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353J Alberto da Castello. Rosario della gloriosa Vergine Maria : con lle sttattiionii & iindullgenttiie delllle chiiese di Roma perr tutto L’’anno.

180 Woodcuts of devotional Catholic Icons. 1584 ROSARY

610J a Father of the Society of Jesus [i.e. J. Croiset] A spiritual retreat for one day in every month: written in French by a father of the Society of Jesus, and faithfully translated for the common good of the English. Wherein the author has shewn the great ease, usefulness, advantage, and method, of setting a part and spending every month, that small portion of our time in a spiritual retreat.
Retraite spirituelle pour un jour de chaque mois. English)

526J Albertus Magnus Pseudo Albert us Magnus Secretis mulierum et viroru(m)

“One of the most influential documents in the history of medieval scientific attitudes toward women”

564J Albertus of Pauda Solemne opus expositionis Euangeliorum dominicalium tocius anni reuerendi magistri Alberti de Padua ordinis frat[rum] heremitarum sancti Augustini Add: Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuel: Concordantia in passionem dominicam.

AN INCUNABULE PRINTED BY JOHANN ZAINER in Ulm with pastedowns of waste pages (printed on one side only) printed at Augsburg bay Gunther Zainer.

284J Aristotle , Gualtherus Burlaeus. (Walter Burley

Expositio Gualteri Burlei super decem Libros Ethicorum Aristotelis

Walter Burley on Aristotle’s Ethics

694G Bacon The essayes or counsels, ciuill and morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban

Quarto, Bacon Essays, The first to include The Colors of Good and Evil, 1629

665J Baptistae Fulgosi. 1453-1504 De Dictis Factisq[ue] Memorabilibus collectan¾ Camillo Gilino latina facta.

Gutenberg, Columbus and a few other important 15th century guys

537J Biel (sammelband of 5) A Sammelband Of commentaries on the mass pre reformation. 1495-1509

i) Lochmaier, Parochiale curatorum 1514

ii) Biel, Epitoma expositionis sacri canonismissae. 1499

iii) Directorium Misse de nouo 1509

iv) Interpretationes et declarationes terminorum indulgentiarum. 1515

v) Morgenstern Sermones-mu[n]di p[er]uersum 1513

537Ji-v A Sammelband of five printed books. Four from the early sixteenth century and one printed in the late fifteenth. On reformist liturgy 1499-1515.

651J Congregatio Generalis Ratio Atque Institutio Studentorum Socitatis Jesus Auctoritate Septim¾ Congregationis Generalis aucta.

945G Eusebius Eusebius Pa[m]phili de eua[n]gelica preparac[i]o[n]e ex greco in latinu[m] translatus Incipit feliciter.

The “Praeparitio” is a gigantic feat of erudition.

525J Ficino Epistolae Marsilii Ficini Florentini.

The Letters of Ficino 1497

263J Galilei Petri Gassendi Institutio Astronomica: Juxta Hypotheseis Tam Veterum quam Recentiorum. Cui accesserunt Galilei Galilei Nuncius Sidereus; et Johannis Kepleri Dioptrice. Secunda Editio priori correctior.

Galileo’s “Starry Messenger” and Kepler’s “Dioptrice” Two of the Most Important Books in Early Observational Astronomy

656J Marcel, Guillaume, 1647-1708. Translated by Parsons Chronological tables of Europe : from the nativity of our Saviour to the year 1703 : engraven on 46 copper-plates, and contriv’d in a small compass for the pocket : being of great use for the reading of history, and a ready help to discourse : digested into so very easie and exact a method, that any one may immediately find out either pope, emperour, or king, and thereby know in what time & kingdom he reign’d, who were his predecessours, contemp[ou]rs, & success[ou]rs, to what virtues or vices he was most inclinable, the good or ill success of his fortune, the manner & time of his death.

Engraven on 46 copper-plates, and contriv’d in a small compass for the pocket : being of great use for the reading of history, and a ready help to discourse : 1707 Early Modern Book Making.

631J Sandys, George, 1578-1644. Sandys travels : containing an history of the original and present state of the Turkish Empire, their laws, government, policy, military force, courts of justice, and commerce, the Mahometan religion and ceremonies, a description of Constantinople, the Grand Signior’s seraglio, and his manner of living : also, of Greece, with the religion and customs of the Grecians : of Egypt, the antiquity, hieroglyphicks, rites, customs, and discipline, and religion of the Egyptians : a voyage on the River Nylvs : of Armenia, Grand Cairo, Rhodes, the Pyramides, Colossus, the former flourishing and present state of Alexandria : a description of the Holy-Land, of the Jews, and several sects of Christians living there : of Jerusalem, sepulchre of Christ, Temple of Solomon, and what else either of antiquity, or worth observation : lastly, Italy described, and the islands adjoining, as Cyprus, Crete, Malta, Sicilia, the Iolian Islands, of Rome, Venice, Naples, Syracusa, Mesena, Aetna, Scylla, and Charybdis, and other places of note : illustrated with fifty graven maps and figures.

Sandys travels : containing an history of the original and present state of…Turkish Empire, Constantinople, Greece, Ægypt, Armenia, Grand Cairo… Italy, and the islands adjoining, as Cyprus, Crete, Malta, Sicilia, the Æolian Islands, of Rome, Venice, Naples, Syracusa, Mesena, Aetna, Scylla, and Charybdis, and other places of note

653J Suetonius Tranquillus Suetonius Tranquillus [de Vita Caesarum], cum Philippi Beroaldi et Antonii Sabellici commentariis, cum figuris nuper additis. – “A_ la fin” : Commentaria Philippi Beroaldi nec non Marci Antonii Sabellici in Suetonium Tranquillum foeliciter Venetiis exacta, per Joannem Rubeum Vercellensem, anno Domini MCCCCCVI, die VIII. januarii.

Suetonius ILLUSTRATED: This book, with the first Image of a Caesarian Section.

573J Suso, Henry Horologium aeternae sapientiae. 1500

Henry Suso: Servent to Eternal Wisdom A rare and wonderful copy!

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