Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1939
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/49
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INCUNABULA—continued. CONFESSIONALE, gothic letter, 138 leaves (the first blank), 32 lines to a page, some capitals in red, sm. folio, oaken boards, with pigskin back and remains of clasps {Strassburg, Printer of Henricus Ariminensts, after 1474] £8 Hain 2478. Proctor 307. FINE COMPLETE COPY. woodcut initials, heading in red, some edges uncut, sm. 4to., old boards, Venice, Franz Renner de Hailbrun, 1478 ; £12 Hain *3227 ; Proctor 4173. Tall copy, with wide margins. This book is.a brief description of the known World, from Hibernia to Cine. It was translated from the Greek by Beccaria. ANTWERP PRINTED. 101 102 fraternitatis rosarii—[LA RocHE (Alain de)] Compendium psalterii beatissimae Trinitatis, gothic letter, 68 leaves, 33 lines, woodcut frontispiece (few old pen-notes), sm. 4to., old calf, rebacked [ANTWERP, GERARD LEEU, c. 1485] £8 10s At the end is a note of ownership, dated 148- (last figure cut away). Among later owners were Thomas Martin (‘‘ Honest Tom Martin of Pal- grave ’’), Francis Blomefield, whose bookplate, dated 1736, is inside the front cover, and Edmund Waterton, of Walton Hall, Yorkshire. Copinger 2577 ; Campbell 759 ; Proctor *9390 ; not in Hain or Pellechet. PETRUS LOMBARDUS.—TEXxtTUus SENTENTIARUM, gothic letter, double columns, 54 lines to a page, 292 leaves (folios 152, 276 and 292 blank), first initial illuminated in gold and colours, other initials supplied in red, folio, original blind stamped calf over wooden boards (back repaired), Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 23 May, 1487 £10 Proctor 7660 ; Hain 10194. This compilation from the works of the fathers, so methodically and effec- tively arranged that it became a text book for centuries. He is often called ** The Master of the Sentences.” RODERICUS SANCTIUS (Bishop, of Zamora) SPECULUM VITAE HUMANAE, gothic letter, 205 leaves, initials and paragraph marks supplied in red, sm. 4to., morocco (Without place or date) [Cologne, Ulrich Zel, 1468] £12 A small contemporary defect on one leaf, otherwise a fine copy. For an account of this work see ‘* Dibdin’s Bibliotheca Spenceriana,”’ Volume 3, page 493.
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