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Book/Printed Materialal-Injīl al-muqaddas li-rabbinā Yasūʻal-Masīḥ al-maktūb min arbaʻ al-injīlīyīn al-muqaddasīn aʻnī : Mattá wa-Murqus wa-Lūqā wa-Yūḥannā = Evangelivm sanctvm Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptvm a qvatvor Evangelistis sanctis idest : Matthaeo, Marco, Lvca, …
الانجيل المقدس لربنا يسوع المسيح المکتوب من اربع الانجيليين المقدسين اعني : متى ومرقس ولوقا ويوحنا = Evangelivm sanctvm Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptvm a qvatvor Evangelistis sanctis idest : Matthaeo, Marco, Lvca, et Iohanne | Evangelivm sanctvm Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptvm a qvatvor Evangelistis sanctis idest : Matthaeo, Marco, Lvca, et Iohanne | Evangelium sanctum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis sanctis idest : Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Johanne This is the first edition of the Gospels printed in Arabic. It was printed at the Typographia Medicea, a printing house established in Rome by Ferdinando de Medici at the request of Pope Gregory XIII for the purpose of spreading Christianity by printing biblical texts and liturgical books in oriental languages. The Typographia Medicea commissioned fonts of oriental type from some of the most…- Contributor: Tipografia Medicea Orientale - Raimondi, Giovanni Battista - Tempesta, Antonio - Perrins, Charles William Dyson - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1591
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Book/Printed MaterialA concent of Scripture. Engraving by William Rogers. Signatures: leaf (engraved title page) unsigned, 1-4, A-D⁴, fold. leaf, unsigned, E-G⁴ (G4 blank) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1253 LAC ecr 2019-02-01 update (1 card)- Contributor: Simson, Gabriel - White, William - Broughton, Hugh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Rogers, William
- Date: 1590
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Book/Printed MaterialEsplicatione del lenzvolo oue fu inuolto il Signore, & delle piaghe in esso impresse... con pie meditationi de dolori della B. Verg. ne Engraved title page. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 884 LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis. LAC ael 2019-01-11 update (1 card)- Contributor: Paleotti, Alfonso - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Heredi DI Giovanni Rossi
- Date: 1598
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Book/Printed MaterialEsplicatione del sacro lenzvolo ove fv involto il Signore et delle piaghe in esso impresse ... con pie meditationi de' dolori della Beata Vergine
Esplicatione del sacro lenzuolo ove fu involto il Signore Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 886 LAC ael 2019-01-10 update (1 card) LAC ecr 2019-01-11 review- Contributor: Paleotti, Alfonso - Heredi DI Giovanni Rossi - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1599
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Book/Printed MaterialA booke of Christian prayers : collected out of the ancient writers and best learned in our time : worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians in these … "To the reader" signed: R.D. Based on John Day's Christian prayers and meditations in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, and Latin (first published 1569). Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁴ 2A-2O⁴. STC (2nd ed.) 6431 Title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 128) depicting the tree of Jesse. Woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth on verso of t.p. Printer's device (McKerrow 211) on verso of last leaf was…- Contributor: Yardley, Richard - Assignees of Richard Day - Day, John - Short, Peter - Day, Richard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1590
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Book/Printed MaterialDescrittione de gli apparati fatti in Bologna per la venvta di N. S. papa Celemente VIII Signatures : A-C⁴, D⁶. The etchings by Guido Reni. Cf. Brunet, Supplément I, 376. The text is ascribed to Vittorio Benacci. Cf. A Sorbelli. Storia della stampa in Bologna. 1929, p. 114 and 132. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 885 LAC brd 2019-01-08 update (1 card)- Contributor: Reni, Guido - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Benacci, Vittorio
- Date: 1599
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Book/Printed MaterialIcones ... virorum illustrium, doctrina & eruditione præstantium ... Vols. 3-4, by Johann Adam Lonicer, published by Hæredes Theodori de Bry. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 732 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ecr 2019-03-01 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-09-06 update (1 card)- Contributor: Littell, Guy - Officina Bryana - Eugene - Littell, Neva - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Lonicerus, Johann Adam - Boissard, Jean Jacques - Bry, Theodor De
- Date: 1597
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Book/Printed MaterialCalendarium historicum, das ist, Ein besondere tägliche Hauss vnd Kirchen Chronica... : Ietzund aber mit Fleiss vbersehen vnd mit etlichen mehr Historien, alten vnd neuwen, biss auff dieses MDXCIIII Iahr nach Christi …
Calendarium historicum | Besondere tägliche Hauss vnd Kirchen Chronica | Besondere tägliche Hauss und Kirchen Chronica The illus. are Jost Amman's 12 woodcuts of the months. Cf. F. W. H. Holstein. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, v. 2, p. 33. First published in 1582 under title: Diarium historicum. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 729 LAC ecr 2019-03-14 update (1 card)- Contributor: Saur, Abraham - Bassée, Nicolas - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Amman, Jost
- Date: 1594
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Book/Printed MaterialHypotyposis arcium, palatiorum, librorum, pyramidum, obeliscorum, cipporum, molarum, fontium, monumentorum & epitaphiorum, Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 726 LC copy: With: Rantzau, Henrik. De somnijs. Rostochii, 1591. Bound together subsequent to publication. Henrik Rantzau's copy. The original binding bearing his name and arms and dated 1597 mounted inside present covers. LAC brd 2019-03-25 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-04-04 review- Contributor: Rantzau, Henrik - Lindeberg, Peter - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Wechel, Johann
- Date: 1592
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Book/Printed MaterialA briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia: of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants. English edition of pt. 1 of de Bry's collection "America." Also published by Richard Hakluyt as part of his Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation. De Bry, a skillful engraver, in 1587 traveled to England, where he met Richard Hakluyt. Hakluyt gave him a copy of Hariot's Virginia, and in 1590 De Bry published the Hariot work in Latin, German, French,…- Contributor: Sotheby, Charles William Hamilton - Harriot, Thomas - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Wechel, Johann - Bry, Theodor De
- Date: 1590
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Book/Printed MaterialMerveillevx et estrange rapport, tovtesfois fidele, des commoditez qvi trovvent en Virginia, des facons des natvrels habitans d'icelle, laqvelle a esté novvellement descovverte par les Anglis qve ... Richard Greinvile ... u …
Merveilleux et estrange rapport, toutesfois fidele, des commoditez qui trouvent en Virginia French edition of pt. 1 of de Bry's collection "America" (also known as "Great Voyages"). De Bry, a skillful engraver, in 1587 traveled to England, where he met Richard Hakluyt. Hakluyt gave him a copy of Hariot's Virginia, and in 1590 De Bry published the Hariot work in Latin, German, French, and English as part I of the Great Voyages. ... the succeeding parts…- Contributor: Harriot, Thomas - Feyerabend, Sigmund - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Wechel, Johann - Bry, Theodor De - White, John
- Date: 1590
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MapAtlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra
Atlas | Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra | Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura The first part, originally published in 1585, is composed of three fascicles, each with a special t. p.: Galliæ tabulę geographicæ ; Belgii Inferioris geographicæ tabulę ; Germaniae tabulę geographicæ. The second part, originally published in 1589, has special t. p.: Italiae, Sclavoniæ, et Graeciæ tabulę geographicę. The third part, under whose title the work is published, precedes the first and second parts. Left…- Contributor: Mercator, Rumold - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Mercator, Gerhard
- Date: 1595
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Map[Composite atlas of maps by Gerard Mercator]
Title from Phillips: Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra Composite atlas containing 58 of the 107 maps published in the 1595 Atlas sive Cosmographicae. Some of the maps may be from the parts published in 1585 and 1589 rather than from the complete atlas issued in 1595. Relief shown pictorially. Title provided by cataloger. Lacks all title pages and indexes, except for "Index locorvm tabvlae generalis Belgii Inferioris" bound between maps 27 and…- Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard
- Date: 1595
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Book/Printed MaterialTabvla geographica impery Magni Tvrcæ, qui magnas Europæ, Asiæ, & Africæ prouincias, tyrannide premit : Adiecta est succincta description, eius opum, virium, forme regiminis ... Et tabvla geographica, qvae ob ocvlos ponit …
Tabula geographica impery Magni Turcae, qui magnas Europae, Asiae, & Africae provincias, tyrannide premit Translated from pt. 2, book 4, of the author's Delle relationi universali. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 731 With: Introitvs Alberti Achidvcis Avstriae. [Cologne? 159-?]. Bound together subsequent to publication. LC copy bound in contemporary brown calf, gilt center ornament. Book-plate of F. G. Trolio. Inscription on t.-p.: Ex libris principissæ Piccolominiæ Bibliotheca Slacoverdensis scholarum piarum. LAC ecr 2019-06-25 update (2 cards)- Contributor: Andreae, Lambert - Botero, Giovanni - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1596
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Book/Printed MaterialII. pars Indiae Orientalis : in qua Johan. Hugonis Lintscotani navigatio in Orientem, item regna, littora, portus, flumina, apparentiae, habitus moresque Indorum et Lusitanorum pariter in Oriente degentium ... proponuntur. Ea Lintscotus …
Secunda pars Indiae Orientalis Contains chapters 1-44 of Linschoten's Itinerario. First edition. Cf. Church. Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 207 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1310, Part II note National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, NB 0901048 (vol. 81, p. 289) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. With: the…- Contributor: Bry, Johann Israel De - Linschoten, Jan Huygen Van - Bry, Johann Theodor De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Richter, Wolfgang
- Date: 1599
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Book/Printed MaterialBrevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt : secunda in illam navigatione, duce Renato de Laudo[n]niere classis praefecto, anno MDLXIIII : quae est secunda pars Americae, additae figurae & …
Brevis narratio eorvm qvae in Florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis Part 2 of de Bry's collection known as America gives an account of expeditions by French Huguenots to Florida und Jean Ribaut (1562), René de Laudonnière (1564), and Dominique de Gourgues (1567). Jacques Le Moyne is the author of the Laudonnière expedition and the artist of the drawings. The authors of the other two accounts which follow the plates have not been identified. Signatures:…- Contributor: Le Moyne De Morgues, Jacques - Feyerabend, Sigmund - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Wechel, Johann - Bry, Theodor De
- Date: 1591
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Book/Printed MaterialThe lavves and acts of Parliament, maid be King Iames the First, and his royal successours kinges of Scotland : visied, collected and extracted furth of the register : the contentes of …
Lawes and acts of Parliament, maid be King Iames the First, and his royal successours kinges of Scotland | Laws and acts of Parliament, made by King James the First, and his royal successors kings of Scotland Signatures: pi⁴ a-z⁶ 2a-2d⁶ A-2C⁶ 2D⁴ 2E-2G⁶ ²A-²D⁴ ²E⁶ ²⁶F ²G² ²H-²S⁶. Compiled by John Skene. Added engraved title page. A 1599 reissue of the 1597 edition, with "De verborum significatione" reprinted. Cf. ESTC. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1264 Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 1219:08…- Contributor: Sharp, Charles - Waldegrave, Robert - Scotland - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Skene, John
- Date: 1599
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Book/Printed MaterialCaroli Signoii De antiqvo ivre civivm romanorvm Italiæ provinciarvm, ac romanæ ivrisprvdentiæ ivdiciis libri XI. Eivsdem, De republica Atheniensium, eorumq́ ac Lacedæmoniorum temporibus, libri quinque. Quibus adiecti nunc sunt eiusdem De republica … Printer's device of Andreas Wechel on t.-p. and last leaf. Initials, head-piece. Inscriptions on four folded leaves, not included in paging. "B. Svlpitii Severi. Hist. et commentariorvm in eam Caroli Sigonii libri II": p. 731-924. Signatures:*⁴, [cross][cross]⁵, A-Z⁶, Aa-Zz⁶, AA-ZZ⁶, AAa-NNn⁶. Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), VD16 S 6434 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 727…- Contributor: Wechel, Andreas - Bibliotheca Lamoniana - Andreae Wecheli Heredes - Sigonio, Carlo - Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri De - Marne, Claude De - Severus, Sulpicius - Gloddaeth Library - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Aubry, Jean - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Collège Henri IV De La Flèche
- Date: 1593
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Book/Printed MaterialCorona delle nobili bt [sic] virtuose donne ... nel quale si dimostra in varij dissegni, tutte le sorti di mostre di punti tagliati, punti in aria, punti a reticello, a d'ogni altra …
Corona delle nobili et virtuose donne | Corona delle nobili et virtvose donne | Libro quarto titled: Gioiello della corona per le nobili, e virtuose donne "Con privilegio." Each book has dated t.p.; Libro quarto dated: 1593. T.p., Libro terzo: "Con alcune nuoue inuentione di Bauari all'usanza Venetiana. Opera nuoua, en non più data in luce." Signatures: A-G⁴ 2A-2G⁴ 3A-3H⁴ 4A-4H⁴. EDIT 16, CNCE 41112 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 882 LC copy: Dedication (dated 1616) and several plates of v. 4 supplied from a later edition. LC…- Contributor: Vecellio, Cesare - Hoe, Robert - Thibaron-Joly (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1592
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Book/Printed MaterialDoctrina Christiana en lengua española y tagala Published in Manila in 1593, this catechism in Spanish and Tagalog is the first book printed in the Philippines. It is also the first book printed in a Philippine language and the first, and only, 16th-century source showing an explicit and distinctly Philippine abecedarium (alphabet). The book is illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece of St. Dominic and initial letters in both Spanish and Tagalog.…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1593
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Book/Printed MaterialOrlando furioso : in English heroical verse
Orlando fvrioso Engraved title page signed Tho. Coxonus, sculp. Imprint from colophon. First English-language edition. "Most copies are ordinary folio; of the others some are large-paper folio ... and some have been printed on thick 4[to] paper ... Some of the special-paper copies are hand-coloured": Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.),…- Contributor: Coningsby, Thomas - Ariosto, Lodovico - Harington, John - Cockson, Thomas - Field, Richard - Porro, Girolamo - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Holford, George Lindsay - Hopetoun House (South Queensferry, Scotland)
- Date: 1591
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Book/Printed MaterialLa Giervsalemme liberata, con le figure di Bernardo Castello e le annotationi di Scipio Gentili e di Giulio Gvastavini The illustrations engraved by Agostino Carracci and Giacomo Franco. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 880 LAC knj 2019-11-08 update (1 card)- Contributor: Franco, Giacomo - Tasso, Torquato - Guastavini, Giulio - Bartoli, Girolamo - Carracci, Agostino - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Castello, Bernardo - Gentili, Scipione
- Date: 1590
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Book/Printed MaterialDella fabrica et vso di diversi stromenti di astronomia et cosmografia, oue si uede la somma della teorica et pratica di queste due nobilissime scienze
Della fabrica et uso di diversi stromenti di astronomia et cosmografia Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 883 LAC ecr 2018-11-01 update (1 card)- Contributor: Meietti, Roberto - Gallucci, Giovanni Paolo - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1597
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Book/Printed MaterialThe herball, or, Generall historie of plantes
Herball | Generall historie of plantes Engraved t.p., signed Willms Rogers inuen. et sculp. Colophon: "Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, M.D.XCVII." Signatures: A⁴ B⁶ ²A-²B⁸ C-3V⁸ 3X¹⁰ 4A-4T⁸ 4V⁶ 5A-5I⁴. Coat of arms of Lord Burghley on t.p. verso; full page portrait of author facing p. 1, dated 1598. Includes indexes. LC copy misbound: p. 621-622 (erroneously signed 2Q2) bound in place of 611-612;…- Contributor: Pratt, W. (William Pitt) - United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library - Norton, Bonham - Norton, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gerard, John - Bollifant, Edmund - Rogers, William
- Date: 1597
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Book/Printed MaterialThe secrets of Alexis of Piemont : containing many excellent remedies against diuers diseases, wounds, and other accidents. With the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions, and meltings In 4 parts (part 4 in 2 sections) ; parts 2-4 with special title pages. Part 4 translated by Richard Androse. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1258 English Short Title Catalogue, S114416 LC copy provenance: Bookplates: B. Barrett, Howard C. Levis. LAC scc 2019-01-02 update (1 card)- Contributor: Ward, William - Ruscelli, Girolamo - Androse, Richard - Short, Peter - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Wight, Thomas
- Date: 1595
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