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ISTC index for Fascicule L II (52)

This is the Live Bibliographical index Here is the full catalogue https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:dd0ac960-34c9-4948-a29e-9eccadd8bd9e Thirty books 1470-1501± 1) 704J Albertus Magnus 1501 https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/8000522) 564J Albertus of Padua 1480± . https://data.cerl.org/istc/ia00340000     564Ja. Spiegel des Sünders 1487± https://data.cerl.org/istc/is006750003) 563J…

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Two translations of Virgil

Virgil was regarded by the Romans as their greatest poet, an estimation that subsequent generations have upheld. His fame rests chiefly upon the Aeneid, which tells the story of Rome’s legendary founder and proclaims the Roman mission to civilize the world under divine guidance. His reputation as a poet endures not only for the music and diction of his verse and for his skill in constructing an…

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The Earth and Cosmology

Today I offer four English books on cosmology from the second half of the seventeenth century. [From the Botton]. Burnet’s Theory of the Sacred Earth, Hale’sOrigination of Mankind, Grew’s Cosmologis Sacra. and on top Ray’s Discourses concerning the dissolution and changes of the World. The second half of the seventeenth especially in England marked a period where, in hindsight it might seen easy…

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Suetonius ILLUSTRATED: This book, with the first Image of a Caesarian Section.

Currently there is no reliable evidence that Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born by the method now known as C-section.  At the time of Julius’s birth, there was an prohibition to burring a dead pregnant woman with the fetus intact, this the c-section process was practiced, There is no classical source records a mother surviving such a delivery.  As late as the 12th century, scholar and…

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The First printed tribute to Gutenberg with a date.(1440)

307J Eusebius of Caesarea 260-c. 340 Eusebii Caesariensis episcopi chronicon id est temporum breuiarium incipit foeliciter: quem Hieronymus praesbiter diuino eius ingenio Latinum facere curauit: et vsque in Valente[m] Cesarem Romano adiecit eloquio. Que[m] et Prosper deinde Matheus Palmerius … subsequuntur. Impressit Venetijs : Erhardus Ratdolt augustensis solerti vir ingenio maxima…

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One of the most widely read texts of the High Middle Ages. The Secretum Secretorum:

659J. Aristotle (pseudo) Tr  Johannes Lorchner.  Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al-; (864?-925?). Das aller edlest und bewertest Regiment der gesundtheyt, Auch von allen verßorgen Künsten un[d] Königklichen Regimenten Aristotelis. Das er dem Großmechtigen König Alexandro zůgeschrieben hatt. Auß Arabischer Sprach durch Meister Philipsen, dem Bischoff Vonn Valentia, der Stadt Jerapolis, In…

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∞ Fascicule L VI I ∞ •ISTC Index  MMXXIV

Thirty books 1470± to 1501± In this list there about a dozen titles represented with fewer than four U.S. Holdings. Eight in contemporary bindings three sammelbands. Ten under $10,000. More than six heavily annotated books. And the subjects include Science Mysticism, Liturgy reform, Epistles, Prayers, Arguments with God, Biographies. more that a few Pseudo authors ,.. and much more. I hope you…

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∞ Fascicule L VI I ∞ •ISTC Index  MMXXIV

Thirty books 1470± to 1501± 1) 704J Albertus Magnus 1501 https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/8000522) 564J Albertus of Padua 1480± . https://data.cerl.org/istc/ia00340000 564Ja. Spiegel des Sünders 1487± https://data.cerl.org/istc/is006750003) 563J Aquinas 1493/4 https://data.cerl.org/istc/it003250004) 566J Aquinas 1493± https://data.cerl.org/istc/it002720005) 552Ji (Ars moriendi.)1495.…

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Sammelband of Six Aristotle Science Texts from the sixteenth century.

A truly striking pig blind stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards with a blind stamped image of Aristotle, with eight works of Aristotle on scientific subjects. All rare editions. 688J sammelband ARISTOTELES. Physicorum Aristotelis libri. [Of Physics]. Joanne Argyropylo & Francis. Vatablo interprete. Bound with: ARISTOTELES. De caelo libri quatuor. [Of Heaven]. I. Argyropylo interprete.…

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Paradin's Les Devises héroïques with 217 emblems in a contemporary binding. 1567

684J Paradin Claude, Claude. (1510-1573) Les Devises héroïques, de M. Claude Paradi, chanoine de Beaujeu, du seigneur Gabriel Symeon et autres aucteurs. Anvers : De l’imprimerie de C. Plantini, 1567. $4,000 Duodecimo in 8’s, 12.5 x 8 cm. Third edition A-V8 This edition has 217 woodcuts Eachwoodcut is accompanied by a motto, followed by an explanation. Bound coeval limp laced case parchment. a…

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Sandys travels : containing an history of the original and present state of...Turkish Empire, Constantinople, Greece, Ægypt, Armenia, Grand Cairo... Italy, and the islands adjoining, as Cyprus, Crete, Malta, Sicilia, the Æolian Islands, of Rome, Venice, Naples, Syracusa, Mesena, Aetna, Scylla, and Charybdis, and other places of note

631J Sandys, George, 1578-1644.,  Sandys travels : containing an history of the original and present state of the Turkish Empire, their laws, government, policy, military force, courts of justice, and commerce, the Mahometan religion and ceremonies, a description of Constantinople, the Grand Signior’s seraglio, and his manner of living : also, of Greece, with the religion and customs of the…

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A cornerstone of Feminism 1697.

One of the Pillars of Early Modern English “Feminism” 775J Judith Drake, (fl. 1696-1723). An essay in defence of the female sex. In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. The third edition with additions. London: printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson at the Black Boy, and R. Clavel…

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Three English books we all know about ... but maybe forgot about.

Undoubtedly the three books in this blogs are in some form are represented in most libraries. Of course EEBO or microform and certainly in later reprints or variorum editions. I need not here discuss the importance of original editions, yet I might do that anyway. BUT what I would like to do in this blog is to take a fresh look at these three titles. Here I hope to re)discovered or uncovered and…

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A cornerstone of Feminism 1697.

One of the Pillars of Early Modern English “Feminism” 775J Judith Drake, (fl. 1696-1723). An essay in defence of the female sex. In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. The third edition with additions. London: printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson at the Black Boy, and R. Clavel…

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The first published catalogue of the Cottonian Library with 6 other catalogues!

Maybe no other book I have in my current stock is more like the Internet than this one? I can spend hours upon hours reading (looking) through this book, An example is this entry: Price $2,500 This is entry ” NERO D IV. Thanks BM, I am always trilled by your site .. (not so much the LOC) In modern form Cotton MS Nero D IV (still the same 300 years later.. that is a good system)ate c 700-3rd…

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Illustrations to aid in artificial memory.

660j. Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507) edited by Damiano Rosselli . Thesaurus artificiosae memoriae.concionatoribus, philosophis, medicis, iuristis, oratoribus, procuratoribus, caeterisq ; bonarum litterarum amatoribus, negociatoribus insuper alijsq ; similibus, tenacem ac firmam rerum memoriam cupientibus, perutilis : ac omnes sui amatores & possessores valde locupletans, insimulq ; decorant : cum…

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Illustrations to aid in artificial memory.

660j. Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507) edited by Damiano Rosselli . Thesaurus artificiosae memoriae.concionatoribus, philosophis, medicis, iuristis, oratoribus, procuratoribus, caeterisq ; bonarum litterarum amatoribus, negociatoribus insuper alijsq ; similibus, tenacem ac firmam rerum memoriam cupientibus, perutilis : ac omnes sui amatores & possessores valde locupletans, insimulq ; decorant : cum…