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Herbarius

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Description: Title and imprint from colophon. Full colophon reads: Gedruckt vnd seligklich volendet diser Herbarius durch Hannsen Schönsperger in der Keyserlichen stat Augspurg am Montagnach vnnsers herzen hymelfart. Nach Christi geburdt tausent vierhundert. vn[d] in dem neün undneüntzigisten iare. Edited by Johann von Cube. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 27.4 x 18.5 cm. Text in two columns, each measuring approximately 20.5 x 6.2 cm. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts, mainly depicting plants, but also some animals and apparatus, etc. Signatures: pi⁴ a-v⁸ w⁸ x-z⁸ A-D⁸ E⁶ F⁸ G-H⁶ I⁸ (I8 blank). Huntington Library copy is hand colored. Imperfect: leaves pi1, pi4, a1 and a3 lacking. Leaves e2 and e3 missing lower right corner, with slight loss of text. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calfskin over wooden boards; remnants of two clasps. Rebacked.
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Date: [13 May 1499]
Call number: 103539

Hie nach volgt das buch der natur. : Innhaltende zum ersten vo[n] eigenschafft vnd natur dess menschen. Darnach von der natur vn[d] eigenschafft dess hymels. d[e] tier. des gefugels. der kreüter. d[e] stein. vn[d] von vilandern natürlichen dingen

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Includes fourteen full page woodcut illustrations. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.6 x 19 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 20.5 x 12.9. Woodcut initials. Signatures: pi² a⁸ b-z⁶ A-E⁶ (E6 blank). Imperfect: leaves a1 and B1 lacking and replaced with facsimiles. Binding: contemporary German half blindstamped calfskin and beech boards.

85862

Herbarius

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In Latin, with German synonyms for plant names. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.2 x 14.8 cm; Text in one column in main text with 32-33 lines to a full-page; area of text: 15.5 x 8.7 cm. With initial spaces with guide-letters, and foliation; without signatures and catchwords. Includes 150 woodcut illustrations of plants. Signatures: [*⁴ a-t⁸ 2a⁸ 2b¹⁰ (t8 blank)]. In Huntington Library copy, the illustrations are hand-colored. Binding error: leaf xxviij bound after leaf xxx. Binding: contemporary German blindstamp pigskin; heavily repaired. Manuscript waste under paper pastedown on inside front cover.

88177

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.

100210

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

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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

Historye vanden grote[n] coninc Alexandere

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Place and date of imprint from colophon; printer from ISTC. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.8 x 12.4 cm. Text in one column; initial spaces. Signatures: a⁸ b-h⁶ i⁴ (i4 blank?).

100239

Incipit pulcher tractat[us] coll[e]c[t]us p[er] venerabilem doctore[m] Walteru[m] Burley Anglicu[m] De vita ph[ilosoph]o[rum]

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Expanded with the life of Persius and the Dicta philosophorum. Cf. ISTC. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.7 x 13.6 cm. Main text in one column, measuring approximately 13.4 x 8.4 cm. Indexes of philosophers and subjects in double columns. Capital spaces without guide letters. Incipit and colophon (including printer's mark) printed in red. Signatures: [a-l⁸ m¹⁰]. Large initial on leaf [a]3r in blue; other initials and rubrication in red. Binding: laced limp parchment, possibly Spanish.

85882

Herbarius

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