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    Hier eyndet dat boeck welck ghehieten is bartholomeus vanden proprieteyten der dinghen
    Van den proprieteyten der dinghen | First line of text, leaf 2a2: Hier beghinnen de titelen d[es] sijn de namen der boeken daer men af spreke[n] sal en[de] oec die capittelen der eerwaerdighen mans bartolome[us] engelsman en[de] een gheoerdent broeder van sinte franciscus oerde Ende heeft xix. boeke[n] die sprekende sijn vande eygenscappen der dingen
    Title from explicit. Imprint from colophon, where date appears before place of printing and name of printer. Signatures: 2a⁶ 2b⁴ a-r⁸ [round r]⁸ [long s]⁸ s-v⁸ u⁸ w⁸ x-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁶ ẽ⁶ A-V⁸ W⁸ X-Y⁸ 2A-2B⁸ 2C-2D⁶ 2E⁸ (2a1, ẽ6, 2E8 blank) 2a2-4 signed as 2a1-3; A2-4 signed as A1-3. Ampersand represents a Tironian sign. Full-page printer's device on leaf 2E7. Goff, F.R. Incunabula…
    • Contributor: Incunabula Collection (Library of Congress) - Bartholomaeus - Bellaert, Jacop - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1485

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    Le proprietaire en francoys. "... Des p[ro]prietes des choses fut tra[n]slate de latin en fra[n]coys lay de grace Mil.CCCC.lxxij [sic, i.e. 1372] par le co[m]ma[n]deme[n]t de tres puissant et noble prince Charles le quint ... Et le traslata son petit et humble chapellain frere Jehan Corbichon ...": Colophon. Imprint from colophon. Printer's device below colophon. Signatures: a⁸ ²a⁸ b-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ A-B⁸ (leaf a8 blank). Goff B-148 Hain-Copinger…
    • Contributor: Huss, Mathias - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Bartholomaeus - Corbichon, Jean
    • Date: 1491

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    Isidori Iunioris Hispalensis Episcopi Liber etimologiarum ad Braulionem Cesar Augustanum Episcopum scriptus incipit foeliciter.
    Capitulam librum primum | Isidori Iunioris Hispalensis Episcopi epistola ad Braulionem Cesar Augustanum Episcopum | Isidori Ivnioris Hispalensis Episcopi Liber etimologiarvm ad Bravlionem Cesar Avgvstanvm Episcopvm scriptvs incipit foeliciter | Liber etimologiarum ad Braulionem Cesar Augustanum Episcopum scriptus
    Title from caption, leaf [2]4. Imprint from colophon; place of printing from Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) Signatures: [1]⁴ [2]¹⁰(+chi1) [3-13]¹⁰ [14]⁸([14]4+2chi1) [15-24]¹⁰ [25]⁸ [26]¹⁰ [27]¹⁰([27]10+3chi1+4chi1). Goff I-181 Hain 9273* GW M15250 BM 15th cent., II, p. 317 (IB. 5438, IB. 5440) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ii00181000 Capital spaces. LC copy imperfect: leaves [10]5, [10]6 wanting. Misbound: gathering [1] (table) bound at end.…
    • Contributor: Incunabula Collection (Library of Congress) - Kurfürstliche Bibliothek (Bavaria, Germany) - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Brem, Bonaventura - Zainer, Günther - Isidore
    • Date: 1472

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    De Docta Ignorantia.
    Opuscula theologica et mathematica | Prohemium, [I]n hoc volumine [con]tinentur certi tractatus & libri altissime [con]templat[i]onis et doctrine
    Title from caption, pt. 1, leaf a2. Imprint from Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) Signatures, pt. 1: a⁸ b-r⁶ (last 2 leaves blank); pt. 2: a-f⁶ g-h⁸ i-z⁶ A⁶ B-C⁴ D⁶ E⁸ (last leaf blank). Hain-Copinger 5893 Goff N97 GW M26367 BM 15th cent., I, p. 157-158 (IB. 2265, IB. 2268; IB. 2266, IB. 2267) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) in00095800 LC copy misbound:…
    • Contributor: Nicholas - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Flach, Martin
    • Date: 1489

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    De laniis [sic] & phitonicis mulieribus.
    De laniis & phitonicis mulieribus | De lamis & phitonicis mulieribus | De laniis [sic] et phitonicis mulieribus
    Ampersand in title transcription is a Tironian sign. Imprint from ISTC. Leaf d5 verso: "Ex constan[tem?] anno d[omi]ni mcccclxxxix die decima ianuarij. Tue celsitudinis humilis co[n]siliarius & seuulus vlricus molitoris de consta[n]tia decreto[rum] doctor." (Ampersand represents a Tironian sign.) Signatures: a-b⁸ c-d⁶ (d6 blank). Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M-794 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 11535* Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M25188 Catalogue of books printed…
    • Contributor: Molitor, Ulrich - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Prüss, Johann
    • Date: 1489

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    Malleus maleficarum. By Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger. Imprint from colophon. Ampersand in imprint represents a Tironian sign. Imprint date transposed: statement of year precedes printer's name, while the day and month appear at the end of the statement. Signatures: [phi]⁸ a-q⁸ r¹⁰ ([phi]8 and r10 blank). Goff I-166 Hain-Copinger 9245* GW M12471 BM 15th cent., II, p. 438 (IA. 7468) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.)…
    • Contributor: Koberger, Anton - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Sprenger, Jakob - Institoris, Heinrich
    • Date: 1494

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    Mercurii Trismegisti Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei
    Leaf pi1 begins: Tu quicunq[ue] es, qui haec legis, siue gra[m]maticus siue orator | Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei
    Title from caption, leaf a1; imprint from leaf pi1. Signatures: pi⁴ a-b⁸ c-f⁴ g⁸ (pi1 and g8 blank). Goff H-79 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 8458 GW 12312 BM 15th cent., V, p. 280 (IA. 20895) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ih00079000 Capital spaces with guide letters.
    • Contributor: Ficino, Marsilio - Hermes - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Dominici, Lucas
    • Date: 1481

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    Ioannis Pici Mirandulae Concordiae comitis Disputationum aduersus astrologos liber primus[-duodecimus].
    Final page (leaf u6 verso) reads: Disputationes Ioannis Pici Mirandulae litterarum principis aduersus astrologia[m] diuinatrice[m] quibus penitus subneruata corruit | Adversus astrologos | Disputationum adversus astrologos
    Caption title (leaf a1 recto). Imprint from colophon (leaf t4 verso), with correction by Goff. "A reprint of pt. II of Hain 12993*, with original colophon unchanged [H12992*(II)]"--Goff. Signatures: a-s⁶ t⁴ u⁶. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-640 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 12994* Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M33286 Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, ip00640000 Illustration on leaf k1. Capital spaces with guide letters. LC copy…
    • Contributor: Vitali, Bernardino Dei - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Pico Della Mirandola, Giovanni
    • Date: 1498

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    Artiu[m] & medicine doctoris magistri Matthei de Lucha de diebus creticis [sic] Dialogus.
    Ad Lectorem | Artium et medicine doctoris magistri Matthei de Lucha De diebus criticis dialogus | De diebus criticis
    Title from caption on leaf a2. Place and date from colophon; printer from ISTC (online). Signatures: a⁸. Goff M-373 Hain-Copinger (Addendum)-Reichling 10257 GW M21768 BM 15th cent. IV, p. 136 (IA. 18993) ISTC (online) im00373000 One capital space with a guide letter.
    • Contributor: Matthaeus - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Fritag, Andreas
    • Date: 1493

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    Incipit liber co[m]pilat[i]o[n]is phisonomie
    Incipit liber copilatois phisonomie | Liber compilationis phisonomie
    Uniform title from Goff; title from incipit; imprint from colophon. Signatures: [1-2¹⁰ 3-5⁸ 6⁶] Colophon: Anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo quarto hoc de phisonomia opus Petri padubanensis p[er] me Petrum maufer normanum Padue impressum est. Goff P-438 Hain 18 BM 15th cent. VII, 912-913 (IA. 29914) LC copy has slip mounted on p. [1] with inscription: Patris Magistri Fratris Gregorij Spennati Perusini, filij Conuentus…
    • Contributor: Petrus - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Maufer, Petrus
    • Date: 1474

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    Pungi lingua. Illustrated title page (woodcut). Signatures: a-m⁸/⁴ n⁸. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-340 Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 4775 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6411 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, p. 839 (IA. 29015) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ic00340000 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection (1977), 275 Text printed in 2 columns;…
    • Contributor: Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Nani, Ercole - Cavalca, Domenico - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1493

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    Dit boeck is ghenoemet dat vader boeck dat in de[n] Latijne is ghehieten Vitaspatru[m] : inhoude[n]de die historien en[n] lege[n]den der heligher vadere[n] die hare leue[n] in stre[n]gher penitencie
    Vader boeck dat in den Latijne is ghehieten Vitaspatrum
    Imprint from colophon. Signatures: A⁴ a-o⁶ p-q⁴ r-t⁶ v⁴ x⁶ y-z⁴ A-B⁶. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-212 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 8630* Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 8630* Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M50966 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 28 (IB.47236) Incunabula short title catalogue, ih00212000 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald…
    • Contributor: Arenberg, Prosper Louis - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Eckert Van Homberch, Henrick
    • Date: 1498

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    Incomenza el libro del glorioso doctore misier sa[n]cto Agustino chiamato Manual[e]. Caption title. Spuriously attributed to St. Augustine. Place and publication date from colophon; printer from Goff. "A partial text"--Goff. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff A-1288 GW 2968 (calls for 25 lines) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ia01288000 LC copy has 24-25 lines per page. Formerly classified: Incun. 1487 A83616. vj21 2008-07-29.
    • Contributor: Augustine - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Foxius, Hannibal
    • Date: 1487

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    Be-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: Incunabula Collection (Library of Congress) - De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo - Rashi - Ḳaraṿiṭah, Yosef - Abraham Ben Hayyim - Sṭraśburḳ Tsarfati, Yosef Ḥayim Ben Aharon - Onḳelos
    • Date: 1482

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    [Bible]. Ms. Vulgate Latin Bible written in Bohemia in the early 15th cent. Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance ms. bks., 7 Ricci, S. de. Medieval and Renaissance mss., p. 229, no. 98 Ricci, S. de. Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.), p. 119, no. 70 Includes Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum.
    • Date: 1400

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    Biblia Latina.
    Gutenberg Bible
    Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff B-526 Hain 3031 GW 4201 Schwenke, P. Johannes Gutenbergs 42-zeilige Bibel, no. 12 (p. 10) and p. 23, 25, 41, 48 LC copy on vellum. Leaf [192a] presents numerous variants from the facsim. ed. of the Berlin copy (Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1913-14). Leaves [11]-[32a], [139]-[158] and [486a] are of the second printing.…
    • Date: 1454

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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: Lothian, William Schomberg Robert Kerr - Fust, Johannes - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field) - Ellys, Richard - Schöffer, Peter
    • Date: 1462

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    Dit is vander Vruchten des Lijdens en der Passien Ons Liefs Here Ihu Xpi.
    Vruchten des Lijdens en der Passien Ons Liefs Here Ihu Xpi | Vruchten des lijdens ende der passien ons liefs heren Ihesu Christi | Meditacie des Lijdes Ons Liefs Heren | Boec van die vier oefeninghen Bonauenture
    Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 510 Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴ G-K⁸ L⁴ M-P⁸ Q⁴ R-T⁸ V⁴. Rubricated initials, two ornamented. Some woodcuts hand-colored. LC copy: Provenance: Duc d'Arenberg. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. With: Een salige meditacie des Lijdes Ons Liefs Heren op die seuen getijden. Leiden : Hugo Janszoen, [1501?] -- Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal. Soliloquium.…
    • Contributor: Janszoon Van Woerden, Hugo - Bonaventure - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Arenberg, Prosper Louis
    • Date: 1501

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    Dit is vander vruchten des lijdens en der passien ons liefs here[n] Ih[es]u [Christ]i
    Vander vruchten des lijdens en der passien ons liefs here[n] Ih[es]u [Christ]i | Dit is vander vruchten des lijdens en der passien ons liefs here Ihu Xri | Vruchten des lijdens ende der passien ons liefs heren Ihesu Christi
    Imprint from ISTC. Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴ G-K⁸ L⁴ M-P⁸ Q⁴ R-T⁸ V⁴. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, V-374 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 6564 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M29681 Incunabula short title catalogue, iv00374000 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 510 Capital spaces. LC copy: Two pen-drawn initials in in red, blue, and green. Initials and capital strokes in red. Most…
    • Contributor: Janszoon Van Woerden, Hugo - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Arenberg, Prosper Louis
    • Date: 1499
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    In desen boec sijn bescreuen die vier vterste ofte die leste dinghe[n] die ons austende ende toecomende sijn
    Vier vterste ofte die leste dinghe[n] | Vier uterste ofte die leste dinghen
    Attributed to Gerardus de Vliederhoven; ISTC also attributes to Denis, the Carthusian. Title from first lines, leaf [1]1. Imprint from colophon. Printer's full name from ISTC; leaf [8]2 verso initialed: G.L. Signatures: [1-7]⁸ [8]⁶ [9]⁴ [10]² ([8]3, [10]2 blank) Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-902 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 5715 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5715 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 07519 Incunabula…
    • Contributor: Leeu, Gerard - Denis - Ebendorfer, Thomas - Groote, Gerard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Heinrich - Gerardus - Arenberg, Prosper Louis
    • Date: 1477

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    Gerson de ymitatione cristi : Cum tractatulo de meditatione cordis
    Gerson de imitatione Christi | De ymitatione Cristi
    Imprint from colophon. Signatures: [1-24]⁸ ([1]8, [24]7, [24]8 blank). Goff I-15. Hain 9093* GW M46805 BM 15th cent., II, p. 530 (IA. 9265) Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ii00015000 Capital spaces. "Tractatus de meditat[i]one cordis Iohannis Gerson": leaves Clxxij-Clxxxij. LC copy has initials, capital strokes, underlining, and paragraph marks in red. Title page is annotated in ms. with the title of the 2nd work…
    • Contributor: Gerson, Jean - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Zainer, Johann
    • Date: 1487

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    [Tractatus de membris beate et intemerate dei genetricis et virginis Marie intitulatus vinea domini Sabaoth] Scribal colophon suggests that the manuscript was copied by Gertrud Büchel. Explicit: Explicit tractatul[us[ de vinea d[omi]ni sabaoth [com]plet[us] i[n] oct[av]a ep[ip]h[an]ie a[nn]o d[omi]ni m.cccc.xciij p[er] me Sorore[m] gerdrudi[n] buchel p[ro]fessa[m] mo[n]iale[m] i[n] insula rola[n]di Oretis p[ro] ea amore dei. Latin. Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 248, no. 187 Bond, W.H. Supplement to…
    • Contributor: Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Conradus
    • Date: 1493
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    Horologiu[m] deuotio[n]is.
    Horologium devotionis
    Translated by the author from his original German. Colophon (leaf h10v): Explicit Horologium deuotionis per me Johannem Landen Colonie infra sedecim domos [com]morantem. Signatures: a-g⁸ h¹⁰. With: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274. Stimulus diuini amoris. [Antwerp, ca. 1505?]. Bound together subsequent to publication. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 193 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-507 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium…
    • Contributor: Incunabula Collection (Library of Congress) - Berthold - Perrins, Charles William Dyson - Landen, Johann - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Bertoldus
    • Date: 1498

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    Meditationes de vita et beneficiis Jesu Christi, sive Gratiarum actiones.
    De vita beneficijs saluatoris Ihesu Cristi deuotissime meditationes cum gratiarum actione | De vita beneficijs saluatoris Ihesu Cristi deuotissime meditationes cū gratiarū actione
    Leaf [1a] (t.-p.): De vita beneficijs saluatoris Ihesu Cristi deuotissime meditationes cu[m] gratiaru[m] actione. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 195 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 7293 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M-434 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 10991 Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 630 (pt. 2) (variation) Also available in digital form…
    • Contributor: Landen, Johann - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas
    • Date: 1498

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    Tractatus de spiritualibus ascensionibus. Title from leaf [Ia] (t.p.): Tractatus de sp[irit]ualibus ascensionibus. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 196 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-178 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 303 (IA.5142) Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 1481 IGI 1618 (III) Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au…
    • Contributor: Zerbolt, Gerard - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Landen, Johann - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1498

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