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Book/Printed Material[Cetinjski oktoih : the Cetinje Octoechos]
[Cetinje Octoechos] Temporary title from dealer's description. Imprint suggested by ISTC. Signatures: [1-33]⁸ [34]⁶ ([34]6 blank). Gatherings [2], [9], and [12] unsigned. First and last leaves of each gathering signed. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M2774110 Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, io00022350 Printed in red and black. Leaf [32]5 recto blank. LC copy imperfect: wanting leaves [8]4-[8]5, [34]3-[34]6. Numerous repairs, including one at leaf [15]5 resulting in some loss…- Contributor: Makarije - Crnojević, Đurđe - Orthodox Eastern Church
- Date: 1494
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Book/Printed MaterialA honor & a labança de n[uest]ro senor ih[es]u [christ]o aqui comença el flos sanctorum con sus ethimologias
Aqui comença el flos sanctorum con sus ethimologias | Flos sanctorum con sus ethimologias Title from caption, leaf [1]1. Imprint from ISTC. Haebler suggests Santiago de Compostela as the place of printing, and Juan de Bobadilla as the printer. George D. Painter of the British Museum suggests in a letter to Frederick Goff that the work was likely printed in the second half of the 1470s, possibly in Seville. Signatures: [1]¹⁰ [2]¹² [3]¹⁰+1 [4]¹² [5-7]¹⁰ [8-11]¹² [12]¹⁰ [13]¹⁰+1…- Contributor: Jacobus - Bobadilla, Juan De - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1472
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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: Jacobus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Caxton, William
- Date: 1483
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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: Jean - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Jacobus - Hibbert, George - Verard, Antoine
- Date: 1493
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Book/Printed MaterialConcilium zu Constanz. Leaf ccxlviia: Hie endet sich das Concilium Buch geschehen zu Constencz, darinn man vindet wie die Herren gaystlich vnnd weltlich eingeritten seind vn[d] mit wieuil Personen, auch ir Wappen gemalet vnd wie sy abgeschiden seynd, auch die Sachen die darinn geschehen seind ... Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 97 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R-196 Catalogue of books printed in the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Eys, W. J. Van (Willem J.) - Sorg, Anton - Richental, Ulrich Von - Murray, Charles Fairfax - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1483
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Book/Printed MaterialDat boeck dat men hiet fasciculus temporum in houdende die Cronijcken van ouden tijden Title from explicit. Imprint from colophon. Leaf [1]1 verso: Veldener's device surrounded by the text of the Gospel of John, chapter 1, verses 1-14. Veldener's device at colophon. Signatures: [1-29]⁸ [30]⁶ [31]⁸ [32]⁴ [33-43] ([43]8 blank) With additions to the original text. Text of leaves [1]2 and [2]1 within vegetal woodcut border. Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R-278 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 6946…- Contributor: Newman, William Henry Harrison - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Rolevinck, Werner - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Veldener, Johann - Lammens, Pierre-Philippe-Constant
- Date: 1480
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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 MaterialConfessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio
Tractatus de instructione seu directione simplicium confessorum | Tractatus de instructione confessorum Prologue (leaf [4b]) titles the work: Tractatus de instructione seu directione simplicium confessorum ... Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. "Short version" of the work, as defined by H. Wilms in "Das Confessionale 'Defecerunt' des hl. Antonin," in Divus Thomas (Fribourg) XXIV (1946), p. [99]-108. "Incipit Sermo Beati Johannis Crisostomi de penitentia": leaves [126b-130a]. "Tractatus de septem sacramentis ecclesie sumptus ex scriptis Beati Thome de Aquino ac…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Antoninus - Johann - John Chrysostom - William
- Date: 1485
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Book/Printed MaterialBiblia Latina. [Fragments of 3 leaves, on paper] Goff B-526 Hain 3031 GW 4201 Leaf fragments 1 and 2 are each bound separately and shelved in the incunabula section of the Rare Book Collection; leaf fragment 3 is shelved in the incunabula section of the Batchelder Collection. vj01 01-30-97- Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1454
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Book/Printed MaterialRationale divinorum officiorum Printed by Gutenberg associates Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, with in five years of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible. Six large initials (leaves [1a], [1b], [14b], [20a], [86a], [140a]) printed in red and blue, numerous initials and headlines printed in red. The color registration of the printed initials is remarkable.- Contributor: Fust, Johannes - Durand, Guillaume - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - La Vallière, Louis César De Labaume Leblanc De - Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf) - Golitsyn, Michel Aleksandrovitsch - Schöffer, Peter
- Date: 1459
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Book/Printed MaterialDe officiis. Printed in black and red on vellum. Includes Marci Tulij Ciceronis Paradoxa leaf [76b-85b] [V]ersus XII Sapientu[m] ... positi in epitaphio Marci Tulij Ciceronis leaf [86a-87b] and Manlio Torquato Flaccus de vite humane breuitate leaf [88a] Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-575 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5238 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6921 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now…- Contributor: Fust, Johannes - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Hibbert, George - Phillipps, Thomas - Wilks, John - Schöffer, Peter
- Date: 1465
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Book/Printed MaterialInstitutiones, cum glossa. One of four books of the Corpus juris civilis originally issued from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor. The glosses variously attributed to Accursius glossator and Franciscus Accursius. Cf. Savigny, Geschichte des röm. Rechts im Mittelalter, v. 5, p. 288; Bib. nat. Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 9489 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-506 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7580 Catalogue of…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Justinian I - Bernhard I - Accursius, Franciscus - Accursius - Herzogliche Öffentliche Bibliothek (Meiningen, Germany) - Schöffer, Peter
- Date: 1468
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Book/Printed MaterialHistoria naturalis Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 212 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-786 Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 13087 (variation) Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, p. 153 (IC.19506) (variations) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy imperfect: last leaf wanting; leaves [1], [2], [354]…- Contributor: Pliny - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Emerich, Johann
- Date: 1469
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Book/Printed MaterialRhetorica ad Herennium. Has been attributed to M.T. Cicero. Printed on vellum. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 214 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-672 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 5057 (pt. 1) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6709 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6708 (variant) With: Cicero, M.T. De inventione. Venice, 1470. The two works were probably issued together. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Powis, Edward Herbert - Terry, Roderick - Hoe, Robert - Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Jenson, Nicolas
- Date: 1470
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Book/Printed MaterialVitae XII Caesarum. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 215 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-817 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 15117 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, p. 170 (IB.19624a) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: decorated initial; historiated border in gray, salmon, and purple. Dark blue morocco binding,…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Suetonius - Jenson, Nicolas - Burra, James Salkeld - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1471
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Book/Printed MaterialOrthographia Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 216 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, T-395 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 15568 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 15564 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, p. 170 (variant IC.19648) LC copy: initials in preliminary treatise and paragraph marks throughout supplied in red and blue alternately; large ornamental…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Niédrée, Jean-Edouard - Dunn, George - Jenson, Nicolas - Seillière, Achille - Tortelli, Giovanni
- Date: 1471
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Book/Printed MaterialCollationes patrum XXIV. Leaf [162a] (colophon): Hie ennde[t] sich Die viervn[d]zweinczig guldin Harpffen, die gezogen seind auss collac[i]o[n]ib[us] pat[rum] [durch Hansen Nyder] ... Leaf [3b] printed in red. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 42 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, N-223 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 11847 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 331 (IB.5645) Schramm, III,…- Contributor: Bämler, Johann - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Nider, Johannes - Cassian, John
- Date: 1472
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Book/Printed MaterialDas goldene Spiel. Leaf [1a]: Hie hebt sich das Buch an, die man nent Dz guldin Spil, vnder dem begriffen seind siben Spil, durch welche die Houbtsund der ouch an der Czal siben seynd, kurcz vn[d] meisterlich zu Bestraffung d[er] Irrenden erclärt werde[n] ... Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, I-81 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 9187 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Ingold - Zainer, Günther
- Date: 1472
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Book/Printed MaterialLegenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Pars aestivalis.
Pars aestivalis Leaf [2a]: Hie hebt sich an das Sumer Teil der Heyligen Leben ... 211 printed leaves, with probably two blank leaves at the end. The "Winterteil" (Hain-Copinger 9968, pt. 2), which completes the work, is dated Oct. 25, 1471. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 378 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-156 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 9968, pt. 1…- Contributor: Jacobus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Zainer, Günther
- Date: 1472
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Book/Printed MaterialHie hebt sich eyn gutt nuczlich Buch von der rechtlichen Uberwundung Cristi wider Sathan The upper and inner margin of the first leaf is decorated with a lace-patterned border that appears to have been printed after the text. This book is illustrated with 35 large woodcuts in the text, five hook cuts used to define the garments. No backgrounds or foregrounds are delineated. The text is rubricated with three line initial letters and paragraph marks in red.- Contributor: Jacobus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Zainer, Günther
- Date: 1472
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Book/Printed MaterialGeographica Latine. First 10 books translated by Guarinus Veronensis, the remainder by Gregorius Tifernas. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d-e⁸ f-h¹⁰ i-k⁸ l-n¹⁰ o-p⁸ q-s¹⁰ t⁸ u⁸⁻¹ x-y¹⁰ z⁸ A⁸]. Goff S-794 Hain-Copinger 15087 Proctor 4042 (3 Venice 1b--1) Lyons 539 LC copy: leaf 130a in ms. Agrees with Lyons except at leaf 218a, colophon line 1: LC and Hain "Domini", Lyons "domini"; differs from Hain at line 2:…- Contributor: Guarino - Strabo - Tifernas, Gregorio
- Date: 1472
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Book/Printed MaterialDe re militari. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 218 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, V-88 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 15847 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VII, p. 948 (IB.30706) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy 1 deaccessioned Mar. 6, 1987.- Contributor: Valturio, Roberto - Giovanni - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1472
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Book/Printed MaterialArs vitae contemplativae. Hybrid block book. This copy is illustrated with two leaves of images and text printed in block-book format. The xylographic illustrations contain 12 vignettes depicting lessons from the bible colored by contemporary hand. Initials and paragraph marks supplied are red or blue.- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Creussner, Friedrich
- Date: 1473
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Book/Printed MaterialDe claris mulieribus. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 47 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-716 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 3329 Schramm, V, p. 3-5 and illus. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4483 LC copy: legal text in 15th cent. hand on recto and verso of front flyleaf. Contemporary brown tooled leather over boards, hinges broken. Ashburner copy. Also available in digital form on the Library of…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Ashburner, Walter - Zainer, Johann - Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Date: 1473
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Book/Printed MaterialHistoria de preliis Leaf [2a]: Hienach volget Die Histori vo[n] de[m] Grosse[n] Alexand[er] wie die Eusebi[us] beschriben hat ... Translation by Johann Hartlieb of Leo's Alexander romance, here attributed to Eusebius Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 44 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-403 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 785 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 884 Schramm, III, p. 2, 25, and illus. LC copy differs from GW…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Hartlieb, Johann - Leo - Liechtenstein, House of - Bämler, Johann - Eusebius
- Date: 1473
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