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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 →

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 →

One of the earliest printed books on the ars memorativa or mnemotechnics

° 502J  Petrus de Rosenheim. (1380-1432). Incipt; Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum [Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschla, ca. 1480.                                                                                                                                                                             Price: $18,500 Quarto: 22 x 14 ½ cm.  Signatures:  a-f8.  Pages (a1 blank and... Continue Reading →

5 books thought to remember thinking about.

5 books about memory and its development and use in relation to thought and devotion.

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