Incunabula

And piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners. Original woodcut leaf from Weidlitz's striking series of woodcuts produced for Petrach's Trostspiegel published in 1532.

A very large leaf in Black Letter (Gothic) type from a Latin Vulgate Bible published in Cologne in 1480 by the printer, Nicolaus Gotz or Goetz. This is just twenty-five years after Gutenberg's first Bible of 1455!

Estate sale find, antique double sided antiphonal vellum sheet music leaf. Great graphics, displays nicely.

And piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners. Original woodcut leaf from Weidlitz's striking series of woodcuts produced for Petrach's Trostspiegel published in 1532.

And piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners. More than any of his fellows he knew how to break up the surfaces of his blocks into rich tapestries. and to keep the notation of fact interesting.

Hieronymus Andreas Formschneider printed this first edition in 1525 at Nuremburg. in totality and contains various lines of gothic type and a 133 x 183 mm. This leaf contains staining. A Great Gift For Any Manuscript Collector.

Original woodcut leaf from Weidlitz's striking series of woodcuts produced for Petrach's Trostspiegel published in 1532. and piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners.

Sebastian Brant (1458-1521) was a humanist scholar of many competencies. Trained in classics and law at the University of Basel, Brant later lectured in jurisprudence there and practiced law in his native city of Strasbourg.

Active in Venice between 1489 and 1538, he and his heirs distinguished themselves particularly for their large number of liturgical books, missals and breviaries, many with beautiful illustrations, as well as illustrated books in the vernacular for the mass market.

– Soncino, 1490. - Soncino, 1490 - Inconbula. printers first the among was family Soncino The.1483 circa in Italy, Soncino of city the in house. tractates print to first the was family Soncino The.

There is a lovely seven-line initial "S", in gold leaf with blue and pink accents and florals. Theverso sixty lines of two columns of Gothic script; in Latin, on vellum (235x310mm). Beautifully created in France with two five-line letters in alternating colors of red and blue with lovely decorative pen work in red and blue completes this verso.

Incunabula Leaf. Characteristic to the incunabula printing period, when printers attempted to imitate the shapes of handwritten letters. Dom Samuel d’Ortas and Sons, Leiria: 1494. Vinograd, Leiria 6; Steinschneider, p. 4, no. 18; Goff Heb-23; Thes.

Age:Lyon, Fradin, 1517. Beautiful print in red and black. Alltogether clean, with very slight staining in places. Leaves 1-3 and leaf 16 missing. Elegant and impressive early print.

This is an incunabula leaf from the "Summa Angelica de Casibus Conscientiae" written by Angelus de Clavasio. Georgius Arrivabenus printed it on June 4 1492 at Venice from a first edition printed in 1476 and it underwent 31 editions into the 16th century.

It was traditionally associated with the greatness of Christ during His Passion and of the malice of His persecutors. There is a single column featuring nineteen lines of Gothic Script. The seven-line "S" in blue and red ink is decorated with spirals and dots Quarter-page border on left extending lenght of the page with alternating blue and red motif Theverso nineteen lines of GOthic script with alternating blue and red initials.

Thebook of hours is a Christian devotional book popular in the Middle Ages. Books of hours were usually written in Latin. Marble end pages, Illuminated manuscript on vellum, 13 lines in Gothic brown ink.

It was printed in Venice in 1591. for more information.

Original woodcut leaf from Weidlitz's striking series of woodcuts produced for Petrach's Trostspiegel published in 1532. and piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners.

Original woodcut leaf from Weidlitz's striking series of woodcuts produced for Petrach's Trostspiegel published in 1532. and piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners.

The Woodcut shows a scene from Book 1 of the Aeneid. The highly evocative woodcuts capture the essence of Virgil's Arcadian and rustic landscapes as well as the epic and frequently violent sweep of the Aeneid.

This is a leaf of Incunabula from The Summa de vitiis by the French Dominican William Peraldus. It is a Latin treatise written before 1250 and very probably intended for use in preaching and pastoral care.

A leaf from an illuminated Safavid Koran, Persia, circa 1575 A.D., Arabic manuscript on paper, (155 x 90 mm.). Condition of this leaf is fine [F]. for more information.

A leaf from an illuminated Safavid Koran, Persia, circa 1575 A.D., Arabic manuscript on paper, (155 x 90 mm.). Condition of this leaf is fine [F]. for more information.

Size: 8” x 12.5”.

Active in Venice between 1489 and 1538, he and his heirs distinguished themselves particularly for their large number of liturgical books, missals and breviaries, many with beautiful illustrations, as well as illustrated books in the vernacular for the mass market.

A leaf from a Liturgical Manuscript, Seeon Monastery, Upper Bavaria, 1650 Manuscript in Latin, written in Roman and Gothic hands with music in red and black throughout, recto and verso, on laid paper, occasional marginal soiling and minor stains, with bookplate dated 1634 of Honorat Kolb, Abbot of Seeon Monastery.

A leaf from a large Missale Romanum (305x215mm), dated 1566, and printed by Giovanni Varisco in Venice. There are two columns of printed Gothic text in back ink with forty-one lines of text per column.

Active in Venice between 1489 and 1538, he and his heirs distinguished themselves particularly for their large number of liturgical books, missals and breviaries, many with beautiful illustrations, as well as illustrated books in the vernacular for the mass market.

A very large leaf from a Latin Vulgate Bible published in Venice in 1483 by the printer, Johannes Herbort. II, p. 911. This is just twenty-eight years after Gutenberg's 1st Bible of 1455! By definition, an incunabulum (the singular of "incunabula") or "incunable" (French) or "inkunabel" (German) must be printed from 1455 to 1500.

And piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners. Original woodcut leaf from Weidlitz's striking series of woodcuts produced for Petrach's Trostspiegel published in 1532.

Basile [Basel], [1619]. An ancient and rare Bible. The Ludwig Kienig printing press, published by Johannes Buchstorf. Antique wood and leather binding is amazing ! Antique wood and leather binding, with buckle remnants.

And piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners. Original woodcut leaf from Weidlitz's striking series of woodcuts produced for Petrach's Trostspiegel published in 1532.

He is the Lion of Judah in Revelation. There is alos a lovely Historiated Letter. Active in Venice between 1489 and 1538, he and his heirs distinguished themselves particularly for their large number of liturgical books, missals and breviaries, many with beautiful illustrations, as well as illustrated books in the vernacular for the mass market.

Active in Venice between 1489 and 1538, he and his heirs distinguished themselves particularly for their large number of liturgical books, missals and breviaries, many with beautiful illustrations, as well as illustrated books in the vernacular for the mass market.

And piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners. More than any of his fellows he knew how to break up the surfaces of his blocks into rich tapestries. and to keep the notation of fact interesting.

And piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners. More than any of his fellows he knew how to break up the surfaces of his blocks into rich tapestries. and to keep the notation of fact interesting.

J. Chrysostomus :Opera (Part 1-3). 10 ll, 62 ll, 104 ll, 140 ll.

Superb botanical woodcut from THE RARE FOLIO EDITION OF WALTER RYFF'S DISTILLING BOOK Ryff (Walther). New gross Distillierbuch Wolgegründter Künstlicher Distillation. Describes the production and distillation, etc.

Original woodcut leaf from Weidlitz's striking series of woodcuts produced for Petrach's Trostspiegel published in 1532. and piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners.

Sebastian Brant (1458-1521) was a humanist scholar of many competencies. Trained in classics and law at the University of Basel, Brant later lectured in jurisprudence there and practiced law in his native city of Strasbourg.

[1] From 1488, he was a pupil of Martin Schongauer in Colmar, who died during his two years there, before Burgkmair completed the normal period of training. Hans Burgkmair the Elder (1473–1531) was a German painter and woodcut printmaker.

Subsequently they were used by Giunta in editions of 1519 and 1522.

Hirschfeld, Ludovic (1816-1876). A protege of the great anatomist Bourgery, Hirschfeld was professor of anatomy at the University of Warsaw. Paris: VICTOR MASSON, sans date, 1853.

Original woodcut leaf from Weidlitz's striking series of woodcuts produced for Petrach's Trostspiegel published in 1532. Recto and verso of one leaf. and piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners.

Hirschfeld, Ludovic (1816-1876). A protege of the great anatomist Bourgery, Hirschfeld was professor of anatomy at the University of Warsaw. Paris: VICTOR MASSON, sans date, 1853.

[A leaf from a Graduale Romanum, Ilbenstadt, Germany, 1725 - 1726] for a choir in a fine hand, title and leaves in red and black with six staves to a full page. Decorative borders, Decorative Head pieces and large initials scattered throughout.