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Incipit liber magistri Egidii De pulsibus metrice compositus

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Description: Gilles de Corbeil's De pulsibus with commentary by Gentilis de Fulgines and edited by Venatius Mutius. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.8 x 14.6 cm; text in one column measuring approximately 14.2 x 9.1 cm. Signatures: [a-c⁸ d-g⁶]. Modern binding using a vellum manuscript leaf from an antiphonal as a wrapper.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1484
Call number: 99934
Creator: Gilles (active 1200)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Vollbehr, March 23, 1925. Contemporary ms. annotations on page [95] titled "Co[m]plexionis sa[n]guinis".

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Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.1 x 14.6 cm; text in one column measuring approximately 12.3 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d⁸ e⁶ f-g¹⁰ h-i⁸ k-n¹⁰ (a1 blank)]. Initials in red or blue; rubrication in red. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. Modern binding using a 15th century German[?] manuscript parchment leaf from antiphonal as a covering.

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Incipit libellus de vita [et] moribus philosophorum [et] poetarum

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Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.2 x 14.8 cm. Text in one column measuring approximately 12.9 x 7.7 cm. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [a-m⁸ n⁶ (a1 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf [a]1) lacking. Binding errors: leaf d[8] bound before leaf [d]7 and leaves [f]5 and [f]6 bound before leaves [f]3 and [f]4. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: blue morocco.

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Cornelii Celsi De medicina liber incipit

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Edited by Bartolomaeus Fontius, in collaboration with Franciscus Saxettus. Chancery folio and Royal quarto, with paper measuring 27.2 x 19.8 cm. One column of text, 34 lines; area of text: 18 x 11 cm. With initial spaces and guide-letters; without foliation and catchwords, except for one catchword on leaf pi6. Quires pi and a-x, leaves y2.5, y3.4, z2.5 and z3.4 are folio; rest are quarto.--Cf. BM 15th cent., IV, p. 627. Signatures: pi⁶ a⁴ b-i⁶ l-z⁶ &⁶ 2a-g⁶ 2h⁴ A⁸ (A8 blank). Imperfect: gathering A (the Tabula) lacking. Binding: red morocco; in green morocco solander case.

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Liber phisionomie magistri Michaelis Scoti

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Colophon reads: Michaelis Scoti de p[ro]creatione et hominis phisionomia opus feliciter funit [sic]. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.1 x 14.8 cm. Text printed in 2 columns; 39 lines per column. With initial spaces; without foliation and catchwords. Signatures: a-b⁸ c-e⁶. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: three-quarters calf with decorated paper.

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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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Incipit opus Alberti Magni. De mirabilibus mundi lege foeliciter

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Often wrongly attributed to Albertus, Magnus. Colophon title: Albertus. Magnus. De. secretis naturae explicit Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.3 x 14.4 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 13.5 x 8.3 cm. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰]. Initials and rubrication in blue and red. Binding: contemporary blind-stamped Italian goatskin over beech boards; remnants of clasp.

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Incipit liber magistri Egidii De pulsibus metrice compositus

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