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Alphabetum Divini Amoris. 1491.

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Notes: [Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1491.] 8°. Goff A-528 (4 cops.); BMC III 753 (IA37480). 32 leaves, the last blank. 142x104mm. Initials, capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlining supplied in red. Fifteenth century editions frequently attributed to Johannes Gerson or Thomas a Kempis; sixteenth century, to Johannes Nider. This is the eighth of fourteen fifteenth century printings listed in GW. Amerbach presented 10 copies to the Basel Charterhouse in 1490 or 91.

Binding: Modern imitation vellum. All edges gilt.

Provenance: Signature on front endpaper: A T & N Atwood (?). Acquired ca. 1960.

ANGELUS DE CLAVASIO. Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae. Strassburg: Martin Flach, 26 Mar. 1495.

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Notes:2°.Goff A-725 (7 cops.); BMC I 153 (IB2187) 358 leaves. 275x197mm. Initials and paragraph marks supplied in blue and red; capital strokes in red. Few contemporary marginalia.

Binding: Modern brown crushed morocco, gilt.

Provenance: Purchased 1973. With additions by Hieronymus Tornieli.

ANNIUS, JOHANNES. Auctores vetustissimi. [Venice]: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, [not before Aug.] 1498. 4°.

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Notes:Goff A-749 (16 cops.); BMC V 548 (IA24331). 36 leaves. 192x145mm. Without rubrication. A few early marginalia, shaved. The texts in this collection, purported to be by Myrsilius Lesbius, Cato, Archilochus, et. al., are forgeries by Annius. This edition probably extracted from that with Annius’ commentaries printed at Rome in the same year. Annius was a research interest of the late Francis Utley, whose papers contain many files of his notes.

Binding: Modern limp vellum.

Provenance: Purchased 1942 (Access. no. 606666).

Antoninus. Summa Theologica. 1477.

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Notes:Goff A-872 (65 cops. of various vols.; 2 complete “sets” of the complete 4 parts in 5 vols.); BMC V 179 (IB19734), V 181 (IB19735), V 177 (IB19699), V 181 (IB19736).Vol. II. initials supplied in red and blue. Sewing guards. Some marginalia. Lacks al of vol. II, N10 mis-bound in its place. Vol. III pt.1, leaf 6a, variant from BMC copy, agrees with H and GW at these points.

Binding: Modern imitation vellum.

Provenance: Vol. II has early notes on last leaf. Vol. III has shelf numbers. Acquired ca.1967. With additions by Franciscus Moneliensis.

Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence. Confessionale: defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. [Rome : Eucharius Silber, 23 May 1483]. [120] leaves (last leaf blank) ; 22 cm. (4to).

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Notes: Goff A-809b. GW 2115.(This copy only, then held by the University Place Book Shop) 120 leaves, the last blank. 210x143mm. Initials supplied in red (2 in blue). Blue initial on 2, with red penwork decoration. Some early marginalia.

Binding: 18th century quarter suede sheepskin over contemporary wooden boards, back board repaired. Single clasp, hinge present, strap and catch missing.

Provenance: Early ownership inscriptions on front and rear flyleaves. Ex libris Walter Goldwater (sold at Swann 1 Dec. 1983). Purchased 1985.

Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence. Confessionale : Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. [Venice : Philippus Pincius, 1495]. [99] leaves ; 22 cm.

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Notes: OSU's copy 1 has handwritten marginal notes. 18th century style speckled polished sheep gilt. GW, 2134. Goff, A 828.

Appianus of Alexandria. Appiani sophist[a]e alexandrini Roman[a]e histori[a]e proœmium fœliciter incipit. Venetijs : per Bernardũ pictoren & Erbardum ratold de Augusta una cum Petro Loslein de Langencen correctore ..., M.CCCCLXXVII (1477). 2 v. in 1 ; 29 cm. (4to).

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Notes: Hain, 1307*. Proctor, 4367-68. Goff, A-928. GW, 2290. Sander, 482. BM 15th cent., V, 244 (IB.20486-87). Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1726-1729.

Auctores Vetustissimi Nuper In Lucem Editi. 1498.

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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Opus questionu[m] diui Augustini. Lugduni : Joãnis Trechsel, 1497. [286] leaves ; 27 cm. (Fol.).

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Notes: BMC VIII, 301. Goff A-1297. 286 leaves, the last blank. 255x190mm. Without rubrication. Few early marginalia.

Binding: 18th century quarter calf, marbled paper boards.

Provenance: At head of al: Ad usum. Ex libris Walter Goldwater (sold at Swann 1 Dec. 1985). Purchased 1985. Edited by Augustinus de Ratisbona and Jodocus Badius Ascensius.

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Opuscula. 1484.

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Notes: Goff A-1217 (15 cops.); BMC V 361 (IA22082). 288 leaves, the first blank. 212x152mm. Lacks blank. Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue. Early marginalia in 2 hands.

Binding: 17th century(?) limp vellum, with ties.

Provenance: Name on front endpaper: T Neal. Gift of Mrs. George McKnight, 1956 (Access. no. A119836). OSU copy without the printer’s mark, present in some copies.

Basilius. De Legedis Antiquorum Libris Opusculum Diuinum. 1500.

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Notes:Goff B-278 (3 cops.); BMC III p.xxxix; HC2685*. 14 leaves. 202x137mm. Without rubrication. Few early marginalia. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Edited by Martinus Brenningarius. BMC attributes to Thomas Anshelm at Pforzheim, ca. 1502; Pell 1995, to Johann Amerbach(?).

Binding: Modern marbled paper boards,

Provenance: Acquired ca. 1955 (Access. no. A98650).

Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint. Modus Bene Vivendi. 1492.

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Notes:Goff B-413 (15 cops.); BMC V 373 (IA22353). 92 leaves, the last blank. 162x103mm. Initials supplied in red and blue; capital strokes and underlining in red. Extensive early annotation on C5—6v.

Binding: Modern imitation vellum.

Provenance: Note dated 1494 on M5v. Note on M6v. Acquired Ca. 1957 (Access. no. A104943).

Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint. [Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et de diversis]. [Basel : Nicolaus Kesler, 1495]. [214] leaves (last leaf blank) ; 33 cm. (Fol.).

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Notes: Goff B-439. BMC III, 771. Goff B-439 (9 cops.); BMC III 771 (IB37648). 214 leaves, the last blank. 309x210mm. Initials and capital strokes supplied in red. Some early marginalia.

Binding: Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards. Clasps, hinges and 1 catch present, rest lacking. Remains of chain rivets on rear board. Binding executed by the Koln Benedictines, Kyriss Werkstatt 18. Boards lined with vellum ms. leaves of 13-14 century gradual and antiphonal with neumes in German nail form.

Provenance: On al ownership note of monastery of Munchen Gladbach. Signature on front endpaper. Purchased 1985. From Koln, where this volume was bound, to Dusseldorf, the location of the 15th century monastic owner, is ca. 20 miles.

Bersuire, Pierre. Liber Bibliae Moralis. 1474.

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Notes:Goff B-336 (14 cops.); BMC II 522 (IC9126). 266 leaves. 406x289mm. Printed initials colored in red. Capital strokes and some paragraph marks and underlining supplied in red. Few early marginalia. No traces of ms. quiring seen. Sewing guards in first 7 and last 7 gatherings.

Binding: Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, edges bevelled. Vellum title label on front board. An Ulm binding from Kyriss Werkstatt 126.

Provenance: Note on rear pastedown dated 1515. Ex libris Liechtensteinensis. Acquired ca. 1967. Editio princeps. BMC infers that this book was printed at two presses. Unidentified printing fragment on trimmed stub conjoint with 10-2.

Biblia Bohemica. [Czechoslovakia?: s.n., 1488]. 1 v. (unpaged); 0 cm.

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Notes:Prague: [Epon. press (Johann Kamp) for Johann Pytlik, Johann? Severin, Johann von Storchen, and Matthias vom weissen Lowen, Aug. 1488. 2°. Goff B-620 (6 cops.); BMC III 808 (IB51405). 610 leaves, the first blank. 289x195mm. Lacks blank. Initials supplied in blue and red; occasional capital strokes in yellow. Severely trimmed with many leaves mounted and some missing text supplied in ms. First edition of the Bible in Bohemian.

Binding: Blind tooled calf over wooden boards. Corner bosses (4 of 8 lacking). Clasps lacking.

Provenance: Note of a6v: returned to Vit Novotny, in Libic. Gift of Paul M. Fekula ca. 1985.

Biblia cum tabula nuper impressa [et] cum summariis nouiter editis. Impressum Venetijs : P[er] Symonem dictu[m] Beuilaqua, 1498, die octauo Maij. [528] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 22 cm. (4to).

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Notes: IG, 486. Hain-Copinger, 3124. Goff, B-603. BM 15th cent., V, p. 522-523 (IA.23978). GW, 4280.528 leaves. 213x156mm. Without rubrication. Some early marginalia.

Binding: 18th century quarter vellum, marbled paper boards, re-hinged.

Provenance: Note on pil: Hoc Biblia Alexandri Francisij/als cantilianij . Cancelled note on pi8v. Ex libris Gilpin Library, Chicago Historical Society. Purchased 1967. With the table of Gabriel Brunus. This Bible uses 71 (of 391) woodcuts first used in the Italian Bible translation of Niccolo de Malermi, printed at Venice by Giovanni Ragazzo in 1490. They are adapted to the Italian style from cuts used by Quentell in Cologne in 1480.

Biblia Latina. 1495

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Notes:Goff B-598 (27 cops.); BMC III 791 (IA37886). 508 leaves, 2A1 blank. 144x101 mm. OSU copy lacks 10 leaves (AA1-2, 7-8; BB1, 4; Q1, 8; 2E7—7). Also rl—3 misbound following n8. Without rubrication. Some early marginalia.

Binding: Modern limp vellum.

Provenance: Cancelled name of 17th century owner (Jacobus Meino?) and (18th cent?)of Thomas Hell on front endpaper. Name of William By[?] on g6. Purchased 1967. With the table of Gabriel Brunus (revised).

Biondo Flavio. Historiarvm ab inclinatione Romanorvm Imperii. [Venetiis : Per Thomam Alexandrinum, 1484]. 301 leaves ; 31 cm. (Fol.).

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Notes: OSU t.p. lacking. Leaves EE5-6 and FF5-6 reversed. Goff B-699. BMC V, 317. Goff 11-699 (10 cops.); BMC V 317 (IB21845). 302 leaves, the first blank. 305x208mm. Leaves 2E5,6 & 2F5,6 reversed. Without rubrication. Early marginalia in two hands.

Binding: Modern quarter vellum, imitation vellum boards.

Provenance: Inscription on al. Notes on 2FlOv. On front pastedown: Ex libris/P. Combaz/Ex libris/Gisbert Combaz/1920. Purchase 1984.

Additions by Johannes Antonius Campanus. Also, add: Pius II, Abbreviatio supra Decades Blondi.

Boethius, D. De Consolatione Philosophiae. 1497.

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Notes:Goff B-800 (2 private copies only); GW4561. 176 leaves. 225x155mm. Without rubrication. Early marginalia and interlinear glosses.

Binding: 17th century panelled calf.

Provenance: On front endpaper: John Frost his Booke/1868. Purchassed 1967.

With commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas (by GW to Thomas Waleys). Contains also the pseudo Boethius De discipiina scholariuin. First gathering is variant from descriptions in R, UW, Pell and Polain(B); other readings as in those sources. According to GW this edition was brought out in association with others by Antoine Lambillion (c1493), Johannes Fabre (c1496), Piere Marechal and Barnabe Chausard (c1498) and Perrine Le Masson (c1500); however, the first text in all of those eds. runs to 132 leaves; in this, to 128 only.

Bruni, Leonardo. Historiae Florentini Populi. 1476.

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Notes: OSU t.p. lacking. Leaves EE5-6 and FF5-6 reversed. Goff B-699. BMC V, 317.

Caesarius of Heisterbach. Dialogus miraculorum. Coloniae : Johann Koelhoff, 1481. [ca. 268] leaves ; 31 cm. (Fol.).

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Notes: OSU copy lacks L6 (blank), n1 in facsimile. GW 5881. Goff C31.(4 cops.); GW5881. 268 leaves, the last blank. 285x206mm. Lacks the blank, h1 in facsimile. Initials, capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlining supplied in red. Occasional penwork in margin, Occasional early interliniar corrections and marginalia.

Binding: Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, rebacked. Five bosses front and back, all missing. Clasps, hinges and catches present, straps missing. Brass reinforcement on corners. Remains of chain rivits on back board. Tools not found in Kyriss; however, Schafer 180 (an Augsburg binding) very similar.

Provenance: Purchased 1985.

Carletti, Angelo. Summa Angelica de casibus conscientie : cũ additionibus nouiter additis. / Auctore Angelo de Clavasio, Ord. S. Francisci de Obseruantia. Argentina : Impressa per Martinum Flach, 1495. [16], 342 leaves ; 29 cm. (Fol.).

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Notes: Goff A-725. BMC I 153.

Cassian, John. De institutis coenobiorum [microform] : de origine, causis et remediis vitiorum, de collationibus partum. Basel : Johann von Amerbach, 1497. 4°. 450 p. 21 cm. (4to.).

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Notes: Collijn, 411. Goff C235 (6 cops.); BMC III 758 (IA37401). 220 leaves. 201x134mm. Without rubrication. Pi1 top torn, affecting 6 lines on verso.

Binding: Contemporary blind stamped calf over wooden boards. Single clasp, strap missing. Boards lined with ms. (English) on vellum.

Provenance: Purchased 1989. Readings in quires i and D vary slightly from Pell 3338 and Polain(B) 1014.

CHRONICLES. COELLEN. Die Cronica van der hilliger stat van Coellen. Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Younger, 23 Aug. 1499. 2°.

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Notes: Goff C-476 (31 cops.); BMC I 299 (IB5073). 366 leaves. 280x192mm. Initials supplied in red and blue. Woodcuts, mostly colored. OSU copy has 45 leaves supplied in photostat. Quire K readings agree with Pell 3566; t, with 3566a (both early state according to GW). Quire nn indeterminate as leaves are in photostat.

Binding: Modern half morocco, cloth sides.

Provenance: Purchased 1949 (Access. no. 802559).

Catholic Church. Processionariuz ordinis fratrũ predicatorum. Venice : Joannen Emericum de Spira, 1494. [21], cxii, [5] leaves (first 2 and last 3 leaves blank) : ill. (woodcuts), music ; 19 cm. (8vo).

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Notes: BMC V p. 539. Goff p-998.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Oratore Libri Cum Commento Omniboni Leoniceni. 1497.

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Notes:Goff C-665 (9 cops.); BMC II 443 (IB7532). 190 leaves, the last blank. 304x214mm. Initials, capital strokes and paragraph marks supplied in red (the last two passim). Red scroll surrounding title, and occasional flourished around headlines. Contemporary manuscript contents on title page. Some marginalia, interlinear notes and emendations, especially in Book 1 of De oratore.

Binding: Contemporary un-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. Two clasps completely present.

Provenance: Library stamp on title. Purchased 1949 (Access. no. 802575)

Commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus. Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus. Contains also Topica, De partitione artis rhetoricae, De claris oratoribus, De petitione consulatus, De optimo genere oratoriurn, Aeschines In Ctesiphontem Aeschinem, Demosthenes In Aeschinem, Epistola Aeschines ad Atheniensis.

Claudianus, Claudius. Opera. 1495.

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Notes:Goff C-703 (10 cops.); BMC V 529 (IA24048). 128 leaves. 208x155mm. Without rubrication. Early marginalia. Lacks 9 leaves (all of quire d and q8).

Binding: 18th century marbled paper boards.

Provenance: On al: P[er]tinet ad Bibliotheca/Robertj Travers

AMMB/a Coll. St. Trinitatis/Dublinij ; also stamp: King’s Inns Library, Dublin. Purchased 1967.

Edited by Thaddaeus Ugoletus.

CRESCENTIIS, PETRUS DE. Ruralia commoda. [German]: Petrus de crescentiis zu teutsch. [Speier:Peter Drach],1 Oct. 1493. 2°.

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Notes:Goff C-971 (3 cops.); BMC II 499 (IB8638).236 leaves, G6 and final leaf blank. 272x190mm. Without rubrication. Some early marginalia. Ms. Contents (in Hebrew) on G5v-6. 296 woodcuts from 250 blocks.

Binding:Eighteenth century quarter calf, marble boards.

Provenance: Name on verso of ep: Ehrmanntz. Ex libris Georgius Klosz, M.D., Frankfurt aM. Note on letterhead of L.M. Brearley on front board. Purchased 1917 with Allen Library of works on horticulture (Access no. 183371).The first edition in German of what has been called the most important agricultural treatise of the middle ages, this is also the first incunabula owned by The Ohio State University Libraries. This copy has the correct reading “Michelstag” in the colophon (GW notes a variant reading “Michelsrag”.)

Climacus, Joannes. Scala Paradisi. 1498.

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Notes: [Paris: Andre Brocard for] Denis Roce [after 12 Oct. 1499]. 8°. Goff J-311 (3 cops.); BMC VIII 229 (IA41284). 154 leaves. 125x80mm. Without rubrication. Binding: Modern red crushed morocco, blind rule on boards, gilt spine. Provenance: Acquired 1956 (Access, no. A104962). BMC: Perhaps printed for Roce by Brocard, but not sufficient evidence to attribute larger type to him. BN: [Paris, Jean Barbier, Andre Brocard ou Gaspard Philippe pour] Denys Roce [ca 1505]. Renouard dates as ca. 1505 based on state of Roce mark.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Antiquitates Romanae. 1480.

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Notes:Trevioso: Bernardinus Celerius, ‘bisexto kl. Martias’ (24 or 25 Feb.) 1480. 2°. Goff D-250 (21 cops.); Pell 4300B.300 leaves, the first blank. 286x197mm. Without rubrication. Many early marginalia. Lacks blank.

Binding: Eighteenth century Russia, spine gilt, edges sprinkled.

Provenance:Acquired ca.1967.Translated by Lapus Biragus Florentinus. Of the six “issues” cited in Goff, this is issue a (Pell 4300B, Polain(B) 1312A). The outer third of the last leaf has been repaired and the missing text supplied in manuscript with errors and contractions that make it appear to be variant.

Franciscus de Mayronis. Quadragesimale doctoris illuminati Francisci de Mayronis. Very rare 1st ed. Venetijs ... impressi : Per Bernardinu[m] de Nouaria, anno ab Incarnat[i]o[n]e D[omi]ni 1491 die vero xx. me[n]sis Ianuarij. 196, [20] leaves ; 22 cm. (4to).

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Notes: OSU's copy shows several ownership inscriptions on first leaf, some manuscript marginalia, and with the original blank leaf 197 present; old limp vellum. Hain 10530.

Herodotus. Herodoti Historici incipit / Laurentii Vallen. conuersio de Graeco in Latinum. Venetii : Impressa per Ioannem & Gregoriũ de Gregoriis Fratres, 1494. [8], 134 leaves ; 32 cm. (Fol.).

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Notes: BMC V, 345. Goff H-90. 142 leaves. 306x205mm. Without rubrication. Many leaves mounted.r1 misbound following s6. On al, renaissance border and woodcut of a man crowning Herodotus, who sits writing.

Binding: 18th century vellum.

Provenance: Purchased 1984. Translated by Laurentius Valla. Edited by Antonius Mancinellus. Letter to the editor, on A8v, is dated 29 Mar. 1494.

Higden, Ranulph. [POLYCHRONICON/ Ranulph Higden]. Polychronicon. English (Middle English). [London?: William Caxton, 1482]. 1 v. (unpaged); 29 cm.

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Notes: OSU's copy 1 lacks t.p.Goff H-267 (13 cops.); Pforzheimer 489. 450 leaves. 272x202mm. Initials, paragraph marks and rubricks supplied in red. Marginalia in three (?) hands. Lacks 29 leaves (al-8; b1; 1-6; 28*-2; 53-7,8; 54-1 through 55-8), of which 3 are blanks.

Binding: Eighteenth century half calf, marbled paper boards. Red leather label on spine with title “Miscellaneous.”

Provenance: Note on 1-lv: Ricardus Kelton me possidet. Also: Stetaness candida lecher(?). On 1-5v: L Gamber. On 7-1: John Spans(?). Purchased 1984. Translated by Johann de Trevisa. Continued for 1387 to 1460 by Caxton. This copy was owned in the sixteenth or seventeenth century by a strongly partisan Protestant who inked out all references to the Pope and to Purgatory. Has all of the misfolations mentioned in Pfrozheimer except that f.337 is correct and 338 in numbered 336 instead of 337. Also has the following misfoliations: 182 as 183, 191 as 181, 247 as 267 and 294 as 283. Accompanied by a separate leaf 29-2 (f.227), which is misnumbered 207. Not identified with any copy in DeRicci’s Census.

Holkot, Robert. Super Sapientam Salomonis. 1483.

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Notes:Goff H-289 (10 cops.); BMC II 493 (IB8537). 350 leaves, the first, last and Al blank. 289x205mm. Initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red. Early marginalia in 2 hands. Lacks first and last blanks.

Binding: Modern imitation vellum.

Provenance: Purchased 1956 (Access. no. A144965).

Horace. Opera Cum Quibusdam Annotationibus Jacobi Locher. Locher. Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Gruninger, 12 Mar. 1498

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Notes: Goff H461 (30 cops.); BMC I 112 (IB1471).

2°. 220 leaves, LL8 blank. 282x199mm. Initials supplied in red and blue; underlining and capital strokes (in display types only) in red. Early marginalia, especially in Ars poetica and Epistolarum. Lacks blank, index bound in preceeding the text. Binding: Eighteenth century sprinkled calf, gilt rules and spine. Provenance: Ex libris The Rt. Hon. John L. Browniowe, Baron Charleville, Viscount Tyrconnel .... Ex libris Bolton House. Purchased 1949 (Access. no. 802553). Annotated by Jacob Locher. 168 illustrations, each made up of 2- 5 interchangable parts, from 101 individual cuts.

Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae. 1497.

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Notes:Goff H-392 (1 copy); HC8841. 4°. 90 leaves. 203x124mm. Initials colored in red, blue and gilt. Elaborate printed borders and illustrations. al and d2 supplied in manuscript facsimile.

Binding: 18th century calf, stamped and painted in red, green and gilt. All edges gilt.

Provenance: Name on front end paper: Romain Destosles(?).

Purchased 1963. Printed on vellum. Quired with eight leaves to the gathering, ten in the final gathering.

Imitatio Christi. De Imatatione Christi. 1488.

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Notes:Goff I-17 (10 cops.); BMC V 372 (IA22318). 64 leaves. 158x108mm. Without rubrication. Some early marginalia.

Binding: 17th century (?) panelled goat, ties at top, bottom and fore-edge lacking.

Provenance: On front end paper: Sumpt ex biblioteca Jacob 1694 Die 17 men Novemb. Purchased 1967. Variously attributed, but now ascribed to Thomas a Kempis. Add: Johannes Gerson De meditatione cordis.

Institoris, Heinrich. Malleus maleficarum / [Heinrich Institoris, Jakob Sprenger]. Nuremberg : per Anthonium Koberger, 1496. [VI], CLIII leaves. ; 21 cm.

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Notes:Goff I-168 (8 cops.); BMC II 441 (IA7503). 160 leaves, the last blank. 201x145mm. Without rubrication. Few early marginalia. Lacks blank.

Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, spine mostly worn away. Clasp, catch only remaining. Executed in Kyriss shop 86, Augsburg, Jagd-Rolle II.

Provenance: Fragment of old shelf label at base of spine. Purchased 1989.

By Jacobus Sprenger and ilenricus Institorus.

Jacobus, de Voragine. Lombardica hystoria. Ulm : Conrad Dinckmut, M.CCCC.LXXXVIII (1488). [426] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.).

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Notes: Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent.) II, p. 536. Goff, J-121.(14 cops.); BMC II 536 (IB9361). 426 leaves. 274x186mm. Initials supplied in red (one in blue). Paragraph marks and underlining supplied in red at beginning only. Few early marginalia.

Binding: Contemporary blind-staped calf over wooden boards. Clasps, hinges, catches and part of straps present. Probably an Augsburg binding by Kyriss shop 77.

Provenance: Shelf label on front board. On al: Pro Conventu Bot_F: F: Minor: Reform: also partially obliterated library stamp. Acquired ca. 1967.

Jerome, Saint, D. 419 OR 20. Vitae Sanctorum Patrum. 1485. [Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 ‘Vitas patrum’], 7 July 1485. F°.

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Notes:Goff H-207 (12 cops.); BMC 1 98 (1B1311). 240 leaves, the first and last blank. 301x213mm. Initials supplied in red and green; paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining, in red. Red and green initial with marginal floriation on A2. Lacks the blanks and B1, also gl,8 and 2,7 reversed.

Binding: Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards. Clasps, straps missing. Remains of chain rivits on rear board.

Provenence: Stamp on a2: Abgegeben Pr. St. Bibliothek/Berlin. Owner’s or rubricator’s note on G7v. Purchased 1949 (Access. no. 802560).

JOHANNES CLIMAX. Scala paradisi. [Paris: Andre Brocard for] Denis Roce [after 12 Oct. 1499]. 8°.

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Notes:Goff J-311 (3 cops.); BMC VIII 229 (IA41284). 154 leaves. 125x80mm. Without rubrication.

Binding: Modern red crushed morocco, blind rule on boards, gilt spine.

Provenance: Acquired 1956 (Access, no. A104962). BMC: Perhaps printed for Roce by Brocard, but not sufficient evidence to attribute larger type to him. BN: [Paris, Jean Barbier, Andre Brocard ou Gaspard Philippe pour] Denys Roce [ca 1505]. Renouard dates as ca. 1505 based on state of Roce mark.

JOHANNES DE SACRO BUSTO. Sphaera mundi. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 4 Oct. 1490. 4°.

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Notes:Goff J-409 (25 cops.); BMC V 438 (IA22845). 48 leaves. 201x148mm. Without rubrication. Some early marginalia. el and e8 supplied in photostat, also f6-8 defective with loss of text at top.

Binding: Modern half sprinkled calf, marbled paper boards.

Provenance: Acquired ca. 1967. Illustrations on e2v, 5, 6 and 7v printed in brown; on f2, in brown and red. Printer’s mark printed in red.

Joannes de Sancto-Geminiano. Summa De Exemplis Et Rerum Similitudinibus. 1497. Liber de exemplis similitudinibus rerum. Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, for Stephanus and Bernardinus de Nallis, 10 Apr. 1497. 4°.

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Notes: Goff J-429 (20 cops.); BMC V 350 (IA21131). 404 leaves. 192x133mm. Without rubrication. Few early marginalia.

Binding: Eighteenth century sprinkled calf, rebacked.

Provenance: Early flyleaves laid in. Obliterated arms at foot of AA1. Acquired 1959.

Juan de Torquemada. Expositio Super Toto Psalterio. 1482.

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Notes:

___. Questiones super Euangeliis totius anni / edite per Reuerendum. d. Ioannem de Turre Cremata: ordinis predicatorum: episcopum Sabinensem: sancte Ro. ecclesie Cardinalem.. . [Brixie : Impresse per Angelum Británnicum, 1498]. [332] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)

RAR Stacks Cage INCUN.1498T68

Notes:Goff T-548. BMC VII, 980.

Justinus, Marcus Junianus. [Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii historias]. Impressum Venetiis : [s.n.], 1494. [110, i.e. 112] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.).

RAR Stacks Cage INCUN.1494J8

Notes: OSU Library's copy imperfect: t.p. wanting. BM 15th cent. VI, 781.Not in Goff; BMC VI 781 (IB26675). 56 leaves. 312x211mm. Without rubrication.

Binding: 18th century paper boards, rebacked in vellum.

Provenance: Shelf mark and unidentifiable remains of ex libris on front board. Purchased 1986. Edited by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus. Add: Lucius Annaeus Florus Epitomae.

Juvenal. Saturae / [Domitii Calderini Veronensis commentarii]. [Vicenza : Henricus de Sancto Ursio, Zenus, 1480]. [96] leaves (first leaf blank) ; 30 cm. (fol.) .

RAR Stacks Cage INCUN.1480J8

Notes:Goff J-644 (8 cops.); BMC VII 1044 (IB31852). 96 leaves, the first blank. 289x189mm. Without rubrication. Some early marginalia.

Binding: Liturgical mss. on vellum over modern boards.

Provenance: On alv, partially crossed out: Questo libre cominciato dal medellimo nell ano 1688, mense Iunii 22 Anno 1688 datum nostro Palazii. Purchased 1985. Commentary by Domitius Calderinus. Add: Caiderinus, Defensio adversus Brotheum. The first book produced by this printer.

Kolnische Chronik. 1499.

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Notes:

Leopold. Compilatio De Astrorum Scientia. 1489. Compilatio de astrorum scientia. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 9 Jan. 1489. 4°.

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Notes: Goff L-185 (20 cops.); BMC II 382 (IA6679). 110 leaves, the last blank. 202x143mm. Lacks blank.

Binding: Modern quarter sheep, patterned paper boards.

Provenance: Acquired 1956 (Access. no. A104965). Headings of woodcuts of the signa coeli, including two printed in black and red.

HOTAIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS. Opera cum quibusdarn annotationibus Jacobi Locher. Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Gruninger, 12 Mar. 1498. 2°.

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Notes:Goff H461 (30 cops.); BMC I 112 (IB1471). 220 leaves, LL8 blank. 282x199mm. Initials supplied in red and blue; underlining and capital strokes (in display types only) in red. Early marginalia, especially in Ars poetica and Epistolarum. Lacks blank, index bound in preceding the text.

Binding: Eighteenth century sprinkled calf, gilt rules and spine.

Provenance: Ex libris The Rt. Hon. John L. Browniowe, Baron Charleville, Viscount Tyrconnel .... Ex libris Bolton House. Purchased 1949 (Access. no. 802553).

Annotated by Jacob Locher. 168 illustrations, each made up of 2- 5 interchangable parts, from 101 individual cuts.

Lilio, Zaccaria. Orbis Breviarum. 1500. [Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, after 1500]. 4°.

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Notes:Golf L-220 (10 cops); Sander 3976. 96 leaves. 210x146mm. Without rubrication. Some early marginalia.

Binding: Modern quarter calf, marbled paper boards.

Provenance: Purchased 1920 (Access. no. 214558).

Lilius, Zacharias. Zachariae Lilli Vicentini canonici regvla ris Orbis Breviarivum fide, compendio, or dineq. captv ac memoratv facillimvm foelix et gratvs legito. Impressit Florence : Antonius Miscominus, Anno Salutis. M.CCCCLXXXXIII (1493) Nonis Iuniis. 1 v. (unpaged) ; 22 cm. (8vo).

RAR Stacks Cage INCUN.1502L5

Notes: OSU's copy 1 has the date written in pencil on t.p. and colophon. Klebs, 607.1. St., L190. Poynter, 353.

Livy. Historiae Romanae Decades. 1485. Treviso: Joannes Rubeus, Vercellensis, 1485. 2°.

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Notes:Golf L-244 (18 cops.); BMC VI 897 (IB28437). 256 leaves, the first, last and n8 blank. 317x224mm. Without rubrication. Extensive early marginalia. Top of H9 repaired with loss to 8 lines of text. Lacks first and last blanks.

Binding: 18th century sprinkled calf, blind rule border on boards, spine gilt. All edges gilt.

Provenance: Stamped on front board: Guildhall Library/London; on spine, and written on al: Bibliotheca Lond. Belgicae. Acquired ca. 1961.

Edited by Lucas Porrus. The last book printed by Rubeus at Treviso, before his permanent establishment in Venice.

Lochmaier, Michael. Sermones de sanctis cum vigintitribus Pauli Wann sermonibus. Passau : Johann Petri, 1490-1491. [402] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.).

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Notes: BMC, 617. Polain (B), 2510. Goff, L-270.

Lombard, Peter, Bishop of Paris. Sententiarum Libri IV. 1477.

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Notes:

___. Sententiarum Libri IV Cum Conclusionibus Henrici De Gorichem Basel. 1488.

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Notes:

Lucan, Marcus Annaeus. Pharsalia. 1491.

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Notes:Goff L-303 (3 cops.); BMC VI 765 (IB26734). 176 leaves, the first blank. 280x197mm. Without rubrication. Early marginalia. Lacks blank.

Binding:18th century diced Russia, rebacked, spine gilt, leather label.

Provenance: Acquired Ca. 1959. Commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus. Line 1 on pi2 has misprint “Ambroii’ as in H10239*.

___. Pharsalia. 1498.

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Notes:Goff L-307 (11 cops.); BMC V 523 (IB23984). 218 leaves. 312x206mm. Without rubrication. Few early marginalia.

Binding: Eighteenth century quarter vellum, paper boards.

Provenance: Ex libris Howard Granville Hanrott. Purchased 1967.

Commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus and Johannes Sulpitius.

Marchesini, Giovanni. Mammotrectus Super Bibliam. 1479. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 23 Sept. 1479. 4°.

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Notes:Goff M-239 (29 cops.); BMC V 180 (IA19729). 260 leaves, Al blank. 291x150mm. Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and green (some initials in blue); capital strokes and underlining in red.

Binding: Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards, 5 bosses front and back lacking, clasps, hinges and catches present, straps lacking. Remains of old paper label on front board, newer paper label on spine. Remains of chain staples on rear board. Vellum sewing guards from old ms. Boards once lined with vellum ms., now mostly lacking, but offset of text is visible on boards.

Provenance: Inscription on end paper: Library stamp on Al. Acquired ca. 1959. Possibly the copy sold as item 294 at Sotheby July 24, 1956. Last line and a half of text on y8v added with stamp.

MODUS LEGENDI ABBREVIATURAS, CUM ALIIS TRACTATIBUS IURIDICIS. Strassburg: [n.pr.] 20 & 30 Aug. 1499. 2°.

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Notes:Goff M-760 (6 cops); BMC I 172 (IB2563). 126 leaves, the last blank. 270x201mm. Without rubrication.

Binding: Contemporary quarter pigskin over wooden boards. Clasps lacking. Tools not found in Kyriss.

Provenance: On al: Catalog[us] Monasterij Mellicensis hunc librum inscripsi j G . Old stamp expunged fom x5v. Sold as lot 153, Bloomsbury Book Auctions Oct. 31, 1985. Purchased 1986. Contents as in H11481*. Victor Scholdere in The Library Ser.3, II (1911), 1810182, attributes printing to Werner of Schussenried on the basis of an accrostic in the “De decreto versificato” section. Binding does not appear to be from Melk. Bound with Vocabularius juris utriusque.

Nicholas, of Lyra. Postilla Super Quattuor Evangelistas. 1468.

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Notes:

___. Postilla Super Quattuor Evangelistas. 1468.

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Notes:

___. Repertorium In Postillam Nicolai De Lyra Super Vetur Et Novum Testamentaum. 1494.

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Notes:Goff N-150 (4 cops.); BMC II 438 (IA7470). 156 leaves, the last blank. 213x152mm. Without rubrication.

Binding: Modern quarter imitation leather, paper boards.

Provenance: Acquired ca. 1959.

Nider, Johannes. Dispositorum Moriendi. 1467.

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Notes:Goff N-177, part (8 cops); BMC I 186 (IA2831); Polain(B) 2852. 29 leaves, the last blank. 202x147mm. Initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining supplied in red.

Binding: 18th century paste paper boards.

Provenance: Note (library acces. no.?) on front endpaper. Initials on rear board. Acquired 1956 (Access. no. A104964). Issued with Nider’s Manuale confessorum (see next entry). First line of explicit variant from H11828*.

___. Manuale Confessorum. 1467.

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Notes:Goff N-177, part (8 cops); BMC I 185 (IA2830); Polain(B) 2852A. 75 leaves. 200x138mm. Initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining supplies in red. Some early marginalia.

Binding: Modern paste paper boards.

Provenance: Purchased 1965. Issued with Nider’s Dispositorium moriendi (preceeding entry); however these parts are from different copies, acquired at different times by OSU.

___. Praeceptorium Divinae Legis. 1472. [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, about 1480]. 2°.

RAR Stacks Cage INCUN.1472N5

Notes: Goff N-206 (4 cops.); BMC I 194 (IB3007). 330 leaves, the last blank. 297x210mm. Initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining supplied in red (some initials in blue). Red and yellow initials with blue penwork on 4-1, 18-1, 22-lv and 24-3. Ms. quiring, mostly cut away. Leather tabs at each precept.

Binding: Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards. Clasps, straps missing. Five bosses front and back, lacking center front. Vellum guard around first and last gathering, evidently originally covered board as offsetting visible on the pigskin turn—in. Sewing guards.

Provenance: On 1-1: N° 85 p[ro] Conventu Tachouiensi/fr[atru]m ord. minor di observar/4ia/[different hand] Reformatorum/1629. Ex libris EE DD Ludovici Cardinalis Dubois, Archiepiscopi Rotomagensis. Acquired 1953 (Access. no. 916805). Schafer 241 has same monastic provenance, with same date.

___. Sermones aurei de tempore et de sanctis, cum quadragesimali. [Reutlingen : Michel Greyff, not after 1480]. 265 ff. ; 30 cm.

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Notes: OSU's copy 1 lacks t.p. Hain-Copinger, 11798. BM 15th cent., vol. 2, p. 577. Proctor, 2695 (under Johann Otmar). Goff N-219 (5 cops.); BMC II 577 (IB10664). 266 leaves, first, last, ul and 1-6 blank. 285x203mm. Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red. Gilt initial on a8 with marginal penwork in red and black. Red and blue initials on v2 and 2-5. Early marginalia, extensive in pts.1 and 3, light in pt. 2.

Binding: Early red deerskin over wooden boards, rebacked. Clasps, straps missing.

Provenance: Inscription and early shelf mark on end paper. Ex libris Walter Goldwater, sold at Swann Dec. 5, 1985. Purchased 1986. Last line of 10-lv, col.1 correctly printed in this copy (see BMC).

Nuremberg (Germany). Reformacion der Stat Nuremberg. Nuremberg : Anthon Koberger, 1484. [214] leaves ; 32 cm. (Fol.).

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Notes: OSU copy lacks [1]¹ and [27]⁶. Goff R-37. BMC II 426.

Orbellis, Nicolaus. Expositio Super Textu Petri Hispani. 1500.

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Notes:Goff O-79 (8 cops,); BMC V 422 (IA23207). 134 leaves. 201x142mm. Without rubrication. Early marginalia. Lacks 11 leaves (al; h2-3,6-7; 14-5; n3,6; o2,7).

Binding: Modern blue morocco.

Provenance: Purchased 1949 (Access no. 802585).

Ovidius Nasso, Plubius. Metamorphoses. 1492.

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Notes:Goff O-187 (3 cops.); BMC XII 30 (IB23705); H12169*.

144 leaves, the last blank. 302x203mm. Initials at beginning of commentary on books 1 & 2 only supplied in red (others printed). Some faint early notes. Lacks pil-2., s5-6.

Binding: Modern crushed morocco patterned processed calf.

Provenance: Acquired ca. 1959. Commentary by Raphael Regius. Previously assigned by Goff to Bonetus Locatellus. Accompanied by photocopies of variant and missing pages made from film of BM copy. Final gathering reset.

Ovid. Ovidii Fasti. Venetiis : per T.Z.P, 1492, die xxvii octobris. [168] leaves ; 32 cm

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Notes: OSU 18th century quarter morocco gilt. Copy 1 has marginal notes in ink, many correcting the text or adding punctuation, paragraph, marks, etc.; spine ends worn, minor spotting, and soiling. Hain-Copinger, 12242. Goff, O-174.

Ovid. P. Ouidii Nasonis Heroidum epistole Sapphus : atque in Ibin argutie. Cum triplici explanatione altera familiari: et cum totius operis exactissima castigatione. Lugduni : Impensis Stephani Guaynardi. Opera ... Johannis de Vingle, 1500. [6], 194 [i.e. 174] leaves ; 24 cm. (4to).

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Notes:BMC VIII, p. 315.

Binding: Eighteenth century calf, gilt spine.

Provenance: Blue and red device at foot of al. Ex libris Alfred Ehrman. On rear board: Ex libris Bibliotheca Broxbourniana J.P.W.E. 17 March 1949 Lx dono A&RE. Purchased 1984. Add: Sappho. Commentaries by Aritonius Volscus, Hubertinus Clericus and Jodocus Badius. Sappho with commentaries of Domitius Calderinus and Jodocus Badius.

Platina. Vitae Pontificum. Nuremberg : Anton Koberger, 11 Aug. 1481. Folio.

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Notes: Goff P-769 (23 cops.); BMC II 420 (IB7224. 128 leaves. 310x209 mm. Initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining supplied in red. Initial on 1-3 in red, blue, green, purple and gilt with marginal foliation. Early marginalia, extensive in early sections. Signed (by rubricator?) and dated 1494. List of five Popes after last in text (through Julius II 418- - IB72037).

Binding: Contemporary half pigskin and wooden boards. Clasp lacking. Boards lined with leaves [N] 3-4 of Koberger’s 2 Aug. 1480 edition of Johannes Herolt, Sermones de tempore et de sanctis (BMC II 418- - IB72037).

Provenance: Purchased 1987.

Persius. Pauli Flacci Persii poetae Satyrarum opus / Ioannis Britãnici Brixiani commentarii, in Persium ad Senatum populumque Brixianum. Bartolomeii Foncii in persio commentarii. Venice : Joannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, Feb. 14, 1494. [100] p. ; 30 cm. (fol.).

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Notes: Goff P-356. BMC V, 529.

Binding: 18th century paste paper boards.

Provenance: Name on al: A Goodrich. Purchased 1987. Edited by Bartholomaeus Marula. Commentary by Johannes Britannicus and Bartholomaeus Fontius. Title illustration with moveable elements depicting Persius and commentators.

Pietro de Crescenzi. Ruralia Commoda. 1493.

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Notes:

PETRUS LOMBARDUS. Sententiarum libri IV. Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 10 Mar. 1477. 2°.

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Notes: Goff P-480 15 cops.); BMC V 248 (IB20575). 246 leaves, the first and last blank. 278x194mm. Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue; underlining and chapter numbers in red. Lacks first blank. 2h5, 6 bound in 1h.

Binding: Eighteenth century stained calf, tripple rule borders, spine gilt. All edges gilt. Partial vellum ms. leaf sewn around first gathering.

Provenance: Inscription on end paper: Inscription and

shelf mark on a2 Purchased 1967.

PETRUS LOMBARDUS. Sententiaruni libri IV (cum conclusionibus Henrici Gorichen et problematibus S. Thomae articulisque Parisiensibus. Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 22 Sept. 1488. 2°.

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Notes:Goff P-491 (13 cops.); BMC III 766 (IB37609). 281 leaves, T6 and final leaf blank. 314x214mm. Initials, capital strokes and underlining supplied in red. Red, blue, green, lavender and gilt initials, with marginalia. Lacks blanks. Quire Qr misbound following quire t.

Binding: Contemporry blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards. Clasps, 1 hinge and straps missing. Vellum sewing guards in early quires. Tooling not identified. A smaller item, following the Petrus Lombardus, has been removed.

Provenance: On a1; Monasterij Gengenbachensis/1624; also stamp: Ex Bibliotheca Universitatis Heidelbergensis (with release stamp). Ex libris Ed Kroncke, Bay City. Acquired 1953 (Access. No. 916807).

PLATINA, BARTHOLOMAEUS. Vitae pontificum. Nuremburg: Anton Koberger, 11 Aug. 1481. 2°.

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Notes:Goff P-769 (23 cops.); BMC II 420 (IB7224)128 leaves. 310x209 mm. Initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining supplied in red. Initial on 1-3 in red, blue, green, purple and gilt with marginal foliation. Early marginalia, extensive in early sections. Signed (by rubricator?) and dated 1494. List of five Popes after last in text (through Julius II 418- - IB72037).

Binding: Contemporary half pigskin and wooden boards. Clasp lacking. Boards lined with leaves [N] 3-4 of Koberger’s 2 Aug. 1480 edition of Johannes Herolt, Sermones de tempore et de sanctis (BMC II 418- - IB72037).

Provenance: Purchased 1987.

PROCESSIONARIUM ORDINIS FRATRUM PRAEDICATORUM. Venice: Johannes Emericus, de Spira, for Lucantonio Giunta, 9 Oct. 1494. 8°.

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Notes:Goff P-998 (4 cops.); BMC V 539 (IA24214).

144 leaves. 182x119mm. Without rubrication. Pi1 repaired, part- in facsimile.

Binding: New quarter diced russia over contemporary wooden boards. Clasps, hinges and straps lacking.

Provenance: Ex libris Baron von Landau. Purchased 1970.

Printed in red and black. Musical notation on red printed staves.

Rainerius De Pisis. Pantheologia. 1474.

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Notes:

Rainerus de Pisis. Pantheologia : sive Summa universae theologiae. Nuremberg : Anton Koberger, 12 Feb. 1477. 1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 45 cm.

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Notes:Goff R-6 (11 cops.); BMC II 321 (IC5473). Vol.II: 484 leaves, the first and last blank. 405x27.9mm. Initials, capital strokes, underlining and headlines supplied in red. Colored initials at major divisions. Signed in ms. with quire number at left and leaf number in center of foot. Omissions in text supplied in ms. at foot of col.2 on 15-7 (Occium) and 23-6 (Pene).

Binding: Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, edges bevelled. Clasps, catches lacking. Five bosses on each board lacking. Tools not identified.

Provenance: On 1-2: Ad numoror Bibliothecae Collae S: Maria Virginis/inter p[er]renberg cx ; also unidentified arms in lower margin. Bookseller’s label on front board: John Britnell, Toronto. Purchased 1967.

Vol.II only.

Rorquemada, Juan De, Cardinal. Expositio Super Toto Psalterio. 1470.

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Notes:

REFORMATION DER STADT NURNBERG. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 5 June 1484. 2°.

INCUN.1484N8

Notes:Goff R-37 (hoops.); BMC II 426(IB7315). 214 leaves, the last blank. 307x211mm. Initials and paragraph markes supplied in red and blue, capital strokes in red. Blue, white, gilt, red and green initial at beginning of text. First and last leaves lacking. Ms. foliation. Ms. quiring, partly cut away. Occasional early marginalia.

Binding: Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked. Bosses corner and center. Executed in Kyriss shop 116, a binder frequently associated with Koberger.

Provenance: Purchased 1970.

Rolevinck, Werner. Fasciculus Temporum. 1476. [Cologne]: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, 8 Nov. 1476. 2°.

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Notes:Goff R-255 (7 cops); Polain (B) 3366. 76 leaves, 1-1; 1-10; 2-1; 8-7,8 blank. 362x269mm. Initials and capital strokes supplied in red. Charts partly colored. Some early marginalia. The first quire and blanks 8-7,8 lacking.

Binding: Eighteenth century calf, strap design in blind and gilt.

Provenance: Purchased 1967. Based on both the 8- and 9-leaf index issues of Ther Hoernen’s

version.

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de. Sphaera Mundi. 1490.

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Notes:

Schedel, Hartmann. Liber Chronicarum. 1493.

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Notes:Goff S-307 (168 cops.); BMC II 437 (IC7451). 328 leaves. 410x285mm. Initials and capital strokes supplied in red (through first laef of fourth quire only). Elaborate initials with marginal penwork on 1-2 and 4-1. Some marginalia. Final gathering misbound following f.246.

Binding: Eighteenth century sprinkled calf.

Provenance: Name on 1-2: Simon Chiruge ; also library stamp: Do.

S. Aloys. Jerseins. Purchased 1949 (Access. no. 804172). Collation is difficult to determine because of tight binding; however, this appears to be the variant noted in BMC. Also contains corrections to f.7a and 247 as noted in BMC. Comparison with states noted by William B. Todd (Book Collector 13 (1964) p. 497—498): f.18v b (sceptre inclined to right, crown unbroken) f.24r a (sceptre inclined to left, crown broken) f.29r a (Linea reg[um] Ger/corum ....) f.30r b (pro dextera.) f.30v b (woodcuts correctly ordered) f.107r a (martyrdom by decapitation) F.29 numbered XIXX as in Schafer.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Tragoediae. 1492.

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Notes:Goff S-436 (16 cops.); BMC V 491 (IB23608).

140 leaves. 299x199mm. Without rubrication. Early marginalia, partly trimmed away. Al backed, defective.

Binding: 18th century vellum.

Provenance: Acquired 1952 (Access. no. 900615). Commentary by Gellius Bernardinus Marmita. Without the priviledge, which is added with a stamp to z6 in some copies. Woodcut Dance of Death pasted to front board.

Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. Punica / Syllius Italicus; cum commentariis Petri Marsi. Venice : Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 15 June 1492. [312] p. ; 31 cm. (fol.)

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Notes: Goff S 508. BMC V 439.

Binding: 17th century vellum over pasteboard.

Provenance: On a1: Ad usum Biblioth. Ex dono. Ex libris Walter Goldwater, sold at Swann 5 Dec. 1985, lot 130. Purchased 1986.Commentary by Petrus Marsus.

Stella Clericorum. 1494.[Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen] 1494. 4°.

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Notes:Goff S-779 (3 cops.); Sajo 3143.14 leaves, 10x141 mm. Initials supplied in red.

Binding: Modern quarter cloth, marbled paper boards, edges gilt.

Provenance: Acquired ca. 1960.

Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius). Opera / Statius. [Venice : Jacobus de Paganinis, 1490]. [210] p. ; 31 cm.

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Notes:Goff S-692 (7 cops.); BMC V 456 (IB23305).210 leaves, first blank. 303x208mm. Without rubrication. Lacks blank leaves.

Binding: 17th century calf, boards tooled in blind, spine in gilt.

Provenance: On end paper: Pome[n]s. Ex libris Comte D. Boutourlin. Purchased 1978.

Contents: Thebais, commentary by Placidus Lactantius; Achilleis, commentary by Franciscus Mataratius; Silvae, commentary by Domitius Calderinus. Add: Vita Papinii; Ovidius, Sappho, commentary by Calderinus; Calderinus, Elucubratio in quaedam Propertii loca.

SULPITIUS VERULANUS, JOHANNES. De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationes. [Venice: Phillipus Pincius?, about 1495]. 4°.

XRAR5171994

Notes:al. REGVLAE SVLPITII. alv. Pomponii laeti tetrastichum:/Nostra palemonias non optant saecula chartas:/Quum legitis culti munera Sulpitii/... a2. Io. Sulpitii Verula[n]i uiri clarissimi de octo p[ar]tibus or[ati]onis libellus utilissimus./Haec quae sunt nostri praeludia parua libelli/Discat donati post elementa puer./... 1.6 [G]Rammatica e[st] rectae loquelae rectaeq[ue] scripturae scie[n]tia/quae usu ... h8. ut dies & libyes

I.18. Finis. Elenchico./Clauditur hic riuus: nostri pete flumina fontis:/Ludere quo possis carminis omne genus./Registrum. a.b. …h. omnes sunt quaterni.

4°. a-h8. 64 leaves. a3: 40 lines, 163x118mm. Type 80R. 4 line capital spaces, most with guide letters. 202x152mm. Old quarter sheep over linen covered pasteboard (linen mostly worn away). Not found in Goff, BMC, H, C, R, or other source. Provenance: 3 old shelfmarks(?) on alv: Litt.B.Col. N.17; Pr IV 16; VII/348. Ms. note on h8v. Ex libris Walter Goldwater, sold at Swann, 5 Dec. 1985, lot. 136. Purchased 1988. Not R 745 or R 1077.

Strabo. Strabo De sitv orbis. [Venice] : Ioan[n]nes Vercelle[n]sis, M. CCCCLXXXXiiii. die xxiiii aprilis [24 April 1494]. cl leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.).

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Notes: Hain, *15090. Klebs. Incunabula scientifica et medica, 935.5. Goff, S-797.

Goff S-797 (10 cops); BMC V 418 (IB23162). 166 leaves. 302x207mm. Later initials supplied in red, black and blue. Extensive early marginalia. Pi1 supplied, several leaves repaired.

Binding: Modern half calf, marbled paper boards.

Provenance: On c1: Purchased 1987. Translated by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas. Edited by Antonius Mancinellus. Mancinellus’ table dated eleven days later than the colophon.

Tacitus, Cornelius. Opera. 1487.

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Notes:Goff T-7 (12 cops.); BMC VI 719 (11326090). 188 leaves, yl0, &8 and B6 blank. 294x192mm. Purple, blue, green and gilt initial on al, unidentified arms at foot. Notes, dated 1475, on z1. Lacks blanks yl0 and B6, also B1, which is supplied in photostat.

Binding: Modern half calf, tiger pattern paper boards, by Bookbinder’s Co-operative Society, London.

Provenance: Signature on &8: Octavius Pisanus. On end paper: E. P. Jacobson 1896. Ex libris Earl of Cromer. Purchased 1949 (Access. no. 806909). Edited by Franciscus Puteolanus. Initial on al is “I” rather than “N.”

Theocritus. Idyliia. 1495.

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Notes:Goff T-144 (29 cops.); BMC V 555 (IB24408). 140 leaves. 304x200mm. Red ruling around text throughout.

Binding: Eighteenth century red panelled goat, gilt, rebacked.

Provenance: On AA1: Chr Col : Det: de midleham,/me jure tenet; also: Franciscus Bra[rest trimmed] & shelf number B,d,19. Purchased 1949 (Access no. 802558). Add: Tlieognis; Dionysius Cato, Disticha (translated by Maximus Planudes); Sententiae septern sapientium; De individua; ilesiodus, Opera et dies, Theogonia. This is the variant noted by Goff, part of quire zetaF and all of thetaG reprinted. Incorrected recorded.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint. [Sammelband/ Thomas Aquinas et al.]. [S.l.: s.n.],| ca. 1487-1495. 1 v. (unpaged); 22 cm.

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Notes:[Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, 1487?—1495?]. 4°. Goff T-339 (4 cops.); BMC III 631 (IA11659). 12 leaves. 210x148mm. Initials and underlining supplied in red; paragraph marks in red and blue. Ms. note on blank B6v.

Binding: See Martyrologium.

Provenance: See Martyrologium.

Bound with Martyrologiurn and six other tracts.

Thomas, Aquina, Saint.Summa contra gentiles, sive De veritate Catholicae fidei. [Strassburg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis, not after 1474]. 2°.

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Notes:Goff T-190 (8 cops.); BMC I 77 (IC888). 248 leaves, the last blank. 407x279mm. Initials, parapgraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red. Red rules surrounding text throughout. Leather tabs at beginning of books. Few early marginalia. No trace of ms. quiring in this copy (BMC has). Final blank lacking.

Binding: Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards.

Five bosses on each board, lacking. Two clasps, lacking but for 1 hinge. Executed by the Vienna Dominican Monastery, Ca. 1475. This is the copy described as no.9 by Goldschmidt.

Provenance: Monastic ownership inscription on first and last leaves, also on f.124. Ex libris E. Ph. Goldschmidt. Acquired ca. 1961. Doheny catalog suggets Heinrich Eggestein as printer. This copy has cancel leaf 7—10.

TURRECREMATA, JOHANNES DE. Expositio super toto psalterio. Rome: Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus), 4 Oct. 1470. 4°.

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Notes:Goff T-517 (6 cops.); BMC IV 21 (IB17243).

204 leaves. 249x170 mm. Inintials supplied in red and blue: paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining in red. Illuminated initials at major sections. Three quarter border with branch work and foliage on a3. Some early marginalia. Eigenteenth cent. (?) ms. Index on end papers. Lacks first two leaves and all of quire t.

Binding: Modern vellum.

Provenance: On a3 (and three other times): F. Franciscus Auximanus Ditas. Acquired ca, 1967.

___. Expositio super toto psalterio. [Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1482]. 2°.

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Notes:Goff T-530 (9 cops.); BMC III 747 (IB37422).

124 leaves, the first and last blank. 286x202mm. Initials supplied in red and blue; parapgraph marks, capital strokes and underlining in red.

Binding: Modern crushed morocco patterned processed calf.

Provenance: On a2: stamp, crown and G in a circle. Ex libris Alan F. Vigers. Acquired ca. 1959.Amerbach presented two copies to the Basel Charterhouse in 1482. Slip pasted onto front board: Printed by johann von Amerbach at Basel about 1485. This slip was written and given to me by Mr. Proctor of the Brit Mus when he examined the book. Allan F. Vigers 1895.

___. Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis. Brescia: Angelus Britannicus, 2 June 1498. 4° and 8°.

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Notes:Goff T-548 (4 cops.); BMC VII 980 (IA31163).166 leaves. 185x129mm. Without rubrication except for (later?) initial on a1.

Binding: Modern half vellum, imitation vellum boards,

Provenance: On Pi1: Ad usum fratris Theolophili de Crema; also Ex bibli Altemp[er]s. Purchased 1970.Quire v and part of quire t reset (compared with film of CornUL copy.

Thomas de Cantimpré. Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum. [Cologne : Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 1479?]. [134] leaves ; 30 cm. (Fol.).

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Notes:Goff T-347 (5 cops.) ; BMC I 223 (IB3523) 134 leaves, the first blank. 284x205ium. Initials, papagraph marks, capital strokes and underlining supplied in red. Lacks first blank.

Binding: Modern calf, blind ruled boards.

Provenance: Purchased 1985.

Vincent of Beauvais. Opuscula. 1481. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 13 Dec 1481.

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Notes: OSU half leaves bound into front and back analyzed in offprint by Keith E. Mixter: A newly discovered medieval polyphonic sequence.Goff V-277 (21 cops.); BMC III 746 (IB37269).

334 leaves. 294x221mm. Initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining supplied in red. Colored initials and leather tabs at beginning of major sections.

Binding: Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards. Clasps, straps lacking. Vellum title label and shelf number on front board. Five bosses front and back lacking. Executed by the Kremsmunter Benedictines. Sewing of first and last quires strengthened with halves of a single leaf of musical mss. Center guards in first and final gatherings.

Provenance: On 1-1, in red: Et ego Wolfgangus Eysngering[er] vicarius/nec non beneficiat[us] in Trawnkirch[en] comparavi/ partem lib[rorum] p[ro] duob[us] flor[ensis]/Item dedi p[ro] iliu[m]itura et ligatura vi [solidi denarius]. also, in black:

Hu[n]c libru[m] restatus e[st] monasterio n[ost]ro/Lambacensi frater Wolfgang[us] Eysnge/ring[er] olim sacerdot[us] sec[ul]aris circa t[em]pus/sue professionis Anno d[omini] et. 1489. Acquired 1953 (Access. no. 893493). Amerbach presented two copies to the Basel Charterhouse in 1481. The music manuscript has been studied by Prof. Keith Mixter, who has identified it as part of a Marian sequence from the late thirteenth or fourteenth century.

Valerius Maximus. Facta et dicta memorabilia / [With the commentary of Oliverius Arzignanensis. Venice, Bernardus Benalius, Nov. 9, 1488. [248] leaves ; 34 cm. (fol.).

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Notes:Goff V-38 (9 cops.) BMC V 372 (IB22321) 248 leaves, the first blank. 320x219mm. Without rubrication. Some early marginalia.

Binding: Quarter blindtooled sheep over contemporary wooden

boards. Clasps, lacking.

Provenance: Purchased 1986. Commentary by Oliverius Arzignanensis.

Vincent of Beauvais. Speculum Morale. 1476. Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, 9 Nov. 1476. 2°.

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Notes:Goff V288 (12 cops.); BMC I 58 (IC522). 475 leaves, the first, fifth and last blank. 469x330mm. Initials, capital strokes (in 5 quires only) and some rubrics supplied in red. Some early marginalia.

Binding: Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards. Clasps lacking. Tools not identified.

Provenance: Ex libris Eduardo J. Bullrich. Acquired ca. 1960. Authorship questioned. Known with and without colophon; this copy without.

Wernherus, of Schussenried. Modus legendi abbreuiaturas in utroq[ue] iure : siue processus iuris. Impressus Arge[n]tine [Strassoburg : s.n.], Anno d[omi]ni 1499. finitus sexta feria post Bartholomei. [126] leaves (the last blank) ; 29 cm.

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Zerbolt, Gerard. De spiritualibus ascensionibus. [Basel: Johann Amerbach and Johann Petri, not after 1489]. 8°.

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Notes:Goff G-177 (9 cops); BMC III 752 (IA37477). 68 leaves. 159x107mm. Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue; capital strokes, in red. Initial on A3 with marginal penwork.

Binding: Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, edges bevelled. Clasp, strap renewed. Sewing guards and rear board lining from vellum ms. Stamps not found in Kyriss.

Provenance: Ms. note on al: Liber Domus Probationis Societatis Jesu/ seni Tre and at head of a2: Domus probationis Societ: Jesu Treviris. On alv: Ex libris Walter Goldwater (sold at Swann 1 Dec. 1983). Purchased 1986. Bound with Johannes Chrysostomus De cordis compunctione.

___. Tractatus de spiritualibus ascensionibus / [scripsit Gerardus Zutphaniensis]. [Basileae : J. Amerbachius et J. Petri, [ca. 1489]. [133], [136] p. ; 17 cm.

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Notes: OSU's copy 1 bound with De compunctione cordis / Johannes Chrysostomus. -- [Basel : Michael Furter, ca. 1489]. Hain, 16296. Hain, 5046.