The copies that matter most are not always the cleanest ones. This mid-sixteenth-century Cologne edition of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s Epistolae ad familiares survives as a working book, densely annotated by an early modern reader who approached Cicero not as a... Continue Reading →
552Ji Mateusz,; z Krakowa, Cardinal,; approximately 1330-1410.* (Ars moriendi.) – Speculū artis bene moriēdi de temptatōnibus. penis infernalibus interrogatōibus agonisantium et varijs oratōnibus pro illorum salute faciendis. (Köln, Heinrich Quentell, about 1495). Price $9,000 Quarto 20 x 5 cm. Signatures: a⁶ b⁴ c⁶ With a nice Accipies woodcut on... Continue Reading →
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‡670J Heavily annotated copy of a 1497 Juvenal by a German (Rhenish scholar ca 1512) 670J. JUVENAL. (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) with the commentary of Domitius Calderinus, Georgius Valla and Antonius Mancinellus. IVVENALIS Anton.Manci. Domici(us) Geor. Val. Argumenta Satyrarum Iuuenalis per Antonium Mancinellum. Príma... Continue Reading →
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‡ Heavily annotated copy of a 1497 Juvenal by a German (Rhenish scholar ca 1512) 670J. JUVENAL. (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) with the commentary of Domitius Calderinus, Georgius Valla and Antonius Mancinellus. IVVENALIS Anton.Manci. Domici(us) Geor. Val. Argumenta Satyrarum Iuuenalis per Antonium Mancinellum. Príma... Continue Reading →
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Usus libri, non lectio prudente ƒacit [The use, not the reading, of books makes us wise]. Geoffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblemes (1586) 1) A Heavily annotated copy by a German scholar of a 1497 Juvenal 2) Jacobus de Gruytrode, Lavacrum conciencie.... Continue Reading →
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