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Prologus in librum Aniani qui compotus nuncupatur incipit feliciter

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Description: 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).
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [approximately 1490]
Call number: 55005
Creator: Anianus (active 13th century)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Rosenbach, September 1924. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Syston Park. Bookplate with monogram "JHT" on front pastedown.
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Also includes "Dits a plaisance". Imprint from ISTC. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.5 x 13 cm. Text in one column; capital spaces. Signatures: a⁶(-a6) b⁶(-b6).

101978

Incipiunt Secreta mulierum [et] viro[rum] ab Alberto Magno [com]posita

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Wrongly attributed to Albertus Magnus. Title from incipit on verso of leaf a2. Imprint from ISTC. On the printer see Schanze. Formerly assigned to Georgius de Spira at Speier (BMC), or to Johann and Conrad Hist. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.7 x 14.9 cm. Text in one column; woodcut initials. Signatures: [a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁸ e-f⁶ (a1, f6 blank)].

100209

Cy fine le doctrinal des filles

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Title from colophon on page [10]. Imprint from Incunabula in the Huntington Library. GW gives printer and date of imprint as "Michel Le Noir, about 1497". Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.5 x 13.3 cm. Signatures: a⁶ (a1, a6 blank?).

100614

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

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

Incipit pulcher tractat[us] coll[e]c[t]us p[er] venerabilem doctore[m] Walteru[m] Burley Anglicu[m] De vita ph[ilosoph]o[rum]

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Expanded with the life of Persius and the Dicta philosophorum. Cf. ISTC. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.7 x 13.6 cm. Main text in one column, measuring approximately 13.4 x 8.4 cm. Indexes of philosophers and subjects in double columns. Capital spaces without guide letters. Incipit and colophon (including printer's mark) printed in red. Signatures: [a-l⁸ m¹⁰]. Large initial on leaf [a]3r in blue; other initials and rubrication in red. Binding: laced limp parchment, possibly Spanish.

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Prologus in librum Aniani qui compotus nuncupatur incipit feliciter

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