Sales catalogue 924: James Tregaskis & Son

Date:
July 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/51/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 924: James Tregaskis & Son. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STRASSBURG.—116. ASTESANUS DE AST: SUMMA DE CASIBUS CONSCIENTIAE. Folio, Gothic letter [British Museum Catalogue of Incunabula, I., plt. iv., type 92b], 2 columns, 62 lines, without headlines, page numerals, catchwords, or signatures, initials supplied in red, rubricated, a few leaves slightly discoloured, modern calf, with the blank leaf 403. £72 0 0 [Johann Mentelin: Strassburg. About 1472] «x Hain-Copinger-Winship *1889, Copinger III. p. 242, Burger, Index, p. 498, Voulliéme: Berlin, 2091, Proctor 211, British Museum Catalogue of Incunabula, I. p. 56, ‘“‘ Not after 1473, P 1472.’ The British Museum copy lacks the blank. leaf 403, Klemm 177: “‘ Diese Encyclopidie der geistlicher Wissenschaften, ein der Summa des Balbus armliches aber specielleres Werk, ist in des ‘ Pariser Verlagsberichte ’ von Mentelin als zweites Werk verzeichnet : Mentelin hat dieses grosse Werk dreimal gedruckt und Schopflin . beschreibt ein Examplar der ersten Auflage, welchem von Rubricator, die Datirung von 1469 und Mentelin’s Firma hinzugefiigt war, so dass angesichts der umfanglichen Arbeit des Rubricators anzunehmen ist, dass der machtige Foliant von 442 Blittern bereits 1468 vollendet wurde. . . . Die zweite Auflage des Werkes.’’ Not in Pellechet. The book is interesting from several points of view: there is a good deal of matter of mitiTARY interest. (Not in Cockle: Bib. of Military books): De officio militarium qudicum: de re militari: de testamento militis: de .armis: de militari veste: de officio magistrorum militum; Economics: De privilegio fisci: quae res vendi non possunt: quae exportarc non, debent: quando licet ab emptore recedere: de rescindenda venditione: de uswris nauticis: de emptione et venditione: de usura: de jure fisci:. de nundinis: de falsa moneta: de mono polio ; MEDI-— CINE: (notin OstER: Incunabula medica or the SURGEON GENERAL’S LIBRARY CATALOGUE): De sobrietate et ebrietate: de castratione: de medicamentis validis: de professionibus et medicis- chirurgici: de leprosis conjugibus : utrum lepre error impediat: medici utrum sint aliquando homicidae ; MORALS: De vaptu virginum et viduarum: de incestis et nefariis nuptiis : aureola virginitatis: bigamia: concubina clerici quomodo punitur : de adul- terto et lenocinio: de cohabitatione clericorum et mulierum: de concubinis ; PASTIMES: De spectaculis et scematis et lenonibus ; de ludo alearum: de vena- tione: aspectus ludorum vel joculatorum: de torneamentis: de restitutione acquisitorum in ludo alearum: occuLT (not in Caillet: Bib. des sciences occultes): Ars magica non est licita: astra utrum amprimant in homines et daemones: fascinatio utrum sit possibilis : incantatio serpentum; de divina- tione et ejus speciebus in communi; De cognitione daemonum .respectu futurorum: de impressione astrorum circa quam quidam mathematici errant ; de divinatione per sumnia: de sortilegiis: de exorcismo. 117. PHARETRA DOCTORUM ET PHILOSOPHORUM. Folio, Gothic letter [B.M.C., I., plate iv., 121 & r12c, Ges. f. Typenkunde 729 & 731], 2 columns, 50 lines, without catchwords, headlines, page nuinerals, or signatures, initial letters supplied in red, rubnicated, a few leaves slightly soiled, a few early manuscript notes and correc- tions, old pigskin over wooden boards, rebacked, metal corner-pieces, etc., clasps and catches, bosses removed, old title label on front cover. £140 0 0 [Johann Mentelin : Strassburg, c. 1472] x « COLLATION: 361 leaves. Descrietion: la: [I] N couersionis mee pmordio cu pro metis / recreacoe sanctor auctes legeré & legendo / varias pcipere corruptones ; 6b: D tribula- tione . . . De xpicanis bonis; 7a: [D] E abbate. Grego= /. riugs in registro ad / anastasiu abbatem; 3610: consistit & bonitas que nemine nouit le- / dere nel nocere sed oibus ope ferre. . . . Job. qui affert stellas pluuie & effundit / ymbres ad instar gurgitu. .
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