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Natura verborum

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Description: Imprint from ISTC. Text ends on page [12]: Hec breuiter de naturis v[er]bo[rum] dicta sufficia[n]t. Printer's device of Levet on title page. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.5 x 13.3. cm. Signatures: a⁶.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [approximately 1488]
Call number: 92567
Provenance: Faded contemporary ms. inscription on title page. Signature on title page: Bartfridus Eprilennius. Occasional contemporary marginal ms. annotations. Received from Walter M. Hill, Apr. 17, 1925.
Dimensions: 20 cm (4to)
Associated people: Levet, Pierre, (active 1485-1503,)
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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

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

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).

100633

Baptista Mantuanus De peccatis. : Venales inueniuntur in uico sancti Iacobi apud Leonem argenteum

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Bound as no. 3 in a pamphlet volume with 3 other titles. Full colophon reads: Calamitatum nostri temporis opus diuinum Parrhisiis i[m]pressum op[er]a magistri Georgii VVolff. Thielma[n]niq[ue] Keruer fine[m] sumpsit. Anno salutis millesimo quadringentesimo. Nonagesimonono. tertio idus Martii. Published by Jean Petit whose device is on the title page. Printer's device of Thielman Kerver on final page. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.9 x 13.9 cm. Text in one column; woodcut initials. Includes additions by Franciscus Ceretus. Signatures: 2A⁸ 2B-2I⁶ 2K⁸(2K8 blank). Binding: 17th/18th century parchment.

84696

Baptist[a]e Mantuani Carmelit[a]e theologi atq[ue] poet[a]e celeberrimi: Opus diuinu[m] de purissima uirgine Maria: cum ortum, tum totam eius uirginis uitam heroico carmine complectens: nuper eme[n]date impressum. Item eiusdem Baptist[a]e opusculum elegiacum. In quo hortat[ur] poetas, ut lasciuis spurcisq[ue] carminibus relictis: diuinam poesim, pudicis et nostre fidei sacris rebus applicare conentur

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Bound with: Baptista, Mantuanus. Parthenice secunda. [Paris: Georg Wolf for Jean Petit, approximately 1499] (RB 84692). -- Baptista, Mantuanus. De suorum temporum calamitatibus. Parisiis impressu[m] p[er] magistrum Ioha[n]ne[m] Philippi. [13 Nov. 1497] (RB 84693). Printer's device of Petit on title page; printer's device of either Georg Wolf or Thielman Kerver on verso of leaf h10. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.5 x 12.4 cm. Text in one column. Signatures: [superscript pi]a¹⁰ a-f⁸ g-h¹⁰. Also includes Baptista, Mantuanus' Ad beatam Virginem votum post febrim acerrimam and Contra poetas impudice loquentes. Huntington Library copy has Thielman Kerver's printer's device on leaf h10v. Imperfect: first [20] pages (gathering [superscript pi]a) lacking. Binding: stiff vellum.

84691

Natura verborum

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