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Incipit libell[us] d[e] vita et morib[us] philosopho[rum] et poeta[rum]

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Description: This is the short (or "incomplete") edition of the work - see ISTC. Full colophon reads: Anno domini millesimo quadri[n]gentesimo septuagesimonono. vltima vero die Iunij. Opusculu[m] (philosophorum vita) insigne ob legentium profectum editum. Friderici Cressners ciuis inclite Nur[e]mbergensium vrbis industria fabre factum fideliterq[ue] impressum finit feliciter. Laus deo clementissimo. Begins with alphabetical table of contents (leaves [*2r-*5v]) and alphabetical list of names of philosophers/poets in two columns (leaf [*6]). Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.2 x 21 cm. Text in one column. Blanks left for initials. Signatures: [*⁶ a-h⁸ i⁶ (*1 blank)] Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: modern binding using parchment leaf with medieval music as cover.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [30 June 1479]
Call number: 84794
Creator: Burlaeus, Gualterus (1275-1345?)(Opens in new tab)

Incipit libellus de uita & morib[us] ph[ilos]o[phorum] & poeta[rum]

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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

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

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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Dominica prima aduentus domini. Incipit officium

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Title from incipit on leaf a1r. Place and date of imprint from colophon; full colophon reads: Anno incarnationis dominice millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo nonagesimosecundo Iunii vero quindecima q[uam] insigne sacri missalis op[us] more Ebroicensi instar correctissimi exe[m]plaris ordinatum: in laudem et gloriam sancte [et] indiuidue trinitatis tociusq[ue] celestis curie. Impressum Parisius. Finit feliciter. Printer from ISTC. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.3 x 21.7 cm. Main text in two columns, calendar in one column. Initial spaces. Signatures: 2a⁶ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ A-D⁸. Verso of final leaf blank.

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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.

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F[rat]ris Baptistae Man. Carmelitae theologi ad reuere[n]dissimum in Christo patre[m] ac D[omi]n[u]m D. Oliueriu[m] Carafa[m]: Sabinen. Ep[iscopu]m & Cardinale[m] Neapolitanu[m] De suo[rum] t[em]poru[m] calamitatibus

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Imprint from colophon. Full colophon reads: Calamitatum nostri temporis op[us] diuinu[m]. Parisiis impressum per Michaele[m] Lenoir. Anno natiuitatis domini millesimo nonagesimo octtauo die decima tertia mensis Marcij. Includes additions by Franciscus Ceretus. Woodcut printer's device on title page and illustration of the Crucifixion on the title page verso. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.9 x 12.8 cm. Text in one column. Signatures: 2a⁸ 2b-2h⁶ 2i-2k⁸. Illustration on t.p. verso and capital letters on leaf a2r touched in yellow. Binding: half green morocco with marbled paper.

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