A remarkable 1497 Koberger edition of Juvenal preserving one of the most complete surviving records of early humanist reading. Retaining its original Rhenish binding, the volume was extensively annotated by a German scholar active around 1511, whose notes reveal engagement with Erasmus, Poliziano, Crinito, Reisch, Roman antiquities, and classical literature. Marginalia extending into the gutters demonstrate annotation before binding, while institutional stamps, collector bookplates, and later scholarly notes document more than five centuries of continuous use. Not merely an incunable of Juvenal, but a rare witness to the history of reading itself.
666J Jakob Wimpfeling 1450-1528 Concordia curatorum: & fratrum mendicantiu[m]. Carmen elegiacum deplangens discordiam & dissensionem christianorum cuiuscunq[ue] status dignitatis aut professionis. Straßburg: Johann Prüß, 1503 Price $3,500 Quarto, 20 x 14 cm. Signatures a-b4. Bound in modern bords. Quite a few notes by a... Continue Reading →
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“Eyb stressed two things throughout the Margarita: to be able to write well and to be disposed to live properly.” Albrecht von Eyb (who has a few more than the usual variations of his name [see https://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01316161%5D 364J Albrecht von... Continue Reading →
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795J Lucas Lossius (1508-1582) Erotemata Dialeticae Et Rhetoricae Philippi Melanchthonis :breuia ac dilucida, & item praeceptionum D. Erasmi Roterodami, devtraeque Copia Verborum & rerum :iam primum ad usum Scholarum (quas Volant Triviales) ediscendi gratia compendiose selecta 7 contracta. å Frankfurt: Haeredes, Christiani Egenolphi,... Continue Reading →
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428J Verheiden, Jacob. The history of the moderne protestant divines, containing their parents, countries, education, studies, lives, and the yeare of our Lord in which they dyed. With a true register of all their severall treatises, and writings that are extant.... Continue Reading →
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795J Lucas Lossius (1508-1582) Erotemata Dialeticae Et Rhetoricae Philippi Melanchthonis :breuia ac dilucida, & item praeceptionum D. Erasmi Roterodami, devtraeque Copia Verborum & rerum. Frankfurt: Haeredes, Christiani Egenolphi, 1583 Price $ 2,500 Octavo 16 x 10cm. Signatures A-X8 (X8 is colophon and present)... Continue Reading →
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428J Jacob Verheiden. The history of the moderne protestant divines, containing their parents, countries, education, studies, lives, and the yeare of our Lord in which they dyed. With a true register of all their severall treatises, and writings that are extant. Faithfully... Continue Reading →
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186J Desiderius Erasmus von Rotterdam(1466-1536) The First Tome (and second) or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the newe testament. Enpriented at London in fletestete at the signe of the sunne by Edwarde Whitchurche, the last daie of Januarie,... Continue Reading →
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428J Verheiden, Jacob. The history of the moderne protestant divines, containing their parents, countries, education, studies, lives, and the yeare of our Lord in which they dyed. With a true register of all their severall treatises, and writings that are extant.... Continue Reading →
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