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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

Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. [from old catalog]Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae ad usum Romanum.Hours [from old catalog]Paris, Philippe Pigouchet, 19 Apr. 1494.

Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. [from old catalog]Horae Beatae Vi...

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

Catholicon., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Catholicon., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

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

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

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

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

Biblia pauperum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Biblia pauperum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

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

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

Summa confessorum, Augsburg, Bavaria

Summa confessorum, Augsburg, Bavaria

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

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

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

Biblia, Augsburg, Bavaria - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Biblia, Augsburg, Bavaria - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

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

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

Biblia, Augsburg, Bavaria - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Biblia, Augsburg, Bavaria - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

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

Die guldin Bibel, innhaltend Belonung der Tugennt vnnd Strouf der Laster.

Die guldin Bibel, innhaltend Belonung der Tugennt vnnd Strouf der Last...

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

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

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

Vita et Fabulae - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Vita et Fabulae - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

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

Postilla super Epistolas et Evangelia

Postilla super Epistolas et Evangelia

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

Histori wie die Türcken vnd andre Geschlecht der Vngleubigen die cristelichen Kirchen vor vil Iaren in manigerley Weiss angefochten

Histori wie die Türcken vnd andre Geschlecht der Vngleubigen die crist...

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

Das Buch der Weisshait der alten Weisen von Anbeginne der Welt von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht

Das Buch der Weisshait der alten Weisen von Anbeginne der Welt von Ges...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Le liure des Eneydes - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress s...

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

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

Le doctrinal du temps présent - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Le doctrinal du temps présent - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

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

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.

Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg - Rare book, public domain, Library of ...

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

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

Buch der Tugend, Augsburg, Bavaria

Buch der Tugend, Augsburg, Bavaria

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.

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

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

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

Chronik von allen Königen und Kaisern

Chronik von allen Königen und Kaisern

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

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 rommant de la Rose - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Le rommant de la Rose - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

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

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 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

Chronica Hungariae, Augsburg, Bavaria

Chronica Hungariae, Augsburg, Bavaria

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

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.

Vision deleytable dela philosofia et delas sciençias

Vision deleytable dela philosofia et delas sciençias

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

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.

Ein allerhailsamste Warnung vor der falschenn Lieb diser Werlt auss Latein zu Tewsch gebracht

Ein allerhailsamste Warnung vor der falschenn Lieb diser Werlt auss La...

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

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.

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

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

Les apologues et fables de Laurens Valle,

Les apologues et fables de Laurens Valle,

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

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.

De summo bono libri tres Sancti Isidori, Hyspaliensis Episcopi

De summo bono libri tres Sancti Isidori, Hyspaliensis Episcopi

Rosenwald 161 Goff I-196 Hain-Copinger 9287 BM 15th cent., III, p. 645 (IA.12061) Schramm, XIII, p. 4 (2nd group) LC copy: initials, initial strokes, and some underlines supplied in red. Provenance: Georg Kloss... 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

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

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

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.

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

Grammatica Nicolai Perotti, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Grammatica Nicolai Perotti, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...

Leaf [3a] printed in black and red. Rosenwald 369 Goff P-332 Hain 12640 BM 15th cent., III, p. 778 (IA.37735) Bound with Probus, Marcus Valerius. Valerii Probi, gra[m]matici, De interpretandis Romanorum litteri... More

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.

Comoedie vtilissime omnem Latini sermonis elegantiam continentes, e quibus quisque optimus Latinus euadere potest

Comoedie vtilissime omnem Latini sermonis elegantiam continentes, e qu...

Rosenwald 187 Goff G-512 Hain 8088 BM 15th cent., II, p. 396 (IA.6497) Bound with Perotti, Niccolò, Abp. of Siponto. Gra[m]matica Nicolai Perotti ... [Basel, 1497-1500] LC copy: contemporary blind-stamped leat... More

Libri Philomusi - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Libri Philomusi - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Includes also letters and verses by Locher. Rosenwald 184 Goff L-264 Hain-Copinger 10153 BM 15th cent., I, p. 112 (IA.1468) IGI 5789 Schramm, XX, p. 5, 23, and illus. LC copy: in last line of colophon: "chistro... 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

Valerii Probi, grammatici, De interpretandis Romanorum litteris opusculum ..

Valerii Probi, grammatici, De interpretandis Romanorum litteris opuscu...

Edited by Giovanni Bonardi. Rosenwald 337 Goff P-996 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 13378 BM 15th cent., V, p. 534 (IA.24095) IGI 8070 Sander 5900 Bound with Perotti, Niccolò, Abp. of Siponto. Gra[m]matica Nicolai Pe... 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.

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.

Les cent histoires de Troye : l'Epistre de Othea, deesse de prudence, enuoyee a lesperit cheualereux Hector de Troye, auec cent hystoires

Les cent histoires de Troye : l'Epistre de Othea, deesse de prudence, ...

With anonymous commentary. Printer's device on t.p. Goff C-470 Hain-Copinger 4985 BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 123 (IB.40379) GW 6646 (note) Rosenwald 449 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress We... 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

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

Reuelationes Sancte Birgitte - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Reuelationes Sancte Birgitte - Rare book, public domain, Library of Co...

With prefaces by Juan de Torquemada and Matthias de Suecia. Edited by Florian Waldauf. Rosenwald 205 Goff B-688 Hain-Copinger 3205 BM 15th cent., II, p. 445 (IB.7558) GW 4392 "Vita Sancte Birgitte" (abridged fr... More

Een genuechlike hystorie vanden edelen Hertoghe Gouaert van Buloen

Een genuechlike hystorie vanden edelen Hertoghe Gouaert van Buloen

Leaf [Ia]: Hier beghint een genuechlike hystorie vanden edelen Hertoghe Gouaert van Buloen ... Goff G-318 Hain-Copinger 3686 Campbell 969 Rosenwald 556 Contains in book 8, chapters 4-10, an extract from Fulcher... More

Oratio mordacissima Vrbani Prebusini, ostendens damnum quod omnibus se colentibus afferant virtutes

Oratio mordacissima Vrbani Prebusini, ostendens damnum quod omnibus se...

Rosenwald 210 Goff P-958 Hain-Copinger 4006 BM 15th cent., I, p. 116 (IA.1543) Schramm, XX, p. 9, 24, and illus. 340

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

Meditatio[ne]s Iordani de vita et passio[n]e Ih[es]u [Christ]i.Meditationes de vita et passione Jesu Christi [from old catalog][Magdeburg, Moritz Brandis ca. 1500?]

Meditatio[ne]s Iordani de vita et passio[n]e Ih[es]u [Christ]i.Meditat...

Rosenwald 209 Goff J-475 Copinger-Reichling 3372 Campbell-Kronenberg 1049 Bound with Rosarium Beatae Mariae Virginis. Rosariu[m] Beate Marie V[ir]g[in]is. [Magdeburg, ca. 1500?] LC copy imperfect: leaves [9-16]... More

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

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

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

Historia naturalis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Historia naturalis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

Goff P-786 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 13087 (variation) BM 15th cent., V, p. 153 (IC.19506) (variations) Rosenwald 212 LC copy imperfect: last leaf wanting; leaves [1], [2], [354] and [355] inlaid. A few marginal notes.

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

Summa confessorum, Augsburg, Bavaria

Summa confessorum, Augsburg, Bavaria

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

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

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

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

Biblia, Augsburg, Bavaria - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Biblia, Augsburg, Bavaria - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

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

Biblia, Augsburg, Bavaria - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Biblia, Augsburg, Bavaria - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

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

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

Die guldin Bibel, innhaltend Belonung der Tugennt vnnd Strouf der Laster.

Die guldin Bibel, innhaltend Belonung der Tugennt vnnd Strouf der Last...

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

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

Vita et Fabulae - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Vita et Fabulae - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

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

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

Postilla super Epistolas et Evangelia

Postilla super Epistolas et Evangelia

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

Histori wie die Türcken vnd andre Geschlecht der Vngleubigen die cristelichen Kirchen vor vil Iaren in manigerley Weiss angefochten

Histori wie die Türcken vnd andre Geschlecht der Vngleubigen die crist...

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

Incipit libellus de raptu anime Tundali et eius visione Tractans de penis inferni et gaudijs paradisi

Incipit libellus de raptu anime Tundali et eius visione Tractans de pe...

First published in German? Cf. Goff T-499. Title from caption, leaf [1]2. Imprint from ISTC. Signatures: [1-3]⁸ [4]⁶ ([1]1 and [4]6 blank). Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, T-497 Hain, L. Repertoriu... More

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

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

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

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

Das Buch der Weisshait der alten Weisen von Anbeginne der Welt von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht

Das Buch der Weisshait der alten Weisen von Anbeginne der Welt von Ges...

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

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

Le liure des Eneydes - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress s...

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

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