Jerome, Saint [Hieronymus]. Vitae sanctorum patrum, sive Vitas patrum [English] The lyff of the faders. Trans. William Caxton. Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, [before 21 August] 1495.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Frederick Perkins. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL 1806).
References: ESTC (S109796). — ISTC (ih00213000). — Morgan Catalogue 3, no. 730.
Digital version: EEBO.
October 15, 2017
Comments Off on ¶ Le coustumez du baillage de Senlis (c. 1495) [MS]
Le coustumez du baillage de Senlis.
Manuscript. France, c. 1495. 59 leaves.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1061 (sold to Ellis for £1 14s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 6, no. 84 (£5).
Sotheby 1898:
June 7, 2017
Comments Off on ¶ Appiano etc.
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).
Digital version: BSB.
[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).
Digital version: BSB.
[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).
Digital version: BSB.
[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).
Digital version: BSB.
[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).
Digital version: BSB.
[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.)
Sotheby 1898:
August 23, 2016
Comments Off on ¶ St. Augustine — Sermones de tempore (1495)
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo [Saint Augustinus]. Sermones de tempore. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1495.
Illustrated. Part of a multi-volume series of Augustine’s sermons (1494–95).
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 150 (sold to Breslauer for 15s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: ISTC (ia01308000).
Digital version: ULD.
Sotheby 1898:
August 4, 2016
Comments Off on ¶ St. Augustine — Sermones (1494–95)
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).
Digital version: ULD.
Sotheby 1898:
February 11, 2016
Comments Off on ¶ Lapide et al.
The following tracts are bound together in one volume:
[1] Lapide, Johannes (Heynlin) de. Resolutorium dubiorum circa celebrationem missarum occurrentium. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, c. 1495.]
References: ISTC (ij00366000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 265.
Digital version: BSB.
[2] Bonaventure, Saint [Saint Bonaventura]. De praeparatione ad missam. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, c. 1500].
References: ISTC (ib00937000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 259.
[3] De utilitate Missae, sive De missa et utilitate eam dicentium. [Rome: Johann Besicken, c. 1505].
References: Morgan Catalogue, no. 267.
[4] Hugh, of Saint-Cher [Hugo de Sancto Caro]. Expositio missae, seu Speculum ecclesiae. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, c. 1490?].
References: ISTC (ih00522000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 260.
Digital version: BSB.
[5] Defectus in Missa occurrentes. [Rome: Johann Besicken, c. 1495.]
References: ISTC (id00133000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 266.
[6] Thomas, Aquinas, Saint. Quaestiones circa confessionem seu Sacramentum poenitentiae. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c. 1495.]
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 28b (£10s. ). — ISTC (it00326000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 257.
[7] Casus papales, episcopales et abbatiales. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, c. 1495.]
References: ISTC (ic00267000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 264.
Digital version: BSB.
[8] Andreas de Escobar. Canones poenitentiales. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c. 1491–1500.]
References: ISTC (ia00657000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 256.
[9] Roselli, Antonio [Antonius de Rosellis]. De usuris. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c. 1491–1500.]
References: ISTC (ir00333000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 275.
Digital version: BSB.
[10] Torquemada, Juan de [Johannes de Turrecremata]. De efficacia aquae benedictae. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c. 1491–1500.]
References:— Ellis valuation, fol. 43, (no figure given). — Ellis valuation, fol. 14b, no. 177 (no figure given). — ISTC (it00512000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 258.
Digital version: BSB.
[11] Torquemada, Juan de [Johannes de Turrecremata]. Meditationes seu Contemplationes devotissimae. Rome: Stephan Plannck, 21 August 1498.
Illustrated.
References: ISTC (it00541000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 269. — MS catalogue (2), no. 970, p. 91.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL672).
September 8, 2015
Comments Off on ¶ Molitor — De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus (1494–1500?)
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.
Sotheby 1898:
May 4, 2015
Comments Off on ¶ St. Jerome — Vitae sanctorum patrum (1495)
Jerome, Saint [Hieronymus]. Vitae sanctorum patrum, sive Vitas patrum. Trans. William Caxton. Westminster: printed by Wynkyn de Worde, [before 21 August] 1495.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Frederick Perkins. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL1806).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 51b (no price). [The book is also listed on fol. 53b (£35); either this is a mistaken repetition or Morris owned two copies of the book.] — ESTC (S109796). — ISTC (ih00213000). — Morgan Catalogue 3, no. 730.
Digital version: EEBO.
April 29, 2015
Comments Off on ¶ Ovid — De arte amandi (1495)
Ovid. De arte amandi et De remedio amoris. Lyon: Jean de Vingle, 1495.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL1585).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 39 (15s.). — ISTC (io00146000). — Morgan Catalogue 3, no. 614.
March 26, 2015
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).
Digital version: BSB.
Sotheby 1898:
February 11, 2015
Claudianus, Claudius. Opera. Ed. Thaddaeus Ugoletus. Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 6 June 1495.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL978).
References: ISTC (ic00703000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 363. — MS catalogue (2), no. 946 (with one X beside the title).
January 16, 2015
Bartholomaeus, Anglicus. Bartholomeus de proprietatibus rerum. Trans. John Trevisa. [Westminster: printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1495.]
Illustrated.
Provenance: William H. Crawford. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 552 (sold to Torreys [Torrens?] for £17 10s.). — Laurence W. Hodson. — John Charrington. — Trinity College Library, Cambridge (VI.18.9) [gift of Charrington, 1917].
Reference: ESTC (S106554).
Digital version: EEBO.
Sotheby 1898:
January 14, 2015
Meder, Johann. Quadragesimale de filio prodigo. Basel: Michael Furter, 1495.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 816 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £7 7s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 3.a.4 (SR)).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 5b, no. 48 (£5 5s.). — ISTC (im00421000). — Poynter, no. 374.
Digital version: ULD.
Sotheby 1898:
December 22, 2014
Higden, Ranulf. Policronicon. Ed. William Caxton, trans. John Trevisa. Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 13 April 1495.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 598 (sold to Leighton for £38). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 50b (£42). — ESTC (S106488).
Digital version: EEBO.
Sotheby 1898:
December 18, 2014
Campanus-Vodňanský, Jan [Johannes Antonius Campanus]. Opera. Ed. Michael Fernus. Rome: Eucharius Silber, for Michael Fernus, 31 October 1495.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 339 (sold to Breslauer for £1 1s.). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 14b, no. 176 (£1). — ISTC (ic00073000).
Digital version: VdI.
Sotheby 1898:
September 24, 2014
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.
September 19, 2014
Bosso, Matteo [Matthaeus Bossus]. De instituendo sapientia animo. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 6 November 1495.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL1212).
References: ISTC (ib01043000). — Morgan Cat. 2, no. 452.
Digital version: BSB.
September 9, 2014
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.
Digital version: BSB.
July 26, 2014
Bernard, d’ Auvergne [Bernardus Claravallensis]. Opuscula. Ed. Teofilo Bona [Theophilus Brixianus]. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 17 October 1495.
Bibliographical note by Sydney Cockerell laid in.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 28 (sold to Breslauer for £2 5s). — George Edward Dimock. — George Edward Dimock, Jr. (by inheritance). — Imogen Dimock (by inheritance). — Smith College Library (Inc B-365) [gift from Imogen Dimock, 26 September 1968].
Reference: ISTC (ib00365000).
Digital version: BSB.
Sotheby 1898:
May 23, 2014
Theocritus. Idyllia. Venice: Aldus Manutius, February 1495/96.
Text includes various other works.
Provenance: Edward Sullivan. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1158 (sold to Thomson for £7 5s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 5.d.3 (SR)).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 42 (£1 5s.). — ISTC (it00144000). — MS catalogue (2), no 949 (with one X beside it). — Poynter, no. 566.
Digital version: BSB.
Sotheby 1898:
The Library of William Morris 
November 18, 2017
Comments Off on ¶ St. Jerome — Vitas patrum (1495)