Incunabula & 16th Century Printing

Among the first thousand books purchased for the University Library from a private owner in 1962 were a dozen volumes printed in the 1500s.  More recent examples of incunabula (i.e. books printed before 1501) have been added to this section, including a 1487 Peter Lombard and two leaves from William Caxton's 1482 Polychronicon.

• Petrus Lombardus, Bishop of Paris (ca. 1100-1160)
  • [Sententiarum libri quatuor]  Liber sententiae magistri Petri Lom. una cum conclusionibus magistri Henrici Gorichen….
    Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 10 June 1487.
• Bible.  New Testament.  Latin.  Vulgate.
  • Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra. [volume 4]
    Nuremberg:  Anton Koberger, 3 December 1487.
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.)
  • Tragedie Senece cum commento.
    Venice: Lazarus de Soardis, 12 December 1492.
• Franciscus, de Mayronis (ca. 1285-ca. 1328)
  • Sermones de sanctis [with other tracts].
    Venice:  Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, 11 February 1493/1494.
• Martialis, Marcus Valerus (ca. 40-102)
  • [Epigrammata.]  Martialis cum duobus commentis.
    Venice:  Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, August 1495.
• Bible.  Latin.  Vulgate.
  • Biblia cum tabula nuper impressa et cum summaries novitur editis.
    Venice:  Simon Bevilacqua, 8 May 1498.
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.)
  • Tullius de officiis cum commentariis Petri Marsi eiusquae recognitione…
    Venice:  [Philippus Pincius], 10 December 1500.
• Sequentiæ
  • Textus sequentiarum cum expositione lucida ac facili sacre scripture…
    [Cologne:  Heinrich Quentell, ca. 1500.]
• Abu Ma’shar (d. 886).
  • Albumasar flores astrologie.
    Venice:  Joannes Baptista Sessa, ca. 1500.

Incunabula Leaves                                       

Theophylactus, Archbishop of Ochrida (ca. 1050-ca. 1108)

• • Enarrationes in epistoles S. Pauli.
    Rome:  Udalricus Gallus (Ulrich Han), 25 January 1477.
    [One leaf]:  Leaf 1.Ad.Ro.xi.
    Source:  Haebler, Konrad.  Der italienische Wiegendruck in Original-Typenbeispielen (1927), tafel 34.
• Higden, Ranulphus (d. 1364)
  • Polychronicon.
    Westminster:  William Caxton, 1482.
    [Two leaves]:  Liber primus, leaf h4; Liber sextus, Capitulum 18.
• Thucydides
  • Historia belli Peloponnesiaci.
    Treviso:  Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 1485.
    [One leaf]:  Last leaf of book eight.
    Source:  Haebler, Konrad.  Der italienische Wiegendruck in Original-Typenbeispielen (1927), tafel 47.
• Cavalca, Domenico (ca. 1270-1342)
  • Esposizione del Credo.
    Venice:  Peregrinus Pasqualibus, 25 September 1489.
    [One leaf]:  Leaf 176[?].
    Source:  Haebler, Konrad.  Der italienische Wiegendruck in Original-Typenbeispielen (1927), tafel 85.
• Bartolus de Saxoferrato (1314-1357)
  • Super prima et secunda parte Digesti veteris.
    Milan:  Leonardus Pachel, 16 September 1490.
    [One leaf]:  Leaf t1.
    Source:  Haebler, Konrad.  Der italienische Wiegendruck in Original-Typenbeispielen (1927), tafel 21, var.
• Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514)
  • Liber chronicarum. 
    Nuremberg:  Anton Koberger, 12 July 1493.
    [One leaf]:  Folium lxx.
• Jerome, Saint (d. 419 or 420).
  • Epistole vulgare.
    Ferrara:  Lorenzo Rossi, October 1497.
    [One leaf]:  Includes Epistola lxvi.

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