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¶ Durand etc.

June 5, 2017

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The following titles are bound together:

[1] Durand, Guillaume [Guillelmus Duranti]. Speculum judiciale. Ed. Franciscus Moneliensis. Padua: Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt, 1478–79.

Morris owned the second section (dated 21 November 1478).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 35 (10s.). — ISTC (id00448000). — Thatcher 1, no. 579.

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Battista, da Sambagio [Baptista de Sancto Blasio]. Varii tractatus juridici. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1481.

Morris owned the fourth of five parts (dated 31 May 1481).

References: ISTC (is00126000). — Thacher 1, no. 284.

Digital version: BSB.

[3] Cipolla, Bartolomeo [Bartholomaeus Cepolla]. De simulatione contractuum. Pavia: Leonardus Gerla, 15 February 1498.

References: ISTC (ic00400000). — Thacher 1, no. 634.

Digital version: BSB.

[4] Militio, Albricus de. De testibus. Pavia: Leonardus Gerla, 15 March 1497.

“Attributed in this edition to Albericus de Rosate” (ISTC).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 41 (no price). — ISTC (im00578000). — Thacher 1, no. 635.

Digital version: BSB.

[5] San Giorgio, Giacomino da [Jacobinus, de Sancto Georgio]. Aureus et in pratica perutilis totus et singularis tractatus feudorum et homagiorum. Milan: Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler, 1503.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 36 (no price given).


Provenance: Henry Howard, Duke of Norfolk. — Royal Society of London (gift from Howard). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 402 (sold to Quaritch for £3 3s.). — John Boyd Thacher. — Library of Congress (Incun. 1478.F74 Thacher Coll. Copy 2).


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¶ Les prophecies de Merlin (1503?)

May 1, 2017

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Les prophecies de Merlin. Paris: Antoine Verard, 1498 [really after July 1503].

Vol. 3 only. The book is apparently misdated because the colophon of the first edition (1498) [ISTC] is reprinted.

Provenance: De Bourgevin de Vailart de Moligny. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (E1 12A).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 17b, no. 213 (£40). —  Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 549.

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¶ Psalterium (1503)

June 28, 2016

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Psalterium cum apparatu vulgari firmiter appresso. Basel: Michael Furter, 1503.

Provenance: Morris (purchased from Quaritch, 31 March 1890, for 4s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 870 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £10). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions (1), lot 228. — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 5b, no. 50 (£2). — MS catalogue (2), no. 857 (with two X’s beside the title).


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¶ Duns Scotus — Scotus novissime (1503)

June 4, 2016

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Duns Scotus, John. Scotus novissime cum emendatissimo codice parisino castigatus. Venice: B. Vercellensis for A. Torresanus, 1503

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1111 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4 12s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 1948/D).


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¶ Gesta Romanorum (1503)

December 31, 2015

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Gesta Romanorum cum applicationibus moralisatis ac misticis. Paris: Jean Petit et Philippe Pigouchet, 1503

With bibliographical note by Sydney Cockerell.

Provenance: Walter Benkh. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 415 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 14s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / A 2818/A).

Reference: MS catalogue (1), fol. 7 (£1 ).

Digital version: Internet Archive (Morris’s copy).


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¶ Curtius Rufus — Historiae Alexandri Magni (1503?)

February 4, 2015

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Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Historiae Alexandri Magni. Trans. Vasco de Lucena. Paris: Antoine Vérard, [after July 1503].

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Otto H. F. Volbehr (dealer). — Huntington Library (100579) [purchased from Volbehr, 23 March 1925].

References: ISTC (ic01005000). — MEI.

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¶ de la Gama — Copilacion (1503)

August 25, 2014

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Gama, Juan Fernández de la, ed. Copilacion de los establecimientos de la orde la cavalleria de Santiago de Espada. Seville: Johannes Pegnicer de Nuremberga, 1503.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 998 (sold to Leighton for £6). — Unlocated.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 47 (£6 10s.).


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