"In the second half of the fourteenth and in the fifteenth century there was no more widely read meditation book in the German Language." (CE https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07238c.htm) 573J Henricus Suso. (1295-1366) Horologium aeternae sapientiae. Cologne: Johann Landen, December 1500/1501. Price $15,000 Octavo,... Continue Reading →
961J José Acosta 1540-1600 Josephi Acostae e Societate Jesu Conciones de Adventu, id est, De omnibus Dominicis & festis diebus a Dominica vigesimaquarta post Pentecosten usque ad Quadragesimam : quarum numerum & locum index initio praefixus ostendit : res vero,... Continue Reading →
Ambrosius Traversarius 1386 –1439. #453J Bernard of Claravallensis 1090-1153. #601J Dunns Scotus c1265-1308. #753J Elsbeth Stagel 1300-1360. #573j & 911J Guillermus Parisiensis; 1297-1312. #444J Henricus Suso, 1295-1366. #911J & 573J Hieremias de Montagnone c. 1250-1320. # 900J Hugo de Sancto Victore/. c. 1096 –1141. #601J Hugo Ripelin (von Straßburg) 1200-1268. # 900J Jean... Continue Reading →
953J Ferdinand I. Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser Österreich. 1503-1564 Verfasserin (Author) Ein New Mandat Koniglicher Maiestat zu Hungarn vñ Behem an alle Herrn vñ Stende Ober vnd Nider Schlesien vnd bayder Laußnitz die sachen des glaubens betreffendt.; neues beider Lausitz; Ein neu... Continue Reading →
Foundational Texts in Seventeenth-Century Observational Science
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This inventory list of incunabula brings together a deliberately wide-ranging yet deeply selective group of incunabula, each chosen not merely for age but for what it reveals about the intellectual, devotional, and pedagogical life of the fifteenth century.
First Latin edition of Basil the Great’s De legendis antiquorum libris, translated by Leonardo Bruni and printed by Johann Zainer in Ulm, 1478. A foundational text of Christian humanism, exceptionally rare.


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