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Boethius, d. 524.De consolatione philosophieDe consolatione philosophiae. Dutch & Latin [from old catalog]Ghent, Arend de Keysere, 3 May 1485.

Boethius, d. 524.De consolatione philosophieDe consolatione philosophi...

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

Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae ad usum Romanum.  Hours [from old catalog]  [Paris, Denis Mellier? ca. 1490]  [80] leaves. cuts: illus., borders. 27 cm. (4to)

Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae ad usum Romanum. Hours [from old catalog...

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

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

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

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

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff B-526 Hain 3031 GW 4201 Schwenke, P. Johannes Gutenbergs 42-zeilige Bibel, no. 12 (p. 10) and p. 23, 25, 41, 48 LC copy on vellum. Leaf [... 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

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

Institutiones, cum glossa

Institutiones, cum glossa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

De animalibus - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Translated by Theodorus Gaza; edited by Ludovicus Podocatharus. Goff A-973 Hain-Copinger 1699 BM 15th cent., V, p. 232 (IB.20287) GW 2350 Vollbehr H1699

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

Canon medicinae - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Canon medicinae - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Gerardus Cremonensis' translation of al-Qānūn fī al-tibb. Colophons dated Aug. 19-Nov. 6, 1479. Signatures: a⁸ b-f¹⁰ g⁶ [h]² i¹⁰ k⁸ l-o¹⁰ p⁶ [superscript chi]H⁶ A-D¹⁰ E⁸ F¹⁰ G-H⁸ I-K¹² L-O⁸ [superscript chi]... 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

Abubecri rasis filij zacharie Liber

Abubecri rasis filij zacharie Liber

A collection of 15 medical tracts including 8 by Rāzī with his Kitāb al-Manṣūrī first, 5 tracts of Hippocrates, and 1 of Galen. Caption title; imprint from colophon. Signatures: pi⁶ a-l⁸ m⁴ n-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸... More

Mercurii Trismegisti Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei

Mercurii Trismegisti Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei

Title from caption, leaf a1; imprint from leaf pi1. Signatures: pi⁴ a-b⁸ c-f⁴ g⁸ (pi1 and g8 blank). Goff H-79 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 8458 GW 12312 BM 15th cent., V, p. 280 (IA. 20895) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM... More

Liber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam

Liber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapi...

Falsely attributed to Albertus Magnus. Cf. Deutscher Gesamtkatalog. Signatures: [a-c⁸]. Goff A-251 GW 633 IGI 187 "Eiusdem Alberti Magni De mirabilibus mundi" (also spurious): leaves [12b-24a]. LC copy: capital... 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

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

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).

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

Liber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam

Liber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapi...

Falsely attributed to Albertus Magnus. Cf. Deutscher Gesamtkat. Goff A-252 Hain 536 BM 15th cent., VI, p. 829 (IA.28742) GW 634 "Eiusde[m] Alberti Magni De mirabilibus mu[n]di" (also spurious): leaves [14a-28b]... More

Dialogi de dignitate sacerdotii

Dialogi de dignitate sacerdotii

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

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

Omelia Sancti Iohannis, Episcopi, cognomento Crisostomi, de superscriptione Psalmi quinquagesimi

Omelia Sancti Iohannis, Episcopi, cognomento Crisostomi, de superscrip...

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

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

Theodori Graeci Thessalonicensis ad Nicolaum Quintum Pont. Max

Theodori Graeci Thessalonicensis ad Nicolaum Quintum Pont. Max

Title from caption, leaf A2. Imprint from colophon. Edited and with a table by Giorgio Merula; translated by Theodōros Gazēs. Signatures: A-H⁸ I-L⁶ a⁸ b⁶ c-h⁸ i-k⁶ (A1 blank). Goff, F.R. Incunabula in America... More

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

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

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

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.

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

Speculum naturale - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Speculum naturale - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Part of the author's Speculum maius. Vol. 1: [320] leaves (the first (wanting) and [20] blank); v. 2: [282] leaves (the first and last blank). Goff V-293 Copinger 6257 BM 15th cent., II, p. x; III, p. 860 Polai... 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

Aesopus moralisatus - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Aesopus moralisatus - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

The Latin metrical version of Anonymus Neveleti. Device of Angelus Britannicus. Goff A-126 LC copy bound in ms. waste from a vellum liturgical music ms. Vollbehr Unknown Aesopus

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.

Regule, ordinationes & constitutiones Cancellarie Sanctissimi domini nostri domini Innocentii diuina prouidentia pape viii

Regule, ordinationes & constitutiones Cancellarie Sanctissimi domini n...

An assembly of papal edicts, etc., affecting the work of the chancery; dates of the documents range from 13 Sept. 1484 through 3 Apr. 1487. Title from first line, leaf [1]1. Ampersands in transcriptions represe... 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

Stella clericorum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Stella clericorum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

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

Eruditorium penitentiale - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Eruditorium penitentiale - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

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.

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

Arithmetica Boetij - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Arithmetica Boetij - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

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.

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

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

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.

Missale Pragense - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Missale Pragense - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

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

Horologium deuotionis, Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Horologium deuotionis, Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

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

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

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.

Horologiu[m] deuotionis circa vitam ChristiZeitglöcklein des Lebens und Leidens Christi. Latin [from old catalog]Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 1489.

Horologiu[m] deuotionis circa vitam ChristiZeitglöcklein des Lebens un...

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

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

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

Privilegia Ordinis Cisterciensis

Privilegia Ordinis Cisterciensis

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

Abumeron. Auenzohar - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Abumeron. Auenzohar - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

Known in incunabula references as Liber Teisir, sive Rectificatio medicationis et regiminis. Translated by a Magister Patavinus (designated Magister Paravicius in present ed. only) from the Hebrew version. Goff... More

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

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

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

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

Libri de celo et mundo Aristotelis,

Libri de celo et mundo Aristotelis,

Edited by Hermannus de Virsen. Goff A-978 Hain-Copinger 1689 = 1531 BM 15th cent., V, p. 445 (IB.22926b) GW 2355 LC copy has inscriptions at end: Ad vsu[m] Fr[atr]is Francisci Speroni, Ordinis Minoru[m] co[n]ue... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

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

Viola sanctorum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Viola sanctorum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Signatures: pi¹⁰ a-d⁸ e-x⁶. Rosenwald 176 Goff M-338 Hain-Copinger 10872 BM 15th cent., II, p. 395 (IA.6493) Bound with Passio Sancti Meynradi. Passio Sancti Meynrhadi, martyris et heremite. Basel, 20 Sept. 149... 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

Stultifera nauis .. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Stultifera nauis .. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

Reprint of the Basel ed., retaining its colophon. Includes introductory and laudatory verses and additions by Brant and Locher. Rosenwald 185 Goff B-1087 Hain 3747 BM 15th cent., II, p. 471 (IA.8105) GW 5055 LC... 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

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

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

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

Meditationes de vita et beneficiis Jesu Christi, sive Gratiarum actiones

Meditationes de vita et beneficiis Jesu Christi, sive Gratiarum action...

Leaf [1a] (t.-p.): De vita beneficijs saluatoris Ihesu Cristi deuotissime meditationes cū gratiarū actione. With: Bonaventura, Saint, Cardinal. Spurious and doubtful works. Stimulus diuini amoris. [Antwerp, c... 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

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

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.

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

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

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

Codex diplomaticus., 16th century

Codex diplomaticus., 16th century

Cataloged from surrogates: information from de Ricci and J.W. Hessler. Christopher Columbus Book of privileges ..., 2014. Documents in Spanish and Latin. Ms. codex cartulary. The work of several scribes in scri... More

Incipit Clarificatorium Iohānis de Tornamira super nono Almansoris cum textu ipsius Rasis

Incipit Clarificatorium Iohānis de Tornamira super nono Almansoris cum...

Printed for Balthazard de Gabiano. A brief compendium of medicine in the form of a commentary on the 9th book of al-Rāzī's al-Manṣūrī fī al-t̨ibb. The Claraficatorium was written in Montpellier in 1365 an... More

Flosculus sacramentorum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Flosculus sacramentorum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

A handbook for the Catholic clergy, outlining the essentials of the faith. The booklet begins with discussion of sacraments in general, and then goes on to treat each of the sacraments of the Catholic Church in... More

Opus regale - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Opus regale - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 938

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

"Nova terre descriptio" (p. [649-660]) constitutes signature P, which has a map on the verso. Alden, J.E. European Americana, 515/14 BM STC German, 1455-1600, 731 LC copy has two folded maps removed and shelve... More

Hippocratis Aphorismi. De natura humana. De flatibus. Præsagia. De ratione victus. Galeni Ars medicinalis

Hippocratis Aphorismi. De natura humana. De flatibus. Præsagia. De rat...

The Aphorismi and Ars medicinalis translated by N. Leoniceno ; De natura humana by A. Brenta ; De flatibus by C. Lascaris ; Præsagia and De ratione victus by G. Copus. Gift A. W. Bitting Oct 6, 1939.

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