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Henricus de Langenstein (de Hassia).
Secreta sacerdotum [.] Michaelem Lochmayr correcta in hanc forma redacta.
Augsburg, Johann Froschauer, 1498. 4°. 12 (das letzte weiß) nn. Bll., Mod. Pgmt. Erstmals um 1492 erschienene Erläuterung der Messe, mit Meßgebeten. - Der Verfasser Heinrich von Langenstein (eig. Heinbuche), geb. 1325 in Langenstein bei Marburg in Hessen (daher meist Heinrich von Hessen gen.), gest. 1397 in Wien, wirkte zunächst an der Universität Paris. Der Philosoph und Theologe betätigte sich auch als Mathematiker und Astronom; so verfaßte er u.a. Schriften gegen die Auswüchse der Astrologie. Nach kurzem Aufenthalt im Kloster Eberbach bei Mainz wurde er an die Universität Wien berufen. Hier wirkte er an der Einrichtung der theologischen Fakultät mit und war 1384 an der Ausarbeitung neuer Universitätsstatuten beteiligt. Langenstein wurde 1385 Vizekanzler, 1389 Dekan der theolog. Fakultät u. im Wintersemester 1393/94 Rektor der Universität (vgl. Czeike III, 682). - Nur ganz vereinzelt min. (stock-) fleckig. Einige Marginalien von alter Hand, sonst sehr schönes u. breitrandiges Exemplar. - GW 12252; Hain/Cop. 8386; BMC II, 396; Proctor 1830; BSB-Ink H 77; Polain 4415; Panzer I, 126, 164; nicht bei Goff, IGI, Oates, Pellechet u. Voullieme (Berlin). [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Friebes]
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[VOC - ANNUAL DIRECTORY - BATAVIA].
Naamboek, van de Wel-Edele Heeren der Hooge Indiasche Regeering, zoo tot, als buiten Batavia; ... zo als dezelve onder ultimo December 1771. alhier in weezen zyn bevonden: ...Batavia (now Djakarta, Indonesia), Egbert Heemen (printer to the VOC), [1772]. 8vo. Annual VOC directory for the city of Batavia, the East Indies as a whole, Ceylon, and other lands where the VOC (Dutch East India Company) had settlements. Modern half calf with late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century marbled sides, red sprinkled edges.
(2 blank), (2), 110, (4), (2 blank) pp. Cf. Landwehr 1498 & 1499 (no ed. betw. 1766 & 1775/76); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (1 copy each for 1767/68, 1770/71, 1773/74); NCC (no ed. betw. 1766 & 1807/08); OCLC (no ed. before 1784/85); STCN (no ed. betw. 1751 & 1775/76). The only recorded copy for this year of an annual directory printed by the VOC's printer at Batavia in the East Indies. All editions between 1766 and 1775/76 appear to be lost or unique (we have traced single copies for 4 of those 8 years, including the present copy of the 1771/72 edition). It covers not only the city of Batavia itself and the East Indies, but also other regions where the VOC had settlements, including an extensive section on Ceylon (pp. 65-82), a shorter one on Bengal (pp. 88-91) and a very short one on Japan (p. 99). The directory gives an extraordinary wealth of information, listing not only the VOC's governors general from 1610 to the time of publication (with exact dates and other information), military and church officials, merchants, ships' captains, bookkeepers and medical doctors, but also carpenters, smiths, sail makers, coopers, masons, coin minters, surveyors, the printers' censor, the inspector of lepers, the Batavian city midwife, and even some unemployed. For nearly all, it reports the date when they took up the named position or joined the VOC. Of special interest at Batavia (with their dates) are the printer of the almanac himself (1767), the master map-maker to the Company's East Indian fleet, Klaas de Loos (1769), and the master bookbinder to the Secretary of the Directors, Augustus Thomszens (1766). The last ten pages list people associated with the VOC who left or died in the course of the year 1771. All in all, a wealth of information (much unavailable in any other surviving source) for both the general study of the VOC and life in its territories, and for the two thousand or so individual people named.Directories (lists of people and their positions, often classed with almanacs but in this case much closer to a modern annual trade directory or telephone directory) were printed at Amsterdam for the VOC from at least 1724, but none printed at Batavia itself is known to survive before 1751 and only those for a few scattered years survive from the first quarter century. From at least the present year, they include data up to the last day of the named year, so that they were clearly published early in the following year (that of 1766 stopped at the end of September and was probably published toward the end of the named year). Egbert Heemen may have printed the directory every year from 1767/68 to 1779/80, but we have traced only 7 editions in a total of 9 copies for these 13 years. The present edition collates: [pi]4 A-G8 = 60 ll., with [pi]1 & G8 blank. It is set in several sizes of roman and italic types dating from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a tailpiece built up from fleurons at the end.In fine condition with only an occasional minor smudge, and with "No. 5" in ink in a contemporary hand on the first (blank) page. A fine copy of a unique VOC annual directory, printed in Batavia. [Bookseller: Asher Rare Books (Since 1830)]
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of
. New The Book of Ser Marco Polo: The Venetian Concerning the Kingdom of Marvels of the East-3rd Hardcover Edition (2 volumes)-1498 pages. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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FRAGMENTA VETUSTISSIMORUM AUTORUM
SUMMO STUDIO AC DILIGENTIA NUNC RECONDITA. Myrsili Lesbii De Origine Italiae et Tyrrhenorum. (M. Porci Catonis, Archilochi, Berosi, Manethonis, Metasthenis, Xenophontis, Q. Fabii Pictoris, C. Sempronii, Sext. Julii Frontini). Basileae, apud Jo. Beb(elium), M.D.XXX (1530).
(cm.21) cc. 4 nn. + pp. 102 + 1 c. nn. Carattere romano, capilettere figurati e fregi xilogr. di notevole eleganza. Legatura buona Mezza Pergamena sec. XVIII, piatti policromi. Esemplare molto bello e nitido, a larghi margini. Edizione originale di grande rarità di questa opera che tratta delle origini dell'Italia, dell'origine di Roma, dei suoi acquedotti , dell'Egitto, della Persia ed altro, per gli scritti di vari autori. Raccolta a cura di Joannes Sichardus "autor et impulsor" , come è dichiarato nella dedica al lettore. Cfr. Lozzi, 111, per l'incunabolo rarissimo di Myrsilus lesbius del 1498. - BM STC German, 312; Adams F 830; Panzer VI, 277.795; Brunet II, 1367 "Rare". [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Calabrò]
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Biblia. (GW 4280, HC 3124).
Venedig, Simon Bevilaqua, 8. Mai 1498. Type 4, 19, 20, 21.. Zweispaltiges, 51-zeiliges Original-Inkunabelblatt "Ad Romanos" mit einem Holzschnitt (7,5 x 4,4 cm). Papier im Randbereich leicht gebräunt und mit 2 schmalen Papiermontagestreifen im Blattrand. Blattgröße: 14,8 x 20,2 cm. Incunabula text woodcut leaf.. Die Abbildung zeigt den knieenden Paulus mit Buch in der Hand vor dem Papst. Ein Bild des Inkunabelblattes wird gerne auf Wunsch per email zugesandt. [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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Ritchie, J. Ewing:
The pictorial edition of the life & discoveries of David Livingstone. Africa, Livingstone's last journeys.
London, Fullarton & Co. 5 Bände. insgesamt ca. 1498 Seiten plus Register. Schwarzweiß-Abb. im Text, Chromolithographien von Afrikaforschern. Original Leinen mit Goldprägung. Einbände etwas berieben u. bestoßen, teils etwas fleckig, Schnitt braunfleckig. innen ebenfalls einige Seiten, teils auch Bildtafeln leicht braunfleckig. Sonst noch gute Exemplare. Original Leinen mit Goldprägung. 5 Bände. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Ballmert]
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[Bible, in Latin].
BIBLIA LATINA
(Basel: Joh. Amerbach, ed. Anton Koberger, 1498). Vol. I complete with the texts of Genesis /Exodus / Leviticus / Numbers / Deuteronomy /Joshua /Juith / Ruth / Regum IIII / Paralipomenon II / Esdre IIII / Tobias / Judith / Hester / Job. Printed in double column in Gothic font, a profusion of large initials with lateral extensions decorated by hand in red and blue and a profusion of smaller letters and initials decorated also by hand in red and blue. There are also: 24 magnificent engraved figures throughout including early reproductions of Noah's Ark, The Sacrificial Alter, The Ten Commandments, The Great Menorah and The Temple of Solomon. The commentary, of significant import, is by Cardinal Hugo di Saint-Chair who was active in the early part of the 13th century and who died in 1262. Folio, ff 464 nn., in a superb contemporary binding of full blindstamped pigskin with clasps, the spine with wide raised bands, the covers blocked beautifully with full Renaissance designs. A wonderfully preserved calligraphic rendering on the inner rear board remains and is dated from 1402. Offset from the original vellum pastedown, this is an inclusion of significant import. 464 folio leaves unnumbered. (signed: a-b8, c6, d8, e6, f-g8, h6, i-k8, l 6, m6, n8, o6, p8, q6, r8, s-t6, v8, x6, y8, z6; A-C8, D6, E-G8, H-L6, M-Z ed aa-vv alternating 8 and 6), complete. A superb copy of this rare book. There is absolutely nothing to complain about. The book is extremely fresh, beautifully preserved, and one conjectures nearly as pristine as could be expected.. [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks Inc.]
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Wimpina, Conrad
Apologeticus in sacre theologie theologie defensionem. Adversus eos qui nixi sunt eidem fontem caput et patronam poesim instituere: ac per hoc nec sacram theosim: iure religionis nostre: monarcham et architectonicam habitum scientialim
Leipzig: Jacobus Thanner, c. 1498. FIRST EDITION of Wimpina's classic treatise on the inherent inferiority of poetry to theology, in which the author points out, for example, that neither the ancient Egyptians nor the Gauls had poetry! 14 leaves (28 pp), COMPLETE. Black-letter (Got. hic) types throughout. This is the first edition (Hain 16208), with 34 lines per page. (The second edition--Hain 16209--has 35 lines per page, and is usually dated 1500-1501.) 4to. Attractively bound in old vellum. Some soiling to binding. Int. ernally clean, with very good margins. A very good copy of a very rare incunabulum.. coleantiq wimpina incunabula incunable black letter gothic. Catalogs: Antiquarian Books. [Bookseller: Cole & Contreras]
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Quadragesimale ad Usum Rothomagen.
[Rouen, Martin-Morin, sd. avant 1498]. Petit in-8 gothique de 80 ff.n.ch. (signés A-K8), entièrement réglé et rubriqué en rouge et bleu, avec de belles marges. Foliotage manuscrit ancien, annotations sur le titre et Hymnum ad Matutinum de 21 lignes à l'encre brune au verso, manque marginal de papier sans atteinte au texte aux deux premiers ff., travail de ver marginal à 15 ff. Ex-libris manuscrit: Pouget Presbyter, et imprimés: L.E. Bigot, ecuyer, sieur du Boullay (Généralité de Rouen) et autre armorié. Veau brun d'époque, double encadrement de filets à froid sur les plats, avec fleurons dorés aux angles et au centre, dos à nerfs orné de fleurs de lis, tranches rouges (restauration ancienne). Belle et rarissime impression gothique rouennaise incunable. La marque de Martin-Morin se trouve au verso du dernier feuillet. Aquilon n'a répertorié qu'un exemplaire dans un catalogue de la librairie Varin à Paris (1971) et Valérie Neveu n'en répertorie aucun dans son catalogue des incunables des bibliothèques de Haute-Normandie, par contre elle identifie la marque de Morin comme antérieure au 5 VII 1498, et le petit caractère (1,5 mm) le G62 (M37) reproduit dans son ouvrage (pl.XXVA) et ayant servi pour le Missel de Sées de 1496 et le Bréviaire du Mans imprimé avant 1496. Aquilon 87, non répertorié par E. Frère dans son ouvrage sur Martin Morin [Bookseller: Librairie Bertran]
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Genoa, Italy; Visdomini, Antonio Maria, Editor
Statuta Et Decreta Communis Genuae: Quae Quam Ordinatissime...
1498. [Genoa (Italy)]. [Visdomini, Antonio Maria, Editor]. Statuta et Decreta Communis Genuae: Quae Quam Ordinatissime Diligentissime et Castigatissime ad Communem Cunctorum Genuensium Utilitantem nec non Voluptatem Impressa Sint Liquido Patebit Legentibus. [Bologna: Caligola de' Bazalieri, 30 June 1498]. [vi], 87, [1], 29, [1] fols. Collation: A6, b-l6, m4, n-o6, p-r4 (r4 blank). b-f6. Folio (12" x 8"). Later vellum, lettering piece to spine, patterned endpapers, early hand-lettered title to spine. Light soiling, corners somewhat bumped and worn, boards slightly bowed, front joint just starting at foot, front joint cracked, rear joint starting. Penultimate signature (f6) loose with light wear to fore-edges, lower portion of final leaf repaired with some loss to lower left-hand corner of colophon. Text printed in 46-line Roman type, capital spaces have guide letters. Toning, light soiling to title page, faint dampstaining to some leaves. "16. r" to head of title page, brief early annotation and ink spot to 85r, interior otherwise clean. Ex-library. Bookplate to front pastedown, shelf location in pencil to verso of front free endpaper. An appealing copy. * Only edition. Text in Latin. Along with Venice Pisa and Amalfi, Genoa was one of the maritime republics that dominated trade in the Mediterranean. In addition to Corsica, Sardinia and lands in Liguria and Piedmont, Genoa controlled colonies in the Middle East. Its fortunes decined during the fourteenth century due to the Black Death, which entered Europe through the Genoese trading post at Caffa in the Crimea, and wars with Venice, France and Milan. Genoa would later enjoy a revival of power and prosperity under the leadership of Andrea Doria, who introduced a new constitution in 1528. The 1498 compilation of Genoa's civil and criminal law was issued at a time when Genoa had suffered through nearly a century and a half of misfortune. As one would expect, its statutes and decrees indicate the many problems confronting... [Bookseller: Alibris]
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Missale Pragense (GWM 24638, HC 11354). Blatt CCXXV.
Leipzig, Konrad Kachelofen, 24. Juli 1498. Type 7, 8, 9, 11.. Zweispaltiges, 31-zeiliges O-Inkunabelblatt in schwarzem und rotem Druck mit zwei 2-zeiligen rubrizierten Initialen mit Randausläufern. Blatt mit Leim- und Wurmspuren (wohl aus einer Buchauslösung). Blattgröße: 22 x 34,5 cm. Incunabula text leaf.. Seltenes Blatt! Den Buchdruck in Leipzig eröffnete 1481 der Drucker Brandis. Ihm folgte 1483 Kachelofen (Contze Holtzhusen alias Kacheloffen von Wartberg) der schon 1476 in den Leipziger Stadtkassenrechnungen eingetragen war. So ist wohl Warsberg bei Courzel (Metz) sein Geburtsort. Während Brandis 1490 wegen Überschuldung nach Magdeburg flüchtete wurde Kachelofen im XV. Jhd. der bedeutenste Druckherr Leipzigs. Sein Druck- und Verlagsprogramm war außerordentlich reich und vielseitig und bediente auch den osteuropäischen Raum (Geldner I, 241ff.) [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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Henricus de Langenstein (de Hassia).
Secreta sacerdotum [...] Michaelem Lochmayr correcta in hanc forma redacta.
Augsburg, Johann Froschauer, 1498.. 4°. 12 (das letzte weiß) nn. Bll., Mod. Pgmt.. Erstmals um 1492 erschienene Erläuterung der Messe, mit Meßgebeten. - Der Verfasser Heinrich von Langenstein (eig. Heinbuche), geb. 1325 in Langenstein bei Marburg in Hessen (daher meist Heinrich von Hessen gen.), gest. 1397 in Wien, wirkte zunächst an der Universität Paris. Der Philosoph und Theologe betätigte sich auch als Mathematiker und Astronom; so verfaßte er u.a. Schriften gegen die Auswüchse der Astrologie. Nach kurzem Aufenthalt im Kloster Eberbach bei Mainz wurde er an die Universität Wien berufen. Hier wirkte er an der Einrichtung der theologischen Fakultät mit und war 1384 an der Ausarbeitung neuer Universitätsstatuten beteiligt. Langenstein wurde 1385 Vizekanzler, 1389 Dekan der theolog. Fakultät u. im Wintersemester 1393/94 Rektor der Universität (vgl. Czeike III, 682). - Nur ganz vereinzelt min. (stock-) fleckig. Einige Marginalien von alter Hand, sonst sehr schönes u. breitrandiges Exemplar. - GW 12252; Hain/Cop. 8386; BMC II, 396; Proctor 1830; BSB-Ink H 77; Polain 4415; Panzer I, 126, 164; nicht bei Goff, IGI, Oates, Pellechet u. Voullieme (Berlin). [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Friebes]
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Mag. Berchthold Renbolt.
Preclarissima et inestimabilis doctrince ( ) Ad Fratres in heremo commorantes. Hermones. Irrvi.( ).
Unbekannt. M. Renbolt. Monogrammiert mit "B.R.") 1498.. Folio, Rindslederüberzug über Holzdeckel. Mit Blindprägungen. 4 echte Bünde, mit zwei Messingschließen der Zeit, insgesamt 828 S.. Geschichtswerk ab Kaiser Aurelius bzw. Augustus bis zum 15. Jahrhundert. - Mit stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren, soweit möglich fachmännisch ausgebessert. Kein Fehl- oder Doppelblatt. 3 Blatt Annotatio. Folium primun - 367 Blätter = 828 Seiten. - Fachmännische Ausbesserung mit modernem, braunem Lederstückchen an der Kopfkante des Einbands. - Hübsche Druckermarke in Eisenschrotdruck (zeigt Weinstöcke mit hängenden Weintropfen; recht uns links flankiert von einem stehenden Löwen). - Text in Latein. [Bookseller: Antiquariat & Auktionshaus Wolfgang Hust]
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Genoa, Italy; Visdomini, Antonio Maria, Editor
Statuta et Decreta Communis Genuae: Quae Quam Ordinatissime
1498. [Genoa (Italy)]. [Visdomini, Antonio Maria, Editor]. Statuta et Decreta Communis Genuae: Quae Quam Ordinatissime Diligentissime et Castigatissime ad Communem Cunctorum Genuensium Utilitantem nec non Voluptatem Impressa Sint Liquido Patebit Legentibus. [Bologna: Caligola de' Bazalieri, 30 June 1498]. [vi], 87, [1], 29, [1] fols. Collation: A6, b-l6, m4, n-o6, p-r4 (r4 blank). b-f6. Folio (12" x 8"). Later vellum, lettering piece to spine, patterned endpapers, early hand-lettered title to spine. Light soiling, corners somewhat bumped and worn, boards slightly bowed, front joint just starting at foot, front joint cracked, rear joint starting. Penultimate signature (f6) loose with light wear to fore-edges, lower portion of final leaf repaired with some loss to lower left-hand corner of colophon. Text printed in 46-line Roman type, capital spaces have guide letters. Toning, light soiling to title page, faint dampstaining to some leaves. "16.r" to head of title page, brief early annotation and ink spot to 85r, interior otherwise clean. Ex-library. Bookplate to front pastedown, shelf location in pencil to verso of front free endpaper. An appealing copy. * Only edition. Text in Latin. Along with Venice Pisa and Amalfi, Genoa was one of the maritime republics that dominated trade in the Mediterranean. In addition to Corsica, Sardinia and lands in Liguria and Piedmont, Genoa controlled colonies in the Middle East. Its fortunes declined during the fourteenth century due to the Black Death, which entered Europe through the Genoese trading post at Caffa in the Crimea, and wars with Venice, France and Milan. Genoa would later enjoy a revival of power and prosperity under the leadership of Andrea Doria, who introduced a new constitution in 1528. The 1498 compilation of Genoa's civil and criminal law was issued at a time when Genoa had suffered through nearly a century and a half of misfortune. As one would expect, its statutes and decrees indicate the many problems confronting the state and the scarcely-concealed pessimism of its leaders. KVK locates 8 copies, OCLC locates 9. Goff, Incunabula in American Libraries S714. Hain-Copinger, Repertorium Bibliographicum 15007. [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd]
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GREGOIRE.
Liber Cure Pastoralis.
Paris, Ulric Gering et Berthold Rembolt, 18 Juillet, 1498 ; in-4 de [62] (sur 64) ff., reliure du début du XVIIIe siècle, maroquin rouge, filets dorés en encadrement, dos lisse orné, pièces vertes, roulette intérieure, tranches dorées. Précieuse édition incunable en caractères gothiques. Elle sort des presses des premiers imprimeurs établis à Paris rue de la Sorbonne, presse dites du Soleil d'or. L'ouvrage, consacré au devoir des prêtres, est dû au pape Grégoire Ier. Le seul manuscrit connu de ce texte est conservé à la bibliothèque de Troyes. Le premier feuillet manque, portant au recto le titre et la marque de l'imprimeur (verso blanc) ainsi que le dernier feuillet blanc. Très bel exemplaire conservé dans une luxueuse reliure de maroquin rouge. Le catalogue du duc de la Vallière contient un exemplaire également relié en maroquin rouge sans qu'on puisse dire avec certitude qu'il s'agit du même (cat. 1783, I, 512).- Quelques discrètes galeries de ver. Inscription manuscrite sur le feuillet de garde : Ex-dono Lancelin 1844. Double. slam [Bookseller: Anne Lamort Livres Anciens]
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Unrecorded Dutch (post?) incunable edition, together with an interesting Dutch devotional manuscript BOEXKEN van goeder devocien (Oeffeninghe van den heiligen cruse; Die ix couden die onse lieve heer geleden heeft; Die seven banden.
(Leiden, Hugo Jansz. van Woerden, after May 1498). 8vo. Modern mottled calf over boards, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, g.e. Rubricated and underlined in red throughout, some initials with penwork (2-3 lines) in blue and red; with full-page woodcut of Christ with the instruments of the passion on the title and 6 (out of 9) full-page (one a bit smaller) woodcuts in 'Die.ix. couden' (f. 14v-31v) and one - a Crucifixion - on f. 63v at the beginning of 'Vanden ghescoerden oliven boem'. All woodcuts but the last one are coloured by a strictly contemporary hand. 74 (out of 80) lvs. 20 lines on a page. MANUSCRIPT.- SEVEN PSALMS AND PRAYERS. Netherlands, ca. 1500. 8vo. 85 lvs, (118x85mm.); one column; 20 lines per page; rubricated throughout, lombards (1-2 lines) and titles in red (the four initials of 2-4 lines not executed). : Hybrida libraria in a good and very well readable hand: the script of the Modern Devotion. Collation: (a)6 (6), (b)10 (16), (c) -(i)8 (72), (k)12+1 (85). Ad 1: Unrecorded edition of this Dutch devotional book containing among other texts and prayers, the texts of the "Oeffeninghe van den heiligen cruse", "Die.ix. couden die onse here ihesus christus leet", and "Die seven banden". There are several editions of this text, listed by Nijhoff/Kronenberg under Boecxken (Boeck) van (go(e)der) devocien or Couden, Die negen, published in Leiden, Delft, Utrecht and Antwerp between c. 1501 and 1539.The text is closest to NK 4317 (Antwerp, Adr. van Berghen, 1506), but the blocks are those originally used by Hugo Jansz. van Woerden in an edition of the Leven Ons Heren (Leiden, 1498; CA 1111, IDL 2943). The series, containing 50 blocks, is Conway, 30.1.1-50. Two of these blocks are illustrated in Nijhoff's L'Art Typographique under 'Amsterdam, Hugo Jansz. van Woerden', nrs 4 and 5, as used in his edition of Dat Lijden ons liefs heren Ihesu Christi (Amsterdam, ca. 1510?; NK 1372). The blocks used by Henric Pietersz. Lettersnijder in his edition of Die negen couden (Delft 1511; NK 624), as illustrated in Nijhoff's L'Art Typ. are very close, but not the same (Plate II, nrs. 6 and 7).Possibly our edition is published therefore by Herman Jansz. van Woerden after May 1498. This is the more probably as this printer published many devotional books of the same kind. Herman Jansz. was active in Leiden from 1494 - ca. 1506, in Haarlem in 1506 and in Amsterdam, 1506 - ca. 1514, so as the place of printing both cities, Leiden or Amsterdam (or Haarlem), are possible.As the text of the edition by Jan Severs (Leiden, no date; NK 438) is also more or less the same as the text in our edition, it could also be possible that Jan Severs is the printer of our edition. Jan Severs was active in Leiden from ca. 1501 till ca. 1520. As the printers in Antwerp have used different woodcut blocks to illustrate this texts, it is very probable that our edition is printed in the Northern, and not in the Southern Netherlands.Collation: [a]8-2 (f. 2/7 missing; f. 1-6), b8 (f. 7-14), c8-2 (f. 4/5 (between 17/18) missing; f. 15-20), d8-1 (f. 3 (between 22/23 missing; f. 21-27), e-i8 (f. 28-67), k8-1 (last blank missing; f. 68-74). 20 lines to a page.Contents:f. 1r: Dit is dat boexken van goeder devocien. \| Ende een oeffeninghe, hoemen god bidden \| sal. ende om sijn passie te ouerdencken. [houtsnede (full page) of Christ with the instruments of the passion]f. 1v: Inc.: Item dit is een suuerlic boecxken. \| van sonderlingher schoenre oeffenin\|ghe der ghebenedider passien ons lie\|ves heeren ihesu cristi. So is hier ten \| eersten een schone oeffeninghe vanden \| heilighen cruce Item ten anderen van negender \| leye couden die onsen lieven here geleden heeft f. 2r - f. 14v: [begin ontbreekt: Oeffeninghe van den heiligen cruse.]f. 14v-31v: Die.ix couden die onse here ihesus christus leet.- f. 14v: Item hier beghinnen die.ix. couden die onse here ihsus xristus leet - f. 31v: Expl.: Hier enden dei.ix. couden. Ende hier na so volghen die seuen banden.f. 32r - 48r: Die seven banden.- f. 32r: Soe wie ghebon [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]
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SERMONETA, GIOVANNI
Questiones subtilissime Johannis Sermonete super libros afforismorum. Eiusdem super librum Tegni.
Venetiis Octaviani Scoti per Bonetum Locatellum 31 marzo 1498 Folio (cm 31.5) pergamena floscia cinquecentesca, con titolo manoscritto al dorso, bell’esemplare fresco e marginoso. Testo su 2 colonne in car. gotico 66 linee, cc. nn. 74 (di cui l’ultima bianca orig.), con iniziali xilogr. Seconda edizione di questo raro incunabolo, che contiene le annotazioni e il commento di Giovanni da Sermoneta alla ‘Tegni’ di Galeno e agli Aforismi di Ippocrate. Le opere di Galeno (131-201 d.C.), come noto, rielaboravano in chiave moderna il pensiero di Ippocrate (v sec. a.C.), e per tale motivo furono tramandate quasi sempre insieme agli scritti di quest’ultimo, divenendo sin dall’antichità il punto di partenza obbligato per l’apprendimento della scienza medica. Il nucleo centrale costituito dagli scritti di Galeno e Ippocrate – circolanti sia in greco che nelle traduzioni arabe e latine – si fuse nel Medioevo con altri brevi testi, dando vita a quelle raccolte che configurarono il canone della medicina nelle università italiane fino alla fine del Cinquecento. La più famosa di queste raccolte, la cosiddetta Articella (attestata in Francia fin dal xii secolo e stampata più volte tra il 1476 e il 1493), privilegia proprio la Tegni – titolo che deriva dalla traslitterazione latina dell’originale greco Techne iatrikè, cioè arte medica – e gli Aforismi, a conferma di una centralità e di una importanza di queste due opere che trovava riscontro nei sempre più numerosi commenti scolastici. L’Articella iniziò a circolare in Italia nel Trecento, là dove l’insegnamento della medicina – anche grazie all’influsso della scuola aristotelica – era a livelli più avanzati, e cioè Bologna e Padova. Nello Studio patavino furono attivi professori molto famosi, come Pietro d’Abano (m. 1315) e Jacopo da Forlì (m. 1414), autore quest’ultimo di un importante commento alla Tegni e agli Aforismi e maestro di Giovanni da Sermoneta, che fu suo allievo tra il 1411 e il 1412. Di Giovanni da Sermoneta, attivo nella prima metà del Quattrocento e morto dopo il 1438, non si conservano purtroppo molte notizie. Sappiamo di lui che intraprese dapprima lo studio della Arti e che esercitò in seguito la professione medica, affiancandola all’insegnamento della filosofia. Le Questiones subtilissime – declamate, come si ricava nel colophon, a Bologna nel 1430, "in parte teoretiche e in parte pratiche" (De Renzi, p. 454) – sono il frutto di una formazione giovanile in cui erano confluiti elementi di scolasticismo e aristotelismo ancora medievali e altri più vicini a un rigore scientifico già moderno. Resta forte in lui la tendenza, diffusa per la medicina dell’epoca (basti pensare al già citato Pietro d’Abano), a collegare medicina e astrologia. L’ipotesi dell’influsso degli astri trova conforto già nella teoria ippocratica e galenica degli "umori", per cui gli elementi vitali del corpo umano vengono accesi o sopiti da determinati pianeti. Sermoneta applicava in prima persona queste teorie: se è vero quanto riportato da Girolamo Torrella – anch’egli medico, astrologo e autore di un commento alla Tegni di Galeno – nel suo Opus praeclarum de imaginibus astrologicis (Valencia, 1496), Giovanni era solito curare i suoi problemi intestinali grazie al beneficio apportato dalla raffigurazione di un leone incisa in un particolare periodo dell’anno e sotto l’influsso di una certa costellazione (Thorndike, iv, p. 576), pratica che ricorda in maniera evidente la credenza medievale secondo cui determinati oggetti – come pietre o simboli – sarebbero in grado di "catalizzare" le forze astrali. La stretta derivazione dell’opera del Sermoneta da quella del suo maestro non era sfuggita ai suoi editori, che soltanto tre anni prima avevano dato alle stampe anche il commento di Jacopo da Forlì, all’interno di un più ampio progetto editoriale di pubblicazione di opere scientifiche e mediche. "The most striking features of his quaestiones on the Tegni is that he acts mainly as a logician analysing the arguments of his predecessors. He is especially keen on finding log [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Paolo Rambaldi]
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PLUTARCHUS,cheroneus.
De claris mulieribus.Paralelia
4°.Carte 36 nn.Alcune note ms coeve.Dorso in pelle con fregi oro del Settecento. Slnd ( Venezia,Bernardino de Vitali ), ( 1498-1500 ) La traduzione è di Alamanno Rinuccini.Hain,13142-Goff,P,820-British Library, STC,527. [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Pampaloni]
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Quadragesimale ad Usum Rothomagen.
[Rouen, Martin-Morin, sd. avant 1498]. Petit in-8 gothique de 80 ff.n.ch. (signés A-K8), entièrement réglé et rubriqué en rouge et bleu, avec de belles marges. Foliotage manuscrit ancien, annotations sur le titre et Hymnum ad Matutinum de 21 lignes à l'encre brune au verso, manque marginal de papier sans atteinte au texte aux deux premiers ff., travail de ver marginal à 15 ff. Ex-libris manuscrit: Pouget Presbyter, et imprimés: L.E. Bigot, ecuyer, sieur du Boullay (Généralité de Rouen) et autre armorié. Veau brun d'époque, double encadrement de filets à froid sur les plats, avec fleurons dorés aux angles et au centre, dos à nerfs orné de fleurs de lis, tranches rouges (restauration ancienne). Belle et rarissime impression gothique rouennaise incunable. La marque de Martin-Morin se trouve au verso du dernier feuillet. Aquilon n'a répertorié qu'un exemplaire dans un catalogue de la librairie Varin à Paris (1971) et Valérie Neveu n'en répertorie aucun dans son catalogue des incunables des bibliothèques de Haute-Normandie, par contre elle identifie la marque de Morin comme antérieure au 5 VII 1498, et le petit caractère (1,5 mm) le G62 (M37) reproduit dans son ouvrage (pl.XXVA) et ayant servi pour le Missel de Sées de 1496 et le Bréviaire du Mans imprimé avant 1496. Aquilon 87, non répertorié par E. Frère dans son ouvrage sur Martin Morin [Bookseller: Librairie BERTRAN]
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Solino, Cayo Julio (s. iii dC).
POLYHISTOR SIUE COLLECTANEAE DE MEMORABILIBUS AUT MIRABILIBUS MUNDI
Jacobo Británico,, Brescia: 1498 44 hojas. Signaturas A6, B4, a8, b-d6, e8. Letra redonda del tamaño 102. Manchas de agua en las últimas hojas. Encuadernado en piel moderna al estilo de la Francia del siglo XVIII. Hain-Copinger 14884. Goff S-623. BMC vii, 982. IGI 9092. IBE 5309, sólo 1 ejemplar, el de la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas de Madrid. La multihistoria de Solino es una enciclopedia geográfica e histórica antigua que tuvo un éxito arrollador. Describe países, costumbres, fundaciones de ciudades (así la de Roma), y recorre con aire culto las regiones del Imperio Romano en lo que puede ser una guía de viaje 'avant la lettre'. Un gran clásico. [Bookseller: Els Llibres del Tirant]
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BOEXKEN van goeder devocien (Oeffeninghe van den heiligen cruse; Die ix couden die onse lieve heer geleden heeft; Die seven banden.
Unrecorded Dutch (post?) incunable edition, together with an interesting Dutch devotional manuscript (Leiden, Hugo Jansz. van Woerden, after May 1498). 8vo. Modern mottled calf over boards, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, g.e. Rubricated and underlined in red throughout, some initials with penwork (2-3 lines) in blue and red; with full-page woodcut of Christ with the instruments of the passion on the title and 6 (out of 9) full-page (one a bit smaller) woodcuts in 'Die .ix. couden' (f. 14v-31v) and one - a Crucifixion - on f. 63v at the beginning of 'Vanden ghescoerden oliven boem'. All woodcuts but the last one are coloured by a strictly contemporary hand. 74 (out of 80) lvs. 20 lines on a page. MANUSCRIPT.- SEVEN PSALMS AND PRAYERS. Netherlands, ca. 1500. 8vo. 85 lvs, (118x85mm.); one column; 20 lines per page; rubricated throughout, lombards (1-2 lines) and titles in red (the four initials of 2-4 lines not executed). : Hybrida libraria in a good and very well readable hand: the script of the Modern Devotion. Collation: (a)6 (6), (b)10 (16), (c) -(i)8 (72), (k)12+1 (85). Ad 1: Unrecorded edition of this Dutch devotional book containing among other texts and prayers, the texts of the "Oeffeninghe van den heiligen cruse", "Die .ix. couden die onse here ihesus christus leet", and "Die seven banden". There are several editions of this text, listed by Nijhoff/Kronenberg under Boecxken (Boeck) van (go(e)der) devocien or Couden, Die negen, published in Leiden, Delft, Utrecht and Antwerp between c. 1501 and 1539.The text is closest to NK 4317 (Antwerp, Adr. van Berghen, 1506), but the blocks are those originally used by Hugo Jansz. van Woerden in an edition of the Leven Ons Heren (Leiden, 1498; CA 1111, IDL 2943). The series, containing 50 blocks, is Conway, 30.1.1-50. Two of these blocks are illustrated in Nijhoff's L'Art Typographique under 'Amsterdam, Hugo Jansz. van Woerden', nrs 4 and 5, as used in his edition of Dat Lijden ons liefs heren Ihesu Christi (Amsterdam, ca. 1510?; NK 1372). The blocks used by Henric Pietersz. Lettersnijder in his edition of Die negen couden (Delft 1511; NK 624), as illustrated in Nijhoff's L'Art Typ. are very close, but not the same (Plate II, nrs. 6 and 7).Possibly our edition is published therefore by Herman Jansz. van Woerden after May 1498. This is the more probably as this printer published many devotional books of the same kind. Herman Jansz. was active in Leiden from 1494 - ca. 1506, in Haarlem in 1506 and in Amsterdam, 1506 - ca. 1514, so as the place of printing both cities, Leiden or Amsterdam (or Haarlem), are possible.As the text of the edition by Jan Severs (Leiden, no date; NK 438) is also more or less the same as the text in our edition, it could also be possible that Jan Severs is the printer of our edition. Jan Severs was active in Leiden from ca. 1501 till ca. 1520. As the printers in Antwerp have used different woodcut blocks to illustrate this texts, it is very probable that our edition is printed in the Northern, and not in the Southern Netherlands.Collation: [a]8-2 (f. 2/7 missing; f. 1-6), b8 (f. 7-14), c8-2 (f. 4/5 (between 17/18) missing; f. 15-20), d8-1 (f. 3 (between 22/23 missing; f. 21-27), e-i8 (f. 28-67), k8-1 (last blank missing; f. 68-74). 20 lines to a page.Contents:f. 1r: Dit is dat boexken van goeder devocien. \| Ende een oeffeninghe, hoemen god bidden \| sal. ende om sijn passie te ouerdencken. [houtsnede (full page) of Christ with the instruments of the passion]f. 1v: Inc.: Item dit is een suuerlic boecxken. \| van sonderlingher schoenre oeffenin\|ghe der ghebenedider passien ons lie\|ves heeren ihesu cristi. … So is hier ten \| eersten een schone oeffeninghe vanden \| heilighen cruce … Item ten anderen van negender \| leye couden die onsen lieven here geleden heeft …f. 2r - f. 14v: [begin ontbreekt: Oeffeninghe van den heiligen cruse.]f. 14v-31v: Die .ix couden die onse here ihesus christus leet.- f. 14v: Item hier beghinnen die .ix. couden die onse here ihsus xristus leet …- f. 31v: Expl.: Hier enden dei .ix. couden. Ende hier na so volghen die seuen banden.f. 32r - 48r: Die seven banden.- f. 32r: Soe wie ghebonden is met inwendighen drucke … Den eersten bant des sondaghes. O springende borne …f. 48r - 59v: Vanden lijden ons liefs heren ihesum xristi.f. 59v - 62r: Item hier beghint een gheesteic harpen spel vanden lijden ons heeren.f. 62r - 63r: Vanden wyngaert van eghadi. Vanden liden ons heeren.f. 63v - 65r: Vanden ghescoerden olivem boem.f. 65r - 65v: Dese punten sullen wij onsen lieven here dicwil vermanen ende hem bidden daghelicx. [Prayers].f. 65v - 68r: Devote gebedekens. [Prayers].f. 68r - 74v: Dit sal een kersten mensch gheerne alle daghe lesen. [Prayers].- f. 74v: Expl.: So wie leest voer die wapen ons heren met berou van sijn sonden dese .ix gebeden die verdient xcii dusent iaer xxiiii iaer ende lxxx dagen aflaet gegeven van veel pausen.Woodcuts:- f.1r (Title): Christ with the instruments of the passion (88 x 66mm.; Conway, 30.1.41).- f. 16v: Adoration (89 x 67mm.; Conway, 30.1.5?); illustration to 'Die eerste coude des saterdages'.(The woodcuts to the 'Tweede coude' on Sunday, and to the 'Derde coude' on Monday: Gethsemane (Conway 30.1.17) are lacking).- f. 19r: Flagellation (89 x 66mm.; Conway, 30.1.24; NAT, Amsterdam, Hugo Jansz. van Woerden', nr. 4); ill. to 'Die vierde coude' on Tuesday.- f. 21r: Crown of thorns (88 x 66mm.; Conway, 30.1.25; NAT, Amsterdam, Hugo Jansz. van Woerden', nr. 5); ill. to 'Die vijfste coude des woensdaghes'.(The woodcut to the 'Zesde coude' on Thursday: 'Ecce homo' (Conway, 30.1.26), is lacking.- f. 23v: Carrying of the cross (88 x 66mm.; Conway, 30.1.27); ill to 'Die sevende coude des vridages'.- f. 26r: Christ undressed (63 x 47mm.; not in Conway?); ill. to 'Die achtste coude' also on Friday.- f. 29r: Christ nailed to the cross (89 x 66mm.; Conway, 30.1.28); ill. to 'Die negende coude'.- f. 63v: Crucifixion (90 x 67mm. cf. NAT, Delft, Cornelis Henricz. Lettersnijder, VII, nr. 29, as used in his edition of Die negen couden of 1529!).Ad 2: Interesting Dutch manuscript.Contents:.1r - 25r: Seven Psalms and prayers.- f.1r: Inc.: (I)n der eren ende vereninghe der vijf wonden ende alle dynre wonden ende dijns & duerbaren bloets dattu voer die verlossinghe des menscheliken gheslachts wt ghestorten hebste. Here ihesu xristede(?) der oetmoedigher ghebeden ende begheerten niet en versmaetste Soe offer ic dy ynnichliken een cleynne offerhande deser navolghender seven psalmen ende gebeden.dat du die goedertieren biste op die quaetheit wilste deylighen …f. 25v- 39r: Two prayers and 29 'Miserire mei'.- f. 25v: Inc.: Lieve minnentlike here ihesu christe ic bidde u doer alle die minne ende liefte die du allen menschen vertoont hebste van dien daghe dattu van dijnre liever moeder … gheboren worste tot desen daghe van huden toe …f. 39r - 42r: Prayer on behalf of the souls in purgatory.- f. 39r: Inc.: Hier beghint een suverlic ghebet datmen lesen sal voer die zielen die in den vegevier sijn. Ende op iaertijden onser liever vrinden. (f. 39v:) (V)Vaerd meester ende gesontmaker ende verlosser alre sondaren die alle ziele gemaect hevet van niete na dijnen beelde …f. 42r - 44r: Prayer on behalf of a soul in purgatory.- f. 42r: Dit ghebet heet ene verlossinghe der sielen soe wie dattet alle daghe leest een jaer lang voer eenen siel nuchterens mondes die siel wort verlost wt dat vegevier …; inc.: Christe enighe hope der sterffelike menschen nu heveste di also vele ontfermt over die menschelike natuere …f. 44r- 47v: Prayer (Rosary of the H. Sacrament).- f. 44r: Een rosecransekijn vanden heiligen sacrament, Inc.:Benedien wi Christum onsen coninc die vetticheit des gheestes ghevet den ghenen die hem ontfanghen.f. 47v- 56r: Three prayers on the H. Trinity.- f. 47v: Hier beghint een ynnich ende subtijl ghebet van die heilige drievoudicheit; inc. (f. 48r): (O) Du hoghe heerscap der godliker volcomenheit hoe onbekenth is den werelt …f. 56v - 59v: Four prayers on behalf of the souls.- f. 56v: Hier beghint een gebet voer die sielen. Inc,: (O) Here ihesum Christe des levendighe gods zoen die in deser werlt ghecomen biste om te verlossen dat menschelike geslacht …f. 59v - 67v: Prayers and lessons on behalf of dying people.- f. 59v: Dit ghebet salmen lessen voer een mensche die leyt ende stervet …; inc.: (O) Behouder der werlt maec ons behouden die overmits dijn cruce ende dijn bloede ons hebste verlost …f. 68r - 85v: Prayer on the Passion of our Lord.- f. 68r: Een suverlick gebet van liden ons heren. Inc.: Ic presentier di O hemelsche vader die bittere voetstappen die dyn gheminde zoen ghinc … Good copy with written ownership's entry on fly-leaves (now loosely inserted) by Dr William Ashmead who received the book from his friend Mr C. Ellison in 1851.- (Some leaves a little bit cut short; some occasional marginal water staining). Cf. NK 438, 621-8, 4128, 4317; Conway, 30.1; I. Kok, De houtsneden in de incunabelen van de Lage Landen, p. 713-18. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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[Bible, in Latin].
BIBLIA LATINA
(Basel: Joh. Amerbach, ed. Anton Koberger, 1498). Vol. I complete with the texts of Genesis /Exodus / Leviticus / Numbers / Deuteronomy /Joshua /Juith / Ruth / Regum IIII / Paralipomenon II / Esdre IIII / Tobias / Judith / Hester / Job. Printed in double column in Gothic font, a profusion of large initials with lateral extensions decorated by hand in red and blue and a profusion of smaller letters and initials decorated also by hand in red and blue. There are also: 24 magnificent engraved figures throughout including early reproductions of Noah's Ark, The Sacrificial Alter, The Ten Commandments, The Great Menorah and The Temple of Solomon. The commentary, of significant import, is by Cardinal Hugo di Saint-Chair who was active in the early part of the 13th century and who died in 1262. Folio, ff 464 nn., in a superb contemporary binding of full blindstamped pigskin with clasps, the spine with wide raised bands, the covers blocked beautifully with full Renaissance designs. A wonderfully preserved calligraphic rendering on the inner rear board remains and is dated from 1402. Offset from the original vellum pastedown, this is an inclusion of significant import. 464 folio leaves unnumbered. (signed: a-b8, c6, d8, e6, f-g8, h6, i-k8, l 6, m6, n8, o6, p8, q6, r8, s-t6, v8, x6, y8, z6; A-C8, D6, E-G8, H-L6, M-Z ed aa-vv alternating 8 and 6), complete. A superb copy of this rare book. There is absolutely nothing to complain about. The book is extremely fresh, beautifully preserved, and one conjectures nearly as pristine as could be expected.. [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks Inc.]
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SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS (Gaius Sollius, Saint and Bishop)
Poema Aureum, Eiusdemque Epistole
Ulrich Scinzenzeler for Hieronymus De Asula and Johannes De Abbatibus, Milan 1498 Folio, modern polished dark brown calf antique style, title leaf and preliminary leaves with several wormholes not affecting legibility, first few gatherings with bottom inside corner bit waterstained with several wormholes, all in the blank portion and tapering away, neat early marginalia, tall clean example with some uncut lower edges and featuring attractive white on black initial letters. Sidonius Apollinaris, born into an aristocratic Lyonnais family in the early Fifth Century, received an excellent classical education, and married the daughter of the future Roman Emperor Avitus. He was in turn a statesman, a poet, a bishop, and above all a master of the epistolary form. This work includes his letters and poems, which, along with Giambattista Pio's extensive scholia, provide insightful commentary on the difficult later years of the Roman Empire and life in the provinces. His writings have earned Sidonius Apollinaris the title of "The last representative of classical Roman culture." Of the first edition of 1474, Goff locates a copy at the Chapin Library in Massachusetts, and another at the Huntington in California; this first edition had no notes or commentary. The second edition, which we offer, is the sole edition to contain Giambattista Pio's scholary notes and commentary. Pio's edition of 1498 was the accepted text until Plantin produced his edition exactly a century later; in 1598. Hain Copinger 1287; Goff S 494. [Bookseller: G. W. Stuart, Jr.Emeritus Member,ABAA]
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ARISTOPHANES.
Comoediae Novem
:[in Greek]. [Edited by Marcus Musurus]. Greek type throughout by Francesco Griffo da Bologna, except for the Roman used on the title, with a fine woodcut initial & ornament at the beginning of each play. Text surrounded by scholia, 41 lines & head-lines to a page. 8 p.l., [340] leaves (leaves 90 & 348 are blanks and present). Folio (310 x 210 mm.), 18th cent. vellum over boards (head of upper joint with split), red & green morocco lettering pieces on spine. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 15 July 1498. Editio Princeps of the comedies of Aristophanes. One of the greatest of the 15th century editions of the Greek classics, it is a monument of early Greek printing and of Renaissance Greek scholarship. It was edited with the scholia by Marcus Musurus (ca. 1470-1517), the eminent humanist and pupil of Janus Lascaris, who also wrote the important preface in which he postulates the necessity of Greek studies and examines the style of Aristophanes. The following plays are printed here for the first time: Plutus, Nebulae, Ranae, Equites, Acharnes, Vespae, Aves, Pax, and Contionantes. A fine copy of one of the most handsome editions from the Aldine Press. Bookplate of C.S. Ascherson. Goff A958. [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.]
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POLIZIANO, Angelo.
L'une des plus belles éditions qui soient sorties de l'imprimerie Aldine Omnia opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna, quorum nomina in sequenti indice vedere licet.
Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1498. Folio. 17th/18th century polished calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red morocco title label, both sides with triple gilt fillets along the edges and large gilt oval coat-of-arms in the centre, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The coat-of-arms is of Henri-Louis Loménie, comte de Brienne (1658-1743), son of Louis Henry Loménie de Brienne. (452) lvs.Collation: a-p4, q-r5, s-t4, A-I4, K2, L-P4, Q-R5, S4, T5, V3, X-Y5, Z4, &5, iterum2a-iterum2b4, 2a5, 2b-2h8, 2i3, 2k5. The 'Opera omnia' of Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494), one of the great Florentine humanists and tutor to Lorenzo de'Medici's children, printed by the most famous printer/publisher of the incunable's period: Aldus Manutius at Venice.According to Renouard, the great bibliographer of the Aldine editions, this rare edition is "l'une des plus belles qui soient sorties de l'imprimerie Aldine".The publication of the Opera omnia of Poliziano has a complex history. It has been usual to regard the edition as part of some 'grand design' of humanist publication: apart from Aldus' admiration for Poliziano as the embodiment of that perfect philological skill to which he himself aspired, we might notice that the book was printed as a large folio, costing 1.4 ducats and demanding typographic experiments such as the first use of Hebrew letters (Lowry).Indeed Poliziano was the outstanding humanist of his day, a talented scholar whose breadth of reading was very great and whose range of interests included history, politics, jurisprudence, architecture, botany, and even cooking. These interests were accompanied by a remarkable ability to handle Greek, in which language Poliziano composed many epigrams. His influence on the subsequent course of Humanism was considerable. He may be considered the father of textual criticism, for he was the first to consider carefully the relationship between manuscripts and to stress the need to reconstruct the original text. He brought all these talents to bear on thorny textual and interpretative questions in texts like his Miscellanea (1489) and his commentary of the Pandects. He also translated many Greek texts into Latin such as the Manual of Epictetus and a number of books of the Ilias. And then there is his own poetical output that reflects his scholarly eclecticism; he wrote in an erudite style, displaying his own considerable reading.Poliziano was a celebrity in his day. Among those who idolized him was the young Aldus Manutius who decided to publish Poliziano's complete works in the late '90s. After Poliziano's death in 1494 the humanist Pico della Mirandola started a project to organize Poliziano's papers to the end of publishing an edition of his collected works, which eventually became our edition published by Aldus and edited by Alessandro Sarti.After the title comes on its verso Aldus' dedication to Marinus Sannutus.f. 2r-v: The contents of the work: the authors of the letters, divided into 12 books as well as the list of Poliziano's works.f. a3r-t8v: Epistolarum lib. 1-12.f. A1r-K3v: Miscellanea, dedicated to Laurenzo de' Medici.(K4 blank (this leaf is often lacking))f.L1v-R10v: Latin translation of Herodiani historia.S1r-S8v: Latin translation of Enchiridion Epicteti.T1r-2b5v: Smaller works: prefaces, orations, etc.2b6r-2k1v: Poliziano's Latin poetry.2k2r-2k8v: Poliziano's Greek poetry, with at the end the colophon: "Venetiis in aedibus Aldi Romani mense Iulio M. IID."2k9r-2k10r: list of all the quires and the first words of the double leaves.2k10r: Verses on the death of Lorenzo de Medici (often lacking).(Quire 2a ('Oratio super Quintiliano et Statii', and 'Praefatio in Suetonium) is bound after quire "iterum 2b" in stead of before quire "iterum 2a").Our copy has an interesting provenance: (1) the gilt coat-of-arms on both covers is of the bibliophile Henri-Louis de Loménie, comte de Brienne, born in 1658, married in 1689 to Jacqueline-Charlotte Brulart and died at Paris in 1743, after having sold his father's library in Londo [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]
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VOC - ANNUAL DIRECTORY - BATAVIA].
Naamboek, van de Wel-Edele Heeren der Hooge Indiasche Regeering, zoo tot, als buiten Batavia; . zo als dezelve onder ultimo December 1771. alhier in weezen zyn bevonden: .Batavia (now Djakarta, Indonesia), Egbert Heemen (printer to the VOC), [1772]. 8vo. Annual VOC directory for the city of Batavia, the East Indies as a whole, Ceylon, and other lands where the VOC (Dutch East India Company) had settlements. Modern half calf with late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century marbled sides, red sprinkled edges.
(2 blank), (2), 110, (4), (2 blank) pp. Cf. Landwehr 1498 & 1499 (no ed. betw. 1766 & 1775/76); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (1 copy each for 1767/68, 1770/71, 1773/74); NCC (no ed. betw. 1766 & 1807/08); OCLC (no ed. before 1784/85); STCN (no ed. betw. 1751 & 1775/76). The only recorded copy for this year of an annual directory printed by the VOC's printer at Batavia in the East Indies. All editions between 1766 and 1775/76 appear to be lost or unique (we have traced single copies for 4 of those 8 years, including the present copy of the 1771/72 edition). It covers not only the city of Batavia itself and the East Indies, but also other regions where the VOC had settlements, including an extensive section on Ceylon (pp. 65-82), a shorter one on Bengal (pp. 88-91) and a very short one on Japan (p. 99). The directory gives an extraordinary wealth of information, listing not only the VOC's governors general from 1610 to the time of publication (with exact dates and other information), military and church officials, merchants, ships' captains, bookkeepers and medical doctors, but also carpenters, smiths, sail makers, coopers, masons, coin minters, surveyors, the printers' censor, the inspector of lepers, the Batavian city midwife, and even some unemployed. For nearly all, it reports the date when they took up the named position or joined the VOC. Of special interest at Batavia (with their dates) are the printer of the almanac himself (1767), the master map-maker to the Company's East Indian fleet, Klaas de Loos (1769), and the master bookbinder to the Secretary of the Directors, Augustus Thomszens (1766). The last ten pages list people associated with the VOC who left or died in the course of the year 1771. All in all, a wealth of information (much unavailable in any other surviving source) for both the general study of the VOC and life in its territories, and for the two thousand or so individual people named.Directories (lists of people and their positions, often classed with almanacs but in this case much closer to a modern annual trade directory or telephone directory) were printed at Amsterdam for the VOC from at least 1724, but none printed at Batavia itself is known to survive before 1751 and only those for a few scattered years survive from the first quarter century. From at least the present year, they include data up to the last day of the named year, so that they were clearly published early in the following year (that of 1766 stopped at the end of September and was probably published toward the end of the named year). Egbert Heemen may have printed the directory every year from 1767/68 to 1779/80, but we have traced only 7 editions in a total of 9 copies for these 13 years. The present edition collates: [pi]4 A-G8 = 60 ll., with [pi]1 & G8 blank. It is set in several sizes of roman and italic types dating from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a tailpiece built up from fleurons at the end.In fine condition with only an occasional minor smudge, and with "No. 5" in ink in a contemporary hand on the first (blank) page. A fine copy of a unique VOC annual directory, printed in Batavia. [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]
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PERSIUS,Aulus,Flaccus .
Satyrae.Cum glossis Scipioni Ferrarii de Monte Ferrato.
In 4° ( 207x155 mm ).Carte 102 numerate 1-102.Caratteri romani,39 linee,testo circondato dal commento. Qualche lieve traccia d'uso,alcune fioriture marginali.Dorso in pergamena e cartone dell'Ottocento. ( Venezia,Bernardino de Choris, ( 1498 c ). Unica edizione incunabula di questo commento,superiore,secondo la corrente critica letteraria,a quello del Fonzio e del Britannico,e mai ristampato.Com'è noto le Satire,capolavoro della letteratura latina del primo secolo, furono pubblicate dall'amico di Persio, Cesio Basso.Non in Hain ,Reichling,II,671;IGI,IV,236;Goff,P,52:Morgan,Persius,56. [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Pampaloni]
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Genoa, Italy; Visdomini, Antonio Maria, Editor
Statuta et Decreta Communis Genuae: Quae Quam Ordinatissime...
1498. [Genoa (Italy)]. [Visdomini, Antonio Maria, Editor]. Statuta et Decreta Communis Genuae: Quae Quam Ordinatissime Diligentissime et Castigatissime ad Communem Cunctorum Genuensium Utilitantem nec non Voluptatem Impressa Sint Liquido Patebit Legentibus. [Bologna: Caligola de' Bazalieri, 30 June 1498]. [vi], 87, [1], 29, [1] fols. Collation: A6, b-l6, m4, n-o6, p-r4 (r4 blank). b-f6. Folio (12" x 8"). Later vellum, lettering piece to spine, patterned endpapers, early hand-lettered title to spine. Light soiling, corners somewhat bumped and worn, boards slightly bowed, front joint just starting at foot, front joint cracked, rear joint starting. Penultimate signature (f6) loose with light wear to fore-edges, lower portion of final leaf repaired with some loss to lower left-hand corner of colophon. Text printed in 46-line Roman type, capital spaces have guide letters. Toning, light soiling to title page, faint dampstaining to some leaves. "16.r" to head of title page, brief early annotation and ink spot to 85r, interior otherwise clean. Ex-library. Bookplate to front pastedown, shelf location in pencil to verso of front free endpaper. An appealing copy. * Only edition. Text in Latin. Along with Venice Pisa and Amalfi, Genoa was one of the maritime republics that dominated trade in the Mediterranean. In addition to Corsica, Sardinia and lands in Liguria and Piedmont, Genoa controlled colonies in the Middle East. Its fortunes declined during the fourteenth century due to the Black Death, which entered Europe through the Genoese trading post at Caffa in the Crimea, and wars with Venice, France and Milan. Genoa would later enjoy a revival of power and prosperity under the leadership of Andrea Doria, who introduced a new constitution in 1528. The 1498 compilation of Genoa's civil and criminal law was issued at a time when Genoa had suffered through nearly a century and a half of misfortune. As one would expect, its statutes and decrees indicate the many problems confronting the state and the scarcely-concealed pessimism of its leaders. KVK locates 8 copies, OCLC locates 9. Goff, Incunabula in American Libraries S714. Hain-Copinger, Repertorium Bibliographicum 15007.. [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.]
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XENOPHON :
LA CYROPEDIE, OU HISTOIRE DE CYRUS. TRADUITE DU GREC PAR M. DACIER. PARIS, DEBURE ET MOUTARD, 1777 ; DEUX TOMES IN-12 ; PLEIN VEAU PORPHYRE, DOS A' FAUX-NERFS DORES ORNES DE FLEURONS DORES, PIECES DE TITRE ET TOMAISON ROUGE GRENAT, ROULETTE DECORATIVE DOREE D'ENCADREMENT DES PLATS AVEC AU CENTRE LES ARMES ROYALES D'UN COLLEGE, FRAPPEES DANS UN DOUBLE OVALE DORE', ROULETTE SUR LES COUPES, TORSADE OREE D'INTERIEUR, TOUTES TRANCHES DOREES (P. BRADEL) ; XXXV, (1) ERRATA, 357 PP. ; (2), 420 PP.
EDITION ORIGINALE de cette traduction par Joseph-Bon Dacier, membre de l'Academie dse isncriptions et belles-lettres. tres bel exemplaire, magnifiquement relie' par le celebre relieur Pierre Bradel, etabli a' Paris et qui serait l'inventeur de la fameuse reliure d'attente dite "cartonnage a' la bradel" ; quelques tres legers frottements. (Brunet, 1498). [Bookseller: Librairie Ancienne CLAGAHE']
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RABBI SAMUEL. [ BUENHOMBRE (Alfonso), trad. ].
Epistola Rabbi Samuelis Israhelite missa ad Rabbi Ysaac magistrum Synagoge in subjulmeta civitate regis Morochorum. Qua judeus ille catecuminus aridam judeorum de Messia spem stimulans ipsos necnon eorum posteros sua spe super testimoniis legis et prophetarum de venturo Messia esse frustratos iam mirando tandem timendo et expavescendo: apetissime demonstrat. Annexa est etiam in fine Pontii Pilati de indubitata Hiesu resurrectione epistola ad Tiberium imperatorem.
(colophon) Impressa est Epistola Rabbi Samuelis: una cum testimonii duo decim patriarcharum Epistolaeque pontii Pilati huic anexis. Arte litteraria famati Casparis Hochfeders nurenbergensis. decimanona Martii anno salvatoris nostri M.cccc.xcviii (1498). in-4. (1f.blanc) 22ff. non chiffrés (signatures A-C6, D4). Caractères gothiques, 2 colonnes et 35 lignes par page. Parchemin moderne frotté. Important texte contre les Juifs, inspiré d'une ?uvre de Rabi Samuel Abu Nasr Ibn Abbas, juif marocain converti à l'Islam, et traduit librement de l'arabe par le dominicain espagnol Alfonso Buenhombre (originaire de Tolède et mort en 1353) qui a transformé en polémique chrétienne le texte original pro-musulman. Paru pour la première fois en 1475 à Mantoue, cet ouvrage devint l'un des fleurons de la littérature antisémite, réimprimé pendant plus de 2 siècles, traduit en plusieurs langues et diffusé à travers toute l'Europe. Précieuse édition incunable imprimée à Metz par le maître imprimeur allemand Caspar Hochfeder, qui venait de quitter sa ville natale de Nuremberg pour s'installer en Lorraine. Le colophon ne porte aucune mention de lieu d'impression mais, comme l'indique Rosenthal, plusieurs indices concordent à désigner Metz où l'imprimerie avait été introduite dès 1482. "Edition extrêmement rare. La souscription de ce volume est remarquable. En effet, c'est la première fois et nous pouvons dire la seule fois, que nous voyons un livre portant: 'Imprimé par l'art savant du fameux (ou du renommé) Caspar Hochfeder de Nuremberg'. Hochfeder imprima le même livre en allemand; il porte: 'Nuremberg, Caspar Hochfeder, 1498'. Il imprima à Metz en allemand le roman de Flore et Blanchefleur qui porte en souscription 'Gedruckt zu Metzs in der Freyenloblichen statt durch Caspar Hochfeder... 1499'. Dans ces deux ouvrages, il ne dit pas qu'il est de Nüremberg, pourquoi donc prend-il cette qualification dans la lettre ci-dessus ? Evidemment parce qu'il a quitté sa ville natale, où il a imprimé un certain nombre d'ouvrages, pour aller chercher fortune ailleurs. Entre 1498 et 1499 on ne cite aucun livre imprimé par lui dans une autre ville; nous devons donc croire, sinon avec une entière certitude, du moins avec une très grande probabilité, que notre 'Epistola Rabbi Samuelis' a été imprimée à Metz. Remarquons encore que le papier porte en filigrane le P gothique du premier livre de l'Imitation de J.C. imprimé à Metz en 1482" (Rosenthal). "The fact that Hochfeder describes himself as 'nurembergensis' in this book only may indicate that he printed it at Metz, where he moved in 1498 or 1499" (National Union Catalogue). Page de titre légèrement salie. Infime trace de mouillure dans la marge du fond de quelques feuillets. Bon exemplaire portant une mention manuscrite ancienne sur la page de titre "printed 1498 vide close of book", et une signature au verso du premier feuillet blanc: "Chs Greene 1838". Rosenthal, Bibliotheca Magica et Pneumatica, 3885. Goff, S-113 (croyant le volume imprimé à Nurenberg). Manque à Brunet. [Bookseller: Llibreria Antiquària Comellas]
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[Bible, in Latin].
BIBLIA LATINA
(Basel: Joh. Amerbach, ed. Anton Koberger, 1498) Vol. I complete with the texts of Genesis /Exodus / Leviticus / Numbers / Deuteronomy /Joshua /Juith / Ruth / Regum IIII / Paralipomenon II / Esdre IIII / Tobias / Judith / Hester / Job. Printed in double column in Gothic font, a profusion of large initials with lateral extensions decorated by hand in red and blue and a profusion of smaller letters and initials decorated also by hand in red and blue. There are also: 24 magnificent engraved figures throughout including early reproductions of Noah's Ark, The Sacrificial Alter, The Ten Commandments, The Great Menorah and The Temple of Solomon. The commentary, of significant import, is by Cardinal Hugo di Saint-Chair who was active in the early part of the 13th century and who died in 1262. Folio, ff 464 nn., in a superb contemporary binding of full blindstamped pigskin with clasps, the spine with wide raised bands, the covers blocked beautifully with full Renaissance designs. A wonderfully preserved calligraphic rendering on the inner rear board remains and is dated from 1402. Offset from the original vellum pastedown, this is an inclusion of significant import. 464 folio leaves unnumbered. (signed: a-b8, c6, d8, e6, f-g8, h6, i-k8, l 6, m6, n8, o6, p8, q6, r8, s-t6, v8, x6, y8, z6; A-C8, D6, E-G8, H-L6, M-Z ed aa-vv alternating 8 and 6), complete. A superb copy of this rare book. There is absolutely nothing to complain about. The book is extremely fresh, beautifully preserved, and one conjectures nearly as pristine as could be expected. A RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PRINTING OF THE ILLUSTRATED KOBERGER LATIN BIBLE. Anton Koberger was for a number of years the leading publisher of his time. The total list of his printings for the forty years from 1473 to 1513, when he died, comprises no less than two-hundred and thirty-six separate works, including fifteen impressions of the Biblia Latina, eight of which presented material differences of notes and commentaries which entitled them to be considered as distinct editions. "In the actual number of separate works issued, Koberger was possibly equaled by one or more of his contemporaries, but in respect to literary importance and costliness, and in the beauty and excellence of the typography, the Koberger publications were not equaled by any books of the time excepting the issues of Aldus in Venice" (Putnam II, p. 150). This superb illustrated folio Bible is one of the most beautiful printed by Koberger and is a wonderful example of the magnificent productions made during the first generation of printed Bibles, the state of preservation and the impressive binding making it all the more so. Further volumes of the Bible were not published until 1502. This magnificent example, complete, provides one with the opportunity to have a copy of a great illustrated incunable Bible rarely encountered in the open marketplace. [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc.]
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus; Jacob Locher (Hrsg.):
Opera. Blatt LVIII. Comm: Porphyrion, Mancinellus, Acron and Landinus, cum quibusdam annotationibus Jacobi Locher Philomusus. (HC 8898, GWn 0014, Schramm XX).
Straßburg, Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 12. März 1498. Type 4, 17, 19, 22, 23. . Dreispaltiges Original-Inkunabelblatt mit einem fünfteiligen Holzschnitt (15,8 x 8,7 cm) und wenigen Interlinearglossen der Zeit. Blatt gering fingerfleckig. Blattgröße: 18,7 x 26,5 cm. Incunabula text woodcut leaf. . Blatt der ersten illustrierten und ersten in Deutschland herausgegebenen Ausgabe des für lange Zeit schönsten Horaz-Druckes (Editio Princeps). Der Herausgeber dieser Opera, Jacob Locher, der auch den Beinamen Philomusos trug, studierte in Basel, wo er Sebastian Brant kennenlernte und dessen "Narrenschiff" ins Lateinische übersetzte. Damit wurde dieses Werk in ganz Europa bekannt. Lochers Studienreise in Italien ließ ihn in der Folge für die Verbreitung, der wiederentdeckten Literatur der Antike eintreten. Diese Horaz-Ausgabe besticht durch die Gestaltung des Textes in drei Kolumnen und die Formgebung der Holzschnitte. Der aus Markgröningen (Johannes Reinhardi aus Grüningen in Württemberg) stammende Johannes Grüninger errichtete die Druckerei in Strassburg um 1482. Ein Teil der im Werk verwendeten Holzschnitte stammen aus Grüningers Terenz-Druck vom 1. November 1496. Die Forschung geht davon aus, dass einige der Holzschnitte von Dürer geschnitten worden sind; die Mehrzahl vom "Künstler des Terenz". [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]
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ZARATE (Augustin de)
Histoire de la découverte et de la Conquête du PEROU. A Paris, Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1774. 2 volumes in-8. Reliures de l'époque en veau moucheté, dos lisses ornés. Les tranches rouges.
Bel exemplaire, d'une étonnante fraîcheur.Très nombreuses cartes et planches hors texte.Description de la Colombie, du Pérou, de l'Equateur, Chili, Bolivie et actuel territoire de l'Argentine.Chadenat 1498 et suiv. [Bookseller: S. Miraglia]
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