BEIN Zi +5574 Copy 1: Variant: z6r ends "de diasprea". Binder's stamp: Thibaron-Joly., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: 2⁴ a-y⁸ z¹⁰ A-E⁸ F⁴., Sometimes attributed to Leon Battista Alberti., and Woodcuts have been attributed to Giovanni Bellino due to the ones on [10b] and [21a] being signed "b." Others have attributed them to Raffaelle. Alexander Pope thought them by Francia or Andrea de Mantegna. Lake Price attributed them to Carpaccio. Used by others without acknowledgement.
Publisher:
in aedibus Aldi Manutii,
Subject (Name):
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472, Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, printer, and Thibaron-Joly--Binding
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527 Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515, printer
Published / Created:
mense decembri 1499.
Call Number:
Zi +5574
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
Description:
Sometimes attributed to Leon Battista Alberti., Variant: Folio z6r ends "diaspre di". Binder's stamp: Bound by F. Bedford., and Woodcuts have been attributed to Giovanni Bellino due to the ones on [10b] and [21a] being signed "b." Others have attributed them to Raffaelle. Alexander Pope thought them by Francia or Andrea de Mantegna. Lake Price attributed them to Carpaccio. Used by others without acknowledgement.
Apparently a proofsheet or prospectus of an edition that was never published., BEIN ZZi 07: Imperfect: torn in two halves, with slight damage to text; apparently removed from a binding., and Kollicker's type 282.
Balbi, Giovanni, d. 1298 Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468
Published / Created:
1460]
Call Number:
ZZi 146
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
[Catholicon]
Description:
Bound in blind stamped pigskin binding with elaborate bosses and clasps., Copy of the variation with the following earmarks: (a) printed on vellum; (b) incipit on leaf [1]a in red; (c) one-line space on leaf [372]a between text and colophon., Imperfect: Wormed at beginning., Rubricated throughout in red and blue., and With the bookplate of the Baron H. Landau. From the collections of the Library of the Diocese of Mainz, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Felix Solar, the Earl of Crawford and Madame Finaly.
Publisher:
Printer of the Catholicon (Johann Gutenberg?),
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church.--Archdiocese of Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany).--Library--Ownership, Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay,--Earl of,--1812-1880--Ownership, De Landau, Horace,--barone,--1824-1903--Bookplate, Finaly,--Madame,--d. 1938--Ownership, and Solar, Félix,--1815-1871--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library, Latin language, Medieval and modern--Dictionaries, and Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500
BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: Binding of stamped calf on wooden boards from between 1482 and 1492. Originally the volume had 5 brass bosses on each board, 2 are now wanting from the front board. Remnants of brass clasps., BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Presentation inscription: Hic liber est mei Jeronimj Monetarii de Feltkirchen, arciu[m] ast medicinae doctoris, quem mihi dono dedit Bernardus Walther, Ciuis Nure[n]berge, sua etate in mathematica peritissim[us], anno salut[is] 1492 in dieb[us] Julii., BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: With: Georg von, 1423-1461. Theoricae novae planetarum. Nuremberg: Joannes Regiomontanus, ca. 1474. Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476. Vniversis bonarum artium studiosis Ioannes de Monteregio .S.D.P. Nuremberg: Joannes Regiomontanus, ca. 1475., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸., Title from incipit in red (leaf a2r)., Translated from Arabic by Adelard of Bath; edited by Campano da Novara. While books I-XIII are Euclid's (cf. Th. Heath. The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. 1956, v.3, p. 519), Book XIV is a work of the 2d cent. by Hypsicles and book XV the work of a Roman land-surveyor of the 6th century. For a discussion by B.L. van der Waerden of Euclid's sources see Enc. Brit., 15th ed., Micro. IV, p 589., With dedicatory letter by Erhard Ratdolt., and Woodcut initials, large and small, and diagrams in margins throughout; woodcut three-sided border on leaf a2r.
Adelard, of Bath, ca. 1116-1142, Altschul, Frank,--1887-1981--Bookplate, Brandenburg, Hilprand,--1442-1514--Presentation inscription to Reichskartause Buxheim, Campano, da Novara, d. 1296, Hypsicles, of Alexandria, Münzer, Hieronymus,--d. 1508--Presentation inscription from B. Walther, Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 8, Reichskartause Buxheim Presentation inscription from Hilprand Brandenburg, and Walther, Bernhard,--1430-1504--Presention inscription to H. Münzer
Subject (Topic):
Geometry--Early works to 1800, Incunabula in Yale Library, and Mathematics, Greek--Early works to 1800
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, d. 1497 Reuwich, Erhard, fl. 1483-1486
Published / Created:
anno salutis 1486 die xj Februarij.
Call Number:
Zi +156
Image Count:
12
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
An account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, with outstanding illustrations, and with information on various eastern peoples met en route.
Alternative Title:
[Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam] and Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum Dominicum in Iherusalem ...
Description:
Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Inscription: Pro Conventu Olomucensi ad S. Bernardinum. Illegible stamp., Capital spaces without guide letters., Imperfect: Final blank leaf wanting., Imprint from colophon, where name of printer precedes place of publication., The first illustrated travel book printed, and the first to include images of real places. Also the first to include folding plates; the panorama of Venice is over five feet long. The view of Jerusalem is the earliest printed map of the Holy Land based on a contemporary eyewitness account., Title from incipit to preface (leaf 4r)., Types of Peter Schöffer used. Cf. GW 5075., Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., and Woodcuts by Erhard Reuwich.
Publisher:
P[er] Erhardu[m] Reüwich de Traiecto Inferiori,
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem--Maps, Methone (Greece), Palestine --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Rhodes (Greece), Sinai (Egypt) --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, d. 1497 --Travel and Reuwich, Erhard, fl. 1483-1486
Subject (Topic):
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Palestine--Early works to 1800, Incunabula in Yale Library, Monasteries--Czech Republic--Olomouc--Inscription, and Travelers' writings, German--Early works to 1800
BEIN ZZi 07: For Kachelofen's Psalters see H. Bohatta, Liturgische Bibliographie des XV. Jahrhunderts, no. 848-854, 886 (n.d.), 909-911 (1485), 929-930 (1497). This may be no. 910. Apparently removed from a binding. Laid in is a letter from Konrad Haebler (May 7, 1909), saying that he had compared this proofsheet with the Gandersheim Abbey copy of the Kachelofen Psalter, and found it in agreement, except for misprints and omissions. and Proofsheet of verso of one leaf (26 lines) and recto of another.