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Geographica Latine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Geographica Latine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

First 10 books translated by Guarinus Veronensis, the remainder by Gregorius Tifernas. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d-e⁸ f-h¹⁰ i-k⁸ l-n¹⁰ o-p⁸ q-s¹⁰ t⁸ u⁸⁻¹ x-y¹⁰ z⁸ A⁸]. Goff S-794 Hain-Copinger 15087 Proctor 4042 (3 Ve... More

De arte praedicandi - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

De arte praedicandi - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

Book 4 of the author's De doctrina Christiana. Goff A-1226 Hain 1956 BM 15th cent., I, p. 52 (IB.510) GW 2871 Rosenwald 35 LC copy: gilt brown morocco by Rivière. Provenance: Huth Collection (bookplate). Gift ... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

Biblia pauperum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Biblia pauperum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

One of the block books that has survived in the greatest numbers is the Biblia pauperum, a compendium of scripture prepared for the poor and the minor clergy, providing them with material for prayer and reflect... More

Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae

Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae

Goff T-540 Reichling 1100 Dyson Perrins. Ital. book-illustr., 34 Rosenwald 239 LC copy has bookplate of C.W. Dyson Perrins. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Lati...

Includes pt. 2: The seconde parte of Uuilliam Turners Herball ... Here unto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effe... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

"Nova terre descriptio" (p. [649-660]) constitutes signature P, which has a map on the verso. Alden, J.E. European Americana, 515/14 BM STC German, 1455-1600, 731 LC copy has two folded maps removed and shelve... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Lati...

Includes pt. 2: The seconde parte of Uuilliam Turners Herball ... Here unto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effe... More

Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis ... Commentarii secvndo avcti, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazerbei de medica materia. Adiectis quàm plurimus plantarum, et animalium imaginibus, quae in priore editione non habentur, eodem authore. His accessit eivsdem Apologia adversvs Amathum Lusitanum, quin et censura in eiusdem enarrationes

Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis ... Commentarii secvndo avcti, in lib...

The Apologia has special t. p. and separate paging. Portrait of the author engraved by Pieter van der Borcht tipped in. Gift: Louise McDonnell Browne in memory of her husband, C. A. Browne, Apr. 23, 1948. LAC b... More

Speculum regum., 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

Speculum regum., 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Rosenwald 0008 Manuscript, on paper, 2 columns, rubricated. Leaves 1-12 misbound between leaves 25 and 26. Begins (leaf [1a]): Speculu[m] r[e]... More

Esopus constructus moralicatus

Esopus constructus moralicatus

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: a-f⁸, g⁴ (last leaf, blank, wanting). The Latin metrical version of the Anonymus Neveleti, known as Aesopus maralisatus, with Lati... More

De magnis [con]iunctionibus anno[rum] reuolutio[n]ibus ...

De magnis [con]iunctionibus anno[rum] reuolutio[n]ibus ...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. First edition, Augusburg, 1489. Essentially a translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd (Book of revolutions... More

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings].

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings]....

Manuscript on vellum. Gothic script in black and red. Pen-and-ink drawings, some slightly colored, with explanatory text in German or Latin. Subject matter and form of presentation is similar to that in 15th ce... More

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings].

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings]....

Manuscript on vellum. Gothic script in black and red. Pen-and-ink drawings, some slightly colored, with explanatory text in German or Latin. Subject matter and form of presentation is similar to that in 15th ce... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Ars memorandi per figuras Evangelistarum.

Ars memorandi per figuras Evangelistarum.

Block book. Printed in brown ink on one side of leaves only, on versos and rectos alternately, so that pairs of printed and blank pages alternately face each other. Of each printed pair, one is text, the other ... More

Esopus [moralisatus]., Venice, Italy, 15th Century

Esopus [moralisatus]., Venice, Italy, 15th Century

Woodcut t.p., illustrated. The Latin metrical version of the Anonymus Neveleti (known as Aesopus moralisatus) with Italian translation and additions by Accio Zucco. Goff A-153 Hain-Reichling 350 (variations) GW... More

Das Buch genannt der Seuse., Augsburg, Bavaria

Das Buch genannt der Seuse., Augsburg, Bavaria

Rosenwald 86 Goff S-871 Copinger 5688 BM 15th cent., II, p. 349 (IB.5943) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Contemporary blind-stamped calf binding.

Liber sextus decretalium., 15th century

Liber sextus decretalium., 15th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in black and red. With the gloss of Joannes Andreæ. Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Appendices, Add.) *3590 (variations) Gesamtkat.... More

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript on paper. Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺]. Humanistic script. Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepi... More

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript on paper. Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺]. Humanistic script. Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepi... More

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: [A]-Z⁴, (H₂ lettered G₂), Aa-Zz⁴, ***⁴, Aaa-Ooo⁴. The second and third books were apparently printed by different printers as indi... More

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: [A]-Z⁴, (H₂ lettered G₂), Aa-Zz⁴, ***⁴, Aaa-Ooo⁴. The second and third books were apparently printed by different printers as indi... More

Decretales Gregorii IX.  Vol. 3.

Decretales Gregorii IX. Vol. 3.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in black and red. With a commentary. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d⁶ e⁵ f-h¹⁰ i-k⁶ l-m¹⁰ n⁸ o¹¹ p-q¹⁰ r⁸ s⁷ t-x¹⁰ y⁶ z⁷ A-C¹⁰ D⁸ E⁶ F-G¹⁰ H⁹ I-K... More

Decretales Gregorii IX.  Vol. 3.

Decretales Gregorii IX. Vol. 3.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in black and red. With a commentary. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d⁶ e⁵ f-h¹⁰ i-k⁶ l-m¹⁰ n⁸ o¹¹ p-q¹⁰ r⁸ s⁷ t-x¹⁰ y⁶ z⁷ A-C¹⁰ D⁸ E⁶ F-G¹⁰ H⁹ I-K... More

Ars moriendi., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Ars moriendi., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...

Block book. Printed in black ink on one side of leaves only, so that pairs of printed and blank pages alternately face each other. Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch (3. Aufl.), IV, p. 261, 267-312 (ed. IV A) BM 15th ce... More

De vita et beneficijs Saluatoris Iesu Christi deuotissimas meditationes cum gratiarum actione, et perlucidum tractatum ... Gerardi Zutphanie de spiritualibus ascensionibus ... libellus continet

De vita et beneficijs Saluatoris Iesu Christi deuotissimas meditatione...

Rosenwald 151 Goff M-433 Hain-Copinger 10994 BM 15th cent., II, p. 354 (IA.6085) Bound with [Bertoldus, Dominican]. Horologiu[m] deuotionis circa vitam Christi. Augsburg, 1489. LC copy rubricated. A few margina... More

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

Musæum hermeticum, omnes sopho-spagyricæ artis discipulos fidelissime erudiens, quo pacto summa illa veraque medicina, qua res omnes, qualemcumque defectum patientes, instaurari possunt (quæ alias benedictus lapis sapientum appellatur) inueniri ac haberi queat. Continens tractatvs chymicos nouem præstantissimos, quorum nomina & seriem versa pagella indicabit. In gratiam filiorum doctrinæ, quibus germanicum idioma ignotum, in latinum conuersum ac juris publici factum

Musæum hermeticum, omnes sopho-spagyricæ artis discipulos fidelissime ...

Title within engr. border. Each tract has special engr. t.-p. LAC ecr 2018-09-06 LAC Review Completed 2018-09-10

Malleus maleficarum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Malleus maleficarum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

By Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger. Imprint from colophon. Ampersand in imprint represents a Tironian sign. Imprint date transposed: statement of year precedes printer's name, while the day and month a... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Printed in black and red. Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁴⁺¹ a-n⁸ [o]⁸ p-z⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶ H⁸... More

Incomencia il Libro chiamato’il monte di oratione.

Incomencia il Libro chiamato’il monte di oratione.

Prayer at head of title in Latin; text in Italian. Title from caption, leaf a2. Imprint from Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) Assigned by GW to the 16th century. Cf. Goff. Formerly considered an incunabulum... More

Incomencia il Libro chiamato’il monte di oratione.

Incomencia il Libro chiamato’il monte di oratione.

Prayer at head of title in Latin; text in Italian. Title from caption, leaf a2. Imprint from Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) Assigned by GW to the 16th century. Cf. Goff. Formerly considered an incunabulum... More

Luculentissima quaedam terrae totius descriptio: cum multis vtilissimis cosmographiae iniciis.

Luculentissima quaedam terrae totius descriptio: cum multis vtilissimi...

Signatures: a⁸, b⁶, A-B⁸, C-G⁴, H-K⁸, L⁶. Leaf 23 numbered 32. Errata slip inserted. "De America qvarta irbis par te cum aliis nouis insulis appositis (leaves 60-62) relate to America. "The author follows the s... More

Passionis Christi vnvm ex quattuor Euangelistis textum.

Passionis Christi vnvm ex quattuor Euangelistis textum.

Signatures: A-C⁶, D⁸. Comp. by Johann Geiler, and ed. by Matthias Ringmann. The woodcuts are by Urs Graf. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 602 Rosenwald Collection (1954 ed.) 433 LC copy ha... More

De magnis [con]iunctionibus anno[rum] reuolutio[n]ibus ...

De magnis [con]iunctionibus anno[rum] reuolutio[n]ibus ...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. First edition, Augusburg, 1489. Essentially a translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd (Book of revolutions... More

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings].

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings]....

Manuscript on vellum. Gothic script in black and red. Pen-and-ink drawings, some slightly colored, with explanatory text in German or Latin. Subject matter and form of presentation is similar to that in 15th ce... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Cosmographiae introductio : cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis

Cosmographiae introductio : cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae pr...

Designed to accompany Waldseemüller's globe and wall map of the world, on which the New World is called America. "America" is suggested as name for the New World on sig. C1 recto and C3 verso. Originally publi... More

Ars memorandi per figuras Evangelistarum.

Ars memorandi per figuras Evangelistarum.

Block book. Printed in brown ink on one side of leaves only, on versos and rectos alternately, so that pairs of printed and blank pages alternately face each other. Of each printed pair, one is text, the other ... More

Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima

Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissim...

Latin translation from the French ed. of 1579, which was a translation of the Spanish title: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. Title within ornamental border; Iodocus a Winghe designed the ... More

Fabule [et] vita Esopi, cum fabulis Auiani, Alfonsij, Pogij Florentini, [et] aliorum, cum optimo co[m]mento, bene diligenterq[ue] correcte [et] emendate.

Fabule [et] vita Esopi, cum fabulis Auiani, Alfonsij, Pogij Florentini...

Compiled by Heinrich Steinhöwel and originally published ca. 1477 (Ulm, Zainer). Cf. Steinhöwels Äsop, edited by H. Österley, 1873 (Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart, 117). Contains the Vit... More

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript on paper. Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺]. Humanistic script. Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepi... More

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

De re militari. Italy, 14th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript on paper. Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺]. Humanistic script. Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepi... More

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: [A]-Z⁴, (H₂ lettered G₂), Aa-Zz⁴, ***⁴, Aaa-Ooo⁴. The second and third books were apparently printed by different printers as indi... More

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: [A]-Z⁴, (H₂ lettered G₂), Aa-Zz⁴, ***⁴, Aaa-Ooo⁴. The second and third books were apparently printed by different printers as indi... More

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: [A]-Z⁴, (H₂ lettered G₂), Aa-Zz⁴, ***⁴, Aaa-Ooo⁴. The second and third books were apparently printed by different printers as indi... More

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Signatures: [A]-Z⁴, (H₂ lettered G₂), Aa-Zz⁴, ***⁴, Aaa-Ooo⁴. The second and third books were apparently printed by different printers as indi... More

Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis., 15th century

Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis., 15th century

Block book. Printed in brown ink on one side of leaves only. Includes illus. of the life of St. John. BM 15th cent., I, p. 3 (IB.41) Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch, IV, p. 160-216 (4th ed., 1st state) Rosenwald 23 A... More

Decretales Gregorii IX.  Vol. 3.

Decretales Gregorii IX. Vol. 3.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in black and red. With a commentary. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d⁶ e⁵ f-h¹⁰ i-k⁶ l-m¹⁰ n⁸ o¹¹ p-q¹⁰ r⁸ s⁷ t-x¹⁰ y⁶ z⁷ A-C¹⁰ D⁸ E⁶ F-G¹⁰ H⁹ I-K... More

Ars moriendi., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Ars moriendi., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...

Block book. Printed in black ink on one side of leaves only, so that pairs of printed and blank pages alternately face each other. Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch (3. Aufl.), IV, p. 261, 267-312 (ed. IV A) BM 15th ce... More

Esopi Appologi siue Mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant.

Esopi Appologi siue Mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum addi...

Signatures: a-b⁸, c-o⁶ ⁸, p-s⁶ (last leaf blank) A-B⁸, C-D⁶, E-K⁸ ⁶, L⁴, M⁶ (last leaf blank). In 2 pts.; the first includes Aesop's life tr. by Rinuccio, the fables in the prose version of Romulus and the metr... More

Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra.Dvisbvrgi Clivorvm [1595]

Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati f...

The first part, originally published in 1585, is composed of three fascicles, each with a special t. p.: Galliæ tabulę geographicæ ; Belgii Inferioris geographicæ tabulę ; Germaniae tabulę geographicæ. The ... More

Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra.Dvisbvrgi Clivorvm [1595]

Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati f...

The first part, originally published in 1585, is composed of three fascicles, each with a special t. p.: Galliæ tabulę geographicæ ; Belgii Inferioris geographicæ tabulę ; Germaniae tabulę geographicæ. The ... More

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

"Nova terre descriptio" (p. [649-660]) constitutes signature P, which has a map on the verso. Alden, J.E. European Americana, 515/14 BM STC German, 1455-1600, 731 LC copy has two folded maps removed and shelve... More

Mutus liber, L'Alchimie - Public domain book scan / engraving

Mutus liber, L'Alchimie - Public domain book scan / engraving

In Latin Attributed to a possibly fictitious Jacob Saulat or Sulat (of which Altus is an anagram) and also to a doctor Tolié . Cf. E. Canseliet L'Alchimie et son Livre muet {1967} The plates , re-engraved afte... More

Calendarium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Calendarium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in red and black. Goff R-92 Hain-Copinger 13775 BM 15th cent., II, p. 456 (IA.7877) Schramm, XVIII, p. 5, 16, and illus. Rosenwald 25 ... More

Ortus sanitatis: De herbis et plantis, De animalibus et reptilibus, De auibus et volatilibus, De piscibus et natatilibus, De lapidibus et in terre venis nascentibus, De vrinis et earum speciebus, Tabula medicinalis cum directorio generali per omnes tractatus

Ortus sanitatis: De herbis et plantis, De animalibus et reptilibus, De...

Tractatus de animalibus and Tractatus de urinis have special title pages. Rosenwald 181 Goff H-487 Hain-Copinger 8941 BM 15th cent., I, p. 124 (IB.1682) IGI 4901 Klebs 509.3 LC copy: contemporary blind-stamped ... More

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

"Nova terre descriptio" (p. [649-660]) constitutes signature P, which has a map on the verso. Alden, J.E. European Americana, 515/14 BM STC German, 1455-1600, 731 LC copy has two folded maps removed and shelve... More

Examen fvcorvm psevdo-chymicorvm detectorvm et in gratiam veritatis amantium succincte refutatorum,

Examen fvcorvm psevdo-chymicorvm detectorvm et in gratiam veritatis am...

Title vignette. With his Atalanta fvgiens...Oppenheimii, 1618. LAC ecr 2018-09-06 LAC Review Completed 2018-09-11 LAC iak 2018-09-11

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

"Nova terre descriptio" (p. [649-660]) constitutes signature P, which has a map on the verso. Alden, J.E. European Americana, 515/14 BM STC German, 1455-1600, 731 LC copy has two folded maps removed and shelve... More

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

Margarita philosophica noua, cui annexa sunt sequentia

"Nova terre descriptio" (p. [649-660]) constitutes signature P, which has a map on the verso. Alden, J.E. European Americana, 515/14 BM STC German, 1455-1600, 731 LC copy has two folded maps removed and shelve... More

Ars vitae contemplativae., 15th century

Ars vitae contemplativae., 15th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Leaves [1-4] and [31-32], with text and illus., are printed xylographically. Goff A-1140 Hain 1822 GW 2672 Rosenwald 46 LC copy: illus. hand-c... More

Luculentissima quaedam terrae totius descriptio: cum multis vtilissimis cosmographiae iniciis.

Luculentissima quaedam terrae totius descriptio: cum multis vtilissimi...

Signatures: a⁸, b⁶, A-B⁸, C-G⁴, H-K⁸, L⁶. Leaf 23 numbered 32. Errata slip inserted. "De America qvarta irbis par te cum aliis nouis insulis appositis (leaves 60-62) relate to America. "The author follows the s... More

De magnis [con]iunctionibus anno[rum] reuolutio[n]ibus ...

De magnis [con]iunctionibus anno[rum] reuolutio[n]ibus ...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. First edition, Augusburg, 1489. Essentially a translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd (Book of revolutions... More

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings].

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings]....

Manuscript on vellum. Gothic script in black and red. Pen-and-ink drawings, some slightly colored, with explanatory text in German or Latin. Subject matter and form of presentation is similar to that in 15th ce... More

[Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 1585-6].

[Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 15...

The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the citie... More

De officiis, 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

De officiis, 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in black and red on vellum. Includes Marci Tulij Ciceronis Paradoxa leaf [76b-85b] [V]ersus XII Sapientu[m] ... positi in epitaphio Ma... More

De officiis, 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

De officiis, 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in black and red on vellum. Includes Marci Tulij Ciceronis Paradoxa leaf [76b-85b] [V]ersus XII Sapientu[m] ... positi in epitaphio Ma... More

Nouicijs adolesce[n]tib[us] ad astronomica[m] remp. capessenda[m]

Nouicijs adolesce[n]tib[us] ad astronomica[m] remp. capessenda[m]

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Caption title (printed in red). Imprint from colophon (place from Goff). The col. ill. are printed with blocks inked yellow or green; one ill.... More

Prognostica ad viginti annos duratura.

Prognostica ad viginti annos duratura.

Leaf [16b]: Magistri Pauli de Middelburgo Prenostica ad viginti annos duratura. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Rosenwald 531 Goff P-186 Copinger 4035 BM 15th cent., IX, p. 1... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Summa de sacramentis., 15th century

Summa de sacramentis., 15th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Rosenwald 37 Goff A-1381 Hain 2124 BM 15th cent., II, p. 315 (IB.5410) GW 2852 LC copy: initials supplied in various colors, initial strokes i... More

Epistola Christofori Colom [Letters of Christopher Columbus]

Epistola Christofori Colom [Letters of Christopher Columbus]

Without foliation, signatures or catchwords. E.D. Church calls this Plannck's second or corrected edition. BM 15th cent., IV, p. 97 (IA.18551) Church, E.D. Discovery, 5 Copinger 1691 Goff C-758 GW 7177 Hain-Co... More

Esopus [moralisatus]., Venice, Italy, 15th Century

Esopus [moralisatus]., Venice, Italy, 15th Century

Woodcut t.p., illustrated. The Latin metrical version of the Anonymus Neveleti (known as Aesopus moralisatus) with Italian translation and additions by Accio Zucco. Goff A-153 Hain-Reichling 350 (variations) GW... More

Das Buch genannt der Seuse., Augsburg, Bavaria

Das Buch genannt der Seuse., Augsburg, Bavaria

Rosenwald 86 Goff S-871 Copinger 5688 BM 15th cent., II, p. 349 (IB.5943) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Contemporary blind-stamped calf binding.

Liber sextus decretalium., 15th century

Liber sextus decretalium., 15th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in black and red. With the gloss of Joannes Andreæ. Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Appendices, Add.) *3590 (variations) Gesamtkat.... More

De re militari., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

De re militari., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

Rosenwald 61 Goff V-106 Hain 15911 Polain 3911 Voulliéme 1201 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy rubricated throughout.

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