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ALBERTUS MAGNUS.
Ad logica pertinentia. De quinque universalib' liber unus. De decem predicamentis liber unus. De interpretatione libri duo. De sylogismo simpliciter. i. priorum analyticorum libri duo. De demonstratione. i. posteriorum analyticorum libri duo. Typicorum libri octo. De sophisticis elenchis libri duo.
(Venice Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis) 1494 Folio. Beautiful cont. blindstamped full pigskin binding over wooden boards. 4 raised bands on spine. Blindstamped ornamental centre-piece and frame depicting animals, trees and hunters. W. the original metal- and leather-clasps. A few wormholes to boards. Inner hinges cracked but fastened w. new endpapers. Fairly faint, mostly marginal, dampstaining throughout. First and last leaves w. some staining, soiling and wormholes. Some marginal 16th century notes. Generally nice and clean copy, apart from the dampstaining, which is otherwise mostly marginal. Some smaller and larger woodcut diagrams in text. Ff. (8), 98 (= a1 - (qvi) ), (78) (= rr - Cvi), ff. 98 - 243 (r - (OO6) + 3 ff.). (In all 433 ff.), printed in double columns, w. 65 lines to each. The scarce first complete edition of the seminal Logic of Albert the Great. Parts of this work had been printed in 1490 (the first three books, printed by Christophorus de Canibus at Pavia), but it is not until this incunable-edition of 1494 that the work appears in its entirety. The actual text of thelogic in this edition is preceded by an index (12pp) and Nicolaus Judecus' "Laurentium..." (3 pp.). Albert the Great (or Albertus Magnus or St. Albert), who was born around 1200 and died in 1280, is considered the most prominent of the Scholastics. He was the first Christian thinker to undertake an analysis of the entire canon of the works of Aristotle, and as such he came to influence Christian medieval thinking immensely. Especially his application of Aristotelian logic to Catholic theology came to found the basis for all later medieval thinking, and his logic directly influenced Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica". With his scientific works and commentaries to Aristotle, Albert the Great is considered the introducer of Greek and Arabic science and philosophy to the West, and this greatest of scholars uses his logic to advocate a peaceful coexistence between science and religion. He was one of the first medieval scholars to apply Aristotle's philosophy and logic to Christian thought, and as such his influence on medieval thinking has been nearly unsurpassed. Most modern knowledge of Aristotle, including that of his logical writings, was preserved and presented through Albert, and his great amount of works, amounting to somewhat of an encyclopaedic cycle, were all based on his logic and strict thinking, combined with his Christian doctrine. His main argument in his scholastic teachings was that sound philosophy (i.e. that based on logic) can never contradict the revelation of God. Albert's Logic is perhaps one of his most important writings, as this was the dominating strand of thinking for much of the Middle Ages. It is logic in this sense that makes up the basis for philosophy, science, and in Albert's case also of theology, in the Middle Ages, and thus his logic comes to understream all of his thinking, since it is that which presents us with the nature and practice of philosophizing. "Historians have indeed been agreed in giving him a central role in making Aristotle the supreme human authority for university theologians. Yet a glance at his Aristotelian commentaries shows that Albert's Aristotelianism is mixed with a host of characteristically Neoplatonic themes and views... Thanks to Alain Libera, however, it is now clear that, at least in one main aspect of his work, Albert is putting forward a bold and clear view, not so much about any individual problem in philosophy as about the nature and aim of the very practice of philosophizing." (Marenbon, Medieval Philosophy, 1998, p. 230). "When Aristotle's non-logical works were translated, they were at first suspect because they came into circulation with the pantheistic interpretation of the Arabic philosopher Averroës (Ibn Roshd, 1126-98), who lived and worked in Spain. But in the course of the thirteenth century they were freed from suspicion and reconciled with Christianity by Albert the Great (1193-1280) and St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)." (Kneale, The Development of Logic, 1962, p. 229). Albert's importance and influence continued to flourish throughout the Middle Ages, and there can be no question as to the importance of this first printing of the Logic in its entirety. Graesse I: 54 (stating 331 ff. à 2 col. de 65 l.), Hain: 486, Not in Brunet. [Bookseller: Lynge & Søn (www.lynge.com)]
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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA(4 VOLS.) FACSIMIL.
UNIVERSIDAD DE JAEN PIEL 32 X 22 CM, 1494 p. Estado de conservación: Libro nuevo. NOVELA. CUENTO. NARRATIVA. [Bookseller: Pessoa Libros]
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ALBERTUS MAGNUS.
Ad logica pertinentia. De quinque universalib' liber unus. De decem predicamentis liber unus. De interpretatione libri duo. De sylogismo simpliciter. i. priorum analyticorum libri duo. De demonstratione. i. posteriorum analyticorum libri duo. Typicorum libri octo. De sophisticis elenchis libri duo.
(Venice Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis) 1494 Folio. Beautiful cont. blindstamped full pigskin binding over wooden boards. 4 raised bands on spine. Blindstamped ornamental centre-piece and frame depicting animals, trees and hunters. W. the original metal- and leather-clasps. A few wormholes to boards. Inner hinges cracked but fastened w. new endpapers. Fairly faint, mostly marginal, dampstaining throughout. First and last leaves w. some staining, soiling and wormholes. Some marginal 16th century notes. Generally nice and clean copy, apart from the dampstaining, which is otherwise mostly marginal. Some smaller and larger woodcut diagrams in text. Ff. (8), 98 (= a1 - (qvi) ), (78) (= rr - Cvi), ff. 98 - 243 (r - (OO6) + 3 ff.). (In all 433 ff.), printed in double columns, w. 65 lines to each. The scarce first complete edition of the seminal Logic of Albert the Great. Parts of this work had been printed in 1490 (the first three books, printed by Christophorus de Canibus at Pavia), but it is not until this incunable-edition of 1494 that the work appears in its entirety. The actual text of thelogic in this edition is preceded by an index (12pp) and Nicolaus Judecus' "Laurentium..." (3 pp.). Albert the Great (or Albertus Magnus or St. Albert), who was born around 1200 and died in 1280, is considered the most prominent of the Scholastics. He was the first Christian thinker to undertake an analysis of the entire canon of the works of Aristotle, and as such he came to influence Christian medieval thinking immensely. Especially his application of Aristotelian logic to Catholic theology came to found the basis for all later medieval thinking, and his logic directly influenced Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica". With his scientific works and commentaries to Aristotle, Albert the Great is considered the introducer of Greek and Arabic science and philosophy to the West, and this greatest of scholars uses his logic to advocate a peaceful coexistence between science and religion. He was one of the first medieval scholars to apply Aristotle's philosophy and logic to Christian thought, and as such his influence on medieval thinking has been nearly unsurpassed. Most modern knowledge of Aristotle, including that of his logical writings, was preserved and presented through Albert, and his great amount of works, amounting to somewhat of an encyclopaedic cycle, were all based on his logic and strict thinking, combined with his Christian doctrine. His main argument in his scholastic teachings was that sound philosophy (i.e. that based on logic) can never contradict the revelation of God. Albert's Logic is perhaps one of his most important writings, as this was the dominating strand of thinking for much of the Middle Ages. It is logic in this sense that makes up the basis for philosophy, science, and in Albert's case also of theology, in the Middle Ages, and thus his logic comes to understream all of his thinking, since it is that which presents us with the nature and practice of philosophizing. "Historians have indeed been agreed in giving him a central role in making Aristotle the supreme human authority for university theologians. Yet a glance at his Aristotelian commentaries shows that Albert's Aristotelianism is mixed with a host of characteristically Neoplatonic themes and views... Thanks to Alain Libera, however, it is now clear that, at least in one main aspect of his work, Albert is putting forward a bold and clear view, not so much about any individual problem in philosophy as about the nature and aim of the very practice of philosophizing." (Marenbon, Medieval Philosophy, 1998, p. 230). "When Aristotle's non-logical works were translated, they were at first suspect because they came into circulation with the pantheistic interpretation of the Arabic philosopher Averroës (Ibn Roshd, 1126-98), who lived and worked in Spain. But in the course of the thirteenth century they were freed from suspicion and reconciled with Christianity by Albert the Great (1193-1280) and St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)." (Kneale, The Development of Logic, 1962, p. 229). Albert's importance and influence continued to flourish throughout the Middle Ages, and there can be no question as to the importance of this first printing of the Logic in its entirety. Graesse I: 54 (stating 331 ff. à 2 col. de 65 l.), Hain: 486, Not in Brunet. [Bookseller: Lynge & Søn (www.lynge.com)]
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Textus sequentiarum/ cum optimo commento.
(Koln, Heinrich Quentell, 1494 c.).In-4°, cc.num.CXXXIIj+13 cc.nn. Car. gotico, 46 ll. Al front., sotto il tit., bella xilogr. (mm.100x90) raffig. S. Tommaso e 2 discepoli all'interno dello studio ed il motto: "Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancti". Alcune capil. in rosso, testo entro al commento in 2 corpi diversi di gotico. Note mss. al margine di alcune cc. Leg. p.perg. coeva, tit. ms. al dorso, tagli colorati. Ex-libris araldico al piatto ant.: "John William Willis Bund". Altro ex-libris ms. al front.: "Residentia Societatis (de) Jesu ad S. Bernard(us). catalogo inscriptio". Rest. al marg. della xilogr. e al marg. sup. delle prime 2 cc., che non lede il testo. Bell'esempl. - C. 1r: "G Rates nùc omnes red/ damus domino deo q/ sua nativitate nos libe/ ravit de dyabolica pote/ state".C.nn.132 (in fine al testo): "non mutande foveat intuitus".Schreiber, Manuel, 5241; Voulliéme, Koln 1080; Bohatta, Liturgische Bibl., 1076; Polain, (B) 3500; Voulliéme, Berlin 1042; Sheppard, 1022; Proctor, 1422; BMC I, 283; GW, M41640; Goff, S-457 riporta solo due copie; Goff E-149, tre copie. IST riporta solo un esemplare in Italia, alla Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. IGI, 8915-16, indica due edizioni: 1492 e 1496. NUC attibuisce l'autore dell'opera ad "Ilario l'Innologo", di cui non sappiamo quasi niente. L'iscrizione xilografica del frontespizio, fu utilizzata per la prima volta dallo stampatore Heinrich Quentell, a Colonia. Varianti più tarde di questa stessa incisione, furono impiegate successivamente da Johann Shoensperger, Augsburg (1497); Heinrich Reger, Ulm (1499?); Johann Froschauer, Augsburg ed altri. Sia gli inni che le sequenze erano parte integrale della liturgia cattolica medioevale. Le sequenze divennero, nel XIX° secolo, consuetudine dell'innalzarsi di parole adatte alle melodie formate dal prolungamento della nota finale dell'Alleluia nella Messa. Quest'opera è ritenuta anonima da molte fonti, ma Helmut Gneuss nomina quale autore un certo innologo conosciuto come Ilario. Un'altra fonte cita un Ermanno Torrentino. Questa è la prima edizione Quentell, assai rara. [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli s.r.l.]
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Tertullian, Quintus Septimus Florens
Apologeticus adversus gentes
Venedig, Benalius um 1494. 30 cm. (20) Blatt (Impressum Blatt 19a). Pappband, Hardcovereinband 19. Jahrh. - Hain 15443 - Goff T-117 - BM STC Ital. Books 666 - Wolff, Inc. 757 - "Das einzige Werk dieses Kirchenvaters, das im XV. Jahrhundert gedruckt wurde" (Baer). Seltener Druck seiner "bedeutendsten apologetischen Schrift" (BBKL XI, 695ff). Wahrscheinlich die erste von nur zwei Einzelausgaben des 15. Jahrhunderts, von Reichling (ca. 1490) datiert (die andere 1493 bei Scinzenzeler in Mailand erschienen). Einbandbezug teils starker beschabt, im Unterrand einzelne Wurmlocher und im Schnitt Feuchtigkeitsrander. - Sprache / Language: Lateinisch / Latin - [Bookseller: Wenner Antiquariat]
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DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO. SIGLO XV, FIRMADO POR FERNADO EL CATOLICO, ZARAGOZA, JUDIOS, MADRID
1494, OCTUBRE, 14. MADRID: DOCUMETO MANUSCRITO SOBRE PERGAMINO EN EL QUE EL REY FERNANDO EL CATOLICO CONCEDE A JUAN DE EMBUN, MERINO DE LA CIUDAD DE ZARAGOZA, LA PERCEPCION DE UNA RENTA ANUAL DE 1000 SUELDOS JAQUESES MIENTRAS VIVIERA O DESEMPENARA EL CARGO DE MERINO, EN COMPENSACION DEL DINERO QUE SOLIA COBRAR COMO PARTE DE SU SALARIO A LA ALJAMA JUDIA DE ZARAGOZA ANTES DE LA EXPULSION DE LOS JUDIOS. [TERMINA]: . YO EL REY. VIDIT A. BONETI PRO GENERALE CONSILIE. DOMINUS REX MANDAVIT MIHI, LUDOVICO GONCALES; VISA PER ANTONIUM BONET PRO GENERALI CONSILIE
Data in villa de Madrid die XIIII mensis octobris, anno a nativitate Domini millesimo quadrigentesimo nonagesimo quarto (1494) regnorumque nostrorum videlicet Sicilie anno vigesimoseptimo, Castelle et Legionis vigesimoprimo, Aragonum et aliorum sextodecimo, Granate vero tertio.- Documento manuscrito sobre pergamino; con clara caligrafia de fines del siglo XV; de 39 x 59 cm.; DOCUMENTO UNICO FECHADO EN MADRID, EN IMPECABLE ESTADO. MUY IMPORTANTE PARA LA HISTORIA DE ARAGON, ZARAGOZA Y EL PROBLEMA DE LA EXPULSION DE LOS JUDIOS. Para su mejor lectura y comprension se adjunta con el documento su transcripcion integra en latin.* [Bookseller: Libreria Miguel MIRANDA - Madrid - Spain]
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AQULEYA / XILOGRAFIA ORIGINALE TRATTA DALLA PRIMA EDIZIONE LATINA DEL FAMOSO LIBRO "LIBER CHRONICARUM..." STAMPATO NEL 1494 A NORIMBERGA, DI MM. 200 X 220. / CFR. BERGAMINI - DONAZZOLO "UDINE ILLUSTRATA" N 100. / CATALOGHI INTERESSATI: 38
/ Xilografia originale tratta dalla prima edizione latina del famoso libro "Liber Chronicarum..." stampato nel 1494 a Norimberga, di mm. 200 x 220. / Cfr. Bergamini - Donazzolo "Udine Illustrata" n 100. / Cataloghi interessati: 38 [Bookseller: Libreria Editrice GORIZIANA - Gorizia - ]
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STRABO.
Geographia. Translated by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas. Edited by Antonius Mancinellus.
[Colophon on &6r:] [Venice]: Joannes (Rubeus) Vercellensis, 24 April 1494. 1494, F Soft cover folio. 310 x 215 mm. ff. [16], cl. 61 lines & headline. roman & Greek type. initial spaces. old bds. covered with marbled paper (some chipping to spine, a few early ms. notes & measurements in margins, repairs to upper & lower margins of final leaf with partial loss of one word, a few small wormholes in the last few leaves, some light dampstaining). The First Edition to be Edited by Antonio Mancinello. The previous four editions, the first of which was printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz at Rome in 1469 (Goff S793), were all edited by Giovanni Andrea, Bishop of Aleria. Mancinello's dedication of his table is dated 'quinto nonas Maias. M.cccc.xciiii', eleven days later than the colophon, which presumably accounts for the duplication of the title. In his second edition of 28 January 1494/5 (Goff S798), the printer replaced the second title with some Latin verses. "A geographical encyclopaedia written for the information of government officials and travellers and containing much regarding the customs and usages of various countries that is of technological interest. For instance, it describes the marble quarries of Carrara, the mining of vermilion in Spain, and the use of rock salt deposits there. It mentions the raising of the water by means of Archimedean screws. It describes the use of asphalt for building-blocks and in liquid form as a water-proofing agent - a product made from a bitumen seepage in Babylonia. It speaks of trade in bitumen, a product of the petroleum family, and discusses dyes, use of pitch in sealing the cracks in Celtic beer barrels, and the fact that Spanish wine will keep." (Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science during the First Century of Printing 1450-1550) BMC V 418. Goff S797. Hain-Copinger 15090. Howgego S178. Klebs 935.5. Polain (B) 3626. Proctor 5135. cfStillwell 893 (1st Edn.). [Bookseller: D & E Lake Ltd.*]
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CAVALCA DOMENICO.
Libro devotissimo et spirituale de fructi della lingua.
Firenze, (Bartolomeo de Libri, 1494 ca.). "In-4°; 142 cc. compresa la prima con la grande xilografia; legatura ottocentesca in tutto marocchino oliva a grana lunga con doppia cornice di filetti in oro ai piatti, titolo e filetti in oro al dorso, merletto interno, tagli dorati. Qualche lieve macchiolina ma bell'esemplare." "Seconda edizione di questo noto trattato dello scrittore domenicano. La prima fu stampata sempre a Firenze nel 1493. Quest'opera sui pregi della lingua riveste una sua importanza per il ""volgare"" usato dall'autore (1270-1342) che lo colloca tra i primi scrittori della lingua italiana. Di rilievo in questa edizione è la grande xilografia, diversa da quella che appare nella prima, e considerata come una delle più significative tra le fiorentine della fine del quattrocento." H 4777. GW 6401. BMC VI p. 658. IGI 2625. Goff C-332. Sander 1849. Kristeller, Early Florentine Woodcuts, 96a e fig. 32. Martini 119. [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum]
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FREZZI, FABIO
LIBRO CHIAMATO QUATRIREGIO DEL DECORSO DE LA VITA HUMANA IN TERZA RIMA.. BOLOGNA FRANCESCO DE REGAZONIBUS 1494
In folio (cm 20,9 x 31,1), legatura mezza pergamena settecentesca con titoli calligrafati al dorso, cc (70) impresse su due colonne, 45 righe per colonna, segnatura: a-aiiii, a-(m6); i dati tipografici: luogo, stampatore, anno, impressi al colophon. Carattere romano. L'esemplare e' mancante delle cc: a e aiiii della Tavola, aiii, aiiii, c, (c6); integrazione di carta con perdita di poche lettere ("o" e "Libro" in: "Questi sono li capitoli del secondo Libro") alla carta a2, ancora integrazioni con strisciolina di carta al margine superiore e quasi meta' del margine esterno delle cc aiii della Tavola, a, a2, (a5), (a6), b, ma senza perdita di testo; rade annotazioni coeve, manine, le prime otto carte lievemente brunite, le successive in buone condizioni, assai fresche. Ex libris inizio '900 alla sguardia "R. Ambrosini". Rarissimo esemplare di edizione incunabola (la prima Perugia, Arndes, 1481, segue ediz. con le stesse caratteristiche ma senza data, poi Milano Zarotto 1488, edizioni a stampa basate sulla collazione di 29 manoscritti) dell'unica opera superstite del domenicano, teologo, vescovo di Foligno (1346-1416). Abbiamo quindi, del poema in 74 Canti composto di endecasillabi in terza rima, iniziato prima del 1394 e terminato tra 1400 e 1403, ispirato da Dante per interi versi, ma anche da Petrarca e Boccaccio, quattro edizioni a stampa in meno di un ventennio del secolo XV, fatto, come sottolinea il Gilardi, che dimostra la grande stima degli umanisti della seconda meta' del '400 per l'opera, in cio' superiore al celebre "Dittamondo".. Grandemente apprezzata dall'Ariosto, che postillo' fittamente di chiose il suo esemplare, l'opera e' "la migliore imitazione della Divina Commedia" (Gilardi), viaggio allegorico attraverso i quattro Regni (Amore, Satanasso, Vizi, Virtu), intessuto di enigmi numerologici, ad esempio l'incessante ricorrenza del numero sette; di oscure allusioni alla filosofia scolastica e tomistica; ad Aristotele, S. Tommaso, Alberto Magno, il Venerabile Beda, Rabano Mauro, Brunetto Latini e Ristoro d'Arezzo, le cui teorie sono adombrate nelle parti di metereologia del poema: meteore, tuoni e fulmini, stelle cadenti, comete, venti, terremoti, formazione della neve e della grandine. Bizzarro poema, sintesi di "materia teologica e filosofica" dalla controversa interpretazione, "infarcito di...notizie scientifiche" e di poesia che tratta particolareggiatamente delle cose mondane e ultramondane, sconfinando con la morale, "aggregato di rappresentazioni simboliche" a cavallo tra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Un esemplare censito alla BL. Brunet 1395 "tres rare". H. C. R. 7364. Pell. 4929. GW, 10328. BMC, CI, 848. IGI, 4101 . Goff, F-313. IBE, 2516. Filippini, Le edizioni del "Quadriregio" in "Bibliofilia" - anno VIII (1906-07) vol. VIII, Anno IX, vol. IX. Gilardi, Studi e ricerche intorno al Quadriregio, Torino, 1911. [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico BOSIO Giovanni - Ma]
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GUILIELMUS PARALDUS
SUMMA AUREA DE VIRTUTIBUS E VICIIS REUERENDISSIMI AC EXIMIJ SACRE THEOLOGIE DOCTORIS F[RAT]RIS GULIELMI PARALDI . IN ALMA CIVITATE BRIXIE, ANGELUS ET JACOBUS DE BRITANNICIS DE PALAZZOLO FRATRES, DIE 24 DECEMBRIS 1494
20x15 cm., 384 cc. [a6 - a-z4 - A-U4] Z8 e U8 sono bianche, legatura del secolo XVIII in piena pergamena, titoli in oro su tassello al dorso, testo gotico su due colonne, 50 linee, le prime 5 righe del prologo in rosso, bruniture e note manoscritte all'occhiello, glosse coeve a margine di alcune pagine, peraltro ottimo e fresco esemplare salvo lieve rifilatura al margine superiore, in latino Rara edizione italiana, stampata a Brescia da Angelo Britannico, dell'opera del famoso filosofo francese del secolo XIII. Vescovo domenicano di Lione e insegnate all'Universita' di Parigi, la sua Summa Aurea ebbe un notevole successo solo nel secolo XV. Hain 12389 ; GW 12054 [Bookseller: Libreria ALFEA rare books - Milano - Mil]
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BRANDT (Sébastien)
La Nef des Folz du Monde. Lyon, Guillaume Balsarin, 11 Août 1498. In-folio de 84 ff.n.ch. ; maroquin bleu nuit, décor de filets à froid encadrant les plats, doublures de maroquin vert foncé, gardes de vélin, dos à nerfs orné de filets à froid, tranches dorées. (Huser).
Première édition Française en prose. La Nef des Fous est une des plus anciennes et des plus célèbres satires littéraires médiévales des travers de l' Eglise et des vices humains, conçue sous la forme d'une allégorie : un navire chargé de fous cinglant au hasard depuis le pays de Cocagne. On y relève les sept péchés capitaux et leurs dérivés, mais aussi le commerce des reliques, la chasse aux bénéfices, l'humeur procédurière etc. Aucun groupe social n'est épargné et chacun peut donc se reconnaître dans le miroir que l'auteur lui présente. Sous le masque ludique de la folie, cet ouvrage est un reflet fidèle des moeurs de l'époque. Lorsque la version originale allemande sortit des presses le jour de carnaval 1494, le succès fut immédiat. Ses contemporains saluèrent en Sébastien Brandt le continuateur des grands auteurs satiriques de l'Antiquité tels Aristophane, Horace, Perse et Juvénal. Une traduction latine, publiée en 1497 et rééditée à maintes reprises assura la diffusion du texte en dehors des pays germaniques. C'est à partir de la version latine que furent publiées en 1497/1498 trois versions françaises différentes, l'une en vers et deux autres en prose. Il s'agit ici de la première édition paraphrasée en prose par Jean Drouyn d'après la version en vers français donnée par Pierre Rivière et imprimée par Geoffroi de Marnef peu de temps auparavant. Né à Strasbourg en 1457, Sébastien Brand étudia le droit à l'université de Bale où il fit partie du groupe des préhumanistes réunis autour de Johannes Heynlin, qui en 1470 avait joué un role important dans l'introduction de l'imprimerie en France. C'est ce dernier qui avait recruté en Allemangne les trois prototypographes parisiens et installé leur presse dans un local appartenant à la Sorbonne. Après avoir enseigné le droit à Bale, Brandt retourna dans sa ville natale en 1500 où il occupa la charge de syndic, et de 1503 à sa mort en 1521, celle de chancelier. Maximilien 1er le nomma son conseiller et le fit assesseur de la Chambre impériale et comte Palatin. Il s'agit du premier livre imprimé en français par Guillaume Balsarin, qui avait pris le titre de maître imprimeur en 1498. A cette époque Balsarin avait adopté un nouveau type de lettres bâtardes, inspirées de celle de son voisin Jacques Maillet. On trouve au verso du dernier feuillet sa grande marque sur fond noir avec le monogramme J. G. L'ouvrage est illustré de 117 remarquables figures gravées sur bois, ici en premier tirage, certaines tirées deux fois. Chacune d'elles représente une sorte de fou différent : le bibliomane, l'avaricieux, l'usurier, le voyageur, le médecin assistant un mort, celui qui s'adonne trop à la danse, le fou de luxure etc. Ces compositions furent réalisées pour cette édition d'après les bois des éditions bâloises précédentes. Restauration au feuillet de titre, cependant bon exemplaire, grand de marges, lavé et établi au début du XXème siècle. [Bookseller: Librairie Miraglia]
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WOLFF, Christian, Freiherr von.
Mathematisches Lexicon, darinnen die in allen Theilen der Mathematick üblichen Kunst-Wörter erkläret, und zur Historie der Mathematischen Wissenschafften dienliche Nachrichten ertheilet...
Engraved allegorical frontis. & numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. Title printed in red & black. 8 p.l. (incl. frontis.), 1494 cols., [29] leaves of index. 8vo, fine cont. vellum over boards. Leipzig: J.F. Gleditsch, 1716. First edition of this noteworthy and scarce mathematical dictionary by Wolff (1679-1754), the famous mathematician and philosopher who was professor at the University of Halle and an ardent exponent of the philosophical ideas of his friend Leibniz. This is a very complete and comprehensive dictionary of mathematics in the widest sense, including also astronomy, physics, mechanics, architecture, music, etc., etc. There are several quite interesting sections on calculating instruments including the abacus, Napier’s rods, etc. A wonderfully fine and fresh copy from the library of the Solms ducal library at Lich with their early stamp on title. ❧ D.S.B., XIV, pp. 482-84. Smith, History of Mathematics, I, pp. 501-02. [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.]
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Trithemius [Tritheim], Johannes
Institutio Vite Sacerdotalis Div(Ine) Joannis Tritemii Abbatis Spanhemensis Ordinis Divi Patris Benedicti Mogu(N)Tinensis Diocesis Ad Nicolaum Presbyteru(M) Mernicenisem Treverensis Diocesis
[Peter von Friedberg, ], [After 22 October, 1494. ]. 4to. A8, B-C6. Modern full brown morocco, minor stains. Fine copy. Rubricated with intial Lombard letters in blue and red inks. First edition (one of three issues). "The work in question is the Institutio viatae sacerdotalis, addressed to Trithemius' close friend and conscholarius during his former Heildelberg student days currently living in the neighborhood of Trier, Nicolaus de Merneck. Proposing to instruct the prospective scholar (as distict from regular) cleric in the performance of his office, the Institutio grew out of the first epistle of a series of letters from Trithemius to the novice priest Merneck begining April 1, 1486. Of the various dangers of the clerical vocation which Trithemius chose to warn his friend at that early moment in both their careers--for at the age of 24 Trithemius himself was barely past his novitiate--none is more predominantly at the front of his concerns in the Institutio than horrid acedia...And of course Trithemius' favorite remedy of the study of letters to help counteract aceia is also again close at hand...'Withdraw from the company of those who reject knowledge...that is, those who neglect the reading of Scriptures and despise study! ' Such ignorant seducers of young clerical novices 'are priests in name but asses in behavior...' Trithemius did not wish to save the cleric from illiteracy only to have him come to no less disasterous ruin on the rockpile of the opposite stte, vain curiosity in matters detrimental to the lofty responsibilities of his office..." [Noel L. Brann, The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516) The Renaissance of Monastic Humanism. Brill, 1981] Goff T439; Hain 15621; Aquilon 654; Polain(B) 3809; Voull(Trier) 952; Voull(B) 1584; Ohly-Sack 2807, 2808; Pad-Ink 656; Proctor 174; BMC I 46; BSB-Ink T-466. ISTC it00439000. [Bookseller: Alibris*]
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WOLFF, Christian, Freiherr von.
Mathematisches Lexicon, darinnen die in allen Theilen der Mathematick üblichen Kunst-Wörter erkläret, und zur Historie der Mathematischen Wissenschafften dienliche Nachrichten ertheilet.
Engraved allegorical frontis. & numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. Title printed in red & black. 8 p.l. (incl. frontis.), 1494 cols., [29] leaves of index. 8vo, fine cont. vellum over boards. Leipzig: J.F. Gleditsch, 1716. First edition of this noteworthy and scarce mathematical dictionary by Wolff (1679-1754), the famous mathematician and philosopher who was professor at the University of Halle and an ardent exponent of the philosophical ideas of his friend Leibniz. This is a very complete and comprehensive dictionary of mathematics in the widest sense, including also astronomy, physics, mechanics, architecture, music, etc., etc. There are several quite interesting sections on calculating instruments including the abacus, Napier’s rods, etc. A wonderfully fine and fresh copy from the library of the Solms ducal library at Lich with their early stamp on title. ❧ D.S.B., XIV, pp. 482-84. Smith, History of Mathematics, I, pp. 501-02. [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.]
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Johannes de Lapide.:
Resolutiorum dubiorum circa celebrationem missarum occurrentium.
Strassburg, Martin Flach, 1494. 32 Bll. Kl.4°. Späterer Pappband unter Verwendung alten Papiers. HC 9909; Goff J 361; IA. 2181; Proctor 699. Etwa sechste Ausgabe des um 1490 erstmals erschienenen Hand- und Trostbüchleins, das bis zur Reformation 38 Auflagen erreichte. Titel stark beschnitten und auf altes Papier montiert, rechte untere Ecke des ersten Textblattes mit Abriß, durchgehend etwas gebräunt. - Early (6th) edition of this very popular devotional book, some 38 editions were printed. Titlepage trimmed and mounted on old paper, throughout somewhat browned and stained. First leaf with small marginal defect at corner. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Andreas Moser]
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Trithemius [Tritheim] , Johannes.
Institutio vite sacerdotalis div(ine) Joannis tritemii abbatis spanhemensis ordinis divi patris benedicti mogu(n)tinensis diocesis Ad nicolaum presbyteru(m) mernicenisem Treverensis diocesis.
[Peter von Friedberg,] [Mainz:] [After 22 October, 1494.] 4to. A8,B-C6. Modern full brown morocco,minor stains. Fine copy. Rubricated with intial Lombard letters in blue and red inks. First edition (one of three issues). "The work in question is the Institutio viatae sacerdotalis, addressed to Trithemius' close friend and conscholarius during his former Heildelberg student days currently living in the neighborhood of Trier, Nicolaus de Merneck. Proposing to instruct the prospective scholar (as distict from regular) cleric in the performance of his office, the Institutio grew out of the first epistle of a series of letters from Trithemius to the novice priest Merneck begining April 1,1486.Of the various dangers of the clerical vocation which Trithemius chose to warn his friend at that early moment in both their careers -- for at the age of 24 Trithemius himself was barely past his novitiate -- none is more predominantly at the front of his concerns in the Institutio than horrid acedia. And of course Trithemius' favorite remedy of the study of letters to help counteract aceia is also again close at hand. 'Withdraw from the company of those who reject knowledge.that is, those who neglect the reading of Scriptures and despise study!' Such ignorant seducers of young clerical novices 'are priests in name but asses in behavior.'Trithemius did not wish to save the cleric from illiteracy only to have him come to no less disasterous ruin on the rockpile of the opposite stte, vain curiosity in matters detrimental to the lofty responsibilities of his office."[Noel L. Brann, The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516) The Renaissance of Monastic Humanism. Brill,1981] Goff T439 ; Hain 15621* ; Aquilon 654 ; Polain(B) 3809 ; Voull(Trier) 952 ; Voull(B) 1584 ; Ohly-Sack 2807, 2808 ; Pad-Ink 656 ; Proctor 174 ; BMC I 46 ; BSB-Ink T-466. ISTC it00439000. [Bookseller: Krown & Spellman, Booksellers]
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ALBERTUS MAGNUS [ALBRECHT VON BOLLSTAEDT], SAINT, BISHOP OF RATISBON [1193?-1280].
DE ANIMA LIBRI TRES. DE INTELLECTU ET INTELLIGIBILI LIBRI DUO.. [COLOPHON ON L8R:] VENICE: JOANNES & GREGORIUS DE GREGORIIS, DE FORLIVIO, 7 NOVEMBER 1494.
folio. 330 x 210 mm. ff. [2], 68. 2 columns. gothic type. large printer's device on verso of last leaf. initial spaces with guide letters. modern limp vellum (some marginal foxing, some soiling to verso of last leaf). Second Edition of the author's treatise on the soul, the intellect and intelligence. Albertus Magnus, Bishop of Ratisbon, saint, and Doctor ('Doctor Universalis') of the Roman Catholic Church, was the leading intellectual figure of his time and wrote encyclopedically on the sciences, philosophy, and theology. By applying Aristotelian methods and principles to revealed doctrine, he was the pioneer of the scholastic method elaborated by his illustrious pupil, Thomas Aquinas. BMC V 345. Goff A-222. GW 586. Hain-Copinger 494. IGI 160. Klebs 13.2. Pellechet 320. Polain (B) 67. Proctor 4539. [Bookseller: D & E LAKE Ltd - Toronto - Canada]
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BONAVENTURA (Saint), pseudo
De munditia & castitate sacerdotum. [Paris, Georg Mittelhus, c. 1492-
Sm. 8vo. 40 leaves. 33 lines, gothic letter. 18th century (?) boards, spine a little damaged. 1494]. Second edition of this tract from a total of eleven recorded by ISTC; the first edition was printed in Paris, c. 1482-1484. This edition is rare with only eleven locations recorded.The work is a handbook for the moral conduct of priests, which was wrongly attributed to Bonaventura; the ethical standards for clerics are divided from the Old and New Testaments, and from works of canon law.Provenance. Ownership inscription on title-page of "F. Nabworthy[?], Broomfield, Co. of Derby, 1838".Blank corner in first four leaves repaired, single wormhole throughout often touching text, waterstaining (worse towards the end).HC 11640. GW 4710. BMC VII, 129. BSB-Ink B-677. Goff B862. [Bookseller: Maggs Bros Ltd.*]
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GESTA ROMANORUM cum applicatoribus moralisatis ac misticis.
(Neurenberg, Anton Koberger). 1494 In die sancti Adriani martyris.. 4to. Modern dark green morocco. (8), 111 lvs., printed in 2 columns.. Nuremberg incunable of one of the most popular literary works of the Middle Ages. Under the somewhat misleading title "Deeds of the Romans", it contains a wealth of exemplary tales of all genres of didactic and moral literature: fables, legends anecdotes, fairy-tales, etc. These tales came from a wide variety of sources, both European and Eastern, and included classical authors as well as stories from the Scriptures, and incorporated for instance the whole "Historia Septem Sapientium". So the structure of the book is loose, and the narrative talent of the compiler seems to vary with his source. This also allowed transcribers to insert any additional tale they judged suitable, and both manuscripts and printed editions much vary in contents. But the unifying element of the "Gesta" was its moral purpose, and the compiler managed to bring together the best tales of all genres of moralistic literature extant in the Middle Ages. The origin of the "Gesta Romanorum" is still under dispute, but the collection is believed to have originated either in Germany or England, the oldest known manuscript going back to 1342. The work was soon translated into most vernacular languages and remained the most popular moralistic literature, especially much used by preachers, until far into the 16th century. The "Gesta" also much influenced German and English literature, like Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", but also Shakespeare. The present Nuremberg edition contains 181 fables, legends, anecdotes and fairy-tales, some very short, but also some of several pages long. All are followed either by an "Applicatio" or more generally by a "Moralisatio", in which the moral of the story is fully discussed. A full index is given in the preliminaries. In our copy some odd initials are provided by hand in red or blue, and a single page is rubricated. Fine copy with ample margins.- (Title on first leaf mounted, last blank lacking; leaf 111 restored at lower margin not touching text). Goff G 294; Hain-Copinger 7748; Proctor 2089; Oates 1032; Pell 5256; GW 10899. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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Guillermus Parisiensis
[Postilla Guillerini Sup{Er} Epistolas Et Evangelia De Tempore Et Sanctis Et Pro Defunctis]
(Heinrich Quentell), (1494). Very Good example. Small quarto in 6s (5" x 8") bound in recent heavy oak boards with raised center panel and leather spine with three false raised bands, new endpapers. Later edition of this collection of church sermons, an incunable version of a best seller. Goff G-698. With 180 (of 184) leaves, lacking the title, a6, and the front and rear blanks, with the printing information contained on the colophon page which is present. Black letter type, 46 lines, rubricated throughout including a large number of attractive red Lombard flourished initial letters in manuscript. OCLC locates only the University of Texas copy of this edition. Scattered contemporary marginal notes. Varying degrees of dampstaining to less than a quarter of the leaves, rarely with significant effect on the text; some leaves browned and a few with minor and accomplished paper repairs in the margin. The colophon leaf has been trimmed and neatly laid down on later paper. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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Inkunabel (Fragment) - Ars moriendi
Tractatus de arte bene viuendi beneqz moriendi. (Bl. A ii): Artis bene morie(n)di perutilis tractatus feliciter Incipit
Paris, Guy Marchant, 31. Juli 1494. 24 Bll. (von 44). Mit großer Holzschnittdruckermarke auf dem Titel, ganzseitigem Holzschnitt verso Titel und 40 in rot oder blau eingemalten gotischen Initialen (Lombarden). 8°. Roter Lederband Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts mit dreifachen Goldfileten auf beiden Deckeln, goldgepr. Rückentitel, Steh- und Innenkantenvergoldung, dreiseitigem Goldschnitt und Marmorpapiervorsätzen. Einband gering berieben und beschabt; winzige Bezugsfehlstelle in der oberen Ecke des hinteren Deckels; vorderes Innengelenk geringfügig angeplatzt; gering stockfleckig und vereinzelt gering fleckig; 2 Bll. mit kleinem Wasserfleck im Seitensteg; alter Namenszug "Johann Maffey" in der Druckermarke; gest. Exlibris (der Buchstabe M unter einer Krone) auf dem vorderen Innendeckel. Nur die ersten 24 Bll. (die vollständigen Bögen A, B und C) der Inkunabel (es fehlen die letzten 20 Bll. mit 2 Holzschnitten und dem Kolophon). Wahrscheinlich war der Titel nie vollständig eingebunden, sondern wurde schon als Fragment verkauft, da die restlichen Seiten fehlerhaft waren. Die Lage C endet mit dem Satzende; auch der gute Zustand der vorhandenen Bll. spricht dafür, dass die Inkunabel schon immer nur Fragment war: Denn hätte die Inkunabel bis zu ihrer Neubindung einen größeren Schaden erfahren, wären auch die vorhandenen Bll. betroffen. Mit der Druckermarke des Guy Marchant, auch Marchand oder Guido Mercator auf dem Titel: In der "Marke ist ein Bilderrätsel für seine Devise 'Sola fides sufficit' aus dem Hymnus 'Pange lingua' (Marchant war ein Priester). Das Wort Sola ist durch 2 Noten sol und la dargestellt, die Treue (fides) durch die Handreichung" (Meyer) zweier Hände, sie enthält zudem einen bis auf einen Ast leeren Wappenschild und darunter 2 Schuster bei der Arbeit. Der Textholzschnitt zeigt 2 Männer, wohl Edelleute, jeweils mit Dolch in Scheide am Gürtel. 27-zeiliger Druck in gotischer Type. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke Nr. 2609; Graesse I, 229; zur Druckermarke vgl. Meyer: Die Französichen Drucker- und Verlegerzeichen des XV. Jahrhunderts , S. 106, mit Abbildung der Druckermarke. [Bookseller: Antiquariat am Moritzberg]
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CURTIUS RUFUS, QUNITUS. BARTOLOMEO MERULA, ED.
DE REBUS GESTIS ALEXANDRI MAGNI REGIS MACEDONUM... VENICE: JOHANNES TACUINUS DE TRIDINO, JULY 17, 1494.
Folio. [Lacks a1, t.p.] a2-8,b-i6, [lacks k1-6], l6. 61 (of 68)leaves=122pp. Modern half-calf, lightly stained (a little darker at front), some restored corners, first and last leaves with repairs (some minor text affects). First Merula edition. Curtius Rufus wrote this history of Alexander the Great ,his march through Phrygia and the cutting of the Gordian Knot,under Claudius or Vespasian. "The author is an excellent story-teller and makes the most of many thrilling or picturesque incidents in the Asiatic expedition..."[OCCL]Merula, Italian humanist and poet, was born in Mantua. He taught grammar in Split from 1487-9. When the powerful Venicean Zori of the Corner family sought a tutor for his sons, Merula won th position. EAmong the most powerful families in Venice at this period were the Corner, whose members included the titular Queen of Cyprus and her brother Zorzi, one of the most widely employed and respected statesmen in the Republic. Zorzi had a history of connections with scholars of an earlier generation such as George of Trebizond and Merula, so when it became known in 1484 that he was seeking a tutor for his sons, the post was eagerly sought. Ermolao Barbaro and Gerolamo Donato were asked to intercede. Bartolomeo Merula, the successful candidate, gained a certain status in Venetian intellectual society, editing a number of Latin texts for the press of Tacuinus during the 1490s and 1500s. When his main charge, Marco Corner, was given a cardinalcy in 1500, Bartolomeo simply became his secretary instead of his tutor and was in due course rewarded for his services by the appointment of apostolic protonotary.E [Martin Lowry, World of Aldus Manitius.] Ann Moss in her EOvid In Renissance FranceE calls him an EindefatigableE editor and in the case of Ovid, EHis main concern is to make the sense of the text clear by paraphrasing difficult passages and enlarging on historical, geographical and mythological allusions, with the help of recognized authorities. His is a grammatical, rather than a rhetorical commentary.EThe missing leaves are the end of book eight and the beginning of book nine. GW 7875. Hain/Copinger 5885. Goff C1002. BMC V,528. BSB C721. Pellechet 4067. Schweiger I,316. Pol (Suppl.) 4309. IGI 3290. IBP 1819. CIH 1124. Husung, Druckerzeichen 220. BSB C721. [Bookseller: Booksellers KROWN & SPELLMAN - Culver Ci]
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GEILER VON KAISERSBERG, Johannes.
Navicula sive speculu[m] fatuorum. Presta[n]tissimi sacrarum literaru[m] doctoris Joannis Geyler Keysersbergij: concionatoris Arge[n]tinen[sis]. in sermones iuxta turmarum seriem divisa: suis figuris iam insignita: a Jacobo Othero diligenter collecta. Compendiosa vita eiusdem descriptio, per Beatum Rhenanum Selestatinum. [Strasbourg, Johann Prüss, 16 January 1511]. 4to (21 x 15.5 cm). Woodcut on title-page, 2 half-page woodcuts facing A1, 111 woodcuts (11.5 x 8.5 cm) in text, flanked by ornamental woodcut borders on the left and right. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, panelled sides with floral and hunting roll, "Narragonia" blind-tooled in upper panel front cover, brass clasps, ties missing, spine with double-raised ba
(280) ll. Adams G-316; BMC STC German, p. 335; Chrisman C3.2.5b; Proctor 9995; Ritter, Catalogue 1084; on the woodcuts see Boon and Scheller, Albrecht and Hans Dürer, pp. 145-146; FairMur (G) 89; Hind, History of Woodcut, pp. 330-332; on Geiler: ADB VIII, pp. 509-518. Second Latin edition of Geiler's Narrenschiff, illustrated by the woodcuts from the first edition of Sebastian Brant's Navis Stultifera (Basel 1494). Johannes Geiler von Kaisersberg (1445-1510) worked as professor of theology in Basel and Freiburg, when he was persuaded by the Strasbourg publisher Peter Schott to become a preacher. His sermons were so popular that Emperor Maximilian appointed him as imperial chaplain in 1501. Geiler tirelessly preached against the abuses in the church and pleaded for the necessity of reform. Unlike the men of the Reformation, he continued to acknowledge the authority of the Roman Catholic church. He often used contemporary literature as point of departure for his sermons. In the present series of 111 sermons, delivered between March 1498 and April 1499, he used the hugely popular Navis Stultifera or Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant (1457-1521). In this satyrical poem, Brant exposes the abuses in the church by using the allegory of a ship of fools, steered by fools on its way to fools' paradise, Narragonia. The 110 types of fools were situated by Geiler in a clerical context and he composed 110 accompanying sermons. Geiler denounces all sorts of abuses, injustice, avarice, indecency, indisciplined behaviour, unfaithfulness, gluttony, chatter, slavery, adultery, inconstancy, dull preaching, blasphemy, etc. Each sermon is accompanied by a woodcut of fools, illustrating the particular vice. The fools bear, apart from the foolscap, a marked resemblence to monks and nuns. There is one extra sermon, following "fool" 21, which was preached on Saturday March 24, the Annunciation. It is accompanied by a woodcut of Wisdom, preaching from the pulpit. Of the 111 woodcuts, six appear twice and two are used three times. The woodcuts belong to the first edition of Brant's Das Narrenschiff (Basel 1494), which have for the main part been ascribed to Albrecht Dürer - "the best examples remind one strongly of Dürer's earlier style" (FairMur, p. 165) and "some of the blocks are markedly angular in character, while others have the rounded manner of drawing that characterises Dürer's certainly authentic work" (Hind, p. 331). Apparently some of the original woodcuts were not obtainable for the present edition, and the publisher inserted some woodcuts twice or three times. The title-page carries a woodcut of the ship of fools (the words "Naviß Stultoru[m]" appear in the woodcut) at sea. Facing leaf A1 is a full-page woodcut in two sections showing the fools on a cart on their way to "daß Narren schyff" in the upper section, and setting sail "ad Narragonia" while singing "Gaudeamus" in the lower section. Geiler preached in German, and after his death in 1510, his housemate, Jacob Otther, composed the present work based on Geiler's Latin notes. The work contains a preface by Otther, a list of 110 different types of fools, an index and the 111 sermons. At the end, we find Geiler's biography by Beatus Rhenanus. The first Latin edition appeared in 1510, see the date of the preface, and a German version of Geiler's sermons was published in 1520. Ownership entries on title-page, dated 1660, and front pastedown, 31 July 1851, two minor wormholes throughout, slightly affecting text and illustration, some larger wormholes in final leaves, some marginal waterstaining, front hinge partially cracked. Despite these defects, well preserved copy of this lavishly illustrated, satyrical work on the abuses in the church. [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]
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SVETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, GAIUS.
VITAE XII CAESARUM CUM COMMENTARII PHILIPPI BEROALDI. MILANO, LEONARDO PACHEL, 10 GENNAIO 1494.
In folio, buona legatura in pergamena antica, titolo in oro su tassello al dorso, tagli rossi, margine superiore un po' corto, ma pregevole copia su carta frusciante . Raro incunabolo milanese, qui nella seconda edizione con il commento di Filippo Beroaldo.Ref:Goff S826, HC 15127, Igi 9239, BMC,VI 780, Pellechet 10811. [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico LEX ANTIQUA - Casti]
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DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO. SIGLO XV, FIRMADO POR FERNANDO EL CATOLICO, ZARAGOZA, JUDIOS, MADRID
1494, octubre, 14. Madrid: Documeto manuscrito sobre pergamino en el que el Rey Fernando el Católico concede a Juan de Embún, merino de la ciudad de Zaragoza, la percepción de una renta anual de 1000 sueldos jaqueses mientras viviera o desempeñara el cargo de merino, en compensación del dinero que solía cobrar como parte de su salario a la ALJAMA JUDIA DE ZARAGOZA antes de la expulsión de los judíos. [TERMINA]: . YO EL REY. Vidit A. Boneti pro generale consilie. Dominus rex mandavit mihi, Ludovico Gonçales; visa per Antonium Bonet pro generali consilie
Data in villa de Madrid die XIIII mensis octobris, anno a nativitate Domini millesimo quadrigentesimo nonagésimo quarto (1494) regnorumque nostrorum videlicet Sicilie anno vigesimoseptimo, Castelle et Legionis vigesimoprimo, Aragonum et aliorum sextodecimo, Granate vero tertio.- Documento manuscrito sobre pergamino; con clara caligrafía de fines del siglo XV; de 39 x 59 cm.; DOCUMENTO UNICO FECHADO EN MADRID, EN IMPECABLE ESTADO. MUY IMPORTANTE PARA LA HISTORIA DE ARAGON, ZARAGOZA Y EL PROBLEMA DE LA EXPULSION DE LOS JUDIOS. Para su mejor lectura y comprensión se adjunta con el documento su transcripción íntegra en latín. [Bookseller: Librería Miguel Miranda, AILA ILAB]
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Curtius Rufus, Qunitus
De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni Regis Macedonum...
Johannes Tacuinus de Tridino, July 17, 1494. Bartolomeo Merula, ed. Folio. [Lacks a1, t.p. ] a2-8, b-i6, [lacks k1-6], l6. 61 (of 68)leaves=122pp. Modern half-calf, lightly stained (a little darker at front), some restored corners, first and last leaves with repairs (some minor text affects). First Merula edition. Curtius Rufus wrote this history of Alexander the Great, his march through Phrygia and the cutting of the Gordian Knot, under Claudius or Vespasian. "The author is an excellent story-teller and makes the most of many thrilling or picturesque incidents in the Asiatic expedition..."[OCCL] Merula, Italian humanist and poet, was born in Mantua. He taught grammar in Split from 1487-9. When the powerful Venicean Zori of the Corner family sought a tutor for his sons, Merula won th position. “ Among the most powerful families in Venice at this period were the Corner, whose members included the titular Queen of Cyprus and her brother Zorzi, one of the most widely employed and respected statesmen in the Republic. Zorzi had a history of connections with scholars of an earlier generation such as George of Trebizond and Merula, so when it became known in 1484 that he was seeking a tutor for his sons, the post was eagerly sought. Ermolao Barbaro and Gerolamo Donato were asked to intercede. Bartolomeo Merula, the successful candidate, gained a certain status in Venetian intellectual society, editing a number of Latin texts for the press of Tacuinus during the 1490s and 1500s. When his main charge, Marco Corner, was given a cardinalcy in 1500, Bartolomeo simply became his secretary instead of his tutor and was in due course rewarded for his services by the appointment of apostolic protonotary. ” [Martin Lowry, World of Aldus Manitius. ] Ann Moss in her “ Ovid In Renissance France” calls him an “ indefatigable” editor and in the case of Ovid, “ His main concern is to make the sense of the text clear by paraphrasing difficult passages and enlarging on historical,... [Bookseller: Alibris]
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Biblia, niederdeutsch. Blatt: "Dat boek Ecclesiastes - De vorrede". (GW 4309).
Lübeck, Stephan (Steffen) Arndes, 19. November 1494. Type 5, 6, 10.. Zweispaltiges 66-zeiliges Original-Inkunabelblatt mit 4 figürlich gestalteten Holzschnitt-Initialen und einem Holzschnitt (9,3 x 9,2 cm). Im Randbereich etwas fingerfleckig. Festes Papier. Blattgröße: 26,1 x 37,4 cm. Incunabula text woodcut leaf.. Die Lübecker Bibel nimmt u. a. aufgrund ihrer sprachlichen Qualität und der Substanz ihrer Glossen eine herausragende Stellung unter den gedruckten niederdeutschen Bibeln ein. Sie ist der 15. deutsche und gleichzeitig dritte niederdeutsche Bibeldruck. Da sich der aus Hamburg stammende Drucker Steffen Arndes in italienischen Prozeßakten Stepahno Aquila de Magonza nennt, darf man vermuten, dass er seine Ausbildung als Setzer, Schriftschneider und Schriftgießer in Mainz erhalten hat. Im Jahre 1486 nahm Arndes seine Tätigkeit in Lübeck auf. (Becker; Overgaauw: Aderlass und Seelentrost 2003, 201) "Bei dem Lübecker Übersetzer, Glossator und Bearbeiter, handelt es sich nicht wie lange Zeit vermutet um Steffen Arndes, sondern um den hochgelehrten Lübecker Franziskaner Nikolaus Bocholt." (S. Lütt und A. Wulff In: Die Bibliothek des Augustinerchorherrenstifts Bordesholm) " Der Text ist aus einer schönen, kräftigen Schwabacher gesetzt, die noch ihre Verwandtschaft mit der oberrheinischen Kursive erkennen lässt." (Eichenberger und Wendland: Deutsche Bibeln vor Luther, S. 121). [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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STRABO
De Situ Orbis. Geographia, libri XVI, trans. a Guarinus Veronensis & Gregorius Tiphernas
"(F. &6 recto, colophon:) ""Strabonis Amasini Scriptoris illustris geographiae opus finit; quod Ioannes Vercellensis… diligentia imprimi curavit. Anno Salutis M.cccclxxxxiiii"".[Venezia], Joannes (Rubeus) Vercellensis, 24 Aprile 1494, in-folio (mm 314 x 209), ff. 166, numerati dal 18 al 166 come II-CL (8, 28, a-r6, 6, s-z6, &6); bella legatura settecentesca in piena pergamena, sul piatto anteriore super libros di Carlo Giacinto Caissotti di Chiusano (collezione andata dispersa alla sua morte nel 1831), dorso con tit. su tassello colorato, capitelli passanti, tagli tinti di blu. Testo in car. rom. e grec. su una colonna di 61 ll. Lettere guida segnano l'incipit delle varie parti del testo, una sola iniziale silografica al f. 28v. Si tratta della traduzione latina, edita da Antonius Mancinellus, del più vasto e pregevole trattato di geografia dell'antichità greca (I sec a.C.); considerata la prima opera di geografia politica ed etnica. L'edizione originale di tale opera venne stampata a Roma nel 1469 e riedita sei volte nel corso del XV secolo. Note di provenienza: sul primo risguardo anteriore e al f. 2r annotazioni della Biblioteca dei Cappuccini di Cuneo. Bellissimo esemplare a pieni margini, in perfetto stato di conservazione.Super-chancery 2° (314 x 209mm). Roman and Greek types, initial spaces. (Small neat marginal tear to bottom of last leaf, single wormhole to last two gatherings, very light soiling.) Late 18th-century vellum, flat spine titled in gilt, 'Calssotti' (?) stamped on front cover. Provenance: Cuneo, Capuchin convent, 18th-century gift inscription -- ?owner's name stamped in gilt on upper board. The Geographia ""marked the first attempt to assemble all available geographical knowledge into a single treatise""HC 15090. BMC V, 418. Goff S-797. IGI 9175. Klebs 935.5. ISTC No. Is00797000; Malaguzzi, Biblioteche storiche disperse, Torino, 1999" [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco s.a.s. di]
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Inkunabel (Fragment) - Ars moriendi
Tractatus de arte bene viuendi beneqz moriendi. (Bl. A ii): Artis bene morie(n)di perutilis tractatus feliciter Incipit
(Paris, Guy Marchant, 31. Juli 1494). 24 Bll. (von 44). Mit großer Holzschnittdruckermarke auf dem Titel, ganzseitigem Holzschnitt verso Titel und 40 in rot oder blau eingemalten gotischen Initialen (Lombarden). 8°. Roter Lederband Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts mit dreifachen Goldfileten auf beiden Deckeln, goldgepr. Rückentitel, Steh- und Innenkantenvergoldung, dreiseitigem Goldschnitt und Marmorpapiervorsätzen. Einband gering berieben und beschabt; winzige Bezugsfehlstelle in der oberen Ecke des hinteren Deckels; vorderes Innengelenk geringfügig angeplatzt; gering stockfleckig und vereinzelt gering fleckig; 2 Bll. mit kleinem Wasserfleck im Seitensteg; alter Namenszug "Johann Maffey" in der Druckermarke; gest. Exlibris (der Buchstabe M unter einer Krone) auf dem vorderen Innendeckel. Nur die ersten 24 Bll. (die vollständigen Bögen A, B und C) der Inkunabel (es fehlen die letzten 20 Bll. mit 2 Holzschnitten und dem Kolophon). Wahrscheinlich war der Titel nie vollständig eingebunden, sondern wurde schon als Fragment verkauft, da die restlichen Seiten fehlerhaft waren. Die Lage C endet mit dem Satzende; auch der gute Zustand der vorhandenen Bll. spricht dafür, dass die Inkunabel schon immer nur Fragment war: Denn hätte die Inkunabel bis zu ihrer Neubindung einen größeren Schaden erfahren, wären auch die vorhandenen Bll. betroffen. Mit der Druckermarke des Guy Marchant, auch Marchand oder Guido Mercator auf dem Titel: In der "Marke ist ein Bilderrätsel für seine Devise 'Sola fides sufficit' aus dem Hymnus 'Pange lingua' (Marchant war ein Priester). Das Wort Sola ist durch 2 Noten sol und la dargestellt, die Treue (fides) durch die Handreichung" (Meyer) zweier Hände, sie enthält zudem einen bis auf einen Ast leeren Wappenschild und darunter 2 Schuster bei der Arbeit. Der Textholzschnitt zeigt 2 Männer, wohl Edelleute, jeweils mit Dolch in Scheide am Gürtel. 27-zeiliger Druck in gotischer Type. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke Nr. 2609; Graesse I, 229; zur Druckermarke vgl. Meyer: Die Französichen Drucker- und Verlegerzeichen des XV. Jahrhunderts, S. 106, mit Abbildung der Druckermarke. LA [Bookseller: Antiquariat am Moritzberg]
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AN ESPECIALLY PRETTY ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN DUTCH.
TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF THE HOURS OF THE HOLY GHOST.
Northern Netherlands, probably Utrecht, late 15th century Single column 22 lines of text in a pleasing regular gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Capitals struck with red rubrics in red one- and two-line initials in blue or burnished gold and the recto WITH A FINE 10-LINE "H" IN BRUSHED GOLD the initial made up of stylized tree branches wrapped in acanthus leaves and with many wispy gilt botanical sprays emanating from its various elements the whole on a pale pink ground THE TEXT ENCLOSED BY A VERY CHARMING FULL ILLUSIONISTIC BORDER containing much more gold acanthus as well as flowers and strawberries one of the latter being pecked at by a flapping blue bird. Traces of glue at the outer edges of the (ample) margins otherwise IN FINE CONDITION quite clean and fresh with the gilt entirely intact and the paint with only the most trivial rubbing. The border here is close in style to the Hours of Cornelis Croesinck now in the Morgan Library (M. 1078) a manuscript done ca. 1494. The painting of the gilt acanthus is remarkably delicate and the design of the border is imaginative with interlacing gilt branches forming panels between which a very opaque deep blue shows through as if we are seeing night sky through windows with partly concealing decoration. The botanical and zoological elements in the border are all given shadows providing a strong sense of the three-dimensional. The leaf was obviously produced by a very sophisticated artist and surely was part of an expensive manuscript. $2400 [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)]
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CAVALCA Domenico
Frutti della lingua. (Legato con:) Specchio di Croce.
Firenze (Bartolomeo dei Libri, 1494), 2 opere in 1 vol. in-4, ff. 142 n.n.; 98 n.n., legatura del XVIII secolo in pergamena rigida, titolo in oro al dorso. Seconda edizione dei Frutti della lingua, apparsi per la prima volta l'anno precedente (Firenze, Morgiani 1493). Al titolo grande silografia (mm 97x87) ambientata in un chiostro con sulla sinistra due frati domenicani in atto di predicare ad un gruppo di monache sulla destra. Cavalca compose i Frutti della lingua dopo il 1433, divise il suo trattato in tre parti (orazione, predicazione, confessione) e lo concepì come un'appendice al "Pungilingua". (Legato con:) D. Cavalca. Lo Specchio di Croce. Al recto del titolo silografia con Crocifissione (mm 99x85), con la Vergine, San Giovanni e la Maddalena, al verso è impressa la medesima scena che è sul titolo dei Frutti della lingua che precede. L'opera del Cavalca, apparsa a partire dal 1476 ca., conobbe numerose ristampe nel XV secolo. Importante assieme di due tra i più celebri testi in volgare del predicatore domenicano (1270 ca. - 1342), superbamente illustrati da due grandi silografie. Buon esemplare, usuali fioriture della carta (restauro angolo superiore del primo f. fascicolo d dello Specchio). Provenienze: nota di possesso e qualche rara sottolineatura di "Melchior Magius C.A.C 1721" (Cavaliere di S. Stefano, consigliere di papa Clemente XII in qualità di Canonico della Basilica Vaticana. In fine si legge una nota di possesso di mano coeva "Di me Galeazzo Burnio (o Bornio) e degli amici miei". 1) Cat. Martini 119. Goff C332. IGI 2625. Sander 1849. BMC VI 658. Gamba 311. Zambrini 251. 2) Cat. Martini 119 e 122. Gamba 305, nota. Sander 1856. IGI 2649. Manca a BMC. [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco s.a.s. di]
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Aquinas, St. Thomas
Catena Aurea Angelici...Nuper Redacta O(Mn)Ia Evangelia & Ferialia: Necnon Super Queda(M) De Sanctis. Per Religiosum Padre(M) Fratre(M) Petrum De Vincentia...Innoce(N)Tius Papa. in Sermone: Ecce Plusq(Uae) Salomo(N) Hic. De Sancto Doctore Thoma De...
[Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis for Benedetto Fontana, ], [1494, 29 April. ]. Petrus de Vincentia, ed. 4to. [4], a-r8, (long s)8, s-x8, y4, ; A-T8, V6. 342ff (incl. 2 blanks). Contemp. blind ruled calf over wood boards with roundel stamps (Evangelists? ), lacks clasps, many wormholes in covers, worn, old sewing repair to spine; Several early ownership inscriptions on t.p. from the Monastery of St. Vincent de Garrenio in Lombardy gift from brother Bernardi; last leaf defective in most part; signature 'long s' misbound; some worming with track-holes in f5-g2 (some text affected), holes in h5, & in E8 (slightly affecting text); a few marginal defectes and minor stains. Large hisoriated initial "O. P" with angels on a2, decorated & historiated initials. St. Thomas AquinasPhilosopher, theologian, doctor of the Church (Angelicus Doctor), patron of Catholic universities, colleges, and schools. Born at Rocca Secca in the Kingdom of Naples, 1225 or 1227; died at Fossa Nuova, 7 March, 1274. "The "Catena Aurea", though not as original as his other writings, furnishes a striking proof of St. Thomas's prodigious memory and manifests an intimate acquaintance with the Fathers of the Church. The work contains a series of passages selected from the writings of the various Fathers, arranged in such order that the texts cited form a running commentary on the Gospels. The commentary on St. Matthew was dedicated to Urban IV. [CE] "In a single work, the Catena Aurea, he cites the opinions of 60 Greek writers..." [Sandys] Goff T224; HC 1337; GfT 2439; Mich 10; Pell 940; CIBN T-196; Arnoult 1399; Neveu 577; Polain(B) 4748; IGI 9520; IBE 5568; Sajó-Soltész 3235; Sallander 2457; Madsen 3888; Voull(Trier) 2118; Voull(B) 4236, 5; Ohly-Sack 2667; Sack(Freiburg) 3397; Hummel-Wilhelmi 583 (I); Bod-inc T-138; Sheppard 4125; Pr 5136; BMC V 418; BSB-Ink T-204. ISTC it00224000. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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Séneca, Lucio Aneo.
Pistole del moralissimo Seneca nuovamente fatte volgare.
Sebastian Manilio, 1494, 14 de abril,, Venecia: 6 hojas, 170 folios. [4, 2, a-o6, p4, q4, r-y6, z4, &4, ç4, $4, A-E4, F6]. Pergamino antiguo. Ocasionales puntos de óxido, alguna humedad marginal y en F2 y F3 una pequeña falta que no afecta. Hain Copinger 14606. Pellechet Ms 10401. IBE 5196, dos ejemplares BNE y Biblioteca de la Diputación Foral, Bilbao. IGI 8865. Proctor 4887. BMC v 545. Primera edición en italiano de las Epistolae ad Lucilium, traducidas por Sebastian Manilio. La Pistole es el único libro estampado por este impresor.Lucio Aneo Séneca, preceptor, colaborador y finalmente víctima de Nerón fue sin duda el más distinguido intelectual de la Roma del siglo i de nuestra era. Incluso puede decirse que responde na mayor medida que cualquier otro clásico latino a la moderna figura del intelectual: a la del hombre de estudios que sólo en razón de ellos llega a tener influencia y poder polí