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    Passionael, winter[-tsomer] stuck datmen hiet die Gulden legende.
    Passionael | Gulden legende     Vol. 1: [2], ccvi [i.e. ccv], [1] leaves (the last blank); v. 2: [2], ccxii leaves. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 508 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-143 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 6520 Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique 2222 Campbell, M.F.A.G. Annales de la typographie néerlandaise au XVe siècle, 1767…
    • Contributor: Eckert Van Homberch, Henrick - Jacobus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1499

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    Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat va[n] Coelle[n]. Sometimes attributed to Johann Stump, also to a Dominican, Hamelmann. Cf. Die Chroniken der niederrheinischen Städte, II, p. 211-212. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: A-B⁶ ²A-²B⁶ C-I⁶ K¹⁰ L-Z⁶ a-d⁶ e⁴ f-nn⁶. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-476 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 4989 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 4989 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum,…
    • Contributor: Fichard, Johann - Hamelmann - Eugene - Nicoll, W. (William) - Stump, Johann - Nicol, G. (George) - Koelhoff, Johann - Hoe, Robert - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Augustus Frederick
    • Date: 1499

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    Dat booc vanden leuen Ons Liefs Here Ih[es]u Cristi, derderuen gheprint, ghecorrigeert, en[de] merckelijc verbetert, met addicien van sconen moralen ende gheesteliken leringhen en deuoten meditacien.
    Vanden leven Ons Liefs Here Ihesu Cristi | Vita Jesv Christi     Woodcuts attributed to the Meister des Bellaert. Cf. M.J.A. Schretlen's Dutch and Flemish woodcuts, p. 27. Errors in foliation. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 507 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, L-357 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 10059 Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 2547 Kronenberg, M.E. Campbell's Annales de la typographie néerlandaise…
    • Contributor: Ludolf - Arenberg, Prosper Louis - Master of Jacob Bellaert - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Os, Peter Van
    • Date: 1499

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    Officia quotidiana, sive Horae cuiuslibet diei secundum usum Romanae Ecclesiae.
    Horae cuiuslibet diei     Printed in black and red. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 584 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, O-30 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 4464 Haebler, K. Bibliografía ibérica del siglo XV, 489 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy imperfect: the last leaf wanting. Manuscript notes throughout. Ms. prayers in various hands on…
    • Contributor: Benediktinerabtei Weingarten - Hurus, Pablo - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Handbibliothek (Stuttgart, Germany)
    • Date: 1499

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    Los doze trabajos de Ercules, Vol. 1: xxix, [1] leaves; v. 2: [24] leaves. Printed in black and red. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 586 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, V-276 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 10256 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 1545 Haebler, K. Bibliografía ibérica del siglo XV, 689; 369 (variations) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.…
    • Contributor: John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Cánovas Del Castillo, Antonio - Lucena, Juan De - Crawford, William Horatio - Villena, Enrique De - Burgos, Juan De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1499

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    Fabulae. Translated by Lorenzo Valla. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 306 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-107 Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, 66 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 324 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke Nachträge 3 Fava, M. Stampa a Napoli nel XV sec., 179 bis Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Aesop - Preller, Christian - Valla, Lorenzo
    • Date: 1495

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    Predica dellarte del bene morire. "Raccolta da ser Lorenzo Violi dalla uiua uoce del ... padre mentre chepredicaua." Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 318 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-249 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 14391 (variations) Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, p. 650 (IA.27321) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress…
    • Contributor: Violi, Lorenzo - Savonarola, Girolamo - Libri, Bartolommeo DI - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1496

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    Ars moriendi, ex varys Scripturaru[m] sente[n]cijs collecta cu[m] figuri, ad resiste[n]du[m] in mortis agone dyabolice sugestioni valens, cuilibet Christifideli vtilis ac multum necessaria. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 170 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-1115 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 1835 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 2573 Schramm, XIII, p. 2, 2 (2nd group), and illus. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy rubricated throughout. A few manuscript notes.
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Kachelofen, Konrad
    • Date: 1495

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    Homen dat huysghesinne regeren sal na Sinte Bernaers leringe. Attributed to Bernard de Clairvaux also to Bernard Silvestris. Signatures: a⁶. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 504 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-382 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 997a = 5462 Campbell, M.F.A.G. Annales de la typographie néerlandaise au XVe siècle, 269 (variations) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy rubricated; initials…
    • Contributor: Bernard - Arenberg, Prosper Louis - Snellaert, Christiaen - Bernard Silvestris - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1490

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    Horologium deuotionis circa vitam Christi. Translated by the author. Leaf [Ia] (t.p.): Horologium deuotionis circa vitam Christi. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 359 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-506 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 8928 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 2990 (I) Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 2993 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, III, p. 753 (IA.37473) Gesamtkatalog…
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Berthold - Zaehnsdorf (Firm) - Amerbach, Johannes
    • Date: 1490

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    Bien, aduise mal, aduise.
    Bien advisé, mal advisé     Printed on vellum. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 446 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-663 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 3190 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4342 (variations) Macfarlane, J. Vérard, 108 (variation) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: first text page has illuminated border and small illuminated initial; paragraph marks in gold on red, underlines…
    • Contributor: Lothian, William Kerr - Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field) - Le Caron, Pierre - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Verard, Antoine
    • Date: 1499

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    Speculum vite Cristi ... the booke that is cleped The myrroure of the blessyd lyf of Jhesu Cryste. Title extracted from incipit (leaf [2a]). Translated by Nicholas Love. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 572 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-903 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 3564 (variations) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 4764 (variations) Includes two anonymous works: A short treatise of the sacrament of Christ's blessed body (leaves [137b-147a]) and A short devote prayer to Jesus Christ (leaf…
    • Contributor: Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field) - Love, Nicholas - Bedford, Francis - Caxton, William - Huth, Henry - Bonaventure - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1490

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    Psalterium Diue Virginis Marie. Here attributed to St. Jerome but more frequently ascribed to St. Bonaventura or St. Bernard de Clairvaux. Edited by Pierre Le Goux. The borders are the same as those in the Hours printed by Jehannot 21 Aug. 1497 (cf. illus. in Claudin's Hist. de l'imprimerie, II, p. [245]). Signatures: [a]⁸ b-e⁸ f⁴. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-940 Library of Congress. Lessing J.…
    • Contributor: Bernard - Le Goux, Pierre - Petrarca, Francesco - Jehannot, Etienne - Jerome - Bonaventure - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Verard, Antoine
    • Date: 1499

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    Anulus astronomicus. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 272 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, L-71 Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 9926 (variation) Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IV, p. 136 (IA.19342) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4841 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: provenance: C.W. Dyson Perrins (bookplate).
    • Contributor: Perrins, Charles William Dyson - Bonet - Fritag, Andreas - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1492

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    In laude[m] gloriose Virginis Marie multoru[m]q[ue] Sanctoru[m] varij generis carmina Sebastiani Brant. Some of the woodcuts are attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Cf. F.W.H. Hollstein's German engravings, VII, p. 252. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 363 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-1077 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 3733 = 3734 = 16171 (II) (variant) Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, III, p. 795 (IA.37929) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 5067…
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Bergmann, Johann - Brant, Sebastian - Dürer, Albrecht
    • Date: 1494

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    Stultifera nauis ...
    Stultifera navis     Reprint of the 1497 Basel edition, retaining its colophon. Includes introductory and laudatory verses and additions by Brant and Locher. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 185 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-1087 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 3747 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 471 (IA.8105) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 5055 Also available in…
    • Contributor: Hardy-Mennil (Paris, France) - Perkins, Oliver Henry - Double, Léopold - Brant, Sebastian - Locher, Jacob - Stuchs, Georg - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1497

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    Das nüv Schiff vo[n] Narragonia ... Unauthorized reprint containing a number of additions not by Brant. Cf. Goedecke's Grundriss, 2nd ed., I, p. 385. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 172 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-1084 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 5050 (variations) IGI 2042 Schramm, XX, p. 4 and illus. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: orange vellum binding with…
    • Contributor: Grüninger, Johann - Uffenbach, Zacharias Konrad Von - Brant, Sebastian - Fürstlich Stolberg-Wernigerodesche Bibliothek - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1496

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    Sensuiuent les sept Psaumes en fra[n]cois translates au plus pres du latin.
    Sept Psaumes     Signatures: a¹⁰. Type 98B (BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 141); 25 lines. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 450 Claudin, A. Hist. de l'impr., II, p. 75-94 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII, p. 141 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy printed on vellum. Rubricated in gold…
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Murray, Charles Fairfax - Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham - Le Caron, Pierre
    • Date: 1490

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    Hore ad vsum Romanum.
    Hore ad usum Romanum     Signatures: A⁸ 2A⁸ B⁸ a-l⁸. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 416 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-371 Bohatta, H. Livres d'Heures (2. Aufl.), 557 (variation) Murray, C.F. French books, 262 Claudin, A. Hist. de l'impr., II, p. 209 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy (on vellum) imperfect: 1st leaf (with publisher's device) wanting.…
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Maurand, Jean - Marnef, Geoffroy De - Murray, Charles Fairfax - Catholic Church - Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham
    • Date: 1493

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    Hore Beate Marie virginis secundum vsum Lugdunensem.
    Hore Beate Marie virginis secundum usum Lugdunensem     Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 415 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-346 Claudin, A. Hist. de l'impr., I, p. 251-252 Brunet, V, col. 1613, 157 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy printed on vellum. Rubricated; initials supplied in red or blue, some illuminated. LC copy: Provenance: M.A.F. Didot. Book label mounted on front…
    • Contributor: Biblioteca Ambrosiana - Catholic Church - Du Pré, Jean - Firmin-Didot, Alfred - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1491

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    Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae ad usum Romanum. Begins (without title) with the cut Astrological man, on the reverse of which is the almanac for 20 years (1488-1508). Type 94G (same font as in BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 152). Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 408 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-369 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII, p. 152 Also…
    • Contributor: Catholic Church - Meslier, Denis - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1490

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    Quatuor nouissima, cu[m] multis exemplis pulcherrimis. Et de terroribus mortis cu[m] eterne b[ea]titudinis gloria Sometimes attributed to Heinrich von Langenstein, Gerardus de Vliederhoven, Thomas Ebendorfer, or Gerard Groote. Cf. GW, VII, col. 37. Exempla at the end of each of the 4 books, with references to their sources. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 501 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-896 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5697 Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum,…
    • Contributor: Ebendorfer, Thomas - Gerardus - Groote, Gerard - Breda, Jacobus - Heinrich - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1490

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    Geometria In German. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 186 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-146 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 7576 (variation) Schramm, XVIII, p. 8, 19, and illus. LC copy: ex libris Liechtensteinianis.
    • Contributor: Wagner, Peter - Liechtenstein, House of - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1497

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    Die Geschicht tzwischen dem Römischen Künge vn[d] dem Künig von Fra[n]ckreych in Rome gescheen.
    Geschichte zwischen dem Römischen König und dem König von Frankreich     Leaf [Ia] (t.p.): Die Geschicht tzwischen dem Römischen Künge vn[d] dem Künig von Fra[n]ckreych in Rome gescheen. Leaf [6b] (end): Wan[n] in die Mauri schid ich au[ss] tzu Rom. Actum vnnd copirt Rome in Pallacio Cardinalis Sene[n]sis. Types 156G, 88G; 33 lines. Signatures: A⁶. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-278 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection (1977), 160 Also available in digital…
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Landsberg, Martin
    • Date: 1492

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    Postilla Guillermi super Epistolas et Eua[n]gelia de tempore [et] de Sanctis [et] pro defunctis. "Mora" dated 1497 on leaf lxxxixb. Includes the text of the Epistles and Gospels. Type 64G, 82G, 140G, 180G; 2 columns, 49 lines. Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴ 2A-2G⁸ 2H⁶. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 370 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-669 (after 1500) Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 8235 Schramm, XXI, p. 20, 28, and illus. Also available in digital form on the…
    • Contributor: Guillermus - Kessler, Nikolaus - Cockerell, Douglas - Perrins, Charles William Dyson - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1497

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