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Book/Printed MaterialScrutinio de la docta ignorantia Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), 775. LC copy has superexlibris and monogram of Victor Masséna, prince d'Essling, on covers and spine. LAC brd 2019-01-29 create (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-02-05 review- Contributor: Novi, Agostino - Burgofranco, Jacobus De - Essling, Victor Masséna - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1514
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Book/Printed MaterialDe viris illvstribvs Ordinis Praedicatorum libri sex in vnvm congesti
De viris illustribus Ordinis Praedicatorum libri sex i unum congesti "Nomenclatura autorum voluminum huius, Ioannes Garzo Bononiensis, Ioannes Antonius Flaminius Forocorneliensis, M. Antonius Flaminius, Sebastianus Flaminius, Franciscus Castelione[n]sis canonicus Florentinus, Leander Albertus Bononie[n]sis, Io. Caroli Florentinus, Bartholomaeus Mortarius, Nicolaus Brixianus, Georgius Mediolanensis." Biographies by Alberti and others. Several include a list of the subject's writings. LAC knj 2019-03-13 update (1 card)- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Alberti, Leandro - Early Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1517
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Book/Printed MaterialIn 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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Book/Printed MaterialLegenda 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: Regnault, Pierre - Violette, Pierre François - Jacobus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1507
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Book/Printed MaterialThe golden legende Title extracted from explicit (leaf ccccxliiiia). Translated by Caxton. Signatures: pi⁶ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [us]⁶ A-V⁸ X⁶ Y³ 2a-2f⁸ 2g⁶ 2h-2i⁸ 2k⁶. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 566 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-148 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 6472 (449 leaves) Ricci, S. de. Census of Caxtons, 98; 27 (?) Duff, E.G. Fifteenth century English books, 408 Also available…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Jacobus - Caxton, William
- Date: 1483
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Book/Printed MaterialThus endeth the legende named in Latyn lege[n]da aurea that is to saye in Englysshe the golden legende
Legende named in Latyn Lege[n]da aurea that is to saye in Englysshe the golden legende | Caption title, leaf A2: Lyfe of Adam | Heading of table, leaf A2: Here folowth a lytell table conteynynge the lyues and hystoryes shortly taken out of the byble Translated by William Caxton. Title from 1st line of colophon. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: A-F⁸ G⁶ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ 2a-2y⁸. STC (2nd ed.) 24880 English short title catalogue (ESTC), S111988 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1219 Text printed in 2 columns. Includes index (to 1st group of foliation). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC…- Contributor: Worde, Wynkyn De - Lewis, Charles - Jacobus - Caxton, William - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1527
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Book/Printed MaterialThe golden legend.
Golden legend of Master William Caxton done anew "Edited by Frederick S. Ellis & printed by me William Morris at the Kelmscott Press ... finished on the 12th day of September of the year 1892"--Colophon. Translation by William Caxton. Woodcut title and two woocut illustrations designed by Sir Edmund Burne-Jones. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2007 Peterson, W.S. Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press, A7 Morris, Wiliam and S.C. Cockerell, Kelmscott…- Contributor: William Morris and Kelmscott Press Collection (Library of Congress) - Jacobus - Rogers, Bruce - Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Burne-Jones, Edward Coley - Caxton, William - Morris, William - Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Kelmscott Press - Ellis, Frederick Startridge
- Date: 1892
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Book/Printed MaterialLa legende doree en francois imprimee a paris.
Prologue begins, leaf a verso: Cy co[m]me[n]ce le prologue de frere iehan de Vignay docteur | Cy comece le prologue de frere iehan de Vignay docteur | Legende doree des saintz Title from incipit of prologue, leaf [i] (a1) verso. Imprint from colophon. Colophon transposed: it is in the order of place, date, and bookseller. The ampersand in the imprint date represents a Tironian sign. Signatures: a⁴ b-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ A-M⁸ N⁴. Ampersand in signatures represents a Tironian sign. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-155 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 6491=6484? Gesamtkatalog…- Contributor: Verard, Antoine - Jacobus - Hibbert, George - Jean - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1493
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Book/Printed MaterialCatalogus 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: Giunta, Luca-Antonio - Zanis, Bartholomaeus De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Natalibus, Petrus De - Museo Cavaleri (Milan, Italy)
- Date: 1506
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Book/Printed MaterialFlos sanctor[um]. La vida de N[uest]ro Señor Iesu Cristo, y de su s[an]ctissima Madre y d'los otros s[an]c[t]os, segu[n] la orde[n] de sus fiestas
Flos sanctorum | Vida de Nuestro Señor Jesu Christo "Aqui se da fin ala primera parte deste volumen" : leaf cxx. The work was printed by G. Coci according to J. P. R. Lyell. Cf. his Early book illustration in Spain. 1926, p. 130. Title page with large woodcut printed in 5 colors. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1281 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.…- Contributor: Vega, Pedro De La - Coci, Jorge - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1521
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Book/Printed MaterialGloriosorum Christi confesso[rum] Vldarici & Symperti, necno[n] beatissim[a]e martyris Aphr[a]e, Augustan[a]e sedis patrono[rum], [qua]m fidelissimo[rum] histori[a]e : cum hora[rum] de eis, [pro]ut n[ost]ro in coenobio percelebri obseruant[ur] canonica[rum] inserto[n]e, cuilibet easdem deuotionis … Imprint from colophon. Signatures : a⁸, B-C⁴, D⁸, E-G⁴, H⁸, I-N⁴, O⁶, P-R⁴, S⁸. A compliation including the life of Ulrich by Berno and that of Simpert by Adilbertus. Contemporary blind stamped calf. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 631 Rosenwald Collection (1954 ed.) 451 LAC knj 2019-01-28 update (2 cards) LAC rwp 2019-02-07 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2019-02-11- Contributor: Berno - Bild, Veit - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Adilbertus - Otmar, Silvan
- Date: 1516
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Book/Printed MaterialUita di S. Catherina da Siena.
Vita di S. Caherina da Siena Caption title: Vita miracolsa della seraphyca sancta Catherina da Siena, co[m]posta in latino dal beato padre frate Raimondo da Capua ... et tradocta i[n] lingua volgare thoscana da el venerando padre frate Ambrosio Catherino de Politi da Siena. One of the woodcuts signed I.B.P., possibly the initials of Gian Batt. Palumba. Cf. Thieme-Becker, v. 37, p. 416: Meister I B mit dem Vogel. Library…- Contributor: Ambrosius Catharinus - Landi, Giovanni - Michelangelo DI Bartolommeo - Girardot De Préfond, Paul - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Raymond
- Date: 1524
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Book/Printed MaterialVita di Santa Chiara vergine composta per Ugolino Verino... "236 copies on paper & 10 copies on vellum." Includes "Reproduction in facsimile of the first four pages of the original manuscript written at Florence in the year 1496." Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2253 LAC knj 2019-01-28 no edits (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-05-09 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Seton, Walter W. (Walter Warren) - Verino, Ugolino - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Ashendene Press
- Date: 1921
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Book/Printed MaterialQuesti 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: Francis - Rusconi, Giorgio - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1502
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Book/Printed MaterialDie Legend des Heyligen Vatters Francisci Signatures: A-S⁸.⁴.⁴ T⁴ V⁶. The woodcut illus. by Wolf Traut. Cf. Thieme-Becker, vol. 33, p. 253. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 620 Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16) B 6559 LAC knj 2019-01-28 no edits (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-02-07 review Choice/form AACR2, description from shelf list and Rosenwald bibliography he11 2019-01-04- Contributor: Traut, Wolf - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Höltzel, Hieronymus - Bonaventure
- Date: 1512
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Book/Printed MaterialLes figvres e l'abregé de la vie, de la mort, et des miracles de S. Francois de Pavle, instituteur et fondateur de l'Ordre des Minimes : Recevillies de la bvlle de Leon …
Figures e l'abregé de la vie, de la mort, et des miracles de S. Francois de Paule, instituteur et fondateur de l'Ordre des Minimes Conserved; 001382 1976 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda Dondé identified by initials on title page border: F. AD. M. I. An edtion "par Fr. Antoine Dondé" with plates and 171 pages of text was published under the same title at Paris in 1671 (see Paris. Bibliothèque nationale. Catalogue général des livres imprimés). Engraved throughout. Title…- Contributor: Campion, François - Lasne, Michel - Dondé, Antoine - Hoffmann, James R. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Bosse, Abraham - Poilly, Nicolas De - Stirling Maxwell, William
- Date: 1659
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Book/Printed MaterialLa vie symboliqve dv bienhevrevx François de Sales, evesqve et prince de Geneve, comprise sous la voile de 52 emblemes, qui marquent le caractere de ses principales vertus, avec autant de meditations, …
Vie symbolique du bienheureux François de Sales "Pour l'vsage des Religieuses de la Visitation, & à la disposition de celles du Fauxbourg saint Iacques." The emblems by A. Flamen. Cf. M. Praz. Studies in 17th cent. imagery. Frontispiece engr. by G. Vallet after A. Paillet. LAC knj 2019-01-28 no edits (2 cards)- Contributor: Flamen, Albert - Gambart, Adrien - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1664
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Book/Printed MaterialPassione 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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Book/Printed MaterialDe inclito atq[ue] apud Germanos rarissimo actu ecclesiaticao Kalen̄ "Account of the ceremony at which Albrecht von Brandenburg was invested with the dignity of cardinal and Emperor Maximilian with a sword and hat blessed by Pope Leo"--Cf. Rosenwald.- Contributor: Wirsung, Marx - Petrarcameister - Mennel, Jakob - Grimm, Siegmund - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1518
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Book/Printed MaterialSpiritualium 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: Early Printing Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Höltzel, Hieronymus - Ashburner, Walter
- Date: 1501
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Book/Printed MaterialIoannis Tritemii abbatis sancti Iacobi apud Herbipolim quondam vero Spanhemensis Liber octo questionu[m] ad Maximilianum Cesarem.
Liber octo quaestionum ad Maximilianum Caesarem Imprint from colophon. Woodcut on title page. Signatures: A⁶ (A2-4 signed A1-3) B-H⁴ I⁶ (I6 blank). LC copy: blank leaf I6 at end wanting. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 630 LAC knj 2019-01-30 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-02-07 review- Contributor: Hasselberg, Johannes - Maximilian I - Trithemius, Johannes - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1515
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Book/Printed MaterialInexplicabilis mysterii gesta Beatæ Veronicæ virginis præclarissimi monasterii Sanctæ Marthæ urbis Mediolani, Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 788 LC copy bound by Lortic, with monograms of Victor Masséna, Prince d'Essling, on spine and his coat of arms on doublures. LAC knj 2019-01-30 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Essling, Victor Masséna - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Ponte, Gottardo Da - Lortic, Marcelin - Isolani, Isidoro
- Date: 1518
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church : according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter … Engraved throughout. Imprint reads: London, Engraven and printed by the permission of Mr. John Baskett printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1717. Sold by John Sturt engraver... L.C. copy imperfect: movable disk on p. v wanting (supplied in photocopy) "Books and plates engraven and sold by John Sturt": p. [167] Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco. Provenance: I. White, New Coll., Ox. (bookplate); Arthur Haddaway.…- Contributor: Church of England - Sturt, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1717
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Book/Printed MaterialBulla reformationis S. d. n. dñi Leonis X. Pont. Max. : Sacro approbante Concilio edita : lecta in nona sessione per Reueren̄. Patrem dn̄m Archiep̄m Neapolitan̄. in Sacrosancta Lateranen̄. Basilica solemniter celebrata … Title page includes papal coat of arms of Leo X. On verso, full-page woodcut captioned "Lateranense Concilium." Signatures: a-c⁴ d². LC copy has leaf d2, with Bulla seu cedula indictionis X. sessionis, misbound after a1. LC copy varies slightly from Proctor, Index II 12244 for t.p. and typeface of sig. c-d (116R). Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 778 Identical woodcut appeared in:…- Contributor: Catholic Church. Pope ( : Leo X) - Lateran Council - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1515
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Book/Printed MaterialDas Concilium, so zu Constanz gehalten ist worden, des Jars do man zalt von der Geburdt Vnsers Erlösers MCCCCXIII Jar : mit allen Handlunge[n] i[nde]n geystlichen vn[d] weltlichen Sachen, auch was diss … Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 669 Shelved under: Rosenwald 669.- Contributor: Richental, Ulrich Von - Stayner, Heinrich - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1536
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