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canon law2
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Baron Brotherton25
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)25
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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton23
Dunn, George3
Dunn, George (1864-1912)3
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Amerbach, Johannes (1430-1513)2

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Aurelii Augustini de ciuitate dei primi libri incipiu[n]t rubricae

Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Johann of Speier (1470); Wendelin of Speier; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

M.CCCC.LXX. [1470]

Signatures: [a-b⁸ c-z¹⁰ A-C¹⁰ D⁸ E¹⁰]. Place of printing and date from colophon. Colophon in verse following the end of the text on leaf [E9r]: Qui docuit Venetos exscribi posse Ioann...

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Prints and engravings

Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

1808-1843

Including William Blake by T. Phillips, The Great Bell of Montreal cast by Thomas Mears, Leopold of First King of the Belgians and Lady Dover by Sir T. Lawrence, George Milton by C.A. DuVal, and Thoma...

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Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri, & emendati, ex Scythicis oris ad nos nuper allati : Marci Manilii Astronomicorum libri quinque. Arati Phænomena Germanico Cæsare interprete cum commentariis & imaginibus. Arati eiusdem Phænomenon fragmentum Marco. T.C. interprete. Arati eiusdem Phænomena Ruffo Festo Auienio paraphraste. Arati eiusdem Phænomena Græce[.] Theonis commentaria copiosissima in Arati Phænomena Græce. Procli Diadochi Sphæra Græce[.] Procli eiusdem Sphæra, Thoma Linacro Britanno interprete

Germanicus Caesar (15 B.C.-19 A.D); Theon of Alexandria; Aratus Solensis; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Proclus (410-485); Linacre, Thomas (1460-1524); Negro, Pescennio Francesco (1452-); Rufus, Sextus; Manilius, Marcus; Firmicus Maternus, Julius; Manuzio, Aldo (1515); Wedelicki, Piotr (1543); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Mense octob[ris]. M. ID. [October 1499]

Signatures: [*]⁶ a-g¹⁰ h¹² aa-hh¹⁰ ii-kk⁸ A-D¹⁰ E¹² F⁶ G-M¹⁰ N⁶ ²N¹⁰ O-S¹⁰ T⁸. Imprint from the second colophon on T8r. The first colophon on kk8r reads: Venetiis ...

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Incipit p[ro]cessus iudiciarius eximij doctoris iuris canonici Johannis de Urbach

Auerbach, Johannes (fl. 1405); Printer of the 1483 Vitas Patrum; Owen, E; Morris, William (1834-1896); Dunn, George (1864-1912); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[about 1485]

Signatures: A-S⁸ T⁶. Imprint from ISTC. Printed in two columns with 43 lines to a full column. Leaf t1 is signed T1. Printed headlines. Initial spaces, no guide-letters. The first and ...

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Consilia iuris consulti acutissimi domini Dyni de Mugello

Dinus de Mugello (1254-1300); Legnano, Johannes de (1480-1501); Scinzenzeler, Ulrich (1450-1500?); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Mcccclxxxxvi me[n]se Junii. [June 1496]

Signatures: [*]⁴ a-b⁶ c⁴. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on c4v reads: Expliciu[n]t egregia consilia perspicacissimi Iu.v. Interpretis d. Dyni d' Mucello excerpta fideliter ab eius original...

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Iohannis Tortellii Arretini Commentariorvm grammaticorvm de orthographia dictionvm e Graecis tractarvm prooemivm incipit ad sanctissimvm patrem Nicolavm Qvintvm Pontificem Maximvm

Tortelli, Giovanni (1400-1466); Bologni, Girolamo (1454-1517); Lichtenstein, Hermann (1494); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

pridie Idus Nouembres accuratissime impressum: Anno salutis.M.CCCC.LXXXIIII. [12 November 1484]

Signatures: A⁸ B-M⁶ a-b⁸ c-u⁶. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on u5r reads: Ioannis Tortellii Arretini co[m]mentarior[um] gra[m]maticor[um] de Orthographia dictionu[m] e græcis tractar[u...

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[Biblia latina]

Rainaldus de Novimagio (1476-1496); Theodor of Rendsburg (1477-1478); Riviere, Robert (1808-1882); Thorpe, W G (1828-1903); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

M.cccclxxviij. [1478]

Signatures: a-h¹⁰ i-l¹² m-t¹⁰ v¹⁴ x-z¹⁰ [et]¹⁰ [con]¹⁰ aa-gg¹⁰ hh⁸ ii-ll¹⁰ mm¹² nn-pp¹⁰ qq¹² A¹⁰ B-C¹². Imprint from colophon. Colophon on qq12v reads: Bibl...

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Fastorum

Ovid; Marsi, Paolo (1440-1484); Zani, Troilus (1492-1493); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Mcccclxxxxii. die xxvii. octobris. [27 October 1492]

Signatures: a-b⁸ c-z⁶ [&]⁶ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A⁸. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on A8v reads: Venetiis per. T.Z.P. Mcccclxxxxii. die xxvii. octobris. Title from the head of a3r. Print...

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De inventione, sive Rhetorica vetus. Rhetorica ad Herennium

Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Victorinus, Marius; Torti, Battista (1481-1536); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

M.cccclxxxi.die xxiiii.Ianuarii. [24 January 1481/82]

Signatures: a-l⁸ m⁴ A⁸ B-O⁶. De inventione, sive Rhetorica vetus with commentary by C. Marius Victorinus. Rhetorica ad Herennium with anonymous commentary. Printed with 56 lines of comme...

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Libri & tractatus sequentes sancti Bonauenture in hoc volumine continentur... [etc]

Bonaventure Saint, Cardinal (1217-1274); Koelhoff, Johann (1493); Hoeglein, Johann Valentin (1695-1726)); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno gratie M.cccc.lxxxvi.in vigilia natiuitatis domini. [24 December 1486]

Signatures: a-c⁸ d-f⁶ g-k⁸ l-m⁶ n⁸ o-p¹⁰ q⁶ r-z⁸ A-E⁸ Ff⁶ fF⁸ ff⁶ F-H⁸ I⁶ K⁸ L⁶ M-O⁸ P-Q⁶ R-S⁸ T-U⁶ X⁸. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on X7v reads: Lib...

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Opera divi Hieronymi in hoc volumine continenta... [etc.] (v.1-2)

Jerome, Saint (419); Gadolo, Bernardino (1463-1499); Gregori, Giovanni de'; Gregori, Gregorio de' (1480-1528); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno domini.1497. [1497-98]

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁸ chi-2chi⁶ a-c⁸ d¹⁰ e⁸ f⁶ g-h¹⁰ i⁸ k⁶ l-u⁸ x-y⁶, A-R⁸ S¹⁰ T-Z⁸ 2A-2B⁸ 2C⁶ 2D-2H⁸ 3D-3E⁸ 3F-3H⁶ 4D-4G⁶ 4H⁴ 2I⁸ 2K-2L⁶ 2a-2...

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Sermones Discipuli de tempore et de sanctis

Herolt, Johannes; Zell, Ulrich (1503); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno a nati[ui]tate d[omi]ni millesi[m]o quadringe[n]tesimo septuagesimo quarto die lune septima me[n]sis Marcij de quo sit b[ene]dictus qui sine fine viuit & regnat in celis. [7 March 1474]

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