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301J A Sammelband of three titles by Œcolampadius relating to the Suppression of Catholics in Basil by insurrection and their expulsion. 1527& 1528 ... Continue Reading →
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299J Petrus de ROSENHEIM(1380-1433).. (& Sebastian Brant (1458-1521); Georg Simler aka Relmisius) [ARS MEMORANDI.] Rationarium Euangelistarum : omnia in se euangelia: prosa. uersu. imaginibusq[ue] q[ue] mirifice co[m]plecte[n] Thomas Anshelm, Pforzheim, 1507. $15,000. Quarto: a-c6 with 15 full-page mnemonic woodcuts. Now... Continue Reading →
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Here is another wonderful one , I think Dunton would call me “A Letter-monger” He suggest that Books are a mere Drug (sounding like Marx?) The Secretary of Fate takes his place (reminding me of Mallarme´”Un Coup de Des)" Parcæ... Continue Reading →
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Madeleine Vigneron (1628-1667) La vie et la conduite spirituelle de Mademoiselle M. Vigneron. Suivant les mémoires qu'elle en a laissez par l'ordre de son directeur (M. Bourdin). [Arranged and edited by him.]. Paris: Chez Pierre de Launay, 1689. ... Continue Reading →
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Some men by fixing on a false Delight Instruct, and by mistaking set us right. 265J John Dunton 1659-1733 Athenian sport: or, two thousand paradoxes merrily argued, to amuse and divert the age: as a Paradox in praise... Continue Reading →
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This rare[N.America :Folger & Huntington (only) ] little book in quite a formal way "And this we thus proue:" By quoting Church fathers, from Clemens Romanus to St Augustine, that the Pope must be the Anti-christ. What a place to... Continue Reading →
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Exitus acta probat. OVID Heroides, II, 85. "the outcome justifies the means." This week I have been working on a fifteenth-century manuscript which satisfies most of the qualities of a Pious Fraud . "Pious fraud is used to describe fraud in religion. A... Continue Reading →
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