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Chancery quarto with paper measuring 19.3 x 13.8 cm. Text in one column, 36 lines. With one initial space on leaf a2; without guide-letters, foliation and catchwords. Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ c⁶. Binding: blind-tooled tan morocco.
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Imprint from ISTC; Copinger dates imprint as "about 1490". Caption title, "Indulgentie dele. vii. Chiesie principali di Roma", on leaf C4r. Chancery octavo, with paper measuring 13.8 x 10.2 cm. Text in one column; woodcut initials. Signatures: A-G⁸ H⁴.
101185
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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.
100536
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Work of an unknown author based on the herbal of Dioscorides and later attached to the name of Apuleius Platonicus. A variant issue is known with a dedication to Cardinal della Rovere in place of that to Cardinal Gonzaga. 132 woodcut illustrations. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.6 x 13.8 cm. Signatures: [*⁶ a-m⁸ n⁶ (*1, n6 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf [*]1) lacking. Leaves [*]2-[*]6, [a]1, [n]1 and [n]6 lacking and replaced with facsimiles. Huntington Library copy has the illustrations hand-colored and "silked" for conservation. Huntington Library copy is the variant, with dedication to Cardinal della Rovere. Binding: citron morocco. Binder's stamp: Bound by Lloyd London.
89924
![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.
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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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