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Displayed below are selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1489 MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]  1.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Molza Francesco Maria - Molza Tarquinia Delle Poesie Volgari, e Latine corrette, illustrate, ed accresciute colla Vita dell'Autore scritta da Pierantonio Serassi.       appresso Pietro Lancellotti, 23647, in Bergamo, - 4 parti in 3 voll. in-8� (191x127mm), pp. (26), CXX, 272; 224 + 96 (con autonomo frontespizio e autonoma numerazione si trovano qui gli "Opuscoli inediti di Tarquinia Molza modenese con alcune Poesie dell'istessa quasi tutte per l'addietro stampate, ma ora la prima volta raccolte, e poste insieme. Si premette la Vita di Tarquinia compilata dal Signor Domenico Vandelli"); VIII, 256; legatura coeva m. pergamena con titoli manoscritti in antico ai dorsi. Un ritratto del Molza inciso all'acquaforte al primo vol. Ritratto di Tarquinia Molza inciso su rame all'antiporta del secondo vol. dallo Zucchi. Vignette allegoriche in calcografia ai frontespizi. Testatine e fregi tipografici ornati, alcune imprese tipografiche del Lancellotti incise a p. pag. Alcune firme di possesso ottocentesche. Tracce d'uso ai dorsi. Buon esemplare. Prima edizione completa delle opere del Molza (Modena, 1489-ivi, 1544), fra i maggiori esponenti della poesia umanistica italiana e della di lui nipote, Tarquinia (Modena, 1542-ivi, 1617), curata da Pierantonio Serassi e dall'abate Giambattista Vicini. Il primo volume, oltre alle opere, contiene la biografia del Molza compilata dal Serassi, e note bibliografiche sulle sue opere. Il secondo contiene l'epistolario e le opere della nipote Tarquinia Molza, con la biografia della stessa composta da Domenico Vandelli. Il terzo, apparso posteriormente (ed assai raro da reperire unitamente ai primi due), contiene in edizione originale poesie e prose italiane e latine di Francesco Maria e di Tarquinia Molza. Brunet, III, 1818: "Bonne �dition". Gamba, 1518.       [Bookseller: Gilibert Libreria Antiquaria (ILAB-LILA)]  2.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]  3.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Maimonides Moses APHORISMI SECUNDUM DOCTRINAM GALENI       Bologna: Franciscus de Benedictis for Benedictus Hectorism , 1489. Scarce First Edition. Pages hand-numbered in red and with contemporary manuscript marginal notations in red. Small 4to, contemporary blindstamped half calf over wooden boards, with remnants of brass clasps, endpapers at some time renewed. Bound with 5 pages of contemporary, or near-contemporary, manuscript notes. 129 leaves A very handsome and well preserved copy, the back long ago renewed, with wear and aging to the binding, occasional but minor evidence of age throughout, marginal notations throughout in several differing hands indicative of generations of scholarly use.. SCARCE INCUNABULA EDITION OF MAIMONIDES CLASSIC TEXT ON THE REGIMEN OF HEALTH, ONE OF THE PRIMARY WORKS OF MAIMONIDES, ONE OF THE GREATEST JEWISH SCHOLARS OF ALL TIME. This is the only incunabula of Moses Maimonides to be printed at Bologna and is believed to be the only Jewish author de Benedictis published. OIf one did not know that Maimonides was the name of a man, Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, one would assume it was the name of a university. The writings and achievements of this twelfth-century Jewish sage seem to cover an impossibly large number of activities. Maimonides was the first person to write a systematic code of all Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah; he produced one of the great philosophic statements of Judaism, The Guide to the Perplexed; published a commentary on the entire Mishna; served as physician to the sultan of Egypt; wrote numerous books on medicine; and, in his "spare time," served as leader of Cairo's Jewish community MaimonidesO full name was Moses ben Maimon; in Hebrew he is known by the acronym of Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, Rambam. He was born in Spain shortly before the fanatical Muslim Almohades came to power there. To avoid persecution by the Muslim sect N which was wont to offer Jews and Christians the choice of conversion to Islam or death N Maimonides fled with his family, first to Morocco, later to Israel, and finally to Egypt. He apparently hoped to continue his studies for several years more, but when his brother David, a jewelry merchant, perished in the Indian Ocean with much of the family's fortune, he had to begin earning money. He probably started practicing medicine at this time. MaimonidesO major contribution to Jewish life remains the Mishneh Torah, his code of Jewish law. His intention was to compose a book that would guide Jews on how to behave in all situations just by reading the Torah and his code, without having to expend large amounts of time searching through the Talmud. Needless to say, this provocative rationale did not endear Maimonides to many traditional Jews, who feared that people would rely on his code and no longer study the Talmud. Despite sometimes intense opposition, the Mishneh Torah became a standard guide to Jewish practice: It later served as the model for the Shulkhan Arukh, the sixteenth-century code of Jewish law that is still regarded as authoritative by Orthodox Jews.O -Joseph Telushkin       [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc.]  4.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Johannes de Capua: Directorium humanae vitae. (Bidpai). Blatt aus Cap. III (Hain 4411 B).       Strassburg, Johann Pr��, um 1489. Type 4, 7, 10.. Einspaltiges, 50-zeiliges O-Inkunabelblatt mit einem Holzschnitt (11,6 x 8,9 cm) auf festem Papier. Gestempelte Nummer auf unterem Rand und 6 hinterlegte Wurml�cher mit Einzelbuchstabenverlust. Wasserzeichen: Ochsenkopf. Blattgr��e: 17,3 x 26,6 cm. Incunable woodcut leaf.. Selten! Erster Druck der ersten lateinischen Ausgabe. Das vollst�ndige Werk umfasst 82 Bl�tter mit 119 Holzschnitten. Diese Fabelsammlung des "Directorium Humanae Vitae" ist eine �bersetzung aus der �lteren hebr�ischen Version des Kalila wa-Dimna, die im 13. Jhd. von Johannes von Capua angefertigt wurde. Die arabische Version geht wiederum auf eine syrische zur�ck, die ihrerseits aus einer indischen Quelle (Bidpai) stammt, die im 3. Jhd. n. Chr. jungen F�rsten rechtes Verhalten und politische Klugheit lehren sollte. Die Holzschnitte dieses Blattes wurden erstmals in der deutschen Ausgabe des Werkes von Konrad Fyner in Urach 1481 gedruckt. Pr�ss erwarb diese in den achtziger Jahren des 15. Jhd.. Das Wasserzeichen im Blatt zeigt einen Ochsenkopf mit Augen- und Nasenl�chern, dar�ber einen einkonturigen Stern ohne weitere Beizeichen. Das Wasserzeichen ist in dem hier vorliegenden Blatt im oberen Bereich deformiert und weist darauf hin, dass das Sieb schon l�ngere Zeit in Benutzung war. Das Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart verzeichnet ein vergleichbares Wasserzeichen in seinem Bestand 'J 340' in der Wasserzeichenkartei Piccard unter der Nr. 074324 und gibt die Herkunft mit Johann Pr�ss Basel 1489 an.       [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]  5.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Venice: Dionysius Bertochus. 10 November 1489. Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris.#11;Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. #11;"His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. i?! Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]  6.   Check availability:     ABAA    Biblio   Link/Print   LEGAL BOOK) Formularium advocatorum et procuratorum Romane curie et Regii Parleamenti: practicam cum iura communia clarissime ostendens.       Basle, (Michael Furter) 1489. - Folio. 4 unnumb. lvs., 117 numb. lvs. (I ? CXVII), 1 blank leaf. (a 4; b 8; c 6; defg 6.8; h 6; iklm 6.8; n 6; opqr 6.8; s 8). Gothic types, ?registrum" in 2 columns; fol. b 1 verso 55 lines + Foliation. Fol. b1 recto with woodcut initial, otherwise initials painted red and blue. Contemporary blind-stamped half leather (pigskin) over wooden boards (rubbed, stained and darkened, 1 corner damaged, foot of spine restored, worm-wholes), 1 (of 2) clasp intact (partly renewed). First edition at Basle, rare (v.d. Haegen records 2 copies in Swiss public libraries only). Furter?s second imprint. (Bound before and after): 3 contemporary manuscript leaves (legal texts). The Formularium is a manual for legal proceedings for the Papal court at Rome used outside the Papal Court as well. Title with an old ownership inscription and with a small ink stain. Worm-wholes throughout (loss of letters), fol. LXXXII ? XCVI affected more heavily (loss of some text). In places slightly water-stained; some old hand-written marginalia, rear end-paper totally covered by those entries. Hain 7296; BMC III, 787; GW 10221; v.d. Haegen 22,02; BSB/Ink. F-222; Goff F 266. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Antiquariat Buechel-Baur]  7.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Tabula Asiae XII - Taprobana - Vartomannvs Taprobanam insula hodie uocat Sumatram...       . Holzschnitt v. Sebastian M�nster (1489 - 1552 ) n. Claudius Ptolemaeus aus Geographia Vniversalis, Vetvs et Nova b. Heinrich Petri, Basel, 1540, 25 x 34 cm ** Photos auf Wunsch im JPG-Format erh�ltlich.**. ASIEN: Sri Lanka / Ceylon:Zeigt die Insel Sri Lanka; in der rechten oberen Ecke das s�dlichste Zipfelchen Indiens; Titelkopfleiste oben mittig au�erhalb der Darstellung; mittig in der Karte Titel " Taprobana "; links neben der Karte weitere Kartusche mit erkl�rendem Text; dar�ber gro�e Abbildung eines Elefanten; umseitig erkl�render Text in lateinischer Sprache umgeben von sch�ner fig�rlicher Bord�re.       [Bookseller: Kunsthandlung Goyert]  8.   Check availability:     zvab   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]  9.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Boethius; Isidor von Sevilla Cartography BOETHIUS - De consolatione Philosphiae. Cum editione commentaria beati Thome de Aquino ordinis praedicatorum; [Bound with,] ISIDOR - LIBER ETHIMILOGIARUM. Jsidori Hyspalensis epi(scopi). [Bound With] ISIDOR Hispalensis - DE SUMMO BONO       Basel [and] Nuremberg [and] Venedig: M. Furter [and] Anton Koberger [and] Perrum loslein de Langencen, 1489, 1486, 1483. Very early printings of each of the classic works. Probably one of the very earliest printings of each volume now attainable. A copy from the Koberger workshop and a copy with extensive and very interesting contemporary marginalia. Illustrated with the famous world map, the full page illustrated plate, and two other early illustrations in the text, rubricated throughout in red and blue in an expert and highly accomplished hand. Folio, most likely, according to expert opinion, a Koberger binding of contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, beautifully blind tooled with exact tooling in overall decoration of each cover and spine in Renaissance design, with brass corner pieces, bosses and clasps. A beautiful, very well preserved and very handsome copy, one central boss lacking, a very fine, crisp, clean and handsome copy throughout, text-blocks and all illustrations in excellent condition.. A BEAUTIFUL VOLUME AND A SUPERB EDITION. Concerning the Boethius, DE CONSOLATIONE was the most famous of BoethiusO works and was written while he was in prison on false charges. "De Consolatione" is described by Gibbon as "Oa golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.O" [Ency Brit]. The text is arranged in five books and the style is both prose and verse. As Plato argued before him, Boethius claims that contrary to appearances, "vice is never unpunished nor virtue unrewarded." [Ency Brit] He claims as his own sources: Plato, Aristotle, Nicomachos, Ptolemy and Albinus. He was a statesman as well as a philosopher, and was appointed Consul in Rome under Theodorie the Ostrogoth in 510. Because he was eventually put to death, he was soon characterized as a martyr for the Christian cause. Later, BoethiusO work was greatly instrumental in bringing back a focus on Plato and Aristotle and it was highly esteemed throughout the Middle Ages. Alfred the Great translated it into Anglo-Saxon and Chaucer turned it into English, while before the end of tghe eighteenth century versions had appeared in French, Italian, Spanish, German and Greek. The commentary is ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas. Concerning OIsidorOs LIBER ETHIMILOGIARUM, the OEtymologiaeO presents in abbreviated form much of that part of the learning of antiquity that Christians thought worth preserving. Isidore's vast encyclopedia systematizing ancient learning includes subjects from theology to furniture and provided a rich source of classical lore and learning for medieval writers. In all, Isidore quotes from 154 authors, both Christian and pagan. Many of the Christian authors he read in the originals; of the pagans, many he consulted in current compilations. Bishop Braulio, to whom Isidore dedicated it and sent it for correction, divided it into its twenty books. Through the Middle Ages The OEtymologiaeO was the textbook most in use, regarded so highly as a depository of classical learning that, in a great measure, it superseded the use of the individual works of the classics themselves, full texts of which were no longer copied and thus were lost. The book was not only one of the most popular compendia in medieval libraries but was printed in at least ten editions between 1470 and 1530, showing Isidore's continued popularity in the Renaissance, rivalling Vincent of Beauvais. A stylized map based on OEtymologiaeOnent Asia is peopled by descendants of Sem or Shem, Africa by descendants of Ham and Europe by descendants of Japheth, the sons of Noah. This map reflects Isidore's sixth century view; we now know that, although undoubtedly widely read, Isidore was not always correct in his conjectures. Isidore taught in the OEtymologiaeO that the Earth was round. His meaning was ambiguous and some writers think he referred to a disc-shaped Earth; his other writings make it clear, however, that he considered the Earth to be globular. He also admitted the possibility of people dwelling at the antipodes, considering them as legendary and noting that there was no evidence for their existence. Isidore's disc-shaped analogy continued to be used through the Middle Ages by authors clearly favouring a spherical Earth, e.g. the 9th century bishop Rabanus Maurus who compared the habitable part of the northern hemisphere (Aristotle's northern temperate clime) with a wheel, imagined as a slice of the whole sphere.O Famously, in DE SUMMO BONO, Isidor wrote, "It is a hard matter for a prince to come to good, if he (once) chance to be ensnared, (and enfolded), in wickedness and vice." And not long after it followeth; "For the common people stand in awe of a wicked judge. But kings, (unless God should restrain and curb them with the fear of him alone,) would run headlong into perdition: and abusing their authority, they would dare to commit all manner of villany, and so' much the more readily, if there were not one upon earth which instead, and [in the] place of God (himself,) might punish them."       [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc.]  10.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Gerson, Jean de Charlier de Prima pars operum magister Johannis de Gerson. Secunda pars operum Johannis de Gerson. Tertia pars Joannis Gersonis/ que meditandi rationem & mysticam Theologia[m] in se co[m]plectitur       [Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 12 March 1489]#11;[Strassburg: Martin Flach, 13 December 1494]#11;[Basel: in off. Adami Petri, sumptu Ludouici Hornken, & Godofredi Hitorpij, 1517]. Three folio volumes, 11.6 x 8 inches. Volume I: 1 [8], 2 [6], 3 [8], 4 [8], 5 [8], 6 [8] (Lacking the final blank of the table, 6 [8]); a8, b-m6, n-o8, p6, q8, r6, s8, t6, v8, w-x6, y8, z6, [turned r]8, [con]6, [cum]8, [orum]8. 188 leaves. Volume II: A-B8, C-Z6/8, aA-iI8/6, kK-nN8. (Lacking the final blank nN8.) 258 leaves. Volume III: aa-zz6, aA4, bB-zZ6, [2 turned rOs]6, [2 conOs]6, [2 orumOs]6. Volumes one and two both feature stunning full-paged woodcuts of Gerson. Because the set is made from three different editions, each has its own version of this impressive image. KeslerOs is said to have been done by Albrecht Durer when he was an apprentice. Whether this is true is an open question, however that one woodcut is made in imitation of the other is irrefutable. All elements are present both images: Gerson in his hat, with his shield and staff, a dog at his feet, a town in the background. However, the composition, the style, the execution are unique in each print, and the careful consideration of similarities and differences between the images yields fruitful insights. These copies are bound in full uniform seventeenth-century pale yellowish-green reversed calf. The spines are brown, and tooled in gold. The spines must have been painted or stained brown before tooling. Some boards have been chewed by rodents, with loss to board edges and blank margins of the last few signatures of the third volume. Volume two is rubricated in red and blue throughout. It is possible that this set was put together as early as 1517. The three volume have been together since the seventeenth century for certain, when they were put into these uniform bindings. The original sewing structures of the volumes seem to have been preserved by the seventeenth century binder. He trimmed the books to the same size and added endbands. The spines are tooled in gilt with the same tools. However, the sewing supports are in different locations on each volume, which suggests that they retain their original sewing. . Jean Charlier de Gerson, oldest of twelve children born to a peasant family in rural France, became chancellor of the University of Paris at the tender age of thirty-two. He was one of the most prominent figures in the ecclesiastical disputes regarding reform of the Catholic church in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. During the Great Schism, the church had two Popes: Benedict XIII (now known as the OAntipopeO), in Avignon, and Gregory XII in Rome. Gerson and his colleague Pierre dOAilly wanted both Popes to resign. They organized the Council of Pisa (1409), and Gerson penned a tract supporting his idea that the rival Popes should both step down and be replaced by a new Pope. This tract also contains GersonOs statement of the fundamental notion of the Oconciliar theory,O i.e., a council can supersede the authority of the Pope when the good of the church requires it. This argument took on even greater importance in subsequent centuries when the Reformation of the Catholic church was in full swing. Gerson was at it again in the Council of Constance in 1414. At this time, three different men were claiming to be the rightful Pope. The Council resulted in the Articles of Constance, which finally got the church back down to one Pope by 1417. Also at the Council of Constance, alongside dOAilly again, Gerson spearheaded the condemnation of John Huss. Huss was tried on the charge of heresy at the Council, found guilty, and then burned at the stake.#11;After Gerson turned against his powerful former patron, the Duke of Burgundy, he retreated to a life in the country. The Duke of Burgundy had the Duke of Orleans killed, and then publicly justified his act by means of a lawyer, Jean Petit, who argued that the murder of a tyrant is legal. Gerson found this notion repugnant, and made his views public. However, this unpopular opinion forced Gerson into a sort of exile. His later years were spent more humbly in the theological education of young people.#11;#11;This set is made up of three separate imprints of three-volume editions of GersonOs works. Volume one was printed in 1489 by Nicolaus Kesler, in Basel. The second volume, printed by Martin Flach in Strassburg in 1494, is a direct reprint of the Kesler edition. Volume three was printed in Basel in 1517. #11;       [Bookseller: James & Devon Gray Booksellers]  11.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Petrus Lombardus [Peter Lombard]. Henricus de Gorichen, c... Textus Sententiarum cum conclusionibus ac titlis questionu(m) sancti Thome Articulis q(ue) Parisien[sibus] et in quibus mag(iste)r co(mmun)iter no(n) tenet[ur]. [icluding: Tituli quaestionum sancti Thomae super quattuor libros Sententiarum; Articuli in Anglia et Parisiis condemnati.]       Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1489, 29 November. Folio. a10, b-i 8.6, k-p 6.8, q-s6, t8, A-Q8.6, Qr6, R-V6.8. Complete. 279 ff. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin; spine banded, over wood boards, lower outer corners have loss of leather; lacks clasps; edges red; bookplate and blind stamps of Auburn Theological Seminary, old de-acquistion stamp of Gymnasial Bibliotek zu Koeln on a2; old dealer's entry of this copy pasted to front endleaf dated 1924; some minor pinworm holes; some marginal dampstains, some extensive early marginalia in red (faded) and brown inks; remnants of tabs; some rubrication. Kessler's device above colophon. Scarce edition of Lombard.Peter Lombard: Theologian, b. at Novara (or perhaps Lumello), Italy, about 1100; d. about 1160-64. He studied first at Bologna, later on at Reims and Paris."The "Sentences" ("Quatuor libri Sententiarum"). It is this theological work above all that made the name of Peter Lombard famous, and gives him a special place in the history of theology in the Middle Ages. Henceforth he is called the "Magister Sententiarum", or simply the "Magister". The work is divided into four books. In a long series of questions it covers the whole body of theological doctrine and unites it in a systematized whole. Towards the thirteenth century, the various books were divided into distinctiones (an old Latin word that first meant a pause in reading, then a division into chapters), though the author had done nothing more than to have the questions follow one another; in the manuscripts, these questions do not always bear the same title.The first book treats of God and the Blessed Trinity, of God's attributes, of Providence, of predestination, and of evil; the second, of the creation, the work of the six days, the angels, the demons, the fall, grace, and sin; the third, of the Incarnation, the Redemption, the virtues, and the Ten Commandments; the fourth, of the sacraments in general, the seven sacraments in particular, and the four last things, death, judgment, hell, and heaven. The "Book of Sentences" was written about 1150.... He has no desire to make Christian doctrine a matter for controversy after the manner of the "garruli ratiocinatores" against whom he has to defend himself. But he has no hesitation in exposing in a reasoned way the different points of doctrine: it is but the method followed with still greater success and depth by St. Thomas. He makes full use of the Bible and the Fathers, but he never goes to the point of refusing reason its due r�le. It is here that the works of the School of St. Victor are especially serviceable to him: he borrows considerably from Hugo's "De Sacramentis", as well as from the "Summa Sententiarum", which, though not written by Hugo, is very much indebted to him. In addition to the foregoing, mention must be made of Abelard, Gratian, Ivo of Chartres, and Alger of Li�ge as the chief sources of the "Liber Sententiarum"." [CE] Goff P492 ; H 10196* ; Pell Ms 9179 ; Zehnacker 1826 ; Polain(B) 3121 ; IDL 3665 ; IBP 4343 ; ; Voull(B) 526 ; Schmitt I 526 ; Voull(Trier) 227 ; Leuze(Isny) 22 ; Wiegrefe pp.61-62 ; Hubay(Augsburg) 1626 ; Hubay ; Sack(Freiburg) 2798 ; Hummel-Wilhelmi 508 ; Borm 2110 ; Finger 798 ; Oates 2815 ; Pr 7676 ; BMC III 768 ; BSB-Ink P-385. ISTC ip00492000.       [Bookseller: Krown & Spellman, Booksellers]  12.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus 10 November 1489, Venice - Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, . He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. . His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]  13.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Petrus Lombardus [Peter Lombard]. Henricus de Gorichen, comm. Textus Sententiarum cum conclusionibus ac titlis questionu(m) sancti Thome Articulis q(ue) Parisien[sibus] et in quibus mag(iste)r co(mmun)iter no(n) tenet[ur]. [icluding: Tituli quaestionum sancti Thomae super quattuor libros Sententiarum; Articuli in Anglia et Parisiis condemnati.]       Nicolaus Kesler, Basel: 1489, 29 November. - Folio. a10, b-i 8.6, k-p 6.8, q-s6, t8, A-Q8.6, Qr6, R-V6.8. Complete. 279 ff. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin; spine banded, over wood boards, lower outer corners have loss of leather; lacks clasps; edges red; bookplate and blind stamps of Auburn Theological Seminary, old de-acquistion stamp of Gymnasial Bibliotek zu Koeln on a2; old dealer's entry of this copy pasted to front endleaf dated 1924; some minor pinworm holes; some marginal dampstains, some extensive early marginalia in red (faded) and brown inks; remnants of tabs; some rubrication. Kessler's device above colophon. Scarce edition of Lombard.Peter Lombard: Theologian, b. at Novara (or perhaps Lumello), Italy, about 1100; d. about 1160-64. He studied first at Bologna, later on at Reims and Paris."The "Sentences" ("Quatuor libri Sententiarum"). It is this theological work above all that made the name of Peter Lombard famous, and gives him a special place in the history of theology in the Middle Ages. Henceforth he is called the "Magister Sententiarum", or simply the "Magister". The work is divided into four books. In a long series of questions it covers the whole body of theological doctrine and unites it in a systematized whole. Towards the thirteenth century, the various books were divided into distinctiones (an old Latin word that first meant a pause in reading, then a division into chapters), though the author had done nothing more than to have the questions follow one another; in the manuscripts, these questions do not always bear the same title.The first book treats of God and the Blessed Trinity, of God's attributes, of Providence, of predestination, and of evil; the second, of the creation, the work of the six days, the angels, the demons, the fall, grace, and sin; the third, of the Incarnation, the Redemption, the virtues, and the Ten Commandments; the fourth, of the sacraments in general, the seven sacraments in particular, and the four last things, death, judgment, hell, and heaven. The "Book of Sentences" was written about 1150. He has no desire to make Christian doctrine a matter for controversy after the manner of the "garruli ratiocinatores" against whom he has to defend himself. But he has no hesitation in exposing in a reasoned way the different points of doctrine: it is but the method followed with still greater success and depth by St. Thomas. He makes full use of the Bible and the Fathers, but he never goes to the point of refusing reason its due r?le. It is here that the works of the School of St. Victor are especially serviceable to him: he borrows considerably from Hugo's "De Sacramentis", as well as from the "Summa Sententiarum", which, though not written by Hugo, is very much indebted to him. In addition to the foregoing, mention must be made of Abelard, Gratian, Ivo of Chartres, and Alger of Li?ge as the chief sources of the "Liber Sententiarum"." [CE] Goff P492 ; H 10196* ; Pell Ms 9179 ; Zehnacker 1826 ; Polain(B) 3121 ; IDL 3665 ; IBP 4343 ; ; Voull(B) 526 ; Schmitt I 526 ; Voull(Trier) 227 ; Leuze(Isny) 22 ; Wiegrefe pp.61-62 ; Hubay(Augsburg) 1626 ; Hubay ; Sack(Freiburg) 2798 ; Hummel-Wilhelmi 508 ; Borm 2110 ; Finger 798 ; Oates 2815 ; Pr 7676 ; BMC III 768 ; BSB-Ink P-385. ISTC ip00492000.       [Bookseller: Krown & Spellman, Booksellers]  14.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   LONVAL ( LE PRIEUR DE ) ( BAYARD ) NOUVELLE HISTOIRE DU CHEVALIER BAYARD        lieutenant general pour le Roy au gouvernement du Dauphine , et de plusieurs choses memorables arrivees en France , en Italie , en Espagne et aux Pays-Bas , etc... sous les regnes de Charles VIII , Louis XII et Francois 1 er , depuis l ' an 1489 , jusqu ' a l ' an 1524 .a Paris . chez Charles Robustel , rue Saint Jacques . 1702 .1 Volume in 12 . plein veau epoque ; dos a 5 nerfs ornes de fleurons dores ; piece de titre maroquin rouge ; tranches rouges .Deux coins emousses , mais neanmoins , Bel exemplaire . 7 ff . non ch + 340 pp + 2 ff non ch. privilege du roi . complet       [Bookseller: Librairie Quand-Meme]  15.   Check availability:     livre-rare-book   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]  16.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   AA. VV. RIVISTA di STORIA, ARTE, ARCHEOLOGIA della PROVINCIA di ALESSANDRIA. Anno VII, 1898, completo + un DOCUMENTO del '700 + un Documento del '600.       Tip. G. Jacquemod, Alessandria - 6 fasc. (di cui 2 ANTICHI) rilegati in un vol. in-4� (cm. 31,3x21), mz. tela coeva, tit. su tass. 1) fasc. 21, pp. 184. Gasparolo Francesco, Gli AGOSTINIANI in Alessandria, Vittorio Amedeo GHILINI. Correz. alla Cronaca del Monferrato di Benvenuto; MONETE antiche in Fontanile, bronzi cristiani in Morbello, statua del SOLARI 1489 nel Duomo di Alessandria; recens. sulla battaglia di MARENGO. Necrol. di Camillo Novarese e di G. B. Bertazzi. 2) fasc.22, pp. 175.A) Il testo completo della CRONICA di GALEOTTO del CARRETTO 1493 e note a c. di Giorcelli Gius. B) Usseglio L., Il Regno di TESSAGLIA (1204-1227) governato da Bonifacio e di Demetrio di Monferrato. Tortura con rota e fune. Campanile antico, S. Maria dell'Olmo, Alessandria alle Esposizioni di Torino, necr. di Mario Guala. 3) fasc.23-24. Pp. 24 + 3 TAVOLE con le PIANTE della Fonte Bollente in ACQUI. Scati Vitt., La Fonte, un mosaico. Satira '600; 1� Congresso Storico Subalp.; Lapide Ghilini in Casale. Bibliografia della provincia. 4) Estr. Pp. 24. Appendice all'Archivio d. Famiglia ZOPPI. Una satira ANTINAPOLEONICA. 5) Franciscus Maria PELLATUS Orator Civitatis Alex. Pro CIVITATE ALEXANDRIAE responsio ad Monitum in causa praetensae Infeudationis BURGORATI. Pp. 31, (1b) in forte carta croccante filigranata. Dai Longobardi alla pace di Costanza, a Francesco Sforza ecc. Non reca data, ma parrebbe del primo '700. 6) Documento seicentesco di pp. (18), (2b) in croccante e immacolata carta filigranata. Difesa "DURANTIS Francisci & Joseph Fratrum DE ROBERTIS fidissimorum M. V. Servorum", che la Citt� di Alessandria voleva rimuovere dal Decurionato (se capiamo bene). Non reca data ma post 1685.       [Bookseller: Libreria Le Colonne]  17.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   CHARLES VIII (1470-1498), fils de Louis XI, couronne roi de France en 1483.       Lettre signee « Charles » a Charles de Valois, comte d'Angouleme, contresignee par Thomas Bohier. Paris, 16 avril [1489]. 1 p. in-4, adresse, pliures discretement restaurees. Tres rare lettre de Charles VIII sur les sequelles de la guerre de Cent Ans. Les tensions demeuraient vives entre la France et l'Angleterre lorsque Charles VIII acceda au trone. En fevrier 1489, le roi d'Angleterre, Henri VII, concluait avec Anne de Bretagne le traite de Redon, aux termes duquel il s'engageait a apporter une aide militaire anglaise a la duchesse si un conflit venait a l'opposer a la France. C'est dans ce contexte tendu que, dans la presente lettre, Charles VIII se montre inquiet de la presence de dix-huit navires de la marine royale anglaise le long des cotes de Bretagne : « presentement avons eu nouvelles touchant les Anloiz lesquels comme l'on dit sont sur mer du couste de Normandie en grant nombre de navires, et ne scet-on encores ou ilz veullent descendre. » prix net ; port recommande et emballage de protection factures forfaitairement 8 euros       [Bookseller: Artecosa]  18.   Check availability:     livre-rare-book   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus 10 November 1489, Venice - Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, . He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. . His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]  19.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Wolff, Christian von, Philosophia Practica Universalis, Methodo Scientifica Pertractata.       Pars Prior. Theoriam Complectens, qua omnis Actionum Humanarum differentia, omnibusque Juris ac Obligationum omn�um, Principia, a priori demonstrantur. Editio nova priori emandatior. Halae, Magdeburgicae, MDCCXXXXIIII, Prostat in Officina Libraria Rengeriana. 4� (17 x 21), OPappband der Zeit. [XXIV], 592, [XVII] Seiten.-Pars Posterior. Praxin Complectens, qua omnis Praxeos Moralis, Principia inconcussa ex ipsa Animae Humanae Natura a priori demonstrantur. Editio nova priori emandatior. Halae, Magdeburgicae, Prostat in Officina Libraria Rengeriana. MDCCL. 4� (17 x 21), OPappband der Zeit. 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Auflage 15.10.2010 verwandte Themen : Optik Technische Optik [DNB] 1489,00 Eur[D] UVP The state-of-the-art full-colored handbook in six volumes written by reputed industrial experts gives a comprehensive introduction to the principles and the practice of calculation, layout and understanding of optical systems and lens design. The authors combine for the first time theoretical aspects of optical modeling with applications of practical optical design. Herbert Gross was born in 1955. He studied Physics at the University of Stuttgart and joined Carl Zeiss in 1982. Since then he has been working in the department of optical design. His special areas of interest are the development of simulation methods, optical design software and algorithms, the modelling of laser systems and simulation of problems in physical optics, and the tolerancing and the measurement of optical systems. Since 1995, he has been heading the central optical design department at Zeiss. He served as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences at Aalen and at the University of Lausanne, and gave seminars for the Photonics Net of Baden W�rttemberg as well as several company internal courses. In 1995, he received his PhD at the University of Stuttgart on a work on the modelling of laser beam propagation in the partial coherent region. He has published several papers and has given many talks at conferences.       [Bookseller: Antiquariat-Versandbuchhandel Uwe L�b]  21.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Speculum humanae salvationis, deutsch. Das ist der spiegel menschlicher behaltnis. GWM 43005, Hain 14937.       Augsburg, Peter Berger, 6. Februar 1489. Type 1.. Zweispaltiges, 45-zeiliges Original-Inkunabelblatt mit zwei kolorierten Holzschnitten (6,8 x 9,1), einer 4-zeiligen Holzschnittinitiale und zwei 4-zeiligen Lombarden. Blatt im Randbereich fleckig. Kl. Einriss (1,5 cm) und Reste von Papiermontagestreifen, Blattgr��e: 20,8 x 29,3 cm. Incunabula text woodcut leaf.. Seltenes Inkunabelblatt "Das XIIII capitel" aus der Druckerei von P. Berger mit den Holzschnitten "Maria Magdalena ward bekert von den s�nden umb iren rewen" und "Manasses der juden k�nig het rewen umb sein s�nd in der gefengknus an dem ander buch paralipomenon am XXXIII". Der vollst�ndige Titel dieses Werkes lautet "Das ist der spiegel menschlicher behaltnu� mit den Ewangelien vnd Epistelen durch dz gancz Jar". �blicherweise wird der Kurztitel "Spiegel menschlicher Behaltnis", oder "Spiegel des menschlichen Heil" oder auch "Heilsspiegel" verwendet. Er ist die deutsche �bersetzung der lateinischen Reimpaare des "Speculum humanae salvationis" in Erz�hlform (Prosa�bersetzung). Der Heilsspiegel entstand im fr�hen 14. Jahrhundert und war beliebt und weit verbreitet. Anhand von Text und Bild werden einzelne Szenen der Heilsgeschichte dargestellt und gedeutet. Von Peter Berger, dem Augsburger Drucker ist kaum etwas bekannt. Von seinen 10 bekannten Druckerzeugnissen sind lediglich vier Drucke zwischen 1486 und 1489 datiert. Dieses Blatt entstammt dem datierten Druck vom 6. Februar 1489.       [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]  22.   Check availability:     zvab   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus 10 November 1489, Venice - Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, . He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. . His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]  23.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Antique Print: Munster, Sebastian [ Frankfurt Am Mein ] "Sito & Figura Di Francofordia Citt�, Come � Nel 1546. "       Amsterdam 1575. Guaranteed original. Magnificent woodcut view with large ornamental cartouches containing keys to places in Italian & coats of arms. Italian text description with woodcut ills to verso. Engraved surface 16 x 10 inches [ 40 x 25 cm ] Perfect condition. * Sebastian Munster (1489-1552) was one of the first great cartographers, working in the era before the Dutch ?modern? cartographers such as Mercator and Ortelius. He studiously compiled the best information available in the sixteenth century, corresponding with scholars all around Europe and visiting bookfairs and libraries whenever possible. Munster issued many influential maps in his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia and his own Cosmographia which were published beginning in 1540.       [Bookseller: Alibris]  24.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   CRANMER THOMAS (A CURA DI). Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum, ex authoritate primum regis Henrici 8 inchoata: Deinde per Regem Edovardum 6. provecta, audactaque in hunc modum, atque nunc ad pleniorem ipsarum reformationem in lucem edita. Londini, impensis Societatis Stationariorum, 1641.       - Cm. 19, pp. (16) 303 (1). Testo inquadrato da duplice filetto. Leg. coeva in piena pelle, dorso a 4 nervi con titoli in oro su tass. Superficiali spellature alla leg., qualche lieve alone o macchietta sparsa, peraltro nel complesso ben conservato. Importante fonte normativa scaturita da un processo di riforma del diritto ecclesiastico anglicano gestito da una commissione presieduta dal canonista nonch� arcivescovo di Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556); le successive integrazioni si devono a John Foxe (1516-1587) e Matthew Parker (1504.1574). Non comune. Cfr. Kvk. (5-S86)       [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Apuleio]  25.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MOLITOR, Ulrich. Tractatus de lamiis et pythonicis, autore Ulrico Molitore Constantiensi, ad Sigismundum Archiducem Austriae , anno 1489.       Parisiis, Apud Aegidium Corrozet, 1561, in-8 de 40 pp., rel. plein veau du XVIIe, dos a nerfs orne, roulette doree sur les coupes, tranches rouges (dos et mors frottes, coiffes manquantes, coins emousses, quelques passages du texte soulignes a l’encre anciennement, rogne un peu court en gouttiere avec atteinte a deux manchettes). Ulrich Molitor, ne a Constance dans la premiere moitie du XVe siecle, etudia la jurisprudence, la grammaire et la philosophie a l’Universite de Fribourg. Il composa ce celebre traite des sorcieres et des devineresses vers 1485 a la demande de l’archiduc Sigismond d’Autriche pour l’eclairer sur la question des sorciers et des sortileges qui preoccupait les tribunaux ecclesiastiques. Le traite parut pour la premiere fois en 1489.~Exemplaire provenant de la Bibliotheque Emeric Bigot, celebre bibliophile du XVIIe, avec son ex-libris manuscrit a la plume en marge de la page de titre. ~Emeric Bigot (1626–1689) herita de la bibliotheque de son pere qu’il enrichit considerablement, n’hesitant pas a parcourir l’Europe entiere a la recherche d’ouvrages rares. Selon le dictionnaire de Moreri, cette passion le detourna de toutes sortes d'emplois. La bibliotheque de pres de 40000 ouvrages fut vendue en 1706. La Bibliotheque publique de Rouen conserve les “Manuscrits Bigot” en 18 volumes in-folio qui lui ont ete legues par le marquis de Martainville. ~Belle marque d’imprimeur sur la page de titre et une belle lettrine ornee gravee sur bois.~Rarissime traite de sorcellerie, seulement 2 exemplaires au CCFr : un a la bibliotheque de Nantes et un a la bibliotheque d’Amiens. Manque a la BnF. A notre connaissance un seul exemplaire est passe en vente publique ces 25 dernieres annees: vente de la bibliotheque d’Abraham Girard (n°113) du 9 fevrier 1996 a Drouot, en veau du XVIIe.~~Caillet 7630. Graesse IV, 570. Coumont M.79.13.       [Bookseller: Librairie d'apre-vent]  26.   Check availability:     livre-rare-book   Link/Print   APIANUS, Petrus and AMANTIUS, Bartholomaeus. Inscriptiones sacrosanctae vetustatis non illae quidem romanae, sed totius fere orbis summo ac maximis impensis mariq[ue] conquisitae feliciter incipiunt ...       First edition of the 'first world-corpus of classical inscriptions' (Mandowsky & Mitchell). The work was financed by the Augsburg banker Raimund Fugger (1489-1535), from whose collection a large number of the inscriptions were taken. Apianus printed it at his own press in his house in Ingolstadt.Petrus Apianus (1495-1552) was professor of mathematics at the University of Ingolstadt. He was 'a pioneer in astronomical and geographical instrumentation, and one of the most successful popularizers of these subjects during te 16th century' (DSB); the author of the Cosmographia (1524), one of the most popular texts of its time; an instrument maker and first observer of what was later known as Halley's comet; and a printer who published most of his own books but also those of others like Johann von Eck. In the present work he assembled together with Amantius the first corpus of classical Greek and Latin inscription from throughout the ancient world, including the Middle East and North Africa. The book included inscriptions found on buildings, sculpture, vases, etc.Cicognara 3095; Orbroy, Bibliographie des oeuvres de Pierre Apian, 109. Ingolstadt, in aedibus P. Apiani, 1534.       [Bookseller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd.]  27.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]  28.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Litzmann, Berthold (insgesamt 3 B�nde/Teile) Clara Schumann Litzmann, Berthold (insgesamt 3 B�nde/Teile) Clara Schumann       Olms Verlag, Hildesheim - Litzmann, Berthold (insgesamt 3 B�nde/Teile) Clara Schumann Verlag : Olms, G ISBN : 3-487-03340-2 Einband : Leinen Seiten/Umfang : XXI, 1489 Seiten Erschienen : (Reprint d. Ausg. Leipzig 1923-25) 1971 Preisinfo : 198,00 Eur[D]       [Bookseller: Antiquariat-Versandbuchhandel Uwe L�b]  29.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus 10 November 1489, Venice - Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, . He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. . His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]  30.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Albumasar, Ja’far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma’shar al-Baklkhi. Introductorium In Astronomiam.       : Erhard Ratdolt, Augsburg 1489 - Small 4to (196 x 138 mm) 70 unnumbered leaves, Gothic type, 40 - 41 lines, 46 allegorical woodcuts in the text, 115 woodcut initials, translated from Arabic into Latin by Hermannus Dalmata, contemporary foliation (1-69 in red). 46 allergorical woodcuts of Zodiacal signs, sun and moon, a zonal world map, a diagram of the aspects, and of the twelve houses, numerous historiated woodcut initials, 20th green morocco, covers with wide gilt border, with corner devices, spine gilt,gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, g.e. title cut & mounted, spine faded. Published at 7 February 1489. FIRST EDITION of this scare work presenting the philosophical and historical justifications for astrology. The text was one of the earliest and most important vehivsl . Albumasar was the leading astrologer of his day who devoted himself not only to practical prognostications and reading of horoscopes bucles for the transmission of Aristotelian concepts to the West. The Introductorium is a Latin translation (with some abridgements) from the Arabic Kitab al-Madkhal al-Kabir ; it opens with the philosophical justification and continues to cover the characteristics of the stars and zodiacal signs, the influence of the planets and their astrological natures, and astrological lots. Transmitted to the West in two Latin translations from the 12th century, it was hugely influential on European philosophy of the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The earlier and complete translation was made by John of Seville, the later - published here - by Herman of Carinthia. HC *612; GW 840; BMC II, 382 (IA. 6683-4); BSB-Ink. A-230; Klebs 38.1; Schreiber 3075; Stillwell Awakening, 8; Goff A-359. Abu Ma’shar Ja’far ben Muhammed al-Balkhi (787–886), the most renowned astrologer of the Arabic world, was part of a group of pro-Persian intellectuals who served the Caliph al-Ma’mun (813–833) in Baghdad. The present work is a translation of his Great Introduction to the Science of Astrology written in 849–50 and the single most important source of Aristotle’s theories of nature for European scholars. The allegorical half-page woodcuts represent the Sun, Moon, the Signs of Zodiac, a zonal world map, a diagram of the Aspects, and a diagram of the Twelve Houses. The first leaf with three line title and 22 contemporary hand written lines in red and black representing the signs of the planets and the signs of Zodiac. Title and three subsequent leaves with brief repairs. A very good copy with wide margins. Hain-C. 612; GW 840; Goff A 359; BMC II, 382 (IA 6683); Proctor 1880; Schreiber 3075; Essling 524; Klebs 38.1; Stillwell A 326; IGI 264; Oates 959; Zinner 346; Pellechet 415; Fairfax Murray, German 25; Rosenthal, Incunabula Typographica 54. To the Medieval West the most important representative of Islamic Astrology was the Persian Abu Ma’shar (latinized Albumasar, 787-886). His works (Figure 6) were translated into Latin in 1133 by John of Seville and circulated widely in manuscript form. He exerted a powerful influence on the development of Western astrology. Abu Ma'shar (787-886), the most renowned of astrologers writing in Arabic, was part of the group of pro-Persian intellectuals who served the Caliph al-Ma'mun (813-833) in Baghdad. The present work is a slightly abridged translation of his Kitab al-Madkhal al-Kabir 'Ala 'Ilm Ahkam al-Nujum ("Great Introduction to the Science of Astrology"), written in 849/850. The work presents the philosophical and historical justifications of astrology, and a survey of the characteristics of the Signs, Planets, Sun and Moon, along with the Aspects (angular relations between them). It was translated twice in the first half of the 12th Century and was one of the earliest vehicles for the transmission of Aristotelian concepts into Latin before the actual translations of Aristotle. Richard Lemay has argued that the writings of Albumasar, were very likely the single most important original source of Aristotle's theories of nature for European scholars, s [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: FOLIOS LIMITED]  31.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MOLITOR, Ulrich. Tractatus de lamiis et pythonicis, autore Ulrico Molitore Constantiensi, ad Sigismundum Archiducem Austriae , anno 1489.       Parisiis, Apud Aegidium Corrozet, 1561, in-8 de 40 pp., rel. plein veau du XVIIe, dos � nerfs orn�, roulette dor�e sur les coupes, tranches rouges (dos et mors frott�s, coiffes manquantes, coins �mouss�s, quelques passages du texte soulign�s � l?encre anciennement, rogn� un peu court en goutti�re avec atteinte � deux manchettes). Ulrich Molitor, n� � Constance dans la premi�re moiti� du XVe si�cle, �tudia la jurisprudence, la grammaire et la philosophie � l?Universit� de Fribourg. Il composa ce c�l�bre trait� des sorci�res et des devineresses vers 1485 � la demande de l?archiduc Sigismond d?Autriche pour l?�clairer sur la question des sorciers et des sortil�ges qui pr�occupait les tribunaux ecclesiastiques. Le trait� parut pour la premi�re fois en 1489.~Exemplaire provenant de la Biblioth�que Emeric Bigot, c�l�bre bibliophile du XVIIe, avec son ex-libris manuscrit � la plume en marge de la page de titre. ~Emeric Bigot (1626?1689) h�rita de la biblioth�que de son p�re qu?il enrichit consid�rablement, n?h�sitant pas � parcourir l?Europe enti�re � la recherche d?ouvrages rares. Selon le dictionnaire de Mor�ri, cette passion le d�tourna de toutes sortes d'emplois. La biblioth�que de pr�s de 40000 ouvrages fut vendue en 1706. La Biblioth�que publique de Rouen conserve les ?Manuscrits Bigot? en 18 volumes in-folio qui lui ont �t� l�gu�s par le marquis de Martainville. ~Belle marque d?imprimeur sur la page de titre et une belle lettrine orn�e grav�e sur bois.~Rarissime trait� de sorcellerie, seulement 2 exemplaires au CCFr : un � la biblioth�que de Nantes et un � la biblioth�que d?Amiens. Manque � la BnF. A notre connaissance un seul exemplaire est pass� en vente publique ces 25 derni�res ann�es: vente de la biblioth�que d?Abraham Girard (n�113) du 9 f�vrier 1996 � Drouot, en veau du XVIIe.~~Caillet 7630. Graesse IV, 570. Coumont M.79.13.       [Bookseller: Librairie d'�pre-vent]  32.   Check availability:     Livre-Rare-Book   Link/Print   Herolt, Johannes. Quadragesimale discipuli. (Und: Johannes Gerson. Monotessaron. Und: Gabriel Biel. Sermo de passione dominica).       Reutlingen, Johann Otmar, 19. II. 1489. - 137 Bll. Gotische Type, 46 Zeilen, 2 Spalten. Typ. 6:81G, 7:170G. Die Rectoseiten des Quadragesimale sowie des Monotessaron rubriziert und mit roten Lombardinitialen. Blindgepr. Zeitgen�ssischer Halbschweinslederband �ber Holzdeckeln auf 3 B�nden mit hs. R�ckentitel sowie sp�terem Wappensupralibros. Eine mittige ziselierte Schlie�e. Kl.-Folio. Erster Druck dieser Predigtsammlung. Die Schriften des N�rnberger Dominikanerpriors Johannes Herolt (gest. 1468), der seine Werke stets als "Discipulus" zeichnete, erfreuten sich in ganz Deutschland und Osteuropa bis ins 18. Jh. hinein gro�er Beliebtheit (vgl. LMA IV, 2175). - Johann Otmar, von Pollard als Erstdrucker Reutlingens genannt (1479), war (neben Michael Greyff) einer der nur zwei Inkunabeldrucker der Stadt. Er druckte bis 1495 etwa 50 lateinische Inkunabeln, haupts�chlich theologischen Inhalts, bevor er sich nach T�bingen wandte. - Nur ein Exemplar auf Auktionen der letzten Jahrzehnte (dieses aber incpl.; ohne den 3. Teil). Zu Beginn etwas wasserrandig; 2 kl. Randausschnitte am 1. Textblatt. Einige zeitgen�ss. Marginalien. Ohne das l. w. Bl. Am Schlu� hs. Besitzverrmerk des 17. Jhs.: "Frater Joannnes Gastl me iuro tenet 1627". Der sch�ne Einband mit einigen unbedeutenden Wurmspuren am Hinterdeckel. An den Deckeln goldgepr. Wappensupralibros der "Society of Writers to the Signet", eine dem schottischen H�chstgericht angeschlossene K�rperschaft und der �ltesten britischen Juristengesellschaften (1594 gegr�ndet). Hain/C. 8515 (= 8514). GW 12339. BMC II, 586. Goff H-97. Saj�-Solt�sz 1652. Sheppard 1981. Proctor 2715. Polain (B) 1912. ISTC ih00097000.       [Bookseller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]  33.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]  34.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Garc�a, Pedro. Pico de la Mirandola. Determinationes magistrales contra conclusiones apologales Joannis Pici Mirandule.       Eucharius Silber, 1489, 15 de octubre, Roma: - a-b8, c6, d8, e8, f6, g8, h4, k6, l8, m8, n6, o8, p8, q8, r8. 120 hojas de 42 l�neas de letra g�tica. Prima et ultima albae adsunt. Marca de polilla en el corte interior, sin afectar al texto; puntos de polilla espor�dicos en las primeras y en las �ltimas hojas. Encuadernaci�n italiana del siglo xvii en pergamino. Grandes m�rgenes y buen papel. Hain-Copinger 7492. Goff G-95. BMC iv, 110. IGI 4177. IBE 2586. Palau 98156. Primera edici�n. Fundamental aportaci�n espa�ola a la filosof�a del Renacimiento, al estudio de la c�bala, de la magia y de la teolog�a oficial. En 1497 Pico de la Mir�ndola public� en N�poles la Apologia conclusionum suorum en la que sintetizaba la tradici�n cabal�stica medieval, el neoplatonismo ficiniano e intentaba una nueva definici�n del hombre y de la divinidad. Su conclusi�n n�mero 11 "Nulla est scientia que nos magis certificet de diuinitate Christi quam magia et cabala" es quiz� la menos ortodoxa, y contra esta propuesta "falsa et heretica" seg�n Pedro Garc�a est�n redactadas estas Determinationes del valenciano. Fue Inocencio viii quien invit� a Pedro Garc�a a replicar a Pico de la Mirandola, como lo afirma claramente el autor: "Petrus Garsias de ciuitate Xatiua Valentine diocesis. in artibus et sacra theologia magister parisienses anno salutifere natiuitate domini christi Ihesu Christi mcccclxxxviii felicis pontificatus tue beatutidinis anno iiii in vrbe Roma scripsi in edibus reuerendissimi domini mei domini Roderici de Boria".Magn�fica descripci�n de la magia, del esoterismo, de la c�bala, de la ortodoxia teol�gica parisina, de la defensa de la fe: "Quod opinio magorum de virtute vocum et numerorum est falsa et ab ecclesia damnata".       [Bookseller: Els Llibres del Tirant]  35.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Weigle, Luther A., Editor The New Testament Octapla Eight English Versions of the New Testament in the Tyndale-King James Tradition       New York, New York, U.S.A: Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd. Good in Frayed / Worn jacket Bible. 4to-over 9�"-12" tall. In parallel format. Includes: Tyndale; Great Bible; Geneva Bible; Bishops' Bible; Rheims New Testament; King James Version; American Standard Version; Revised Standard Version. Clean text, sound binding. This is a large book and is cocked and shaken. Boards are somewhat bent. 1489 pages. Contact Steels for more Bibles and Study Guides. Selling Christian books since 1973.       [Bookseller: Alibris]  36.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   Platea, Franciscus. Opus restitutionum, usurarum, excommunicationum. Casus papales, episcopales et abbatiales       [Peter Drach],, Spira: 1489 - 116 hojas. Signaturas aa-bb6, a-b8, c-f6, g4, h-i8, k-n6, o8, p-q6. La �ltima blanca, presente. Letra g�tica a dos columnas del tipo 84 para el texto. Rubricado en rojo. Sin lavar ni planchar. Reencuadernado en un pergamino antiguo pero bell�simo ejemplar. Hain & Copinger 13041*: Goff P-759. BMC II, 497. Pellechet Ms 9499 (9321). CIBN P-436. IBE 4647. IGI 7844. Publicada hacia 1472 en Padua y Venecia, esta es la primera edici�n con la addenda Casus papales, episcopales et abbatiales."Platea's Opus restitutionum, first printed in 1472 is the first, and earliest, book in the Goldsmith and Kress catalogues respectively. Platea, (also known as Fra Francesco Piazza) (?-1460), a Professor of law at the University of Bologna and a well-known and acclaimed preacher, includes a detailed discussion of monetary questions, the taking of interest and usury in this treatise on canon law. The first part of the Opus Restitutionum deals with the return of illicit gains. Also discussed are commercial transactions under a variety of different legal circumstances, such as two creditors competing for the spoils of one debtor. The second part concentrates on usury, which, as in all canon law, denotes not just high interest but all interest. Platea is firmly aligned within the church authorities in his condemnation of usury. The final section, De Excommunicationes deals with the judicial exclusion of offenders from the rights and privileges of the Christian community.The printers de Colonia and Mathen had already published an earlier edition of Platea's popular work in 1474, further editions were published in 1472 and 1473". [Schulz] [Attributes: First Edition]       [Bookseller: Els Llibres del Tirant]  37.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Herolt, Johannes. Quadragesimale discipuli. (Und: Johannes Gerson. Monotessaron. Und: Gabriel Biel. Sermo de passione dominica).       Reutlingen, Johann Otmar, 19. II. 1489.. 137 Bll. Gotische Type, 46 Zeilen, 2 Spalten. Typ. 6:81G, 7:170G. Die Rectoseiten des Quadragesimale sowie des Monotessaron rubriziert und mit roten Lombardinitialen. Blindgepr. Zeitgen�ssischer Halbschweinslederband �ber Holzdeckeln auf 3 B�nden mit hs. R�ckentitel sowie sp�terem Wappensupralibros. Eine mittige ziselierte Schlie�e. Kl.-Folio.. Erster Druck dieser Predigtsammlung. Die Schriften des N�rnberger Dominikanerpriors Johannes Herolt (gest. 1468), der seine Werke stets als "Discipulus" zeichnete, erfreuten sich in ganz Deutschland und Osteuropa bis ins 18. Jh. hinein gro�er Beliebtheit (vgl. LMA IV, 2175). - Johann Otmar, von Pollard als Erstdrucker Reutlingens genannt (1479), war (neben Michael Greyff) einer der nur zwei Inkunabeldrucker der Stadt. Er druckte bis 1495 etwa 50 lateinische Inkunabeln, haupts�chlich theologischen Inhalts, bevor er sich nach T�bingen wandte. - Nur ein Exemplar auf Auktionen der letzten Jahrzehnte (dieses aber incpl.; ohne den 3. Teil). Zu Beginn etwas wasserrandig; 2 kl. Randausschnitte am 1. Textblatt. Einige zeitgen�ss. Marginalien. Ohne das l. w. Bl. Am Schlu� hs. Besitzverrmerk des 17. Jhs.: "Frater Joannnes Gastl me iuro tenet 1627". Der sch�ne Einband mit einigen unbedeutenden Wurmspuren am Hinterdeckel. An den Deckeln goldgepr. Wappensupralibros der "Society of Writers to the Signet", eine dem schottischen H�chstgericht angeschlossene K�rperschaft und der �ltesten britischen Juristengesellschaften (1594 gegr�ndet). - Hain/C. 8515 (= 8514). GW 12339. BMC II, 586. Goff H-97. Sajo-Soltesz 1652. Sheppard 1981. Proctor 2715. Polain (B) 1912. ISTC ih00097000.       [Bookseller: Antiquariat Inlibris, Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]  38.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   CHARLES VIII (1470-1498), fils de Louis XI, couronn� roi de France en 1483.       Lettre sign�e � Charles � � Charles de Valois, comte d'Angoul�me, contresign�e par Thomas Bohier. Paris, 16 avril [1489]. 1 p. in-4, adresse, pliures discr�tement restaur�es. Tr�s rare lettre de Charles VIII sur les s�quelles de la guerre de Cent Ans. Les tensions demeuraient vives entre la France et l'Angleterre lorsque Charles VIII acc�da au tr�ne. En f�vrier 1489, le roi d'Angleterre, Henri VII, concluait avec Anne de Bretagne le trait� de Redon, aux termes duquel il s'engageait � apporter une aide militaire anglaise � la duchesse si un conflit venait � l'opposer � la France. C'est dans ce contexte tendu que, dans la pr�sente lettre, Charles VIII se montre inquiet de la pr�sence de dix-huit navires de la marine royale anglaise le long des c�tes de Bretagne : � presentement avons eu nouvelles touchant les Anloiz lesquels comme l'on dit sont sur mer du coust� de Normandie en grant nombre de navires, et ne scet-on encores o� ilz veullent descendre. � prix net ; port recommand� et emballage de protection factur�s forfaitairement 8 euros       [Bookseller: Artecosa]  39.   Check availability:     Livre-Rare-Book   Link/Print   PLINIUS, G. SECUNDUS (23-79 d.C.) Historia naturale di C. Plinio Secondo tradocta di lingua latina in fiorentina per Christophoro Landino fiorentino al serenissimo Ferdinando re di Napoli.       Venezia, Bartolomeo Zanni de Portesio 1489 - In folio (cm 30), buona legatura recente ad imitazione coeva in mezza pelle su assi di legno, dorso a 3 nervi, nelle lettere capitali guida rubricate a mano in rosso, lieve alone e piccoli tarli, per il resto esemplare in buone condizioni con ampi margini. Testo in car. rotondo su due colonne su 60 linee, cc. (259), manca la carta bianca a1. s, segn.: a-q8, r-s6, A-N8, O-P6. Terza edizione della traduzione italiana di Cristoforo Landino, impressa per la prima volta da Jenson nel 1476. Vera e propria enciclopedia dell'antichitˆ, (prima ed. latina a stampa Venezia 1469), risente dell'influenza dell'opera di Lucrezio 'De rerum natura' (scritta nel I secolo a.C.), ebbe un enorme successo nel corso dei secoli, che determin˜ una fioritura di antologie, selezioni e persino manipolature che si protrasse fino a tutto il Medioevo. Con l'arrivo dell'Umanesimo, il testo pliniano - "sfigurato" dai maltrattamenti medievali - divenne oggetto della cura attenta di molti filologi. Il contenuto  suddiviso in 37 libri (il primo, che  l'indice, fu completato da Plinio il Giovane, nipote, e contiene la dedica a Tito), cos" raggruppati: descrizione dell'universo (II); geografia ed etnografia del Bacino del Mar Mediterraneo (III-VI); antropologia (VII); zoologia (VIII-XI); botanica e agricoltura (XII-XIX); medicina e piante medicinali (XX-XXVII); medicina e medicamenti ricavati dagli animali (XXVII-XXXII); mineralogia (XXXII-XXXVII). Di particolare interesse il libro XIV, che contiene molte informazioni sull'uso della vite e del vino nella civiltˆ romana, oltre ad altre notizie sulle piante odorose, gli alberi da frutto, l'agricoltura, il giardinaggio, le piante medicinali. HCR 13107; IGI 7895; BMC V,431; Goff P803. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Paolo Rambaldi]  40.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   BIBLIA CUM CONCORDANTIIS ET TERMINORUM HEBRAICORUM INTERPRETATIONIBUS       Pr�ss, Strasbourg 1489 - Reliure plein veau fauve du XIX�me, dos � nerfs orn�s de caissons � froids, filets sur les plats ; tranches antiqu�es (accrocs) ; Belles impression gothique, texte sur 2 colonnes de 52 lignes ; Titre au recto du premier feuillet imprim� en gros caract�res r�hauss�s de rouge. Rubrication rouge et initiales tr�s amples dont certaines tr�s belle en rouge et bleu [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: AU POINT DU JOUR]  41.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   2243 Le commandant en chef de l'arm�e des Pyr�n�es-Orient... La Sainte Chapelle de Dijon amodie un prieur�.       Nombre de document : 1 parchemin Nombre de page : 1 47 x 39 cm 15/01/1489 petites d�chirures sans manque. Amodiation, par Guillaume Nachard, chanoine de la chapelle des ducs de Bourgogne, pour le chapitre de la Sainte Chapelle de Dijon, du prieur� de Chevigny Sainte-Foy (dioc�se de Langres), au prix de 40 livres tournois, pour une dur�e de six ans. Nombre de page : 1       [Bookseller: Traces �crites]  42.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Boethius; Isidor von Sevilla, Cartography. BOETHIUS - De consolatione Philosphiae. Cum editione commentaria beati Thome de Aquino ordinis praedicatorum; [Bound with,] ISIDOR - LIBER ETHIMILOGIARUM. Jsidori Hyspalensis epi(scopi). [Bound With] ISIDOR Hispalensis - DE SUMMO BONO       (Basel [and] Nuremberg [and] Venedig: M. Furter [and] Anton Koberger [and] Perrum loslein de Langencen, 1489, 1486, 1483) Very early printings of each of the classic works. Probably one of the very earliest printings of each volume now attainable. A copy from the Koberger workshop and a copy with extensive and very interesting contemporary marginalia. Illustrated with the famous world map, the full page illustrated plate, and two other early illustrations in the text, rubricated throughout in red and blue in an expert and highly accomplished hand. Folio, most likely, according to expert opinion, a Koberger binding of contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, beautifully blind tooled with exact tooling in overall decoration of each cover and spine in Renaissance design, with brass corner pieces, bosses and clasps. A beautiful, very well preserved and very handsome copy, one central boss lacking, a very fine, crisp, clean and handsome copy throughout, text-blocks and all illustrations in excellent condition. A BEAUTIFUL VOLUME AND A SUPERB EDITION. Concerning the Boethius, DE CONSOLATIONE was the most famous of Boethius� works and was written while he was in prison on false charges. "De Consolatione" is described by Gibbon as "�a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.�" [Ency Brit]. The text is arranged in five books and the style is both prose and verse. As Plato argued before him, Boethius claims that contrary to appearances, "vice is never unpunished nor virtue unrewarded." [Ency Brit] He claims as his own sources: Plato, Aristotle, Nicomachos, Ptolemy and Albinus. He was a statesman as well as a philosopher, and was appointed Consul in Rome under Theodorie the Ostrogoth in 510. Because he was eventually put to death, he was soon characterized as a martyr for the Christian cause. Later, Boethius� work was greatly instrumental in bringing back a focus on Plato and Aristotle and it was highly esteemed throughout the Middle Ages. Alfred the Great translated it into Anglo-Saxon and Chaucer turned it into English, while before the end of tghe eighteenth century versions had appeared in French, Italian, Spanish, German and Greek. The commentary is ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas. Concerning �Isidor�s LIBER ETHIMILOGIARUM, the �Etymologiae� presents in abbreviated form much of that part of the learning of antiquity that Christians thought worth preserving. Isidore's vast encyclopedia systematizing ancient learning includes subjects from theology to furniture and provided a rich source of classical lore and learning for medieval writers. In all, Isidore quotes from 154 authors, both Christian and pagan. Many of the Christian authors he read in the originals; of the pagans, many he consulted in current compilations. Bishop Braulio, to whom Isidore dedicated it and sent it for correction, divided it into its twenty books. Through the Middle Ages The �Etymologiae� was the textbook most in use, regarded so highly as a depository of classical learning that, in a great measure, it superseded the use of the individual works of the classics themselves, full texts of which were no longer copied and thus were lost. The book was not only one of the most popular compendia in medieval libraries but was printed in at least ten editions between 1470 and 1530, showing Isidore's continued popularity in the Renaissance, rivalling Vincent of Beauvais. A stylized map based on �Etymologiae�nent Asia is peopled by descendants of Sem or Shem, Africa by descendants of Ham and Europe by descendants of Japheth, the sons of Noah. This map reflects Isidore's sixth century view; we now know that, although undoubtedly widely read, Isidore was not always correct in his conjectures. Isidore taught in the �Etymologiae� that the Earth was round. His meaning was ambiguous and some writers think he referred to a disc-shaped Earth; his other writings make it clear, however, that he considered the Earth to be globular. He also admitted the possibility of people dwelling at the antipodes, considering them as legendary and noting that there was no evidence for their existence. Isidore's disc-shaped analogy continued to be used through the Middle Ages by authors clearly favouring a spherical Earth, e.g. the 9th century bishop Rabanus Maurus who compared the habitable part of the northern hemisphere (Aristotle's northern temperate clime) with a wheel, imagined as a slice of the whole sphere.� Famously, in DE SUMMO BONO, Isidor wrote, "It is a hard matter for a prince to come to good, if he (once) chance to be ensnared, (and enfolded), in wickedness and vice." And not long after it followeth; "For the common people stand in awe of a wicked judge. But kings, (unless God should restrain and curb them with the fear of him alone,) would run headlong into perdition: and abusing their authority, they would dare to commit all manner of villany, and so' much the more readily, if there were not one upon earth which instead, and [in the] place of God (himself,) might punish them.""       [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc.]  43.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   MANILIUS, Marcus (fl. first century AD). Astronomicon.       [Verona, Paulus Fridenperger, c. 1489-1490]. 1489 Sm. 4to., 78 leaves, roman letter, capital spaces(see below), one 4-line initial supplied in red and blue, a few insignificant round wormholes in the first half of the volume; a clean, unwashed copy in English 18th century calf, gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments; joints skilfully renewed; with the Macclesfield bookplate. An early edition of Manilius's Astronomicon, "our oldest connected treatise on astrology, important because of its antiquity" (DSB)."The first book is devoted to astronomy, with a description of the cosmos that includes theories about its origin, the stars, the planets, the celestial circles, and the comets. The second book analyzes the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac and the possibilities of their conjunctions; the third describes the twelve athla, the locus Fortunae, and the way to determine a horoscope; the fourth analyzes the decans of the zodiacal signs (each sign consists of three units, or decans, each of ten degrees, for a total of thirty-six decans) and their influence on human characteristics; the fifth examines the extra-zodiacal signs that accompany the movement of the zodiac and the magnitudes of the stars."Although attributed by BMC to Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus in Venice, c. 1498-1500, this anonymous printing has recently been attributed to the �migr� German printer in Verona, Paulus Fridenperger.Dr Martin Davies writes: Daniela Fattori, 'Nuove ricerche sulla tipografia veronese del Quattrocento', La Bibliofil�a, 97 (1995), 1-20 (pp. 12-13) has reattributed this quarto edition to the press of Paulus Fridenperger of Passau at Verona, for various good reasons: The type is of a common Venetian sort (111/112R), which BMC V 598 (Addenda) decided was that of Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus, 111R, as described at p. 546; Proctor had earlier classed it among the Venetian adespota. Fattori reckons the measurement as more exactly 112 mm. and indistinguishable from the 112R used at Verona by Fridenperger in his signed Lucretius of 1486 (BMC VII 953), though appreciably less sharp in the Manilius.She says that the watermark that appears in the Manilius is the "strange little bird with a long beak, large head, and feet in the form of an h (Briquet 12190), which is characteristic of Veronese incunables of the last fifteen years of the fifteenth century and presumably derives from a Veronese papermaker, being found almost exclusively at Verona." She says it is found in all the products of Fridenperger's Veronese press, including the Lucretius, and in another Veronese incunable of 1491 from a different printer. The small quarto tracts are extremely rare and not found in the UK, so we must take her word for it there; but B. 12190 is not found in any of the four copies of Lucretius I have looked at in the British Library.Despite the Lucretius being a folio and the Manilius a quarto, she regards the two works as being "part of the same publishing project", concerned with the publication of two ancient scientific poems. She remarks that the affinity is all the greater when the style of setting out the books of each work is considered. Both of them have r�sum�s of the contents (capitula) of the individual books or large sections placed in telegraphic fashion at the end of each. The third point is a good one and can be reinforced by an observation she does not make, that these capitula headings have in both Lucretius and Manilius spaces left for initials at the beginning of each line, but the initials so called for are actually printed (BMC remarks on this in the Lucretius, VII 953).A last point, again not made by Fattori but not in itself of much account, is that like most of the other smaller tracts now attributed to Fridenperger at Verona, the Manilius is found in Verona today (B. Comunale) but not in any Venetian library.BMC VII, p. l stated that the 1486 Lucretius was the only signed work of Fridenperger at Verona, but another has since come to light (in Verona Comunale, the only known copy), Guarino, Regulae (GW 11657), explicitly signed by him at Verona, 28 October 1487. This too is in the 112R of the Lucretius and Manilius. After his period of printing at Verona, Fridenperger next appears as a publisher (not printer) at Venice in 1495. Against the Gesamtkatalog's belief that he continued to print at Venice, see Paul Needham, 'Venetian Printers and Publishers in the Fifteenth Century', La Bibliofil�a, 100 (1999), 157-200, p. 188 (Publishers no. 30).H 10702; BMC V 598; Klebs 661.6; Goff M206.       [Bookseller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd.]  44.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus 10 November 1489, Venice - Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, . He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. . His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]  45.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   VILLON Fran�ois.- L'Oeuvre compl�te de Fran�ois Villon       - ma�tre �s arts de la Sorbonne, vaurien et po�te � ses heures, contenant aussi le jargon des voleurs et autres truands de la bonne ville de Paris. Texte compos� dans la gothique grav�e par Jean du Pr� en l'an 1489, suivi d'une pr�sentation moderne en romain garamond. Introduction et textes �tablis par Catherine PETIT, ma�tre �s lettres. Paris. Jean de Bonnot. 1977. Gd in-8 (210 x 275mm) plein cuir havane orn� sur les 2 plats et le dos de motifs de l'�poque de Villon, dor�s et � froid, reliure de l'�diteur, gardes papier dor� imitant la soie, orn� de motifs floraux, t�te dor�e, 518, (2) pages., nombreuses illustrations reproduisant des gravures de l'�poque, pages toutes bord�es de frises sur fond or et brun. Bel exemplaire du TIRAGE DE TETE SP�CIAL. Cachet et signature de l'�diteur (imprim�s).       [Bookseller: Librairie Les Vieux Ordinaires]  46.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   ESOPO LA VIDA DEL YSOPET CON SUS FABULAS HYSTORIADAS FABULAS DE ESOPO       - La vida del Ysopet con sus f�bulas hystoriadas. F�bulas de Esopo. Reproducci�n en facs�mile de la primera edici�n de 1489. Pub�cala la Real Academia Espa�ola.- Madrid, Tipograf�a de Archivos, 1929; en folio r�stica original con sobrecubiertas en papel vegetal, LII p�ginas con Introducci�n por Emilio Cotarelo y Mori, CXXXII p�ginas y 1 hoja con el facs�mil. Numerosas ilustraciones en el texto. Caracteres g�ticos. Reproduce la primera edici�n de Zaragoza, Johan Hurus Alem�n, 1489. Raro en comercio. Buen ejemplar. Palau n� 81959.       [Bookseller: LIBRERIA ANTICUARIA SANZ]  47.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]  48.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   MANILIUS, Marcus (fl. first century AD). Astronomicon.       [Verona, Paulus Fridenperger, c. 1489-1490]. 1489 - Sm. 4to., 78 leaves, roman letter, capital spaces (see below), one 4-line initial supplied in red and blue, a few insignificant round wormholes in the first half of the volume; a clean, unwashed copy in English 18th century calf, gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments; joints skilfully renewed; with the Macclesfield bookplate. An early edition of Manilius's Astronomicon, "our oldest connected treatise on astrology, important because of its antiquity" (DSB)."The first book is devoted to astronomy, with a description of the cosmos that includes theories about its origin, the stars, the planets, the celestial circles, and the comets. The second book analyzes the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac and the possibilities of their conjunctions; the third describes the twelve athla, the locus Fortunae, and the way to determine a horoscope; the fourth analyzes the decans of the zodiacal signs (each sign consists of three units, or decans, each of ten degrees, for a total of thirty-six decans) and their influence on human characteristics; the fifth examines the extra-zodiacal signs that accompany the movement of the zodiac and the magnitudes of the stars."Although attributed by BMC to Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus in Venice, c. 1498-1500, this anonymous printing has recently been attributed to the �migr� German printer in Verona, Paulus Fridenperger.Dr Martin Davies writes: Daniela Fattori, 'Nuove ricerche sulla tipografia veronese del Quattrocento', La Bibliofil�a, 97 (1995), 1-20 (pp. 12-13) has reattributed this quarto edition to the press of Paulus Fridenperger of Passau at Verona, for various good reasons: The type is of a common Venetian sort (111/112R), which BMC V 598 (Addenda) decided was that of Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus, 111R, as described at p. 546; Proctor had earlier classed it among the Venetian adespota. Fattori reckons the measurement as more exactly 112 mm. and indistinguishable from the 112R used at Verona by Fridenperger in his signed Lucretius of 1486 (BMC VII 953), though appreciably less sharp in the Manilius.She says that the watermark that appears in the Manilius is the "strange little bird with a long beak, large head, and feet in the form of an h (Briquet 12190), which is characteristic of Veronese incunables of the last fifteen years of the fifteenth century and presumably derives from a Veronese papermaker, being found almost exclusively at Verona." She says it is found in all the products of Fridenperger's Veronese press, including the Lucretius, and in another Veronese incunable of 1491 from a different printer. The small quarto tracts are extremely rare and not found in the UK, so we must take her word for it there; but B. 12190 is not found in any of the four copies of Lucretius I have looked at in the British Library.Despite the Lucretius being a folio and the Manilius a quarto, she regards the two works as being "part of the same publishing project", concerned with the publication of two ancient scientific poems. She remarks that the affinity is all the greater when the style of setting out the books of each work is considered. Both of them have r�sum�s of the contents (capitula) of the individual books or large sections placed in telegraphic fashion at the end of each. The third point is a good one and can be reinforced by an observation she does not make, that these capitula headings have in both Lucretius and Manilius spaces left for initials at the beginning of each line, but the initials so called for are actually printed (BMC remarks on this in the Lucretius, VII 953).A last point, again not made by Fattori but not in itself of much account, is that like most of the other smaller tracts now attributed to Fridenperger at Verona, the Manilius is found in Verona today (B. Comunale) but not in any Venetian library.BMC VII, p. l stated that the 1486 Lucretius was the only signed work of Fridenperger at Verona, but another has since come to light (in Verona Comunale, the only       [Bookseller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB]  49.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Boethius; Isidor von Sevilla Cartography BOETHIUS - De consolatione Philosphiae. Cum editione commentaria beati Thome de Aquino ordinis praedicatorum; [Bound with,] ISIDOR - LIBER ETHIMILOGIARUM. Jsidori Hyspalensis epi(scopi). [Bound With] ISIDOR Hispalensis - DE SUMMO BONO       Basel [and] Nuremberg [and] Venedig M. Furter [and] Anton Koberger [and] Perrum loslein de Langencen 1489, 1486, 1483 - Very early printings of each of the classic works. Probably one of the very earliest printings of each volume now attainable. A copy from the Koberger workshop and a copy with extensive and very interesting contemporary marginalia. Illustrated with the famous world map, the full page illustrated plate, and two other early illustrations in the text, rubricated throughout in red and blue in an expert and highly accomplished hand. Folio, most likely, according to expert opinion, a Koberger binding of contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, beautifully blind tooled with exact tooling in overall decoration of each cover and spine in Renaissance design, with brass corner pieces, bosses and clasps. A beautiful, very well preserved and very handsome copy, one central boss lacking, a very fine, crisp, clean and handsome copy throughout, text-blocks and all illustrations in excellent condition. A BEAUTIFUL VOLUME AND A SUPERB EDITION. Concerning the Boethius, DE CONSOLATIONE was the most famous of Boethius� works and was written while he was in prison on false charges. "De Consolatione" is described by Gibbon as "�a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.�" [Ency Brit]. The text is arranged in five books and the style is both prose and verse. As Plato argued before him, Boethius claims that contrary to appearances, "vice is never unpunished nor virtue unrewarded." [Ency Brit] He claims as his own sources: Plato, Aristotle, Nicomachos, Ptolemy and Albinus. He was a statesman as well as a philosopher, and was appointed Consul in Rome under Theodorie the Ostrogoth in 510. Because he was eventually put to death, he was soon characterized as a martyr for the Christian cause. Later, Boethius� work was greatly instrumental in bringing back a focus on Plato and Aristotle and it was highly esteemed throughout the Middle Ages. Alfred the Great translated it into Anglo-Saxon and Chaucer turned it into English, while before the end of tghe eighteenth century versions had appeared in French, Italian, Spanish, German and Greek. The commentary is ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas. Concerning �Isidor�s LIBER ETHIMILOGIARUM, the �Etymologiae� presents in abbreviated form much of that part of the learning of antiquity that Christians thought worth preserving. Isidore's vast encyclopedia systematizing ancient learning includes subjects from theology to furniture and provided a rich source of classical lore and learning for medieval writers. In all, Isidore quotes from 154 authors, both Christian and pagan. Many of the Christian authors he read in the originals; of the pagans, many he consulted in current compilations. Bishop Braulio, to whom Isidore dedicated it and sent it for correction, divided it into its twenty books. Through the Middle Ages The �Etymologiae� was the textbook most in use, regarded so highly as a depository of classical learning that, in a great measure, it superseded the use of the individual works of the classics themselves, full texts of which were no longer copied and thus were lost. The book was not only one of the most popular compendia in medieval libraries but was printed in at least ten editions between 1470 and 1530, showing Isidore's continued popularity in the Renaissance, rivalling Vincent of Beauvais. A stylized map based on �Etymologiae�nent Asia is peopled by descendants of Sem or Shem, Africa by descendants of Ham and Europe by descendants of Japheth, the sons of Noah. This map reflects Isidore's sixth century view; we now know that, although undoubtedly widely read, Isidore was n [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc. ABAA]  50.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MANILIUS, Marcus (fl. first century AD). Astronomicon.       [Verona, Paulus Fridenperger, c. 1489-1490]. 1489 - Sm. 4to., 78 leaves, roman letter, capital spaces (see below), one 4-line initial supplied in red and blue, a few insignificant round wormholes in the first half of the volume; a clean, unwashed copy in English 18th century calf, gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments; joints skilfully renewed; with the Macclesfield bookplate. An early edition of Manilius's Astronomicon, "our oldest connected treatise on astrology, important because of its antiquity" (DSB)."The first book is devoted to astronomy, with a description of the cosmos that includes theories about its origin, the stars, the planets, the celestial circles, and the comets. The second book analyzes the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac and the possibilities of their conjunctions; the third describes the twelve athla, the locus Fortunae, and the way to determine a horoscope; the fourth analyzes the decans of the zodiacal signs (each sign consists of three units, or decans, each of ten degrees, for a total of thirty-six decans) and their influence on human characteristics; the fifth examines the extra-zodiacal signs that accompany the movement of the zodiac and the magnitudes of the stars."Although attributed by BMC to Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus in Venice, c. 1498-1500, this anonymous printing has recently been attributed to the �migr� German printer in Verona, Paulus Fridenperger.Dr Martin Davies writes: Daniela Fattori, 'Nuove ricerche sulla tipografia veronese del Quattrocento', La Bibliofil�a, 97 (1995), 1-20 (pp. 12-13) has reattributed this quarto edition to the press of Paulus Fridenperger of Passau at Verona, for various good reasons: The type is of a common Venetian sort (111/112R), which BMC V 598 (Addenda) decided was that of Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus, 111R, as described at p. 546; Proctor had earlier classed it among the Venetian adespota. Fattori reckons the measurement as more exactly 112 mm. and indistinguishable from the 112R used at Verona by Fridenperger in his signed Lucretius of 1486 (BMC VII 953), though appreciably less sharp in the Manilius.She says that the watermark that appears in the Manilius is the "strange little bird with a long beak, large head, and feet in the form of an h (Briquet 12190), which is characteristic of Veronese incunables of the last fifteen years of the fifteenth century and presumably derives from a Veronese papermaker, being found almost exclusively at Verona." She says it is found in all the products of Fridenperger's Veronese press, including the Lucretius, and in another Veronese incunable of 1491 from a different printer. The small quarto tracts are extremely rare and not found in the UK, so we must take her word for it there; but B. 12190 is not found in any of the four copies of Lucretius I have looked at in the British Library.Despite the Lucretius being a folio and the Manilius a quarto, she regards the two works as being "part of the same publishing project", concerned with the publication of two ancient scientific poems. She remarks that the affinity is all the greater when the style of setting out the books of each work is considered. Both of them have r�sum�s of the contents (capitula) of the individual books or large sections placed in telegraphic fashion at the end of each. The third point is a good one and can be reinforced by an observation she does not make, that these capitula headings have in both Lucretius and Manilius spaces left for initials at the beginning of each line, but the initials so called for are actually printed (BMC remarks on this in the Lucretius, VII 953).A last point, again not made by Fattori but not in itself of much account, is that like most of the other smaller tracts now attributed to Fridenperger at Verona, the Manilius is found in Verona today (B. Comunale) but not in any Venetian library.BMC VII, p. l stated that the 1486 Lucretius was the only signed work of Fridenperger at Verona, but another has since come to light (in Verona Comunale, the only       [Bookseller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB]  51.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus 10 November 1489, Venice - Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, . He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. . His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]  52.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Hardouin Livre d'Heures       Germain Hardouyn, Paris 1489 - Livre des Heures ~ A Paris, Germain Hardouin, fin XIV�me si�cle ~ In-8, 1 feuillet v�lin d'un livre desHeures imprim� sur le v�lin par Gilles Hardouin. ''Germain Hardouyn libraire demourant deuant le Palays entre les deux portes a lymaige saincte Marguerite " ". Repr�sentation du myst�re de la Trinit� qui est le myst�re central de la foi chr�tienne. Il ne s'agit pas de sp�culations subtiles �trang�res � la foi et � la vie quotidienne du chr�tien mais d'un enseignement fondamental qui appara�t d�s le Nouveau Testament ( Mt 28,19 ; 2CO 13,13 ) : Rare incunable tentant d'expliquer le myst�re de la Trinit� [Janus �tait le dieu des portes et des entr�es, repr�sent� avec deux visages regardant dans des directions oppos�es, la repr�sentation de Dieu se r�v�le en tant que P�re, Fils et Saint-Esprit par trois figures] . . Aux quatre angle de la gravure sont repr�sent�s les 4 �vang�listes, J�r�me l'expose dans la Pr�face "Plures fuisse" de son "Commentaire sur saint Matthieu", r�dig� en 398). J�r�me cite Ez 1,10 et en suit l'ordre: H = Mt, Mc = L, Lc = T, A = Jn. [Voil� la pr�face de J�r�me dans la traduction des "Sources chr�tiennes" : "La premi�re face , celle d'un homme d�signe Matthieu qui dan son d�but, semble �crire l'histoire d'un homme : "Livre de la g�n�alogie de J�sus-Christ fils de David, fils d'Abraham". La seconde d�signe Marc, qui fait entendre la voix du lion rugissant dans le d�sert : "Voix de celui qui crie dans le d�sert : Pr�parez la voie du Seigneur, aplanissez ses sentiers." La troisi�me face, celle du jeune taureau, pr�figure l'�vang�liste Luc qui commence son r�cit au pr�tre de Zacharie ; la quatri�me, celle de l'�vang�liste Jean qui prend des ailes d'aigle pour s'�lancer encore plus haut encore et traiter du Verbe de Dieu".]. [Attributes: Soft Cover]       [Bookseller: Incunable]  53.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus 10 November 1489, Venice - Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, . He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. . His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]  54.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Hardouin Livre d'Heures       Germain Hardouyn, Paris 1489 - Livre des Heures ~ A Paris, Germain Hardouin, fin XIV�me si�cle ~ In-8, 1 feuillet v�lin d'un livre desHeures imprim� sur le v�lin par Gilles Hardouin. ''Germain Hardouyn libraire demourant deuant le Palays entre les deux portes a lymaige saincte Marguerite " ". Repr�sentation du myst�re de la Trinit� qui est le myst�re central de la foi chr�tienne. Il ne s'agit pas de sp�culations subtiles �trang�res � la foi et � la vie quotidienne du chr�tien mais d'un enseignement fondamental qui appara�t d�s le Nouveau Testament ( Mt 28,19 ; 2CO 13,13 ) : Rare incunable tentant d'expliquer le myst�re de la Trinit� [Janus �tait le dieu des portes et des entr�es, repr�sent� avec deux visages regardant dans des directions oppos�es, la repr�sentation de Dieu se r�v�le en tant que P�re, Fils et Saint-Esprit par trois figures] . . Aux quatre angle de la gravure sont repr�sent�s les 4 �vang�listes, J�r�me l'expose dans la Pr�face "Plures fuisse" de son "Commentaire sur saint Matthieu", r�dig� en 398). J�r�me cite Ez 1,10 et en suit l'ordre: H = Mt, Mc = L, Lc = T, A = Jn. [Voil� la pr�face de J�r�me dans la traduction des "Sources chr�tiennes" : "La premi�re face , celle d'un homme d�signe Matthieu qui dan son d�but, semble �crire l'histoire d'un homme : "Livre de la g�n�alogie de J�sus-Christ fils de David, fils d'Abraham". La seconde d�signe Marc, qui fait entendre la voix du lion rugissant dans le d�sert : "Voix de celui qui crie dans le d�sert : Pr�parez la voie du Seigneur, aplanissez ses sentiers." La troisi�me face, celle du jeune taureau, pr�figure l'�vang�liste Luc qui commence son r�cit au pr�tre de Zacharie ; la quatri�me, celle de l'�vang�liste Jean qui prend des ailes d'aigle pour s'�lancer encore plus haut encore et traiter du Verbe de Dieu".]. [Attributes: Soft Cover]       [Bookseller: Incunable]  55.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   TORQUEMADA Johannes de Summa de ecclesia contra impugnatores potestatis summi pontificis.       Rome, Eucharius Silber, 1489, in-folio, ff. 218 (senza numeraz. n� segnatura, ma: a-e8, f6, g-h8, i6, k-l8, m6, n-q8, r6, s8, t6, u-x-y8, z6, A-B8, C6, D8, E-F6, *4), legatura coeva in pergamena, titolo ms. sul piatto ant. e sul taglio inf., il dorso rifatto nel XVII sec., con titolo in oro. Precede la lettera al lettore di Gerolamo Scoptius; in fine il registro e 4 ff. di Indici. Importante opera del teologo domenicano, e Cardinale, nato a Valladolid nel 1388 e morto a Roma nel 1468, zio di Tommaso Torquemada; relativa al governo della Chiesa ed alla autorit� del Pontefice, fu scritta in risposta al "De concordantia catholica di Nicol� Cusano" e venne a lungo sfruttata dai difensori dell�autorit� pontificia contro ogni forma di conciliarismo. Il f. a1 reca al recto il titolo in grandi caratteri impresso in rosso su 9 linee: �Joannis de Turre cremata Cardina/lis s.xisti Aurea & legans suma contra impugnatores pote/statis summi pontificis ...�; al verso la prefazione dello Scoptius. Questo titolo fu impresso in pochissimi esemplari, ma su un foglio aggiunto, bianco al verso, con la prefazione al verso di altro foglio bianco al recto; infatti Hain � in 219 ff., e Pellechet in 220 ff., con il sesto bianco. In tutti gli altri esempl. (BMC, Polain, Oates, 2 Pellechet, 3 Vaticana, Choix d�Olschki) il recto della prefazione � bianco, con 218 ff., e i 4 ff. d�indice posti all�inizio; la nostra variante li deve invece avere alla fine, come chiaramente dichiarato sul titolo.Questo titolo fu impresso in rosso in pochissimi esemplari; apparentemente solo quello citato da Hain, uno di quelli citati da Pellechet, e 2 su 5 della Vaticana. Entrambi gli esemplari della B.Nazionale di Firenze non hanno il titolo in rosso. � chiaro che l�edizione ebbe dei problemi tipografici dovuti alla difficolt� di stampare in rosso sullo stesso foglio. Straordinario incunabulo romano di grande formato, di notevole rarit�. Bellissimo esemplare a grandi margini, nitidamente impresso su carta forte (lievi fioriture marginali a pochi ff., forellino di tarlo nel margine inf. degli ultimi ff.). Polain 3874. Oates 1535. Howard McIlvvain, The Growth of Political Thought in the West, N.Y. 1932, p.351: "The title indicates accurately the purpose and the contents of the book...powers of Pope and Council�".       [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco s.a.s. di]  56.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Massa, Niccol�. Il libro del mal francese. Composto dall'Eccel. Medico & Filosofo M. Niccol� Massa Venetiano. Nuovamente tradotto da un dottissimo medico, di Latino, nella nostra lingua Italiana. Con uno utilissimo Antidotario, estratto dall'istessa opera, di tutti i pri       16� (cm. 11x15 ca.), leg. coeva in perg. molle, pp. (16) 320. Lievi aloni e bruniture, ma bell'esemplare. RARISSIMA EDIZIONE Italiana di questo importante trattato sulla sifilide di Niccol� Massa (1489-1569), insigne medico italiano e professore di medicina a Venezia. Questa edizione � stata ampliata dal traduttore con l'aggiunta di un "antidotario" per permettere di trovare con facilit� le cure pi� idonee al trattamento del "mal francese". La patologia nota come sifilide comparve in Europa dopo la scoperta       [Bookseller: Ai due santi Libreria di Alessandro Negr]  57.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]  58.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   PETTAS, WILLIAM A History & Bibliography Of The Giunti (junta) Printing Family In Spain 1526 - 1628, Covering The Junta (giunti) Press And The Imprenta Real In Burgos, Salamanca & Madrid With A Brief History Of The Several Giunti Presses In Venice, Florence And Lyon And A Bibliography Of The Press Of Juan Bautista Varesio In Burgos, Valladolid & Lerma.       Oak Knoll Press, New Castle: 2004. h Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Brand new bo This monumental work opens with a 170 page history of the Giunti publishing family that covers their achievements in Italy, Spain and France from 1489 to 1628. As the great rivals of the Aldine Press, the Giunti aggressively captured large portions of the lucrative governmental and Church's printing business. From their base in Florence and Venice, family members set up printing presses in Burgos, Salamanca, Madrid, Valladolid, Lerma and Lyons. In Spain they became printers to the most powerful King in the world and established "The Imprenta Real," changing their name to "Junta." The comprehensive, 700 page bibliography of the books they published while in Spain is annotated with more than 148 woodcuts of their ornate title page art, imprints, and other identifying ornaments. The text also features the genealogical charts of the family, library holdings, and a documentary chronology. The author, William Pettas, has researched this early printing family for over twenty years, and this is his second work on this important clan. A very readable and valuable contribution to the history of the book and an important bibliography and reference work. Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Brand new bo       [Bookseller: Ad Infinitum Books]  59.   Check availability:     Direct from seller   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]  60.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Treatise on the Art of Silk and the Art of Silk in Florence (Fine Facsimile Edition in Box)       Giunti. New A box (size 235 x 325 mm, also available with silk-binding) contains the facsimile of the Laurentian Codex Plut. 89. Sup. Cod. 117 (year 1489), of 122 pages, and the anastatic reprint of the 1868 edition of L'arte della seta, from the Riccardi codex 2580 (fifteenth century), of X-344 pages. A WORK IN TWO volumes which is precious and unique in its kind: the facsimile of a famous, antique illustrated codex, and the anastatic edition, put into type for the first time in Florence in 1868 by Barbera, of another fifteenth-century treatise on a parallel subject. Indeed ever since the Middle Ages the silk craft had given renown to Florence among merchants all over the world then known. This caused a proliferation, particularly during the fifteenth century, of treatises, written in polished and lively style, often embellished with magnificent illustrations, shedding light on every aspect of this fascinating artistic practice. The edition in facsimile of the codex, which is preserved in Florence's Laurentian Library, contains exquisitely accurate reproductions of the 59 pages of a richly decorated manuscript dated February 1489, once the property of Emperor Francis III, who donated it to the prestigious Florentine library in 1755. The water-colour illustrations provide charming vignettes of each phase of silk manufacture, following the text step by step. This ends with an interesting book of accounts with marginal sketches showing merchants and book-keepers. The small volume of 1868 on the other hand is the reproduction of another fifteenth-century Florentine treatise on the subject of silk craft that was publicized and annotated by the learned Girolamo Gargiolli who, on sending it to press for the first time in about 1868, endowed it with a documentary appendix, a glossary and a useful index of special words and expressions. Our Promise to You: ALL OUR DUST JACKETS COME WITH CLEAR BRODART PROTECTIVE COVERS. (Please read listing to determine if this book comes with a...       [Bookseller: Alibris]  61.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   Costantinides Efthalia Images from the Byzantine Periphery : Studies in Iconography and Style       Alexandros Press, Leiden 2008 - Title: Images from the Byzantine Periphery: Studies in Iconography and Style Author: Constantinides, Efthalia Price: Euro 350,00.- xx ISBN: 9789080647671 Description: Leiden: Alexandros Press, 2008. 24cm., hardcover, 304pp. text, 309 color, 42 b&w illus. This book contains nine essays published by the author in various journals during the last ten years, except for the last one, which appears here for the first time. Most of the original illustrations have been substituted here by colour ones and new illustrations have been added to them. The material mainly deals with painting in Cyprus and Georgia. The author, known by her superb publication on the church of the Panagia Olympiotissa at Elasson, studied and photographed the monuments in numerous journeys in Greece, Constantinople, Cappadocia, Armenia, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Russia, Cyprus, Georgia, Egypt and Sinai. These studies contribute immeasurably to the knowledge of how Byzantine art, radiating from Constantinople, influenced the entire Orthodox periphery by demonstrating the way the technology and aesthetics of itinerant artists traveling to distant regions preserved the ideology and Iconographic norms of the Capital. The essay on the Monumental Painting in Cyprus during the Venetian Period (1489-1570) examines the Paleologan trends and the synthesis of the Italo-Byzantine cycle in a number of churches. The 16th-century churches of Chrysopantanassa and St. John the Baptist at Aska are distinguished through no less than five extensive narrative cycles in the former, among which a large cycle of St. Nicholas, consisting of sixteen episodes, and subtle personifications of Virtues. The latter church reveals the continuous contact with religious life portrayed by the holy images which kept the Orthodox Faith during the Venetian period alive and deeply inspiring, immortalised despite the passage of time. The large 13th-century icon of St. George at Sinai distinguishes itself by the rarity of its prolific scenes, as well as by the appearance of a Georgian donor, portrayed in a Deesis attitude. The first of the three essays dealing with monumental art in Georgia examines the 11th-century paintings in the church of Zemo-Krikhi in comparison with paintings in the Mani region. The local artists retained intact the Byzantine iconographic program, but created their own style, which distinguished their periphery by the inventive individuality of the monumental painting in its numerous churches. Essay No. 8 investigates the Byzantine influence on the paintings in the Caucasus and the Lowlands during the 11th-14th centuries. It includes monuments such as those in Ateni, Gelati, Svaneti, Vardzia and Saphara. The 14th-century paintings of the Church of the Dormition at Lykhne illustrate the dissemination eastward of the excellent Paleologan painting from Constantinople, the prevailing hagiology of this period and the superb workmanship of Byzantine Art in Georgia. CONTENTS: Preface. 1. The Tetraevangelion Manuscript 93 of the Athens National Library. 2. The Question of the Date and Origin of the Earliest Akathistos Cycles in Byzantine Monumental Painting in the Light of the Akathistos of the Olympiotissa at Elasson. 3. Observations on the Iconography and Style of the Mural Painting in the Church of the Chrysopantanassa at Palaichori on the Troodos Mountain range of Cyprus. 4. Monumental Painting in Cyprus during the Venetian Period (1489-1570). 5. Aspects of the Historical Background and an Iconographic Analysis of the Church of St. John the Baptist in the Village of Aska, Cyprus. 6. Une ic�ne histori�e de Saint George du 13e si�cle au Monast�re de Sainte-Catherine du Mont Sina�. 7. The Frescoes of the Church of the Holy Archangels of Zemo-Krikhi, Raca (Georgia) and contemporary monuments of Mani in Southern Greece. 8. Byzantine Traditions and Churches of Georgia in the Caucasus and the Lowlands. Iconography, Style and Liturgical Influences. 9. Wall Paintings in the Church of the Dormitio [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Luigi De Bei]  62.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Barbour, Master John The Bruce; or, The Metrical History of Robert I King of Scots. Volume I       Edinburgh [James Ballantyne and Co]. Leather cover G : in Good condition with marbled eps. Cover rubbed and scuffed with light edge wear. Small nick at joint with spine on front cover and small abrasion on top edge of rear cover. Spine scuffed. Foxing to prelims otherwise contents VG. Contents tight xxx, 495pp :: Title page vignette :: 260mm x 200mm (10" x 8") :: Published from a Manuscript dated 1489 with notes and a memoir of the life of the author by John Jamieson English.       [Bookseller: Barter Books]  63.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   Augustinus, Aurelius De Trinitate       Johann Amerbach, Basel 1489 - Printed by Johann Amerbach, sine loco [Basel], 1489. (Date from colophon (leaf m3v); name of printer from the twenty-line poem by Sebastian Brant on m6v, ending: . Numine sancte tuo pater o tueare Ioanne[m] De amerbach: presens qui tibi pressit opus.) Text in Latin. SECOND EDITION, which is also the FIRST DATED edition, and the FIRST BASEL edition (first edition of this work was sine datum, sine loco, sine nomine [Strassburg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), not after 1474]). This edition also includes (for the first time) a postfatory poem in ten distichs by Sebastian Brant (1458-1521), renowned German humanist and satirist, the author of the famous Ship of Fools. Very Scarce: only 8 copies in US libraries, according to ISTC. Physical description: FOLIO. Textblock measures 303 mm x 215 mm (12" x 8�"). Mid 20th century boards. Title and printing place and date in black on spine. All edges speckled. 86 unnumbered leaves (forming 172 pages). Signature collation: a-c8 d-l8,6 m6. COMPLETE! Printed in gothic types. Text in double columns, 54 lines per column. Initial spaces with guide-letters. Rubricated with paragraph marks and capitals struck in red, but with initial spaces not filled. One-line title in large gothic type on a1; colophon on m3v. Index (Tabula) on m3v-m6v. 20-line postfatory poem [by Sebastian Brant] indicating Amerbach as the printer after the Index on m6v. Provenance: MS ownership inscription (slightly cropped) of Ioannes Leuberus dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. Extensive MS annotations in Latin contemporary (late 15th- early 16th century) hand on title page (a1r), accompanied with a small drawing of a cross surrounded with initials (of an owner?). Condition: Very good+ to near fine. Binding slightly rubbed on edges. Extensive MS annotations in early hand on title page (a1r); a possession note (slightly cropped) dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. A few further faded marginal notations in early hand to several leaves in the beginning. Title slightly soiled. A small marginal wormhole to a1 and a2 (not affecting text). Otherwise, the text block is extremely clean, bright and fresh. Binding tight. An attractive, unrestored, original, complete exemplar. Bibliographic references: Hain-Copinger 2037; Goff A-1343; GW 2926; BMC III, 751 (IB.37314); Proctor 7581; Walsh (Harvard) 1167; Polain(B) 416; IGI 1054; Heckethorn (Basle), p.36.       [Bookseller: Louis Caron]  64.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]  65.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   HIERONYMUS. EPISTOLAE.       Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 8 August 1489 - 214 278 leaves the final leaf in each part blank (folios 8-213 in the first part numbered I-CCVIII [i.e. CVI]; folios 7-277 in the second part numbered I-CCLXXI). Double column 56 lines and headline per page gothic type. Two parts in one volume. QUITE PLEASING CONTEMPORARY CALF OVER THICK WOODEN BOARDS panelled covers decorated with floral and trefoil stamps each cover with four elaborate brass cornerpieces and central boss (two back cornerpieces of slightly different design but apparently original) original catchplates newer clasps (with thongs of a slightly lighter shade of leather) carefully rebacked in the 20th century using a large section of a former (probably early 19th century) backstrip with gilt titling text divisions marked with (18 of 20) rawhide tabs. Rubricated throughout: capitals struck with red many two- to four-line initials and 80 initials five lines high and larger. Verso of first leaf of second part with a 14-line woodcut (Schreiber 4226) showing a penitent St. Jerome kneeling before the crucified Christ the saint bleeding where he has torn his breast while beating it with a stone. Printer's device on colophon leaf. Title page with 17th century Latin inscription From the Library of the Blessed Walburga apparently referring to the famous Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburga in Eichst�tt. Front and back flyleaves with two large woodcut stamps (approximately 90 x 60 mm.) used four times three depicting the Piet� and one of them showing three haloed saints standing before a masonry background (possibly the women at the empty tomb of Christ). Contemporary ink marginalia marking readings for Matins and other monastic services. The leather with minor scuffing scratches and abrasions but the binding solidly restored and still strikingly attractive because of its well-preserved original elements. Frequent but faint freckled foxing an eight-inch diagonal ink mark (looking like a ribbon shadow) through the text on two facing leaves (and with slight bleed-through on the preceding leaf and following leaf) a small handful of leaves with marginal dampstaining or ink blot (final gathering with slight softening and fraying at fore edge from damp with terminal blank silked) other minor defects but still a pleasing copy internally the attractively rubricated text rather fresh and clean and the margins very commodious. Goff H-171; BMC III, 768. Perhaps the greatest Christian scholar of his age St. Jerome (ca. 340-420) was a translator scriptural commentator biographer and historian who is chiefly remembered for his creation of the Latin Vulgate version of the Scriptures a translation that represents an enduring contribution to Western culture. He frequently participated as one of the most heated of partisans in various theological controversies and his disputations and protestations in connection with such debates comprise a good deal of the text of the letters contained here. The letters were particularly admired in the early Middle Ages were among the earliest books to be printed (by Sweynheym and Pannartz in 1468) and are valuable today for their history of the man and his times. According to Enenkel Erasmus is known to have consulted the present printing of Jerome's letters when preparing his own edition and commentary. Given the Walburga reference our volume was obviously used in a monastery where the writings of Jerome and other Church Fathers would have been read as lectio divina during daily prayers or meals. Walburga an Anglo-Saxon nun came to Germany with her brothers Willibald and Wunibald as missionaries in the eighth century. Willibald was the first bishop of Eichst�tt while Walburga eventually became abbess of the double monastery founded by her brothers at Heidenheim. In 870 her relics were translated to Eichst�tt where the Abbey of St. Walburga was established in 1035. The large woodcut stampings that appear on the flyleaves here are most unusual. They seem to be 16th century German and the work of an amateur wit [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)]  66.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   PETTAS, WILLIAM A History & Bibliography Of The Giunti (junta) Printing Family In Spain 1526 - 1628, Covering The Junta (giunti) Press And The Imprenta Real In Burgos, Salamanca & Madrid With A Brief History Of The Several Giunti Presses In Venice, Florence And Lyon And A Bibliography Of The Press Of Juan Bautista Varesio In Burgos, Valladolid & Lerma.       Oak Knoll Press, New Castle: 2004. h Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Brand new bo This monumental work opens with a 170 page history of the Giunti publishing family that covers their achievements in Italy, Spain and France from 1489 to 1628. As the great rivals of the Aldine Press, the Giunti aggressively captured large portions of the lucrative governmental and Church's printing business. From their base in Florence and Venice, family members set up printing presses in Burgos, Salamanca, Madrid, Valladolid, Lerma and Lyons. In Spain they became printers to the most powerful King in the world and established "The Imprenta Real," changing their name to "Junta." The comprehensive, 700 page bibliography of the books they published while in Spain is annotated with more than 148 woodcuts of their ornate title page art, imprints, and other identifying ornaments. The text also features the genealogical charts of the family, library holdings, and a documentary chronology. The author, William Pettas, has researched this early printing family for over twenty years, and this is his second work on this important clan. A very readable and valuable contribution to the history of the book and an important bibliography and reference work. Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Brand new bo       [Bookseller: Ad Infinitum Books]  67.   Check availability:     Direct from seller   Link/Print   HIERONYMUS. EPISTOLAE.       Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 8 August 1489 - 214 278 leaves the final leaf in each part blank (folios 8-213 in the first part numbered I-CCVIII [i.e. CVI]; folios 7-277 in the second part numbered I-CCLXXI). Double column 56 lines and headline per page gothic type. Two parts in one volume. QUITE PLEASING CONTEMPORARY CALF OVER THICK WOODEN BOARDS panelled covers decorated with floral and trefoil stamps each cover with four elaborate brass cornerpieces and central boss (two back cornerpieces of slightly different design but apparently original) original catchplates newer clasps (with thongs of a slightly lighter shade of leather) carefully rebacked in the 20th century using a large section of a former (probably early 19th century) backstrip with gilt titling text divisions marked with (18 of 20) rawhide tabs. Rubricated throughout: capitals struck with red many two- to four-line initials and 80 initials five lines high and larger. Verso of first leaf of second part with a 14-line woodcut (Schreiber 4226) showing a penitent St. Jerome kneeling before the crucified Christ the saint bleeding where he has torn his breast while beating it with a stone. Printer's device on colophon leaf. Title page with 17th century Latin inscription From the Library of the Blessed Walburga apparently referring to the famous Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburga in Eichst�tt. Front and back flyleaves with two large woodcut stamps (approximately 90 x 60 mm.) used four times three depicting the Piet� and one of them showing three haloed saints standing before a masonry background (possibly the women at the empty tomb of Christ). Contemporary ink marginalia marking readings for Matins and other monastic services. The leather with minor scuffing scratches and abrasions but the binding solidly restored and still strikingly attractive because of its well-preserved original elements. Frequent but faint freckled foxing an eight-inch diagonal ink mark (looking like a ribbon shadow) through the text on two facing leaves (and with slight bleed-through on the preceding leaf and following leaf) a small handful of leaves with marginal dampstaining or ink blot (final gathering with slight softening and fraying at fore edge from damp with terminal blank silked) other minor defects but still a pleasing copy internally the attractively rubricated text rather fresh and clean and the margins very commodious. Goff H-171; BMC III, 768. Perhaps the greatest Christian scholar of his age St. Jerome (ca. 340-420) was a translator scriptural commentator biographer and historian who is chiefly remembered for his creation of the Latin Vulgate version of the Scriptures a translation that represents an enduring contribution to Western culture. He frequently participated as one of the most heated of partisans in various theological controversies and his disputations and protestations in connection with such debates comprise a good deal of the text of the letters contained here. The letters were particularly admired in the early Middle Ages were among the earliest books to be printed (by Sweynheym and Pannartz in 1468) and are valuable today for their history of the man and his times. According to Enenkel Erasmus is known to have consulted the present printing of Jerome's letters when preparing his own edition and commentary. Given the Walburga reference our volume was obviously used in a monastery where the writings of Jerome and other Church Fathers would have been read as lectio divina during daily prayers or meals. Walburga an Anglo-Saxon nun came to Germany with her brothers Willibald and Wunibald as missionaries in the eighth century. Willibald was the first bishop of Eichst�tt while Walburga eventually became abbess of the double monastery founded by her brothers at Heidenheim. In 870 her relics were translated to Eichst�tt where the Abbey of St. Walburga was established in 1035. The large woodcut stampings that appear on the flyleaves here are most unusual. They seem to be 16th century German and the work of an amateur wit [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)]  68.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   VALERIUS MAXIMUS Facta et dicta memorabilia [in the French translation of Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse]. Lyon, Mathias Huss, "23 June       - 9 fine half-page woodcuts (c. 170 x 165mm.) one at the beginning of each book; large printer's device on verso of penultimate leaf (Polain 44). Large folio. (335 x 240mm.) 308ff. (of 312 - lacks a1(title-page), bifolium G1&G8 (replaced with repeated bifolium G2&G7), and blank final leaf (S8); 3 other blanks present). 56 lines and headline. Late 17th/early 18th century mottled calf (expertly rebacked, corners and lower cover restored). 1489. Extremely rare third edition of the French translation of Valerius Maximus and the second to be illustrated. Huss's first illustrated edition was published in 1485 and this is a reprint of that edition with the same woodcuts and with the error of imposition in the table of contents of book viii corrected. The translation was begun by Simon de Hesdin in 1375, for Charles V, and completed by Nicholas de Gonesse at the request of Jaquemin Courau, treasurer of Jean, duc de Berry, and finished 1401. It was popularly produced as a luxury illuminated manuscript in the 15th century and the first edition of 1475-77 (Southern Netherlands, Printer of Flavius Josephus) left a space of half a page at the beginning of each book for the insertion of a miniature. Examples from the incunable editions of the French translation (a fourth edition was published by Verard in 1499) are scarce with only a very few copies located in institutional collections (see ISTC) or found on the market. The only copy that we can trace on ABPC-online of any of these editions is the Bute copy (part two only, 152ff.) of the 1489 printing sold at auction in 1995. Sadly our copy lacks the title-page and the bifolium G1&G8 is replaced by the repeated bifolium G2&G7, an error which must have taken place in the printer's shop. Provenance. Manuscript notes in a near contemporary French hand on ff 11-13, 159, 168 and 312. 18th/19th century bibliographical notes inside front cover. Ownership stamp on f. a2 of "C.P. Carey". A few small holes to f. a2, mostly marginal, a little dampstained in places, especially towards the end with final leaf frayed at edges, otherwise a fine, well-margined and unwashed copy. BMC VIII, p. 263 (imperfect - wanting ff. 109-16, quire, and last blank). CR 5933. Pr 8563. IGI 10077. Goff V45. ISTC (locates: France - 3 copies; United Kingdom & U.S.A - 2 copies each; Germany, Italy & Netherlands - 1 copy)       [Bookseller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA ILAB BA]  69.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   BIBLIA LATINA Biblia latina con le ‘Postillae’ di Nicolo di Lyra, le ‘Additiones’ di Paulus de Sancta Maria, le ‘Replicationes’ di Matthias Doring ed il commento di Gulielmus Brito sul Prologo di S. Girolamo. Edita da Paulus da Mercatello con le addizioni di Franciscus Moneliensis.       Venezia, Boneto Locatello per Ottaviano Scoto 8 Agosto 1489 - Folio (cm 36), pelle maculata seicentesca su assi di legno, dorso a nervi (posteriore) con titolo su tassello in pelle rossa. Fresco esemplare. Trattasi del solo volume III, con 16 belle figure incise in xilografia, raffiguranti la veduta di Gerusalemme, nonch� pianta, alzato ed elementi architettonici del tempio di Gerusalemme, colorate da mano coeva, di notevole fascino. Le carte a1 e QQ5 non rubricate, forse da un altro esemplare. Questa edizione di Scoto del 8/VIII/1489 � la prima bibbia incunabola figurata stampata sul territorio italiano, e questo � uno dei 2 volumi che contengono le figure (l’altro � il I vol., il II ed il IV non ne hanno). Volumi singoli si trovano usualmente sul mercato, poich� il set completo della bibbia � notevolmente raro. Le raffigurazioni architettoniche contenute sono indubbiamente tra le prime del genere. This edition of the bible is the first incunabula illustrated printed in Italy, and only vols. I and III (this one) have illustrations. This is one of the first appearances of architectonic illustrations in the spread of printing. Hain/Cop. *3168; GW 4291; BMC V, 437; IGI 1688; Goff B-616; Essling 132; Sander 988.       [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Paolo Rambaldi]  70.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   JUSTINUS. Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii Historias]. Justinus Historicus       Joannes Rubeus Vercelleni's, Venice 1489 - Folio, old stiff vellum boards, joints split, boards discolored, waterstained throughout with heavy damp stains at upper outer corner rendering paper a bit fragile and with minimal fraying at extreme outer blank edge not affecting text, few minor wormholes touch a letter or two but do not affect legibility. One larger wormhole at foot of pages in inner blank gutter margin touches the occasional letter or two; complete with the first leaf bearing title. This copy has the Epitome of Lucius Annaeus Florus added; the editor was Marcus Antonius Sabellicus. Hain-Copinger 9653; Goff J 619. Becausse of the value of this item, extra postal insurance or registry fees may be required.       [Bookseller: G. W. Stuart, Jr.Emeritus Member,ABAA]  71.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Augustinus, Aurelius De Trinitate       Johann Amerbach, Basel 1489 - Printed by Johann Amerbach, sine loco [Basel], 1489. (Date from colophon (leaf m3v); name of printer from the twenty-line poem by Sebastian Brant on m6v, ending: . Numine sancte tuo pater o tueare Ioanne[m] De amerbach: presens qui tibi pressit opus.) Text in Latin. SECOND EDITION, which is also the FIRST DATED edition, and the FIRST BASEL edition (first edition of this work was sine datum, sine loco, sine nomine [Strassburg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), not after 1474]). This edition also includes (for the first time) a postfatory poem in ten distichs by Sebastian Brant (1458-1521), renowned German humanist and satirist, the author of the famous Ship of Fools. Very Scarce: only 8 copies in US libraries, according to ISTC. Physical description: FOLIO. Textblock measures 303 mm x 215 mm (12" x 8�"). Mid 20th century boards. Title and printing place and date in black on spine. All edges speckled. 86 unnumbered leaves (forming 172 pages). Signature collation: a-c8 d-l8,6 m6. COMPLETE! Printed in gothic types. Text in double columns, 54 lines per column. Initial spaces with guide-letters. Rubricated with paragraph marks and capitals struck in red, but with initial spaces not filled. One-line title in large gothic type on a1; colophon on m3v. Index (Tabula) on m3v-m6v. 20-line postfatory poem [by Sebastian Brant] indicating Amerbach as the printer after the Index on m6v. Provenance: MS ownership inscription (slightly cropped) of Ioannes Leuberus dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. Extensive MS annotations in Latin contemporary (late 15th- early 16th century) hand on title page (a1r), accompanied with a small drawing of a cross surrounded with initials (of an owner?). Condition: Very good+ to near fine. Binding slightly rubbed on edges. Extensive MS annotations in early hand on title page (a1r); a possession note (slightly cropped) dated 1631 on top margin of a2r. A few further faded marginal notations in early hand to several leaves in the beginning. Title slightly soiled. A small marginal wormhole to a1 and a2 (not affecting text). Otherwise, the text block is extremely clean, bright and fresh. Binding tight. An attractive, unrestored, original, complete exemplar. Bibliographic references: Hain-Copinger 2037; Goff A-1343; GW 2926; BMC III, 751 (IB.37314); Proctor 7581; Walsh (Harvard) 1167; Polain(B) 416; IGI 1054; Heckethorn (Basle), p.36.       [Bookseller: Louis Caron]  72.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Albertanus. Tractatus de arte loquendi et tacendi. [Colophon]: Explicit liber de doctrina loquendi [et] tacendi ab Albertano causidico brixiesi. Ad instructionem filiorum suorum compositus. Impressus ac finit[us] Meming[en] p[er] Albertis Kun[n]e de Duderstat.       Memmingen: Albrecht Kunne. , 1489 - 42 lines, printed in two columns, 12-line manuscript inscription in two early hands on the title-leaf, some capitals letters in red ink, a few words underlined in red or black ink, single wormhole through text, early manuscript annotations, upper blank margins touched by damp, 8 leaves, small 4to, modern vellum over stiff boards, spine with gilt title lettering vertically, good Albertanus of Brescia (c.1195 to 1251) wrote the treatise De doctrina dicendia et tacendi ("On teaching about speech and silence") in 1245. In them he discusses the place of notaries in public life, and more generally explores the newly emerging role of the professional in public life. The first edition was published in Basle in 1474, and it proved to be a popular text. Possibly because in his writing Albertanus wished to present a rule of life that would lay the foundation for a good society. He believed in the importance of moral restraint based on voluntary participation in a community. Albertanus was very influential, his works were known and used by, amongst others John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Antonio de Torquemada. There were many translations of his works into French, German, Tuscan, Venetian, Spanish and Dutch, with wide circulation well into the 15th and early 16th centuries, a testament to his broader influence on society. The manuscript poem begins in Latin, whilst the last six lines are in German. (Goff A200; BMC II, 605; Proctor 2785) [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA]  73.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Theodulus Egloga theoduli.       Leipzig, Kachelofen, 1489. - 4�. 61 (statt 62) ff. Neuerer Karton HC 15482; BMC III, 624; BSB-Ink T-152; Goff T-148 (nur 3 Exemplare in Amerika). Sch�ne Inkunabel-Ausgabe der Ecloga Theoduli, einem Streitgespr�ch im Wechselgesang zwischen den Hirten Pseustis (L�gner) und Alithia (Wahrheit) �ber den Vorrang von Christen- oder Heidentum. Der Text stammt aus dem neunten oder zehnten Jahrhundert und ist einer der H�hepunte mittelalterlicher Bukolik. Der reiche Kommentar wird (wohl f�lschlich) Stephanus de Patrington zugeschrieben. - Es fehlt hier das Titelblatt mit dem Holzschnitt, Text und Kommentar sind komplett. - Sch�nes Exemplar, druchgehend rubriziert, und mit roten Initialen (die erste blau), wenig gebr�unt, teils schwacher Wasserrand, teils kleine Wurmspur im oberen, weissen Rand (ohne Textverlust). - Rare and early incunabula edition of the Ecloga Theoduli with rich commentary. Lacking the first leaf with woodcut, text complete. Nice copy, rubricated and with red and blue initials. Light browning or little staining, little worming in upper white margin for some parts, not affecting text. In modern cardboard. [Attributes: Soft Cover]       [Bookseller: Antiquariat Thomas Rezek]  74.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MEDIAVILLA, RICHARDUS DE Commentum super quarto sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius)       Dionysius Bertochus Venice 10 November 1489 Early blind tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; at a later time the boards were covered with leaves from an incunable and spine labels added Folio . FIRST EDITION to be edited by Franciscus Gregorius of this commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard written in 1294 by the English theologian and philosopher Richard Middleton (or Mediavilla; ca. 1249-1308?) who was a leading Franciscan teacher of the thirteenth century. He served as chancellor for several years from 1269 to 1272 and taught theology at Oxford and Paris. Richard of Middletown (A Media Villa): "Flourished at the end of the thirteenth century, but the dates of his birth and death and most incidents of his life are unknown. Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire and Middleton Cheyney in Northamptonshire have both been suggested as his native place, .... He probably studied first at Oxford, but in 1283 he was at the University of Paris and graduated Bachelor of Divinity in that year. He entered the Franciscan order. In 1278 he had been appointed by the general of his order to examine the doctrines of Peter Olivus, and the same work was again engaging his attention in 1283. In 1286 he was sent with two other Franciscans to Naples to undertake the education of two of the sons of Charles II, Ludwig, afterwards a Franciscan, and Robert. After the defeat of Charles by Peter of Arragon the two princes were carried as hostages to Barcelona and Richard accompanied them, sharing their captivity till their release in 1295. The rest of his life lies in obscurity. A new point of interest at the present day lies in the fact that, medieval scholastic though he was, he knew and studied the phenomena of hypnotism, and left the results of his investigations in his "Quodlibeta" (Paris, 1519, fol. 90 8) where he treats of what would now be termed auto-suggestion and adduces some instances of telepathy. "His works include "Super sententias Petri Lombardi", written between 1281 and 1285, and first printed at Venice, 1489; "Quaestiones Quodlibetales" in manuscript at Oxford and elsewhere; "Quodlibeta tria" printed with the Sentences at Venice, 1509; "De gradibus formarum" in manuscript at Munich; and "Quae stiones disputatae" in manuscript at Assisi. ... His death is assigned by some to 1307 or 1308, by Pits to 1300, by Parkinson to some earlier date on the ground that he was one of the "Four Masters", the expositors of the Rule of St. Francis" (Cath. Enc.) 217 (first leaf blank, without last blank leaf). Roman type; 2 columns; 64 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; rubricated with initials provided in red by a fine contemporary hand; few tiny round worm holes in first few leaves; small marginal worm hole in top margin of a few leaves. Fine fresh wide margined copy. � Hain-Copinger 10986; Pellechet 9919; Polain 3354; IGI 8365; Proctor 5274; BMC V, 488; Goff M 425; CIBN M- 268; BSB R-171       [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]  75   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   1488 1490

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