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Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaf from a Latin Breviary. Excerpt from the Divine Office: In Circumcisione Domini et Octava Nativitatis.
England Fifteenth Century Collectible: Very Good
236 x 167 mm. 9 5 16 x 6 9/16 inches. Written single column, 24 lines of text per page in a fine Gothic hand, the recto and verso each have a staff of musical notations, the staff consisting of 4 red lines with square notes (some with descending stems), each staff occupying the equivalent of 2-lines of text, 2 3-line initial letters in alternating red or blue, 6 2-line initial letters in alternating red or blue, the initials decorated with the opposite color of fine scroll work, extending throughout the left margin of each page, 1 1-line initial, the readings (lectio) and rubrications in red, later manuscript correction in margin of the recto where the scribe had left out part of the Psalm: "Filius datus est nobis?" Also in the upper margin of the recto is a later ms. notation about the contents of the leaf, "in circomsicione Domini." Written on fine cream-colored vellum with minor soiling and small holes, confined to the margins. Very Good. This Breviary leaf contains an excerpt from the Divine Office: In Cicrumcisione Domini et Octava Nativitatis: In I Vesperis. Beginning with the ending of the Canticle (Populus qui ambulat in tenebris, etc.) then Lesson X on St Luke from the homily of St Ambrose, including lessons XI and XII. Breviaries were books of prayers, hymns, and psalms created for monks, nuns, or clergy and outlining religious services for the liturgical year.
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Antonio Rotondo, editor Forme e Destinazione del Messaggio Religioso: Aspetti della Propaganda Religiosa nel Cinquecento
Florence Leo S. Olschki 1991 8822238680 / 9788822238689 First Edition Paperback Used: Very Good Very Good Paperback
Series: Studi e Testi per la Storia Religiosa del Cinquecento, No. 2. Large 8vo. 10 x 7 inches. xii, 401 pp. Illustrations (some on plates, primarily of books discussed in the text), 5 articles by Steven Ozment, Antonio rotondo, Paul Albert Russell, Ottavia Niccoli, and Carlos Gilly in English (2), Italian (2) and German (1), indexes; text clean, unmarked, pages are unopened. Paper wrappers with illustrated dust-jacket; binding square and tight, minor shelf wear to the edges of the binding.
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Conrad Lycosthenes (1518-1561). A Single Printed Leaf from Prodigiroum ac ostentorum chronicon.
Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1557 Used: Very Good
Single folio leaf, pages 493-494. 269 x 184 mm. 10 9/16 x 7 1/4 inches. Printed single column in Latin, 35 lines of text per page, Roman type, with years printed in the fore edge margin, 5 13-line woodcuts; unmarked. Printed on paper; toned, stain from mounting in the gutter margin. Very Good. Conrad Lycosthenes was an Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist. His Prodigiroum ac ostentorum chronicon... was printed in Basel in 1557. The Chronicle of Omens and Portents reproduces hundreds of reported prodigies spanning the whole of known history. Lycosthenes' work incorporated the research of Julius Obsequens (4th century), and contemporary works by Caspar Peucer, Commentarius de praicipuis divinationum generibus (1553), and Jobus Fincelius De miraculis sui temporis (1556), among others; the same sources were used by Lycosthenes' contemporary, Nostradamus. Much of the Chronicle of Omens and Portents was later translated into English by Stephen Batman in his hugely popular The Doome, Warning All Men to the Judgement (1581). The nearly 1,600 woodcuts in the Chronicle of Omens and Portents represent comets, human deformities, floods, eclipses and so forth, arranged by year, from 3959 B.C. to 1557 AD. Many are attributed to Andrea Meldolla [or Andrea Schiavone (circa 1510/1515 - 1563)], the great Croatian painter and etcher, who was active primarily in Venice. This leaf covers the years 1478 (incomplete) through 1480. In 1479, Lycosthenes reports that, "in Arabia a comet in the manner of a sharp log and adorned with various, as it were, holes, with a sickle hay-reaper was seen," with accompanying woodcut.
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Gunnar Sorelius and Michael Srigley, editors Cultural Exchange Between European Nations During the Renaissance: Proceedings of the Symposium Arranged in Uppsala by the Forum for Renaissance Studies of the English Department of Uppsala University, 5-7 June 1993
Stockholm Almqvist & Wiksell, distributors 1994 9155433162 / 9789155433161 First Edition Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Series: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia, No. 86. 8vo. 244 pp. Eighteen articles by scholars from Europe and the United States explores cultural interrelationships in Renaissance Europe, figures, index; text clean, un-marked. Printed wrappers, dust-jacket; binding square and tight, jacket with shelf wear, coffee ring on front cover. Excellent working copy from the private collection of Richard Popkin, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at UCLA. Your order receives my personal attention.
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Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533). Stitched quire from Orlando Furioso.
Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1573 Used: Very Good
4to, single quire, stitched (4 leaves, 8 pages). 254 x 181 mm. 10 x 7 1/8 inches. Printed in Italian, 2 columns per page, 6 stanzas per column (48 lines), in an italic Roman type face, commentary by Girolamo Ruscelli in a single column of slightly smaller italic Roman type, paginated in upper right corner, pages 5-12 (A3-A6), with marginal notations, 1 full-page woodcut on page 12 with elaborate woodcut borders on all sides; text unmarked. Printed on paper; light toning and foxing. Very Good. Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet; his best known work is the romance epic, Orlando Furioso. The poem is a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Annamorato; it describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens. This edition is accompanied by the commentary of Girolamo Ruscelli (1518-1566), known by his pen name Alessio Piemontese. This quire contains the end of Canto 1, and 1 of 51 full-page illustrations that accompanied this edition, the illustrations attributed to Dosso Dossi, a painter from Ferrara. Orlando Furioso inspired such later art as illustrations by Gustav Dore, music by Caccini, Rossi, Vivaldi, Haydn, and three operas by Handel.
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Nicolas de Lyre, commentator (circa 1270-1349). Printed leaf from: Biblia Cum Glosis.
Venice: Paganino de Paganini, 1495 Used: Very Good
Single folio leaf, folio number 125. 351 x 245 mm. 14 x 9 3/8 inches. Contains Leviticus 4:11 - Leviticus 5:2, printed in two columns in Gothic type, rare for Italian incunable bibles, with biblical text and interlinear gloss centered, and glossa ordinaria and de Lyre's commentary surrounding it, with spaces for initials and guide letters. Printed on paper with a 5-lobed clover watermark in lower right corner; text unmarked, paper with light foxing. Very Good. This is the first printed bible in which catchwords were used, and is a rare example of Gothic type used in printing Italian incunable Bibles. Nicholas of Lyra was a Franciscan teacher, and is counted among the most influential practitioners of Biblical exegesis of the Middle Ages. He was doctor at the Sorbonne by 1309 and ten years later was appointed to head the Franciscan order in France. His first major work, Postillae perpetuae in unviversam S. Scripturam, was the first printed commentary on the Bible, printed in Rome in 1471 by Sweynheym and Pannartz. This page contains the biblical text from Leviticus 4:11 - 5:2; with an interlinear gloss in a smaller type between lines of the Bible by Anselmus Laudensis (Anselm of Laon, d. 1117); with a surrounding text consisting of text on the top of the page containing summaries of the commentaries of various church fathers, and at the bottom of the page Nicolaus of Lyra's commentary Postillae perpetuae in unviversam S. Scripturam. Nicholas utilized all the sources available to him, fully mastered Hebrew, so that his lucid and concise exposition made his Postillae the most-consulted manual of exegesis through the sixteenth century, having a profound influence upon the work of Martin Luther.
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