the human eye; he was the first adequately to describe the 'zonule of Zinn' and the 'annulus of Zinn. '"-Garrison-Morton 1484. This is an excellent copy in early or contemporary paper-covered boards. The seven plates are clean and fresh, with no tanning, foxing or offsetting. This copy bears the ownership signature of "Christopher Johnston, MD/Baltimore 1868. " He later donated the book to the Johns Hopkins Library, from which it was withdrawn. His gift bookplate is on the front pastedown. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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OTTO VON PASSAU.
Boec des gulden thrones of der xxiiij ouden ende hoemen elken vinden mach ende van hoerren leringhen die si leren om te comen totten ewighen leven.
Haarlem, (Jacob Bellaert), 1484. Folio. Modern vellum. With large woodcut printer's device on versoof last leaf, 24 woodcut illustrations of one of the "Old Men" teaching a young female kneeling in front of him, printed from 4 different blocks, and all initials suplied by hand, incl. several beautiful large initials richly decorated and coloured by hand in red and purple with fine penwork in the margins, text rubricated throughout. (1 blank, 3), 136 (=135), (1) lvs. The second Dutch edition of Otto van Passau's religious instructive work, first published at Utrecht in 1480. "The Golden Throne of the 24 Old Men" is the only work known to have been left by Otto Von Passau, a Franciscan preacher who lived in the second half of the 14th century. The work is to be dated at 1383, and represents a fine mixture of Christian and Pagan wisdom. It is divided into 24 chapters, each containing a lecture by one of the old men of the Apocalipse, teaching nuns and brothers of lay orders a way of life which will lead them to the "Golden Throne" of eternal bliss. Each lecture has its own theme, like the essence of God and man, mourning, confession and penance, love, hope, the sacraments, friendship, death, the chosen, hell, the last things, etc. The work remained popular until the beginning of the 17th century. The book is finely printed in a good sized lettre bâtarde, in two columns, with 39 lines to a column. It is also most attractively illustrated with charming woodcuts, printed from four different blocks, which came originally from Haarlem block books. The first four leaves contain the table of contents and prologue. Our copy is furthermore richly and beautifully adorned with decorated initials in colour supplied by hand and rubricated throughout. Good large-paper copy, with contemporary owner's manuscript entry on verso of first blank, and early 17th century manuscript provenance on blank verso of the Prologue.- (Sl. thumbed and waterst., rather severily waterst. at the end; margins of last leaves restored without loss of text). Goff O 125; Campbell 1343; Hain-Copinger 12132; Polain 2941; Oates 3649; Proctor 9171; BMC IX, 101. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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Bernardini, C.
Il Bagnacavallo senior Bartolomeo Ramenghi pittore (1484?-1542?). Catalogo generale. Rimini 1990. 4to. 253 S. Mit 124 Abb. u. 24 Farbtaf. Orig.-Leinenbd.
Il Bagnacavallo senior Bartolomeo Ramenghi pittore (1484?. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Schmidt & Günther]
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HENKEL,M.
De houtsneden van Mansion's Ovide Moralise. Bruges 1484.
Amsterdam,1922. Alle reprodukties zijn op de oorspronkelijke grootte. Onafgesne- den papier. Zeer mooie grafische verzorging ! 44 Blz.groot 23 x 29 cm. Zeer zeldzaam ! [Bookseller: DEGHELDERE Bookshop Buchhandlung*]
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Boniface VIII
Liber Sextus Decretalium [and] Clementinae Constitutiones...
1484 Andrea, Joannes, Giovanni' D'Andrea [Boniface VIII, Pope (1235-1303)]. [D'Andrea, Giovanni [c.1270-1348], Glossator. [Liber Sextus Decretalium]. [Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 27 January 1484/1485]. 146 fols. Main text surrounded by linear glosses in parallel columns. Collation: a-R8, S10. [Bound with] [Clement V, Pope (c.1264-1314)]. [D'Andrea, Giovanni (c.1270-1348), Glossator]. [Clementinae Constitutiones]. [Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 15 November 1484]. 76 fols. Main text surrounded linear glosses in parallel columns. Collation: A-F8, G[12], H-I8. Leaves G5-8 supplied in facsimile. Quarto (8-1/2" x 6-1/4"). Contemporary blind-tooled quarter calf over wooden boards, raised bands to spine, early hand-lettered titles to front board, bronze clasp, alum-tawed calf tie partially lacking. Spine rubbed with considerable wear to ends, several tiny worn holes, corners bumped and somewhat worn, pastedowns renewed, front hinge carefully mended, rear hinge cracked. Text in 62-line gothic type printed throughout in red and black with blank capital spaces. Marginalia to several leaves, annotations to front free endpaper and manuscript register to rear endleaf in early hand. Wormholes to some leaves with negligible loss to text, foxing to margins of some leaves, interior otherwise fresh. * With a register of titles and D'Andrea's Super Arboribus Consanguinitatis et Affinitatis. Attempts to codify the body of canon law began in earnest during the Carolingian Empire. These efforts reached fruition between 1020 and 1025 in the twenty-volume Decretum of Burchard, Bishop of Worms. The next great step was taken in 1234 with the Libri Quinque Decretalium (1253) of Gregory IX, which formed the basis of the Corpus Juris Canonici. The Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII (1298), the last great collection of the pre-Reformation era, consists of updates and modifications. The Clementinae Constitutiones (1313) is a collection of papal legislation that modifies portions of the Liber Sextus. It was followed by the Extravagantes Joannes XXII and the Extravagantes Communes in 1325. All of these texts were edited after the Council of Trent in 1582 under the collective [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.]
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[ Herbarius]
Mainz, Peter Schöffer 1484. 4to. (4), 149 Blatt mit 149 Pflanzenholzschnitten. Blindgepresster Kalblederband der Zeit über Holzdeckeln. ¶ - Hain 8443 - Kunze, 15. Jh. I, 322ff; II, 233ff - Garrison / M. 95 - Nissen BBI 2299 - Kunze mit Hinweis auf diese Titel-Variante; Schreiber, Manuel ... 4204 = Ausgabe mit weissem Titelblatt und Hinweis auf falsche Nummerierung bei Figur 75; Choulant, Graphische Inkunabeln Seite 15 Nummer 5 ebenso; Fuchs, Mainzer Frühdrucke mit Buchholzschnitten (AGB Band 10) Seite 1203ff., besonders Seite 1208 Nummer B1. Das erste deutsche Herbarium. Früheste der 3 Druckvarianten mit noch weissem Titelblatt. "In den zuerst fertig gestellten Exemplaren ist das originale erste Blatt noch leer gelassen …" (Ohly, der Wiegendruck, Leipzig 1940, S. 153f., zitiert nach Fuchs). Blatt 1b ist ebenfalls leer. Auf Blatt 2a folgt die (bei Choulant ganz wiederabgedruckte) Vorrede, die auf 2b mit der Auflistung der Apothekergewichte endet. Hierauf folgen auf Blatt 3 - 4a das zweispaltig gedruckte Inhaltsverzeichnis des ersten Teils. Blatt 4b ist leer. Daran schliesst sich der Abbildungsteil mit 149 (statt 150, es fehlt Blatt 2: Abrotanum) Holzschnitten, Pflanzenbenennungen jeweils deutsch und lateinisch. Kapitelnummer von 75 und 73 vertauscht. Diesem Exemplar ist der nicht illustrierte pharmazeutische Teil von 20 Blatt, der mit einem separaten Inhaltsverzeichnis beginnt, nicht beigegeben. Schönes, breitrandiges und meist sauberes Exemplar. Blatt 1 fingerfleckig und mit Besitz- und Kaufeinträgen von 1544 und 1636, grössere handschriftliche Anmerkungen auf Blatt 140vo. Rücken im 19. Jahrhundert erneuert und oben am Vordergelenk 2 cm eingerissen, Schliesse fehlt. - Sprache / Language: Lateinisch / Latin - [Bookseller: H.Th. Wenner Antiquariat]
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Johannes de Bromyard:
Summa praedicantium. (GWM 13114, HC 3993)
Basel, Johann Amerbach, (nicht nach 1484) (Typen 1, 3). Zweispaltiges, 53-zeiliges Original-Inkunabelblatt (26 x 36,5 cm) mit Marginalien und einer 11-zeiligen, kolorierten Initiale mit Randausläufern auf festem Papier, oberer Rand und Ecke etwas wasserfleckig und schwach. Incunabula text woodcut leaf.. Hervorragend erhaltene Farbinitiale in rot-braun-rosa-Tönen mit grüner und blauer Akzentsetzung. Little is known of his life. Two dates can be cited: in 1326, he was granted a license to hear confessions in the diocese of Hereford, and in 1352, that license was granted to another Dominican, presumably after Bromyard's death. There is evidence in his works that he had served in the diocese of Llandaff in South Wales, and he shows familiarity with customs and circumstances in France and Italy. But because the Dominicans were an international order with lively internal communication, this cannot be taken as proof that he had travelled abroad. He was evidently trained in canon law, perhaps at Oxford. He spent most of his career at the newly-founded Dominican priory at Hereford. The Dominicans had been fighting for a foothold here for eighty years against the resistance of the Dean and Chapter, before they were finally established under the patronage of Edward II in 1322. Bromyard must therefore have been among the first friars to join the fledgeling priory. Das Leben von Johannes de Bromyard ist weitgehend unbekannt. Lediglich zwei Lebensdaten sind bekannt:1326 erhielt er eine Genehmigung zur Abnahme der Beichte in Hereford und 1352 war er wohl bereits tot, da diese Genehmung ein anderer Dominikaner erhielt. Es wird ferner angenommen, dass er in der Diözese von Llandaff in Süd Wales gedient hat und in seinen Werken zeigen sich Kenntnisse der Sitten und Gebräuche von Frankreich und Italien. Sicher ist, dass er eine Ausbildung in Kanonischem Recht erhielt, möglicherweise in Oxford. [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus.
Satirarum opus.
Incunable edition of one of the great Roman satirists, edited by Bartolomeo Fonzio Venice, Dionysius de Bertochis & Pelegrinus de Paschalibus Bononienses, 10 September 1484. Sm. folio (292 x 205 mm). Vellum over boards (rebacked). Woodcut printer's device on last leaf (Device A), not rubricated (capital spaces not filled in), printed in Roman type: 110R and 83R. Collation: a-d6, e4; (28) leaves. One of the incunable editions of the satires of Persius with the gloss (commentary) of Bartolomeo della Fonte (Fonzio, or Fontius). According to the BMC, the text is 'reprinted, generally with the same page-contents, from the edition of De Tortis, 14 March, 1482'. Fonzio's dedication to Lorenzo de' Medici of 1477 is included on the verso of the first leaf (recto blank).Bartolomeo Fonzio (1445-1513) was a Florentine humanist whose achievements are on a par with those of Poliziano. Their early friendship later turned into enmity and unremitting polemics. Fonzio's commentary on Persius was first published in 1477 at the Ripoli press (Rhodes 315; Conway, p. 292); its dedication to Lorenzo de' Medici is reprinted here. His purpose was to firmly establish Persius as a satirical poet; it was not his intention to write a full commentary on Persius'work, but rather to give a clear and straightforward interpretation of the text and to free it from its obscurities.Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), known generally as Persius, was one of the most famous Latin satirical poet. Born at Volaterrae in Etruria, he belonged to an equestrian family and was a relative of the famous Arria, wife of Paetus. He was educated at Rome, and became the pupil of the Stoic Cornutus, who exercised a strong influence on him; a fellow pupil was the Roman epic poet Lucan. He joined the group of Stoics around Thrasea Paetus, the senator who was married to the younger Arria. He bequeathed his books and a part of his large fortune to Cornutus, who accepted the books but not the money. Persius took no part in public life, died young, and left only a small amount of literary work: six satires (650 hexameter lines) modelled on Lucilius and Horace, and a prologue. Except for the first satire, these poems are homilies rather than satires in the strict sense, preaching an uncompromising Stoic morality as it could be applied to private life, and only incidentally touching on public life. He uses an incongruous mixture of styles and his language is obscure, but his moral sincerity is unforced and scarcely priggish when considered against the background of Nero's Rome.Satire I is a criticism of the poets at Nero's court and the contemporary fashion for elegant, unrealistic poetry, which Persius finds significant of the corruption of Roman virtue and hardihood. Satire 2 is concerned with the right use of prayer, mocking those who ask for external goods rather than virtue. Satire 3 is a diagnosis of the damage done to sick souls by sloth and vice. Satire 4 urges a young statesman (Nero?) to disregard public admiration and pursue virtue by examining his own character. Satire 5 is a eulogy of Cornutus, describing the simple and studious life the poet leads when in the philosopher's company; its subject is the rarity of true freedom-we are all the slaves of our passions or superstitions. Satire 6 is addressed to Caesius Bassus (a lyric poet commended by Quintilian) who edited Persius' satires after his death and is said to have died in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79; it expounds the wisdom of living comfortably, but not covetously. Good copy with wide margins.- (Quires carefully washed; inner margins of last quire restored, with some marginal water staining). Hain-Copinger 12724; BMC VII, p. 1139; IGI 7499; Goff-346 (only 3 copies); Proctor 4845; IDL 3564 (1 copy in The Hague); IBP 4267; Madsen 3105; Voulième (B) 4076; Sack (Freiburg) 2731; Oates 1908; BSB-Ink P-247. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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Missale Romanum].
Missale secundum conscietudinem Romanae curie.
Nürnberg, Georg Stuchs von Sulzbach, 1484. 251 (statt 255) Bll. Gotische Type, 29-30 Zeilen, 2 Spalten (Register am Schluß: 3 Spp.). Durchgehend im Rot- und Schwarzdruck mit eingedruckten roten Lombardinitialen; die erste Initiale ausgespart. (Beigebunden) II: [Sequentie de tempore & sanctis per totum annum]. (Straßburg, Johann Knobloch d. Ä., 17. Juli 1516). XXV Bll. (ohne die 4 Bll. Vorstücke). Etwas späterer (um 1550) blindgepr. dunkelbrauner Lederband über Holzdeckeln (Kapitale fachmännisch restauriert). 1 Schließe (von 2). Dreiseitiger Farbschnitt (wohl im 17. Jh. hinzugefügt). 4to. I: Das erste Buch aus der Offizin von Georg Stuchs, neben Radoldt der maßgebliche Drucker von Liturgica im späten 15. Jahrhundert. Es fehlen das erste w. Bl., das w. Bl. nach dem Kalender zu Beginn (fol. 8) sowie 3 Blätter des Textes (ff. 10 und 15-16). - Beigebunden der Text eines seltenen Straßburger Abrisses zur Vorbereitung von Sonn- und Festtagspredigten (es fehlen die 4 Bll. Vorstücke mitsamt dem Titelblatt sowie das l. w. Bl.). - Teils leicht fingerfleckig; gegen Ende mit Wurmgängen im Text. Die Beibindung großteils zeitgenöss. in roter Tinte regliert und zeilenweise liniert. Provenienz: Am fliegenden Vorsatz Schenkungsvermerk des damals 34jährigen Buchbinders Ernst Friedrich Zobel (1687-1756): "Den 20. September 1721 habe ich Endesbenandter die Ehre gehabt das Hochlöbl. Closter Weisenvä (?) zu besehen, woselbst mir gantz unverdienet viele Ehre erwiesen worden, wofür ich gehorsamsten Danck abstatte, und habe zum Andencken meiner Wenigkeit dieses Buch dahin verehren wollen". Zobel, der seinen Namen später zu "Bezol" anagrammatisierte, wanderte als Buchbindergeselle durch Deutschland und "wurde nach seiner Rückkehr nach Altdorf 1727 Adjunkt der Teutschen Schule, später deren Präzeptor und kaiserlicher Rat. Er führte einen ausgedehnten Briefwechsel und initiierte eine erfolgreiche Bibel-Lotterie, deren Gewinn zur Erbauung der Stadtkirche in Altdorf verwendet wurde" (DBE). - Am vorderen Innendeckel Exlibris "From the Library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall, Maidenhead". Der Bibliophile und Paläograph Dunn (1865-1912) war Mitglied der von Robert Proctor gegründeten Type Facsimile Society sowie der Bibliographical Society. Zu seinen Sammelgebieten zählten außer Handschriften und Wiegendrucken (von denen er über 1300 besaß) auch Astronomie, Horologie und Baumkunde. Seine Sammlung wurde 1913-17 bei Sotheby's an vier Terminen versteigert. Dunns ansprechend schlichtes typographisches Exlibris schuf um 1898 der Maler und Grafiker Edward Burne-Jones unter Verwendung der von William Morris (in Anlehnung an Jensons venezianische Lettern) entworfenen "Golden Type"; gedruckt wurde es in Morris' berühmter "Kelmscott Press". Hain/C. 11384. Goff M-697. Proctor 2259. Panzer II, 197, 141. BMC II, 467. BSB-Ink. M 462. GW V, 14. Polain 8012. Oates 1088. Weale, S. 135. ISTC im00697000. - II: VD 16, S 5979. Muller II, 133, 180. Ritter 2118. Schmidt (Knobloch) 118. Nicht bei Proctor, Benzing oder Adams. [Bookseller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]
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[Missale Romanum].
Missale secundum conscietudinem Romanae curie.
Nürnberg, Georg Stuchs von Sulzbach, 1484.. 251 (statt 255) Bll. Gotische Type, 29-30 Zeilen, 2 Spalten (Register am Schluß: 3 Spp.). Durchgehend im Rot- und Schwarzdruck mit eingedruckten roten Lombardinitialen; die erste Initiale ausgespart. (Beigebunden) II: [Sequentie de tempore & sanctis per totum annum]. (Straßburg, Johann Knobloch d. Ä., 17. Juli 1516). XXV Bll. (ohne die 4 Bll. Vorstücke). Etwas späterer (um 1550) blindgepr. dunkelbrauner Lederband über Holzdeckeln (Kapitale fachmännisch restauriert). 1 Schließe (von 2). Dreiseitiger Farbschnitt (wohl im 17. Jh. hinzugefügt). 4to.. I: Das erste Buch aus der Offizin von Georg Stuchs, neben Radoldt der maßgebliche Drucker von Liturgica im späten 15. Jahrhundert. Es fehlen das erste w. Bl., das w. Bl. nach dem Kalender zu Beginn (fol. 8) sowie 3 Blätter des Textes (ff. 10 und 15-16). - Beigebunden der Text eines seltenen Straßburger Abrisses zur Vorbereitung von Sonn- und Festtagspredigten (es fehlen die 4 Bll. Vorstücke mitsamt dem Titelblatt sowie das l. w. Bl.). - Teils leicht fingerfleckig; gegen Ende mit Wurmgängen im Text. Die Beibindung großteils zeitgenöss. in roter Tinte regliert und zeilenweise liniert. Provenienz: Am fliegenden Vorsatz Schenkungsvermerk des damals 34jährigen Buchbinders Ernst Friedrich Zobel (1687-1756): "Den 20. September 1721 habe ich Endesbenandter die Ehre gehabt das Hochlöbl. Closter Weisenvä (?) zu besehen, woselbst mir gantz unverdienet viele Ehre erwiesen worden, wofür ich gehorsamsten Danck abstatte, und habe zum Andencken meiner Wenigkeit dieses Buch dahin verehren wollen". Zobel, der seinen Namen später zu "Bezol" anagrammatisierte, wanderte als Buchbindergeselle durch Deutschland und "wurde nach seiner Rückkehr nach Altdorf 1727 Adjunkt der Teutschen Schule, später deren Präzeptor und kaiserlicher Rat. Er führte einen ausgedehnten Briefwechsel und initiierte eine erfolgreiche Bibel-Lotterie, deren Gewinn zur Erbauung der Stadtkirche in Altdorf verwendet wurde" (DBE). - Am vorderen Innendeckel Exlibris "From the Library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall, Maidenhead". Der Bibliophile und Paläograph Dunn (1865-1912) war Mitglied der von Robert Proctor gegründeten Type Facsimile Society sowie der Bibliographical Society. Zu seinen Sammelgebieten zählten außer Handschriften und Wiegendrucken (von denen er über 1300 besaß) auch Astronomie, Horologie und Baumkunde. Seine Sammlung wurde 1913-17 bei Sotheby's an vier Terminen versteigert. Dunns ansprechend schlichtes typographisches Exlibris schuf um 1898 der Maler und Grafiker Edward Burne-Jones unter Verwendung der von William Morris (in Anlehnung an Jensons venezianische Lettern) entworfenen "Golden Type"; gedruckt wurde es in Morris' berühmter "Kelmscott Press". - Hain/C. 11384. Goff M-697. Proctor 2259. Panzer II, 197, 141. BMC II, 467. BSB-Ink. M 462. GW V, 14. Polain 8012. Oates 1088. Weale, S. 135. ISTC im00697000. - II: VD 16, S 5979. Muller II, 133, 180. Ritter 2118. Schmidt (Knobloch) 118. Nicht bei Proctor, Benzing oder Adams. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Inlibris, Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]
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Vadianus, Joachim:
Portrait, Brustbild, Kupferstich, 13,8 x 10,4 cm. Monogrammist BR (J.Th. de Bry), Kupferstich aus J.J.Boissard, Icones virorum illustrium, Frankfurt 1597-99, 20,5 x 15,8 cm.
Vadianus (Joachimus) oder von Watt, ein gelehrter Medicus, der nicht allein in der Philosophie, Historie, Mathematic und Arzneykunst, sondern auch in der Theologie ungemein geübt gewesen, war zu St.Gallen in der Schweiz an. 1484. a) aus einer vornehmen Familie gebohren, studirte zu Wien, besahe nachmals viele fremde Länder, gab an der Schule zu Villach in Kärthen einen Rector ab, erhielt aber darauf zu Wien eine Proffesoratur, promovirte daselbst 1518 in Doctorem Medicinae, gieng so dann in seine Geburtsstadt wieder zurück, wurde allda nicht allein Stadt-Physicus, sondern auch Bürgermeister, bekannt sich zur protestantischen Religion (Zwingli), und suchte selbige in der Schweiz so mündlich als schriftlich zu vertheidigen, stund überall wegen seiner Gelehrsamkeit in großem Ansehen, vermachte seine Bibliothec der Stadt zu St. Gallen, und starb daselbst an 1551. nachdem er ausser vielen, aber zu Medicin nicht gehörigen Schrifften b) ein Consilium C) ein contra pestem heraus gehen lassen. In Colomesii Operibus pag. 785. lieset man das Vadianus nebst Tho. Erasto, Lud. Molinaeo und Jon Porraeo unter diejenigen Aerzte gerechnet worden, die nebst der Medicin auch in der Theologie sich hervor zu thun gesuchet haben, denen man Tim. Gesselium, Lamb. Velchusium, Anton van Dale, Herm. Conringium, Tho. Brown und einige andere beysetzen könte.a) Adami vi. Medicor. p.55.seqq.b) Daß der Bartholom. Schobingerus zwar wissens gewesen, die gesammten Opera des Vadiani in zweyen Tomis heraus zu geben, wegen Ubereilung des Todes aber hieran verhindert worden, solches hat Herr Reimmann in Tom. V. Hist. liter. German. p.644 angemercket.c) Prod. Basilae 1546. 8. S.Linden. renovat. p.512" - Chr. W. Kestner, Med. Gelehrten Lex., p.870 [Bookseller: Medicusbooks.Com]
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Groenen,Lieven.
Illustrated Marine Encyclopaedia / Encyclopedie Illustree de la Marine / Geillustreerde Scheepvaart Encyclopedie.
. Antwerp, n.d. 1484 pp. 334 plts. H.leather, small part of spine loose. Weak in hinges. Spine discol.. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.]
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BIONDO,Flavio ( 1388-1463 ).
Historiarum Romanarum decades tre.PIUS II : Abbreviatio super decades Blondi.
In 2° ( 302x203 mm ).Due opere in un volume:carte 1 bianca,248 non numerate ; 52 non numerate.Caratteri romani,55-56 lineeMolte nitide note ms coeve che frequentemente evidenziano i riferimenti alla città di Brescia,un alone nel margine interno di quasi t Venezia,Tomaso ( de Blavis ) alexandrinus, 28 Giugno 1484. Seconda edizione incunabula di questa storia dell'Italia dal quinto al quattordicesimo secolo.Il Biondo,forlivese,fu uno dei primi grandi storiografi italiani ,attribuì al Petrarca la compilazione di una mappa dell'Italia ed a Flavio Gioia l'invenzione della bussola [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Pampaloni]
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Incunabula
Missale Romanum Incunabulum 1484
Georg Stuchs,, Nürnberg: 1484 256 leaves but 3 leaves printed leaves missing and two blanks = 251 leaves present Calendar complete, and also the last leaves with the printers colophon. Nice large margins. Size 20 cm (8 inch) Goff M-697; Hain-Copinger 11384; Ask for further refrences and scans [Bookseller: Konstantinopel ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS]
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OTTO VON PASSAU.
Boec des gulden thrones of der xxiiij ouden ende hoemen elken vinden mach ende van hoerren leringhen die si leren om te comen totten ewighen leven.
Haarlem, (Jacob Bellaert), 1484. Folio. Modern vellum. With large woodcut printer's device on versoof last leaf, 24 woodcut illustrations of one of the "Old Men" teaching a young female kneeling in front of him, printed from 4 different blocks, and all initials suplied by hand, incl. several beautiful large initials richly decorated and coloured by hand in red and purple with fine penwork in the margins, text rubricated throughout. (1 blank, 3), 136 (=135), (1) lvs. The second Dutch edition of Otto van Passau's religious instructive work, first published at Utrecht in 1480. "The Golden Throne of the 24 Old Men" is the only work known to have been left by Otto Von Passau, a Franciscan preacher who lived in the second half of the 14th century. The work is to be dated at 1383, and represents a fine mixture of Christian and Pagan wisdom. It is divided into 24 chapters, each containing a lecture by one of the old men of the Apocalipse, teaching nuns and brothers of lay orders a way of life which will lead them to the "Golden Throne" of eternal bliss. Each lecture has its own theme, like the essence of God and man, mourning, confession and penance, love, hope, the sacraments, friendship, death, the chosen, hell, the last things, etc. The work remained popular until the beginning of the 17th century. The book is finely printed in a good sized lettre bâtarde, in two columns, with 39 lines to a column. It is also most attractively illustrated with charming woodcuts, printed from four different blocks, which came originally from Haarlem block books. The first four leaves contain the table of contents and prologue. Our copy is furthermore richly and beautifully adorned with decorated initials in colour supplied by hand and rubricated throughout. Good large-paper copy, with contemporary owner's manuscript entry on verso of first blank, and early 17th century manuscript provenance on blank verso of the Prologue.- (Sl. thumbed and waterst., rather severily waterst. at the end; margins of last leaves restored without loss of text). Goff O 125; Campbell 1343; Hain-Copinger 12132; Polain 2941; Oates 3649; Proctor 9171; BMC IX, 101. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus [Vitruv].- Bodo Ebhardt:
Die zehn Bücher der Architektur des Vitruv und ihre Herausgeber seit 1484. Mit einem Verzeichnis der vorhandenen Ausgaben und Erläuterungen nach der Sammlung solcher im Besitz des Verfassers
Berlin-Grunewald, Burg-Verlag, o. J. . Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. 101 S., mit Register. Original-Pappband. 4°. . nemlichen des aller namhafftigisten und hocherfarensten Römischen Architekti und kunstreichen Werk- oder Baumeisters Marci Vitruvii Pollionis, zehen Bücher von der Architectur und künstlichem Bawen (Rivius). - Mit Literaturverzeichnis. - Einband und auch innen in gutem Zustand, nur etwas Rostspuren in der Klammerung. Mit einem Exlibris für Hermann Räder auf dem vorderen festen Vorsatz. [Bookseller: BerlinAntiquariat]
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Aesop (Joseph Jacobs (editor)
The Fables of Aesop as first Printed by William Caxton in 1484 with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggioi, Now Again Edited and Introduced by Joseph Jacobs: Volumes I and II: History of the Aeopic Fable & Text and Glossary: (2 Volumes)
David Nutt, London 1889 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: 2 Volumes with xix, 281 & 322 printed pages in publisher's printed paper wrappers over paper covers. A limited edition of 500 copies. EDITION IDENTIFIED BY: Publishers imprint information CONDITION: (Very Good/Very Good). CONDITION COMMENTS: Generally sound books with overall and pages, no inscriptions, in wraps with minimal wear at the corners and edges and browning of the spine. Spotting on endpapers (No other noteable faults).75kg. [Attributes: In Dust Jacket] [Bookseller: Kirkland Books BA]
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Aesop // Caxton, William
THE HISTORY AND FABLES OF AESOP Translated and Printed By William Caxton, 1484 -- Facsimile Reprint of 1484 Edition
Scolar Press, London 1976 Caxton translated Æsop out of French in 1483 and finished publication on 26 March 1494, the first day of the new year (Old Style, beginning on 25 March). Caxton's source was the Æsop published in 1480 in Lyons by Nicolas Philippe and Marc Reinhard, an abridged edition of the German-Latin Unpaginated: A short introduction by Edward Hodnett outlines the background. A facsimile of the copy of Caxton in the Windsor Castle library, puublished in a LIMITED EDITION OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES. Bound in burlap with a leather label on the spine. A near mint copy with a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Caxton's Aesop was among the first books ever printed in English and among the first illustrated books. Caxton translated Aesop from a French edition published in 1480, which in turn was based on a German-Latin edition of 1476. The woodcuts also derived from Continental designs but reworked under Caxton's direction to simplify them -- probably to bring them within the more limited scope of the artist's abilities. The Fables appeared in the first year of the reign of Richard III; the troubled times did not favor art, and Caxton did the best he could with what he had. A superb copy of an important document. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: McLean Arts & Books]
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Jacobus de Voragine:
Sermones de sanctis (GWm 11604, C 6550).
Augsburg, Hermann Kästlin, 10. April 1484. Type 2. . Zweispaltiges, 41-zeiliges O-Inkunabelblatt. Einige Wurmlöcher. Blattgröße: 18,7 x 27,2 cm. Incunabula text leaf. . Seltener Druck! [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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PTOLOMAEUS.
Liber quadripartitus Ptolomei id est quattuor tractatuu…
Venetiis, per Erhardum Radtold de August 15 Januarii 1484. In 4° (206x160); 66 carte (su 67, mancante la bianca a1 con diagramma astronomico al verso) un altro diagramma al verso della a8, testo a due colonne su 42 linee in carattere gotico, titolo in rosso, numerose iniziali silogr. su fondo nero, decorate posteriormente in rosso e rubricature in rosso fino alla carta c8. Legatura moderna in pelle con titolo e fregi in oro al dorso, doppia filettatura a secco sui piatti. Prima edizione della più importante opera astronomico-astrologica di Tolomeo con il commento di Haly Albohazen, considerata la vera e propria "Bibbia " dell'astrologia. Quest'opera è anche conosciuta col nome greco di Tetrabiblon ed è dedicata alle teorie astrologiche ed ai pronostici per mezzo dell'osservazione delle stelle. Esemplare ben conservato. Hain 13543; Goff P-1088; IGI 8186; Essling 313. Astronomia [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Perini s.a.s. di Per]
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AEGIDIUS CORBOLIENSIS [GILLES de CORBEIL, Pierre] / ed. MUTIUS, [A]Venantius/ commentary by FULGINEO, Gentilis de
De Pulsibus
Padua Matthaeus Cerdonus 1484 First edition of the first printed book on the pulse, a textbook composed in verse by the French physician and humanist Aegidius Corboliensis (Gilles de Corbeil, 1165-1223). Called by Neuburger “the transalpine herald of the glory of the school of Salerno,” Aegidius composed three poems that amplified and paraphrased the entire Salernitan doctrine in Latin hexameters. [Bookseller: Martayan Lan, Inc.]
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[ Herbarius]
Mainz, Peter Schöffer 1484. 4to. (4), 149 Blatt mit 149 Pflanzenholzschnitten. Blindgepresster Kalblederband der Zeit über Holzdeckeln. ¶ - Hain 8443 - Kunze, 15. Jh. I, 322ff; II, 233ff - Garrison-M 95 - Nissen BBI 2299 - Kunze mit Hinweis auf diese Titel-Variante; Schreiber, Manuel ... 4204 = Ausgabe mit weissem Titelblatt und Hinweis auf falsche Nummerierung bei Figur 75; Choulant, Graphische Inkunabeln Seite 15 Nummer 5 ebenso; Fuchs, Mainzer Frühdrucke mit Buchholzschnitten (AGB Band 10) Seite 1203ff., besonders Seite 1208 Nummer B1. Das erste deutsche Herbarium. Früheste der 3 Druckvarianten mit noch weissem Titelblatt. "In den zuerst fertig gestellten Exemplaren ist das originale erste Blatt noch leer gelassen …" (Ohly, der Wiegendruck, Leipzig 1940, S. 153f., zitiert nach Fuchs). Blatt 1b ist ebenfalls leer. Auf Blatt 2a folgt die (bei Choulant ganz wiederabgedruckte) Vorrede, die auf 2b mit der Auflistung der Apothekergewichte endet. Hierauf folgen auf Blatt 3 - 4a das zweispaltig gedruckte Inhaltsverzeichnis des ersten Teils. Blatt 4b ist leer. Daran schliesst sich der Abbildungsteil mit 149 (statt 150, es fehlt Blatt 2: Abrotanum) Holzschnitten, Pflanzenbenennungen jeweils deutsch und lateinisch. Kapitelnummer von 75 und 73 vertauscht. Diesem Exemplar ist der nicht illustrierte pharmazeutische Teil von 20 Blatt, der mit einem separaten Inhaltsverzeichnis beginnt, nicht beigegeben. Schönes, breitrandiges und meist sauberes Exemplar. Blatt 1 fingerfleckig und mit Besitz- und Kaufeinträgen von 1544 und 1636, grössere handschriftliche Anmerkungen auf Blatt 140vo. Rücken im 19. Jahrhundert erneuert und oben am Vordergelenk 2 cm eingerissen, Schliesse fehlt. - Sprache / Language: Lateinisch / Latin - [Bookseller: H.Th. Wenner Antiquariat]
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BORGHI, Pietro
Qui comenza la nobel opera de arithmethica ne la qual se tracta tute cosse amercantia pertinente facta...
Venice Ratdolt 1484 Very rare first edition of Borghi’s treatise, the second commercial arithmetic printed in Italy, called “the first one of considerable importance and influence in this field.” [Bookseller: Martayan Lan, Inc.]
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Borghi, Piero:
Arithmetica.
Venetia 1484. Photolithographischer Neudruck der Ausgabe Venedig 1484. München, Graphos, 1964. Mit zahlreichen Illustr., 116 Bll., 22 cm, Halbledereinband Guter Zustand. Mathematik [Bookseller: Mephisto-Antiquariat]
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PERSIUS FLACCUS.
Satyrae.
Venice, Dionysius de Bertochis & Pelegrinus de Pasqualibus, 1484. . Small Folio. Vellum. Woodcut printer's mark on last leaf. (28) leaves. . Rare Italian incunable, only 3 copies recorded in Goff. Good copy.- (Bound in recent vellum from old material; quires a-d carefully washed; few brown waterst. in last quire). Hain-Copinger 12724; BMC VII, p. 1139; IGI 7499; Goff P 346; Proctor 4845; IDL 3564 (1 copy in The Hague). [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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STATUTA PROVINCIALIA
Moguntinensis) vetera et nova
. (Strassburg, J. Prüss, 1484-87). Folio. 52 lvs including a blank leaf, in this copy placed at the beginning. Mod. leather-backed boards. The complete Diocesan statutes of Mainz. The Old Statutes, compiled by Archbishop Petrus in 1310, had been printed some years earlier in an unidentifiable place, perhaps in the same region as the printing place of this edition which is enlarged by the important Statuta Nova , promulgated by the great Archbishop Dietrich von Erbach in 1439 at the provincial Synod under Nicolaus Cusanus. It bears witness to the remarkable fact that, after 1479, and evidently even before, for reasons unknown to us, Peter Schoeffer, the official printer of the Archbishopric of Mainz, abruptly abandoned the printing of canon law books, one of his early specialities, so that the Diocesan statutes had to be farmed out to printers living at a considerable distance from Mainz. The result was all the same a well-printed and handsome volume. There has been a few copies of the Reutlingen edition on the market but this Strassburg edition seems to be very scarce, no copy in 'Jahrbuch d. Auktionspreise für Bücher' 1960-1997! BMC I,121 (which copy is lacking the title, however). Polain 3596. Goff S 749. Hain 15041. Sack, Breisgau, 3280. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Thulins Antikvariat (ILAB)]
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"BORGHI, Pietro"
Qui comenza la nobel opera de arithmethica ne la qual se tracta tute cosse amercantia pertinente facta...
The Most Influential Arithmetical Work Of The Fifteenth Century "[colophon:] Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 2 August, 1484" "4to (185 x 145 mm), ff [1] 2-116 [1], with woodcut initials;annotations throughout in a later hand, coloured pencil numbering on a few leaves, some minor worming in b lank margins and gutter, some early repairs and reinforcement at gutter, not affecting text, a very fresh, honest copy, eighteenth-century blue paper wrappers, with paper label on spine, spine splitting, embossed stamps of ‘Giosue Pagani Ragioniere’ on several leaves, in a morocco-backed box. £60,000First edition, rare, of the second commercial arithmetic published in Italy and ‘the first great commercial arithmetic’ (Smith). Borghi’s text covers ‘operations with integers, fractions, compound numbers, mercantile rules, currency, commercial problems, barter, and matters relative to partnership’ (Stillwell). It was a staple of the Abbaccho classroom of fifteenth-century Italy, with its chapters on currency exchange and barter, providing the computational skills on which the trading and financial empires of all the Italian city-states depended. In his Commercial Revolution and the Beginnings of Western Mathematics, Van Egmond has argued for a close causal link between the techniques described in mercantile arithmetics and the historical advent of capitalism. (See also the similar line pursued by Frank J. Swetz, Capitalism and Arithmetic. The New Math of the 15th century.) ‘This work is more elaborate than the Treviso arithmetic, and had a far greater influence on education. More than any other book it set a standard for the arithmetics of the sixteenth century, and none of the early textbooks deserves more careful study. Borghi first treats of notation, carrying his numbers as far as numero de million de million de millionâ and making no mention whatever of the Roman numerals. In the same spirit he eliminates all of the medieval theory of numbers, asserting that he does this because he is preparing a practical book for the use of merchants’ (Smith).‘The boys (there is no record of any girls attending these schools) began their training in the abacus schools around the age of 10 or 11, usually immediately after two years in an elementary grammar school where they learned the basic skills of reading and writing. They generally stayed in the abacus schools for about two years and were taught the basic principles of arithmetic and practical mathematics÷how to write the numbers, how to multiply and divide, how to deal with fractions, and how to solve the basic mathematical problems. Sections of the course were also devoted to understanding the complex Florentine monetary system. The school even followed a familiar routine of lessons, exercises, recitations and even an occasional holiday party. It appears that nearly all the educated men of the Renaissance gained their basic understanding of mathematics in schools such as these, including, for example, such notables as Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Macchiavelli. When grouped with the earlier schools of reading and writing, higher schools of Latin grammar, and the educational apex of the university, it is apparent that the abacus schools were an integral part of an educational system’ (van Egmond, pp 8-9). BMC V 289; Goff B1034 (Burndy Library (Boston), Chicago, Columbia, Huntington, Lehigh, Morgan, Yale) Smith, Rara pp 19-20 and ‘The first great commercial arithmetic’ Isis 8 (1926) pp 41-49; Stillwell 151; Van Egmond, p 293; facsimile, introduction and bibliography by Kurt Elfering (Munich 1964)" ScienceMathematicsEconomics 1484 [Bookseller: W P Watson Antiquarian Books]
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STATUTA PROVINCIALIA:
(Moguntinensis) vetera et nova.
(Strassburg, J. Prüss, 1484-87). Folio. 52 lvs including a blank leaf, in this copy placed at the beginning. Mod. leather-backed boards. [Bookseller: Thulins Antikvariat AB]
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[MISSALE ROMANUM].
Incipit ordo missalis s[ecundu]m consuetudinem romane curie…
Nuremberg, Georg Stuchs 1484 4to. 256 unnumbered ll. [a8; A-3, A-Z8]. Gothic letter, double column,printed in red and black throughout, 30 lines per page. PRINTED ON VELLUM WITH A SEVEN-LINE ILLUMINATED INITIAL 'A', AND BORDER DECORATED WITH ACANTHUS LEAVES AND BURNISHED GOLD BY A CONTEMPORARY SOUTH-GERMAN ARTIST, fifteen 4-6 line initials in blue with decorative red infill, two-line lombard initials printed in red. Small vellum flaw touching a few letters on recto of first leaf skilfully repaired, and three small tears to blank margins with old repairs. A fine, well-margined copy in 19th-C crushed brown morocco gilt by Francis Bedford, covers with a central gilt arabesque, a.e.g. (joints rubbed). Contemporary 6 and 5 line inscriptions on first blank in Latin (dated 1505) and German (recording respective gifts of the volume), from the libraries of Sir John Horner (sale Sotheby's 1921, £120 to Quaritch), Estelle Doheny (sale Christie's 1987), H.P. Kraus (bookplate on upper pastedown). A FINE COPY OF STUCHS' VERY RARE FIRST BOOK, ONE OF ONLY FOUR COPIES KNOWN ON VELLUM (NONE IN AMERICA) WITH HANDSOME ILLUMINATION AND A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE. Stuchs was one of the most important liturgical printers in Germany (along with Ratdolt) until the 1520s. The Missal contains the text used by the priest at the altar when celebrating mass, as well as all that is officially read or sung at Mass throughout the ecclesiastical year.Copies on vellum are rare and precious, having been produced in much smaller numbers and with greater care than copies on paper. The printrun of books printed in the 15th and 16th centuries occasionally included a handful of copies on vellum, intended principally for presentation to patrons and princes both religious and secular. Difficult and highly expensive to produce, they were the de luxe copies of the day and thanks both to their durability and elegance, have been highly valued ever since. Henri II of France in fact required all French printers to print one copy of every book they published on vellum for deposit in the Royal Library. According to Van Praet, this is the FIRST Missal on vellum printed outside Italy (its three predecessors are from Rome, Naples and Venice respectively). Of the four copies on vellum known to Van Praet, viz. Bibl. Royale, Ingoldstadt, Imperial Library, Vienna, and Munich, (to which may be added George III's copy now in the BL) only the Ingoldstadt copy appears to have been decorated. A superb example of early printing on vellum and the continuity of the book with the manuscript tradition; an important copy of a very rare book printed by one of the most important liturgical printers of the period in an excellent state of preservation. BMC II, 467; Goff M-697; HC 11384; Boh (Parma) 309; BNCI M-456; Weale-Bohatta 890; Meyer-Baer, p.22; Van Praet, Vélins du roi I, 83:89; IGI 6612. [Bookseller: Sokol Books Ltd.*]
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MISSALE ROMANUM].
Incipit ordo missalis s[ecundu]m consuetudinem romane curie
Nuremberg, Georg Stuchs 1484 4to. 256 unnumbered ll. [a8; A-3, A-Z8]. Gothic letter, double column, printed in red and black throughout, 30 lines per page. PRINTED ON VELLUM WITH A SEVEN-LINE ILLUMINATED INITIAL 'A', AND BORDER DECORATED WITH ACANTHUS LEAVES AND BURNISHED GOLD BY A CONTEMPORARY SOUTH-GERMAN ARTIST, fifteen 4-6 line initials in blue with decorative red infill, two-line lombard initials printed in red. Small vellum flaw touching a few letters on recto of first leaf skilfully repaired, and three small tears to blank margins with old repairs. A fine, well-margined copy in 19th-C crushed brown morocco gilt by Francis Bedford, covers with a central gilt arabesque, a.e.g. (joints rubbed). Contemporary 6 and 5 line inscriptions on first blank in Latin (dated 1505) and German (recording respective gifts of the volume), from the libraries of Sir John Horner (sale Sotheby's 1921, £120 to Quaritch), Estelle Doheny (sale Christie's 1987), H.P. Kraus (bookplate on upper pastedown). A FINE COPY OF STUCHS' VERY RARE FIRST BOOK, ONE OF ONLY FOUR COPIES KNOWN ON VELLUM (NONE IN AMERICA) WITH HANDSOME ILLUMINATION AND A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE. Stuchs was one of the most important liturgical printers in Germany (along with Ratdolt) until the 1520s. The Missal contains the text used by the priest at the altar when celebrating mass, as well as all that is officially read or sung at Mass throughout the ecclesiastical year.Copies on vellum are rare and precious, having been produced in much smaller numbers and with greater care than copies on paper. The printrun of books printed in the 15th and 16th centuries occasionally included a handful of copies on vellum, intended principally for presentation to patrons and princes both religious and secular. Difficult and highly expensive to produce, they were the de luxe copies of the day and thanks both to their durability and elegance, have been highly valued ever since. Henri II of France in fact required all French printers to print one copy of every book they published on vellum for deposit in the Royal Library. According to Van Praet, this is the FIRST Missal on vellum printed outside Italy (its three predecessors are from Rome, Naples and Venice respectively). Of the four copies on vellum known to Van Praet, viz. Bibl. Royale, Ingoldstadt, Imperial Library, Vienna, and Munich, (to which may be added George III's copy now in the BL) only the Ingoldstadt copy appears to have been decorated. A superb example of early printing on vellum and the continuity of the book with the manuscript tradition; an important copy of a very rare book printed by one of the most important liturgical printers of the period in an excellent state of preservation. BMC II, 467; Goff M-697; HC 11384; Boh (Parma) 309; BNCI M-456; Weale-Bohatta 890; Meyer-Baer, p.22; Van Praet, Vélins du roi I, 83:89; IGI 6612. [Bookseller: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB*]
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PERSIUS FLACCUS.
Satyrae.
Venice, Dionysius de Bertochis & Pelegrinus de Pasqualibus, 1484. Small Folio. Vellum. Woodcut printer's mark on last leaf. (28) leaves. Rare Italian incunable, only 3 copies recorded in Goff. Good copy.- (Bound in recent vellum from old material; quires a-d carefully washed; few brown waterst. in last quire). Hain-Copinger 12724; BMC VII, p. 1139; IGI 7499; Goff P 346; Proctor 4845; IDL 3564 (1 copy in The Hague). [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]
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BORGHI, Pietro
Qui comenza la nobel opera de arithmethica ne la qual se tracta tute cosse amercantia pertinente facta...
Venice Ratdolt 1484. Very rare first edition of Borghi’s treatise, the second commercial arithmetic printed in Italy, called "the first one of considerable importance and influence in this field.". [Bookseller: Martayan Lan]
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Anonymous:
Biblia Latina (1484).
Venice, Johannes Herbort, 1484. 2nd edition. 8to; Vellum. Satisfactory. Biblia Latina. Collation: 405 leaves (of 408), ab8 c12 d-g8 hi12 k-t8 v12 xy8 z2 A-N8 O6 P-Z8 ZZ12 aa-dd8. Format: 8to; 9.1 x 6.7 inches. Venice, Johannes Herbort, 30 IV. 1484. (GW 4255) A beautiful and very early print of the bible in the "Fontibus Ex Graecis" version. The spine shows a nicely decorated, golden title- label. The incunable is bound in vellum on five raised bands with all edges red. [Condition of the binding: Satisfactory / Condition of the paper: Good(-) / Further remarks: The vellum is rubbed with some stains. The binding is loose, the first two leaves are unattached. Hinges with some damage. Paper with occasional water stains and foxing. The first and last leaves of the first quire missing as well as the last leaf of the last quire. Overall a beautiful edition of this early print edition of the bible.] The first revised edition of the Biblia Latina was published 1479 and is known by the first words of the first page as "Fontibus Ex Graecis". The first edition contained no printing name but it is widely ascribed to Johannes Amerbach. The incunabulum at hand is the second bible print from the workshop Johannes Herbort de Seligenstadt, a German printer who moved to Venice in 1481. This second print followed only six months after the first which is why both editions contain the same mistakes. [Bookseller: Antiquarischer Lexikonhandel]
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CALMETTE,Joseph.
Philippe de Commynes : Memoires Tome II et III. 1474-1483
. 1484-1498. Ne au chateau de Renescure en 1447. Son pere Colard de la Clyte, seigneur de Renescure, Gouverneur de Cassel, bailli de Gand, souverain baillie, des Flandres. Paris,1925. 351 + 442 Pages. On joint un grand article de journal, sur Philippe de Commynes, de 1980. L'Ensemble: [Bookseller: Bookshop DEGHELDERE]
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Erasmus
Opus Epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterodami: Volume I: 1484-1514
Oxford University Press, USA Satisfaction Guaranteed! [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Anybook]
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Bible
Biblia Latina
Herbort de Seligenstadt, Johannes, Venice 1484 EARLY AND VERY RARE EDITION OF A "FONTIBUS EX GRAECIS" BIBLE !!! PRINTED ONLY 30 YEARS AFTER THE GUTENBERG BIBLE !!! Title: Biblia Latina. Printer: Herbort de Seligenstadt, Johannes ( - 1485) / (Famous and influential printer) Place of Printing / Publisher / Year: Venice, Herbort, April 30, 1484 Format: Folio (10 in x 7 in) Kollation: 374 (of 408) nn. leaves Binding / Condition: Italian contemporary calf. Beautiful original wooden boards on three raised bands. The incunable is in a good condition. The binding is elegantly decorated with blind stamped ornaments and floral designs. Leather is rubbed and bumped with small worm holes. Paper with light foxing and water stains. 2 leaves artfully restored. All in all a very beautiful Biblia Latina. Almost complete copy, lacking a1 and a8. The last 4 quires aa-dd with the interpretation of Hebrew names evidently were never bound in. Price References: Worldwide, there is no other copy of this edition offered at the moment. The "GBV" lists only two other copies of this 1484 edition in all German libraries. Description, contents and further information: This incunable belongs to the group of "Fontibus Ex Graecis" bibles. These bibles were the first to use the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts to improve the common Latin Vulgate bible text. The first "Fontibus Ex Graecis" Biblia Latina was published 1479 by Amerbach and was named after the first line of three distichs that were included in the texts. Johannes Herbort de Seligenstadt used Amerbach’s revised second edition for this Biblia Latina. "A series of corrected Latin Bibles, which claim for themselves - apparently with justice - a superiority above all contemporary editions" (Darlow-M. 6083 Anm.) One of the last works by the great Johannes Herbort de Seligenstadt, who died a year after the publication. Very rare edition of the Biblia Latina, which even after 520 years is still in a remarkable condition. PRINTED ONLY 30 YEARS AFTER THE GUTENBERG BIBLE !!!ARLY AND VERY RARE EDITION OF A "FONTIBUS EX GRAECIS" BIBLE !!! PRINTED ONLY 30 YEARS AFTER THE GUTENBERG BIBLE !!! Title: Biblia Latina. Printer: Herbort de Seligenstadt, Johannes ( - 1485) (Famous and influential printer) Place of Printing / Publisher / Year: Venice, Herbort, April 30, 1484 Format: Folio (10 in x 7 in) Kollation: 374 (of 408) nn. leaves Binding / Condition: Italian contemporary calf. Beautiful original wooden boards on three raised bands. The incunable is in a good condition. The binding is elegantly decorated with blind stamped ornaments and floral designs. Leather is rubbed and bumped with small worm holes. Paper with light foxing and water stains. 2 leaves artfully restored. All in all a very beautiful Biblia Latina. Almost complete copy, lacking a1 and a8. The last 4 quires aa-dd with the interpretation of Hebrew names evidently were never bound in. Price References: Worldwide, there is no other copy of this edition offered at the moment. The "GBV" lists only two other copies of this 1484 edition in all German libraries. Description, contents and further information: This incunable belongs to the group of "Fontibus Ex Graecis" bibles. These bibles were the first to use the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts to improve the common Latin Vulgate bible text. The first "Fontibus Ex Graecis" Biblia Latina was published 1479 by Amerbach and was named after the first line of three distichs that were included in the texts. Johannes Herbort de Seligenstadt used Amerbach’s revised second edition for this Biblia Latina. "A series of corrected Latin Bibles, which claim for themselves - apparently with justice - a superiority above all contemporary editions" (Darlow-M. 6083 Anm.) One of the last works by the great Johannes Herbort de Seligenstadt, who died a year after the publication. Very rare edition of the Biblia Latina, which even after 520 years is still in a remarkable condition. PRINTED ONLY 30 YEARS AFTER THE GUTENBERG BIBLE !!! // REFERENCE: Goff B580 ; HC 3 [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Louis Caron]
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Incunabula: Petrus de Abano.
Tractatus de Veneris. A magistro Petro de Abano edit.
Rome Stephan Plannck 29 April,1484. Colophon: Finit tractatus vtilissimus de Venenis per Magistrum Petrum de Abbano copositus. Impressus Rome. Anno domini. Mcccc.lxxxiiii. die penultima Aprilis. [32]pp, first blank. Short clean tear to fore-edge of first leaf, with tiny piece missing from the edge. Bound in heavy papered boards (early 20thC?), now quite flecked by silverfish (boards only). Slight damp mark top lower corners of last 20pp (well away from text), three pages have short marginal annotations (contemporary?). The pages in very good condition, protected by the plain but sturdy binding. ISBN *A popular treatise on poisons and their antidotes. Petrus de Abano (1250-1315) was an Italian scholastic and translator of Hippocrates, Galen and other classic Greek medical texts into Latin. His major work, Conciliator Differentiarum Philosophorum et Medicorum (Reconciler of the Differences Between Philosophers and Physicians) was an attempt at a synthesis of the leading classical Greek, Arabic, Jewish and Latin scholars in the two fields. He was later accused of heresy and magic practices and prosecuted by the Inquisition, but died before his trial (his body was burnt in public nonetheless). * Please use [Ask Bookseller a Question] option below to confirm availability and get accurate postage quote for this item (often less than ABE's quote). [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Astrolabe Booksellers (ANZAAB)]
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