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Giacomo Filippo Foresti (Iacobus Bergomensis) de Bergamo
Incunabula 1491 SUPPLEMENTUM CHRONICARUM 50 + Woodcuts
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ITALIAN EDITION PRINCEPS -- THE RAREST WOODCUT CHRONICLE [Incunabula] [History Of Printing] [Sermons] [History, Chronicles and Voyages] [Xylographic Printing] [Woodcuts] [Secular Humanism] de Bergamo, Giacomo Filippo Foresti (Iacobus Bergomensis) (1434 - 1520): Cronicha de Tuto el Monde Vulgare; Venice; 08 October, 1491; Bernardinus Rizus de Novariensis; Folio; (22 cm. by 30.6 cm. - 8½ inches by 12 inches); 290 (of 298) leaves; paginated rectoes only.Please contact directly for inquiries and pictures. [Publisher: VENICE ; Bernardinus Rizus de Novariensis]
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis. 28. March 1491. Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti.#11;In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5)#11; "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. ... His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. i?! Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447
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Plinius Secundus, Gaius
Historia naturalis
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Venice: Thomas de Blavis, de Alexandria, 3 November 1491. Folio, 11.5 x 8 inches. aa-bb8, a-d8, [another]d8, e6, f-z8, &8, [con]8, Rx8, A-I8, II6. 306 0f 308 leaves. (Lacking the initial blank, aa1. The final leaf, II6, with the register, is supplied in photographic facsimile on matching period paper.) This is a fine copy, with some paper repairs in the first few leaves, very nicely executed. It is bound in full parchment over boards, a very attractive binding, with a morocco label on the spine. . OPlinyOs Natural History is an encyclopedia written around AD 77 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day, and was one of the first reference works developed in the classical period to examine natural and man-made objects, both organic and mineral, as well as many natural phenomena. It became a model for all later encyclopedias in terms of the breadth of subject matter examined, the use of original authors, and a comprehensive index, or list of the contents. It is the only work by Pliny to have survived.O#11;PlinyOs work is also important for its contribution to the history of art. It is the only extant work on the subject from the classical period. The story of the sculpture, OLaoco!n and his Sons,O is particularly interesting. This sculpture, described by Pliny in his Historia Naturalis, was unearthed near the site of NeroOs Domus Aureus in 1506. Pope Julius II quickly purchased the statue and placed in the Belvedere Gardens at the Vatican, where it still resides. OWhen the statue was discovered, Laoco!nOs right arm was missing, along with part of the hand of one child and the right arm of the other. Artists and connoisseurs debated how the missing parts should be interpreted. Michelangelo suggested that the missing right arm was originally bent back over the shoulder. Others, however, believed it was more appropriate to show the right arm extended outwards in a heroic gesture. The Pope held an informal contest among sculptors to make replacement right arms, which was judged by Raphael. The winner, in the outstretched position, was attached to the statue. In 1957, the original right arm, with a snake coiled about his wrist, was found by L. Pollack in a builderOs yard in Rome, and was in the position suggested by Michelangelo. The arm has now been rejoined to the statue.O (Quotes taken from wikipedia.)#11;PlinyOs work defines the model that natural history followed for centuries. The museum movement of the early modern period would have been impossible without him. His work is an essential source for information on ancient Roman art, architecture, aqueducts, engineering, mining, sculpture, technology and more. #11;
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis Venice 28. March 1491 Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. ... His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447
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Herausgegeben von Hartmann, Alfred. Bearbeitet von Hartmann, Alfred
Amerbachkorrespondenz. Gesamtwerk / Die Briefe aus der Zeit Johann Amerbachs 1491-1513 Mit Register und sechs Handschriftenproben [BD I]
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Schwabe, Basel - Amerbachkorrespondenz. Gesamtwerk / Die Briefe aus der Zeit Johann Amerbachs 1491-1513 Mit Register und sechs Handschriftenproben [BD I] (Schwabe Basel) ISBN: 978-3-7965-1847-8 Leinen XXIII, 486 S., 6 Abb, Amerbachkorrespondenz. Gesamtwerk / Die Briefe aus der Zeit Johann Amerbachs 1491-1513 Mit Register und sechs Handschriftenproben Herausgegeben von Hartmann, Alfred. Bearbeitet von Hartmann, Alfred Verlag : Schwabe Basel ISBN : 978-3-7965-1847-8 Einband : Leinen Preisinfo : 84,00 Eur[D] / 120,00 CHF UVP Alle Preisangaben in CHF (Schweizer Franken) sind unverbindliche Preisempfehlungen. Legende: UVP = unverbindliche Preisempfehlung, iVb = in Vorbereitung. Seiten/Umfang : XXIII, 486 S., 6 Abb, Erschienen : 1942 Gewicht : 1160 g
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[MANUSCRIPT - SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE]. ANDRIESSEN, Adriaen...
Uytsprake van Soeninge 1491 [and in a later hand:] Originele Zoenbrief gesloten en uitgesproken den 20 July des jaars 1491 in tegenwoordigheid van schepenen der staad Vere en wederzijdsche arbiters tusschen de vrienden van Kornelie Jansdogter en die van Adriaan Andriessen door gemelde Kornelie Jansdogter van 't leven ter dood gebragt. Opgestelt door den Notaris Willem Amoury.Veere (Zeeland), 20 July 1491. Folio (29 x 21.5 cm).WITH: [MANUSCRIPTS - GENEALOGY]. ANDRIESSEN, Jacobus, Jaques der KINDEREN and others.[Ten documents concerning the Andriessen, Der Kinderen, Saelder, Van Audenaarde an...
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(12) pp. with the main text on pp. 3-11; and 10 separate documents of varying extent. For several members of this Andriessen family, see: NNBW I, cols. 137-139, 141-142, etc.A collection of genealogical and other documents from the Andriessen family in Zeeland, beginning with a 1491 notarial document from Veere (near Middelburg), settling the dispute between two families over an accidental killing. Shortly before the document was drawn up, Cornelie Jansdochter had caused the death (clearly accidentally, though that is not explicitly stated) of Adriaen Andriessen, leading to a conflict between the two families. At the request of Cornelie and her family, the families met before arbiters to settle the matter. The arbiters required Cornelie to honour God and cleanse Andriessen's soul by making a pilgrimage to Rome (quite a dangerous undertaking in those days), where she was to visit the pontificate of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, remain in Rome seven days, visiting each of the Seven Churches of Rome, one on each day, have a mass said at each and listen to it on her knees. She was also to bring back proof that she had done so. She was to have masses read for a year at Andriessen's grave and have masses said for him in Veere (where a collection was to be taken). She also had to pay for a cross for his grave, pay sums of money to his heirs and to others chosen at the discretion of the arbiters. The sums are specified in guilders and Flemish pounds totalling about 188 guilders, perhaps three years' wages for an unskilled worker or the value of 300 grams of gold. Finally Cornelie was no longer allowed to live in Veere or nearby Zanddijk, though she was allowed to pass through.The document survives with later documents on the genealogy of the Zeeland family Andriessen (who must have been related to the Andriessen of 1491, or at least thought they were), including well-known Dutch Reformed ministers, who compiled some of the documents. It also covers several families related to the Andriessens by marriage. The documents record births, baptisms (often including the names of the godparents and clergy), marriages, deaths, etc., mostly from the period 1630 to 1710, but including records from at least 1584 to 1753. Some of these documents were drawn up by the Middelburg-born Dutch Reformed minister Jacobus Andriessen (1673-1739) and record his own family (descendents of Andries Andriessen on the paternal and Jaeques or Jacobus der Kinderen on maternal side of his father's family) and the family of his wife, Adriana Saelder (descendents of Kornelis Saelder on the paternal side of her father's family). Others were drawn up by Jaeques der Kinderen (married 1625) and his son of the same name (born 1649), the earliest probably around 1657, but with events added to 1670. The latest document in the collection, from around 1730, is by Jacobus Andriessen's son and fellow minister Andries Andriessen (1699-1768), the best known member of the family, giving data on the descendents of Ritser Feres (died 1664), great-grandfather of his wife, Catharina Johanna van Royen.The watermark in all three sheets of the 1491 document (a gothic P) closely resembles Picard IV, group VIII, nos. 428-431, recorded in the Rhine valley in the years 1489 to 1492. The documents have been folded vertically and loosely inserted in nineteenth-century boards with a heart-shaped paper label on the front. They are in very good condition. A nice record of how fifteenth-century Zeelanders dealt with an accidental killing, with useful genealogical documents from seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Zeeland.
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis. 28. March 1491. Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti.#11;In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5)#11; "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. ... His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. ! Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447
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DANTE ALIGHIERI
La Divina Comedia, con la Vita ed il Commento di Cristoforo Landino
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riveduto e acresciuto da Fra Piero da Fighino dell'Ordine de' Minori. (In fine, verso f.315, colophon:) "Et fine del comento di Christoforo Landino … E impresso in Vinegia per Pietro Cremonese dito Veronese: adi. xviii. di novebrio. M.cccc.Lxxxxi. emendato per me maestro piero da fighino dell'ordine de frati minori". (Venezia, Pietro de' Piasi Cremonese detto Veronese, 18 Novembre 1491), in-folio, (mm.296x209), ff. 324 (di cui i ff. 12-321 numerati da 11-316, con alcuni errori), carattere romano, più piccolo per il commento che racchiude il testo. Numerose grandi iniziali ornate su fondo nero. Illustrato da 100 magnifiche silografie (di mm.83x85 cad.) delle quali tre più grandi racchiuse in bordure ornate. Artistica legatura inglese d'amatore in pieno marocchino granata decorata da bordure ad intarsi floreali verdi e oro, titolo "Dante Alighieri" in un tondo al centro del piatto anteriore, dorso a nervi con decorazione simile, tagli dorati (firmata col monogramma di Douglas Cockerel e datata 1903). Tredicesima edizione della Commedia, la quarta illustrata, la seconda col commento di Landino rivisto da Piero da Fighine, è da considerarsi tra le più importanti in assoluto, in quanto comprende ben 15 Canzoni di Dante mai stampate prima, oltre a tre pubblicate in precedenza nel Convivio del 1490, tra cui "Voi, che intendendo il terzo ciel movete". Editio princeps di immortali liriche quali "Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore", "Tre donne intorno al cor mi son venute", le quali non rividero la luce che nelle “Rime” del 1527 (12 poesie) o addirittura nella “Vita Nova” (due), inedita sino al 1573; la “Canzon Francesa” è spuria. Questa particolarità pare sia sfuggita alla maggior parte dei bibliografi; in alcune edizioni precedenti o successive la Commedia veniva seguita dagli apocrifi “Credo” o “Padre Nostro”. Pare ormai chiarita la precedenza tra le due edizioni del 1491: alcune varianti testuali fanno supporre che l'edizione di Matteo da Parma, datata 3 Marzo, sia in realtà del 1492, iniziandosi l'anno veneziano il 1 Marzo; la presente sarebbe dunque anche la prima edizione con illustrazioni del Paradiso: "the chronological relationship between the two editions, both dated 1491 in their colophons, remains problematic. Scholars have traditionally followed the dating given in the books and thus granted precedence to the Benali/Codecà imprint, but recent researches into the nature of Figino's corrections of both the text and the Landino commentary reveal that the di Piasi edition represents only a very modest revision of the text of 1484. The Benali/Codecà imprint on the other hand presents a substantial and attentive revision of the 1487 text. This has led to the supposition that Pietro da Figino may have been dissatisfied with the cursory correction he did for the di Piasi edition and therefore immediately undertook a new edition for Benali/Codecà. This would explain the 3 March colophon's expanded boast … Since the Venetian year began 1 March, it is perhaps not too much to suppose that Benali/Codecà simply misdated their edition which should have read 3 March 1492. An important and distinctive characteristic of the di Piasi edition is that for the first time a selection of Dante's canzoni was included after the poem. Also of note are the letters of the alphabet in the margins which were intended to serve as reference markers" (University of Notre Dame). Esemplare accuratamente rifrescato, con le silografie nitidamente impresse (piccolissimi lavori di tarlo nei primi venti e negli ultimi fogli del volume). Ex-libris di William Henry Smith, Viscount Hambleden. BMC V, 270. GW 7970. Essling 532. Sander 2314. Goff D-33. Mambelli n.13: " bella e rara edizione". Cat. Martini Incunabuli, n.149. Vaticana, II, D-15.
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis. 28. March 1491. Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti.#11;In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5)#11; "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. ... His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. ! Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447
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MANUSCRIPT - SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE]. ANDRIESSEN, Adriaen and Cornelie JANSDOGTER (subjects).
Uytsprake van Soeninge 1491 [and in a later hand:] Originele Zoenbrief gesloten en uitgesproken den 20 July des jaars 1491 in tegenwoordigheid van schepenen der staad Vere en wederzijdsche arbiters tusschen de vrienden van Kornelie Jansdogter en die van Adriaan Andriessen door gemelde Kornelie Jansdogter van 't leven ter dood gebragt. Opgestelt door den Notaris Willem Amoury.Veere (Zeeland), 20 July 1491. Folio (29 x 21.5 cm).WITH: [MANUSCRIPTS - GENEALOGY]. ANDRIESSEN, Jacobus, Jaques der KINDEREN and others.[Ten documents concerning the Andriessen, Der Kinderen, Saelder, Van Audenaarde and related families, including a ca. 1702 transcription of the 1491 document above].[Middelburg], [Schoondijke], [Goes], etc., ca. 1657-ca. 1730 (some wit
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- (12) pp. with the main text on pp. 3-11; and 10 separate documents of varying extent. For several members of this Andriessen family, see: NNBW I, cols. 137-139, 141-142, etc.A collection of genealogical and other documents from the Andriessen family in Zeeland, beginning with a 1491 notarial document from Veere (near Middelburg), settling the dispute between two families over an accidental killing. Shortly before the document was drawn up, Cornelie Jansdochter had caused the death (clearly accidentally, though that is not explicitly stated) of Adriaen Andriessen, leading to a conflict between the two families. At the request of Cornelie and her family, the families met before arbiters to settle the matter. The arbiters required Cornelie to honour God and cleanse Andriessen's soul by making a pilgrimage to Rome (quite a dangerous undertaking in those days), where she was to visit the pontificate of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, remain in Rome seven days, visiting each of the Seven Churches of Rome, one on each day, have a mass said at each and listen to it on her knees. She was also to bring back proof that she had done so. She was to have masses read for a year at Andriessen's grave and have masses said for him in Veere (where a collection was to be taken). She also had to pay for a cross for his grave, pay sums of money to his heirs and to others chosen at the discretion of the arbiters. The sums are specified in guilders and Flemish pounds totalling about 188 guilders, perhaps three years' wages for an unskilled worker or the value of 300 grams of gold. Finally Cornelie was no longer allowed to live in Veere or nearby Zanddijk, though she was allowed to pass through.The document survives with later documents on the genealogy of the Zeeland family Andriessen (who must have been related to the Andriessen of 1491, or at least thought they were), including well-known Dutch Reformed ministers, who compiled some of the documents. It also covers several families related to the Andriessens by marriage. The documents record births, baptisms (often including the names of the godparents and clergy), marriages, deaths, etc., mostly from the period 1630 to 1710, but including records from at least 1584 to 1753. Some of these documents were drawn up by the Middelburg-born Dutch Reformed minister Jacobus Andriessen (1673-1739) and record his own family (descendents of Andries Andriessen on the paternal and Jaeques or Jacobus der Kinderen on maternal side of his father's family) and the family of his wife, Adriana Saelder (descendents of Kornelis Saelder on the paternal side of her father's family). Others were drawn up by Jaeques der Kinderen (married 1625) and his son of the same name (born 1649), the earliest probably around 1657, but with events added to 1670. The latest document in the collection, from around 1730, is by Jacobus Andriessen's son and fellow minister Andries Andriessen (1699-1768), the best known member of the family, giving data on the descendents of Ritser Feres (died 1664), great-grandfather of his wife, Catharina Johanna van Royen.The watermark in all three sheets of the 1491 document (a gothic P) closely resembles Picard IV, group VIII, nos. 428-431, recorded in the Rhine valley in the years 1489 to 1492. The documents have been folded vertically and loosely inserted in nineteenth-century boards with a heart-shaped paper label on the front. They are in very good condition. A nice record of how fifteenth-century Zeelanders dealt with an accidental killing, with useful genealogical documents from seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Zeeland.
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis Venice 28. March 1491 Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. ... His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447
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- (Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 28. März 1491).Fol. Mit 53 tlw. großen floralen Holzschn.-Initialen. 17 nn. Bll. (ohne das letzte weiße), Mod. Pgmt. unter Verwendung eines mittelalterlichen Pergament-Manuskriptes mit zahlr. Initialen in Rot u. Blau.Erste lateinisch-deutsche Ausgabe der unter Erzbischof Friedrich V. beschlossenen Salzburger Provinzialstatuten. Eine undatierte lateinische Ausgabe war bei Petri in Passau erschienen, ob sie vor der hier vorliegenden gedruckt wurde, ist nicht gesichert. - Der Salzburger Erzbischof Friedrich V. entstammte dem letzten edelfreien Geschlecht Österreichs, das sich nach der Burg Schaunberg bei Efering nannte. Er studierte ab 1459 an der Wiener Universität, war sei 1469 Domherr in Salzburg und wurde 1484 Stadtpfarrer. - Trotz seines Studiums war er jedoch ein ausgesprochen roher und ungebildeter Mann, dem es an fürstlichen Manieren und diplomatischem Geschick vollkommen fehlte [...]. Der dringend notwendigen Reform des Klerus sollte eine Provinzialsynode dienen, die Erzbischof Friedrich V. am 19. Oktober abhielt. Die insgesamt 49 Artikel, die von der Kirchenversammlung beschlossen wurden und vor allem der Verweltlichung des Klerus entgegenwirken sollten, wurden durchwegs aus den Beschlüssen früherer Synoden übernommen. Freilich konte die Wirkung unter einem Erzbischof, der mit seinem Lebenswandel selbst diesen Beschlüssen ganz entschieden zuwiederhandelte, nicht besonders groß sein (Dopsch I/1, 563). - Kl. zeitgen. Eintrag a. Titel u. vereinzelt einige zeitgen. Marginalien. Zu Beginn kl. Wurmspur im weißen Rand. Tlw. schwach gebräunt bzw. (stock-) fleckig, die ersten Bll. min. wasserrandig. - Goff S 753 Copinger 5623 Pellechet 10740 Polain 3597 Sajó-Soltész 3132 Voull. 300 Ohly-Sack 2586 Walsh 633ff. Sheppard 1339 Proctor 1892 BMC II, 385 BSB-Ink., S-550 ISTC is00753000. - Hardcover
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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- (Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 28. März 1491).Fol. Mit 53 tlw. großen floralen Holzschn.-Initialen. 17 nn. Bll. (ohne das letzte weiße), Mod. Pgmt. unter Verwendung eines mittelalterlichen Pergament-Manuskriptes mit zahlr. Initialen in Rot u. Blau.Erste lateinisch-deutsche Ausgabe der unter Erzbischof Friedrich V. beschlossenen Salzburger Provinzialstatuten. Eine undatierte lateinische Ausgabe war bei Petri in Passau erschienen, ob sie vor der hier vorliegenden gedruckt wurde, ist nicht gesichert. - Der Salzburger Erzbischof Friedrich V. entstammte dem letzten edelfreien Geschlecht Österreichs, das sich nach der Burg Schaunberg bei Efering nannte. Er studierte ab 1459 an der Wiener Universität, war sei 1469 Domherr in Salzburg und wurde 1484 Stadtpfarrer. - Trotz seines Studiums war er jedoch ein ausgesprochen roher und ungebildeter Mann, dem es an fürstlichen Manieren und diplomatischem Geschick vollkommen fehlte [...]. Der dringend notwendigen Reform des Klerus sollte eine Provinzialsynode dienen, die Erzbischof Friedrich V. am 19. Oktober abhielt. Die insgesamt 49 Artikel, die von der Kirchenversammlung beschlossen wurden und vor allem der Verweltlichung des Klerus entgegenwirken sollten, wurden durchwegs aus den Beschlüssen früherer Synoden übernommen. Freilich konte die Wirkung unter einem Erzbischof, der mit seinem Lebenswandel selbst diesen Beschlüssen ganz entschieden zuwiederhandelte, nicht besonders groß sein (Dopsch I/1, 563). - Kl. zeitgen. Eintrag a. Titel u. vereinzelt einige zeitgen. Marginalien. Zu Beginn kl. Wurmspur im weißen Rand. Tlw. schwach gebräunt bzw. (stock-) fleckig, die ersten Bll. min. wasserrandig. - Goff S 753 Copinger 5623 Pellechet 10740 Polain 3597 Sajó-Soltész 3132 Voull. 300 Ohly-Sack 2586 Walsh 633ff. Sheppard 1339 Proctor 1892 BMC II, 385 BSB-Ink., S-550 ISTC is00753000. - Hardcover
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Portrait, Halbfigur, halblinks, ein Swchert fassend umher ovaler Rahmen mit Inschrift Theophra. Paracels Aureolus Philipp. Umher manieristischer Blumenornament, in den Zwickeln Sphinxen und Faune. Monogrammist BR (J.Th. de Bry), Kupferstich aus J.J.Boissard, Icones virorum illustrium, Frankfurt 1597-99, Kupferstich, 142 x 115 auf 201 x 167 mm; sehr frischer Abzug.
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. Unter dem Oval in Latein: Hier ist der, dem das Geheimnis der großen Welt bekannt war, und der sich mit der Kunst des Verstandes den Verstand geben konnte. Die Granatäpfel in den Händen der Faune symbolisieren die verbindung des Bösen mit dem Guten. Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Rombastus Paracelsus ab Hohenbeim, "auch "Helvetius Eremita" genannt, war 1491 in einem Hause nahe an der über die Sihl führenden Teufelsbrücke, eine Stunde weit von dem berühmten Wallfahrtsorte Maria Einsiedeln (Canton Schwyz), geboren. Sein Vater, der Arzt Wilhelm ab Hohenheim, stammte aus der alten und berühmten schwäbischen Adelsfamilie der Bombaste, die sich von dem adeligen Schloss Hohenheim, dem nachmaligen Esslinger Hof, bei dem Dorfe Pfänningen bei Stuttgart "Bombaste von Hohenheim" nannten. 1502 siedelte er mit seinem Vater nach Villach in Kärnten über, wo letzterer 1534 starb. Er bezog 1506 die Universität zu Basel, gab sich hier besonders chemischen Studien hin, lebte längere Zeit bei dem als Alchemist bekannten TRITHEMIUS, machte dann grössere Reisen durch Europa, hielt sich an verschiedenen Universitäten Studien halber auf und genoss bereits um 1527 wegen seiner Kenntnisse einen solchen Ruf, dass er auf des bekannten Kirchenvaters, seines Landsmannes Oekolampadius Empfehlung als Nachfolger von COPUS 1527 zum Stadtarzt von Basel ernannt wurde. In dieser Eigenschaft trat er in ebenso abenteuerlicher, wie verletzender Weise auf, indem er als Zeichen seiner Verachtung der arabischen Medicin alle Werke des AVICENNA auf öffentlichem Markt verbrannte. Noch mehr brachte er seine Collegen gegen sich auf, als er es wagte, sich der deutschen Sprache zu bedienen. Es kam schliesslich zu völligem Zerwürfniss, als er auf das schmutzige geschäftliehe Treiben der im Bunde mit den Apothekern stehenden Aerzte aufmerksam und demselben ein Ende machte. Zuletzt zerfiel er auch noch mit den Behörden; er liess aus Aerger darüber dieselben in Pamphleten angreifen, musste aber in Folge dessen heimlich aus Basel entweichen und führte nun ein abenteuerliches Wanderleben , das ihn durch den Elsass, die Schweiz, Deutschland und bis an die entferntesten Punkte Europas, selbst bis nach Asien hinein verschlug, wobei er von einer grossen Zahl von Schülern begleitet war, meistens Vagabunden, die nur Stein der Weisen kennen lernen wollten und PARACELSUS für den Besitzer desselben hielten. Allmälig verbreitete sich sein Name und sein Ruhm über ganz Europa. Er wurde 1640 nach Salzburg berufen, lebte aber hier nur noch 1 Jahr und starb daselbst 24 Sept. 1541. - PARACELSUS ist jedenfalls für die mystische Richtung der Medicin im 16. Jahrhundert die einflussreichste Persönlichkeit gewesen. Es ist über ihn sehr viel gedacht und geschrieben worden. Von der einen Seite ist er als Reformator, Vater der Heilkunde, Begründer der neuen Richtung in der Medicin gepriesen und in den Himmel erhoben, von der anderen als ein Mystiker, Schwärmer, Betrüger, Trunkenbold Gaukler bezeichnet worden. Dieser Widerspruch löst sich, wenn man auf die Quellen zurückgeht, aus denen er sich ergeben hat. Nachgewiesenermassen ist der bei Weitem grösste Theil aller Schriften, die unter seinem Namen erschienen sind untergeschoben und von den übrigen ist es höchst fraglich, wieviel davon ihm angehört und wieviel von seinen Freunden und Feinden hineingearbeitet worden ist. Seine Freunde glaubten, seine Lehre gar nicht dunkel genug darstellen zu können und seine Feinde, die ihn zu verunglimpfen bestrebt waren, scheuten sich nicht, in seine Schriften einen Wust von Unsinn hineinzutragen. Selbst die von seinen Gegnern gegen ihn erhobenen Angriffe sind darin als sein eigenes Werk aufgeführt. - Als Quelle des Wissens bezeichnete PARACELSUS die Erfahrung, aber nicht die auf dem Wege einer rationellen inductiven Forschung gewonnene Kenntniss sondern das aus der neueren Philosophie geschöpfte aprioristische Wissen; vorzugsweise ist es die Analogie, aus der er die Erkenntniss ableitet. Sein System basirt wesentlich auf den Theo- und Kosmosophien der Neuplatoniker, in die er eben nur das neuere philosophische Element hineingebracht hat. Die ganze Welt wird von ihm streng pantheistisch aufgefasst. Er unterscheidet 3 Sphären: eine himmlische mit den reinen Intelligenzen und körperfreien Seelen, eine astralische Welt mit den seelenlosen Elementargeistern und eine körperliche Welt, d. i. die irdische Natur, die au beiden genannten Sphären Theil nimmt. In dem Menschen sind nun alle 3 Sphären miteinander verbunden. Er ist der Mikrokosmus in dem Makrokosmus. Alles Geschaffene wird auf ein Magisterium magnum zurückgeführt u.s.w. Die Basis der ganzen körperlichen Welt bilden die 4 Aristotelischen Elemente; diese finden sieh, körperlich gedacht, in 3 Stoffen wieder, die PARACELSUS von seinem chemischen Standpunkte aus sich durch ihre chemischen Eigenschaften von einander unterscheiden lässt. Diese 3 Stoffe sind: l) Salz, d. i. der Begriff des Festen, aller der chemischen Stoffe, die durch das Feuer unzerstörbar sind; 2) Quecksilber, d. i. der Begriff des Flüssigen, das durch Feuer unverändert verflüssigt wird ; 3) Schwefel, d. i. der Begriff des Luftigen, das durch das Feuer nicht bloss zerstörbar, sondern auch gleichzeitig veränderlich ist. Diese 3 Begriffe werden rein symbolisch von PARACELSUS gebraucht für alle Stoffe, die sich ebenso in Bezug auf ihr Verhalten dem Feuer gegenüber qualificiren lassen. Das eigentliche Wesen liegt aber nicht in dem Stoffe, sondern in dem Geiste, in dem ihm eingepflanzten göttlichen Keime, in den Kräften, die sich aus ihm entfalten; diese werden als Quinta essentia, häufig auch als Archaeus, als das eigentlich Belebende von ihm bezeichnet. Der Mensch besteht nun, indem er an jenen 3 Sphären sich betheiligt, aus sieht- und fühlbarem Körper, sodann aus einer körperlichen Seele (Archaeus), der eben die an dem Organismus hervortretenden lebendigen Eigenschaften vermittelt und endlich aus der unsterblichen Seele. In seiner Pathologie unterscheidet er 4 Gruppen von Krankheitsursachen, sog. "Entia": 1) Ens deale, die göttliche Schickung; 2) Ens astrale, Einfluss der Gestirne, der sich namentlich als Quelle der pestilenzialischen, epidemischen Krankheiten kundgiebt: 3) Ens spirituale, archaeus, das geistige Element im Menschen, das er sich übrigens körperlich vorstellt; endlich 4) das Ens naturale, die den ganzen Menschen umgebende körperliche Welt, a) als Ens alimentorum et veneni und b) als Ens seminis, die Ursache der angeborenen und hereditären Krankheiten. Jede Krankheit kann nun von einem dieser Entia ihren Ursprung nehmen, indem diese eine chemische Einwirkung auf den Organismus hervorbringen, auf chemischem Wege Trennungen und neue Verbindungen bilden. Salz, Schwefel und Mercur erfahren mannichfache Veränderungen. Die Art, wie PARACELSUS nun die einzelnen Krankheitsformen auf die verschiedenen Veränderungen zurückführt, ist weiter nichts als ein subtiles Spiel mit Analogieen. - Den Mittelpunkt seiner Lehre bildet die Therapie. Der erkrankte Organismus wird gesund einerseits durch die ihm immanente Kraft, die er als Archaeus darstellt, die xxxx der griechischen Aerzte, und ausserdem durch directe ärztliche Eingriffe, und zwar nicht in dem Sinne der alten Medicin Contraria contrariis, sondern es muss nach PARACELSUS dieser Gegensatz zwischen Krankheit und Heilmittel in den Ideen liegen. Er sagt z. B. Wassersucht ist im Mikrokosmus Das, was Ueberschwemmung im Makrokosmus ist; so wie man nun Ueberschwemmung beseitigt durch Ableitung von Wasser, so glaubt er auch durch reichliche Entleerung die übermässige Feuchtigkeit zu entfernen. Die Kolik z. B. vergleicht er mit dem Winde und verlangt Wärme und Trockenheit bei der Behandlung derselben. Atrophieen und Phthisen vergleicht er mit der Austrocknung und empfiehlt die entsprechenden Mittel, die der Idee nach direct entgegengesetzt sind u.s.w. Eine zweite Methode der Behandlung ist die durch Arcana, d. h. durch Substanzen, die durch die in ihnen in....
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Biblia Sacra 1491
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Johann Froben Y 494 leaves out of 496. Lacks A1 (blank except 2 line title) and final blank. 56 lines to a page. Double columned text. Gothic letter. Three to five line initial spaces with printed guides. Some initials supplied in red ink. First large initial in sliver and red with green and brown extensions. Red initial strokes. Some very early neat underscoring. Two quires bound the wrong wa round. Leaf P2 torn. An excellent copy. Contemporary annotations on final two leaves. Contemporary elaborate blind stamped calf over bevelled wooden boards. Central panel of repeated floral tooling enclosed bands, retaining old leather. Dark green label. Remains of hasp marks. Hain 3114; BL Cat 1A 37873. Froben was a learned German printer who opened an office in Basel in 1491 from which he issued a Latin Bible. This is the earliest Latin Bible printed in Octavo. This edition, because of its small size was known as the Poor Man's Bible, though not many poor men could afford it. Froben was intimately connected with Erasmus whose famous Greek Testament so powerfully affected the history of the Protestant Reformation and the evolution of the Protestant Bible. This 1491 'Poor Man's Bible' seems to have been one of the earliest editions of the Scriptures in which references to parallel passages are given throughout the volume. Fine
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Paracelsus: =
Portrait, Halbfigur, halblinks, ein Swchert fassend umher ovaler Rahmen mit Inschrift Theophra. Paracels Aureolus Philipp. Umher manieristischer Blumenornament, in den Zwickeln Sphinxen und Faune. Monogrammist BR (J.Th. de Bry), Kupferstich aus J.J.Boissard, Icones virorum illustrium, Frankfurt 1597-99, Kupferstich, 142 x 115 auf 201 x 167 mm; sehr frischer Abzug.
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- Unter dem Oval in Latein: Hier ist der, dem das Geheimnis der großen Welt bekannt war, und der sich mit der Kunst des Verstandes den Verstand geben konnte.Die Granatäpfel in den Händen der Faune symbolisieren die verbindung des Bösen mit dem Guten.Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Rombastus Paracelsus ab Hohenbeim, "auch "Helvetius Eremita" genannt, war 1491 in einem Hause nahe an der über die Sihl führenden Teufelsbrücke, eine Stunde weit von dem berühmten Wallfahrtsorte Maria Einsiedeln (Canton Schwyz), geboren. Sein Vater, der Arzt Wilhelm ab Hohenheim, stammte aus der alten und berühmten schwäbischen Adelsfamilie der Bombaste, die sich von dem adeligen Schloss Hohenheim, dem nachmaligen Esslinger Hof, bei dem Dorfe Pfänningen bei Stuttgart "Bombaste von Hohenheim" nannten. 1502 siedelte er mit seinem Vater nach Villach in Kärnten über, wo letzterer 1534 starb. Er bezog 1506 die Universität zu Basel, gab sich hier besonders chemischen Studien hin, lebte längere Zeit bei dem als Alchemist bekannten TRITHEMIUS, machte dann grössere Reisen durch Europa, hielt sich an verschiedenen Universitäten Studien halber auf und genoss bereits um 1527 wegen seiner Kenntnisse einen solchen Ruf, dass er auf des bekannten Kirchenvaters, seines Landsmannes Oekolampadius Empfehlung als Nachfolger von COPUS 1527 zum Stadtarzt von Basel ernannt wurde. In dieser Eigenschaft trat er in ebenso abenteuerlicher, wie verletzender Weise auf, indem er als Zeichen seiner Verachtung der arabischen Medicin alle Werke des AVICENNA auf öffentlichem Markt verbrannte. Noch mehr brachte er seine Collegen gegen sich auf, als er es wagte, sich der deutschen Sprache zu bedienen. Es kam schliesslich zu völligem Zerwürfniss, als er auf das schmutzige geschäftliehe Treiben der im Bunde mit den Apothekern stehenden Aerzte aufmerksam und demselben ein Ende machte. Zuletzt zerfiel er auch noch mit den Behörden; er liess aus Aerger darüber dieselben in Pamphleten angreifen, musste aber in Folge dessen heimlich aus Basel entweichen und führte nun ein abenteuerliches Wanderleben das ihn durch den Elsass, die Schweiz, Deutschland und bis an die entferntesten Punkte Europas, selbst bis nach Asien hinein verschlug, wobei er von einer grossen Zahl von Schülern begleitet war, meistens Vagabunden, die nur Stein der Weisen kennen lernen wollten und PARACELSUS für den Besitzer desselben hielten. Allmälig verbreitete sich sein Name und sein Ruhm über ganz Europa. Er wurde 1640 nach Salzburg berufen, lebte aber hier nur noch 1 Jahr und starb daselbst 24 Sept. 1541. - PARACELSUS ist jedenfalls für die mystische Richtung der Medicin im 16. Jahrhundert die einflussreichste Persönlichkeit gewesen. Es ist über ihn sehr viel gedacht und geschrieben worden. Von der einen Seite ist er als Reformator, Vater der Heilkunde, Begründer der neuen Richtung in der Medicin gepriesen und in den Himmel erhoben, von der anderen als ein Mystiker, Schwärmer, Betrüger, Trunkenbold Gaukler bezeichnet worden. Dieser Widerspruch löst sich, wenn man auf die Quellen zurückgeht, aus denen er sich ergeben hat. Nachgewiesenermassen ist der bei Weitem grösste Theil aller Schriften, die unter seinem Namen erschienen sind untergeschoben und von den übrigen ist es höchst fraglich, wieviel davon ihm angehört und wieviel von seinen Freunden und Feinden hineingearbeitet worden ist. Seine Freunde glaubten, seine Lehre gar nicht dunkel genug darstellen zu können und seine Feinde, die ihn zu verunglimpfen bestrebt waren, scheuten sich nicht, in seine Schriften einen Wust von Unsinn hineinzutragen. Selbst die von seinen Gegnern gegen ihn erhobenen Angriffe sind darin als sein eigenes Werk aufgeführt. - Als Quelle des Wissens bezeichnete PARACELSUS die Erfahrung, aber nicht die auf dem Wege einer rationellen inductiven Forschung gewonnene Kenntniss sondern das aus der neueren Philosophie geschöpfte aprioristische Wissen; vorzugsweise ist es die Analogie, aus der er die Erkenntniss ableitet. Sein System basirt wesentlich auf de [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Notaio padovano del Quattrocento.
Manoscritto pergamenaceo.
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Importante manoscritto pergamenaceo (misura in lunghezza circa 100 centimetri per 15,5 di larghezza) perfettamente conservato. Datato 1491 (un'anno prima della scoperta dell'America!) è un contratto fra il Podestà di Padova e un capomastro per il restauro del Palazzo della Ragione. Straordinario documento storico proveniente dalla biblioteca dei Bentivoglio-Cicognara.
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BUSCHIUS, Hermannus.
Rare incunable: the first edition of the juvenile poetry of an important humanist and pupil of Hegius from Westphalia Carmina [tumultuaria (with additions by Rudolphus Langius and Alexander Hegius)].
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(Deventer, Richard Paffraet, between 21 June 1491 and 2 Dec. 1497; before 1496?).. 4to. 19th century marbled boards. (34) lvs., last page blank. Collation: a8, b4, c6, d4, e8, f4.. Original edition of this collection of the early Neo-Latin poems by Hermannus Buschius Monasteriensis (from Münster), or Hermann von dem Busche (Sassenburg, east of Münster in Westphalen, 1468 - Dulmen 1534). Of noble birth, Buschius was sent on an early age to Münster, where he received his first instruction from Prof. Rudolph von Langen (or Langius), a relative who sent him after some time to Deventer to study with the famous Alexander Hegius. Later on, in 1481, he studied also in Heidelberg with Agricola. He was an ardent follower of the new humanistic and renaissance ideas and ideals and after a long journey to Italy where he studied in Rome and Bologne until 1491, he taught at many German and Dutch Latin Schools (such as Münster, Osnabrück, Hamburg, Wesel, Alkmaar), and Universities (Cologne, Greifswald, Wittenberg (1502), Leipzig (1503), Marburg: professor 1527-1533) as a so-called 'Wanderlehrer. Returned to Cologne Buschius emerged as one of the leading spokesmen in defence of Reuchlin, whose Augenspiegel had been declared to be heretical. He had also friendly relations with Erasmus for almost ten years. Erasmus printed f.e. with his Querela pacis two od Buschius' elegies dealing with the destruction caused by war. His most important work is the Vallum humanitatis , a defence of humanism. At the diet of Worms in 1521 Buschius joined Hutten and his friends in their stand for Luther and he was the main advocate of the Lutheran view at the public discussion in Münster in 1533, opposing the Anabaptist heresies of Bernhard Rothmann. The booklet starts with a laudatory poem by Rudolphus Langius, a laudatory poem by Buschius for Johannes Ostendorpius, and a letter of Buschius to Alexander Hegius, dedicating his two books of poetry to him. Two further laudatory poems by Hegius conclude the book. Very good copy with neat contemporary manuscript annotation on f. a2; from the famous library of Georgius Kloss (see the Catalogue of the library of Dr. Kloss, including many original and unpublished manuscripts and printed books with ms. annotations by Philippus Melanchton. Auction catalogue, London, Sotheby's, 1835). This rich collection was built on the collections of Johannes von Dalberg, bishop of Worms (d. 1503), Adelmann von Adelmannsted and the Church library of Esslingen.- (Some faint marginal staining at places). ILC 494; IDL 1088 (only 1 copy in Dutch public libraries: RL, The Hague); IPLC 494; Campbell 389; Hain-Copinger* 4157; GW 5797; IBP 1341; IGI 2279, Polain Belge 943; Voullieme (B) 4856; GfT 1389; not in Goff; Contemp. of Erasmus 1, pp. 233-4.
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Ornithologie
Naturgeschichte der schönsten und anmuthigsten Vögel, nämlich: Der Amseln, Finken, Hänflingen, Lerchen, Nachtigallen, Staaren, Stieglitzen und Wachteln; nebst ihrer Eigenschaften, Heerden, Sing- und Fangzeit. Frankfurt u. Leipzig, (Wienbrack) 1779. 8°. 76 S. 1 Bl. mit gest. Frontispiz, Pbd. d. Zt.
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BUSCHIUS, Hermannus.
Rare incunable: the first edition of the juvenile poetry of an important humanist and pupil of Hegius from Westphalia, Carmina [tumultuaria (with additions by Rudolphus Langius and Alexander Hegius)].
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Richard Paffraet, between 21 June 1491 and 2 Dec. 1497; before 1496?)., (Deventer, - 4to. 19th century marbled boards. (34) lvs., last page blank. Collation: a8, b4, c6, d4, e8, f4. Original edition of this collection of the early Neo-Latin poems by Hermannus Buschius Monasteriensis (from Münster), or Hermann von dem Busche (Sassenburg, east of Münster in Westphalen, 1468 - Dulmen 1534). Of noble birth, Buschius was sent on an early age to Münster, where he received his first instruction from Prof. Rudolph von Langen (or Langius), a relative who sent him after some time to Deventer to study with the famous Alexander Hegius. Later on, in 1481, he studied also in Heidelberg with Agricola. He was an ardent follower of the new humanistic and renaissance ideas and ideals and after a long journey to Italy where he studied in Rome and Bologne until 1491, he taught at many German and Dutch Latin Schools (such as Münster, Osnabrück, Hamburg, Wesel, Alkmaar), and Universities (Cologne, Greifswald, Wittenberg (1502), Leipzig (1503), Marburg: professor 1527-1533) as a so-called 'Wanderlehrer. Returned to Cologne Buschius emerged as one of the leading spokesmen in defence of Reuchlin, whose Augenspiegel had been declared to be heretical. He had also friendly relations with Erasmus for almost ten years. Erasmus printed f.e. with his Querela pacis two od Buschius' elegies dealing with the destruction caused by war. His most important work is the Vallum humanitatis, a defence of humanism. At the diet of Worms in 1521 Buschius joined Hutten and his friends in their stand for Luther and he was the main advocate of the Lutheran view at the public discussion in Münster in 1533, opposing the Anabaptist heresies of Bernhard Rothmann. The booklet starts with a laudatory poem by Rudolphus Langius, a laudatory poem by Buschius for Johannes Ostendorpius, and a letter of Buschius to Alexander Hegius, dedicating his two books of poetry to him. Two further laudatory poems by Hegius conclude the book. Very good copy with neat contemporary manuscript annotation on f. a2; from the famous library of Georgius Kloss (see the Catalogue of the library of Dr. Kloss, including many original and unpublished manuscripts and printed books with ms. annotations by Philippus Melanchton. Auction catalogue, London, Sotheby's, 1835). This rich collection was built on the collections of Johannes von Dalberg, bishop of Worms (d. 1503), Adelmann von Adelmannsted and the Church library of Esslingen.- (Some faint marginal staining at places). ILC 494; IDL 1088 (only 1 copy in Dutch public libraries: RL, The Hague); IPLC 494; Campbell 389; Hain-Copinger* 4157; GW 5797; IBP 1341; IGI 2279, Polain Belge 943; Voullième (B) 4856; GfT 1389; not in Goff; Contemp. of Erasmus 1, pp. 233-4. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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[BIBLE IN LATIN]
Biblia integra : summata : distincta : Sup[er]eme[n]data vtriusq[ue] testame[n]ti [con]corda[n]tijs illustrata
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Johann Froben Basel: Johann Froben, 1491. First printed bible in octavo, the so-called "Poor Man's Bible". Short octavo (5 7/8 x 4 3/16 inches; 149 x 106 mm). [493] leaves. Fifty-six lines of gothic type in two- and three-columns. Many pages, especially preliminaries and Hebrew Names, with rubrication. Manuscript three-line capitals in red and in blue throughout, and several much larger initials, most notably on leaf A2r, in red, blue, green, and brown. Early manuscript foliation.#11;#11;Sixteenth century blind-tooled pigskin over beveled wooden boards. Boards with thin-thick-thin borders and pictorial borders rolled in relief, pictorial centerpieces stamped in relief (the year "1554" stamped below the front centerpiece), spine ruled in compartments, four raised bands. Original brass catch-and-clasp fasteners, partially renewed, with new straps. Contemporary manuscript contents ruled in red, written in red and black ink on front pastedown. A few instances of marginalia and notes on the title and rear pastedown in contemporary and near-contemporary hands in red and black ink. A few signatures standing proud. A1 with just a two line title is absent (no doubt left out by the binder) but the two rarely present blanks at the end are present. A few leaves trimmed somewhat close, affecting headlines. Occasional light spotting. Light soiling to boards and wear to board extremities. Overall an excellent copy; clean, fresh and complete in a near-contemporary binding.#11;#11;This is a notably handsome, remarkably well-preserved copy of this important work, the first Bible printed by renowned printer Johann Froben, and also the first Bible ever to be printed in an octavo format. The remarkable pictorial elements of the binding, obscure under direct light, become wonderfully apparent when the binding is viewed at an angle. In this way the images cast shadows, revealing roll patterns featuring the four evangelists on the front board and laurel-wreathed busts of pagan poets on the rear, and two Biblical centerpieces: On the front board is the Sacrifice of Isaac, with the Angel of the Lord staying Abraham's hand; on the rear board, Daniel waits in the lion's den next to one of the big cats while two cherubs hold a wreath above the prophet's head.#11;#11;Bound with the final two blanks, which is not usually the case; in the past thirty years, just one copy has come up for auction with both blanks present (Sotheby's, December 15, 1986, lot 158).#11;#11;This was the first Bible in Latin done for the people. Prior to the publication of Froben's 1491 Biblia integra, printed Bibles tended to be massive folios that were difficult to transport, making them talismanic objects as much as texts, and therefore primarily suited for ecclesiastical use. Because of its relatively diminutive size Froben's Bible became know as the original "Poor Man's Bible", eminently transportable and therefore eminently accessible. Although Froben's Biblia integra was printed in Latin, because of its small size it should rightly be ranked with Martin Luther's 1534 German Bible, and later sixteenth and seventeenth century Bibles translated into other vernacular European languages that made the Bible increasingly accessible to laypeople in early modern Europe.#11;#11;"The earliest edition printed in octavo was printed by Johannes Froben de Hammelburg: Baseileae, 27 June 1491 ... This edition from its small size is known as the first 'poor man's Bible.' It is noteworthy also as being the first book, or one of the first books, issued by Johann Froben, the celebrated printer of Basel, who was intimately connected with Erasmus and other prominent men of the age, and printed many books in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Froben's Latin Bibles were based on the 'Fontibus ex Graecis' editions, and were highly esteemed for their accuracy" (Darlow & Moule).#11;#11;Darlow & Moule 6086. Goff B-592. Hain 664. Polain 664.
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KETHAM, Joannes
Fasciculus Medicinae
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Gregorio de Gregoriis Small folio [30 x 20 cm] (32) ff. Bound in reverse calf. Handful of marginal comments in an early hand. Some soiling generally outside of woodcut border, several minor tears expertly repaired; a good copy with margins. An attractive copy with good impressions of the blocks of the first medical work to be illustrated with woodcuts. The Fasciculus Medicinae is an anthology intended for the use of students and practitioners during the Renaissance. It includes both traditional medical lore as well as more recent writings, of which the most important by far is Mondino's Anothomia, the first modern treatise on anatomy. The outstanding feature of the work, however, "is that it includes the first printed anatomic illustrations of any kind" (G&M 363) and contains "...among the best woodcuts of the fifteenth and early sixteenth century" (Heirs of Hippocrates, p. 46). In the northern Italian style of Mantegna, to whose school they have been attributed, the woodcuts depict the Zodiac Man, the Bloodletting Man, the Planet Man, a dissection scene, the female figure with uterus, and the full-page woodcut of Petrus de Montagnana teaching. The work was first published in 1491 and went through many editions, though as a book which saw constant use in some uncommonly messy places, it is now rare. Copies in good condition with margins around the many full-page illustrations seldom appear on the market. Little is known about Ketham. A German born in Swabia, he is thought to have been Professor of Medicine and Surgery at Venice, and to have prepared this work for his students.*Waller 5175; not in Durling; Choulant pp. 115-122; Garrison & Morton 363; Cushing K58; Charles Singer, ed., The fascicula de medecina, p. 40 ff.; Histoire de la medecine et du livre medicale, p. 49 ff.; see Dibner, Heralds 122; see PMM 36 (1493/4 ed.).
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Bonvesin Della Riva
Vita scolastica, [colophon:] Venetiis, Per Ioannem Batista[m] Sessa, 1501.
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4° (mm 185x131); cc. (20). Ampia bordura silografica a vignette nel frontespizio (vedi sotto) e, sotto il titolo, marca della Gatta. Cartonatura ornata moderna. Il frontespizio e alcune iniziali anticamente colorate, nel verso un singolare disegno a penna di mano antica: un mendicante. Rarissima edizione (1 sola copia in Edit xvi), la prima del secolo xvi. Essling, 856; Sander, 1225: «Page du titre, encadrement au trait emprunté de l’Aesopus, 31.i.1491 (frontispice)»; Edit xvi, b-3175 (1 solo esemplare, alla Braidense di Milano). «L’operetta […] è tutt’altro che priva di interesse per la conoscenza del tempo in cui fu redatta, dell’ambiente che descrive, degli usi di cui dà testimonianza, ed anche per la stessa personalità del suo autore di cui rivela non meno degli scritti volgari le note caratteristiche. Per la vita scolastica italiana – e particolarmente milanese – nel Duecento, essa è fonte di primo piano; non soltanto “messa insieme con materiali racimolati un po’ dappertutto” – come disse il Novati – ma anche frutto di matura esperienza (così si ricava dal testo, in mancanza finora, di ogni determinazione cronologica sulla sua composizione) ed espressione, sia pur elementare e talora ingenua, di un amore verso la scuola non fatto di retorica e di luoghi comuni, ma piuttosto di cara consuetudine di vita (Bonvesin lascerà l’insegnamento soltanto pochi anni prima di morire, quasi settantenne). L’opera – in 936 versi, racchiudenti però anche otto racconti in prosa – ubbidisce ad un piano organico assai semplice (il primo libro riguarda gli scolari, il secondo i maestri), ma nello svolgimento le sproporzioni sono assai rilevanti e la seconda parte appare affrettata e monca rispetto alla prima (i libro = vv. 1-766; ii libro = vv. 767-930). Anche nell’indicare le cinque chiavi per giungere al possesso della sapienza – che forma l’argomento di tutto il primo libro – la parte più rilevante è riservata, a scapito delle altre, a quel “timor Domini” che è per la concezione cristiana l’”initium sapientiae”, ma intorno al quale la precettistica poteva cadere, come cadde, o nel generico o nel tradizionalmente noto (ecco la disposizione nell’interno del poemetto per questo primo libro: prima chiave, timor Domini = vv. 1-482; seconda, honor magistri = vv. 483-704; terza, assiduitas legendi = vv. 705-736; quarta, frequens interrogatio = vv. 737-754; quinta, memoria retinendi = vv. 755-766). Eppure l’operetta si legge senza noia non solo per i motivi detti sopra, ma anche per una certa bonomia sorridente che s’intravvede sotto la parola tranquilla e spesso severa dell’autore. Ricompaiono nei modesti versi gli scolari e i maestri di tutti i tempi, con le loro preoccupazioni e con il loro volto. Scolari che si fermano nelle strade o nelle piazze a giocare, ad aizzare i cani, a litigare, che a scuola parlano, gridano mangiano, che vi entrano d’inverno senza scrollarsi di dosso la neve, che sputano sotto i banchi, che siedono davanti al maestro con le gambe incrociate, o parlandogli troppo da vicino lo tempestano di saliva, che guardano o ascoltano per le fessure delle porte, che lasciano gocciolare il naso sui quaderni; e, d’altro canto, che si alzano quando lo vedono venire da lontano, che lo salutano e l’accompagnano con ogni segno di deferenza, che reputano i castighi ben dati, anche sotto le apparenze dell’ingiustizia, che studiano per fargli onore, e via dicendo; maestri che attendono invano lo stipendio e sono costretti a sollecitarlo e a sequestrare libri, che non si preparano alle lezioni, che bevono, che perdono il tempo, e via dicendo, sono elementi che la vita della scuola ha conosciuto e conoscerà sempre, con le colorazioni che la diversità dei tempi dà loro» (E. Franceschini, Prefazione a Bonvicini de Ripa, Vita scholastica, Padova 1943 (“Testi e documenti di storia e di letteratura latina medioevale”, v), pp. vi-viii).
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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King Ferdinand V of Spain
While Columbus was seeking another audience with the King, Ferdinand wrote this letter from Granada during his successful siege of the Muslim city, the month he stopped the Inquisition’s proceedings against his Treasurer, Luis de Santangel, accused of being a Jew. It was Santangel who, five months later, convinced the King to reverse his decision and finance Columbus.
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Manuscript Letter Signed “Yo el Rey” (“I the King”), one page, 11” x 7.5”. Granada, July 30, 1491. In Latin, not translated. To Ludovico Sforza. Tipped to sheet of same size. Partial elaborate embossed seal affixed with red wax on verso, light show-through of wax at left. Light folds. Docket in unknown hands at top (“1491 - 30 Luglio...”) and at the right (“...Napoli”) in Italian. King Ferdinand II acknowledges receipt of a letter from Sforza which contained “perspicacious” observations relating to “our holdings” in Italy and his “valuable” comments on the Marquis of Palavicino. The King of Spain had long desired to acquire territory in Italy and eventually, in 1504, conquered Naples. Ludovico Sforza (1452-1508), patron of Leonardo da Vinci, had deprived his seven-year-old nephew of the regency of Milan in 1480, but was not formerly invested as Duke of Milan by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I until his nephew’s death in 1494. In 1499, French King Louis XII, who had a hereditary claim to the duchy of Milan, invaded Italy and expelled Sforza. In July 1491, King Ferdinand’s treasurer, Luis de Santangel, was accused of being a Marrano, a Sephardic Jew who was forced to adopt Christianity under threat of expulsion but who continued to practice Judaism secretly. The King intervened on his behalf and managed to stop the Inquisition’s proceedings. On July 17, 1491, just 13 days before Ferdinand signed this letter, Santangel was penanced. In December, it was Santangel who made it possible for Christopher Columbus to gain another hearing before Ferdinand and Isabella after they had turned him down at least twice in the previous five years. In Santa Fe, outside the besieged Granada, they considered his project once more, and once more it was rejected. Columbus returned to the convent at La Rábida, near Huelva, where he had stayed with Franciscan friar Juan Perez in the summer of 1491. He planned to travel north to make an appeal to the King of France. Father Perez, former confessor to Isabella, wrote the Queen to reconsider. Royal Treasurer Luis de Santangel also interceded on Columbus’s behalf. Arguing that the investment was small considering the potential reward, Santangel convinced King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to reverse their decision. They sent a messenger to La Rábida who brought Columbus back to Granada. The siege of Granada had begun in the spring of 1491. The surrender of Granada was signed in November 1491 and Ferdinand and Isabella entered the capital in a procession on January 2, 1492; Columbus was in the procession. The Columbus Doors stand imposingly at the main entrance to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, District of Columbia. Depicted on one of the nine panels is Columbus on a mule, preparing to depart La Rábida.
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Folengo Teofilo (Merlini Cocai)
OPUS MERLINI COCAII poeta mantuani macaronicorum. Totum in pristinam formam per me Magistrum Acquarium lodolam optimè redactum, in his infra notatis titulis divisum - ZANITOLELLA - PHANTASIE - MOSCHEAE - LIBELLULS -, Amsterdam (ma Napoli), Abrahan Van Somerem, 1692
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- cm. 11 x 16, rilegatura coeva cartonata grezza con due legacci di corda, qualche difetto ma è assai intrigante, pp. (32) 419 (4) Fogli in barbe con qualche macchiolina. Ritratto del Folengo inciso in rame all'antiporta. Fregi vari e finalini xilografici, poi con 25 belle vignette in rame a metà pagina. Ci sono qui alcune delle opere più importanti del FOLENGO (poeta mantovano, monaco benedettino (Mantova 1491 - Campese di Bassano 1544) ZANITOLELLA, MOSCHEIDE, EPISTOLE ED EPIGRAMMI,ecc. (Brunet II pag. 1319- Grasse II pag. 608)
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Augustine, Saint
Opuscula
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Angelus Ugoletus, 31 March 1491. Folio. Roman type. ff.306, the last leaf blank. Full modern calf in antique style, preserving on later front blank fly-leaf the armorial bookplate of H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), sixth son of George III of England and noted bibliophile. Early repair to blank foot of second leaf, several small wormholes to first and last leaves that do not affect legibility, and some contemporary marginalia. A very large example with some uncut edges.
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Giacomo Filippo Foresti (Iacobus Bergomensis) de Bergamo
Incunabula 1491 SUPPLEMENTUM CHRONICARUM 50 + Woodcuts
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ITALIAN EDITION PRINCEPS -- THE RAREST WOODCUT CHRONICLE [Incunabula] [History Of Printing] [Sermons] [History, Chronicles and Voyages] [Xylographic Printing] [Woodcuts] [Secular Humanism] de Bergamo, Giacomo Filippo Foresti (Iacobus Bergomensis) (1434 - 1520): Cronicha de Tuto el Monde Vulgare; Venice; 08 October, 1491; Bernardinus Rizus de Novariensis; Folio; (22 cm. by 30.6 cm. - 8½ inches by 12 inches); 290 (of 298) leaves; paginated rectoes only.Please contact directly for inquiries and pictures. [Publisher: VENICE ; Bernardinus Rizus de Novariensis]
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Folengo Teofilo (Merlini Cocai)
OPUS MERLINI COCAI poeta mantuani macaronicorum. Totum in pristinam formam per me Magistrum Acquarium lodolam optimè redactum, in his infra notatis titulis divisum - ZANITOLELLA - PHANTASIE - MOSCHEAE - LIBELLULS -, Venetiis, Bevilacquam, 1613
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- cm. 8,5 x 14, rilegatura coeva piena pergamena con titolo manoscritto al dorso, pp. 541 e tabula-indica (8) Fogli con bruniture varie. Varie figure incise su legno all'inizio delle varie opere. Ci sono qui alcune delle opere più importanti del FOLENGO (poeta mantovano, monaco benedettino (Mantova 1491 - Campese di Bassano 1544) ZANITOLELLA, MOSCHEIDE, EPISTOLE ED EPIGRAMMI,ecc. (Brunet II pag. 1318) L'edizione era stata annunciata in alcuni casi come 1513.
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BRUNUS CONRADUS
Libri sex, de haereticis in genere. D. Optati Afri episcopi quondam Milevitani, libri sex de donatistis in specie, nominatim in parmenianum . Ex bibliotheca Cusana . Apud S. Victorem prope Moguntiam, ex officina Francisci Behem typographi, 1549
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- Due parti in un volume di cm. 30, pp. (28) 358 (2); (16) 69 (3). Splendidi marchi tipografici ai due colophon, alcuni splendidi capilettera istoriati. Leg. antica in piena pelle; dorso a 6 nervi con titoli su tass. e ricchi fregi in oro agli scomparti. Timbretto (con annullo) di biblioteca diocesana francese parzialmente dismessa. Piccole mancanze alle cuffie e qualche spellatura ai piatti, sporadiche fioriture e bruniture e qualche trascurabile alone, peraltro esemplare ben conservato. Konrad Braun (1491-1563), teologo cattolico e giureconsulto tedesco, divenne professore di diritto pubblico a Tübingen nel 1521. Fu autore di alcune stimate opere giuridiche dedicate ai tumulti, alle consuetudini ed alle legazioni. Questo trattato, diviso in sei libri, è monograficamente dedicato al tema dell'eresia: quid est de haereticorum moribus, quid est de malis et impietatibus, quid est de remediis, quid est de iudiciis, quid est de poenis haereticorum. Rara edizione originale. Cfr. Graesse, I, 556; Kvk; Iccu. (S89)
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Euclides (fl. 300 aC).
Elementa geometriae.
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Leonardus Achates de Basilea and Guilielmus de Papia,, Vicenza: 1491 - 138 hojas, signaturas a10, b-r8. Encuadernado en pergamino marfilado con el título dorado en el lomo. Cortes tintados. Ejemplar con los márgenes algo cortos, afectando ligeramente la orla y las figuras de la portada, pero bien para el resto del ejemplar. Anotaciones marginales en latín en algunas hojas, alguna sombra muy discreta de antiguo y una restauración marginal en la última hoja sin pérdida. Sin lavar ni prensar. HC 6694*. Goff E-114. BMC vii, 1033. IGI 3723. GW 9429. IBE 2335. Segunda edición. Esta de Vicenza es una reimpresión de la primera edición de Venecia: Ratdolt, 1482. Los Elementos de Euclides componen el libro que inaugura y compendia toda la geometría: toda la ciencia geométrica entre el siglo iii aC y el siglo xx tiene su origen y ha de tener su referente en el trabajo de Euclides.La traducción latina medieval estuvo a cargo de Adelardo de Bath y lleva los comentarios de Campano de Novara."La composición euclídea fue, para empenzar, un repertorio básico de los resultados probados y las proposiciones demostradas; un archivo tan cumplido que hizo superfluo cualquier otro tratado matemático del mismo alcance y género. siempre que hacía falta una lema elemental bastaba, por lo regular, mencionar su presencia en los Elementos sin que fuera necesario detenerse a probarlo.Los Elementos fijaron una especie de estándar metodológico o nivel básico de exigencia tanto en lo referente a la sistematización deductiva de un cuerpo de conocimientos como en lo referente al rigor informal de la prueba matemática. una normalización de la exposición demostrativa de las proposiciones geométricas." son expresiones de Luis Vega. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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IMHOF JACOBUS WILHELMUS
S. Rom. Germanici Imperii procerum tam ecclesiasticorum quàm secularium notitia historico-heraldico-genealogica. Ad hodiernum Imperii statum accommodata. Tubingae, sumptibus Joh. Georg. Cottae, typis Martini Rommeii, 1684
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- Cm. 16,5, pp. (10) 1491 (77). Con una tavola genealogica ripieg. f.t. Frontespizio in rosso e nero. Bella legatura coeva in piena perg. rigida con unghie e titoli ms. al dorso; tagli colorati. Bell'esemplare. Jacob Wilhelm Imhof (1651-1728), scrittore e storico tedesco, fu autore di fortunate opere d'interesse genealogico (dedicate anche ad Italia e Spagna). Quest'imponente lavoro raccoglie preziose informazioni sulla storia degli elettori, delle abbazie e dei principati sottoposti alla giurisdizione imperiale. Un'esauriente studio di politica, genealogia ed araldica sulle principali famiglie del Sacro Romano Impero. Raro. Verosimilmente edizione originale. Cfr. per edizioni successive, Graesse III, 412; Kvk; non in Brunet. (S127)
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Curcio Rufo, Quinto.
De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni Regis Macedonum liber tertius.
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[Impresor del Augurellus (Christophorus de Montagu)] 1491, 18 de Agosto, Verona: - 69 hojas en signaturas a-h8, i5, sin la última blanca. Encuadernación moderna en pergamino reutilizando una piel antigua. Magnífico ejemplar con todos sus márgenes. Únicamente el último pliego con alguna suciedad, evidente en la última hoja. Hain 5884. IBE 1964. IGI 3289, un único ejemplar: Biblioteca Capitular de Sevilla. Proctor 6925. BMC vii 954. Goff C-1001.Nota bene: On the identity of the printer, see D.E. Rhodes in La Bibliofilia 88 (1986) pp.187-8. Ex-libris de Albert Ehrman en la guarda delantera y de Julio Bernuza en la trasera. También pequeño sello de lacre con emblema nobiliario en el centro de la portada. Compuesta tras el 32 d.C., la obra de Curcio es la biografia novelada del conquistador macedonio, hijo de Filipo, que desde la corte de Pela llegó a conquistar el Imperio Persa. Inicialmente la obra constaba de diez libros, de los que se han perdido los dos primeros y fragmentos de los restantes. Influenciado por Homero y Tito Livio, el autor utiliza como fuentes a Clitarco, Ptolomeo y Timárgenes. Otras posibles fuentes son Calístenes (fuente común con Arriano, con quien Curcio coincide en algunos pasajes), Aristóbulo, Onesícrito y Nearco. Esta edición es, como todos los impresos incunables de Verona, muy escasa. La producción de Christophorus de Motagu se limita a tres obras: Carmina de Johannes Augurellus, el Curcio que presentamos y Il libro de governar astori et spalvieri de Jacomellus Veturus, todos ellos impresos en Verona entre Junio y Agosto de 1491.
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MESUE (ca. 777-857)
Mesue cum additionibus Francisci de Pedemontium et additionibus Petri de Apono et cum commento Mundini super Canones generales. Et cum commento Christophori de Honestis super antodotarium Mesue, Platearius super antidotarium Nicolai, et Saladinus de componendis medicinis.
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Impressa Venetiis per Pelegrinum de pasqualibus de Bononia 1491 - In folio (cm 31), attraente legatura coeva in pelle di scrofa impressa a secco su assi di legno, all'interno qualche alone marginale, nel complesso esemplare in buone condizioni. Testo entro commento a due colonne su 75 linee, car. gotico, letterine guida, ognuno dei quattro testi con tit. in rosso alla prima pagina e numerazione propria. Cc. 47; 40; 291; 30, (1, registro). Nuova edizione delle opere di Mesue commentate da Francesco Pedemontano, Pietro d'Abano, Mondino de' Liuci e Cristoforo Onesti, con l'aggiunta del commento del Plateario a Nicola Salernitano e il trattato del Saladino sulla composizione dei medicinali. Mesue - noto nella letteratura rinascimentale anche come Damasceno - fu il primo scienziato siriano che scrisse opere mediche in lingua araba. Il primo testo, con il commento del bolognese Mondino dei Liuzzi (sec. XIII), il trattato De consolatione medicinarum, che si compone di due parti: la prima contiene osservazioni di carattere generale - che nel titolo appaiono appunto sotto il nome di canones generales -, di derivazione per lo pi ippocratica e galenica; la seconda descrive una serie di piante e pietre (aloe, issopo, elleboro, assenzio, rosa, manna, lapis stellatus) con effetti benefici, con raccomandazioni su impiego e quantitˆ. Il secondo testo il celebre Antidotarium, commentato e annotato da Cristoforo Onesti (1320-1392), nato a Firenze e laureato in medicina a Bologna. Ispirato a Galeno, l'antidotario di Mesue diviso in 12 parti, e tratta della composizione e dell'utilizzo degli elettuari, degli sciroppi, dei decotti, delle pillole, degli unguenti, degli olii ed altro. La paternitˆ non certa: pare che si tratti in veritˆ di una compilazione pi tarda, fatta da un italiano che aveva assunto lo pseudonimo di Mesue, probabilmente per riuscire a pubblicizzare meglio il proprio scritto. Segue il Grabadin, una specie di manuale del farmacista, che fu molto utilizzato durante tutto il Medioevo. Il testo si divide in 3 parti: le medicine per malattie particolari (relative alla testa, all'apparato digerente, all'intestino e alle giunture); le medicine per malattie generiche (febbre, avvelenamenti ecc.); le medicine per singoli organi (occhi, capelli, cervello, nervi, orecchie, naso, bocca). In chiusura, altri testi di medicina e farmacia legati alla scuola salernitana - come l'antidotario di Nicola Salernitano (commentato dal Plateario) e il trattato di Saladino d'Ascoli. Goff M-515; H 11110*; Klebs 680.13; IGI 6391; BMC V 391; BSB-Ink M-347.
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis Venice 28. March 1491 Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. ... His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447
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BIBLE IN LATIN]
Biblia integra : summata : distincta : Sup[er]eme[n]data vtriusq[ue] testame[n]ti [con]corda[n]tijs illustrata.
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Johann Froben, Basel 1491 - First printed bible in octavo, the so-called "Poor Man's Bible". Short octavo (5 7/8 x 4 3/16 inches; 149 x 106 mm). [493] leaves. Fifty-six lines of gothic type in two- and three-columns. Many pages, especially preliminaries and Hebrew Names, with rubrication. Manuscript three-line capitals in red and in blue throughout, and several much larger initials, most notably on leaf A2r, in red, blue, green, and brown. Early manuscript foliation.Sixteenth century blind-tooled pigskin over beveled wooden boards. Boards with thin-thick-thin borders and pictorial borders rolled in relief, pictorial centerpieces stamped in relief (the year "1554" stamped below the front centerpiece), spine ruled in compartments, four raised bands. Original brass catch-and-clasp fasteners, partially renewed, with new straps. Contemporary manuscript contents ruled in red, written in red and black ink on front pastedown. A few instances of marginalia and notes on the title and rear pastedown in contemporary and near-contemporary hands in red and black ink. A few signatures standing proud. A few leaves trimmed somewhat close, affecting headlines. Occasional light spotting. Light soiling to boards and wear to board extremities. Overall an excellent copy; clean, fresh and complete in a near-contemporary binding.This is a notably handsome, remarkably well-preserved copy of this important work, the first Bible printed by renowned printer Johann Froben, and also the first Bible ever to be printed in an octavo format. The remarkable pictorial elements of the binding, obscure under direct light, become wonderfully apparent when the binding is viewed at an angle. In this way the images cast shadows, revealing roll patterns featuring the four evangelists on the front board and laurel-wreathed busts of pagan poets on the rear, and two Biblical centerpieces: On the front board is the Sacrifice of Isaac, with the Angel of the Lord staying Abraham's hand; on the rear board, Daniel waits in the lion's den next to one of the big cats while two cherubs hold a wreath above the prophet's head.Bound with the final two blanks, which is not usually the case; in the past thirty years, just one copy has come up for auction with both blanks present (Sotheby's, December 15, 1986, lot 158).Prior to the publication of Froben's 1491 Biblia integra, printed Bibles tended to be massive folios that were difficult to transport, making them talismanic objects as much as texts, and therefore primarily suited for ecclesiastical use. Because of its relatively diminutive size Froben's Bible became know as the original "Poor Man's Bible", eminently transportable and therefore eminently accessible. Although Froben's Biblia integra was printed in Latin, because of its small size it should rightly be ranked with Martin Luther's 1534 German Bible, and later sixteenth and seventeenth century Bibles translated into other vernacular European languages that made the Bible increasingly accessible to laypeople in early modern Europe."The earliest edition printed in octavo was printed by Johannes Froben de Hammelburg: Baseileae, 27 June 1491 This edition from its small size is known as the first 'poor man's Bible.' It is noteworthy also as being the first book, or one of the first books, issued by Johann Froben, the celebrated printer of Basel, who was intimately connected with Erasmus and other prominent men of the age, and printed many books in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Froben's Latin Bibles were based on the 'Fontibus ex Graecis' editions, and were highly esteemed for their accuracy" (Darlow & Moule).Darlow & Moule 6086. Goff B-592. Hain 664. Polain 664.
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de Bergamo, Giacomo Filippo Foresti (Iacobus Bergomensis)
Incunabula 1491 SUPPLEMENTUM CHRONICARUM 50 + Woodcuts
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VENICE, 1491 - ITALIAN EDITIO PRINCEPS -- THE RAREST WOODCUT CHRONICLE [Incunabula] [History Of Printing] [Sermons] [History, Chronicles and Voyages] [Xylographic Printing] [Woodcuts] [Secular Humanism] de Bergamo, Giacomo Filippo Foresti (Iacobus Bergomensis) (1434 - 1520): Cronicha de Tuto el Monde Vulgare; Venice; 08 October, 1491; Bernardinus Rizus de Novariensis; Folio; (22 cm. by 30.6 cm. - 8½ inches by 12 inches); 290 (of 298) leaves; paginated rectoes only.Please contact directly for inquiries and pictures.
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GUIDO DE MONTE ROCHERIO
Manipulus Curatorum
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Venezia Massimo de Butricis 1491. In 4° (mm.203x152); 87 carte. Fascicolazione: a-k8, l7. Testo in caratteri romani disposto su due colonne di 40 linee. Cartonato settecentesco con titolo, autore e data manoscritti al dorso. Il Manipulus curatorum, composto nel 1333, e un trattato specifico sull'officio dei sacerdoti. Vengono descritti dettagliatamente il modo adeguato di amministrare i sette sacramenti, i termini per l'annullamento di un matrimonio, le disposizioni per la preghiera, gli impedimenti ai sacramenti, la vestizione per la messa etc. Bell'esemplare con lievi tracce di umidita; alle carte c3-6 lo specchio di stampa non e perfettamente perpendicolare alla pagina. Goff G-601; Hain 8202; IGI 4586. . Officio dei sacerdoti incunabolo
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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GUIDO DE MONTE ROCHERIO
Manipulus Curatorum
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Massimo de Butricis, Venezia 1491 - In 4° (mm.203x152); 87 carte. Fascicolazione: a-k8, l7. Testo in caratteri romani disposto su due colonne di 40 linee. Cartonato settecentesco con titolo, autore e data manoscritti al dorso. Il Manipulus curatorum, composto nel 1333, è un trattato specifico sull'officio dei sacerdoti. Vengono descritti dettagliatamente il modo adeguato di amministrare i sette sacramenti, i termini per l'annullamento di un matrimonio, le disposizioni per la preghiera, gli impedimenti ai sacramenti, la vestizione per la messa etc.Bell'esemplare con lievi tracce di umidità; alle carte c3-6 lo specchio di stampa non è perfettamente perpendicolare alla pagina. Goff G-601; Hain 8202; IGI 4586.
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FILELFO FRANCESCO
Orationes & aliae operae
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Venezia Bartolomeo de Zanis 1491 In 4° (mm. 218x155). 166 carte . Fascicolazione: a-u8, x6. Testo in carattere romano disposto a piena pagina su 41 linee. Spazi nel testo per le iniziali manoscritte con lettera guida impressa. Bella legatura coeva monastica in mezza pelle decorata a secco, montata su assi in ciliegio, con fermagli non coevi in pelle; al piatto inferiore rimane un solo fermaglio di due; dorso a tre nervi.Terza edizione italiana di quest'opera e sesta fatica editoriale di Bartolomeo de Zanis. Sono contenute le Orazioni funebri e nuziali nonché quelle di vario argomento pronunziate dal Filelfo in diverse occasioni; sono inoltre presenti i suoi apophtegmata, cioè commenti a raccolte di aforismi e detti memorabili. Francesco Filelfo (Tolentino 1398 - Firenze 1481), dopo gli studi giuridici e letterari, entrò nell'ordine benedettino e compiuto un viaggio nel vicino Oriente, si intrattenne per un breve periodo a Costantinopoli, dove imparò il greco da Emanuele Crisolora. Nel 1427 tornò a Venezia, portando con sé molti codici greci di fondamentale importanza culturale. Insegnò quindi letteratura greca a Venezia, Bologna, Firenze, Roma e Milano. Divenne segretario personale di papa Nicola V e fu insignito del toson d'oro da re Alfonso d'Aragona. Bell'esemplare con pochi difetti: piccoli fori di tarlo e lievi tracce di usura alla legatura con mende alla cuffia e al piede del dorso. Leggere fioriture, tracce di umidità e arrossamenti della carta ai fascicoli "n,o,q".Hein-Coppinger 12923; BMC V 431; Goff P-609; IGI 3907; Klebbs 403,3; Polain (B) 3139. incunaboloorazioni
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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CLIMACO Giovanni Santo
Climacho altramente Schala Paradisi.
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(In fine:) Questo libro fu facto in Venesia per Matheo da Parma. Nel Mcccclxxxi. die VIII mensis Iunii (Venezia, Bernardinus Benalius e Matteo Capcasa, 8 giugno1491), in-4, ff. 144 n.n., legatura moderna in p.pergamena. Illustrato da due artistiche incisioni in legno (mm 480x500 circa caduna): “Annunciazione” (sul titolo) e “Deposizione di Cristo Morto” (al verso del secondo f.). Seconda edizione della traduzione in italiano (prima Torrebelvicino presso Vicenza, Leonardo Longo, 1478; quella del 1477 citata dall’Hain 5466 non esiste) di questa famosa guida spirituale, «Klimax tou Paradeisou» o Scala del Paradiso, composta in greco nel VII secolo da San Giovanni soprannominato Climaco, ovvero «quello della scala», dal nome appunto del suo componimento. Vera e propria sintesi della tradizione monastica antica, illustra, attraverso trenta gradini, altrettante tappe della vita monastica. La “Scala del paradiso” venne tradotta in molte lingue, tra cui latino, siriaco, armeno, arabo e slavo. Sulla base della traduzione latina di Angelo Clareno da Cingoli, nel XIV secolo l’agostiniano Gentile da Foligno la traspose in italiano. Buon esemplare di raro incunabolo, censito solamente in una decina di Biblioteche nel mondo. CATALOGO MARTINI 188. BMC,V, 373: «Sebbene questo libro porti soltanto il nome del Capcasa tuttavia un passo del suo testamento prova che è uno di quelli stampati in società col Benali; l’edizione fu limitata a 750 copie» IGI 5215. ESSLING 565. SANDER 2018. GAMBA, 1105 (nota); ZAMBRINI, OPERE VOLGARI, 467
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FILELFO FRANCESCO
Orationes & aliae operae
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Bartolomeo de Zanis, Venezia 1491 - In 4° (mm. 218x155). 166 carte Fascicolazione: a-u8, x6. Testo in carattere romano disposto a piena pagina su 41 linee. Spazi nel testo per le iniziali manoscritte con lettera guida impressa. Bella legatura coeva monastica in mezza pelle decorata a secco, montata su assi in ciliegio, con fermagli non coevi in pelle; al piatto inferiore rimane un solo fermaglio di due; dorso a tre nervi.Terza edizione italiana di quest'opera e sesta fatica editoriale di Bartolomeo de Zanis. Sono contenute le Orazioni funebri e nuziali nonché quelle di vario argomento pronunziate dal Filelfo in diverse occasioni; sono inoltre presenti i suoi apophtegmata, cioè commenti a raccolte di aforismi e detti memorabili. Francesco Filelfo (Tolentino 1398 - Firenze 1481), dopo gli studi giuridici e letterari, entrò nell'ordine benedettino e compiuto un viaggio nel vicino Oriente, si intrattenne per un breve periodo a Costantinopoli, dove imparò il greco da Emanuele Crisolora. Nel 1427 tornò a Venezia, portando con sé molti codici greci di fondamentale importanza culturale. Insegnò quindi letteratura greca a Venezia, Bologna, Firenze, Roma e Milano. Divenne segretario personale di papa Nicola V e fu insignito del toson d'oro da re Alfonso d'Aragona. Bell'esemplare con pochi difetti: piccoli fori di tarlo e lievi tracce di usura alla legatura con mende alla cuffia e al piede del dorso. Leggere fioriture, tracce di umidità e arrossamenti della carta ai fascicoli "n,o,q".Hein-Coppinger 12923; BMC V 431; Goff P-609; IGI 3907; Klebbs 403,3; Polain (B) 3139.
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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IMHOF JACOBUS WILHELMUS
S. Rom. Germanici Imperii procerum tam ecclesiasticorum quàm secularium notitia historico-heraldico-genealogica. Ad hodiernum Imperii statum accommodata. Tubingae, sumptibus Joh. Georg. Cottae, typis Martini Rommeii, 1684
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- Cm. 16,5, pp. (10) 1491 (77). Con una tavola genealogica ripieg. f.t. Frontespizio in rosso e nero. Bella legatura coeva in piena perg. rigida con unghie e titoli ms. al dorso; tagli colorati. Bell’esemplare. Jacob Wilhelm Imhof (1651-1728), scrittore e storico tedesco, fu autore di fortunate opere d’interesse genealogico (dedicate anche ad Italia e Spagna). Quest’imponente lavoro raccoglie preziose informazioni sulla storia degli elettori, delle abbazie e dei principati sottoposti alla giurisdizione imperiale. Un’esauriente studio di politica, genealogia ed araldica sulle principali famiglie del Sacro Romano Impero. Raro. Verosimilmente edizione originale. Cfr. per edizioni successive, Graesse III, 412; Kvk; non in Brunet. (S127)
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Orationes Philelphi
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Venice Bartolomeum de Zanis 1491. - DJ not used. G. Orig wooden boards. Lack hinges. Vellum spine. Lt foxing. Binding is Hardback. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Bonaini F. - Fabretti A. - Polidori F.L
Cronache e storie inedite della città di Perugia dal MCL al MDLXIII seguite da inediti documenti tratti dagli archivj di Perugia di Firenze e di Siena. Parte I - II + indice. Bonifaci Veronensis Eulistea, Annali attribuiti ad uno di Casa Oddi, Cronaca.
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- pp. 116-750-43-694, 8°, bross. edit., , .detta del Graziani con supplementi d'altre cronache inedite 1150-1491. Cronaca di Francesco Matarazzo, Memorie di Teseo Alfani, Ricordi dei Bontempi, La guerra del sale di Girolamo Frolliere, Regesto e documenti 1492-1563. Collana Archivio Storico Italiano- voll. 3 Firenze, Vieusseux, 1850-51, (VIEUSSEUX - ARCHIVIO STORICO ITALIANO)
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis Venice 28. March 1491 Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. ... His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447
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KETHAM, Johannes de.
Fasciculus Medicinae.
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- One of 2800 numbered copies of this facsimile reprint of G.M. 363, "A collection of short medical treatises which circulated widely in manuscript, some as early as the 13th century. The great importance of this book is that it includes the first printed anatomic illustrations of any kind." With prospectus. Illustrated with 10 full-page plates. 80pp of black letter type, printed in double columns with rubrication throughout. Small folio, calf-backed blue printed boards; cardboard slipcase (broken). Venice: Johannes & Gregorius Fratres de Forlivio, 1491; i.e. Arlington Mass.: Medicina Rara, (no date). A near fine copy in a very good(-) slipcase. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Bonaini F. - Fabretti A. - Polidori F.L
Cronache e storie inedite della città di Perugia dal MCL al MDLXIII seguite da inediti documenti tratti dagli archivj di Perugia di Firenze e di Siena. Parte I - II + indice. Bonifaci Veronensis Eulistea, Annali attribuiti ad uno di Casa Oddi, Cronaca.
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- pp. 116-750-43-694, 8°, bross. edit., , .detta del Graziani con supplementi d'altre cronache inedite 1150-1491. Cronaca di Francesco Matarazzo, Memorie di Teseo Alfani, Ricordi dei Bontempi, La guerra del sale di Girolamo Frolliere, Regesto e documenti 1492-1563. Collana Archivio Storico Italiano- voll. 3 Firenze, Vieusseux, 1850-51, (VIEUSSEUX - ARCHIVIO STORICO ITALIANO)
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 28 March 1491, Venice - Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. . His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Salzburg].
Statuta Provincialia.
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(Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 28. März 1491). - Fol. Mit 53 tlw. großen floralen Holzschn.-Initialen. 17 nn. Bll. (ohne das letzte weiße), Mod. Pgmt. unter Verwendung eines mittelalterlichen Pergament-Manuskriptes mit zahlr. Initialen in Rot u. Blau. Erste lateinisch-deutsche Ausgabe der unter Erzbischof Friedrich V. beschlossenen Salzburger Provinzialstatuten. Eine undatierte lateinische Ausgabe war bei Petri in Passau erschienen, ob sie vor der hier vorliegenden gedruckt wurde, ist nicht gesichert. - Der Salzburger Erzbischof Friedrich V. entstammte dem letzten edelfreien Geschlecht Österreichs, das sich nach der Burg Schaunberg bei Efering nannte. Er studierte ab 1459 an der Wiener Universität, war sei 1469 Domherr in Salzburg und wurde 1484 Stadtpfarrer. - „Trotz seines Studiums war er jedoch ein ausgesprochen roher und ungebildeter Mann, dem es an fürstlichen Manieren und diplomatischem Geschick vollkommen fehlte [.]. Der dringend notwendigen Reform des Klerus sollte eine Provinzialsynode dienen, die Erzbischof Friedrich V. am 19. Oktober abhielt. Die insgesamt 49 Artikel, die von der Kirchenversammlung beschlossen wurden und vor allem der Verweltlichung des Klerus entgegenwirken sollten, wurden durchwegs aus den Beschlüssen früherer Synoden übernommen. Freilich konte die Wirkung unter einem Erzbischof, der mit seinem Lebenswandel selbst diesen Beschlüssen ganz entschieden zuwiederhandelte, nicht besonders groß sein" (Dopsch I/1, 563). - Kl. zeitgen. Eintrag a. Titel u. vereinzelt einige zeitgen. Marginalien. Zu Beginn kl. Wurmspur im weißen Rand. Tlw. schwach gebräunt bzw. (stock-) fleckig, die ersten Bll. min. wasserrandig. - Goff S 753; Copinger 5623; Pellechet 10740; Polain 3597; Sajó-Soltész 3132; Voull. 300; Ohly-Sack 2586; Walsh 633ff.; Sheppard 1339; Proctor 1892; BMC II, 385; BSB-Ink., S-550; ISTC is00753000. [Attributes: First Edition]
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The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits
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Cambridge University Press. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) obtained papal approval in 1540 for a new international religious order called the Society of Jesus. Until the mid-1700s the 'Jesuits' were active in many parts of Europe and far beyond. Gaining both friends and enemies in response to their work as teachers, scholars, writers, preachers, missionaries and spiritual directors, the Jesuits were formally suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 and restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814. The Society of Jesus then grew until the 1960s; it has more recently experienced declining membership in Europe and North America, but expansion in other parts of the world. This Companion examines the religious and cultural significance of the Jesuits. The first four sections treat the period prior to the Suppression, while section five examines the Suppression and some of the challenges and opportunities of the restored Society of Jesus up to the present. ISBN10: 0521857317.
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Gerson, Ioannes
De Immitatione Christi et de contemptu mundi in vulgari Sermone
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis, Venice 1491 - 23 december 1491. In 4°. 76 unnumbered leaves, handwritten initials and woodcut initials, roman type, good copy with full margins, light brownings, little loss of paper on the margins on leaves f4 and g4 (left bottom corner, does not affect the text), CONTEMPORARY BINDING on wooden axis, handwritten title on the board, end-leaves in parchment from a mercantesque XIVth century manuscript, little wormhole on one board. With an acid-free clamshell box. VERY RARE EDITION of this book, both given to the theologist Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363 -1429), known as "doctor Christianissimus Cancellarius" from the church and the University Notre-Dame de Paris, and to Thomas from Kempis, (1380 - 1471). Hain 9129; Goff I50. PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
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BIBLE - LATIN - VULGATE].
Biblia cum summarioru(m) apparatu pleno quadrupliciq(ue) repertorio insignita: .[Colophon:] Lyons, Jacques Sacon, XII Kal. Octobris (20 September) 1515. 8vo. With title-page in red and black with a woodcut illustration and 5 lines of verse, 1 full-page and 7 smaller woodcut illustrations plus about a dozen repeats, and hundreds of decorateduncial woodcut initials. Eighteenth-century vellum with gold-tooled spine label, modern endpapers.
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- (30), ccccc, (53), (1 blank) ll. Baudrier XII, p. 337; Cathedral Libraries Cat. B-1061 (1 incomplete copy); cf. Adams B-990 (2 copies of a similar Bible); Darlow & Moule 6093 (similar Bible). An early octavo edition of the Vulgate Old and New Testament, with a commendatory verse by Matthias Sambucellus on the title-page, Franciscus Gothi's "Compendiolum" (a thirty-page appendix providing verse epitomes of the books of the Old and New Testament, intended as a mnemonic aid), the interpretations of the Hebrew names, and marginal notes and cross-references. The woodcut on the title-page shows Saint Jerome with pen in hand at his writing table. Next to him is a table with six bound volumes, two open on a rotating book stand. The full-page woodcut shows six small scenes of the six days of creation, with a decorated border around and between them, and the smaller woodcuts in the text are charming scenes and portraits.Froben published the first octavo Bible at Basel in 1491, bringing the complete Bible text within reach of a larger public, though still limited to those well enough educated to read Latin. Luther promulgated his famous theses only two years after the present edition, and his German translation didn't begin to appear until 1522. The present text is based on Petri and Froben's 1509 folio edition, though indirectly via Mareschal's 1510 Lyons octavo edition. The verse on the title-page first appeared in the 1509 edition, but Mareschal altered the last line to remove the reference to Basel. Mareschal also appears to have added the verse epitomes. Froben's editions were highly regarded for their accurate texts, so they served as the best standard for others to follow.In very good condition, with the with the trim at the head on three pages just touching the running heads, and the title-page reinforced in the gutter. Binding slightly worn. A nice example of the Bible (with woodcuts) reaching out to a broader public on the eve of the Protestant Reformation.
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KETHAM, Johannes de.
Fasciculus Medicinae.
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- One of 2800 numbered copies of this facsimile reprint of G.M. 363, "A collection of short medical treatises which circulated widely in manuscript, some as early as the 13th century. The great importance of this book is that it includes the first printed anatomic illustrations of any kind." With prospectus. Illustrated with 10 full-page plates. 80pp of black letter type, printed in double columns with rubrication throughout. Small folio, calf-backed blue printed boards; cardboard slipcase (broken). Venice: Johannes & Gregorius Fratres de Forlivio, 1491; i.e. Arlington Mass.: Medicina Rara, (no date). A near fine copy in a very good(-) slipcase. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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LA FONTAINE, (Jean de)
Fables de La Fontaine. Illustrations de Félix Lorioux.
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Paris, Libraire Hachette (à la fin, en bas p. 72, : Imprimé en France BRODARD et TAUPIN Paris - Coulommiers 334-3-1491), 1929, - pt. in-8°, 72 p., illustré en couleurs, imprimé sur papier mat, qqs page renforcés dans la charenière avec du papier collant, page de garde sur fond claire, a la fin manque, garde renfocé avec du papier collant, reliure en demi-toile illustrée d'une image contrecollé sur fond brun/nuagés blanc, dos abimé. Für Schweizer Kunden kommen noch 2,4 % MWST hinzu. Our books are stored in our warehouse, not in the shop. Please notify beforehand, if you want to visit and see a specific book.
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CAVICEO (Jacopo)
Sex urbium dicta ad Maximilianum Federici Tertii caesarius filium Romanorum regem triumphantissimum. [Venice, after 16 Mar.
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- Five-line ornamental woodcut initial on first page, first page of text printed within a single rule. Sm. 4to. 6 leaves, the last blank. Later wrappers. 1491]. One of only two editions of this tract which purports to be a collection of speeches addressed to Emperor Maximilian by certain great cities of old (Babylon, Troy, etc.) congratulating him on the occasion of his victory over the Hungarians at Stühlweissenburg (Alba Regia) in November 1490; Babylon, Troy, Byzantium and finally Rome are introduced as speakers, extolling the military prowess of the young king of the Romans, and exhorting him to lead at last the long desired war against the Turks, prophesying a glorious victory for Maximilian and the state of Christendom. The author Caviceo (1443-1571), a native of Parma, became very well known after the publication of his romantic novel Il Peregrino in 1508. GW assigned the printing to Benalius, but this is not accepted by BMC or IGI VI while the second edition is assigned to Matteo Capcasa after 16 Mar. 1491. HC 4805*. BMC VII, 1146. IGI 2655. GW 6433. Goff C355.
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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus
Orationes et opuscula
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis Venice 28. March 1491 Old boards (ca. 1800) 4to . Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the greatest Italian humanists and pioneer for the coming age of Erasmus, first lectured on Latin literature at Florence at the age of 18. He was appointed secretary to the Venetian consul-general at Constantinople. Arriving there in 1420, he at once began the study of Greek under John Chrysoloras and was received with great favor by the Emperor John Palaeologus, by whom he was employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1427 having received an invitation to the chair of eloquence at Venice, Filelfo returned there with a great collection of Greek books. The following year he was called to Bologna and in 1429 to Florence, where he was received with the greatest enthusiasm. During his five years residence there he engaged in numerous quarrels with the Florentine scholars and incurred the hatred of the Medici, so that in 1434 he was forced to leave the city. He went to Siena and later to Milan, where he was welcomed by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti. In Milan it was Filelfo's duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and to salute them with nuptial and funeral orations. They are all found in the present finely printed volume, together with Giorgio Valla's translation of Galen's "Introduction to Medicine" (Introductio ad medicinam). This collection was first printed, by the same printer, in 1483-4 with this being its third appearance (see Stillwell, Awakening Interest in Science, III, 376.5) "He combined the accomplishments of a scholar with the insidiousness and brutality of a brigand. ... His bitter feuds may however be forgotten, while we remember that in 1427 he brought from Constantinople the works of forty Greek authors, with reference to that Pope's collection of MSS, and to the translations from the Greek that had been executed under the papal patronage; - 'Greece has not perished, but has migrated to Italy, the land that was known of old as Magna Graecia' (Epp. xiii 1)" (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II, pp. 56-57) 166 leaves (Roman numbers); Roman type; 41 lines; capital spaces with guide letters; with generous margins and partly uncut with the outer deckle visible on a number of leaves; faint staining to first few leaves corner blank margin; two tiny round worm holes at beginning of volume (not affecting text, barely noticeable). Generally very nice copy. § Hain- Copinger 12923; Klebs 403.3; Pellechet 9262; Polain 3139; IGI 3907; Proctor 5327; BMC V, 431; Goff P 609; CIBN P-325; BSB P-447
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BIBLE IN LATIN]
Biblia integra : summata : distincta : Sup[er]eme[n]data vtriusq[ue] testame[n]ti [con]corda[n]tijs illustrata.
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Johann Froben, Basel 1491 - First printed bible in octavo, the so-called "Poor Man's Bible". Short octavo (5 7/8 x 4 3/16 inches; 149 x 106 mm). [493] leaves. Fifty-six lines of gothic type in two- and three-columns. Many pages, especially preliminaries and Hebrew Names, with rubrication. Manuscript three-line capitals in red and in blue throughout, and several much larger initials, most notably on leaf A2r, in red, blue, green, and brown. Early manuscript foliation.Sixteenth century blind-tooled pigskin over beveled wooden boards. Boards with thin-thick-thin borders and pictorial borders rolled in relief, pictorial centerpieces stamped in relief (the year "1554" stamped below the front centerpiece), spine ruled in compartments, four raised bands. Original brass catch-and-clasp fasteners, partially renewed, with new straps. Contemporary manuscript contents ruled in red, written in red and black ink on front pastedown. A few instances of marginalia and notes on the title and rear pastedown in contemporary and near-contemporary hands in red and black ink. A few signatures standing proud. A few leaves trimmed somewhat close, affecting headlines. Occasional light spotting. Light soiling to boards and wear to board extremities. Overall an excellent copy; clean, fresh and complete in a near-contemporary binding.This is a notably handsome, remarkably well-preserved copy of this important work, the first Bible printed by renowned printer Johann Froben, and also the first Bible ever to be printed in an octavo format. The remarkable pictorial elements of the binding, obscure under direct light, become wonderfully apparent when the binding is viewed at an angle. In this way the images cast shadows, revealing roll patterns featuring the four evangelists on the front board and laurel-wreathed busts of pagan poets on the rear, and two Biblical centerpieces: On the front board is the Sacrifice of Isaac, with the Angel of the Lord staying Abraham's hand; on the rear board, Daniel waits in the lion's den next to one of the big cats while two cherubs hold a wreath above the prophet's head.Bound with the final two blanks, which is not usually the case; in the past thirty years, just one copy has come up for auction with both blanks present (Sotheby's, December 15, 1986, lot 158).Prior to the publication of Froben's 1491 Biblia integra, printed Bibles tended to be massive folios that were difficult to transport, making them talismanic objects as much as texts, and therefore primarily suited for ecclesiastical use. Because of its relatively diminutive size Froben's Bible became know as the original "Poor Man's Bible", eminently transportable and therefore eminently accessible. Although Froben's Biblia integra was printed in Latin, because of its small size it should rightly be ranked with Martin Luther's 1534 German Bible, and later sixteenth and seventeenth century Bibles translated into other vernacular European languages that made the Bible increasingly accessible to laypeople in early modern Europe."The earliest edition printed in octavo was printed by Johannes Froben de Hammelburg: Baseileae, 27 June 1491 This edition from its small size is known as the first 'poor man's Bible.' It is noteworthy also as being the first book, or one of the first books, issued by Johann Froben, the celebrated printer of Basel, who was intimately connected with Erasmus and other prominent men of the age, and printed many books in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Froben's Latin Bibles were based on the 'Fontibus ex Graecis' editions, and were highly esteemed for their accuracy" (Darlow & Moule).Darlow & Moule 6086. Goff B-592. Hain 664. Polain 664.
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Bernardus Claravallensis (pseudo-).
Floretus.
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(Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, not after 1491). With a splendid nearly full-page title woodcut of a teacher instructing two pupils, a scroll with inscription above, a dove perched on his shoulder and an open book before him. Printed in Gothic type. Capital spaces. 35 - 45 lines and head-line to the page. 56 lvs. 4to. 20th century boards covered with an early printed leaf, printed paper spine label.*Hain-Copinger 2912. GKW 4004. BMC I, 276. Goff B-392. Janauschek No. 167. Not in IDL. For the fine "accipies" woodcut see: Schreiber No. 3431, Schramm VIII 20, and Schreiber - Heitz No. 18. First edition with commentary of this often reprinted schoolbook. And the first version of the beautiful "accipies" woodcut, with a scroll inscribed: "Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancti". Heinrich Quentell used this "magister cum discipulis" woodcut for the first time in 1490, and in the following years numerous schoolbooks were illustrated with comparable woodcuts. The "Floretus" consists of a text in rhythmic prose for easy memorization and an anonymous explanatory commentary. The work is ascribed to Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153), Abbot of Clairvaux, which under his direction soon became one of the chief centres of the Cistercian Order. The basic Christian tenets in this work include a.o. the following subjects: "De pr(a)eceptis iuris scripti", "De peccato gul(a)e et de malis sequentibus ebrietatem", "De sententia excommunicationis", "De scientia et ignorantia", "De virginitate & castitate", "De somno et vigilia", "De custodia quinque sensuum, gustus, odoratus, auditus, visio, tactus". - A light marginal waterstain to a very few leaves. A few leaves very slightly browned. Contemporary handwritten marginal annotations and some underlinings, in at least two different hands, one signed by Gebhardus Rem(m)inger (leaf 24 recto). Library stamp inside front-cover of F. Fasting, Rio de Janeiro. A well preserved incunable.[(5132)]
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Maioranis, Franciscus de (1280-1327)
Sermones ab adventu cum quadragesimali
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Bernardino Rizzo de Novara, Venice 1491 - 215 leaves, contemporary full leather binding, from the Franciscan monastery at Villingen with LCV stamped on front cover, the book was bound by an Esslingen workshop active between 1472 and 1498, binding heavily blindstamped with stamps 1-7 (including acorns, flowers and heraldic emblems) of the period, paper spine label, some renovation, remains of clasps, occasional waterstains (particularly to rear) but generally very clean internally, 16th centuy inscription on A2, large 8vo (16x22.5cm), Francois de Meyronnes was an important Provencal Franciscan theologian, his works are quoted by almost all major theologians of the 14th and 15th centuries, [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]
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BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS.
Liber de proprietatibus rerum.
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[Colophon:] Strassburg: [printer of the 14883 Jordanus de Quedlinburg,] 1491. - Small folio, 258 leaves, including the final blank R6. Printed in double columns, 52 lines plus headline, initial spaces with guide letters rubricated throughout. Contemporary goatskin roll-tooled in blind over beech boards, brass clasps, title written on lower edges, small paper label on upper cover (clasps repaired, spine cracked and restored). Single wormhole through text of first 25 leaves, a few other small wormholes in margin, minor dampstain in lower margin. A superb copy. The first important encyclopedia of all the sciences of the Middle Ages, which by its wide dissemination over three centuries had a profound influence of medieval thought. It is "still important for its information on political geography and its accounts of natural history" (Stillwell). Divided into nineteen books, the contents are as follows: "(1) God; (2) angels and demons; (3) psychology; (4–5) physiology; (6) family life, domestic economy; (7) medicine; (8) cosmology, astrology; (9) time divisions; (10) form and matter, elements; (11) air, meteorology; (12) flying creatures; (13) waters and fishes, dolphins, whales; (14) physical geography; (15) political geography, (in 175 chapters; this contains a number of interesting remarks, notes on economic geography, etc.); (16) gems, minerals, metals; (17) trees and herbs; (18) animals; (19) color, odor, savor; food and drink, eggs; weights and measures; musical instruments" (Sarton, II, p. 586). "Book 16 contains 104 short chapters on as many mineral substances as earths, stone, ores, metals, salts, etc., as well as gemstones, the latter often given names that now defy identification of the materials concerned. Gemstones are alabaster, adamante, amethyst, agate, alabandina, beryl, carbuncle, chrysoprase, chalcedony, chrysolite, rock crystal, coral carnelian, hematite, heliotrope, jet, jasper, hyacinth, pearl, marble, onyx, opal, prase, sapphire, emerald, sard, sardonyx, topaz, turquoise; very brief descriptions with comments on curious or medicinal lore associated with each" (Sinkankas, Gemology, p. 70). This is the second of two editions from this press. This copy has extensive marginalia in a calligraphic hand in Books III–V and occasionally elsewhere by the writer who recorded his ownership on the inside front cover at Beyharting in 1551. BMC, I, 142. GKW 3412. Goff B-410. Klebs 149.11. Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science during the First Century of Printing 1450-1550, p. 186. Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica, 19b. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, 173. Thorndike, II, pp. 401–435. Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, II, pp. 586–587. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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GERSON JOANNES
JOANNES GERSON DE IMMITATIONE CHRISTI ET DE CONTEMPTU MUNDI IN VULGARI SERMONE.
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PER BERTOLAMIO DI ZANI DA PORTESO, Venetia 1491 - GERSON JOANNES. JOANNES GERSON DE IMMITATIONE CHRISTI ET DE CONTEMPTU MUNDI IN VULGARI SERMONE. Venetia, per Bertolamio di Zani da Porteso. XXIII Decembrio 1491. ( Cm. 21,2 ) bella mz. pergamena antica ben restaurata, piatti con foglio di messale del '500 con due grandi capolettera figurati. --- cc. 72 (di 76) carattere romano, 36 linee, spazi per lettere capitali. La tavola è al verso della prima carta. A carta a2 : " incomincia il primo libro". Opera celebre di ascetica medievale di dubbia attribuzione. Edizione in volgare piuttosto rara, manca a OATES " IN CAMBRIDGE", I.G.I. registra solo 10 copie in Italia e GOFF 6 copie in America, nessuna in BODLEIAN LIBRARY, manca anche a proctor ed è non visto da HAIN. Purtroppo mancano le ultime 4 carte in fine segnate K che contengono l' Epistola " Ad Silvia Vergine.." e il colophon, inoltre, per errore del legatore mancano 4 carte del registro g1 e g2 + le due corrispondenti, e al loro posto sono state inserite doppie g3 e g4 con le relative corrispondenti. Filo di tarlo ben restaurato verso la cerniera di alcune carte interne che tocca a volte il testo, lievi aloni marginali sparsi per lo più all' inizio, qualche lieve difetto, peraltro esemplare bello nitido e ben marginato. Alla prima carta Ex Libris manoscritto coevo: " Questo libro è di Carlo di M. Micalangaelo de li libri ?..Raniere..". --- HAIN-COPINGER 9129;--- I.G.I. 5132;--- GOFF I-50;--- BMC V 431;--- POLAIN 2076;--- HARVARD 2253;--- INOLTRE VEDI CAT. HARPER 1930 N° 107, CATALOGO ROSENTHAL DI MONACO 1900 N° 2482 E OLSCHKI CAT. 94 DEL 1915 " INCUNABULA TYPOGRAPHICA" N° 207; TUTTI AD ALTO PREZZO. [Attributes: First Edition]
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Du Rivail, Aymar
Civilis Historiae Juris, Sive in XII Tab. Leges Commentariorum Libri Quinq, Iam Denuo Diligenter Recogniti.
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Du Rivail, Aymar [1491- - 1558]. Historiae Item Juris Pont. Liber Singularis. Mainz: [Apud Iuonem Schoeffer], 1533. [xvi], 357 pp. Octavo (6" x 4"). Later quarter calf over patterned paper boards, red and black lettering pieces to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to extremities, a few small scuffs to boards, joints just starting at ends, crack between front free endpaper and following endleaf. Title printed within attractive woodcut architectural border, woodcut decorated initials, large printer device to verso of final text leaf. Toning, light soiling to title page, internally clean. Attractive. * Later edition. Du Rivail, who studied under Alciati, was a humanist jurist, historian and member of the parlement of Grenoble. As Peter Stein has observed, Civilis Historiae Juris, a set of commentaries on the Twelve Tables, was an important contribution to the early-modern recovery of Roman law from the obfuscations of the glossators and Commentators. It was first published in 1515 and went through four subsequent editions, the final in 1539. The laws identified erroneously or questionably as those of the Twelve Tables are included as well. The final section is a historical sketch of canon law entitled Historia Pontificii Iuris Liber Singularis. "He concentrated on the main account of the 'origin of law' in the Digest, the long fragment.from Pomponius, and supplemented it by reference to Livy's account of the early republic. Du Rivail sought to reconstruct the contents of the Twelve Tables, and, since that legislation was said to be inspired by the Athenian laws of Solon, he included all known provisions of Solon's law (Stein). 3 copies of this edition located in North America (at the National Library of Canada, UC-Berkeley Law Schooland library of Congress). Stein, Roman Law in European History 78. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600 R592. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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ALIGHIERI, DANTE
Comedia [DIVINA COMMEDIA ; THE DIVINE COMEDY with the commentary of Landino]
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Piero de Plasiis, Venezia 1491 - ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Comedia. [al colophon:] E' impresso in Vinegia per Petro Cremonese dito Veronese: Adi. xviii. di nove[m]brio.M.cccc.Lxxxxi. [Venezia, Piero de Plasiis, 18 novembre 1491]. In-folio (306x210 mm), legatura settecentesca in mezza pelle con angoli su carta colorata, dorso a cinque nervi con titoli e fregi incisi in oro (leggere mende ai margini dei piatti e su un fregio del dorso), cc. (14), 315, (3). Rispetto a GW, 7970 la segnatura AA con la Tabula è legata, in questo esemplare, tra la segnatura a e la segnatura B. CENTO PREGEVOLI XILOGRAFIE NEL TESTO, ATTRIBUITE AD ANDREA MANTEGNA. RARA E RICERCATA edizione della Comedia con il fortunatissimo commento di Cristoforo Landino, apparso per la prima volta nell'edizione fiorentina impressa da Niccolò di Lorenzo nel 1481 e poi altre quindici volte nel corso del Quattrocento, da solo o con il testo di Dante. Nel Cinquecento conobbe otto edizioni, tre delle quali insieme al commento di Alessandro Vellutello. Accurati restauri alla prima carta, con integrazione di alcune linee di testo; un altro restauro agli angoli delle ultime cinque carte, con fastidio a poche lettere (manoscritte); trascurabile foro singolo di tarlo al margine inferiore dell'ultima parte del volume. PROVENIENZA: Glosse coeve manoscritte al margine di alcune carte. MAMBELLI, Gli Annali delle edizioni dantesche, 14: "[ ] L'edizione è assai ricercata per le 100 incisioni in legno, il cui disegno è attribuito al Mantegna [ ]". HCR, 5950; IGI, 364; Goff, D-33; BMC, V 270; GW, 7970; Proctor, 4482; BSB-Ink, D-10; Pellechet, 4118; Arnoult, 505; Buffévent, 170; Jammes, D-1; Lefèvre, 154; Zehnacker, 756; Polain (B), 1225; IBE, 286; IJL2, 147; Essling, 532; Sander, 2314; Walsh, 1777; Oates, 1794 e 1795; Sheppard, 3615 e 3616.
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DANTE ALIGHIERI
La Commedia.
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Bernardinus Benalius and Matteo Capcasa 3 March 1491, Venice - Folio (310mm x 220mm). ff [11], 291, [2]; (10, a-z8, &8, 8, 8, A8, B6, C-I8, K6, L8). Roman letter. Twelve-, six-, and four-line woodcut initials, four full page woodcuts (one repeated) and ninety-seven woodcuts in text, sixty-one lines, text surrounded by commentary. Contemporary limp vellum, professionally rebacked to style. Very occasional contemporary marginal annotations. Title page slightly dusty on lower outer corner. Some occasional thumb marks and stains. Sporadic, very light waterstaining to outer blank margins, and very light spotting to margins in places. A small stain on blank upper margins of leaves 129-131, and a small paper flaw in leaf 138 with no loss to text. A small marginal tear restored just touching the border of woodcut on C1, as well as a tiny tear on GIIII just affecting one letter of side notes. A small worm trail in blank inner margins of leaves 180-190, well away from text. Overall, a very good, clean, crisp copy, with excellent impression of the woodcuts, and wholly unsophisticated."Dante's theme, the greatest yet attempted in poetry, was to explain and justify the Christian cosmos through the allegory of a pilgrimage. To him comes Virgil, the symbol of philosophy, to guide him through the two lower realms of the next world, which are divided according to the classifications of the 'Ethics' of Aristotle. Hell is seen as an inverted cone with its point where lies Lucifer fixed in ice at the centre of the world, and the pilgrimage from it a climb to the foot of and then up the Purgatorial Mountain. Along the way Dante passes Popes, Kings and Emperors, poets, warriors and citizens of Florence, expiating the sins of their life on earth. On the summit is the Earthly Paradise where Beatrice meets them and Virgil departs. Dante is now led through the various spheres of heaven, and the poem ends with a vision of the Deity. The audacity of his theme, the success of its treatment, the beauty and majesty of his verse, have ensured that his poem never lost its reputation. The picture of divine justice is entirely unclouded by Dante's own political prejudices, and his language never falls short of what he describes" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Superbly illustrated with one hundred woodcuts, this edition contains not only the commentary of Cristoforo Landino, but also marginal glosses to further orient the reader. Edited by Pietro da Figino, described in the colophon as "master in theology and excellent preacher of the Order of [Friars] Minor." Based on textual evidence, some scholars believe this edition was actually printed on 3 March 1492 and that perhaps the printers simply made an error in dating their work because the Venetian new year, at that time, began on 1 March. The text of Landino's commentary on this edition first appeared in print in the famous illustrated edition of 1481 at Florence, surrounding the text of the poem as here. Landino (1424-1504), poet and humanist philosopher under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, produced his commentary hastily; still, it became the dominant commentary through the end of the sixteenth century.The design of the woodcuts in this edition is attributed to the Master of Pico della Mirandola's Pliny, who also illustrated Boccaccio's Decameron, printed by the Gregori brothers in Venice, 1492 and the astonishing Malermi Bible of 1490. The woodcuts exhibit the highly stylized characteristics of the late 1480s and early 1490s, typical of renaissance Venetian art. Having developed from the German model, earlier woodblocks were usually cut in outline with little ornamentation or embellishment, but by the third decade after Gutenberg's invention, Venetian and Florentine styles emerged. Innovative compositional formats, the emphasis on the human body -- all hallmarks of Italian Renaissance art -- began to make their way into woodcut design. Venetian woodcuts exhibit a freedom of line that emphasizes the naturalness of the human figure and the ease with which it is set
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