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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
![Die natürlichen meister haben in irer schul vnd vbung für genume[n] vn gedisputirt em hübsche gemeine frag. Ob ei[ne]m Ma[n]ne sei zu nemen ein elich Weibe](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4SSPPM%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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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.
87167
![Incipit libellus de uita & morib[us] ph[ilos]o[phorum] & poeta[rum]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN47IV4TU%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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This is the short (or "incomplete") edition of the work - see ISTC. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.7 x 21 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 18 x 10.8 cm. Spaces left blank for initials. Signatures: [a⁶ b-i¹⁰ k⁸ (a1, k5-k8 blank)]. Imperfect: final blank leaf (leaf [k]8) lacking. Binding: brown morocco.
85857

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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).
55005
![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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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.
103180
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Wrongly attributed to Albertus Magnus. Title from incipit on verso of leaf a2. Imprint from ISTC. On the printer see Schanze. Formerly assigned to Georgius de Spira at Speier (BMC), or to Johann and Conrad Hist. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.7 x 14.9 cm. Text in one column; woodcut initials. Signatures: [a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁸ e-f⁶ (a1, f6 blank)].
100209