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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    British Museum. ULM-—-continued. 127. RAMPILLOGIS (Antonius de) BIBLIA AUREA. Ato, Gothic letter, 32/35 lines, 158 leaves (lacks first and last blank) , out- line woodcut initials, without headlines, catchwords, signatures, or page-numerals, rubricated, first leaf repaired, slightly wormed at beginning and end, a few stains, a few leaves hinged, old calf. £34 00 Johann Zainer: Ulm 1476 «« Hain-Winship *13682 : At 13a, 1. 4 Hain reads: “ Religiosis atque honestis ’’; this copy: ‘‘ Religiosis atqz honestis ’ >; Proctor *2512; B.M.C. Incun., 524- “‘ Set up quire for quire and almost page for page, from the 1475 issue. At the foot of the last leaves are blind impressions of forms of C and E which do not seem to occur elsewhere, and look ag if they were designed for type 96a’’; Hassler, 100, 34; Wegener 47. Voulliéme: Berlin 2598 ; Reusch ; Index I., 495-6: This Book was placed on Guiroga’s Index of 1583-4. “In die 2. Cl. des Rém. Index sind aus Q[uiroga] folgende laingst gedruckte Schriften mit d. ec. tibergegangen: Antonii de Rampilogis Figurae biblicae, ein Buch eines Augustiners aus Genua, der in Constanz gegen die Hussiten disputirte, worin unter 138 alphabetisch geordneten Kategorieen (Abstin- entia, Adulatio, u.s.w.) Stellen und Beispiele aus der Bibel und mittelalter- lichen Exempelbiichern gesammelt sind, also eine Art biblisches Realwérter- buch, seit 1476 oft unter verschiedenen Titeln gedruckt. Possevin behauptet es standen viele von der Kirche verdammte Irrthiimer darin, erwahnt aber speciell nur fabulose Geschichten, ungenaue citate aus der Bibel und den Kirchenvatern, auch Citate aus Apocryphen (3. B. Esdras), Solécismen und Barbarismen.’’ 128. ALBERTUS MAGNUS. DE ABUNDANTIA EXEM- PLORUM. _ Folio, first edition, Gothic letter, [B.M.C. II. plt. XLIX., 136 and 96a], 39 lines, headlines, without signatures, catch- words or page numerals, initial letters supplied in red, rubricated, folio r hinged, affecting a few letters, lower margins slightly damp- stained. £18 10 0 [Johann Zainer: Ulm, not before 1478] ++ COLLATION: 66 leaves. Gesamtkatalog 581; Hain-Winship *484; Proctor *2527 evi.” EB. 528. NOT IN PELLECHET. Albertus Magnus, a celebrated schoolman and philosopher, born at Lauin- gen in Bavaria, about 1200. He occupies the first rank among the philoso- phers and theologians of the Middle Ages. He became a Dominican friar in his youth, and after lecturing on theology for three years at Paris, was chosen provincial of his order in 1254. During a long period he gave lectures at Cologne. He was appointed Bishop of Ratisbon in 1260, but about 1263 he resigned that office, which he had never solicited. He died in 1280. Thomas Aquinas was his disciple. Johann Zainer, as Gunther Zainer, was born at Reutlingen. HE ESTABLISHED THE FIRST PRINTING PRESS IN ULM. He acquired his knowledge of the printing trade at Strassburg. His earliest known book is dated 1473. . With the book plates of Georg Kloss, M.D., and Gilbert R. Redgrave. VENICE.—129. AQUINO (Thomas de) QUAESTIONES DE ANIMA. Folio (11 by 8 in.), Roman letter, 36 long lines to the page, 62 leaves without signatures, spaces left for initials which are supplied in red and blue, except for the first, which is illuminated in gold and colours in a white line vine pattern, the first leaf containing the table is damaged and repaired, a few leaves are water-stained at top and some leaves are wormed in the lower blank margin, half russia. £500 0 Without name of place or printer. [Franz Renner: Venice] 1472 «« Hain *1522; Pellechet 1084; Proctor 4156. The copy in the British Museum is imperfect, wanting the leaf of table and leaves 3-8.
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