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Description: 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).
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [approximately 1490]
Call number: 101978
Provenance: Purchased from Vollbehr, February, 1926.
Dimensions: 19 cm (4to)
Associated people: Schenck, Pierre, (-approximately 1495,)
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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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Facetus cu[m] co[m]mento

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Place of imprint, printer and publisher from colophon. Date of imprint from ISTC. Attributed to Reinerus Alemannus and Johannes de Garlandia, but according to Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, the author is unknown and the attribution to Johannes de Garlandia is unfounded. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.5 x 13 cm. Printer's device on title page. Signatures: a-b⁶ (b6 blank).

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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

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.

85882

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

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?).

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Les ventes damours

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