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![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](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN412TCKX%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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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
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Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.9 x 19.4 cm. Text in one column; guide letters for initials. Signatures: a-i⁶ k-l⁴ (a1 blank). Binding: three-quarters vellum over marbled paper.
102898
![Hie nach stond verzaichnet die vsz gepranteen wasser. In welcher masz man die denglidern nütz vnd prauchen soi / Alsz den[n] maister Michel Spricht doctor in der ertzny die beschriben hat vnd ist gargüt vnd nütlich ze wissen](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN412H1S8%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Michael Puff von Schrick's Von den ausgebrannten Wässern. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.2 x 20.2 cm. Text in one column measuring approximately 18.7 x 13.1 cm. Signatures: [a-b⁶]. Final page blank. Binding: limp vellum.
104211
![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
![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
![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.
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