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Avraham Ibn ʿEzra1
Bashan, ḤIzḳIyah Mordekhai Bar ShemuʾEl ḤAyim1
Bassani, Hezekiah Mordecai Ben Samuel Hayyim (1703)1
Bassani, Marco1
Bassani, Mordecai1
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Advice to a parson; or, The true art of preaching, in opposition to modern practice

Printed in the year, 1691

Pagination omits 72-75. In verse; errata on final leaf. Running title reads: The art of preaching.

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The atheist; or, The second part of The souldiers fortune. Acted at the Duke's Theatre

Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Bentley, Richard (fl.1675-d.1697); Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)

1684

There is no sig. F, pp.33-40 being omitted from the pagination. Despite the breaks in pagination and collation the work is complete. Pp. 41-75 are set with type of a different fount. P.74 is mis...

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Summa de arithmetica, geometria : Proportioni: et proportionalita

Paccioli, Luca (1514)

[1523]

Colophon:... Con spesa e diligentia e opistio del prudente homo Paganino de Paganini da Brescia nella excelsa cita di Venegia ... Neli anni de nostra salute M.CCCC.lxliiii. adi. 10. de nouembre ... Fr...

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Discours des plus mémorables faicts des roys et gràds seigneurs d'Angleterre depuis cinq cens ans : auec les genealogies des roynes d'Angleterre, & d'Ecosse. Plus un traictè de la guide des chemins, les assiettes & descriptions des principales villes, chateaux & riuieres d'Angleterre

Bernard, Jean secrétaire de la Chambre du roi (fl. 1579)

1579

Les feuillets sont imprimés recto et verso. ff. 65-72, 74 and 76-78 are unnumbered. Scott omits the date from the imprint and does not say that ff.73 and 75 are numbered. The "Guide des chemins" ...

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Antonii Bynaei De morte Jesu Christi (v.1)

Bynaeus, Anthony (1654-1698)

1691-98

Title vignettes (printer's device). Biblical text in Greek and Latin.

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Gespräche in dem Reiche derer Todten

Fassmann, David (1683-1744)

1724

Each part has an individual title-page, but the pagination is continuous. Anon., by D. Fassmann. Contents: 65-67: zwischen Alexandro Magno, und Carolo Magno. -- 68: zwischen dem, A.1711. aus der W...

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BC MS Lt 31, f. 40r: Francis Quarles's poem
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Commonplace book of English verse, prose (mainly sermons), and miscellaneous information, compiled by John Beetham

Beetham, John

c.1670-1690

As well as the verse, separately indexed, the volume contains ff.1-2: signatures; ff.3v-8v: family records, also "bullings"; ff.11-29: sermons (one by Ainsworth); ff.30-40r: arithmetical tables, remed...

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Anonymous miscellany of short Latin compositions on various literary themes and philosophical maxims

c.1575

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 5...

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Medical commonplace book, including a catalogue of the books in the Medical Library at the Leeds General Infirmary

1783-1799

Bound with boards and a vellum backstrip which is partly lost through damage. Comprises extracts on various subjects, but chiefly medical, written between 1783 and 1799, as follows: ff. 1-4, An obs...

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Archive Judaica File

[Ḳovets : derashot be-Iṭalḳit-Yehudit]. [קובץ : דרשות באיטלקית־יהודית]. [Miscellany : sermons in Judaeo-Italian / written by at least 6 different hands, among them Gershon Cohen of Cologna and possibly Hezekiah Bassani].

Bassani, Hezekiah Mordecai ben Samuel Hayyim (1703)

[17th–18th century]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Summary: Bound collection of quires written on different paper inscribed by at least 7 different Italian Hebrew hands; containing sermons and divre Torah for various ...

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