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.
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.
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Goff L98 Jacob von Gruytrode. Anton Sorg
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633J. Book of Hours, Use of Rome most likely produced in England mid fifteenth century. Duodecimo, 10.5 x 8.5 cm. . 196 parchment leaves of parchment, including tipped-in illuminations on the verso that are coordinated with facing richly foliated leaves on... Continue Reading →
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These three incunabula all have notes deep in the gutters suggesting that most likely they were annotated while still in quires and feasibly disbound. 753J Dunns Scotus, (c.1265-1308) Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Ed: Thomas Penketh and Bartholomaeus Bellatus.... Continue Reading →
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553Ji. Gérard de Vliederhoven & 553Jii Guido de Monte Rochen. 553Ji. Gérard de Vliederhoven Cordiale quattuor novissimorum. (Memorare nouissima tua.) Köln, Konrad Winters, de Homborch, about 1482. Price $8,000 Quarto 22 x15 ½ cm. signatures : a–f⁸g-h⁶ i⁸ [68 leaves] Two works bound in one. I) Heavily browned, some old annotations.... Continue Reading →
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Not in MünchenDownload ‡ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/02/03/eusebius-la-vita-el-transito-1487/ Eusebius: (La vita el transito) 1487 Two North American copies. 658J. Eusebius -(275-339) (La vita el transito) Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De Miraculis Hieronymi). [Venice, Hannibal Foxius, 1 June 1487]. $7,000 Octavo 16.7x12cm. Signatures: a–i8. 72 leaves, 36 lines, Roman letter, rubricated with capital letters in red ink. Several annotations in ink and marginal notes, first leaf mounted, 5 leaves, small wormholes touching the letters on the front edge of 4 leaves, 2... Continue Reading →
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Two North American copies. 658J. Eusebius -(275-339) (La vita el transito) Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De Miraculis Hieronymi). [Venice, Hannibal Foxius, 1 June 1487]. $7,000 Octavo 16.7x12cm. Signatures: a–i8. 72 leaves, 36 lines, Roman letter, rubricated with capital letters in red ink. Several annotations in ink and marginal notes, first leaf mounted, 5 leaves, small wormholes touching the letters on the front edge of 4 leaves, 2 intermediate margins reinforced with old paper strips, small worming marks on 4 leaves. – Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label “Transito di San Gerolamo, Venetia, 1487” This collection... Continue Reading →
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