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Rare Books
Group of early printed leaves from the Burndy Library collection. The leaves are from various provenances and sources. Three leaves are from the Cyril Stanley Smith collection: 1. Joannes Balbus. Catholicon, approximatley 1470. 2. St. Augustine. De Civitate Dei, approximately 1470. 3. Nicolaus de Lyra. Postilla super totam bibliam, approximately 1474-1477. There is also a group of 31 leaves from Schendel, Hartmann, 1440-1514. Liber chronicarum (commonly known as the Nuremberg chronicles) from both the Latin and the German editions; a single, hand colored leaf in from the German language Liber chronicarum (Blat CCII) with an accompanying note that it was found in a wrapper from Becon Book Shope, 23 So. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, Calif. Anton Koberger printed the Latin edition of the Liber chronicum on 12 July 1493, with the German language edition following on 23 December 1493. Also included is a leaf from Avicenna, 980-1037. Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Latin title: Canon medicinae) translated into Hebrew from Arabic. This leaf is identified as being from the Hebrew edition printed in Naples by Azriel ben Joseph Ashkenazi, 1491.
762381
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Manuscripts
Unidentified manuscript leaf, used as the outside wrapper for a copy of Georg Agricola's de re metallica (1541). Included: Facsimiles.
mssHM 80526
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Manuscripts
This manuscript is a fragment from a binding; copied out by an unknown scribe. The majority of the fragment appears to be from Chapter 10, Homily 17, which is concerned with the Book of Hebrews 9:24-26. The text is in Greek in black ink with red initials; it is undated but possibly from the 11th through 13th centuries. The leaf is damaged, with an old repair; also stained, with missing text.
mssHM 83587
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-2v: [Fragment of choir book; contains Common of Evangelists, beginning in vespers[?] and continuing into a section of matins; text not continuous].
mssHM 31544
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-2v: [Fragment of a Sacramentary].
mssHM 41785
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-2v. [Breviary, fragment]. Latin. Two non-consecutive leaves of a monastic breviary, bound in reverse order, containing part of the offices at matins and at prime for a confessor bishop and for a confessor who was not bishop. Status of text: Fragment.
mssHM 1045