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Liure des prop[ri]ete[s] des choses fuit translate de latin en francoys

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Description: Translated by Jean Corbichon; edited by Pierre Farget. Main text in two columns, with guide letters for initials. Table in three columns. Signatures: [superscript pi]a¹⁰ a-z⁸ A-R⁸ S⁶ ([superscript pi]a1 and S6 blank). A few large initials in blue and red; other initials and rubrication in red. Imperfect: leaves [superscript pi]a1-2, [superscript pi]a9-10, a1, b8, e5, l6 and gathering S lacking. Modern blank leaves bound in place of leaves [superscript pi]9-10. Binding: green morocco.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [26 January 1485/1486]
Call number: 84710
Creator: Bartholomaeus (active 13th century)(Opens in new tab)
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Incipit libellus de vita [et] moribus philosophorum [et] poetarum

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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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Bartholomeu[s] de proprietatib[us] re[rum]

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An English translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum by John Trevisa. Title page is xylographic (white on black). Caption title on leaf A2r reads: Prologue of the translatour. True it is· that after the noble [and] experte doctryne . The last leaf contains William Caxton's device, and on the verso a copy of the title-page cut. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.9 x 21.2 cm. Text in two columns. Woodcut initials. Signatures: A⁶ B⁸ b⁶ c-z⁸ [et]⁶ [con]⁸ A-V⁸ X-Z⁶ 2a-2c⁸ 2d-2g⁶ 2h-2m⁸ 2n⁴ 2o⁶. Huntington Library copy has gathering A inlaid. Imperfect: leaf A1 (blank) lacking; leaves 2o4-2o6 repaired at inner margin. Binding: richly inlaid and onlaid brown morocco by the Club Bindery, Leon Maillard, finisher. In case.

82741

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Collection of Greek, Roman and Arabic medical essays in Latin, including the Isagoge by Johannitius; De pulsibus and De urinis by Theophilus Philaretus; Aphorisms by Hippocrates, with commentary by Galen, edited by Constantinus Africanus; Prognostica by Hippocrates, with commentary by Galen; De regimine acutorum morborum by Hippocrates, with commentary by Galen; Epidemiae by Hippocrates, with commentary by Johannes Alexandrinus; De natura foetus by Hippocrates, translated by Bartholomaeus de Messina; Liber Tegni by Galen with commentary by Hali; De divisione librorum Galeni by Gentilis Fulginas; De lege by Hippocrates, translated by Arnoldus de Villa Nova; and Iusiurandum by Hippocrates, translated by Petrus Paulus Vergerius. Edited, with marginalia, by Gregorius a Vulpe from the edition of Franciscus Argilagnes. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 32.3 x 21.5 cm. Printed in double columns. 66 lines to a full column, plus headline. Some woodcut initials; otherwise initial spaces with guide letters. Printed marginalia and paragraph marks. With foliation and signatures; without catchwords. Register and publisher's device on leaf G5v. Errors in foliation: leaves 95 and 119 (1st count) misnumbered as 94 and 121; leaves 26, 35 and 40 (2nd count) misnumbered 25, 33, and 56, respectively. Signatures: [superscript pi]a⁸ a-r⁸, A-E⁸ F-G⁶ (G6 blank). Imperfect: leaves [superscript pi]a1 and [superscript pi]a2 torn along edges and repaired. Binding: decorated paper boards.

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Aqui comiença vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana. / Compuesto por el muy reuerendo padre fray Alonso de Molina: guardia[n] d[e]l co[n]uento d[e] Sant Antonio d[e] Tetzcuco d[e]la orde[n] delos fray les Menores

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Imprint from colophon. Title in red and black. Signatures: [superscript pi]a⁸ A⁸ B-Z⁴ &⁴ 2A-2Z⁴ 2&⁴ 2[cross]⁴ a-p⁴. Verso of final leaf blank.

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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

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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

Attendite a falsis p[ro]phetis qui ueniunt ad uos in uestimentis o[m]niu[m]

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In three parts: the Lapidarius attributed to Aristotle, the Quomodo virtutes pretiosorum lapidum augmentantur and the Physiognomia. Signatures: [a¹⁰ b-d⁸ e⁶ (a1, e6 blank)]. Imperfect; initial and final blank leaves (leaves [a]1, [e]6) lacking. Large initial on leaf [a]2r in red and blue, subsequent initials in red or green (some initial spaces left blank); rubrication in red. Binding: panelled calf.

89950

Liure des prop[ri]ete[s] des choses fuit translate de latin en francoys

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