Volume 1

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

  • Robert Proctor
Date:
1898-1938
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

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

    33/550 page 27
    15. f Apocalypsis. F°. (Auct. M. iij. 14.) 16. Apocalypsis. [BIBLE.] F°. [Weigel 254.] Frag., one leaf signed H. (Tab. xi. b. (7).) 17. Ars memorandi notabilis per figuras euangelistarum. F°. (C. 17. b.) 18. Ars moriendi. F°. [Weigel 233.] First edition, probably printed at Koln. (C. 21. d. 34.) 19. Ars moriendi. 40. Strongly resembles no. 18 in style, but is smaller. (C. 17. b.) 20. Ars moriendi, germ. F°. [Weigel 234.] Part of 1 leaf, signed s. Perhaps printed in a press. (Tab. xi. b. (4).) 21. Ars moriendi, germ. F°. [Weigel 237.] Two leaves without text. Perhaps printed in a press. (Tab. xi. b. (5).) 22. Chiromantia. F°. Frag., 9 ff., containing cuts of hands, printed on one side only, therefore not = no. 8. (C. 48. h. (2).) (b) Printed on both sides of the leaf \ in a press. 23. ARS moriendi. F°. Leaf 13 is in facsimile. (C. 17. c. 19.) 24. ARS moriendi, germ. 8°. [Weigel 238.] Frag., ff. 4 and 9. (Tab. xi. b. (6).) 25. Passio Christi, germ. [IESVS.] 8°. [Weigel 262.] Frag., 2 ff. (Tab. xi. b. (8).) 26. Ioh. Regiomontanus : Kalender. [EPH.] 40. [Cf. Weigel 288, imp., a different copy.] Printed without doubt at Niirnberg, before 1474. Cf. no. 7. (C. 17. b. 11.) 27. Planetenbuch. [SATVRN.] 40. Wants ff. 3, 6. (C. 17. b.) 28. Wie Rom gebauet ward. [ROME.] 40. Printed in Sixtus IV.’s time (1471-1484. —C. 32. a.). [Part of this, cut up, is found in a Mirabilia Romae printed in Plannck’s type 1.] ii. Single Leaves and Broadsides. 29. TEMPTATIONES demonis temptantis hominem de septem peccatis mortalibus. F°. Broadside : text only ; printed by rubbing, possibly in the Low Countries. (C. 18. e. 2 (99).) 30. #TVRRlSsapientiae. F°. Printed by rubbing. (C. 18. e. 2 (79) ; Auct. M. iij. 16 (1).) 31. Arbor sapientiae: dilige dominum tuum . . . [TREE.] F°. Broadside; printed by rubbing. (1870. d. 2 (1).) 32. Calendarium (Joannis Nider de Gamundia ?). F°. [Weigel 287.] Printed in a press c. 1470-1480. (Tab. xi. b. (10).) 33. Christus cum militibus coram Herode. [IESVS.] F°. Broadside, a very early print without text. (Showcase.) 34. Maria cum puero Iesu, SS. Anna et Ioachimo. F°. Broadside, imperfect: no text. (Showcase.) 35. ROTA uitae quae fortuna uocatur. (Septem aetates hominis.) F°. Broadside, a print; with a device resembling the Isle of Man arms. (Showcase.)
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3