"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 →
46th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum The Body in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 958J Albertus Magnus. https://jamesgray2.me/2026/03/03/an-annotated-1508-de-secretis-mulierum-medieval-version-of-our-bodies-ourselves/ 284J Aristotle/ Burley. https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/30/aristotle-and-burley-2/ 601J Augustine. https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/24/601j-augustinus-pseudo/ 658J Eusebius (Jerome). https://jamesgray2.me/2025/02/03/eusebius-la-vita-el-transito-1487/ 525J Ficino (see also 935J). https://jamesgray2.me/2025/09/17/annotated-letters-of-marsilio-ficino-1497/ 880J Geregory I. https://jamesgray2.me/2025/10/02/a-proto-reformation-sammelband-of-gregory-i/ 937J... Continue Reading →
Nam digiti scripto laetantur, lumina visu Mens volvet sensu mystica verba Dei The fingers rejoice in writing, the eyes in seeing, and the mind at examining the meaning of God’s mystical words.” 351J* . Hrabanus Maurus. 784-856? Magnencij Rabani Mauri De... Continue Reading →
Merian’s great “Bilderbibel,” reissued in Amsterdam with English text for export—complete, finely bound, and preserving the full narrative richness of the seventeenth century’s most influential engraved Bible cycle. 962J. Merian, Matthäus 1593-1650 Icones Biblicæ, praecipuas sacræ scripturæ historias eleganter et graphicè representantes.=... Continue Reading →
Eight incunabula all rare in North America
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493J John Radcliffe (1650-1714) Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana: or, Dr. Radcliff’s prescriptions, faithfully gather’d from his original recipe’s. To which are annex’d, useful observations upon each prescription. [By Edward Strother.] London : printed for Charles Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, against... Continue Reading →
Myographia Nova 963J John Browne 1642-1700? Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in the humane body, as they arise in dissection: distributed into six lectures. At the Entrance into which, Are Demonstrated the proper Muscles belonging... Continue Reading →
944J Lutheran polemical Sammelband (1675–1692) Mylius, G[abriel]I . Hall, Joseph II, III & IV; Müller, Philipp V I) Harmonia Patrum & B. Lutheri cum S. Scriptura Secundum Locos Theologicos Das ist: Gründlicher Beweiß Daß D. Martinus Lutherus in allen und ieden mit dem Römischen... Continue Reading →


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