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9 incunabula not in NYC Part TWO

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 →

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Not in München

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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Ars moriendi & Speculum finalis retributionis tam bonorum 1495 & 1499

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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Inc’s not in NYC

This week's blog is descriptions of Seven incunabula not represented in NYC libraries. 284JAridstotle/Burley 1500. https://data.cerl.org/istc/ib01301000 Boston Public,  Newberry Library, Library of Philadelphia, Uof Illinois, 4466J  Balthasar de Portahttps://data.cerl.org/istc/ib00039000Huntington , SMU, Yale658J  Eusebius 1487https://data.cerl.org/istc/ih00257000 The Walters Library,  Huntington Library2305JPelbartus de Themeswar 1501. https://data.cerl.org/istc/ip002525000238J Peregrinus of Opolehttps://data.cerl.org/istc/ip00267000Bryn Mawr College, (ff 239-278) ,Harvard... Continue Reading →

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Aristotle and Burley.

284J Aristotle , --Gualtherus Burlaeus. (Walter Burley (c. 1275–1344/5 )) Expositio Gualteri Burlei super decem Libros Ethicorum Aristotelis (Contains the text of Robert Grosseteste’s translation of the Nicomachean Ethics) Venice: Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, 4 September 1500            Price $11,500 Folio, 12... Continue Reading →

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7 Incunabula, each know in fewer than 3 copies in the US.

1. 553Ji. Gérard de Vliederhoven.  Cordiale quattuor novissimorum. one copy Bryn Mawr 2. 453J. Diogenes Lærtius.Historiographi de philosophorum vita. one copy Harvard Radcliffe- Schlesinger Library. 3. 658J Eusebius. Epistola de morte Hieronymi . two copies. Walters Library & Huntington Library 4. 448J... Continue Reading →

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8 Incunabula

Albertus of Padua & Spiegel des Sünders AN INCUNABULUM PRINTED BY JOHANN ZAINER in Ulm with pastedowns of waste pages (printed on one side only) printed at Augsburg by Gunther Zainer. 564J. Albertus de Padua (1282-1328): and Pseudo-Nicolaus de Dinkelsbühl... Continue Reading →

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ON ALMOST EVERY PAGE , Annotations

ONE The Letters of Marsilio Ficino represent an essential core of his thought and influence as a chief architect of the Platonic and Hermetic revival, the philosophical and revelatory center of the new learning that was revamping religious vision and... Continue Reading →

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Annotated copy of a 1497 Juvenal

‡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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