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[Speculum humanae salvationis. French. [from old catalog]]Le mirouer de la rede[m]ption de humain lignaige.[Lyons] Matthias Huss, 3 Mar. 1483/84.

[Speculum humanae salvationis. French. [from old catalog]]Le mirouer d...

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

Recueil des histoires de Troyes.[Lyons, Michel Topié and Jacques Heremberck, 10 Oct. 1490]

Recueil des histoires de Troyes.[Lyons, Michel Topié and Jacques Herem...

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

[San Juan de Ulúa / - Public domain vintage map

[San Juan de Ulúa / - Public domain vintage map

Ground plan of a projected fortress. In black ink, with a part in yellow watercolor, on vellum. Mounted on cloth. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 47 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a r... More

[San Juan de Ulúa / - Public domain map drawing

[San Juan de Ulúa / - Public domain map drawing

Watercolor on vellum. Upper corners damp marked, with very slight marking of the drawing. Mounted on cloth. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 46 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster ... More

S. Augustini : pars est terra Florida, sub latitudine 30 grad, ora vero maritima humilior est, lancinata et insulosa.

S. Augustini : pars est terra Florida, sub latitudine 30 grad, ora ver...

Scale not given. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Includes text in rectanglar cartouche. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 49 Available also through the Library of Congres... More

Wij Christina medh Gudz... - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

Wij Christina medh Gudz... - Public domain broadside, Library of Congr...

Svenskt offentligt tryck (WWW) 3304073 Title from beginning of text. Dated at end: Datum Stockholm then 8. martif åhr 1636. Place of printing and name of printer from SOT. Ornamental initial. Also available in... More

Wij Christina medh Gudz ... - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

Wij Christina medh Gudz ... - Public domain broadside, Library of Cong...

Svenskt offentligt tryck (WWW) 3304256 Title from beginning of text. Dated and signed at end: Datum Stockholm den 25. octobris anno 1649. Christina. Place of printing and name of printer from SOT. Ornamental in... More

Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis avstralis. qve est  : Brasilia, Caribana, Gviana regnũm noũũm, Castilia del Oro, Nicaragva, insũlae Antillas et Perv. Et sub Tropico Capricorni, Chile, Rio della Plata, Patagonṽ, & Fretṽ Magellanicv̄.

Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis avstralis. qve est : Brasil...

Title appears on upper sheet of the map; no indication of title or imprint on lower sheet. The map was engraved for the second edition of the fourth part of Hulsius' collection of voyages, which consists of 26 ... More

An address to the public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, and the relief of free negroes, unlawfully held in bondage ... Signed by order of the Society, B. Franklin, President. Philadelphia, 9th of November,

An address to the public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting ...

Title.; Imprint 2.; Franklin, B.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14... More

De arte praedicandi - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

De arte praedicandi - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

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

Rhetorica ad Herennium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Rhetorica ad Herennium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress...

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

Collationes patrum XXIV., Augsburg, Bavaria

Collationes patrum XXIV., Augsburg, Bavaria

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

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis

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

Geographica Latine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Geographica Latine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

First 10 books translated by Guarinus Veronensis, the remainder by Gregorius Tifernas. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d-e⁸ f-h¹⁰ i-k⁸ l-n¹⁰ o-p⁸ q-s¹⁰ t⁸ u⁸⁻¹ x-y¹⁰ z⁸ A⁸]. Goff S-794 Hain-Copinger 15087 Proctor 4042 (3 Ve... More

Tractatum de spera quatuor capitulis distinguimus ... Theorica planetarum

Tractatum de spera quatuor capitulis distinguimus ... Theorica planeta...

Titles from opening lines on p. 1 and explicit on p. [81]. The Sphaera mundi is by Joannes de Sacro Bosco. The Theorica planetarum is usually considered to be by the Cremona astrologer Gherardo da Sabbioneta, ... More

Isidori iunioris Hispalensis episcopi prologus in librum de responsione mundi & astrorum ordinatione : ad Sesibutum regem incipit feliciter

Isidori iunioris Hispalensis episcopi prologus in librum de responsion...

Title from caption, leaf [1]1. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: [1]⁸ ([1]1+chi1) [2]¹²(-[2]12). Possibly issued with his Etymologiae (19 Nov. 1472). Cf. Goff. Goff I-191 Hain 9302* GW M15281 BM 15th cent., II... More

Publius Terentius Afer Carthagine natus ..

Publius Terentius Afer Carthagine natus ..

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

Incipit liber compilationis phisonomie

Incipit liber compilationis phisonomie

Uniform title from Goff; title from incipit; imprint from colophon. Signatures: [1-2¹⁰ 3-5⁸ 6⁶] Colophon: Anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo quarto hoc de phisonomia opus Petri padubanensis p[e... More

Postilla in Job - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Postilla in Job - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

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

Calendarium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Calendarium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

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

Rudimentum novitiorum, Erroneously ascribed to Giovanni da Colonna and to Burchardus de Monte Sion

Rudimentum novitiorum, Erroneously ascribed to Giovanni da Colonna and...

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

Ars moriendi - German Block Book

Ars moriendi - German Block Book

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

Summa naturalium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Summa naturalium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

A commentary on the books of Aristotle on physics, the heavens and the world, generation and corruption, meteors, the soul, and metaphysics. Another issue printed by Valdarfer on the same day has 167 leaves (si... More

De generatione Christi, sive Defensorium inviolatae castitatis B.V. Mariae

De generatione Christi, sive Defensorium inviolatae castitatis B.V. Ma...

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

In nomine sancte et indiuidue trinitatis, patris et filij et spiritus sancti amen

In nomine sancte et indiuidue trinitatis, patris et filij et spiritus ...

Title from opening line, leaf [1]1. Place of imprint and date from colophon; printer from Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.). Edited by Arnošt of Pardubice, archbishop of Prague. Signatures: [1]-[7]⁸ [8]⁴. Gof... More

Der Sele Trost., 15th century, Augsburg, Bavaria

Der Sele Trost., 15th century, Augsburg, Bavaria

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

Die vierundzwanzig Alten, oder Der goldne Thron.

Die vierundzwanzig Alten, oder Der goldne Thron.

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

Geographica, Latine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Geographica, Latine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

First 10 books translated by Guarinus Veronensis, the remainder by Gregorius Tifernas. Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z⁸ &⁸ A-P⁸ Q⁶. Goff S-796 Hain-Copinger 15089 BM 15th cent., VI, p. 896 (IB.28422) LC copy differs from H... More

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as o...

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

De compunctione cordis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

De compunctione cordis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress...

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

Die vierundzwanzig Alten, oder Der goldne Thron

Die vierundzwanzig Alten, oder Der goldne Thron

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

Itinerarium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Itinerarium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

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

Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae

Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae

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.

Eyn Duytz Kallender gemacht na dem Cisioianus

Eyn Duytz Kallender gemacht na dem Cisioianus

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

Commentarium Sancti Iohannis, Episcopi Constantinopolitani, cognomento Crisostomi, in Epistolam Sancti Pauli Apostoli ad Hebreos,

Commentarium Sancti Iohannis, Episcopi Constantinopolitani, cognomento...

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

Nouiciis adolfscentibus sic: ad astronomicam rempu. capessendam aditum impetrantibus: per breui rectoque tramite a uulgari uestigio semoto: Ioannis de Sacro Busto sphaericum opusculum Georgiique Purbachii in motus planetarum accuratiss. theoricae necnon contra Cremonensia in eorundem planetarum theoricas deliramenta Ioannis de monte regio disputationes tam accuratiss. quaque utiliss. dictatum opus utili serie contextum inchoat

Nouiciis adolfscentibus sic: ad astronomicam rempu. capessendam aditum...

Title from incipit; imprint from colophon. Signatures: 1-6⁸ 7¹⁰. Goff J-406 Hain-Copinger 14111 BM 15th cent., V, p. 290 (IA. 20546) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ij00406000 LC copy has some hand-colored i... More

Preclarissimus liber completus in iudicijs astrorum

Preclarissimus liber completus in iudicijs astrorum

Title from caption, leaf a1. Imprint from colophon. Ampersand in imprint transcription represents a tironian sign. "... eme[n]datus p[er] dominu[m] Bartolomeu[m] de Alten ...": colophon. Signatures: pi⁴ a-t⁸. ... More

Erklärung der zwölf Artikel des christlichen Glaubens

Erklärung der zwölf Artikel des christlichen Glaubens

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

Le livre du roy Modus - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Le livre du roy Modus - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

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

Legenda aurea de Sanctis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Legenda aurea de Sanctis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

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.

Le liure des ruraulx prouffitz - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Le liure des ruraulx prouffitz - Rare book, public domain, Library of ...

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.

Passional, das ist Der Heyligen Leben

Passional, das ist Der Heyligen Leben

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

Lart de cheualerie selon Vegece

Lart de cheualerie selon Vegece

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

Flores Albumasaris - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Flores Albumasaris - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

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

Die hystori Troyana - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Die hystori Troyana - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

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.

Flores musice omnis cantus Gregoriani

Flores musice omnis cantus Gregoriani

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

Speculum humane vite. Der Menschen Spiegel, Augsburg, Bavaria

Speculum humane vite. Der Menschen Spiegel, Augsburg, Bavaria

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

Prognosticatio in Latino - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Prognosticatio in Latino - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

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

Behende vnd hubsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft

Behende vnd hubsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft

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.

Compilatio Leupoldi, ducatus Austrie filij, de astrorum scientia, decem continens tractatus

Compilatio Leupoldi, ducatus Austrie filij, de astrorum scientia, dece...

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.

Versehung Leib Sel Er vnnd Gutt

Versehung Leib Sel Er vnnd Gutt

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

De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus, Teutonice Vnholden vel Hexen

De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus, Teutonice Vnholden vel Hexen

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

Die Walfart oder Bilgerung Vnser Lieben Frauwen

Die Walfart oder Bilgerung Vnser Lieben Frauwen

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

Albumasar de magnis coniunctionibus, annorum reuolutionibus, ac eorum profectionibus, octo continens tractatus

Albumasar de magnis coniunctionibus, annorum reuolutionibus, ac eorum ...

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

Ein hubsche Histori von der kunnigelichenn Stat Troy wie si zerstörett wartt

Ein hubsche Histori von der kunnigelichenn Stat Troy wie si zerstörett...

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

De laniis sic & phitonicis mulieribus

De laniis sic & phitonicis mulieribus

Ampersand in title transcription is a Tironian sign. Imprint from ISTC. Leaf d5 verso: "Ex constan[tem?] anno d[omi]ni mcccclxxxix die decima ianuarij. Tue celsitudinis humilis co[n]siliarius & seuulus vlricus ... More

Das Buch der natürlichen Weiszheit, Augsburg, Bavaria

Das Buch der natürlichen Weiszheit, Augsburg, Bavaria

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

Teutsch Passion - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Teutsch Passion - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

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

Itinerarium seu peregrinatio Beate Virginis et Dei genitricis Marie

Itinerarium seu peregrinatio Beate Virginis et Dei genitricis Marie

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

De vita et beneficijs Saluatoris Iesu Christi deuotissimas meditationes cum gratiarum actione, et perlucidum tractatum ... Gerardi Zutphanie de spiritualibus ascensionibus ... libellus continet

De vita et beneficijs Saluatoris Iesu Christi deuotissimas meditatione...

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

Teutsch Passion - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Teutsch Passion - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

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.

Von der Kinthait vnsers Herr Ihesu Cristi genant Vita Cristi

Von der Kinthait vnsers Herr Ihesu Cristi genant Vita Cristi

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

[Cursus per totam septimanam. German. [from old catalog]]Dye siben Curs[us] auf ainen yeglichen Tag der Wochen ain, mit seyn siben Zeiten vn[d] sel Vesper gar loblich geordiniert.Ulm, Conrad Dinckmut, 1491.

[Cursus per totam septimanam. German. [from old catalog]]Dye siben Cur...

Signatures: a-z⁸ A-B⁸ C¹⁰. Rosenwald 156 Goff H-428 Bohatta, H. Livres d'Heures (2. Aufl.), p. 80, no. 12 LC copy: some illus. hand-colored. Ms. notes and foliation. Old blind-stamped brown calf over boards; c... More

La mer des histoires - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

La mer des histoires - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress s...

Translation of the Latin original (Lübeck, 1475), with additional matter on the kings of France and continuation to 1483. Erroneously ascribed to Giovanni da Colonna and to Burchardus de Monte Sion, a translat... More

Vnser lieben Frawen Psalter - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Vnser lieben Frawen Psalter - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...

Woodcut title. Rosenwald 159 Goff R-363 Hain-Copinger 14042 (variations) Schramm, VI, p. 15, 19, and illus. 84-88, 590-591 LC copy: half leather over boards, lined with incunabulum leaves.

Die siben teutschen Kurss von Vnser Lieben Frawen

Die siben teutschen Kurss von Vnser Lieben Frawen

Contains devotions for the canonical hours for every day of the week, with only the Saturday text devoted to the Virgin Mary. Rosenwald 158 Goff H-429 LC copy: initials supplied in red and blue alternately; ms.... More

Formulario de epistole vulgar missiue & responsiue & altri fiori de ornati par lamenti

Formulario de epistole vulgar missiue & responsiue & altri fiori de or...

Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Variously attributed to Cristoforo Landino and Bartolommeo Miniatore. Signatures: a-e⁸. Goff M-583 GW M16883 Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) im00583000 Capital spaces, s... More

Spiegel der waren Rhetoric vss M. Tulio C. vnd andern getütscht, mit irn Glidern clüger Reden Sandbriefen, vnd Formen menicher Contract, seltzam regulierts tütschs vnd nutzbar exempliert, mit Fügen vff göttlich vnd keiserlich Schrifft vnd Rechte gegründt, nuwlich (vnd vormaln in Gemein nÿe gesehen) ÿetz loblich vssgangen

Spiegel der waren Rhetoric vss M. Tulio C. vnd andern getütscht, mit i...

Signatures: a⁸ b-[long s]⁶ s-v⁶ u⁶ w⁶ x-z⁶ A-B⁶ C¹⁰ D⁸. Rosenwald 165 Goff R-197 Hain-Copinger 13914. BM 15th cent., III, p. 696 (IB. 14213). Vollbehr H13914. Thacher no. 216

Mesue uulgate - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Mesue uulgate - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Imprint from colophon, transposed: imprint date appears before printer's statement. Signatures: pi⁴ a-b⁸ c-o⁶ p⁸ (a1 blank). Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry M-521 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliog... More

Petrus de Crescentiis zu teutsch, mit Figuren

Petrus de Crescentiis zu teutsch, mit Figuren

Rosenwald 164 Goff C-971 Hain-Copinger 5834 = 5835 BM 15th cent., II, p. 499 (IB.8638) GW 7831 LC copy imperfect: the 2 lines of printing on t.p. inlaid; a few leaves mutilated, some repaired. Initials, underli... More

Liber cronicarum, cum figuris et ymaginibus ab inicio mundi

Liber cronicarum, cum figuris et ymaginibus ab inicio mundi

Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1a]), which begins: Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum ... Illus. by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Rosenwald 163 Goff S-307 Hain-Copinger ... More

Artium & medicine doctoris magistri Matthei de Lucha de diebus creticis sic Dialogus

Artium & medicine doctoris magistri Matthei de Lucha de diebus cretici...

Title from caption on leaf a2. Place and date from colophon; printer from ISTC (online). Signatures: a⁸. Goff M-373 Hain-Copinger (Addendum)-Reichling 10257 GW M21768 BM 15th cent. IV, p. 136 (IA. 18993) ISTC (... More

Buch der Croniken vnd Geschichten mit Figuren vnd Pildnussen von Anbeginn der Welt bis auf dise vnnsere Zeit

Buch der Croniken vnd Geschichten mit Figuren vnd Pildnussen von Anbeg...

Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1a]), which begins: Register des Buchs der Croniken ... Illus. by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Translated by Georg Alt. LC copy 2 bound with: ... More

Textus De Sphera Iohannis de Sacrobosco : Cum Additione (quantum necessarium est) adiecta : Nouo commentario nuper edito Ad vtilitatem studentium Philosophice Parisiensis Academie : illustratus

Textus De Sphera Iohannis de Sacrobosco : Cum Additione (quantum neces...

Imprint from colophon, transposed: date appears first. Printed by Johann Higman for Wolfgang Hopyl. Cf. ISTC. Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c¹⁰. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-414 Hain, L. Repertorium bibli... More

Thesoro dela Passion sacratissima de Nuestro Redemptor

Thesoro dela Passion sacratissima de Nuestro Redemptor

Goff D-138 Hain 6088 Haebler, K. Bib. ibérica, 200 (variations) Sánchez, J.M. Bib. Zaragozana, 44 (variations) Rosenwald 582 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

De cautelis medicorum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

De cautelis medicorum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

Goff Z-25 Hain-Copinger 16286 BM 15th cent., V, p. 470 (IA.23483) Klebs 1058.1 Vollbehr H16286

Epytoma Ioannis de Monte Regio in Almagestum Ptolomei

Epytoma Ioannis de Monte Regio in Almagestum Ptolomei

Woodcut title. Begun by Georg von Peurbach. Edited by Giovanni Abiosi. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff R-111 Hain-Copinger 13806 BM 15th cent., V, p. 427 (IB.23380) IGI ... More

Compost et kalendrier des bergiers, nouuellement et autrement compose que nestoit par auant

Compost et kalendrier des bergiers, nouuellement et autrement compose ...

Title extracted from leaf [1a]. Printed in black and red. Contents as in GW. Goff C-56 Hain 5584 Copinger 1725 GW 5910 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 436 Bound with Ordinaire des chrétie... More

Kalender Maister Johannes Künigsperger, Augsburg, Bavaria

Kalender Maister Johannes Künigsperger, Augsburg, Bavaria

Printing, including the diagrams of eclipses, in black and red. Leaves [27-28] (designated as 27-30 by BM 15th cent.), containing diagrams of instruments, are each made up of 2 leaves pasted together. Rosenwald... More

Tractatus de apparationibus et receptaculis animarum exutarum corporibus ..

Tractatus de apparationibus et receptaculis animarum exutarum corporib...

Signatures: A-K⁴. Rosenwald 173 Goff J-24 Hain-Copinger 15543 BM 15th cent., I, p. 300 (IA.5083) Proctor 1466

Tractatus de arte bene viuendi beneque moriendi

Tractatus de arte bene viuendi beneque moriendi

Goff A-1099 Hain-Copinger 1846 BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 63 (IA.39676) GW 2612 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 437 LC copy: provenance: Sir David Dundas; Charles W.G. Howard.

Ortus sanitatis: De herbis et plantis, De animalibus et reptilibus, De auibus et volatilibus, De piscibus et natatilibus, De lapidibus et in terre venis nascentibus, De vrinis et earum speciebus, Tabula medicinalis cum directorio generali per omnes tractatus

Ortus sanitatis: De herbis et plantis, De animalibus et reptilibus, De...

Tractatus de animalibus and Tractatus de urinis have special title pages. Rosenwald 181 Goff H-487 Hain-Copinger 8941 BM 15th cent., I, p. 124 (IB.1682) IGI 4901 Klebs 509.3 LC copy: contemporary blind-stamped ... More

Der Ritter vom Turn von den Exempeln der Gotsforcht und Erberkeit

Der Ritter vom Turn von den Exempeln der Gotsforcht und Erberkeit

Translated by Marquart von Stein. Signatures: A⁸ B-M⁶. Rosenwald 192 Goff L-74 Hain 15515 LC copy: provenance: Ochsenhausen monastery (t.p. inscription).

Uerba deponentalia Iohannis Synthin

Uerba deponentalia Iohannis Synthin

In verse, with the commentary of Johannes Synthen. Rosenwald 194 Goff G-92 Reichling 734 Bound with Ebrardi, Udalricus. Modus Latinitatis. [Basel] 1499.--Compendium octo partium orationis. Compendium octo parti... More

Horologium deuotionis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Horologium deuotionis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

Translated by the author from his original German. Colophon (leaf h10v): Explicit Horologium deuotionis per me Johannem Landen Colonie infra sedecim domos [com]morantem. Signatures: a-g⁸ h¹⁰. With: Bonaventure,... More

Ain gut Ertzney Buch der Rosse. Auch wie man ain yetlichs Pferd erkennen soll

Ain gut Ertzney Buch der Rosse. Auch wie man ain yetlichs Pferd erkenn...

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 190 Goff A-354 GW 821 Schramm, V, p. 16, 20, and illus. LAC nsk 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Ioannis Pici Mirandulae Concordiae comitis Disputationum aduersus astrologos liber primus-duodecimus

Ioannis Pici Mirandulae Concordiae comitis Disputationum aduersus astr...

Caption title (leaf a1 recto). Imprint from colophon (leaf t4 verso), with correction by Goff. "A reprint of pt. II of Hain 12993*, with original colophon unchanged [H12992*(II)]"--Goff. Signatures: a-s⁶ t⁴ u⁶.... More

Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen

Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen

Sometimes attributed to Johann Stump, also to a Dominican, Hamelmann. Cf. Die Chroniken der niederrheinischen Städte, II, p. 211-212. Rosenwald 197 Goff C-476 Hain-Copinger 4989 BM 15th cent., I, p. 299 (IB.50... More

Elegantissimum de passione Domini opusculum, heroico ac pene Virgiliano conscriptum carmine

Elegantissimum de passione Domini opusculum, heroico ac pene Virgilian...

Rosenwald 199 Goff V-84 Hain-Copinger 15843 BM 15th cent., I, p. 307 (IA.5239) Schramm, VIII, p. 16, 28, and illus.

Qui comincia el libro del maestro e del discipulo

Qui comincia el libro del maestro e del discipulo

Title from caption. The text is derived from the Elucidarium of Honorius Augustodunensis. Cf. Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) Signatures: a-e⁴. Goff H-337 Hain 8821 GW M09390 Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd e... More

Monstrosa hominis forma - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Monstrosa hominis forma - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

Rosenwald 198 Goff L-258 Hain 10162 BM 15th cent., III, p. 679 (IA.13546) Schramm, XVI, p. 12, 17, and illus.

Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri & emendati ... Marci Manilii Astronomicorum libri quinque. Arati Phaenomina, Germanico Caesare interprete, cum commentariis & imaginibus. Arati eiusdem Phaenomenon fragmentum, Marco T.C. interprete. Arati eiusdem Phaenomena, Ruffo Festo Auienio paraphraste. Arati eiusdem Phaenomena Graece. Theonis Commentaria copiosissima in Arati Phaenomena Graece. Procli Diadochi Sphaera Graece. Procli eiusdem Sphaera, Thoma Linacro ... interprete

Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri & emendati ... Marci M...

This collection, edited by Franciscus Niger, is titled by Hain "Scriptores astronomici veteres." First colophon dated June 1499. Printer's epistle on leaf [1b] dated "decimosexto Calendas nouem." Goff F-191 Hai... More

Büchlein von bewährter Arznei der Pferde

Büchlein von bewährter Arznei der Pferde

Rosenwald 206 Copinger 4729 GW 5679 Schramm, XIII, p. 7, 6(2nd group), and illus. LC copy has ms. recipes on flyleaf. Provenance: Herz. S. Meining. Öffentl. Bibliothek. Not in Goff

Rosarium Beate Marie Virginis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Rosarium Beate Marie Virginis - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

Signatures: A-E⁸, a-b⁸+, 2A-2E⁸ [2F]⁴. Rosenwald 211 Goff R-320 Copinger 5163 Campbell (1st & 2nd suppl.) 1480a (variation) Bound with Jordan, von Quedlinburg. Meditatio[ne]s Iordani de vita et passio[n]e Ih[es... More

Passio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi

Passio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi

BM 15th cent., III, p. xxxviii assigns to 16th cent. Signatures: A-B⁸. "Tractat[us] Beati Bernhardi De planctu Beate Marie Virginis": leaves [14b-16a]. Goff P-134 Proctor 7751 Schramm, XXII, p. 12, 24, 45 (no. ... More

Ars moriendi, ex varijs Scripturarum sententijs collecta cum figuris, ad resistendum in mortis agone dyabolice sugestioni valens, cuilibet Christifideli vtilis ac multum necessaria

Ars moriendi, ex varijs Scripturarum sententijs collecta cum figuris, ...

Rosenwald 208 Goff A-1120 GW 2579 LC copy bound by Duru.

Horas de Nossa Senora segundo costume Romano, con as horas do Spirito Sancto

Horas de Nossa Senora segundo costume Romano, con as horas do Spirito ...

Printed in black and red, with printed red initials. Signatures: a-p⁸. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff H-404 Bohatta, H. Livres d'Heures (2. Aufl.), 1567 Rosenwald 451 ... More

Hec practica narrat de presenti anno et sequentibus quamplurimis annis de nouis raris et inauditis rebus et gestis que futura sunt in hoc mundo

Hec practica narrat de presenti anno et sequentibus quamplurimis annis...

Imprint from Goff and ISTC (online). This copy with state of colophon and quiring described by BM 15th cent. as second edition; reprint of IA. 2548 in BM 15th cent., v. 1, p.165; with different woodcuts on the ... More

Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidimie: Das Buch der Vergift der Pestilentz das da genant ist der gemein Sterbent der trüsen Blatren,

Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidimie: Das Buch der Vergift der Pes...

In German. Copinger and BM 15th cent. colophon varies from that in Hain and LC copy. Rosenwald 204 Goff B-1228 Hain-Copinger 4020 BM 15th cent., I, p. 115 (IB.1501) GW 5596 Schramm, XX, p. 7, 24, and illus.

Die vier vnd zwenzig Alten - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Die vier vnd zwenzig Alten - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Rosenwald 201 Goff O-123 Hain-Copinger 12130 BM 15th cent., I, p. 167 (IB.2473) Schramm, XX, p. 21, 30, and illus. LC copy: contemporary blind-stamped brown calf over boards, clasps; lettered: Die uier und zwen... More

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