¶ Celtes — Quatuor libri amorum (1502)

Celtes, Konrad [Condradis Celtis Protocij]. Quatuor libri amorum. Nuremberg: [printer for the Sodalitae Celitcae], 1502.

With woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer, Wolf Traut, and Peter Vischer (both the elder and younger), but a subsequent owner (probably in the twentieth century) removed the illustrations.

Provenance: W. H. Crawford. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 263 (sold to Tregaskis for £15). — Tregaskis catalogue, 18 September 1899, no. 177 (24 guineas). — Antiquariat Engel & Co. (Stuttgart), 2019 ($917). — Arthur Freeman catalogue Literary Forgeries 1501–1946 (2024), no. 5 (£2200). — Unlocated.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 9b, no. 109 (£11 15s.).

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¶ Natali (1506) and Pseudo-Dionysius (1502)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Natali, Pietro [Petro de Natalibus], ed. Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus collectus. [Venice: L. de Giunta, 1506.]

Illustrated.

References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 5 (£3 10s.) — MS catalogue (2), no. 404 (with two X’s next to the title).

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

[2] Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite [Dionysii Areopagitae]. Caelestis hierarchia, Ecclesiastica hierarchia, Divina nomina, Mystica theologia, undecim epistolae. [Venice: Johannes Tacuinus de Cereto], 1502.

Illustrated.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 915 (sold to Quaritch for £11). — Unlocated.

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¶ Philostratus — Philostratou eis ton Apollōniou tou Tyaneōs bion biblia octō (1501–02)

Philostratus, Flavius. Philostratou eis ton Apollōniou tou Tyaneōs bion biblia octō. Trans. Alamanno Rinuccini. Venice: Aldus Manutius, March 1501–February 1502.

Provenance: Morris (purchased for 10s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 945 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 2s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 4999/D).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 40 (£1). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 5. — MS catalogue (2), no. 412 (with two X’s beside the title).

Note in MS catalogue (1): “title mended.”

Digital version: EEB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Valla — Commentationes (1502)

Valla, Giorgio. Commentationes. In Ptolomei quadripartitum inque Ciceronis partitiones & Tusculanas questiones ac Plinii Naturalis historie librum secundum. Venice: Marco Firmini in officina Simonis Bivilaquae, 1502.

This book seems not to be in Sotheby 1898, where one would expect to find it, so the history of ownership is not clear.

Provenance: Morris. — Cardiff University Library (Q125.2.V2).

¶ Hyginus — De mundi et spharae (1502)

Hyginus, C. Julius. De mundi et spherae ac utriusque partium declaratione cum planetis et variis signis historiatis. Venice: J. B. Sessa, 1502.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 492 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / B 3374/B).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 44 (£1). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 1v (15s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 70 (with two X’s next to it).

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

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Voragine — Aurea legenda sanctorum (1502)

Jacobus, de Voragine. Lombardica historia que a plerisque Aurea legenda sanctorum appellatur. Strassburg: [no printer named], 1502.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1206 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 11s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions (1), lot 236 (sold to Fletcher for £ 1 12s,). — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 28b (£1). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 6 (12s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 460 (with two X’s beside the title).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Plutarch — Plutarchi vitae: nuper quam diligentissime recognitae (1502)

Plutarch [Plutarchus]. Plutarchi vitae: nuper quam diligentissime recognitae. Venice: Pincius, 1502.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 960 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 45 (£3 10s.).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Vocabularius (1502)

Vocabularius juris utriusque perutilis tam civilis quam canonici. Lyon: Petrum Mareschal and Bernabam Chaussard, 2 August 1502.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1094 (sold to Ellis for £2 6s.). — Ellis. — Unlocated.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 15b, no. 189 (£10s.).

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¶ Ordynarye (1502)

Here foloweth a notable treatyse and full necessary to an crysten men for to knowe and it is named the Ordynarye of crystyanyte or of crysten men. London: printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1502.

Illustrated.

Provenance: William Herbert. — Sir Francis Freeling. — Thomas Hand. — Henry Kock. — Joseph Gulston. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (W 16 A).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 51b (£25). — ESTC (S109058). — Morgan Catalogue 3, no. 740.

Digital version: EEBO.

 

¶ Angelus — Astrolabium planum (1502)

Angelus, Johannes. Astrolabium planum in tabulis ascendens, continens qualibet hora atque minuto equationes domoru celi, moram nati in utero matris cum quodam tractatu natiuitatum utili ac ornato, necnon horas inequales pro qualibet climate mundi. Venice: Lucam Antonium de Giunta Florentinum, 1502.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 60 (sold to Leighton for £4 6s.). — Unlocated.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 45 (£4).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Ordynarye (1502)

Here foloweth a notable treatyse and full necessary to an crysten men for to knowe and it is named the Ordynarye of crystyanyte or of crysten men. London: printed by Wynken de Worde, 1502.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 695 (sold to Pickering for £50). — Unlocated.

Reference: ESTC (S109058).

Digital version: EEBO.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Arnaldus — Herbolarium (1502)

Arnaldus, de Villanova. Herbolarium de uirtutibus herbarum. Venice: Christophorum de Pensis for L. A. Giunta, 1502.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 72 (sold to Van de Poet for £5). — National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum (87.C.100).

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 45 (£1 10s.).

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