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Description: Imprint from ISTC. Also includes De contemptu mundi wrongly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.7 x 14.5 cm. Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶(c6 blank).
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [approximately 1495]
Call number: 86158
Provenance: Purchased from Vollbehr, Feb. 16, 1926. Numerous marginal and interlinear ms. annotations in a 16th century hand, including alternative Latin words, comments, and manicules. Faded and partially illegible inscription on leaf c6r: DonP[edr]o de chicho el de las pre[…], Ant[oni]o Rodriguez, Ant[oni]o de torres, Petro fortius, Pedro fuerte.
Dimensions: 22 cm (4to)
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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)].

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Guillermi Tardiui aniciensis in i[n]uidiosam falsamq[ue] detractionem vbicunq[ue] gentium lateat verissima responsio ac defensio;

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Title from caption on leaf [a]2r. Imprint from ISTC. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.3 x 13.9 cm. Text in one column; guide letters. Signatures: [a⁸ (a1 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

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).

100633

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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De contemptu mundi

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Work incorrectly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. Printer's name from device on title page. Place of imprint and estimated date from ISTC. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.3 x 13.9 cm. Text in one column. Woodcut initials. Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁶.

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