Conradus, de Brundelsheim [Soccus]. Sermones de tempore. Deventer: Richardus Pafraet, 1480.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1124 (sold to Proctor for £5 10s.). — Robert Proctor. — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 42 (10s.). — ISTC (is00588000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 932, p. 85 (with an X beside the title).
Digital version: ULD.
Sotheby 1898:
September 27, 2017
Comments Off on ¶ Liber monasterii Sancti Salvatoria (c. 1480) [MS]
Liber monasterii Sancti Salvatoria.
Manuscript. Antwerp, c. 1480. 87 leaves.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 662 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £9 15s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 3, no. 40 (£10).
Sotheby 1898:
June 23, 2017
Comments Off on ¶ Cicero — De officiis (1480)
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De officiis. Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 8 May 1480.
This book was not sold by Sotheby in 1898, probably because Morris had disposed of it before his death. However, he owned another copy which did in fact appear in the Sotheby sale.
References: ISTC (ic00589000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 694 (with an X beside it).
Digital version: BSB.
June 23, 2017
Comments Off on ¶ Cicero (1480) and Festus (1478?)
The following titles are bound together:
[1] Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De officiis. Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 8 May 1480.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 34 (£1). — ISTC (ic00589000).
Digital version: BSB.
[2] Festus, Sextus Pompeius. De verborum significatione. [Venice: printer of Pomponius Mela, c. 1478.]
The Sotheby catalogue does not specify the edition, and MS catalogue (2) records it as “c. 1480”; we believe this is the most likely candidate.
Reference: ISTC (if00145000).
Digital version: BSB.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 362 (sold to Proctor for £1 1s.). — Robert Proctor. — Phillips, 13 November 1997, lot 258 (£2,400 [$4,053]). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 948 (with one X beside the title).
Sotheby 1898:
June 21, 2017
Comments Off on ¶ Aquinas (1480) and Rolewinck (1479)
The following titles are bound together (an image of the binding can be seen in the Bookbindings on Incunables database):
[1] Aquinas, Thomas, Saint. Super quarto libro Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 2 February 1480.
Illustrated. The date 1484 in the Sotheby 1898 catalogue is an error.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 7b, no. 75 (£15). — ISTC (it00170000).
Digital version: BSB.
[2] Rolevinck, Werner [Werner Rolewinck]. Fasciculus temporum. [Cologne]: Heinrich Quentell, 1479.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 6, no. 74 (see Aquinas above). — ISTC (ir00259000).
Digital version: BSB.
Provenance: Library of the Augustinians of Eberhardsklausen. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1168 (sold to Waring for £12). — Waring. — George Dunn. — Dunn sale, Sotheby, 6 February 1914, lot 3122. — Ottto Volbehr. — Library of Congress (Incun. 1480 .T48) [purchased 1930].
Sotheby 1898:
August 4, 2016
Comments Off on ¶ Johannes de Sancto Laurentio — Postillae evangeliorum (1480)
Johannes de Sancto Laurentio. Postillae evangeliorum dominicalium totius anni et aliquorum festorum. Brussels: [Fratres Vitae Communis], 4 October 1480.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 727 (sold to Quaritch for £4). — Bernard Quaritch. — Gen. Rush C. Hawkins. — John Hay Library, Brown University (AmB 494).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 37 (£2). — ISTC (ij00433000).
Sotheby 1898:
June 4, 2016
Comments Off on ¶ Albertus, de Padua — Expositio (c. 1480)
Albertus, de Padua. Expositio evangeliorum dominicalium et festivalium. Ulm: Johann Zainer, c. 15 June 1480.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL480).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 29 (£1). — ISTC (ia00340000). — Morgan Catalogue 1, no. 197.
Digital version: BSB.
April 15, 2016
Comments Off on ¶ Missale Magdeburgense (1480)
Missale Magdeburgense. [Magdeburg]: Bartholomaeus Ghotan and Lucas Brandis, 1480.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 796 (sold to Heppenstal for £25). — Heppenstal. – Otto Smith. — National Library of Sweden [gift from Smith, 1911].
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 25b (£45). — ISTC (im00671000).
Sotheby 1898:
March 3, 2016
Comments Off on ¶ Strabo — Geographia, libri XVI (1480)
Strabo. Geographia, libri XVI. Trans. Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas. Ed. Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria. [Treviso]: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 26 August 1480.
Provenance: Edward Shipperdson. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (CHL1189).
References: ISTC (is00796000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 445. — MS catalogue (2), p. 80, no. 894 (with one X beside the title).
Digital version: VdI.
October 6, 2015
Comments Off on ¶ Vegio — Philalethes (c. 1480)
Vegio, Maffeo [Maphaeus Vegius]. Philalethes. [Strassburg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, about 1480].
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL110).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 13b, no. 157 (£1 15s.). — ISTC (iv00115000). — Morgan Catalogue 1, no. 49.
Digital version: ULD.
August 10, 2015
Comments Off on ¶ Josephus — De antiquitate Judaica (1480)
Josephus, Flavius. De antiquitate Judaica. De bello Judaico. Trans. Rufinus, of Aquileia [Rufinus Aquileiensis] and ed. Ludovico Cendrata [Loduvicus Cendrata]. Verona: Petrus Maufer de Maliferis, for Innocens Ziletus, 25 December 1480.
Provenance: F. J. Cuthbert. — Sir Edward Sullivan. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (CL1271).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 37 (£2). — ISTC (ij00484000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 471. — MS catalogue (2), no. 911, p. 82.
Digital version: Beinecke Library, Yale University.
May 20, 2015
Comments Off on ¶ Rolevinck — Fasciclus temporum (1480)
Rolevinck, Werner [Werner Rolewinck]. Fasciclus temporum. Utrecht: Johann Veldener, 14 February 1480.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL629).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 2b, no. 21 (£15). — ISTC (ir00278000). — Morgan Catalogue 3, no. 626.
Digital version: BSB.
April 24, 2015
Comments Off on ¶ Nider — Formicarius (c. 1480)
Nider, Johannes. Formicarius. [Cologne: Johann Guldenschaff, c. 1480.]
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL244).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 25b (£2 ). — ISTC (in00175000). — Morgan Catalogue 1, 102.
Digital version: ULD.
February 23, 2015
Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus. Gouda: Gerard Leeu, 3 June 1480.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Ross Winans. — Morris. — Sotheby 1898, lot 391 (sold to Waring for £46). — Charles Fairfax Murray. — Fairfax Murray sale, Christie, 10 December 1917, lot 143. — Huntington Library (103180).
Reference: ISTC (id00159100).
Photographed by WSP at the Huntington Library.
Sotheby catalogue:
February 11, 2015
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De officiis. Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 8 May 1480.
Provenance: Earl of Hopetoun. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL823).
References: ISTC (ic00589000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 325.
Digital version: BSB.
January 7, 2015
John, of Salisbury [Johannes Saresberiensis]. Polycraticus sive De nugis curialium. [Brussels: Fratres Vitae Communis, c. 1480.]
Provenance: Carlos Antonio de la Serna Santander (?) — Frances Mary Richardson Currer. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL1696).
References: ISTC (ij00425000). — Morgan Catalogue 3, no. 639. — MS catalogue (2), no. 876 (with two X’s beside it).
Digital version: ULD.
November 26, 2014
Tortelli, Giovanni [Joahannes Tortellius]. Orthographia. Ed. Girolamo Bologni [Hieronymus Bononius]. Vicenza: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 31 October 1480.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1172 (sold to Leighton for £2 6s.). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 42 (£1). — ISTC (it00398000).
Sotheby 1898:
September 24, 2014
Colonne, Guido delle. Historia destructionis Troiae. [Geneva: Jean Croquet, c. 1480.]
Provenance: Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland. — Morris (purchased from Quaritch, 31 March 1890, for £5.). — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL1406).
References: MS catalogue (2), no. 702 (with two X’s next to it). — ISTC (ic00770000). — Morgan Cat. 3, no. 597 (which attributes it to Lyon: G. Ortuin and Peter Schenck, c. 1482).
September 10, 2014
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo [Saint Augustinus]. De sancta virginitate. [Cologne: Printer of St. Augustine’s De sancta virginitate (Ludwig von Renchen?), c. 1480.]
Provenance: John Bellingham Inglis. — William H. Crawford. — Quaritch. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL268a).
References: ISTC (ia01299000). — Morgan Cat. 1, no. 105.
Digital version: BSB.
September 8, 2014
Aesop [Aesopus]. Vita et fabulae. [Augsburg: Anton Sorg, c. 1480.]
Illustrated.
Note by Morris on flyleaf: “The woodcuts in this Aesop are from the same blocks as in the first edition, and are amongst the very best of the School of Ulm and Augsburg; itself the best school of German gothic woodcuts. The designs are admirable for force of expression both of feature and action; the accessories are most interesting and full of character, and in short the story is always told in the most direct and the clearest manner that the limited method (which is the best and most ornamental method for book decoration) will allow of. The cutting is worthy of the designs, the lines being always firm and rich, and never cut away; and everything necessary is done unfailingly[.] Some of these cuts seem by the same hand as those of John Zainer’s ‘Boccaccio de Claris mulieribus’; who again may have designed at least some of those of the Speculum Humanae Vitae, printed by Günther Zainer.”
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL348).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 4b, no. 36 (£20). — ISTC (ia00112000). — Morgan Catalogue 1, no. 153.
Digital version: BSB.
June 23, 2014
Petrus, de Aquila. Quaestiones super quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. [Speyer]: Peter Drach, 1480.
Provenance: Minorite convent of St. Ann, Bamberg. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 128 (sold to Downing for £2 8s.).— Christie, 1 December 2016, lot 84. — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 27b (£1 10s.). — ISTC (ip00446000).
Digital version: BSB.
Sotheby 1898:
May 25, 2014
The following titles are bound together:
[1] Nider, Johannes. Consolatorium timoratae conscientiae. [Augsburg: Anton Sorg, c. 1484.]
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 23 (£2 15s.). — MEI. — ISTC (in00167000). — Poynter, no. 398.
Digital version: BSB.
[2] Ambrose [Ambrosius], Saint. Hexameron. [Cologne: Johann Guldenschaff, c. 1480–83.]
References: ISTC (ia00557000). — MEI. —Poynter, no. 45.
Digital version: BSB.
[3] Crescenzi, Pietro de’ [Petrus de Crescentiis]. Ruralia commoda. Strassburg: [Georg Husner], 9 March 1486.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 28b (£2). — ISTC (ic00968000). — MEI. — Poynter, no. 194.
Digital version: VDI.
Provenance: P. F. Weber. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 917 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £8 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 4.c.19 (SR)).
Sotheby 1898:
The Library of William Morris 
December 15, 2017
Comments Off on ¶ Conradus, de Brundelsheim — Sermones (1480)