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Description: Title page printed in red. Text printed in red and black. Woodcut illustration on verso of title page depicts Jerome drawing a thorn from a lion's paw. Printed in red. Large woodcut initial on page [3] printed in red. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.1. x 14.7 cm. Includes a section of Alexander de Villa Dei's Oratio congrua secundum mentem Alexandri. Signatures: a-d⁸. Final page blank.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [approximately 1500]
Call number: 287875
Creator: Donatus, Aelius(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Harper Inc., Dec. 1952. Bookplate on front pastedown: A gift of the Friends of the Huntington Library. Leaf with typed dealer description laid in at front.

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

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[Incipit Donatus minor cum Remigio ad usum pusillorum anglicanarum scholarium]

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653025

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.

84816

In laudem operis kalendarij .s. huius Iohanne de Monte Regio editi Germano[rum] decoris nostrae aetatis astronomoru[m] principis Iacobi Sentini Ricinensis Carmina

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Laudatory hexameters about the printer by Joannes Lucilius Santritter and about Regiomontanus by J. Sentinus. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.8 x 14.2 cm. Printed in red and black; initial letters; decorative border on p. [1]. Last [4] pages are printed and pasted leaves. Burndy Library's copy lacks the brass pointer which normally appears on the last page. Signatures: [a¹⁰ b-c⁸ d²]. Bound in vellum, with ms. spine title.

717851

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John Barefoot letter-doctor to the University of Oxon

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Three-quarter length portrait of John Barefoot, wearing neckscarf, and holding hat and paper inscribed "For his honored friend in Oxford these present." Emblem of lion's paw at top left; lettering "An[n]o Dom[ini] 1688 Aetatis suae 77" at top right. Below title, 12 lines of engraved verse, with the first line "Upon this table you may faintly see," by "Q.Z."

646902

Incipit Tractatus de uirtutibus herbarum

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This edition, without synonyms, is the first known Italian edition of the anonymous Herbarius. Cf. BM 15th cent. Often wrongly attributed to Arnaldus de Villanova. Title page includes portraits of Avicenna and Arnaldus de Villanova. Includes 150 woodcut illustrations of plants. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.8 x 14.1 cm; 33 lines; area of text: 14.4 x 8.9 cm. With woodcut initials; woodcut border on leaf pi2; initial spaces with guide-letters from leaf u2 until the end; paragraph marks and headlines; without catchwords. Signatures: pi⁴ a-x⁸ (pi1, t8 blank). Binding: green morocco; binder's stamp: Bound by Lloyd.

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