Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899.

Date:
1899
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Credit: Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their destruction by fire. Though the brief was issued in Feb. 1473, this edition of the Low-German version must be dated some years later, as it is printed by the Brothers of the Common Life of the House of the Green Garden by Saint Michael’s at Rostock, who did not begin printing till 1476. Bought in 1892. HOMILIARIUS DOCTORUM. Begin. Omelie et Postille venerabilium doctorum Gregorij Augustini Iheronini Ambrosij Bede Herici Leonis et Maximi Integraliter super euangelia per totum annum. Cum quibusdam sermonibus eorundem sparsim interpositis Incipit feliciter. folio. Printed at Cologne about 1475-80, and the first printed edition of the ‘ Homiliarius doctorum.’ The chief interest of the book lies in the fact that the type is used elsewhere only in the editio princeps of the Sarum breviary, which is known from two leaves and smaller fragments, and in no other book. This copy, bought in 1895, has the almost contemporary inscription : ‘ Pertinet johanni de lespau presbitero et vicario ecclesie beate marie ad aulam comitis in Valenchnfi [Valenciennes] diocesis cameracnn.’ SAINT URSULA’S BOAT. Begin. Dis ist dye ynnige geistlich briiderschafft, genant Sant vrsulen schiffelin, mit ir heiligen geselschafft, der .xj. tusent junffrauwen. QUARTO. The rules and history of the Brotherhood of St. Ursula’s Boat at Strassburg. Without place or date, but printed by Heinrich Knoblochtzer at Strassburg, not before 1480, a date which occurs in the text, and certainly not much, if at all, later than that year. There is included in the text a song written by Johan Gosseler, in which the musical stave and notes are added by hand. In the edition of 1497 these are printed. The present copy, which is believed to be unique, was bought for the Museum in 1896. ANNIUS, Joannes. Begin. Glosa super Apocalipsim de statu ecclesie Ab anno salutis present! scilicet M cccc Ixxxi vsque