Champier, Simphorien. Les grans croniques des gestes et vertueux faictz des tres excellens catholicques. Paris: Jean de la Garde, 1516.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Edward Gwynn. — Augustine Vincent. — Ralph Sheldon. — Philip Lord Hardwicke. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 349 (sold to Ridges for £18). — Ridges. — Charles Fairfax Murray. — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 254 (£32 10s.). — Fairfax Murray Catalogue (French), 1, no. 84. — MS catalogue (2), no. 918, p. 83.
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The following titles, both illustrated, are bound together:
[1] Jacobus, de Voragine. Passionael twinter stuc dat men hiet die guldene legende. Antwerp: Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 1505.
[2] Jacobus, de Voragine. Hier beghint tsomer stuc vanden passionle. Antwerp: Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 1516.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1207 (sold to Leighton for £8). — Charles Fairfax Murray. — Murray sale, Christie, 10 December 1917, lot 452. — Maggs catalogue 395 (1920), no. 533 (£85) [Internet Archive]. — Houghton Library, Harvard University (Typ 530.05.466).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 1b, no. 4 (£8 10s. [?]). — Fairfax Murray Catalogue (German), 2, no. 437. — MS catalogue (2), no. 936 (with two X’s beside it).
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Galen. Quarta impressio ornatissima, continens omnes Galeni libros alias impressos. 3 vols. Pavia: J.P. de Burgofranco, 1515–16.
Illustrated.
Provenance: “Theodori Crumbrigngesi” (?). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 540 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 2510/D).

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Theocritus. Opera Graecè. Rome: Calliergus, 1516.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1025 (sold to Maggs for £1 12s.). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 42 (£5). — MS catalogue (2), no. 988.
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Psalterium Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum, & Chaldaecum. Genoa: Petrus Paulus Porrus, 1516.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 975 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3 5s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions (1), lot 235 (sold to Eiseman for £ 7 5s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 41 (£2).
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Jacobus, de Theramo. Belial. Antwerp: H. Eckert van Homberch, 1516.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1161 (sold to Ellis for £12 12s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 1b, no. 5 (£2 10s.).
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Ricchier, Ludovico [Ludovicus Coelius Rhodiginus]. Sicuti Antiquarum lectionum commentarios concinnarat olim vindex Ceselius. Venice: Aldi et Andreae Soceri, February 1516.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 369 (sold to Crawshaw for 18s.). — Columbia University Library (B878R39 S73).
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Gaguin, Robert. Les croniques de France. Paris: Jean Petit, 8 May 1516.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 539 (sold to Breslauer for £4 6s.). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 255 (£4 10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 976.
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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo [Saint Augustinus]. Preclarissima inestimabilis doctrine atq utilitatis Divi Aurelii Augustini Sermonum opera. Paris: Bertholdi Rembolt, 19 December 1516.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 151 (sold to Downing for £1 13s.). — Rimell & Sons catalogue, 1903. — Unlocated.
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