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Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi, in artem geometrie incipit qua[m]foelicissime
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Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi, in artem geometrie incipit qua[m] foelicissime

Euclid (fl. 300 B.C); Adelard of Bath (1116-1142); Campano da Novara (1296); Ratdolt, Erhard (1447?-1528); Malaspina, Manfredi marchese di Filattiera (1720-1787); Sadler, Sir Michael (1861-1943)

anno Salutis 1482 octauis Calen[darum] Iun[ij]. [25 May 1482]

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸. Title from incipit in red on a2r. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on r7v reads: Opus elementoru[m] euclidis megarensis in geometria[m] arte[m] In id quoq[ue] Campani p...

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Lib[er] cronicarum : cu[m] figuris et ymagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di

Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514); Wolgemut, Michael (1434-1519); Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm (1494); Schreyer, Sebald (1446-1520); Kammermeister, Sebastian (1446-1503); Koberger, Anton (1440-1513); Riviere, Robert (1808-1882); Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge Baron (1820-1894); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno salutis n[ost]r[a]e 1493. [12 July 1493]

No signatures. Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1ar]), which begins: Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum. Imprint from the colophon on the verso of leaf [CCC]. Colophon ...

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All the workes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet: Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: with sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630

Taylor, John (1580-1653)

1630

With engraved additional title-page: see A.F. Johnson, Cockson, no.5. Imprint completed from STC. - Beale printed quires A, 2A-2S, and 3A-3K; Allde printed B-O; Alsop and Fawcet printed 3A-3M (STC)....

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Divi Avrelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi Meditationes, Sililoquia, & Manuale : Meditationes B. Anselmi cu[m] tractatu de humani generis redemptione, D. Bernardi Idiotæ [pseud.] viri docti, de amore divino : Omnia ad mss. exemplaria emendata, & in meliorem ordinem distributa, opera ac studio R.P. Henrici Sommalii, Societatis Iesu theologi

Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109); Jordan, Raymond (fl. 1380); Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint (1153); Sommalius, Henricus (1534-1619)

1616

The second "Meditationes" in the title is followed by a brace.

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Poems

Donne, John (1572-1631)

1633

J.D. = John Donne. Printer's name from STC. The first leaf and the last leaf are blank. The position of ²2A²2 ("The printer to the understanders") varies, but most commonly falls after ¹1A2. ...

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