The following titles are bound together:
[1] Arte para bien confessar. [Seville?: Jacob Cromberger?, between 1511 and 1515.]
Illustrated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 47 (£1 16s.).
[2] Villegas, Pedro Fernández de. Flosculus sacramentorum. Paris: Rembolt, 1510.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 73 (sold to Quaritch for £3). — Biblotheca Hispana, Quaritch catalogue [1899], no. 144 (£1 16s.). — British Library (C.107.b.22(1)) [acquired 1899].
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[1] Pliny, the Elder [Plinius]. Historiae naturalis libri xxxvii. Venice: Melchiorem Sessam, 20 August 1513.
Illustrated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 46 (no price).
[2] Boccaccio, Giovanni. Genealogie cum micantissimis arborum effigiacionibus cuiusque gentilis dei progeniem. Paris: Paris: Louis Hornken and Denis Roce, 1511.
Provenance: Dr. Franz Weber. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 956 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [Pliny] [Boccaccio] (Closed stores EPB / D 5114/D).
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[1] Tibullus. Elegiarum libri quatuor et una cum Val. Catulli epigrammatis, nec non et Sex. Propertii libri quatuor elegiaci. Venice: Guglielmo da Fontaneto Montisferrati, 12 June 1520
Illustrated.
References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 15 (£1 10s.) — MS catalogue (2), no. 469, with two X’s beside the title.
[2] Martial. Epigrammata libri xiii. Venice: Georgium de Rusconibus, 1513.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1170 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
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Quincuplex Psalterium. Paris: Henricus Stephanus, 1513.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 974 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions (1), lot 239 (sold to Cleverdon for £ 1 12s.). — Cleverdon. — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 17b, no. 224 (£1).
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Vivaldi, Giovanni Ludovico [Joannes Ludovicus Vivaldus]. De Contritionis veritate aureum opus. Hagenau: Rynman, 1513.
The structure of binding suggests that it may have once included a slender pamphlet (no longer present).
Provenance: Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee (Bavaria). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1093 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 8s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions (1), lot 230 (sold to Eiseman for £1 12s.). — Lee Library, Brigham Young University (Vault Collection 282.01 Vi83d 1513).
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 25b (£1).
Digital copy: Internet Archive (Morris’s copy).
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Gemmingen, Uriel von, Archbishop. Missale Maguntinum. Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1 January 1513.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 797 (sold to Heppenstal for £10). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 8b, no. 100 (£21).
Digital version: Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.
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Valerius Maximus. Valerius Maximus cum duplici commentario. [Paris]: Josse Badius & Jean Petit, 1513.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1180 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 30 (10s.). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 6 (12s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 374 (with two X’s next to it).
Digital version: BSB.
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Le premier [second, tiers] volume de Lancelot du lac. 3 vols. in 1. Paris: Michel and Philippe Le Noir, 1513–20.
Illustrated. Three catalogue clippings about the book tipped in at back of book.
Provenance: Adolph Audinet. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 747 (sold to Hayley for £13). — Hayley. — Robert Steele. — May Morris [gift from Steele?]. — Oxford University [bequest of May Morris]. — Society of Antiquaries of London (Kelmscott Manor).
Reference: Ellis valuation fol. 19b, no. 245 (£30).
Digital version: Gallica.

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Lefèvre d’Etaples, Jacques. Liber trium virorum & trium spiritualium virginum. Paris: Henrici Stephani, 1513.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 756 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 16s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 17b, no. 223 (£1).
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