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October 2021

Hrabanus Maurus 784-856

Hrabanus Maurus 469J   Rabanus Maurus. 784-856?  Magnencij Rabani Mauri De Laudib[us] sancte Crucis opus. erudcione versu prosaq[ue] mirificum. edited by Jacobus Wimpheling. Phorçheim. [Pforzheim : In ædibus Thom[ae] Anshelmi., 1503.     $24,000 ChanceryFolio 31 x 21cm. signatures: Aa6 Bb4... Continue Reading →

How Do You remember?

529J. Johannes Host von Romberch (c. 1480-c. 1533) [Ars Memorandi]  Congestorium artificiose memorie V.P.F. Joãnis Romberch de Kyrspe. Regularis obseruantie predicatorie: omnium de memoria preceptiões aggregatim complectens: opus oĩbus theologis: predicatoribus & confessoribus: juristis: iudicibus procuratoribus: aduocatis & notarijs: medicis:... Continue Reading →

How Do You remember?

529J. Johannes Host von Romberch (c. 1480-c. 1533) [Ars Memorandi]  Congestorium artificiose memorie V.P.F. Joãnis Romberch de Kyrspe. Regularis obseruantie predicatorie: omnium de memoria preceptiões aggregatim complectens: opus oĩbus theologis: predicatoribus & confessoribus: juristis: iudicibus procuratoribus: aduocatis & notarijs: medicis:... Continue Reading →

One thousand five hundred years ago, situations unchanged.

471J  Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (480-524) Sancti thome de aquino super libris Boecii de consolatione philosophie co[m]mentum cum expositione feliciter incipit. Lyons: Guillaume le Roy, 1484 ( not after 24 December 1484).  Price: $22,000. Chancery folio (296 x 210mm). signatures :a-x⁸... Continue Reading →

Of – POWDERS, MAGNETS, ATOMS, MECHANICS

Of the Curing and Causing of Wounds xxxJ Gideon Harvey (1640?-1700?.) Casus medico-chirurgicus 1685538J George Bate Pharmacopoeia Bateana in English 1694xxxJ. Gideon Harvey  The vanities of philosophy & physick: 527JBA.   Walter Charleton The magnetick cure of wounds. 1650445J       Kenelm Digby  The Cure of Wounds By... Continue Reading →

“All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.” Edmund Waller

108F Edmund Waller 1606-1687 Poems, &c. Written upon several Occasions, And to several Persons: By Edmond Waller, Esq; Licensed, May 18, 1686. Roger L’Estrange. The Fifth Edition, with several Additions Never before Printed. Non ego mordaci distrinxi carmine quenquam, Nulla... Continue Reading →

Παμβοτανολόγια: Sive Enchiridion botanicum. Or a compleat herball 1659

Isagoge Mostly I like to think I choose the books which I write about by, discriminating attention to their content or their expression there of. This Bolg comments on a very nice book which has both, and I find it... Continue Reading →

Παμβοτανολόγια: Sive Enchiridion botanicum. Or a compleat herball 1659

Isagoge Mostly I like to think I choose the books which I write about by, discriminating attention to their content or their expression there of. This Bolg comments on a very nice book which has both, and I find it... Continue Reading →

Petrus de Rosenheim: THE first very rare edition of the Herastichon 1502, And more properly the : Ars memorandi.

Above is the first leaf from the first edition of 1502,  which begins Hexastichon Sebastiani Brandtin memorabi \ les euangelistarx figuras In 1502 there are two 'first' editions of the printed Ars memorandi, first edition, has first line ending "Brantn... Continue Reading →

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