Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 112: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![ge * he % 1 ST. MARTIN’S STREET, WALLINGFORD, BERKS., ENGLAND.” = 3 4% y A he dk ye a ‘4 eh? ey Oe ee ya ry ed 3 * y Reh wea 7 § S % j eR . 3 ae i f & & 3 A FINE ILLUMINATED RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPT. 1 SUETONIUS. De Vita XII. Caesarum £140 Illuminated MS. written jon vellum in a fine humanistic script by a 15th century Italian scribe. There are 167 leaves with 31 lines to a page. The title is written in gold in capitals & the first page 1s surrounded by a white vine pattern border in gold & colours with the arms of the Muti family in lower border. At the beginning of each of the 12 books is a very fine imtial letter in burnished gold with a white vine border round the left & lower margin, introducing grotesque birds, butterflies & insects. The vellum of the first page 1s a little browned & the border, especially on the inside, rather rubbed. Here & there there are some slight discolourations, but the whole of the remaining 12 beautiful decorations are in fresh condition. A really fine humanistic MS., regularly written in the best 15th century callhgraphy & with unusual decoration. Very few such MSS. now exist in commerce. Ato. Measure- ment 10 x 6% inches. Bound in 17th century calf, with the arms of a Cardinal of the Cibo family. INCUNABULA. 2 ALBERTUS MAGNUS. Compendium theologicae veritatis cum tabula Thomae Dorniberg. [Strassburg, Martin Schott, not before 1481] £16/16/- Small folio. Gothic char. 144 ff., folios 1, 14, 15 and 144 blank. Very fine contemporary monastic binding of calf over oak boards, the sides divided into diagonal compartments containing stamps of stags and flowers, surrounded by a border of rosettes, old clasps, pen written title on lower edge and press mark on back, from the library of the Franciscan Convent of St. Anne at Bamberg, where it may well have been bound. The collation agrees with that of the Gesammtkatalog except that the index has been bound at the end. Very fine specimen of 15th century printing and book-binding, the back a little worn and one or two trifling worm-holes. H.C. 435. B.M.C. I.,93. G.W. 606. Enclosed in a case. 4to. Half vellum. 38 leaves, the last blank. Gothic characters. Double . columns. Two fine initial letters in white on black ground. % A rare edition of this famous work, usually ascribed to Albertus Magnus, but probably written by another author in the 13th century. The commentary 1s by Henricus of Saxony. It was frequently printed and of great influence throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It deals with cosmetics and contains much on obstetric medicine, generation, birth, etc. The present edition 1s excessively rare, as are most of the early editions. No copy in any English Public Library. The G.K.W. records four copies only. This copy must originally have belonged to a scientist, as tt contains on the last blank leaf some contemporary notes, giving definitions of vision, reflexion and refraction. Hain 562. G.K.W. 765. Voullieme 2682. Langer-Dolf, p. 96 (dates the book wrongly between 1504-1506). Not in Denis. The only copy recorded in the U.S.A. is in the Army Medical Library. 1. 4 ALBOHAZEN HALI FILIUS ABENRAGEL, Liber in judiciis astrorum. ” Venice, Ratdolt, 1485 £24 Folio. Old calf. 156 leaves. Gothic characters. Double columns. Woodcut initials throughout. First and only 15th century edition of a rare work on astrology and astronomy, written by a distinguished Arabic astronomer (d. 1040), who lived in Spain and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33156918_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
