Volume 1

An index to the early printed books in the British Museum ... / by Robert Proctor.

  • Robert Proctor
Date:
1898-1938
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: An index to the early printed books in the British Museum ... / by Robert Proctor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. NORDLINGEN. [Friedrich Walther and Hans Hiirning.] 1470. Biblia pauperum, germ. [BIBLE.] F°. [Weigel 272.] Coloured. (C. 48. i.) The names of the printers are cut out from the block in this copy (cf. Sotheby, Princ. Typ., pi. 70). 4. Noplace. Johannes Eysenhut. 1471. Franciscus de Retza : defensorium inuiolatae castitatis beatae uirginis. [FRANCISCVS, & MARY.] F°. (C. 17. c.) Last leaf in facsimile. 5. No place. [Hans Sporer?] 1471. Biblia pauperum, genii. [BIBLE.] F°. (C. 17. b.) Imperfect; uncoloured. At the end are two escutcheons ; one may refer to the place. The other bears a spur, probably a rebus on the name of Hans Sporer. 6. [Ulm.] 1478. Tafel der sonntaglichen Buchstaben, 1478-1496. [EPH.] F°. [Weigel 190.] A single leaf. (Tab. xi. b. (2).) (b) Printed on both sides of the leaf \ or in a press.. 7. [Nurn]berg. Hans brieff truck, n.d. [c. 1475?] Ioh. Regiomontanus: Kalender. [eph.] 40. [Kloss copy.] The printer is perhaps = ‘ Jung Hans, Briefmaler zu Niirnberg' 1472. There is a blank- space before ‘berg’ in the book. (C. 17. b. 12.) 8. [AUGSBURG. Georg Schapff. n.d.] Ioh. HARTLIEB : Chiromantia, germ. F°. [Weigel 286.] The first leaf of text only. (C. 48. h. (1).) 9. No place. [1482.] t Forma confessionalis. Obi. A single leaf, copied in block printing from Friedrich Creusner’s type 1 (Niirnberg, 1473-1482. Auct. 4 Q. i. 21 (12) ). 10. Ulm, Conrad Dinckmut. n.d. t Donatus : de octo partibus orationis. F°. [Weigel 290.] A fragment of two leaves. (Auct. 2 Q. inf. i. 50 (15) ). 11. Leipzig, Conrad Kachelofen. n.d. Kalender. 8°. Imperfect. The printer’s name is given in his type 2 (see Leipzig, press 2) on fo. ib. (C. 27. a. 29.) 12. Mainz [Peter Schoffer?] n.d. Kalender. 8°. The imprint on fo. la is (apparently) in Peter Schoffer’s type 7. There is also an escutcheon, and the initials N. D. on the same page. (845. a. 20.) B. WITHOUT NAME OR DATE, i. Books. (a) Printed on one side of the leaf mostly by rubbing. 13. (Antichristus) Endkrist. [ANTICHRIST.] F°. [Weigel 264.] Frag., part of ff. 7, 8. Weigel thinks it the first ed. (the second being by Jung Hans of Niirnberg.—Tab. xi. b. (9) ). 14. Apocalypsis. [BIBLE.] F°. 48 ff. (C. 48. i.)
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