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Instructio seu alphabetum sacerdotum

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Description: Title from caption on leaf a2r. Imprint from ISTC. Chancery octavo, with paper measuring 12 x 9.5 cm. Signatures: a⁸ b⁴. Final page blank.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [approximately 1495]
Call number: 31143
Provenance: From the library of Charles Frederick Gunther.
Dimensions: 12 cm (8vo)
Associated people: Poulhac, Pierre, (active 1493-1500,); Gunther, Charles Frederick, (1837-1920,)
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Sancta Maria perpetua / co[m]posta da sancto Gregorio papa

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Imprint from ISTC. Chancery octavo, with paper measuring 15.6 x 10.9 cm. Text in one column; woodcut initials. Woodcut illustrations on title page and page [16]. Signatures: a⁸.

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Prologus in librum Aniani qui compotus nuncupatur incipit feliciter

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Title from beginning of text on recto of leaf a1. Imprint from ISTC. Klebs dates imprint to 1488. Includes commentary. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.5 x 13.1 cm. Text in one column; capital spaces. Signatures: a-e⁸ f¹⁰ (f10 blank).

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Incipit libellus de uita & morib[us] ph[ilos]o[phorum] & poeta[rum]

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This is the short (or "incomplete") edition of the work - see ISTC. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.7 x 21 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 18 x 10.8 cm. Spaces left blank for initials. Signatures: [a⁶ b-i¹⁰ k⁸ (a1, k5-k8 blank)]. Imperfect: final blank leaf (leaf [k]8) lacking. Binding: brown morocco.

85857

De gramatica

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Title from caption on leaf a2v. Place and date of imprint from colophon; full colophon reads: Expliciunt. Note edite siue compilate: atq[ue] rursus: per reuerendum magistrum in artibus graduatum Stephanum de Masparrautha nomine dictum. Fueru[n]t impresse in vrbe i[n]signi Vale[n]tie. Anno incarnate deitatis. Millesimo. Quadringe[n]tesimo. Nonagesimo octauo die mercuris vicesima quarta: me[n]sis Octobris. Printer from ISTC. Mead gives printer as "Nicolaus Spindeler". Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.7 x 14.7 cm. Signatures: a-i⁸ k⁴ (a1 blank). Final page blank.

91594

Historye vanden grote[n] coninc Alexandere

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Place and date of imprint from colophon; printer from ISTC. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.8 x 12.4 cm. Text in one column; initial spaces. Signatures: a⁸ b-h⁶ i⁴ (i4 blank?).

100239

Dyalogus creaturaru[m] optime moralizatus. omni materie morali iocu[n]do mo[do] applicabil[is]: ad laude[m] dei [et] edificatione[m] ho[m]i[nu]m Incipit feliciter

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Ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus on the basis of Paris BN MS. lat 8512, and to the Milanese doctor Mayno de Mayneriis (Magninus Mediolanensis) on the basis of a MS. at Cremona C, supported by local references in the text. Cf. ISTC. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 27.6 x 20.2 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 18.4 x 11.5 cm. Includes 122 woodcut illustrations and a woodcut initial and border on leaf a2r. Gerard Leeu's device B on leaf m6r. Signatures: pi⁶ 2pi⁴ a-l⁸ m⁶ (pi1, a1 blank). Imperfect: blank leaf pi1 lacking. Binding error: gatherings pi and 2pi bound at end after gathering m. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: red morocco. Binder's stamp: Bound by F. Bedford.

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Instructio seu alphabetum sacerdotum

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