Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May-June 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/707
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    QUARTO Zo First Day QUARTO. 182 [HomeEr. ScHOLIA GRAECA IN InIApDEM.| Homeri interpres vetustus ... in integrum restitutis [edited by Giov. Las- caris|, FIRST EDITION, Greek letter, quires v, A, and p mis- hound (in that orce:) between o and +r, French citron morocco gilt, g. e. \Bozerian), from the col ection of Sir Robert Peel Rom, Zacharias Callierges, 1517 183 Le Pois (Antoine) Discours sur les Medailles, the Priapus cut unmutilated, signature of I. Willughby on title, original vellum Paris; 1579 184 Meun (Jean de) Le Dodechedron de Fortvne, FIRST EDITION, folding table printed in red and black, ruled in red throughout, corners of a few leaves at beginning and end mended, red levant morocco, inside borders, g. e. Paris, 1556 185 Aureoli (Petrus) Tractatus de conceptione Mariae virginis, gothic fetter, 39 (should be 40) leaves, wants co 3, last leaf defective and mended, half calf, from the library of George Dunn [Hain, *2142; Pellechet, 1614 (two copies only, one wmperfect); Proctor, 140] Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, c. 1490 This copy agrees with 1A282, the first of the two variants described in the B.M. Cat. Inc. 186 Bruno, Bishop of Wurzburg. Psalteritum, gothic fetter, 171 leaves, wants one of the last two (both. blank), text sur- rounded by commentary, wormholes causing slight defects, old stamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked morocco [ Hain, *4013 ; Pellechet, 3036; Proctor, *2117 | Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1497 187 Boethius. De consolatione philosophiae cum commentario sancti 'Thomae, gothic letter, 189 (should be 190) leaves, wants al (? with title only), teat surrounded by com- mentary, partly rubricated, small defect wn r 4, wrappers, [Pellechet, 2497; not in Hain, Copinger, Rewchling or Proctor | Strassburg |? Johann Priss], c. 1890 * Pellechet describes this book from the copy at Besangon, which wants the first eight leaves. It seems to be other- wise unrecorded. ‘The colophon (on F383) which reads: “ Boetii ... textus ... inclyte Argétinésiii vrbis idustria fabrefact? finit feliciter,’ may not imply that it was printed at Strassburg, and it may be the work of Johann Oimar at Reutlingen. 188 Wann (Paulus) Quadragesimale, gothic letter, 105 leaves, wants the last (blank), two columns, small defects vn trtle, worm-
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