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Ein güt ertzney büch der ross. : Auch wie man ein yegklichs pferd erkennen soll

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Description: Thirteenth century popular text on equine diseases and veterinary medicine by Meister Albrecht. Text apparently first printed by Anton Sorg in Augsburg as one of two editions in 1485. G.C. Mezger lists a work printed by Johann Schauer in Augsburg in 1494 without giving its title, in "Augsburgs älteste Druckdenkmale," p. 4. Imperfect: leaves B1, B2, B7, B8 and gathering C [8 leaves?] lacking. With large woodcut title vignette of male groom and a woman caring for a stabled horse; not in Schramm. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 17.6 x 13.8 cm. Text in one column. Type: 97mm, M44. Signatures: A-B⁸ [C⁸]. Three-line lombard initial on leaf A2r; initial attributed to Schauer. Cf. Dane and Lange.. Disbound.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [approximately 1494-1500]
Call number: 498119
Creator: Albrecht (active 13th century)(Opens in new tab)
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Nicolai Leoniceni De Plinij [et] pluriu[m] alioru[m] in medicina erroribus liber ad doctissimu[m] virum Angelum Politianu[m]

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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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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

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

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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.

87167

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

Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidimie. = Das büch der vergift der pestile[n]tz das da gena[n]t ist der gemein sterbent der Trü̈sen Blatren. / Von Jeronimo Bru[n]swig

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Largely based on Heinrich Steinhöwel's treatise on the plague, first printed in Ulm in 1473. Entire passages are copied verbatim. Printed on Chancery-size paper, measuring 28.8 x 20.4 cm. In double columns with 42 lines and headline to a full page; col. width: 6.5 cm.; area of text: 20.6 (21.6) x 13.7 cm. With many ornamental printed initials, some initial spaces with guide-letters, and printed fists in margins; without catchwords. Includes 23 woodcut illustrations (many repeated) of various sizes, which generally depict doctors in consultation with each other and at patients' bedsides. Cf. Schramm. Signatures: A⁴ B-G⁶. Huntington Library copy has "doch vnderwegen liess vnd" in the colophon. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: stiff vellum.

85772

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.

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