NICOLAUS DE LYRA.

      Cologne, Retro Fratres Minores, 1501. A rare work of the Retro Minores press which operated from 31July 1497 to 1504. Proctor attributed the work of this press to Martin Von Werden. BMC however suggests that, as the Retro Minores used three of Heinrich Quentell’s types and 2 of the same woodcuts, it might have been a branch of Quentell’s business. The pastedowns and endleaves are from an early 15th century manuscript on vellum of the Doctrinale of Alexander of Villa Dei (born c. 1160). Written in verse, this was the most familiar and enduring Latin grammar of the Middle Ages. The present fragment preserves 109 lines; the capitals at the beginning of the lines are touched in red.[Bound with]:1. NIDER, Johannes. Consolatorium timoratae conscientiae. [Paris, Félix Baligault] for Jean Petit [between 24 April and 2 October 1500]. (CIBN N97, dating it between 24 April and 2 Oct. 1500. This edition not in BMC or Goff). 2. JOHANNES DE LAPIDE. Resolutorium dubiorum circa celebrationem missarum occurrentium. Cologne, Johannes Landen, 1506.Early ownership inscription in three places of Johannes Kunow Havelimontanus [= Havelberg, a town in the district of Stendal in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany]. Later bookstamp of Gustav, count von Alvensleben-Erxleben (1803-81), Prussian general and adviser to Kaiser Wilhelm I.