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¶ Appiano etc.

June 7, 2017

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Eight titles bound together in one volume when they were in Morris’s hands; the individual works were subsequently rebound by W. J. Mansell for Michael Tomkinson.

[1] Appiano, Costanzo [Constantius Applanus]. Soliloquia de humani arbitrii libertate et potestate. Cremona: Carolus de Darleriis, 4 October 1496.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 31 (5s.). — ISTC (ia00933000).

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Dio, Chrysostom [Dio Chrysostomus]. [De Troia non capta:] Ilii captivitatem non fuisse. Trans. Franciscus Philelpus and ed. Nicolaus Lucarus. Cremona: Bernardinus de Misintis and Caesar Parmensis, 22 July 1492.

With a bibliographical note by Cockerell (describing all the titles) tipped in.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 35 (10s). — ISTC (id00206000).

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[3] Dio, Chrysostom [Dio Chrysostomus]. De regno. Trans. Publius Gregorius Tiphernas and ed. Pius III (Franciscus de Piccolomineis). Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1493.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 35 (no price given). — ISTC (id00205000).

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[4] Bosso, Matteo [Matthaeus Bossus]. De instituendo sapientia animo. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 6 November 1495.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 33 (no price given). — ISTC (ib01043000).

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[5] Bosso, Matteo [Matthaeus Bossus]. Sermo in Jesu Christi passionem. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 11 November 1495.

Reference: ISTC (ib01047000).

[6] Beroaldo, Filippo [Philippus Beroaldus]. De felicitate. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1 April 1495.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 32 (10s.) [bound with Maffei below]. — ISTC (ib00482000).

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[7] Maffei, Celso [Celsus Maffeus]. Dissuasoria ne christiani principes ecclesiasticos usurpent census. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 27 June 1494.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 32 (10s.) [bound with Beroaldo above]. —  ISTC (im00015000).

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[8] Sabellico [Marcus Antonius Sabellicus]. De Venetis magistratibus. Venice: Antonius de Strata, de Cremona, 19 January 1488/89.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 41 (£1). — ISTC (is00009000).

Digital version: BSB.


Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 66 (sold to Tregaskis for £1 16s.). — Michael Tomkinson. — Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford. — Huntington Library. (The individual call numbers at the Huntington—all Rare Books—are as follows: [1] 89923; [2] 100604; [4] 85511 (bound with no. 5); [5] 85512 (bound with no. 4); [7] 101129 (unbound in pamphlet folder). Nos. 3, 6, and 8 are not at the Huntington and are unlocated.)


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¶ Institoris (1494) and Gaza (1521)

April 12, 2017

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The following titles were bound together when Morris owned them but were later separated, probably when Malleus maleficarum was rebacked:

[1] Institoris, Heinrich [Henricus], and Jakob [Jacobus] Sprenger. Malleus maleficarum. Nuremburg: Anton Koberger, 17 March 1494.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 26b (£1). — ISTC (ii00166000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 940.

Digital version: ULD.

[2] Gaza, Theodorus. Grammaticae institutionis libri duo priores. Trans. Desiderius Erasmus. Basel: Johann Froben, 1521.

Illustrated.

Digital version: BSB.


Provenance: Congregation of the Brothers of the Common Life in the Luchtenhofe in Bruhle in Hildesheim. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 493 (sold to Pickering for £1 1s.). — William Norton Bullard. — Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University (William Norton Bullard Collection, no. 654). [The present location of Gaza’s grammar is unknown.]


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¶ Ochsenbrunner — Priscorum heroum stemmata (1494)

November 23, 2016

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Ochsenbrunner, Thomas. Priscorum heroum stemmata. Rome: Johann Besicken and Sigismundus Mayer, 18 February 1494.

Inscriptions on flyleaf: “Philip Webb from W.M.” and “Emery Walker from P.W. 1915.” Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Philip Webb. — Emery Walker. — Dorothy Walker. — Bodleian Library (Don. e.56) [gift from Dorothy Walker, presented through the Friends of the Bodleian, October 1934].

Reference: ISTC (io00007000).

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¶ St. Augustine — Sermones (1494–95)

August 4, 2016

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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo [Saint Augustinus]. Sermones. 2 vols. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1494–95.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 149 (sold to Breslauer for £2 10s.). — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 5b, no. 59 (£2 5s.). — ISTC (ia01308000).

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¶ Biblia (1494)

July 28, 2016

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Biblia. Lübeck: Stephanus Arndes, 19 November 1494.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Jo. Wallemale. — Dr. Puhlmann [?]. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 184 (sold to Quaritch for £50). — Bernard Quaritch. — Charles Fairfax Murray. — Murray sale, Christie, 10 December 1917, lot 71. — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 8b, no. 94 (£50). — ISTC (ib00638000). — Fairfax Murray Catalogue (German), 1, no. 64.

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¶ Ochsenbrunner — Priscorum heroum stemmata (1494)

May 27, 2016

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Ochsenbrunner, Thomas. Priscorum heroum stemmata. Rome: Johann Besicken and Sigismundus Mayer, 18 February 1494.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL707A).

References: ISTC (io00007000). — Morgan Catalogue, 2:263.

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¶ St. Augustine — Epistolae pulcherrimae (1494)

March 16, 2016

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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo [Saint Augustinus]. Epistolae pulcherrimae. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 23 June 1494.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL929).

References: ISTC (ia01270000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 359.

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¶ Molitor — De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus (1494–1500?)

September 8, 2015

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Molitor, Wilhelm [Ulricus Molitoris]. De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus. [Paris: Georg Mittelhus?, between 1494 and 1500.]

Illustrated.

Provenance: W. B. Chorley. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 684 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £6 15s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 3.a.8 (SR)).

References: ISTC (im00805000). — Poynter, no. 386.


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¶ Psalterium (1494)

June 5, 2015

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Psalterium. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1494.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 869 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £26 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 4b, no. 41 (£5). — ISTC (ip01067000).

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¶ Guillermus — Postilla super epistolas et evangelia (1494)

May 12, 2015

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Guillermus. Postilla super epistolas et evangelia. Lyon: Johannes Trechsel, 14 July 1494.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL1580).

References: ISTC (ig00697000). — Morgan Catalogue 3, no. 613.

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¶ Cassiodorus — Historia ecclesiastica tripartita (c. 1494–95)

March 26, 2015

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Cassiodorus. Historia ecclesiastica tripartita. [Paris]: Georg Wolf, [c. 1494–95].

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 260 (sold to Downing for 11s.). — George Dunn. — Dunn sale, Sotheby, February 1914, lot 926. — W. T. Smedley. — Folger Library (INC C216) [purchased 1924].

Reference: ISTC (ic00239000).

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¶ Pacioli — Somma di arithmetica (1494)

December 18, 2014

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Pacioli, Luca [Patiolus de Borgo]. Somma di arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalità. Venice: Paganinus de Paganinis, 10-20 November 14[9]4.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 315 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £5). — Unlocated.

Reference: ISTC (il00315000).

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¶ Herodotus — Historiae (1494)

October 20, 2014

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Herodotus. Historiae. Trans. Laurentius Valla and ed. Antonius Mancinellus. Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 8 March 1494.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 585 (sold to Ellis for £2 17s.). — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 45 (£3). — ISTC (ih00090000). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 5v (10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 678 (with two X’s next to it).

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

September 24, 2014

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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).

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¶ Boccaccio — Genealogiae deorum (1494/95)

September 9, 2014

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Boccaccio, Giovanni. Genealogiae deorum. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 23 February 1494/95.

Illustrated (with genealogical trees).

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL948).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 45 (£2). — ISTC (ib00753000). — Morgan Cat. 2, no. 357.

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¶ St. Bonaventure — Meditationes vitae Christi [1494]

July 31, 2014

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Bonaventure, Saint [Saint Bonaventura]. Meditationes vitae Christi [English:] The myrroure of the blessyd lyf of Jhesu Cryste. Trans. Nicholas Love. [London]: Richard Pynson, [1494].

Illustrated.

Provenance: Cornelius Paine. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 313 (sold to Sotheran for £18 10s.). — John Rylands Library Special Collections, University of Manchester (R18012).

References: ESTC (S111587). — ISTC (ib00903300).

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