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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) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Bellaert, Jacop - Bartholomaeus - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1485

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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: Prüss, Johann - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Molitor, Ulrich
    • Date: 1489

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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: Hermes - Dominici, Lucas - Ficino, Marsilio - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1481

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

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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: Zainer, Johann - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Gerson, Jean
    • Date: 1487

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    Regula [quod] ad instar no[n] preiudicet familiaribus descriptis cu[m] decreto q[u]o efficaciores clausule nemini suffragentur.
    Regula ad instar no preiudicet familiaribus descriptis cu decreto qo efficaciores clausule nemini suffragentur
    Title from caption. Goff describes this as the third (of 3) works in a possible "... composite edition made up of several works ... issued together and also separately ...". Cf. Goff I-151. May be an earlier printing of GW M12419; the first leaf as described appears to match, but the 2nd leaf is blank in this copy; the impression of uninked type can…
    • Contributor: Catholic Church. Cancellaria Apostolica - Catholic Church. Pope ( : Innocent VIII) - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Guldinbeck, Bartholomaeus
    • Date: 1488

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    Regule, ordinationes & constitutiones Cancellarie Sanctissimi domini nostri d[omi]ni Innocentii diuina prouidentia pape viii
    Regule, ordinationes et constitutiones Cancellarie Sanctissimi domini nostri domini Innocentii divina providentia pape viii
    An assembly of papal edicts, etc., affecting the work of the chancery; dates of the documents range from 13 Sept. 1484 through 3 Apr. 1487. Title from first line, leaf [1]1. Ampersands in transcriptions represent Tironian signs. Imprint from ISTC. Published after 3 Apr. 1487. Cf. leaf [2]12: Lecta & publicata fuit suprascripta regula Rome in Cancellaria apostolica die martis tertia mensis Aprilis. Anno…
    • Contributor: Catholic Church. Pope ( : Innocent VIII) - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Silber, Eucharius - Kloster Wiblingen - Catholic Church. Cancellaria Apostolica
    • Date: 1487

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    [Misal po zakonu rimskoga dvora 1483]
    Also known as: Missale Romanum Glagoliticum | Also known as: Missale Romanum Glagolitice | Also known as: Missale Glagoliticum, 1483/1484 | Also known as: Glagolitic missal of 1483 | Also known as: Misal rimski
    In Church Slavonic of Croatian recension, printed in the Glagolitic alphabet. This is the earliest known Croatian-language printed book. Title from various reference sources. Over the years, scholars have suggested Rome, Venice, and the Croatian towns of Modruš and Kosinj as the place of publication. Cf. Anthony Niseteo, "The First Press in Croatia" in The Library Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3 (July 1960), p.…
    • Contributor: Catholic Church - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1483

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    Ein Allerhailsamste warnung vor der falschenn lieb diser werlt.
    Warnung vor der falschenn Lieb dieser Welt | Warnung vor der falschen Liebe dieser Welt
    Imprint from ISTC. A German version of Bernardinus Senensis: Speculum peccatorum de contemptu mundi (ISTC.) GW lists it anonymously. Signatures: [1]¹². Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, W-8 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 16150* Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M42933 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 2, page 464 (IA. 8016) Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, iw00008000 Library of Congress.…
    • Contributor: Wagner, Peter - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Bernardino - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1489

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    The 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 - Caxton, William - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1483

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    Concilium 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: Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Eys, W. J. Van (Willem J.) - Sorg, Anton - Richental, Ulrich Von - Murray, Charles Fairfax - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1483

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    Dat 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: Rolevinck, Werner - Newman, William Henry Harrison - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Veldener, Johann - Lammens, Pierre-Philippe-Constant - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1480

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    Geografia 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 - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Berlinghieri, Francesco
    • Date: 1482

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    Confessionale: 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: John Chrysostom - Antoninus - William - Johann - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1485

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    Chronik von allen Kaisern, Königen und Päpsten. Leaf iia: Hienach volget ein Cronica von allen Keysern vnd Künigen ... Printed in red and black. Based on the chronicle by Jacob Twinger von Koenigshofen. Includes Reformation Kaiser Sigmunds im Konzil zu Basel (leaves 79-117) and Reformation Kaiser Friedrichs zu Nürnberg (leaves 117-122). Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 77 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-9 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 9793…
    • Contributor: Holy Roman Empire - Twinger, Jakob - Sorg, Anton - Bämler, Johann - Herrenberger, Matthäus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1480

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    Die duytsche souter Title from colophon. "[D]it va[n]de[n] loue der Salme[n] daer Augustinus sonderlinghe priselic van seit in eenen boec gheheten Dat boec vanden gheest ende vander sielen": leaves [1a-6b]. Actually the opening portion of the pseudo-Augustinian De virtute Psalmorum. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 473 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-1070 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 13521 Catalogue of books printed…
    • Contributor: Meer, Jacob Jacobszoon Van Der - Arenberg, Prosper Louis - Catholic Church - Augustine - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1480

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    Chronicles of England A version of the popular English chronicle Brute of England, continued to the year 1461. Cf. F.W.D. Brie. Geschichte und Quellen der mittelenglischen Prosachronik The Brute of England oder The Chronicles of England. Marburg, 1905. LC copy: initials and paragraph marks supplied in red. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 561 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-477 (pt. 1) (variations) Copinger, W.A.…
    • Contributor: Carysfort, William Proby - Smith, W. Roy - Incunabula Collection (Library of Congress) - Caxton, William - Smith, Marion Parris - Freeling, Francis - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Leighton, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1480

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    Theorica musicae.
    Clarissimi ac praestantissimi mvsici Franchini Gafori, Lavdensis
    Leaf [2b]: Clarissimi ac praestantissimi mvsici Franchini Gafori, Lavdensis, Theoricum opus musice discipline ... Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 228 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-5 Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 7404 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, p. 867 (IA.29495) IGI 4114 Also available in digital form on the Library…
    • Contributor: Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Gaffurius, Franchinus - Francesco
    • Date: 1480

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    Epistolae After the ed. of Teodoro de' Lelli. Reprinted, with changes and additions, from the Venice ed. of 1476. Cf. BM 15th cent. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 227 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-169 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 8557 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VII, p. 942 (IC.30283) LC copy…
    • Contributor: Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Vecellio, Cesare - Pillone Library - Jerome - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Residentia Valentina S. J. - Convento De Los Padres Franciscanos De Alcalá De Xivert - Brooke, Thomas
    • Date: 1480

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    Die vierundzwanzig Alten, oder Der goldne Thron.
    Goldne Thron
    Leaf ia: Diss Buch ist gena[n]nt Die vierundczweinczig Alte[n], od[er] D[er] guldin Tron ... Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 76 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, O-119 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 12128 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 347 (IB.5890) Schramm, IV, p. 15, 50, and illus. Also available in digital form on…
    • Contributor: Otto - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Sorg, Anton - St. Peter in Salzburg (Abbey)
    • Date: 1480

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    Hier beghint die spieghel des ewighe[n] leue[n]s ende leert ons die kennisse gods en[n] der sielen
    Spieghel des ewighe[n] leue[n]s ende leert ons die kennisse gods en[n] der sielen | Rosenwald cited title: Spiegel des eeuwigen levens. Boek van der biechten | Boek van der biechten | Spieghel des ewighen levens
    Title from Leaf [3a] (signed a3): Hier beghint die spieghel des ewighe[n] leue[n]s ende leert ons die kennisse gods en[n] der sielen. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 478, 478A Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-671 Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5598 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 17 (IA.47114) Campbell,…
    • Contributor: Meer, Jacob Jacobszoon Van Der - Arenberg, Prosper Louis - Leeu, Gerard - Simon - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1480

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    Geographica, Latine. First 10 books translated by Guarinus Veronensis, the remainder by Gregorius Tifernas. Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z⁸ &⁸ A-P⁸ Q⁶. Goff S-796 Hain-Copinger 15089 BM 15th cent., VI, p. 896 (IB.28422) LC copy differs from Hain in last line of colophon, leaf 319b: LC, kl; Hain, Kl. Bookplate of Georgius Kloss, M.D., Francofurti ad Moenum.
    • Contributor: Tifernas, Gregorio - Strabo - Guarino
    • Date: 1480

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    Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini. Signatures: [a-b⁸ c⁶ d-k⁸ l⁴]. Signatures [a-c] and the 2 outer sheets of [d] are newly set, while the others are remaindered from another issue by the same printer (GW 3385; Goff B-118). Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 231 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-119 Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 2455 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century…
    • Contributor: Proba - Thomas - Lignamine, Johannes Philippus De - Barbieri, Filippo De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1481

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