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Book/Printed MaterialBe-reshit bara Elohim et ha-shamayim ṿe-et ha-arets
בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ | Also known as: Ḥamishah Ḥumshe Torah | Also known as: Bologna Pentateuch First printed edition of the Hebrew Bible and of the commentary; the text resembles the layout of a Torah scroll. With the Targum of Onkelos in Aramaic in the fore-edge column by the Biblical text, and the Hebrew commentary of Rashi at the head and foot of the text. De Rossi mentions this imprint in his work Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV, published in 1795,…- Contributor: De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo - Sṭraśburḳ Tsarfati, Yosef Ḥayim Ben Aharon - Abraham Ben Hayyim - Rashi - Incunabula Collection (Library of Congress) - Onḳelos - Ḳaraṿiṭah, Yosef
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialGeografia The maps are engravings on 30 sheets of 2 leaves each, probably based on those of Ptolemaeus printed at Rome by Arnoldus Buckinck in 1478, but differing in details. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 233 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-342 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 2825 (variations) Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI,…- Contributor: Laurentii, Nicolaus - Berlinghieri, Francesco - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialLiber aggregationis : seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam. Falsely attributed to Albertus Magnus. Cf. Deutscher Gesamtkat. Goff A-252 Hain 536 BM 15th cent., VI, p. 829 (IA.28742) GW 634 "Eiusde[m] Alberti Magni De mirabilibus mu[n]di" (also spurious): leaves [14a-28b]. LC copy: capitals and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue alternately. Thacher no. 549- Contributor: Albertus
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialCordiale de quatuor nouissimis.
Sex lectiones de vita, egritudine et morte anime spirituali tractantes | Tractatus de venerabili sacramento Title from Leaf [2a]: [I]ncipit Cordiale de quatuor nouissimis. Sometimes attributed to Heinrich von Langenstein, Gerardus de Vliederhoven, Thomas Ebendorfer, or Gerard Groote. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 481 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-889 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5701 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 18 (IA.47118) Also…- Contributor: Heinrich - Meer, Jacob Jacobszoon Van Der - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Leeu, Gerard - Gerardus - Arenberg, Prosper Louis - Gerson, Jean - Torquemada, Juan De - Groote, Gerard - Ebendorfer, Thomas
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialCordiale de quatuor nouissimis Title from Leaf [2a]: [I]ncipit Cordiale de quatuor nouissimis. Sometimes attributed to Heinrich von Langenstein, Gerardus de Vliederhoven, Thomas Ebendorfer, or Gerard Groote. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 481 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-889 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5701 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 18 (IA.47118) Also…
- Contributor: Heinrich - Meer, Jacob Jacobszoon Van Der - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gerardus - Arenberg, Prosper Louis - Groote, Gerard - Ebendorfer, Thomas
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialDyalogus creaturarum moralizatus. Title extracted from leaf [2a] which reads: [P]refacio in librum qui dicitur Dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus omni materie morali iocu[n] do et edificatiuo modo applicabilis ... Authorship ascribed to Nicolaus Pergaminus and Mayno de' Mayneri. Cf. Pio Rajna's Del "Dialogus creaturarum," in Giorn. stor. della leterat. ital., v. 3, 4, 10, 11. Signatures: pi⁴ 2pi⁶ a-l⁸ m⁶. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 480…- Contributor: Hoe, Robert - Leeu, Gerard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Nicolaus - Mayno
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialElementa geometria. Translated from Arabic by Adelardus, of Bath; edited by Giovanni Campano. While books I-XIII are genuine (cf. Th. Heath. The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. 1956, v. 3, p. 519), book XIV is a work of the 2d cent. Hypsicles and book XV, the work of a 6th cent. Roman land-surveyor. Printed in red and black. The diagrams are set in a wide margin…- Contributor: Euclid - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Campano - Adelard
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialPostilla super Epistolas et Evangelia.
Postilla super Euangelia Leaf [2a]: Incipit Postilla super Euangelia. Date from colophon on leaf [70a]. Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁶ A-E⁸. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 380 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-677 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 8261 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: manuscript note on leaf [1a]: Monasterium Althomÿnster, 1543. LC copy: Contemporary blind-stamped brown calf…- Contributor: Reinhard, Marcus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Guillermus - Philippi, Nicolaus - Kloster Altmünster Mainz
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialPoeticon astronomicon. Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Joannes Lucilius Santritter. Sometimes erroneously attributed to C. Julius Hyginus. Printed in black and red. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-560 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 9062 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, p. 286 (IA.20520) (variation) IGI 4959 Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle…- Contributor: Sentinus, Jacobus - Ratdolt, Erhard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Santritter, Joannes Lucilius - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Hyginus, C. Julius
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialDas Passional, oder Der Heiligen Leben durch das gantz Iar. Title extracted from incipit (leaf [3a]): Hie hebt an das Passional. oder der Heiligen Lebe durch das gantz Iar ... Colophon: Also nympt ein End das Summerteyl der Heyligen Leben vnd volgt nach das Winterteyl von Sant Michael biss vff Ambrosium zu Reutlingen flyssiglich volbracht vff Zinstag nach Oculi Anno lxxxij. Does not include the Pars hiemalis (Winterteil) mentioned in the colophon and described…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Otmar, Johann - Jacobus
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialChristophori Landini, Florentini, in Q. [H]oratii Flacci Carmina interpretationes incipiunt feliciter Incipit title (leaf Ia). Explicit: Christophori Landini, Florentini, in Q. Horatii Flacci opera omnia interpretationum finis divino auxilio felix. Imprint from colophon. Commentary on the complete works of Horace, printed surrounding the Horatian text. Signatures: [1⁶ 2-34⁸ 35²]. Includes index. LC copy has binder's title: Horatius cum Landino. Purchased from Dr. Otto Vollbehr, 1930. Goff H-447 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 8881 BM 15th cent., VI, p. 637…- Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Landino, Cristoforo - Holmes, Oliver Wendell - Incunabula Collection (Library of Congress) - Horace
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialCosmographia, sive De situ orbis. Leaf [2a]: Pomponij Mellae, cosmographi, Geographia. Prisciani quoq[ue ex Dionysio Thessalonicensi De situ orbis interpretatio. Caption title printed in red. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 232 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M-452 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 11019 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, p. 286 (IA.20518) Also available in digital…- Contributor: Mela, Pomponius - Ratdolt, Erhard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Martin, Robert Walsingham - Brooke, Thomas - Dionysius - Priscian
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialCosmographia Translated by Jacopo d'Angelo; edited by Nicolaus Germanus. The maps, double, except for the last, are on separate sheets, most with descriptive text printed on the versos within woodcut borders; these texts are known in several variants. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-1084 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 538 (IC.9306) Copinger, W.A. Supplement…- Contributor: Erzabtei St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Königliche Bibliothek Zu Berlin - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - St. Peter in Salzburg (Abbey) - Nicolaus Germanus - D'angelo, Jacopo - Preussische Staatsbibliothek - Ptolemy - Hol, Lienhart
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialHistori wie die Türcke[n] vn[d] andre Geschlecht der Vngleubigen die cristelichen Kirche[n] vor vil Iare[n] in manigerley Weiss angefochten. Title extracted from incipit (leaf [2a]): Hienach volgt ein warhaft vn[n]d bewerte Histori wie die Türcke[n] vn[d] andre Geschlecht der Vngleugiben die cristelichen Kirche[n] vor vil Iare[n] in manigerley wei[ss] angefochten ... Translated by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Cf. Friedrich Kraft's H. Steinhöwels Verdeutschung der Historia Hiersolymitana. Strassburg, 1905 (Quellen und Forschungen, 94). First paragraph printed in red. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 87…- Contributor: Bämler, Johann - Robert - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Steinhöwel, Heinrich
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialSchwester Demut Title from first line of leaf [10a]; the date 1482 appears in the text on leaf [33b]. Apparently a fortune-telling game in verse. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 90 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-334 Schramm, VI, p. 3, 18, and illus. Fürstlich Liechtenstein'sche Fideikommissbibliothek. Kat. der Inkun., 351 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.…- Contributor: Liechtenstein, House of - Dinckmut, Konrad - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialDas Buch genannt der Seuse.
Seuse Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 86 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-871 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5688 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 349 (IB.5943) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Contemporary blind-stamped calf binding. LC copy has bookplate…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Sorg, Anton - Seuse, Heinrich - Perrins, Charles William Dyson
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialDer Altuäter Leben.
Altväter Leben Title extracted from register (leaf [2a]): Ein Register in das nachgeend Buch gena[n]nt d'Aluäter Leben, oder zu latein Vitaspatru[m] ... Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 89 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-217 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 8605 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 350 (IB.5946) Also available in digital form on the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Sorg, Anton
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialDiscordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini, [and other works]. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 235 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-120 Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 2453 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IV, p. 129 (IA.19240) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 3387 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: provenance: Walter Ashburner.- Contributor: Barbieri, Filippo De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Ashburner, Walter - Herolt, Georg - Riessinger, Sixtus - Proba - Thomas
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialDas Büchlin vo[n] dem sterbenden Me[n]schen Title extracted from incipit (leaf [3a]): Hie hebt sich an das Büchlin vo[n] dem sterbenden Me[n]schen ... A free translation of the Cordiale quattuor novissimorum, often erroneously attributed to Hans Münzinger. Cf. Franz Falk's Die deutschen Sterbebüchlein, 1890, p. 80. Signatures: [a-m⁸]. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 91 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M-870 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 11628 Schramm, IV,…- Contributor: Münzinger, Hans - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Sorg, Anton - Gerardus - Fürstlich Oettingen-Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek - Müntzinger, Johannes
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialA book of the chesse moralysed. Title extracted from leaf [2a], line 14: ... anexcellent doctour of dyuynyte in the Royame of Fraunce of the Ordre of Thospytal of Saynt Johns of Jherusalem ... hath made a book of the chesse moralysed. Attributed by Caxton to Jean de Vignay, whose French version he translated into English. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 558 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries,…- Contributor: Caxton, William - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Jacobus - Jean - Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward)
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialPolycronicon. Books 1-7 edited by Caxton from John Trevisa's translation; book 8, bringing the history to the year 1460, compiled by Caxton. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 564 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-267 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 8659 Ricci, S. de. Census of Caxtons, 49; 35 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.…- Contributor: Caxton, William - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Higden, Ranulf - Trevisa, John - Bridgewater House Library
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialEin guter nüczlicher Tractat von der Natur zwelferley Thier Title extracted from incipit (leaf [1a]): Hie hebt an ein guter nüczlicher Tractat von der Natur zwelferley Thier ... Types 120G, 140G. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 92 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, T-142 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 11628 Klebs 957.1 (Germany, after 1500) Fürstlich Liechtenstein'sche Fideikommissbibliothek. Kat. der Inkunabeln, 344 LC copy imperfect: half of leaves [6-7] and almost all…- Contributor: Liechtenstein, House of - Theobaldus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Sorg, Anton
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialNouicijs adolesce[n]tib[us] ad astronomica[m] remp. capessenda[m] aditu[m] impetra[n]tib[us] p[ro] breui rectoq[ue] tramite a vulgari vestigio semoto, Ioannis de Sacro Busto Sph[a]ericu[m] opusculu[m]. Co[n]traq[ue] Cremone[n]sia i[n] planeta[rum] theoricas delyrame[n]ta Ioa[n]nis de Mo[n]te Regio … Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Caption title (printed in red). Imprint from colophon (place from Goff). The col. ill. are printed with blocks inked yellow or green; one ill. is printed in both colors. Signatures: a-g⁸ h⁴. Goff J-405 Hain-Copinger 14110 BM 15th cent., V, p. 286 (IA.20516) LC copy: capitals in red or red and gold;…- Contributor: Regiomontanus, Joannes - Peurbach, Georg Von - Sacro Bosco, Joannes De - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Incunabula Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1482
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Book/Printed MaterialProspectiua co[mmun]is d. Ioha[n]nis archiepiscopi Ca[n]tuarie[n]sis fratris ordinis mino[rum] ...
Reuerendissimo in Christo patri apostolicoq[ue] protonotario nec no[n] equiti aurato & comiti palatino Ambrosio griffo | Prospectiva communis d. Johannis archiepiscopi Cantuariensis fratris ordinis minorum | Prospectiua cois d. Iohanis archiepiscopi Catuariesis fratris ordinis mino Title from opening words, leaf a2. Edited by Facius Cardanus. Ampersand in leaf a1 verson caption represents a Tironian sign. Printer from colophon (in verse: "... Faustis Corneni clauditur auspitijs. ..."); place and imprint date from ISTC. Signatures: a⁸ b-d⁶ e⁴. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-394 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 9425* Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M30474 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth…- Contributor: Incunabula Collection (Library of Congress) - Cardanus, Facius - Corneno, Petrus De - Peckham, John
- Date: 1482
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