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    Incip[it] ep[is]t[o]la s[an]c[t]i iheronimi ad paulinu[m] p[re]sbiteru[m], de om[ni]b[us] diuine historie libris ...
    Uniform title : Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1462     Title from incipit, leaf [1]1. Imprint from colophon, leaf [49]6. Signatures: [1-8]¹⁰ [9-10]⁸ [11-23]¹⁰ [24-25]⁸, [26-38]¹⁰ [39]¹² [40-48]¹⁰ [49]⁶([49]5+1). Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-529 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 3050* (variant) Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 3050 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4204 (with red incipits in both vols. and variant 1 of colophon) Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now…
    • Contributor: Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field) - Ellys, Richard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Fust, Johannes - Lothian, William Schomberg Robert Kerr - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöffer, Peter
    • Date: 1462

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    Summa magistri Iohannis de aurbach Vicarij Bambergensis
    First line, leaf [1]1 verso: Pro capitulis libri facilius requirendis     Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Title from caption, leaf [1]2. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: [1]⁸⁺¹ [2-6]⁸. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries A-1381 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum 2124 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 02852 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum volume 2, page 315 (IB. 5410) Incunabula short title catalogue ia01381000 John…
    • Contributor: Auerbach, Johannes - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Augustus Frederick - St. Emmeram (Monastery : Regensburg, Germany) - Zainer, Günther - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1469

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    De officiis. Printed in black and red on vellum. Includes Marci Tulij Ciceronis Paradoxa leaf [76b-85b] [V]ersus XII Sapientu[m] ... positi in epitaphio Marci Tulij Ciceronis leaf [86a-87b] and Manlio Torquato Flaccus de vite humane breuitate leaf [88a] Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-575 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5238 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6921 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now…
    • Contributor: Wilks, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Phillipps, Thomas - Hibbert, George - Fust, Johannes - Schöffer, Peter - Cicero, Marcus Tullius
    • Date: 1465

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    Institutiones, cum glossa. One of four books of the Corpus juris civilis originally issued from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor. The glosses variously attributed to Accursius glossator and Franciscus Accursius. Cf. Savigny, Geschichte des röm. Rechts im Mittelalter, v. 5, p. 288; Bib. nat. Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 9489 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-506 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7580 Catalogue of…
    • Contributor: Accursius - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Herzogliche Öffentliche Bibliothek (Meiningen, Germany) - Accursius, Franciscus - Bernhard I - Justinian I - Schöffer, Peter
    • Date: 1468

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    Ars moriendi. Ars moriendi, or The Art of Dying is an important genre of book which reveals the medieval Church rituals surrounding the last rites of a dying Christian. The earliest known printing of the Ars moriendi is a block book edition produced in the southern Netherlands around 1450, though this date is still under debate by historians of the subject. By 1500, over eighty printed…
    • Contributor: Renouard, Ant. Aug. (Antoine Augustin) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1466

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    De arte praedicandi. Book 4 of the author's De doctrina Christiana. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-1226 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 1956 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 52 (IB.510) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 2871 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 35 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift of Lessing…
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Clark, Charles W. (Charles Walker) - Huth, Henry - Panzer, Georg Wolfgang - Mentelin, Johann - Riviere & Son - Augustine
    • Date: 1466

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    Liber sextus Decretalium. Printed in red and black on vellum. With the gloss of Joannes Andreae. Includes Joannes Andreae's Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis (leaves [1a-4b]). Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-976 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 3586. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4848 Ricci. Cat. Mayence, 83; 23 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 23 (IC.113)…
    • Contributor: Sunderland, Charles Spencer - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Clark, Charles W. (Charles Walker) - Giovanni D'andrea - Fust, Johannes - Hoe, Robert - Ives, Brayton - Schöffer, Peter - Catholic Church. Pope ( : Boniface VIII) - Catholic Church
    • Date: 1465

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    Constitutiones Printed on vellum, in black and red. With the gloss of Giovanni d'Andrea. "Exiui de paradiso" (bull of Clemens V): leaves [49a]-[50b]. "Constituc[i]o execrabilis Johannis Pape XXII": leaf [51a-b]. "Const[tituti]o extrauaga[n]s ad regime[n] B[e]n[e]dicti P[a]pe XII": leaf [51b]. LC Quarterly Oct, '45 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5410 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7077, variant note 2. Ricci. Cat. Mayence, 66; 4 Library of…
    • Contributor: Sunderland, Charles Spencer - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Catholic Church. Pope ( : Clement V) - Clark, Charles W. (Charles Walker) - Giovanni D'andrea - Catholic Church. Pope ( : Benedict XII) - Fust, Johannes - Catholic Church. Pope ( : John XXII) - Marlborough, George Spencer Churchill - Brooke, Thomas - Schöffer, Peter
    • Date: 1460

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    [I]ncipit summa que uocat[ur] Catholicon
    Ncipit summa que uocat Catholicon | Incipit summa que vocatur Catholicon     A combination Latin dictionary and encyclopedia completed in 1286, the Catholicon of Giovanni Balbi was the first non-religious book of substantial size to be printed. Three issues can be destinguished: issue "a," printed on vellum or bull's-head paper; issue "b", on Galliziani paper; and issue "c," on Tower & Crown paper. The 1460 edition (issue "a"), the first of many 15th century editions, contains…
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Phillipps, Thomas - Augustus Frederick - Balbi, Giovanni - Printer of the Catholicon - Gutenberg, Johann
    • Date: 1460

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