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Le Guidon en Francois

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Description: 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.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [14 Feb. 1498]
Call number: 100536
Creator: Guy (approximately 1300-1368)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Vollbehr, March 23, 1925. Inscription on title page, trimmed: ... ex dono d[omi]nj de mange[?] noux[?]. Inscription on title page, trimmed and crossed out: ... ce livre ...[?] Barbie. Inscription on title page: Da liure a ...[?] maistre[?] Nicolae de Maistre. Occasional contemporary ms. annotations, most trimmed, in the margins and on the last [2] pages. Armorial bookplate of Syston Park and label with monogram "JHT" [i.e. Sir John Hayford Thorold] on front pastedown. Bookplate: From the collection of Charles Butler of Warren Wood Hatfield.

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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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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Les ventes damours

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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).

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Natura verborum

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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.

92567

Donatus minor

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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.

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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.

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