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Subject(s)

• Incunabula—Germany—Cologne—1473—Specimens [Browse]

Related name

• Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636 [Browse]
• Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420 [Browse]
• Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459 [Browse]

Printer

• Solidi, Johannes, active 1473-1478 [Browse]
• Veldener, Johann, active 1473-1486 [Browse]

Former owner

• Streyters, Arnold, 1496-1560 [Browse]

Binder

• Pratt, W. (William Pitt) [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Incunabula [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Facio, Bartolomeo, -1457. De vitae felicitate. [Browse]
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. De remediis fortuitorum. [Browse]
• Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457. De libero arbitrio. [Browse]
• Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407-1458. Philalethes. [Browse]
• Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407-1458. De felicitate et miseria. [Browse]

Notes

• Title and imprint from ISTC.
• Incipit: Oracio dece[m] dialogo[rum] hoc co[n]te[n]to[rum] volumi[n]e materia[m] breuissi[m]e declara[n]s ...
• "The date 1473 appears on fol. 1v. The printer is tentatively identified as Johann Veldener by S. Corsten, in Journal of the Printing Historical Society 11 (1976/77) pp. 1-18, but as Schilling by Needham (Corsten Festschrift) pp. 121 ff."--ISTC
• Collation: folio: [a-m¹⁰]; 120 leaves unnumbered (last 3 pages blank).

Binding note

Ex copy: Bound in 19th century calf by W. Pratt, ruled and tooled in blind, rebacked.

Contents

• Isidorus Hispalensis: De spirituali consolatione
• Hieronymus: De consolatione infirmorum (i.e. Maximus Taurinensis: Epistula ad amicum aegrotum). Bartholomaeus Fatius
• De vitae felicitate
• Seneca: De remediis fortuitorum
• Laurentius Valla: De libero arbitrio
• Maphaeus Vegius: Philalethes; De felicitate ac miseria
• Poggius Florentinus: Contra avaritiam
• Bonaccursius de Montemagno: Controversia de nobilitate
• Dialogus consolatorius inter Antonium et Bernardum de casu rei publicae.

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Provenance

HSVR copy: 16th century ownership inscription at head of the first leaf: "pro Arnoldo Dyest dicto abb. et canonico Tonghlen" [i.e. Arnoldus Streyters (of Diest), abbot of Tongerlo from 1526 to 1560.

References

• Incunabula short title catalogue, id00145700
• Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M15282
• Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, I-180
• Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum , 6107*
• Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 235 (IB. 3752)
• Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, D-043
• Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, 584
• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, D-103
• Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, 4212
• Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 1101
• Voullième 869
• Panzer I p. 511, no. 2
• Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of books mostly from the presses of the first printers ... collected by Rush C. Hawkins, 57

Place name(s)

Germany Cologne

OCLC

228768922

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