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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…
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…
Biblia polyglotta, Alcala de Henares: in Complutensi universitate, industria Arnaldi Gulielmi de Brocario, 1514-1517 [i.e., 1520 or 1521].
This copy of the great Complutensian polyglot Bible (in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin), edited by Cardinal Ximenes, is shown closed to display the ownership brands on the fore- and top-edges of the text block. This particularly Mexican form of…
The Torrelaguna manuscript, written at the Convento de la Madre de Dios, a Franciscan monastery in Torrelaguna, Spain, over many years beginning in about 1520.
Gift of the Helen F. Spencer fund; acquired in 1974 from Colin and Charlotte Franklin. Cardinal Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros (1436-1517), who edited the Complutensian Polyglot, was born in the small town of Torrelaguna, some thirty miles north of…
The Torrelaguna manuscript, written at the Convento de la Madre de Dios, a Franciscan monastery in Torrelaguna, Spain, over many years beginning in about 1520.
Gift of the Helen F. Spencer fund; acquired in 1974 from Colin and Charlotte Franklin. Cardinal Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros (1436-1517), who edited the Complutensian Polyglot, was born in the small town of Torrelaguna, some thirty miles north of…
Aristotle, Summa philozophie moralis, Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, ca 1492.
A school text, printed with its lines widely spaced for convenience in note taking. It has been heavily annotated, as intended. Bound with this are three manuscripts of works attributed to Aristotle, including the pseudo-Aristotelian work "De pomo",…
"The Legend of the Cross", first half of the 11th century, Anglo-Saxon text with Latin glosses by the "tremulous Worcester hand".
Found as binding reinforcement inside the upper cover of a copy of the 1636 edition of Barclay his Argenis (C34). This leaf is the only evidence for this early version of the Legend of the Cross apart from two narrow strips of vellum from the same…