Incunabula leaves from the Burndy Library collection | Collections | The Huntington

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Dialectica resolutio cum textu Aristotelis / edita per reverendum patrem Alphonsum a Vera Cruce Augustinianum
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Colophon: Liber hic finitus fuit ... nonis Octobris [7 Oct.], anno ... 1554. Errata on leaf 88. "Liber Praedicabilium" (leaves 3-25) is a translation of "Isagoge", an introduction to Aristotle's Categoriae, written by Porphyry, and edited by Alonso de la Vera Cruz. "Sequitur Resolutio Libri Cathegoriarum Aristotelis per ... Alphonsum a Vera Cruce ... edita" (leaves 26-86 [i.e. 87]) consists of Aristotle's Categoriae and a commentary by Alonso de la Vera Cruz. No. 87 omitted from numbering.
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Hic codex Auienii co[n]tinet Epigra[m]ma, eiusde[m] Arati Phaenomena geographia[m] carmine heroico: & oras maritimas trimetro iambico: germanici quoq[ue], & Marci Tulii Arati fragmenta, & Sereni uersus de uariis curandis morbis
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This volume contains the Arati Phaenomena by Avienus (leaves a4r-d3v); Avienus's Latin version of Orbis terrae descriptio by Dionysius Periegetes (leaves d3v-f6r); Ora maritima by Avienus (leaves f6r-g7r); Phaenomena by Germanicus Caesar, with a commentary by Avienus (leaves h1r-m8v); Aratea by Cicero (leaves m8v-n6v); and Liber medicinalis by Serenus Sammonicus (leaves n7r-p6r). Edited by Victor Pisanus. Cf. dedication, leaf a2. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.4 x 14.4 cm. Text in one column with guide letters. Includes 38 woodcut illustrations in the Germanicus Caesar which are, in part, reversed copies of those in the 1485 Hyginus of Ratdolt, from blocks previously used by T. de Blavis. Cf. BM 15th cent. Signatures: a¹⁰ b-p⁸ (a1, g8, p7-8 blank). Imperfect: leaves a1, p7-p8 lacking. Binding: Old English red morocco, in brown morocco solander case. Binder's stamp on case: Bound by Riviere & Son.
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Ars moriendi : quamuis secundu[m] philosophu[m] tercio ethicorum
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Block book. Leaves [a]1 and [b]6 printed on one side only; the remainder printed on both sides. Printed in black ink. Woodcuts date from 1470-1475. Huntington Library copy is version IVC with a two-lined frame without hatching and two additional leaves at end: Christ as Intermediator and The Fall. Binding: 18th/19th century German paper over paper boards. In 19th century English gilt-tooled brown morocco portfolio by Riviere & Son.
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Biblia pauperum
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Block book. Leaves printed on one side only. Printed in brown ink. Huntington Library copy is [6] leaves: leaf A from edition VIII ([Netherlands or Lower Rhine, about 1463-1468]) and leaves b, g, h, i and m from edition III. Leaves have suffered moisture damage and faded ink. Binding: quarter leather over beech boards.
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Collection of leaves from a missal, books of hours, and an antiphonal
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A collection of leaves from an unidentified missal, books of hours, and antiphonal; also modern ephemera. HM 82933 (1) leaves from a missal written for Chichester Cathedral, with decorated initials and possibly Flemish illuminated borders. The five leaves are bound into a volume with black Morocco binding and two ribbons laid in; with the bookplate of Edward J. Loftus pasted onto first page.
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Collection of leaves from antiphonals, books of hours, and the four books of sentences
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A collection of leaves from unidentified antiphonals and books of hours; also a vellum binding and modern ephemera. This collection includes: HM 82932 (1) - Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, two leaves of a copy of his Four Books of Sentences; HM 82932 (2-5) - 9 leaves from various antiphonals, with black square notes set on red four line staves with decorated initials; HM 82932 (6-16) - 38 leaves from various books of hours, with mostly black and red ink, decorated initials and illuminated borders.
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