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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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  • Hier beghinnen de titelen d[at] sijn de namen der boeken daer men af spreke[n] sal en[de] oec die capittelen der eerwaerdighen mans bartolome[us] engelsman en[de] een gheoerdent broeder van sinte franciscus oerde Ende hee[f]t xix. boeke[n] die sprekende sijn vande eygenscappen der dingen

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    Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.9 x 19.5 cm. Text printed in double columns; 40 lines per col.; col. width: 6.6 cm.; area of text: 20 x 14.1 cm. With initial spaces, guide-letters, and signatures; without foliation and catchwords. Includes 11 full-page woodcut illustrations: Almighty God seated in glory (a1v); the creation of angels and fall of demons (a8v); the creation of Eve and anatomical man (c4v); the ages of man, a physician and surgeon attending patients (m7v); the earth and the spheres ([long s]7v); occupations of the months (u2v); birds (y7v); fishes ([z with a crossbar]7v); a landscape showing a river and towns, etc. (A1v); trees and plants (F1v); and animals and reptiles (Q2v). Signatures: 2a⁶ 2b⁴ a-r⁸ [rounded r]⁸ [long s]⁸ s-t⁸ v⁸ u⁸ w⁸ x-z⁸ [z with crossbar]⁸ [con]⁶ ẽ⁶ A-V⁸ W⁸ X-Y⁸ 2A-2B⁸ 2C-2D⁶ 2E⁸. (2a1, ẽ6, and 2E8 blank). Imperfect: blank leaves 2a1, ẽ6 and 2E8 lacking. Binding error: gatherings 2a and 2b misbound at end. Large initial on leaf a2r in blue and red; subsequent initials in red. Binding: brown morocco; binder's stamp: Club Bindery 1899.

    17733

  • Liber de arte distillandi. de simplicibus. = Das buch der rechten kunst zü̈ distilieren die eintzige[n] ding / von Hieronymo Brunschwygk, bürtig vn[d] wund artzot der keiserliche[n] frye[n] statt Strassburg

    Liber de arte distillandi. de simplicibus. = Das buch der rechten kunst zü̈ distilieren die eintzige[n] ding / von Hieronymo Brunschwygk, bürtig vn[d] wund artzot der keiserliche[n] frye[n] statt Strassburg

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    Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29 x 20.6 cm. Printed in double columns. Leaf C2r: 47 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 22.7 (23.8) x 15.1 cm.; col. width: 7.2 cm. Printed initials and initial spaces, most with guide letters. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Numerous woodcut illustrations, including 6 large illustrations (leaf A1r: a garden in which plants are being harvested and distilled; leaf A2r: a teacher and four students; leaf C1r: a crowned scholar at his reading desk; leaves C4v-C5r: a banner containing a poem; leaf E1r: a kneeling young man offering a book to a king; leaf Z2r: three doctors at a patient's bedside) and many smaller ones of plants, animals and distillation apparatus. Cf. Schreiber. Errors in foliation: leaves LXXXI and CLXVIII misnumbered as LXXVII and CXVIII, respectively. Signatures: A-D⁸ E-Z⁶ 2A-2O⁶. Binding: 18th century sprinkled sheepskin.

    85769

  • Hÿ̈e nach volget das püch der natur, das Innhaltet

    Hÿ̈e nach volget das püch der natur, das Innhaltet

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    Based on the Latin work, De natura rerum, by Thomas de Cantimpré́.--Cf. BM 15th cent. Leaf [a]2r printed in red and black. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.3 x 20.1 cm. Text in one column, 28 lines. With ornamental woodcut and printed lombard initials and printed paragraph marks; without foliation, signatures, and catchwords. Includes 12 full-page woodcut illustrations. Signatures: [a¹² b-h¹⁰ i⁸ 2a⁶ 2b-2d¹⁰ 2e-2g⁸ A-H¹⁰ 2A¹⁰ 2B-2C⁸ 2D-2E¹⁰ 2F⁸ 2G⁸ *² (2G8 blank)]. Imperfect: leaves 2G7-2G8 lacking. Binding error: gathering [*] misbound at beginning. Binding: contemporary German [Augsburg?] blindstamped calfskin; extensively restored.

    85861

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

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

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    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.

    84710

  • In comincia el dignissimo fasiculo de medicina : in volgare el quale tracta de tute le infirmitate del corpo humano & de la anotomia de quello & multi altri tractati composti p[er] diuersi excelentissimi doctori con auctorita e testi prouadi & prima la exposition del colore delle vrine e iudicio de quelle

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    "Johannes de Ketham can be convincingly identified as Hans von Kircheim of Swabia ... This collection of texts was in circulation by 1400."--ISTC. Translated by Sebastianus Manilius; edited by Petrus Andrea Morsiano. Includes Pietro da Tossignano's Consilium pro peste evitanda (leaves e2v-f2r) and Mondino dei Luzzi's Anothomia (leaves f3r-i3v). Includes ten full-page woodcuts, with one printed in color: the library of Petrus de Montagnana (leaf a1r); urinoscopic consultation (leaf a1v); circle of urine glasses (a2r); disease man (a4r); Zodiac man (b2r); vein man (b2v); wound man (b6v); pregnant woman (d1r); scene in the chamber of a plague patient (e2r); and dissection scene (leaf f2r, in color). Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.6 x 20.5 cm. 48 lines to a full-page; area of text: 26.3 x 16.4 cm. Includes initial spaces with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords Signatures: a-h⁶ i⁴. Imperfect: trimmed, with occasional loss of outside edges of illustrations and signature marks. Binding: half Spanish calf with marbled paper.

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