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A discussion of interesting books from my current stock at www.jamesgraybookseller.com

SUSO  Horologium aeternae sapientiae Köln 1501 Edited by Elsbeth Stagel

"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 →

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Libraries around the world

https://rhollick.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/fiat-lux/#like-70220?page_id=70220

About time for a new year!

https://raffaellopalandri.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/losar-the-tibetan-new-year-tradition-symbolism-and-celebration/?page_id=13702

Early printed books by Medieval Authors and commentators.

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 →

Royal mandate of  Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria and later Holy Roman Emperor, addressing all Lords and Estates of Upper and Lower Silesia regarding matters of faith and the handling of Reformation literature.

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 →

12 books of natural history in 17th century, key Books in the Rise of Empirical Science.

Foundational Texts in Seventeenth-Century Observational Science

17th century books by or about women.

https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/23/jeanne-francoise-fremyot-de-chantal-saint/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/09/1681-life-of-anne-de-xainctonge-founder-of-the-ursulines-of-the-franche-comte-first-edition-zug-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/11/13/les-oeuvres-of-madeleine-de-la-calprenede/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/11/29/the-writings-of-agnetis-a-iesu-1602-1634/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/01/15/poems-by-the-most-deservedly-admired-mrs-katherine-philips/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/11/24/women-of-early-dominican-spirituality-margaret-of-ypres-margareta-de-gerines-and-brigida-of-holland/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/05/16/anne-finch-countess-of-winchilsea-and-anne-wharton-two-female-wits/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/05/28/worthy-proverbs/ https://jamesgray2.me/2024/08/13/serenity-which-accumulates-more-often-in-the-ovaries-or-the-glands-of-the-mesentery-than-the-folds-of-the-brain/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/16/943j-the-nunns-complaint-1676/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/09/georgette-de-montenay-the-first-emblem-book-written-by-a-woman-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/08/27/effigies-amoris-love-unvailed/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/01/12/a-treatise-on-uncleanness-and-chastity-1708/ Jamesgray2@me.com

INCUNABULA winter 2026

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.

Basilius Magnus De legendis antiquorum libris, Ulm 1478 — First Latin Edition (Bruni)

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.

Das Hailig ewyg wort gots 1523

917J Marschalk, (sometimes spelled Marschalk)  Haug Das Hailig ewyg wort gots, was dz in jm kraft stercke, tugendt, frid, fred, erleuchtung, vnnd leben, in aym rechten Christen zu erweckn vermag. (Augsburg, Ramminger), 1523.     Price $4,500 Quarto Signatures:A-C4  Bound in 19th century boards. This is a... Continue Reading →

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