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canon law6
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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)262
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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton171
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Koberger, Anton (1440-1513)22
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Woodcuts from books of the 15th century shown in original specimens : 55 leaves detached from books printed in Germany, Switzerland, Bohemia, the Netherlands, and Italy

Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig (1855-1932); Barbey, André

1929

Woodcuts from books of the 15th century shown in original specimens : 55 leaves detached from books printed in Germany, Switzerland, Bohemia, the Netherlands, and Italy / with an introduction by W.L. ...

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Gabriel Appolonius Andree Brentio S.D. feci: ut me amantissime monuisti preceptor optime. Nam hunc inscriptionum libellum quem Jacobus Zacharius... composuerat ... bibliopole efflagitanti imprimendum concessi ... [etc.]

Zacharias, Jacobus; Appolonius, Gabriel; Brenta, Andrea (1460-1485); Plannck, Stephan; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[about 1490]

Imprint from ISTC. No signatures, foliation or catchwords. Indexed in: ISTC no. iz00012500.

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Strabo De situ orbis

Strabo; Tifernate, Gregorio; Guarinus Veronensis (1374-1460)

1502

Imprint from colophon.

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Tabula super libros Sententiarum cum Bonaventura (Pt. 3-4)

Peter Lombard Bishop of Paris (1100-1160); Bonaventure Saint, Cardinal (1217-1274); Beckenhub, Johann; Tinctoris, Johannes (1511); Koberger, Anton (1440-1513); Dunn, George (1864-1912); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

1491

Title from volume 1, leaf [1r]. Publisher and place of publication from volume 1, leaf [100r]. Imprint date from volume 4, leaf [265r]. Commentary has 64 lines per page and head line. The text...

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Incipit liber dyalogorum beati Gregory ad petrum diaconum suum

Gregory, Pope (540-604); Wiener, Johann (1475-1479); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[1475-79]

Imprint from ISTC. Also recorded as [about 1477]. Printed with 38 long lines to a full page. No signatures. Leaves numbered at the top right of versos and rectos. Initial spaces before each ...

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Sacre theologie magistri... Fratris Roberti de Licio ordinis Minorum professoris opus quadragesimale per vtilissimum quod de penitencia dictum est feliciter incipit

Caracciolo, Roberto (1425-1495); Richel, Bernhard (1482); Wenssler, Michael (1472-1497); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

M. CCCC.LXXV°. fluente. [1475]

Signatures: [a-u¹⁰ x⁸ y⁶ z¹⁰ A-E¹⁰ F⁶ G¹⁰ H⁸ I-K¹⁰ L-M⁸ N¹⁰ O-P⁸ Q¹]. Title from incipit on leaf [a2v]. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on [N10v] reads: Robertus diui...

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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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[Vocabularius praedicantium]

Melber, Johannes; Zeninger, Conrad (1480-1489); Suess, Heinricus; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[1481-82]

Imprint from ISTC. Compiled by Johannes Melber from the lectures of Jodocus Eichmann. Hain ascribes the printing of this book to Peter Wagner of Nuremberg who printed an edition of this work in 14...

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Ecclesiastica historia diui Eusebii: et Ecclesiastica historia gentis Anglorum venerabilis Bede : cum utraru[s]que historiaru[m] per singulos libros recollecta capitulorum annotatione

Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea (260-340); Rufinus of Aquileia (345-410); Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735); Husner, Georg (1505); Vignal; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno salutis n[ostre] Millesimoq[ui]ngentesimo xiiij.die Marcij. [14 March 1500]

Signatures: [*]⁶ a⁸ b-n⁶ o⁸ p-z⁶ A-B⁶. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on leaf B6r reads: Libri eccl[es]iastice historie ge[n]t[is] Anglo[rum] imp[re]ssi i[n] inclyta ciuitate Argentin...

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[Super prima parte Codicis]

Bartolo da Sassoferrato (1314-1357); Torresanus, Andreas de Asula (1451-1529); Zanis, Bartholomaeus de de Portesio (1486-1515); Serre, Hercule comte de (1776-1824); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

31 January 1486

Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁶ e⁴ f-m⁸ n⁶ o-r⁸ s⁶. Imprint from ISTC. Cited in: The Brotherton Library, a catalogue of ancient manuscripts and early printed books, 1931, as: Lectura super prima...

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Musice utriusque cantus practica excellentis Franchini Gafori Laudensis libris quatuor modu latissima

Gaffurius, Franchinus (1451-1522); Britannicus, Angelus; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

anno salutis Millesimoquatringentesimonoseptimo:nono Kalen[das]: Octobris. [23 September 1497]

Signatures: [*]⁴ a-b⁸ c⁶ aa-kk⁸ ll⁶. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on ll5v reads: Impressa Brixiæ opera & impensa Angeli Britannici: anno salutis Millesimo quatringentesimononagesimos...

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