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Estreat

1592

Brighouse. Robert Brodeley and Anne his wife surrendered the eastern end or part of a messuage containing a parlour called the Newe parlour and a room above, a shop and room over, an entrance called e...

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De anima, eiusque diuino ad Deum raptu

Mocenigo, Marco Antonio; Ziletti, Francesco (1587)

1581

Signatures:[dagger]6 *6 2*2 A-2S6 2T4. Printer's device on title page. De anima, eivsque divino ad Deum raptu.

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Opervm reverendi et clarissimi theologi, D. Ioannis Brentii, præpositi Stutgardiani. Tomus primus [-octauus]... [etc.] (v.1)

Brenz, Johannes (1499-1570); Gruppenbach, Georg

1576-1584

Portrait of Brenz with poem in Greek and Latin by Martin Crusius, on verso of title pages. For complete description see: Bibliographia Brentiana... / Walther Köhler. Berlin, 1904.

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Defensio orthodoxae fidei de sacra Trinitate : co[n]tra prodiciosos errores Michaelis Serueti Histpani: vbi ostenditur haereticos iure Gladii coercendos esse, & nominatim de homine hoc tam impio iustè & meritò sumptu[m] Geneuae fuisse supplicium

Calvin, Jean (1509-1564)

M.D. LIIII [1554]

Signatures: a-q⁸ r⁴ (r⁴ blank). Printer's device on the title page. "Michaelis Serueti responsio ad articulos Iohannis Caluini": p. 72-81. "Huic libro subscripserunt Geneuensis ecclesiae M...

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The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the newe testamente

Erasmus, Desiderius (1536); Udall, Nicholas (1505-1556); Caius, Thomas (1572); Mary Queen of England (1516-1558); Malet, Francis

the last daie of Januarie, Anno Domini 1548

"To the most excellent and vertuous princesse quene Catherine..." (caption title; paraphrase on Mark) begins new foliation and register on (:)1. "To the most vertuous ladie, & moste gracious Quene Kat...

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Apophthegmatvm ex optimis vtrivsqve linguae scriptorib

Erasmus, Desiderius (1536); Froben, Hieronymus (1501-1563); Episcopius, Nicolaus (1501-1564)

MDXLV [1545]

Collection compiled by Erasmus of apophthegmata or egregie dicta attributed to men and women of antiquity, first published in 1531. Includes index. With printer's device on title-page and final pa...

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Platynae De honesta voluptate: et valitudine ad amplissimum ac Doctissimum.D.B. Roverllam.S.Clementis praesbiterum cardinalem liber primus
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Platynae De honesta voluptate: et valitudine ad amplissimum ac Doctissimum.D.B. Roverllam.S.Clementis praesbiterum cardinalem liber primus

Platina (1421-1481); Laurentius de Aquila; Umber, Sibylinus

Idibus Iuniis Mcccclxxv. [13 June 1475]

Signatures: [*⁴ a¹⁰ b-l⁸] Imprint from colophon. Colophon on leaf [4v] reads: Viri doctissimi Platynæ opusculum de obsoniis ac honesta voluptate: impressum Venetiis: Labore & diligentia La...

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