Lessing J Rosenwald Collection

Transcribed from item: "Aesopus. Naples, 1485. From the Rosenwald Collection."

Jerome's preface to Pentateuch. Rosenwald 5 No file prints. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bible O.T.

Title from colophon, which continues: tra[n]slate de latin en francoys ... veu corrige [et] translate par ... frere Iulien des Augustins de Lyon ... Signatures: pi⁴ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]¹⁰. Goff S-662 Pierpont Morga More

In Dutch and Latin, with Dutch commentary. Leaf [2a]: Dit es de tafele dienende desen nauolghenden vijf bouken Boecij De consolatione philosophie. Goff B-812 Hain-Copinger 3400 BM 15th cent., IX, p. 206 (IC.501 More

Signatures: a-b⁸ c-f⁶ 2f⁸ g-i⁸ k-l⁶ m⁸ A-K⁸ L-N⁶ O⁸ P-Q⁶ R⁸. Goff L-114 Hain 7046 (variations) Copinger 2493 (variation) Rosenwald 405 LC copy: bookplate of Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Dark blue levant morocco with More

Begins (without title) with the cut Astrological man, on the reverse of which is the almanac for 20 years (1488-1508). Type 94G (same font as in BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 152). Goff H-369 Rosenwald 408 LC copy ru More

Signatures: +⁸ a-i⁸ l[et]⁸ l⁴. Goff H-376 Reichling 1764 (variations) IGI 4835 Rosenwald 425 LC copy imperfect: leaves [82-83] wanting. Initials and capitals supplied in red or blue; several illus. partly hand- More

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1839 Plate 1 (Edmund Pitts, Esq.) also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The original of the plate engr. by Blake for the frontispiece of W. Hayley's Life and posthumous writings of William Cowper. Chichester, 1803-04. LC copy accompanied by folder (38 cm.) containing 3 different en More

Transcribed from item: "Los and Enitharmon Regard With Horror the Flaming Orc. Blake's Milton. 1804." Item is from the Rosenwald Collection.

"The original reading is copied from the edition of Thomas Speight, printed anno 1687; and the translation from Mr. Ogle's edition, 1741." Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1824 Keynes, G.L. More

Chapter is titled "The Arrival of the Englishemen in Virginia." From the Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress.

Ms. (fragment). Title from lines 2-5 (romanized). At head of title: [hypo]keitai Phaō[phi]. Fragment of a contemporary copy of an otherwise unknown edict issued by P. Petronius as prefect of Egypt. The fragmen More

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Rosenwald 31 Goff B-20 Hain-Copinger 2254 GW 3182, variant 2. Stillwell, M.B. Gutenberg and the Catholicon of 1460, no. 70 (1 line space above More

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed on vellum, in black and red. With the gloss of Giovanni d'Andrea. Hain-Copinger 5410 GW 7077, variant note 2. Ricci. Cat. Mayence, 66; More

Book 4 of the author's De doctrina Christiana. Goff A-1226 Hain 1956 BM 15th cent., I, p. 52 (IB.510) GW 2871 Rosenwald 35 LC copy: gilt brown morocco by Rivière. Provenance: Huth Collection (bookplate). Gift More

The glosses variously attributed to Accursius glossator and Franciscus Accursius. Cf. Savigny, Geschichte des röm. Rechts im Mittelalter, v. 5, p. 288; Bib. nat. Rosenwald 36 Goff J-506 Hain 9489 BM 15th cent. More

Has been attributed to M.T. Cicero. Printed on vellum. Rosenwald 214 Goff C-672 Hain 5057 (pt. 1) GW 6709 With this is bound: Cicero, M.T. De inventione. Venice, 1470. The two works were probably issued togethe More

One of the block books that has survived in the greatest numbers is the Biblia pauperum, a compendium of scripture prepared for the poor and the minor clergy, providing them with material for prayer and reflect More

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Leaf [162a] (colophon): Hie ennde[t] sich Die viervn[d]zweinczig guldin Harpffen, die gezogen seind auss collac[i]o[n]ib[us] pat[rum] [durch H More

Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end (wanting in LC copy). The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which complete More

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Leaf [277b] (colophon): Hier enndet sich Su[m]ma Ioha[n]nis, die gezogen ist auss dem heyligen Decret Buch vnd von Latein in Tewtsch gemacht d More

Title from first line, leaf [1]2. Imprint from Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) Signatures: [1]⁸ [2-3]¹⁰ [4-5]⁶ [6-9]⁸ [10]⁶ [11-12]⁸ [13-15]¹⁰ [16]⁸ [17-19]¹⁰ [20]⁸ [21]¹⁰ [22-23]⁸ [24]¹⁰ [25-26]⁶ [27-29]⁸ [ More

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff T-236 Hain 1397 BM 15th cent., II, p. 513 (IB.8919) Rosenwald 52 LC copy rubricated throughout. Ms. note on leaf [1a]: Hunc librum legavi More

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in red and black. Goff R-92 Hain-Copinger 13775 BM 15th cent., II, p. 456 (IA.7877) Schramm, XVIII, p. 5, 16, and illus. Rosenwald 25 More

Leaf [1a]: [Q]uonia[m] q[ui]de[m] i[n]telligere et scire [con]tingit circa o[mn]es sci[enti]as q[uarum] su[n]t pri[n]cipia a[ut] ca[us]e a[ut] elem[en]ta ex ho[rum] cognit[i]o[n]e ... Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d-e⁸ f¹ More

Printed in black and red. Rosenwald 58 Goff B-627 Hain-Copinger 3133 (variations) BM 15th cent., II, p. 323 (IC.5571) GW 4298 (+ note) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy More

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Erroneously ascribed to Giovanni da Colonna and to Burchardus de Monte Sion, whose Descriptio Terrae Sanctae is included (leaves [175a-201a). More

Block book. Leaves printed on both sides. Signatures: [a¹⁴]. Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, IV, p. 267-312 (ed. XII, with slight variations) BM 15th cent., I, p. 5 (IA.24) Rosenwald 26 LC copy bound with: Passio Chri More

Rosenwald 59 Goff B-626 Hain 3131 BM 15th cent., II, p. 358 (IC.6153) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: initials supplied in red or blue, a few decorated, some illumin More

Translated from the Latin of Leonardo Bruni by Niclas von Wyle. Rosenwald 64 Goff B-1240 GW 5643 (variant: 12 woodcuts; leaf [10b] blank) Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch, V, 4487 (same as GW) Also available in digita More

Latin distichs with German rhymed translation and Latin commentary. Rosenwald 65 Goff R-151 Hain-Copinger 6085 BM 15th cent., II, p. 486 (IA.8694) (variation) Schramm, XVI, p. 10, 16, and illus. (assigned to Jo More

Title extracted from caption of preface (leaf [1a]). Rosenwald 68 Goff R-21 Hain-Copinger 13690 BM 15th cent., II, p. 359 (IB.6177) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ru More

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Rosenwald 72 Goff A-1399 Hain 2146 = 16108 Copinger 3350 (variation) BM 15th cent., II, p. 530 (IB.9249) GW 3084 LC copy: original stamped hal More

Leaf iija: Das ist der Sele Trost genannt ... Comprises only the first part of the earlier (Cologne, 1474) Low German ed. and is an independent version of it. Rosenwald 71 Goff S-358 Hain 14582 BM 15th cent., I More

Leaf ia: Diss Buch ist gena[n]nt Die vierundczweinczig Alte[n], od[er] D[er] guldin Tron ... Rosenwald 76 Goff O-119 Hain 12128 BM 15th cent., II, p. 347 (IB.5890) Schramm, IV, p. 15, 50, and illus. Also availa More

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Compiled by Heinrich Steihöwel and originally published ca. 1477 (Ulm, Zainer). Cf. Steinhöwel's Äsop, hrsg. von H. Österley, 1873 (Biblio More

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. This translation of De senectute (Cato maior), though frequently ascribed to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is probably by William Worcester More

Leaf [2a]: Incipit Postilla super Euangelia. Date from colophon on leaf [70a]. Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁶ A-E⁸. Goff G-677 Hain 8261 Rosenwald 380 LC copy: inscription on leaf [1a]: Monasterium Althomÿnster, 1543. Co More

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [2a]). Translated by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Cf. Friedrich Kraft's H. Steinhöwels Verdeutschung der Historia Hiersolymitana. Strassburg, 1905 (Quellen und Forschungen, 94). Fir More

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [2a]). The Liber de compunctione cordis and Liber de reparatione lapsi, called for by the table of contents, are not present. Rosenwald 105 Goff J-290 Hain 5028 BM 15th cent., More

Title extracted from incipit of book 1 (leaf [1b]). Rosenwald 103 Goff J-278 Hain 5045 BM 15th cent., II, p. 612 (IB.9016) IGI 5196 Includes De reparatione lapsi (leaves [17a-30b]) and De quodam adolescente pup More

Leaf ia: Disz Buch ist genant die xxiiii Alten od[er] der guldin Tron ... Rosenwald 98 Goff O-120 Hain 12129 BM 15th cent., II, p.351 (IB.5961) IGI 7040 Schramm, IV, p. 33, 51 and illus. Also available in digit More

Leaf [36b]: Explicit Liber dyalogoru[m] Sancti Iohannis Crisostomi et Sancti Basilij. Rosenwald 104 Goff J-283 Hain 5050 BM 15th cent., II, p. 613 (IB.9014) IGI 5198 Also available in digital form on the Librar More

Title extracted from explicit (leaf [195a]). Translated from the Latin version of Giovanni da Capua by Anthonius von Pforr. For genealogy of this translation, see the "pedigree" in Bīdpāʼi. Arabic version. Ka More

The woodcuts are those of the Low German Bible printed ca. 1478 by Quentell, Cologne. Rosenwald 93 Goff B-632 Hain 3137 BM 15th cent., II, p. 424 (IC.7283) GW 4303 Schramm, XVII, p. 3, 8; v. 8, illus. 358-372 ( More

Title extracted from colophon. A prose paraphrase rather than a translation. Signatures: a-c⁸ d-g⁶ h-l⁸ m⁶. Goff V-200 Hain 3363 (II) Copinger 6160 (variations) BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 236 (IB.41522) Claudin, A More

In verse and prose. Goff M-567 Hain 11139 Copinger 4021 Droz, E., ed. Abusé en court, pt. 2 (variation) Rosenwald 384 LC copy: leaf [2] supplied in facsimile. Capitals supplied in red. Provenance: Montesquieu More

Goff T-540 Reichling 1100 Dyson Perrins. Ital. book-illustr., 34 Rosenwald 239 LC copy has bookplate of C.W. Dyson Perrins. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Latin and Greek in opposite columns. Abridged by Guarino Veronese. Preceded by the Lord's prayer and the Hail Mary in Latin and Greek. Rosenwald 238 Goff C-494 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 5020 BM 15th cent., V, p. More

Leaf [1a]: (woodcut title): Iohannes von Monteuilla, Ritter. Translated by Otto von Diemeringen from the French original, supplemented by a Latin translation. Rosenwald 110 Goff M-167 Hain-Copinger 10649 BM 15t More

The woodcut is attributed to Michael Wolgemut. Rosenwald 107 Goff R-37 Hain-Copinger 13716 BM 15th cent., II, p. 426 (IB.7315) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: illust More

Begins: der Hardmaynt hait xxxi Dach. Calender in Low German, printed in black and red. Rosenwald 113 Goff C-699a Copinger 2234 BM 15th cent., I, p. 268 (IC.4481) GW 7056 Schramm, VIII, p. 25 and illus. Heitz, More

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [2a]). Rosenwald 111 Goff J-277 Hain 5029 BM 15th cent., II, p. 612 (IB.9016) IGI 5193 Bound with the author's Omelia Sancti Ioha[n]nis, Episcopi, cognome[n]to Crisostomi, de More

Abridgment of the life by St. Athanasius. Woodcut of St. Antonius on t.p. (repeated on verso). Goff A-888 GW 2207 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 388

Rosenwald 112 Goff E-102 Hain 6668 = 6667 BM 15th cent., II, p. 534 (IB.9348) Schramm, VI, p. 6, 18, and illus. LC copy: illus. and initials colored. Below colophon: Dis Buch hand vns geben die zwo edlen vn[d] More

Goff J-115 Copinger 6445 Murray, C.F. French books, 588 Rosenwald 389 LC copy: initials and paragraph marks supplied in red, initial strokes in yellow; illus. partly colored in yellow. Bookplate of G. de Longeville.

Leaf [1a]: Hernach volget ain maisterliche vnd wolgesetzte Comedia zelesen vnd zehören lüstig vnd kurtzwylig, die der ... Maister vnd Poet Therencius ... gesetzt hat ... Translated by Hans Neidhart; the comme More

Authorship is now generally ascribed to Henri de Ferrières. Cf. J. Thiébaud's Bibl. des ouvrages français sur la chasse. Paris, 1934, col. 388-395. Goff M-739 Hain-Copinger 11447 BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 386 More

A German verse rendition of Fiore di virtù. Signatures: a-c⁸ d-l⁶ m-p⁸ q-z⁶ A-C⁸ D-G⁶ H⁸ I⁶. Rosenwald 118 Goff V-300 Schreiber 5436 Schramm, XXIII, p. 18, and illus. LC copy: contemporary ms. notes.

In two parts, both including anonymous continuations of Lirer's original work. Rosenwald 115 Goff L-226 Hain-Copinger 10117 BM 15th cent., II, p. 535 (IB.9351) LC copy bound by F. Bedford. Bookplates: Huth, H.C More

Title extracted from prologue (leaf [2a]). Goff C-970 Hain 5836 (note) GW 7830 (variation) Rosenwald 390 LC copy: initial blank leaf torn; leaf [245] mutilated, repaired. Half leather over boards.

Leaf [1a] (t.p.): Wie das hochwirdigist auch kaiserlich Heiligthum vnd die grossen römischen Gnad darzu gegeben, alle Jaer ausgerüfft vnd geweist wirdt in der löblichen Statt Nüremberg. Signatures: [a]⁶. Ro More

Begun by Guillaume de Lorris and completed by Jean de Meun. Title from leaf [Ia]: Le Rommant de la Rose. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff R-309 Copinger 5156 = 5157 IGI 4 More

Translated by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Rosenwald 128 Goff B-722 Hain-Copinger 3336 GW 4488 LC copy has hand-colored illus. Provenance inscriptions on t.p. Old tooled leather over boards; clasp broken.

Rosenwald 123 Goff B-828 Hain-Copinger 3426 BM 15th cent., II, p. 381 (IA.6659) GW 4586 LC copy has ms. foliation: 225-230, 232-273. Ms. notes on first and last leaves.

Rosenwald 124 Goff T-361 Hain-Copinger 15518 (variations) = 15616 BM 15th cent., II, p. 381 (IB.6665) (but with variant heading on leaf [3a], as in C.F. Murray's Cat. early German books, 411) "Epistola Magistri More

A compilation by Christine de Pisan, mainly from the French translation of Vegetius by Jean de Vignai, with additions from the Arbres des batailles of Honoré Bonet. Cf. M.J. Pinet's Christine de Pisan, p. 358 More

Known as Flores astrologiae. Probably an abridgment of De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by Joannes Hispalensis from the author's Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd and other of his works. Cf. Sarton's An in More

Title extracted from colophon (leaf ccclxxxvb). Some of the woodcuts are attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Cf. E. Panofsky's A. Dürer, II, p. 52. Signatures: [a² b-v⁸ x⁶ y⁸ z⁶ A-Z⁸, 2a⁸ 2b⁶ 2c-2d⁸]. Rosenwald 127 More

The printer's name is given as an acrostic in the initial letters of each line of 8 distichs at the end. The acrostic is repeated in Pafraet's Deventer printing of 19 Nov. 1488 (Goff S-769). Goff S-768 Copinger More

Goff E-108 Hain-Copinger 13152 (printing ascribed to J.P. Manstener) BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 49 (IA.39480) GW 9391 Rosenwald 401 LC copy imperfect: t.p. supplied (facsimile?). Provenance: Walter Ashburner, Firenze.

Woodcut title. Colophon: Hye endet sich der Spiegel menschliches Lebens ... Translated by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Rosenwald 125 Goff R-233 Hain 13950 BM 15th cent., II, p. 392 (IB.6805) LC copy: the two lines of More

Assigned to the printer Johann Zainer, Ulm, by BM 15th cent., to a Strassburg printer by Copinger, and to Hainrich Knoblochtzer, Heidelberg, by Ernst Weil in Der Ulmer Holzschnitt in 15. Jahrhundert, p. 124, no More

German translation by Hans Mair, with interpolations from Konrad von Würzburg. Rosenwald 129 Goff C-778 Hain 5517 BM 15th cent., II, p. 367 (IB.6306) GW 7236 LC copy: contemporary ms. notes.

A didactic poem, accompanied by a commentary in prose and by musical examples. Rosenwald 130 Goff F-217 Hain-Copinger 7174 BM 15th cent, I, p. 121 (IA.1641) (variations) IGI 4924 LC copy rubricated throughout. More

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [2a]). Goff T-389 Hain 15556 BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 356 (IB.42465) Palau y Dulcet, VII, p. 47 Rosenwald 404 LC copy: contemporary ms. notes. Contemporary blind-tooled calf bi More

Rosenwald 133 Goff L-185 Hain-Copinger 10042 BM 15th cent., II, p. 382 (IA.6679) IGI 5747 LC copy rubricated; woodcuts part hand-colored. Contemporary marginalia; notes and verse at end. Ex libris Liechtensteinianis.

Printed in red and black. Canon of the mass ([8] leaves preceding leaf cli) printed on vellum. Rosenwald 141 Goff M-685 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 11263 (variation) Weale-Bohatta 796 LC copy: one of 8 unnumbered l More

Title extracted from incipit of prologue (leaf [2a]). Translated by the author. The woodcuts are sometimes ascribed to Dürer. Cf. Erwin Panofsky's A. Dürer, 2nd ed., II, p. 51-52. Rosenwald 139 Goff B-505 Hai More

Rosenwald 138 Goff I-222 Hain-Copinger 9326 BM 15th cent., II, p. 378 (IA.6626) LC copy rubricated throughout; illus. hand-colored.

Translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the author's Kitāb aḥkām tahāwīl sinī al-mawālīd and other writings, based in great part on al-Kindī. Cf. Sarton. An introd. to the hist. of science, I, p. 568, an More

Woodcut title. Based on the Roman de Troie of Benoit de Sainte-More. German translation by Hans Mair, with interpolations from Konrad von Würzburg. Rosenwald 136 Goff C-799 Hain-Copinger 5518 BM 15th cent., I, More

Rosenwald 134 Goff M-795 Hain-Copinger 11536 BM 15th cent., II, p. 587 (IA.10727) IGI 6688 LC copy rubricated throughout.

A compilation in French prose by Jean Baignon from the French metrical romance Fierabras and Vincent de Beauvais' Speculum historiale. Goff F-169 Hain 7087 Copinger 2504 Murray, C.F. French books, 160 Baudrie More

Translated by the author. Rosenwald 140 Goff B-504 Hain 2992 = 2996 = 8932 = 8935 Hain-Copinger 2998 GW 4173 IGI 1616 Schramm, IV, p. 40, 52, and illus. Bound with [Thomas à Kempis]. De vita [et] beneficijs Sa More

Rosenwald 143 Goff W-14 Hain-Copinger 13712 BM 15th cent., III, p. 624 (IA.11541) LC copy: leaves numbered in ms. A few ms. notes. Ex libris Liechtensteinianis.

Rosenwald 145 Goff W-8 Hain 16150 BM 15th cent., II, p. 464 (IA.8016) LC copy: illus. hand-colored. Vollbehr H16150

Woodcut title. Rosenwald 142 Goff V-235 Hain-Copinger 16019 BM 15th cent., II, p. 463 (IA.7976)

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Translated from the Latin version of Lorenzo Valla by Guillaume Tardif. Includes Tardif's translation of De salibus virorum illustrium ac face More

Translated by Arigo (pseud. of Heinrich Leubing?). Rosenwald 149 Goff B-731 Hain-Copinger 3281 BM 15th cent., II, p. 355 (IB.6050) GW 4452

One woodcut signed: I.D. Signatures: a-b⁶. Goff M-886 Claudin, A. Hist. de l'impr., III, p. 81-83 Rosenwald 409 LC copy: initials (in gold on red or blue) mounted in initial spaces.

Attributed in this ed. (as in all mss. and early eds.) to a Cyrillus Episcopus, variously identified with Saint Cyrillus, Bp. of Jerusalem, Saint Cyrillus of Thessalonica, or Cyrillus de Quidenon. Cf. J.G.T. Gr More

Signatures: a-v⁸ x⁶. Rosenwald 146 Goff P-138 Hain 12446 (variation) Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch, 3744 (variation) LC copy: illustrations colored.

Title extracted from leaf [2a] (preface). Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶. Rosenwald 150 Goff I-220 Hain-Copinger 932 = 9323 (?) (variation) BM 15th cent., II, p. 540 (IA.9417) Schramm, VII, p. 9, 14, and illus. 165-183 (v More

Rosenwald 151 Goff M-433 Hain-Copinger 10994 BM 15th cent., II, p. 354 (IA.6085) Bound with [Bertoldus, Dominican]. Horologiu[m] deuotionis circa vitam Christi. Augsburg, 1489. LC copy rubricated. A few margina More

Signatures: a-x⁸. Rosenwald 155 Goff P-139 Hain 12447 Schramm, IV, p. 48, 52 LC copy: illus. hand-colored. Old blind-stamped brown leather over boards; clasp broken.

Edited by Abbot Jean de Cirey. Goff P-976 Hain 9391 Hain-Copinger 13367 BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 409 (IB.44916) IGI 8060 Rosenwald 410 LC copy: text and corrections authenticated by signature of Conrad Leonberge More

Rosenwald 153 Goff E-17 Hain 4060 GW 9251 Schramm, IV, p. 46, 52, and illus. (variations) Includes Von den heyligen drey Künig, by Joannes of Hildesheim (leaves ciii-cxxxvi). LC copy: illus. hand-colored. Insc More