Lemaire de Belges, Jean. Le premier [-tiers] livre des illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye. 3 vols. Paris: Ambroise Girault libraire, 1533.
Illustrated. The second and third volumes are entitled Le traicte de la difference des scismes et des concilles de leglise and L’epistre du roy a Hector de Troye respectively, but the three volumes seem also to have been issued separately.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 661 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3 16s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — H. P. Kraus. — Kraus inventory sale, Sotheby (New York), 4 December 2003, lot 85 (sold for $2,160). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 20b, no. 264 (£2).
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Suetonius. Omnia quam antehac emendatiora. Annotationes Des. Erasmi & Egnatii cognitu dignae. Basel: Froben and Episcopius, July 1533.
Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 924 (with two X’s next to the title).
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Ovid. Metamorphosi. Trans. Nicolò di Augustini. Venice: Niccolò Zoppino, 1533.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 702 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 6s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 10 (£12). — MS catalogue (2), no. 760, with two X’s beside the title.
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Ovid. P. Ovidii Nasonis Heroides. Venice: Joannes Maria Palamides, 5 June 1533.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris (purchased for 10s., described as “poor copy”). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 925 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 2s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 39 (£10) and fol. 46 (£1 ). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 5 and MS catalogue (2), no. 438. [Did Morris perhaps own two copies?]
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Missale ad usum insignis ac preclare ecclesie Sarum. Paris: Francisci Regnault, 1533.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 683 (sold to Leighton for £35). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 250 (£30).
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Le premier [le second, le tiers] volume de Lancelot du Lac. 3 vols. Paris: Philippe Le Noire and Jean Petit, 1533.
Provenance: Madame de Pompadour. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 748 (sold to Tregaskis for £29). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 18b, no. 232 (£20). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 5v (£30 ). — MS catalogue (2), no. 406 (with two X’s beside the title).
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Les grandes proesses du tres vaillant, noble et excellent chevalier Tristan. Paris: Denis Janot et [Antoine Cousteau], 10 September 1533.
Provenance: E. V. Utterson. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1174 (sold to Pickering for £11 11s.). — Unlocated
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 30 (£10). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 6 (£18) [lacks last two leaves; supplied in MS]. — MS catalogue (2), no. 380 (with three X’s next to it).
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Erasmus, Desiderius. Historiae Augustae scriptores: omnia qvam antehac emendatiora annotationes Des. Erasmi & Egnatij cognitu dignae. Basil: Froben, 1533.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1108 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 7s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
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June 9, 2017
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