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"Cronaca di Venezia," by Raphain Caresini, Venice, around 1390.
A chronicle history of Venice, written in the Venetian vernacular. The portrait in the initial P is of the Venetian doge, Andrea Dandolo, who wrote the Latin "Chronicon Venetum" of which this text is a continuation. The shield at the foot of the page…
"Chronica regum Britanniae," England, ca 1250.
This is an unfinished or defective compilation of various chronicles of English history from Severus through Uther Pendragon. The irregularly shaped columns (some empty) appear to represent different sources; the only one so far identified is…
"Libro de i secreti e ricette," compiled by Giovanni Andrea di Farre, Lucca, mostly before 1562.
The Order of the Jesuati, of which the compiler of this manuscript was a member, was founded around 1366. Devoted entirely to caring for the sick, the Jesuati became the largest manufacturers of pharmaceuticals in Italy until their suppression by…
A proclamation from the building commissioner of Sabbioneta, ordering the final cleanup and rebuilding of houses damaged in a river flood of 1595, signed by Nicolo Dondi and issued on 16 July 1602.
In the 1550s, Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna, duke of Sabbioneta, near Mantua, began to turn the small village of Sabbioneta, which was the site of his summer palace, into a model city. The Sabbioneta Documents collection is a volume of 172 documents…
A devil in the mouth of Hell, in a 17th century Russian manuscript of St. John Chrysostom.
Written on paper and bound in blind-stamped leather over wooden boards, with one of its metal clasps still attached, this manuscript has been very heavily read through the centuries. Its many illustrations picture various events in the life of…
Anton Sorg, Bücheranzeige, Augsburg: Anton Sorg, about 1483; 1st issue (proof copy). Goff S-634.
Printed over 500 years ago, this broadside is a single-sheet advertisement of the "good German books" for sale by the Augsburg printer and publisher Anton Sorg. Printed on a piece of waste paper ruled for handwriting, it is almost certainly a…
Ulrich Richental, Concilium zu Constencz, Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 2 September 1483. Goff R-196.
This is one of the books advertised for sale in the Anderson broadside (column 1, fifth item from the bottom). Sorg described it as "ein hübsch büch von de[m] concilio das zü constencz gewesen ist darinn man den hussen verbrennt hat ..." (a handsome…
Pietro Bembo, Gli Asolani, Venice: Aldus, March 1505.
Two issues of the first edition of Cardinal Bembo's dialogue on the nature of love, both in Aldus' "pocket edition" format bound in contemporary Venetian black morocco over wooden boards. The larger of the two is the first issue, complete with the…
Pietro Bembo, Gli Asolani, Venice: Aldus, March 1505.
Two issues of the first edition of Cardinal Bembo's dialogue on the nature of love, both in Aldus' "pocket edition" format bound in contemporary Venetian black morocco over wooden boards. The larger of the two is the first issue, complete with the…
Pietro Bembo, Gli Asolani, Venice: Aldus, March 1505.
Two issues of the first edition of Cardinal Bembo's dialogue on the nature of love, both in Aldus' "pocket edition" format bound in contemporary Venetian black morocco over wooden boards. The larger of the two is the first issue, complete with the…