¶ Three titles (1491–c. 1510)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Vergerio, Pietro Paolo [Petrus Paulus Vergerius]. De ingenuis moribus ac liberalibus studiis. Trans. Leonardo Bruni [Leonardus Brunus Aretinus]. Venice: Johannes Baptista Sessa, April 1491.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 44 (£1 10s.). — ISTC (iv00136000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 349.

[2] Astemio, Lorenz [Laurentius Abstemius]. Fabulae. Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 1 June [1499].

References: ISTC (ia00012000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 369.

Digital version: VdI.

[3] Salomonis et Marcolphi dyalogus. [Milan(?): c. 1505–1510].

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 47 (no price). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 395.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL968). [The three works are catalogued separately: Vergerio; Astemio; Salomonis et Marcolphi dyalogus.]

¶ St. Jerome — Vitas sanctorum patrum (c. 1490–92)

Jerome, Saint [Hieronymus]. Vitas sanctorum patrum, sive Vitas patrum. Trans. Domenico Calvaca. [Venice: Giovanni Ragazzo?, c. 1490–92.]

Illustrated. With a bibliographical note by Cockerell.

Provenance: William Horatio Crawford. — Crawford sale, Sotheby, 12 March 1891, lot 1556 (sold to Ellis for 14s.). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 596 (sold to Quaritch for £35). — Quaritch. — British Museum (purchased from Quaritch, May 1899). — British Library (IB 23757).

References: BMC, 5:501. — ISTC (ih00231500). — MS catalogue (2), no. 371 (with one X beside the title).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils (1491)

Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 8 November 1491.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL409).

References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 5v (£5) [where it is dated 1590?]. — Ellis valuation, fol. 9b, no. 106 (£50). —  ISTC (is00306000). — Morgan Catalogue 1, no. 178. — Needham, Paul. Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, 400–1600. New York and London: Pierpont Morgan Library and Oxford University Press, 1979. (See no. 30.)

Note in MS catalogue (1): “wood-cuts coloured.”

Digital version: BSB.

¶ Die Neue Ehe und das Passional von Jesu (1491)

Die Neue Ehe und das Passional von Jesu. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 11 July 1491.

Illustrated.

Provenance: George Bateman. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 751 (sold to Heppenstal for £15). — Charles Fairfax Murray. — Murray sale, Christie, 10 December 1918, lot 123. — Unlocated.

References: ISTC (ie00017000). — Some German Woodcuts, no. 23.

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Hortus sanitatis (1491)

Hortus sanitatis. Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June 1491.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Jo. Petri a Märcken, Dusseldorf, 1622. — Carolus Schorn. — Frederick Perkins. — Perkins sale, Sotheby, 11 July 1889, lot 519. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL46).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 8b, no. 99 (£10). — ISTC (ih00486000). — Morgan Catalogue 1, no. 32. — MS catalogue (2), no. 879 (with two X’s beside it).

Digital versions: BSB. — Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University

¶ Petrus de Rivo — Opus (c. 1490–91)

Petrus de Rivo. Opus responsivum ad Epistolam apologeticam Pauli de Middelburgo de anno, die et feria dominicae passionis. Kalendarium Egyptiorum secundum Bedam. Louvain: Ludovicus Ravescot, [c. 1490–91].

Illustrated.

Provenance: John H. Thorold. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL1688).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 2b, no. 19 (£20) [note in Cockerell’s hand: “Cost this”]. — ISTC (ip00534000). — Morgan Catalogue 3, no. 633. — MS catalogue (2), no. 972, p. 91.

¶ Crescenzi — Ruralia commoda (c. 1490–95)

Crescenzi, Pietro de’ [Petrus de Crescentiis]. Ruralia commoda. [Speyer: Peter Drach, c. 1490–95.]

Illustrated.

Provenance: Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland. — A. Geekie. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL458).

References: ISTC (ic00969000). — Morgan Catalogue 1, no. 191. — MS catalogue (2), no. 907, p. 82 (with an X beside the title).

Digital version: VdI.

¶ St. Thomas Aquinas — De periculis contingentibus (c. 1491)

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint. De periculis contingentibus. [Passau: Johann Petri, c. 1491.]

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL546).

References: ISTC (it00321000). — Morgan Catalogue 1, no. 211.

Digital version: BSB.