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Salus anime. Prayer book in German. Imprint from colophon. The illustrations have sometimes been ascribed to Dürer. See Panofsky, v. 2, no. 448. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 596 Rosenwald Collection (1954 ed.) 430 LC copy printed on vellum, with illustrations painted in gold and colors. LC copy has ownership signature in ink on t.p.: Ex libris F. Justini Volk fils; Conventij Bambergensis [ordinis?].…
- Contributor: Höltzel, Hieronymus - Dürer, Albrecht - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1503
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Somma dello Arciuesco o [sic] Antonino, Omnis mortalium cura
Somma dello Arciuescouo Antonino Omnis mortalium cura | Somma dello Arcivescovo Antonino Omnis mortalium cura | At head of text, leaf a1: Incomincia uno confessionale uolgare del reuerendissimo padre Beate frate Antonino Archeuescouo de Firerenze del ordine de Frati Predicatori intitolato Specchio di conscientia | Specchio di conscientia Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Signatures : a-f⁸ g⁶. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 757 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 0215710N LC copy has ink stamp of W. Ashburner. LAC brd 2019-01-29 update (1 card)
- Contributor: Tubini, Antonio - Antoninus - Francesco - Ashburner, Walter - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1507
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A treatise to dispose men to be virtuously occupied Leaf [2a] : Here begynneth a ryght profytable treatyse co[m]pendiously drawen out of many [et] dyers qrytynges of holy men, to dyspose men to be vertuously occupyed in theyr myndes [et] prayers ... Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection 578 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4190 (variations) Duff, E.G. Fifteenth century English books, 43 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web…
- Contributor: Schiff, Mortimer L. - Betson, Thomas - Freeling, Francis - Worde, Wynkyn De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1500
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In disem puechlein ist verzaichent das hochwirdig Heyligtu[m]b so man in der loblichen Stat Wienn in Osterreich alle Iar an Sontag nach dem Ostertag zezaigen pfligt. Signatures : a⁸ b¹⁰ c⁸. Bound in a vellum leaf from a 14th(?) cent. MS., probably a breviary, with red and blue decorated initials. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 593 LAC knj 2019-01-28 update (1 card)
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1502
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Legenda hec aurea nitidis excutitur formis claretque plurimum peruigili ac lucubri castigatio[n]e, additis insuper plurium sanctoru[m] legendis denuo compilatis. Caption: Incipit legenda sanctorum que Lombardica nominatur historia. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 931 LAC knj 2019-01-28 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-02-07 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2019-02-11
- Contributor: Jacobus - Violette, Pierre François - Regnault, Pierre - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1507
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Catalogus sanctorum [et] gestorum eoru[m] ex diuersis voluminibus collectus. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 756 LC copy provenance: Museo Cavaleri (stamp). LAC knj 2019-01-28 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-02-07 review
- Contributor: Natalibus, Petrus De - Museo Cavaleri (Milan, Italy) - Zanis, Bartholomaeus De - Giunta, Luca-Antonio - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1506
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Questi sono li fioretti de sancto Francesco. Signatures: A-M⁴ (M4 blank). "Libro de le stigmate de Sancto Francesco": p. [64]-[92]. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 742 LAC knj 2019-01-28 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-02-07 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2019-02-11
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Rusconi, Giorgio - Francis
- Date: 1502
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Passione o uero legenda de Sancta Orsola con undeci milia uirgine Caption title. Signatures: a⁴. Nine octaves per page. Sander. Livre à fig. ital., 5234? Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 888 LAC knj 2019-01-29 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-02-07 review
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1500
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Spiritualium personarum feminei sexus facta admiratio[n]e digna. Imprint from Rosenwald. Woodcut after a design by Dürer. Cf. J. Meder, Dürer-Katalog, Wien, 1932, p.279, XIII. Signatures: [1]⁶. LC copy has stamp on t.p.: Walter Ashburner, Firenze. Source: Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Nov. 1, 1965. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 591 LAC knj 2019-01-30 no edits (4 cards) BX4705.L72 S6 1501 Copy 1 formerly shelved under: BX4700.L72 S6 Copy 1.…
- Contributor: Höltzel, Hieronymus - Early Printing Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Ashburner, Walter
- Date: 1501
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Omnia Campani opera. Without date; in some copies the date has been added to the colophon. Edited by Michele Ferno. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 741
- Contributor: Torresanus, Andreas - Vercellensis, Bernardinus - Campano, Giannantonio - Ferno, Michele - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1502
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Opus regale. Woodcuts attributed to Guillaume Le Roy. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 938 With: Joannes Carthusiensis. Nosce te. [Heidelberg, after July 1489] Copy 2. Bound together subsequent to publication.
- Contributor: Vivaldi, Giovanni Ludovico - Le Roy, Guillaume - Vivaldus, Joannes Ludovicus - Gueynard, Etienne - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1508
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Patria historia. This copy does not include six additional leaves, comprising a new title page, reading "Dello eccelletissimo oratore ... Bernardino Corio ... Historia cotinente da lorigine di Milano tutti li gesti, fatti e detti preclari, e le cose memorade milanesi, in fino al tempo di esso autore ... composta con il repertorio prontissimo per ritrouare tutte le cose di memoria degne del presente uolume nuouamente…
- Contributor: Minuziano, Alessandro - Corio, Bernardino - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1503
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Cosmographiae introductio : cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis : insuper quattuor Americi Vespucij nauigationes : vniuersalis cosmographiae descriptio tam in solido q[uam] plano, eis etiam insertis quae … Designed to accompany Waldseemüller's globe and wall map of the world, on which the New World is called America. "America" is suggested as name for the New World on sig. C1 recto and C3 verso. Originally published earlier in the same year. Signatures: A-B⁶ C-D⁴ ²A⁸ b-c⁴ d⁸ e-f⁴. Sabin 101019 Thacher, II, p. 53 (Americana) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection (1977),…
- Contributor: Riviere & Son - Rodríguez, José María - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Lud, Gauthier - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Waldseemüller, Martin
- Date: 1507
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In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata
In hoc opere haec continentvr Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata Jacopo D'Angelo's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia. "A reissue of the preceding edition, with a new title-page, and the addition of the "orbis nuoua descriptio" of Beneventanus in fourteen leaves, and Ruysch's map of the world"--Sabin. Publisher from colophon; colophon dated 1507. Signatures: A-C⁸ D-E⁶ F-O⁸, a⁶ b⁸, 2A-2B⁸ 2C⁴. Includes 34 maps on double leaves; second state of Ruysch map.…
- Contributor: Ptolemy - Cotta, Giovanni - Ruysch, Johannes - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Bibliotheca Petzoldiana - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Bowman, Walter - D'angelo, Jacopo - Marcus - Tosini, Evangelista - Vitali, Bernardino Dei
- Date: 1508
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Libro de la uentura o uero de la sorte, perche si troua le infra scripte rasone a trare con gli dadi, che sono nella presente roda chiamata roda delle uentura ... Signatures : a⁸, b¹², c-d⁸ Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 762 LC copy: Book-plates of A. F. Didot, William Morris, C. W. Dyson Perrins. LC copy bound by Lortic. LAC tnb 2019-06-25 update (1 card)
- Contributor: Spirito, Lorenzo - Castellion, Zanoto De - Lortic, Marcelin - Perrins, Charles William Dyson - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1508
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Tractatus de scachis mistice interpretatus de moribus per singulos hominu[m] status. Signatures: a-h⁴. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 598 LAC tnb 2019-06-26 update (1 card) LAC ecr 2019-07-01 review
- Contributor: Jacobus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1505
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De imitatione Christi.
Tractatus varii | Sermones ad heremitas | Stimulus divini amoris devotissimus "De meditatione cordis ab ... Iohanne de Gersono": leaves [87a-92a]. Attributed in this edition to Joannes Gerson. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 441 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, I-34 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum 3235 (variations) Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, p. 619 (IA.27850) Also available in digital form on…
- Contributor: Innocent III - Gerson, Jean - Bonaventure - Lambert, I. - Anselm - Dozoli, Laurentius - Buyer, Jacques - Le Dru, Pierre - Jacobus - Quentin, Jean ... Innocent III - Gerson, Jean - Bonaventure - Lambert, I. - Anselm - Dozoli, Laurentius - Buyer, Jacques - Le Dru, Pierre - Jacobus - Quentin, Jean - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Pigouchet, Philippe - Regnault, François - Augustine - Petit, Jean - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1498
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Reuelationes Sancte Birgitte. With prefaces by Juan de Torquemada and Matthias de Suecia. Edited by Florian Waldauf. "Vita Sancte Birgitte" (abridged from the biography by Petrus Olai of Alvastra and Petrus Olai of Skänninge): leaves [255a-257b]. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 205 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-688 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 3205 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century…
- Contributor: St. Ulrich Und Afra (Benedictine Abbey : Augsburg, Germany) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Torquemada, Juan De - Perrins, Charles William Dyson - Bridget - Koberger, Anton - Petrus Olai - Waldauf, Florian
- Date: 1500
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Liber de arte distillandi, de simplicibus: Das Buch der rechten Kunst zu distilieren die eintzige[n] Ding,
Buch der rechten Kunst zu distillieren die eintzigen Ding Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 202 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-1227 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 4021 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 114 (IB.1495) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 5595 Schramm, XX, p. 5, 24, and illus. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC…
- Contributor: Grüninger, Johann - Brunschwig, Hieronymus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1500
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Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidimie: Das Buch der Vergift der Pestile[n]tz das da gena[n]t ist der gemein Sterbent der trüsen Blatren,
Buch der Vergift der Pestilentz das da genant ist der gemein Sterbent der trüsen Blatren In German. Copinger and BM 15th cent. colophon varies from that in Hain and LC copy. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 204 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-1228 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 12851 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 4020 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 115 (IB.1501) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke,…
- Contributor: Grüninger, Johann - Brunschwig, Hieronymus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1500
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Büchlein von bewährter Arznei der Pferde. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 206 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 4729 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 5679 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Suppl., B-1272a Schramm, XIII, p. 7, 6(2nd group), and illus. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has ms. recipes on flyleaf. Provenance: Herz. S. Meining. Öffentl. Bibliothek. Not in Goff
- Contributor: Sporer, Hans - Herzogliche Öffentliche Bibliothek (Meiningen, Germany) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1500
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Dit boecxken leert hoe men mach voghelen vanghen metten handen. Ende hoemen mach visschen vanghe[n] mette[n] handen ande oeck andersins ...
Hoe men mach voghelen vanghen metten handen | Hoe men mach visschen vanghen metten handen Printed after 1500, according to Rosenwald cat. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 554 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-1274 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 5685 (variation) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Back, Goovaert - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1500
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Horas de Nossa S[e]nora segundo costume Roma[n]o, co[n] as horas do Spirito Sa[n]cto. Printed in black and red, with printed red initials. Signatures: a-p⁸. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 451 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-404 Bohatta, H. Livres d'Heures (2. Aufl.), 1567 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Arenberg, Prosper Louis - Catholic Church - Hopyl, Wolfgang - Brun, Narcisse - Paelinck, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1500
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Herzog Ernsts Ausfahrt. Signatures: A⁴(A2+B⁴(B2+C⁴(C2+D⁴(D2+E⁴)))). Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 207 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, E-105 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 6676 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: provenance: Inscription on front flyleaf: Ex bibl. Panzeriana.
- Contributor: Sporer, Hans - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Panzer, Georg Wolfgang
- Date: 1500
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Mons orationis In Italian. Signatures: a-i⁴. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 341 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M-849 Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 11577 IGI 6716 Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, 4881
- Contributor: Luna, Ottino DI - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1500
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