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Bible. Manuscripts. Latin. Biblia latina. April 4, 1452-July 9, 1453. ...

Jerome's preface to Pentateuch. Rosenwald 5 No file prints. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bible O.T.

Boethius, d. 524.De consolatione philosophieDe consolatione philosophi...

In Dutch and Latin, with Dutch commentary. Leaf [2a]: Dit es de tafele dienende desen nauolghenden vijf bouken Boecij De consolatione philosophie. Goff B-812 Hain-Copinger 3400 BM 15th cent., IX, p. 206 (IC.501... More

Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae ad usum Romanum. Hours [from old catalog...

Begins (without title) with the cut Astrological man, on the reverse of which is the almanac for 20 years (1488-1508). Type 94G (same font as in BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 152). Goff H-369 Rosenwald 408 LC copy ru... More

Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. [from old catalog]Horae Beatae Vi...

Signatures: +⁸ a-i⁸ l[et]⁸ l⁴. Goff H-376 Reichling 1764 (variations) IGI 4835 Rosenwald 425 LC copy imperfect: leaves [82-83] wanting. Initials and capitals supplied in red or blue; several illus. partly hand-... More

Catholicon., 15th century - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Rosenwald 31 Goff B-20 Hain-Copinger 2254 GW 3182, variant 2. Stillwell, M.B. Gutenberg and the Catholicon of 1460, no. 70 (1 line space above... More

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

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed on vellum, in black and red. With the gloss of Giovanni d'Andrea. Hain-Copinger 5410 GW 7077, variant note 2. Ricci. Cat. Mayence, 66;... More

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

Institutiones, cum glossa

The glosses variously attributed to Accursius glossator and Franciscus Accursius. Cf. Savigny, Geschichte des röm. Rechts im Mittelalter, v. 5, p. 288; Bib. nat. Rosenwald 36 Goff J-506 Hain 9489 BM 15th cent.... More

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

Rhetorica ad Herennium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress...

Has been attributed to M.T. Cicero. Printed on vellum. Rosenwald 214 Goff C-672 Hain 5057 (pt. 1) GW 6709 With this is bound: Cicero, M.T. De inventione. Venice, 1470. The two works were probably issued togethe... More

Publius Terentius Afer Carthagine natus ..

Title from first line, leaf [1]2. Imprint from Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) Signatures: [1]⁸ [2-3]¹⁰ [4-5]⁶ [6-9]⁸ [10]⁶ [11-12]⁸ [13-15]¹⁰ [16]⁸ [17-19]¹⁰ [20]⁸ [21]¹⁰ [22-23]⁸ [24]¹⁰ [25-26]⁶ [27-29]⁸ [... More

Postilla in Job - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Goff T-236 Hain 1397 BM 15th cent., II, p. 513 (IB.8919) Rosenwald 52 LC copy rubricated throughout. Ms. note on leaf [1a]: Hunc librum legavi... More

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

Rudimentum novitiorum, Erroneously ascribed to Giovanni da Colonna and...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Erroneously ascribed to Giovanni da Colonna and to Burchardus de Monte Sion, whose Descriptio Terrae Sanctae is included (leaves [175a-201a). ... More

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

Leaf [1a]: [Q]uonia[m] q[ui]de[m] i[n]telligere et scire [con]tingit circa o[mn]es sci[enti]as q[uarum] su[n]t pri[n]cipia a[ut] ca[us]e a[ut] elem[en]ta ex ho[rum] cognit[i]o[n]e ... Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d-e⁸ f¹... More

Vita et Fabulae - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Compiled by Heinrich Steihöwel and originally published ca. 1477 (Ulm, Zainer). Cf. Steinhöwel's Äsop, hrsg. von H. Österley, 1873 (Biblio... More

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).

Postilla super Epistolas et Evangelia

Leaf [2a]: Incipit Postilla super Euangelia. Date from colophon on leaf [70a]. Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁶ A-E⁸. Goff G-677 Hain 8261 Rosenwald 380 LC copy: inscription on leaf [1a]: Monasterium Althomÿnster, 1543. Co... More

Dialogi de dignitate sacerdotii

Leaf [36b]: Explicit Liber dyalogoru[m] Sancti Iohannis Crisostomi et Sancti Basilij. Rosenwald 104 Goff J-283 Hain 5050 BM 15th cent., II, p. 613 (IB.9014) IGI 5198 Also available in digital form on the Librar... More

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

The woodcuts are those of the Low German Bible printed ca. 1478 by Quentell, Cologne. Rosenwald 93 Goff B-632 Hain 3137 BM 15th cent., II, p. 424 (IC.7283) GW 4303 Schramm, XVII, p. 3, 8; v. 8, illus. 358-372 (... More

Omelia Sancti Iohannis, Episcopi, cognomento Crisostomi, de superscrip...

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [2a]). The Liber de compunctione cordis and Liber de reparatione lapsi, called for by the table of contents, are not present. Rosenwald 105 Goff J-290 Hain 5028 BM 15th cent.,... More

De compunctione cordis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress...

Title extracted from incipit of book 1 (leaf [1b]). Rosenwald 103 Goff J-278 Hain 5045 BM 15th cent., II, p. 612 (IB.9016) IGI 5196 Includes De reparatione lapsi (leaves [17a-30b]) and De quodam adolescente pup... More

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

Latin and Greek in opposite columns. Abridged by Guarino Veronese. Preceded by the Lord's prayer and the Hail Mary in Latin and Greek. Rosenwald 238 Goff C-494 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 5020 BM 15th cent., V, p. ... More

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.

Commentarium Sancti Iohannis, Episcopi Constantinopolitani, cognomento...

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [2a]). Rosenwald 111 Goff J-277 Hain 5029 BM 15th cent., II, p. 612 (IB.9016) IGI 5193 Bound with the author's Omelia Sancti Ioha[n]nis, Episcopi, cognome[n]to Crisostomi, de ... More

Legenda aurea de Sanctis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

Goff J-115 Copinger 6445 Murray, C.F. French books, 588 Rosenwald 389 LC copy: initials and paragraph marks supplied in red, initial strokes in yellow; illus. partly colored in yellow. Bookplate of G. de Longeville.

Flores Albumasaris - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

Known as Flores astrologiae. Probably an abridgment of De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by Joannes Hispalensis from the author's Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd and other of his works. Cf. Sarton's An in... More

Stella clericorum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The printer's name is given as an acrostic in the initial letters of each line of 8 distichs at the end. The acrostic is repeated in Pafraet's Deventer printing of 19 Nov. 1488 (Goff S-769). Goff S-768 Copinger... More

Eruditorium penitentiale - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

Goff E-108 Hain-Copinger 13152 (printing ascribed to J.P. Manstener) BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 49 (IA.39480) GW 9391 Rosenwald 401 LC copy imperfect: t.p. supplied (facsimile?). Provenance: Walter Ashburner, Firenze.

Flores musice omnis cantus Gregoriani

A didactic poem, accompanied by a commentary in prose and by musical examples. Rosenwald 130 Goff F-217 Hain-Copinger 7174 BM 15th cent, I, p. 121 (IA.1641) (variations) IGI 4924 LC copy rubricated throughout. ... More

Arithmetica Boetij - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

Rosenwald 123 Goff B-828 Hain-Copinger 3426 BM 15th cent., II, p. 381 (IA.6659) GW 4586 LC copy has ms. foliation: 225-230, 232-273. Ms. notes on first and last leaves.

Chronica Hungariae, Augsburg, Bavaria

Rosenwald 124 Goff T-361 Hain-Copinger 15518 (variations) = 15616 BM 15th cent., II, p. 381 (IB.6665) (but with variant heading on leaf [3a], as in C.F. Murray's Cat. early German books, 411) "Epistola Magistri... More

Prognosticatio in Latino - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

Assigned to the printer Johann Zainer, Ulm, by BM 15th cent., to a Strassburg printer by Copinger, and to Hainrich Knoblochtzer, Heidelberg, by Ernst Weil in Der Ulmer Holzschnitt in 15. Jahrhundert, p. 124, no... More

Compilatio Leupoldi, ducatus Austrie filij, de astrorum scientia, dece...

Rosenwald 133 Goff L-185 Hain-Copinger 10042 BM 15th cent., II, p. 382 (IA.6679) IGI 5747 LC copy rubricated; woodcuts part hand-colored. Contemporary marginalia; notes and verse at end. Ex libris Liechtensteinianis.

Missale Pragense - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Printed in red and black. Canon of the mass ([8] leaves preceding leaf cli) printed on vellum. Rosenwald 141 Goff M-685 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 11263 (variation) Weale-Bohatta 796 LC copy: one of 8 unnumbered l... More

Horologium deuotionis, Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Title extracted from incipit of prologue (leaf [2a]). Translated by the author. The woodcuts are sometimes ascribed to Dürer. Cf. Erwin Panofsky's A. Dürer, 2nd ed., II, p. 51-52. Rosenwald 139 Goff B-505 Hai... More

Albumasar de magnis coniunctionibus, annorum reuolutionibus, ac eorum ...

Translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the author's Kitāb aḥkām tahāwīl sinī al-mawālīd and other writings, based in great part on al-Kindī. Cf. Sarton. An introd. to the hist. of science, I, p. 568, an... More

De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus, Teutonice Vnholden vel Hexen

Rosenwald 134 Goff M-795 Hain-Copinger 11536 BM 15th cent., II, p. 587 (IA.10727) IGI 6688 LC copy rubricated throughout.

Horologiu[m] deuotionis circa vitam ChristiZeitglöcklein des Lebens un...

Translated by the author. Rosenwald 140 Goff B-504 Hain 2992 = 2996 = 8932 = 8935 Hain-Copinger 2998 GW 4173 IGI 1616 Schramm, IV, p. 40, 52, and illus. Bound with [Thomas à Kempis]. De vita [et] beneficijs Sa... More

Itinerarium seu peregrinatio Beate Virginis et Dei genitricis Marie

Title extracted from leaf [2a] (preface). Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶. Rosenwald 150 Goff I-220 Hain-Copinger 932 = 9323 (?) (variation) BM 15th cent., II, p. 540 (IA.9417) Schramm, VII, p. 9, 14, and illus. 165-183 (v... More

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

Privilegia Ordinis Cisterciensis

Edited by Abbot Jean de Cirey. Goff P-976 Hain 9391 Hain-Copinger 13367 BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 409 (IB.44916) IGI 8060 Rosenwald 410 LC copy: text and corrections authenticated by signature of Conrad Leonberge... More

De summo bono libri tres Sancti Isidori, Hyspaliensis Episcopi

Rosenwald 161 Goff I-196 Hain-Copinger 9287 BM 15th cent., III, p. 645 (IA.12061) Schramm, XIII, p. 4 (2nd group) LC copy: initials, initial strokes, and some underlines supplied in red. Provenance: Georg Kloss... More

Liber cronicarum, cum figuris et ymaginibus ab inicio mundi

Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1a]), which begins: Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum ... Illus. by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Rosenwald 163 Goff S-307 Hain-Copinger ... More

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

Viola sanctorum - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Signatures: pi¹⁰ a-d⁸ e-x⁶. Rosenwald 176 Goff M-338 Hain-Copinger 10872 BM 15th cent., II, p. 395 (IA.6493) Bound with Passio Sancti Meynradi. Passio Sancti Meynrhadi, martyris et heremite. Basel, 20 Sept. 149... More

Tractatus de apparationibus et receptaculis animarum exutarum corporib...

Signatures: A-K⁴. Rosenwald 173 Goff J-24 Hain-Copinger 15543 BM 15th cent., I, p. 300 (IA.5083) Proctor 1466

Grammatica Nicolai Perotti, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Con...

Leaf [3a] printed in black and red. Rosenwald 369 Goff P-332 Hain 12640 BM 15th cent., III, p. 778 (IA.37735) Bound with Probus, Marcus Valerius. Valerii Probi, gra[m]matici, De interpretandis Romanorum litteri... More

Stultifera nauis .. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

Reprint of the Basel ed., retaining its colophon. Includes introductory and laudatory verses and additions by Brant and Locher. Rosenwald 185 Goff B-1087 Hain 3747 BM 15th cent., II, p. 471 (IA.8105) GW 5055 LC... More

Tractatus de arte bene viuendi beneque moriendi

Goff A-1099 Hain-Copinger 1846 BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 63 (IA.39676) GW 2612 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 437 LC copy: provenance: Sir David Dundas; Charles W.G. Howard.

Comoedie vtilissime omnem Latini sermonis elegantiam continentes, e qu...

Rosenwald 187 Goff G-512 Hain 8088 BM 15th cent., II, p. 396 (IA.6497) Bound with Perotti, Niccolò, Abp. of Siponto. Gra[m]matica Nicolai Perotti ... [Basel, 1497-1500] LC copy: contemporary blind-stamped leat... More

Libri Philomusi - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Includes also letters and verses by Locher. Rosenwald 184 Goff L-264 Hain-Copinger 10153 BM 15th cent., I, p. 112 (IA.1468) IGI 5789 Schramm, XX, p. 5, 23, and illus. LC copy: in last line of colophon: "chistro... More

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

Uerba deponentalia Iohannis Synthin

In verse, with the commentary of Johannes Synthen. Rosenwald 194 Goff G-92 Reichling 734 Bound with Ebrardi, Udalricus. Modus Latinitatis. [Basel] 1499.--Compendium octo partium orationis. Compendium octo parti... More

Horologium deuotionis - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

Translated by the author from his original German. Colophon (leaf h10v): Explicit Horologium deuotionis per me Johannem Landen Colonie infra sedecim domos [com]morantem. Signatures: a-g⁸ h¹⁰. With: Bonaventure,... More

Meditationes de vita et beneficiis Jesu Christi, sive Gratiarum action...

Leaf [1a] (t.-p.): De vita beneficijs saluatoris Ihesu Cristi deuotissime meditationes cū gratiarū actione. With: Bonaventura, Saint, Cardinal. Spurious and doubtful works. Stimulus diuini amoris. [Antwerp, c... More

Valerii Probi, grammatici, De interpretandis Romanorum litteris opuscu...

Edited by Giovanni Bonardi. Rosenwald 337 Goff P-996 Hain-Copinger-Reichling 13378 BM 15th cent., V, p. 534 (IA.24095) IGI 8070 Sander 5900 Bound with Perotti, Niccolò, Abp. of Siponto. Gra[m]matica Nicolai Pe... More

Elegantissimum de passione Domini opusculum, heroico ac pene Virgilian...

Rosenwald 199 Goff V-84 Hain-Copinger 15843 BM 15th cent., I, p. 307 (IA.5239) Schramm, VIII, p. 16, 28, and illus.

Monstrosa hominis forma - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

Rosenwald 198 Goff L-258 Hain 10162 BM 15th cent., III, p. 679 (IA.13546) Schramm, XVI, p. 12, 17, and illus.

Rosarium Beate Marie Virginis - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

Signatures: A-E⁸, a-b⁸+, 2A-2E⁸ [2F]⁴. Rosenwald 211 Goff R-320 Copinger 5163 Campbell (1st & 2nd suppl.) 1480a (variation) Bound with Jordan, von Quedlinburg. Meditatio[ne]s Iordani de vita et passio[n]e Ih[es... More

Passio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi

BM 15th cent., III, p. xxxviii assigns to 16th cent. Signatures: A-B⁸. "Tractat[us] Beati Bernhardi De planctu Beate Marie Virginis": leaves [14b-16a]. Goff P-134 Proctor 7751 Schramm, XXII, p. 12, 24, 45 (no. ... More

Ars moriendi, ex varijs Scripturarum sententijs collecta cum figuris, ...

Rosenwald 208 Goff A-1120 GW 2579 LC copy bound by Duru.

Reuelationes Sancte Birgitte - Rare book, public domain, Library of Co...

With prefaces by Juan de Torquemada and Matthias de Suecia. Edited by Florian Waldauf. Rosenwald 205 Goff B-688 Hain-Copinger 3205 BM 15th cent., II, p. 445 (IB.7558) GW 4392 "Vita Sancte Birgitte" (abridged fr... More

Oratio mordacissima Vrbani Prebusini, ostendens damnum quod omnibus se...

Rosenwald 210 Goff P-958 Hain-Copinger 4006 BM 15th cent., I, p. 116 (IA.1543) Schramm, XX, p. 9, 24, and illus. 340

Incipit Clarificatorium Iohānis de Tornamira super nono Almansoris cum...

Printed for Balthazard de Gabiano. A brief compendium of medicine in the form of a commentary on the 9th book of al-Rāzī's al-Manṣūrī fī al-t̨ibb. The Claraficatorium was written in Montpellier in 1365 an... More

Opus regale - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 938

Esopus cõnstructus moralizat - Rare book, public domain, Library of Co...

The Latin metrical version of the Anonymus Neveleti, known as Aesopus moralisatus, with Latin commentary and Italian interlinear version. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwal... More

Aesopi Fabvlae cvm vvlgari interpretatione : & figuris acri cura emend...

Signatures: A-D⁸. The Latin metrical version of the Anonymous Neveleti, known as Aesopus maralisatus, with Latin commentary and Italian interlinear translation. LC copy bound by Petit. Provenance: E. Burne-Jone... More

De historia stirpium commentarii insignes ... adiectis earvndem vivis ...

Names of plants in Latin, Greek, and German. With ports. of the author, the designers, and the engraver. Probably the first book which contains not only the names, but also the ports. of its illustrators. Cf. ... More

Andreae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Signatures; A-M¹, 2 leaves unsigned. Illus. by J. S. van Calcar. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 906 LAC brd 2018-11-14 update (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-11-15 review

Opera mathematica Ioannis Schoneri in vnvm volvmen congesta ..

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "Tabvlae astronomicae ... correctae & locupletatae. Praefatio Philippi Melanchthonis in easdem Astronomiae commendatoria" (clxxii l.) has half... More

Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII : quibus officia, instrume...

Rosenwald 910 Cicognara, 875 Horblit, H.D. Grolier 100 science books, 2b Kress Lib., 71 LAC ael 2019-02-05 update (1 card) LAC ael 2019-02-06 update (1 card)

Externarvm et internarvm principalivm hvmani corporis partivm tabvlae,...

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 708 Ex libris medicis Leroy Crvmmer; ex libris H. Mclean Evans. LAC brd 2018-11-13 update (1 card) LAC ecr 2018-11-19 review

Renati Des Cartes Specimina philosophiae, sev Dissertatio de methodo r...

Translation by Etienne de Courcelles. Bound with the author's Principia philosophiae. Amstelodami, 1644. Copy 2. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1432 Also available in digital form on the ... More

Meditatio[ne]s Iordani de vita et passio[n]e Ih[es]u [Christ]i.Meditat...

Rosenwald 209 Goff J-475 Copinger-Reichling 3372 Campbell-Kronenberg 1049 Bound with Rosarium Beatae Mariae Virginis. Rosariu[m] Beate Marie V[ir]g[in]is. [Magdeburg, ca. 1500?] LC copy imperfect: leaves [9-16]... More