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  • Biblia pauperum

    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.

    144966

  • Ars moriendi : quamuis secundu[m] philosophu[m] tercio ethicorum

    Ars moriendi : quamuis secundu[m] philosophu[m] tercio ethicorum

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    Block book. Printed on one side of leaves only, so that pairs of printed and blank pages alternately face each other. Printed in brown ink. First pair of printed pages consists of preface; subsequent pairs consist of woodcut illustrations faced with page of text. Imperfect: leaves [20]-[24] lacking. Huntington Library copy is significantly faded and worn. Binding: 19th century English gilt-tooled red morocco, in red morocco solander case; binder's stamp: Made by Riviere & Son.

    144968

  • Dit is die prologhe va[n] der spieghel onser behoudenisse

    Dit is die prologhe va[n] der spieghel onser behoudenisse

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    Speculum type; the Second Dutch edition. Woodcuts and xylographic text printed in brown ink; typographic text printed in black ink. Leaves printed on one side only. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.5 x 21.4 cm. Imperfect: leaves 32-33, 54-55 ([c]14, [d]1, [e]8, [e]9) lacking. Leaves [a]1-[a]3 trimmed at fore edge. Many leaves with blank sides partially pasted together. Binding: 19th century English gilt-tooled red morocco; in blue morocco solander case.

    104685

  • Incipit libellus de vita [et] moribus philosophorum [et] poetarum

    Incipit libellus de vita [et] moribus philosophorum [et] poetarum

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    Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.2 x 14.8 cm. Text in one column measuring approximately 12.9 x 7.7 cm. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [a-m⁸ n⁶ (a1 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf [a]1) lacking. Binding errors: leaf d[8] bound before leaf [d]7 and leaves [f]5 and [f]6 bound before leaves [f]3 and [f]4. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: blue morocco.

    100500

  • Sanctissimo ac cleme[n]tissimo in Christo patri domino: domino Paulo Secu[n]do sacrosancte Romane & uniuersalis ecclesie su[m]mo pastori & po[n]tifici maxi[m]o

    Sanctissimo ac cleme[n]tissimo in Christo patri domino: domino Paulo Secu[n]do sacrosancte Romane & uniuersalis ecclesie su[m]mo pastori & po[n]tifici maxi[m]o

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    Spaces left on leaves [a]1r and [i]1r for incipits to be added by hand; initial spaces. Signatures: [a-f¹⁰ g⁸ h¹² i-n¹⁰ o-p⁸ *⁴]. Illuminated decorations on leaf [a]1r with blue and maroon flowers with gilt scrolling in Ferrara style, blue capital "S" in gilt panel with red and green fill. Coat of arms [obliterated] in gilt circle in bottom margin. On leaf [i]1r blue and maroon flowers on inner margin with red capital 'M' in gilt panel. Other initials and rubrication in red or blue. Incipits on leaves [a]1r and [i]14 written in red. Binding: mid-18th century Spanish[?] gilt-tooled blue morocco[?].

    104182

  • Le Guidon en Francois

    Le Guidon en Francois

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    Translated by Nicholaus Panis. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.5 x 13 cm. Text in two columns, with each measuring approximately 14.9 x 4.8 cm. Woodcut illustration of a surgery on the title page and title page verso. Woodcut initials. Printer's device on final page. Signatures: a-z⁸ A-M⁸ N¹⁰. Binding: red morocco.

    100536