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San Marino, CA 91108
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Vida y Virtudes de la esclarecida Virgen Santa Rosalia...poema lyrico, Libros I-III
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
![Scriptum sanctissimi doctoris Thome Aquinatis: ordinis predicatoru[m] super tertio libro Sententiaru[m] magistri Petri Lombardi cum textu singulis distinctionib[us] anteposito](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4S6S6S%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Imprint from colophon on leaf v3v; full colophon reads: Explicit Scriptu[m] sanctissimi doctoris Thome Aquinatis ordinis predicato[rum] sup[er] tertio libro sente[n]tiaru[m] magistri Petri Lombardi cu[m] textu singulis distincio[n]ib[us] anteposito q[uam] dilige[n]tissime emendatu[m] atq[ue] correctu[m] [et] impressum ingenio ac impensa Herman[n]i Liechtenstein Colonie[n]sis: anno natalis d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxxx. die .xxvj. Aprilis. Text of Lombard's Sententiarum typographically distinguished from Thomas Aquinas's commentary. Capital spaces with guide letters; text printed in 2 columns. Signatures: a-p⁸ q-v⁶. Final page blank. Binding: contemporary South German blindstamped calf by Johannes Rucker with his name stamp (Kyriss 62) on front cover; metal corner and bosses and clasps. Manuscript waste apparent along hinges and under pastedowns.
646697
![Ortus sanitatis : de herbis et plantis. De animalibus [et] reptilibus de auibus et volatilibus de piscibus [et] natatilibus de lapidibus [et] in terre venis nasce[n]tibus de vrinis et ea[rum] speciebus tabula medicinalis cum directorio generali per omnes tractatus](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4UN3LAT%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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With three full-page woodcuts, and 1061 illustrations of plants, animals and minerals. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.8 x 21.2 cm. Text in two columns. Capital spaces with guide letters. Signatures: a⁸ b-k⁶ l⁸ m-r⁶ s⁸ t-z⁶ 2A⁶ 2B⁸ 2C-2E⁶ 2F⁸ 2G-2I⁶ A⁸ B-C⁶ D⁸ E-H⁶ I⁸ K-Q⁶ R⁸ S-T⁸ V⁸ 2a⁶ 2b⁴ 2c-2e⁶. "Tractatus de animalibus" and "Tractatus de urinis" have separate half-titles on leaves A1r and 2a1r respectively. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards; white deerskin[?] spine; label with ms. title on front. In box.
88408
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Pamphlet featuring news of what happened in Mexico on December 10. Description of festivals held in Mexico City and after in Puebla de los Angeles with descriptions of the Church and various ceremonies.
653905
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An autograph volume of unpublished classroom lectures of the obstetrician Antoine Petit. The volume contains lists of titles, indexes, and sections on the health and anatomy of women; common issues related to pregnancy; pre and post-natal care for women and babies; common illnesses in newborn babies; abortion; and medical recipes. The volume also includes a section on the famous Scottish obstetrician William Smellie. The volume is bound in full contemporary calf with gilt florets and remains of title-label on spine; covers are loose with some damage and a quantity of blank leaves was removed at the end of the volume. There is a contemporary ownership inscription of "Joannes Mathaeus Garot, Parmacopole (?)" on the inside front cover, with some indications that the book passed through the hands of several different students.
mssHM 84130
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Table following title page begins: "Comie[n]ça la tabla del libro del [sic] propietatibus rerum." Incipit at head of leaf a1r: Comiensa el libro delas propiedades delas cosas. Translated by Vicente de Burgos. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.6 x 21.9 cm. Printed in 2 columns (table of contents, 3 columns; prologue in a single column). Gothic type, 45-49 lines. Initial spaces with guide letters at beginning of books and in gatherings 2a-2g; woodcut ornamental initials elsewhere. Printer's device on last page following colophon. Illustrations: 18 large woodcuts, 13 within double-line borders (including 1 repeat and 1 cut composed of six small sections) and 5 within single-line borders (including arms of Castile and Aragon on title page, measuring 154 x 136 mm), and 6 small woodcut diagrams. The 17 cuts in the text, prefixed to books 2-17 and 19, are on leaves a6, c1, d6, e8, k2, l6, o6, C2, D3, D6, E5, F8, G8 (repeated from D3), I1, L4, M8 and 2m5. The diagrams are on leaves c3 (3 geometrical), c8 (2 optical) and I1 (schematic map of the world). Signatures: [superscript pi]a⁶ a-m⁸ n-o⁶ A-M⁸ 2a⁶ 2b-2e⁸ 2f-2g⁶ 2h-2o⁸ 2p⁴. Binding: brown morocco; binder's stamp: Bound by Riviere & Son.
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"Johannes de Ketham can be convincingly identified as Hans von Kircheim of Swabia ... This collection of texts was in circulation by 1400."--ISTC. Translated by Sebastianus Manilius; edited by Petrus Andrea Morsiano. Includes Pietro da Tossignano's Consilium pro peste evitanda (leaves e2v-f2r) and Mondino dei Luzzi's Anothomia (leaves f3r-i3v). Includes ten full-page woodcuts, with one printed in color: the library of Petrus de Montagnana (leaf a1r); urinoscopic consultation (leaf a1v); circle of urine glasses (a2r); disease man (a4r); Zodiac man (b2r); vein man (b2v); wound man (b6v); pregnant woman (d1r); scene in the chamber of a plague patient (e2r); and dissection scene (leaf f2r, in color). Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.6 x 20.5 cm. 48 lines to a full-page; area of text: 26.3 x 16.4 cm. Includes initial spaces with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords Signatures: a-h⁶ i⁴. Imperfect: trimmed, with occasional loss of outside edges of illustrations and signature marks. Binding: half Spanish calf with marbled paper.
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