This week's blog is descriptions of a few more incunabula not represented in NYC libraries #1 Two Incunabula bound together. One Very Rare, printed at Vienne by Eberhard Frommolt. Both rubricated at the same time and both signed by the... Continue Reading →
2) 453J Diogenes Lærtius , (Tr: Ambrosius Traversarius 1386-1439.) Diogenis lærtii historiographi de philosophorum vita decem per q[uam] fecundi libri ad bene beateq[ue] viuendu[m] co[m]motiui. Paris : Guy or Jean Marchant, for Jean Petit, [about 1509]. {Venundantur Parisius in vico Diui Iacobi... Continue Reading →
563J Thomas Aquinas Quaestiones junta doctrina circa confessionem seu Sacramentum poenitentiae. [Rome : Johann Besicken, about 1493-94]. Collijn assigns this to Guldinbeck. PRICE $4,500 Octavo 19 x 13.5 cm Signatures : a8 Fol. 8 blank and present. Old bibliographies assigned this to... Continue Reading →
‡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 →
‡ 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 →
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 →
946G Bonaventura (fromerly attributed to) but Nicolaus de Hanapis (1225-1291) Incipit preclarum opus quod Biblia pauperum appellatur, a domino Bonaventura, Ordinis minorum, perutile omnibus predicatoribus. Venice: Explicit opus preclarum domini Bonaventure Biblia pauperum nuncupatum, impressionique Venetiis deditum impensis Johannis... Continue Reading →
907G Johannes de Verdena (d.1437) Sermones Dormi secure vel dormi sine cura de t[em]p[or]e. [bound with] Sermones Dormi secure de tempore et de sanctis. Nuremberg : Anton Koberger, 12 Mar. 1498Nuremberg : Anton... Continue Reading →


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