Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis. Lyons: S. Gryphius, 1550.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 630 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 6s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions, 10 March 1939, no. 153 (£38). — McLeish catalogue 121, 19 May 1939, no. 226. — William Foot Walker. — York Minster (Old Library O X.H.7) [gift from Walker, 1993].
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 69 (with three X’s next to the title).

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Rampegolo, Antonio [Antonius Rampigollis]. Figurarum Biblie opus conducibile et perutile. Cologne: [Cornelius von Zierickzee], 1511.
Illustrated. The date given in the Sotheby catalogue is 1505, but we cannot find such an edition and have listed the 1511 edition instead.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 819 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions (1), lot 226 (sold to Eiseman for £2 ). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 7b, no. 81 (10s.) — MS catalogue (2), no. 981.
Digital version: BSB.

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Vivaldi, Giovanni Ludovico. Opus regale in quo continentur infrascripta opuscula. [Lyon]: Johanne de Vingle, 1508.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1091 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £8 5s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions (1), lot 229 (sold to Eiseman for £ 4 15s.) — Newberry Library (Wing ZP 539 .V784).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 15b, no. 190 (£1). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 6 (£1 10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 790 (with one X beside it).
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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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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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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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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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Guillermus, Parisiensis. Postilla siue expositio epistolarum [et] evangeliorum dominicalium. Leiden: Claudius Davost, 1505.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 473 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £6 5s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned] . — Wellcome auctions (1), lot 231 (sold to Eiseman for £ 2 15s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 15b, no. 195 (£4).
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