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![Insignis duarum passionum d[omi]ni Iesu Christi n[ost]ri saluatoris. collect[i]o quoru[n]dam diuini verbi disertissimo[rum] predicato[rum]. doctrinalis [et] deuot[i]o[n]is excitati[u]a p[er] die vene[r]is sancta s[e]c[undum] P[ar]asceuen. vtiq[ue] vulgo p[re]dicabil[i] [con]grue[n]tissima textualit[er] ex q[uat]tuor Eua[n]gelioru[m] concorda[n]tijs. ac pluriu[m] sa[n]cto[rum] accuratissimis sente[n]cijs q[uam]flore[n]tissime p[re]cedens p[er] partes [et] pass[us] multiformiter articulis disti[n]cta. Simul q[ue] [con]tine[n]s illibate v[ir]ginis sancte Katherine passione[m] seu martirij eiusdem historiam eloque[n]tie riuulis q[uam] dulciter contextam. foeliciter exorditur [et]c[etera]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4UXCFQ%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Includes two passions (Passio Jesu Christi and De passione Christi) by Johannes Kannemann and a passion on the life of St. Catherine (Historia S. Catharinae) by Rabanus Maurus. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28 x 19.5 cm. Text in one column, 40 lines, measuring approximately 19.1 x 11.1 cm. Type: 95b. Three-, four-, and six-line spaces left for capitals. Signatures: a¹⁰ b-h⁸ (a1 blank). Initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: dark blue morocco; binder's stamp: Chambolle-Duru. In marbled paper slip case.
103143
![Incipit libellus de vita [et] moribus philosophorum [et] poetarum](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4729XO5%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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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.
100500
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Royal quarto, with paper measuring 28.2 x 20.2 cm. Text in one column. Capital spaces with guide letters. Signatures: a-i⁸ K⁸ l-s⁸ [t]⁸ (a1, t8 blank). Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. First initial decorated in red, blue, and green inks along with gold leaf; subsequent initials in red and blue. Rubrication in red and blue. Binding: contemporary Italian blindstamped calf over wooden boards; remnants of leather clasps. In box.
102897
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Michael Puff von Schrick's Von den ausgebrannten Wässern. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 25.1 x 18.3 cm. Signatures: [a⁶ b⁴ c⁶ (c6 blank)]. Imperfect: final blank leaf (leaf c6) lacking. Woodcut initials on leaf [a]2r filled in with red; rubrication in red. Binding: blind-tooled calf.
104213
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Almanac in German with astrological notes and illustrations. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.2 x 15.5 cm. Signatures: [a-h⁸ i⁶ (a1, i6 blank)]. Illustrations hand colored. Running titles, rubrication and numbering of the days of the month in red. Leaf a1 damaged and mounted on free endpaper at beginning. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calfskin over boards; remnants of metal clasp. Rebacked.
90912
![Dyalogus creaturaru[m] optime moralizatus. omni materie morali iocu[n]do mo[do] applicabil[is]: ad laude[m] dei [et] edificatione[m] ho[m]i[nu]m Incipit feliciter](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN47QDXB%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus on the basis of Paris BN MS. lat 8512, and to the Milanese doctor Mayno de Mayneriis (Magninus Mediolanensis) on the basis of a MS. at Cremona C, supported by local references in the text. Cf. ISTC. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 27.6 x 20.2 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 18.4 x 11.5 cm. Includes 122 woodcut illustrations and a woodcut initial and border on leaf a2r. Gerard Leeu's device B on leaf m6r. Signatures: pi⁶ 2pi⁴ a-l⁸ m⁶ (pi1, a1 blank). Imperfect: blank leaf pi1 lacking. Binding error: gatherings pi and 2pi bound at end after gathering m. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: red morocco. Binder's stamp: Bound by F. Bedford.
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