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Exposicio mistica super exodum Rosenwald 1
Exposicio mistica super exod[um]. [Germany, ca. 1150]. [116] l., the first and last wanting. 18 cm.
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Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings Rosenwald 4
[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings].
[South Germany, ca. 1410]
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[Book of hours]

Rosenwald 14
Catholic Church. [Book of hours]. Book of hours (Ms. Library of Congress. Rosenwald ms. 10) 1524. 113 leaves (23 lines (calendar 33 lines)), bound: parchment, col. ill.; 24 cm.
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Rosenwald 19
Biblia pauperum. [Netherlands or Germany, ca. 1470] [40] leaves. illus. 29 cm.
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Ars Moriendi Rosenwald 20
Ars moriendi. [Germany, ca. 1466] [24] leaves. 11 illus. 28.7 cm.
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Rosenwald 21
Ars memorandi per figuras Evangelistarum. [Germany, ca. 1470] [30] leaves. illus. 27 cm.
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Ars moriendi. [Germany, ca. 1470?] [14] leaves. illus. 35 cm.
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Bible. N.T. Revelation. Latin. Selections. 1470. Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis. Rosenwald 23
Bible. N.T. Revelation. Latin. Selections. 1470. Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis. [Germany, ca. 1470] [48] leaves. illus. 31 cm.
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Passio Christi. [Germany, ca. 1470?] [17] leaves. woodcuts: illus. 13.9 cm.
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Rosenwald 50
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Historia Griseldis.[Ulm, Johann Zainer, 1473 or 1474]. [12] leaves (the last blank?, wanting). woodcuts: illus., border, initials. 29.8 cm. (fol.)
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Aesop's fables. German. Vita et Fabulae.

Rosenwald 75
Aesop's fables. German. Vita et Fabulae. [Augsburg, Anton Sorg, ca. 1479] [37], xxviii [i.e. cxxviii], [15] leaves. woodcuts: illus., initials. 30 cm. (fol.)
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Reysen und Wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land, Indien und Persien.

Rosenwald 79
Reysen und Wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land, Indien und Persien.. German. [Basel, Bernhart Richel, 1481 or 1482] 103 leaves (the first blank). woodcuts: illus., initials. 28.5 cm. (fol.)
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Buch der Natur

Rosenwald 80
Buch der Natur. Augsburg, Johann Bämler, 20 Aug. (Montag vor S. Bartholomaeus) 1481. [194] leaves ([1], [2], and [194] blank, the first and last wanting). woodcuts: illus. 31 cm. (fol.)
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Vita et Fabulae

Rosenwald 83
Vita et Fabulae. [Strassburg, Heinrich Knoblochtzer, ca. 1481]. [114] leaves. woodcuts: illus., initials, 2 borders. 27.5 cm. (fol.).
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Rosenwald 97
Concilium zu Constanz. Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 2 Sept. (Aftermontag nach Egidi) 1483. cclvii [i.e. cclix], [1] leaves (the first (?) and last blank, wanting). woodcuts: illus., coats of arms. 30.5 cm. (fol.)
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Des edlen Ritter Morgeners Walfart in Sant Thomas Land Rosenwald 182
Des edlen Ritter Morgeners Walfart in Sa[n]t Thomas Land, in Gesang Weisse Erfurt, Hans Spörer, 1497.[6] leaves. woodcut: illus. 18.7 cm. (4to) Bound with Rosenwald 183 and 191.
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Von de[m] Künig in de[m] Pat, wy er geschendet wart Rosenwald 183
Von de[m] Künig in de[m] Pat, wy er geschendet wart. Erfurt, Hans Spörer, [14]97. [8] leaves. woodcuts: illus. 18.7 cm. (4to) Bound with Rosenwald 182 and 191.
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Die Künigin vo[n] Franckreich, dy der Marschalk gege[n] dem Künig versage[n] wart Rosenwald 191
Die Künigin vo[n] Franckreich, dy der Marschalk gege[n] dem Künig versage[n] wart ... Erfurt, Hans Spörer, 1498. [10] leaves. woodcuts: illus. 18.7 cm. (4to) Bound with Rosenwald 182 and 183.
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Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae Rosenwald 239
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468. Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae. Rome, Stephan Plannck, 13 Mar. 1484. [18] leaves of woodcuts: illus. 27.8 cm. (fol.)
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Vita et Aesopus moralisatus Rosenwald 242
Vita et Aesopus moralisatus [Aesop's Fables, Italian and Latin.] Naples: [Germani fidelissimi for] Francesco del Tuppo, 13 Feb. 1485. [168] leaves ([1], [44], and [168] blank, wanting), woodcuts: illus., initials, border (leaf [45a]). 27.5 cm. (fol.)
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Libro de la vita de philosophi et delle loro elegantissime sentencie

Rosenwald 251
Diogenes Laertius. Libro de la vita de philosophi et delle loro elegantissime sentencie. Venice, Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 20 May1489. [40] leaves (the first blank). 22 cm. (4to) Bound with Rosenwald 265


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dilettere and; di orationi uolgare, con laproposta and risposta co[m]posto per Christophoro Landini

Rosenwald 257
Landini, Cristoforo, 1424-1504, supposed author. Formulario dilettere and; di orationi uolgare, con laproposta and risposta co[m]posto per Christophoro Landini. [Florence, Bartolommeo di Libri, ca. 1490]. [44] leaves. woodcut: illus. 21 cm. (4to)
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Rosenwald 265
Fior de virtu. Venice, Matteo Capcasa (de Codeca), 14 July 1492. [30] leaves. woodcuts: illus., initials. 20.5 cm. (4to). Bound with Rosenwald 251.

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Fior de virtu

Rosenwald 270
Fior de virtu. Venice, Matteo Capcasa (de Codeca), 14 July 1492. [30] leaves. woodcuts: illus., initials. 20.5 cm. (4to)
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Esopus [moralisatus].

Rosenwald 280
Esopus [Moralisatus]. Venice, Manfredus de Bonellis, de Monteferrato, 17 Aug. 1493.
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[et] Euangelii [et] Lectioni vulgari in lingua toschana

Rosenwald 298
[Bible. N.T. Epistles. Italian. 1495.] Epistole [et] Euangelii [et] Lectioni vulgari in lingua toschana. Florence, Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, for Piero Pacini, 27 July 1495. [1], ii-cxxii, [2] leaves. woodcuts: illus., initials. 27.4 cm. (fol.)
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Fabulae

Rosenwald 306
Fabulae. [Naples, Cristannus Preller, ca. 1495]. [10] leaves. woodcut: illus. 21.5 cm. (8vo).
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Predica dellarte del bene morire

Rosenwald 318
Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498. Predica dellarte del bene morire. [Florence, Bartolommeo di Libri, after 2 Nov. 1496] [18] leaves. woodcuts: illus. 20 cm. (4to). Bound with Rosenwald 349 and Rosenwald 350.


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Esopo con la uita sua historiale [e] uulgare.

Rosenwald 335
Esopo con la uita sua historiale [e] uulgare. Milan, Guillermi Le Signerre fratres, 15 Sept. 1498. [38] leaves. woodcuts: illus., borders, initials. 20.2 cm. (4to).
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili,

Rosenwald 340b
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, vbi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet. Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527. Venice, Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Dec. 1499. [234] leaves. woodcuts: illus. 32.5 cm. (fol.)
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Rosenwald 345
La rappresentazione di Giuseppe figliuolo di Giacobbe. [Florence, ca. 1500] 8 l. woodcuts: illus. 21 cm. Bound with Rosenwald 853, Rosenwald 854 and Rosenwald 855.
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Storia di Ottinello e Giulia.Storia di Ottinello e Giulia

Rosenwald 348
Storia di Ottinello e Giulia.Storia di Ottinello e Giulia. [Florence, Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, ca. 1500] [4] leaves. woodcut: illus. 21 cm. (4to).
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Ten thousand martyrs.

Rosenwald 349
Ten thousand martyrs. Italian. La passione de diecimila martyri crucifixi di Iesu Christo dequali scriue sancto Girolamo nel suo martyrilogio che furono crucifixi adi xxii di giugno. [Florence, ca. 1500?] [8] leaves. woodcut: illus. 20 cm. (4to). Bound with Rosenwald 318 and Rosenwald 350.


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Rosenwald 350
Arte del ben morire cioe i[n]gratia di Dio, compilato & composto per lo reuerendo Cardinale di Fermo neglianni del Nostro Signore M.cccc.lii. [Florence, Bartolommeo di Libri? 150-] [44] p. illus. 20 cm. Bound with Rosenwald 318 and Rosenwald 349.

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Von einer Frouwen genant Melusina

Rosenwald 356
Couldrette, 14th/15th cent. Livre de Lusignan. German. Von einer Frouwen genant Melusina. [Basel, Bernhard Richel, ca. 1476] [100] leaves (the last blank). woodcuts: illus., border. 28.7 cm. (fol.)
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Le rommant de la Rose

Rosenwald 396
Guillaume, de Lorris, fl. 1230. Le rommant de la Rose. [Lyons, Guillaume Le Roy, ca. 1487] [150] leaves. woodcuts: illus. 28.8 cm. (fol.)
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The Dance of Death

Rosenwald 406
Dance of Death, Chorea, ab eximio Macabro versibus Alemanicis edita et a Petro Desrey ... nuper emendata. Paris, Gui Marchand, for Geoffroy de Marnef, 15 Oct. (Id. Oct.) 1490. [16] leaves. woodcuts: illus. 26.5 cm. (fol).
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Les apologues [et] fables de Laurens Valle, tra[n]slatees de latin en francois.

Rosenwald 407
Les apologues [et] fables de Laurens Valle, tra[n]slatees de latin en francois. [Paris, Antoine Vérard, ca. 1490]. [36] leaves. woodcuts: illus. 28.5 cm. (fol.)
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Lart de bien viure et de bien mourir, etcet[era].

Rosenwald 424
Lart de bien viure et de bien mourir, etcet[era]. Paris [Antoine Vérard] for André Bocard, 12 Feb. 1453 [i.e. 1493/94] [200] leaves ([73] and the last leaf blank). woodcuts: illus., publisher's device. 27.7 cm. (fol.)
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Les cent histoires de Troye: l'Epistre de Othea, deesse de prudence, enuoyee a lesperit cheualereux Hector de Troye, auec cent hystoires

Rosenwald 449
Christine, de Pisan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431. Les cent histoires de Troye: l'Epistre de Othea, deesse de prudence, enuoyee a lesperit cheualereux Hector de Troye, auec cent hystoires. Hector Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, [ca. 1499-1500] [52] leaves: ill. (woodcuts) 26 cm. (4to)
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Horas de Nossa S[e]nora segundo costume Roma[n]o, co[n] as horas do Spirito Sa[n]cto

Rosenwald 451
Catholic Church. Horas de Nossa S[e]nora segundo costume Roma[n]o, co[n] as horas do Spirito Sa[n]cto. Paris [Wolfgang Hopyl for] Narcisse Bruno, 13 Feb. 1500.
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Cordiale quattuor novissimorum

Rosenwald 462
Cordiale quattuor novissimorum. Gouda, G[erard] L[eeu] 6 Aug. 1477. [1], lviii, [1], lix-lxvi leaves. 22 cm. (4to)
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Fabule [et] vita Esopi

Rosenwald 539
Fabule [et] vita Esopi, cum fabulis Auiani, Alfonsij, Pogij Florentini, [et] aliorum, cum optimo co[m]mento, bene diligenterq[ue] correcte [et] emendate. Antwerp, Gerardus Leeu, 26 Sept. 1486. [104] leaves. woodcuts: illus. 26.8 cm. (fol.)
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A book of the chesse moralysed

Rosenwald 558
Jacobus, de Cessolis, A book of the chesse moralysed. [Westminster] William Caxton [1482?] [84] leaves (the first blank). woodcuts: 24 illus. 27.5 cm.
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AL Ingratitude vtterly settying apart, we owe to calle to our myndes the manyfolde gyftes of grace ...

Rosenwald 559
Gerardus, de Vliederhoven, 14th cent. AL Ingratitude vtterly settying apart, we owe to calle to our myndes the manyfolde gyftes of grace ... [Westminster, London, England]: ... Which book was deliuered to me William Caxton ..., ... fiinisshed on the euen of thannunciacion of our said bilissid Lady fallyng on the wednesday the xxiiij daye of Marche. In the xix yeer of Kying Edwarde the fourthe [24 Mar. 1479] [156] p.; 30 cm. (fol.)
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Bound with Rosenwald 560, Rosenwald 562 and Rosenwald 563.

Thus endeth thys Book of the Dictes and Notable Wyse Sayenges of the Phylosophers/Late Translated and Drawen Out of Frenshe into our Englisshe Tonge by Ny Forseide Lord Therle of Ryuers and Lord Skales ...

Rosenwald 560
Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafā. 11th cent.Thus endeth thys book of the dictes and notable Wyse sayenges of the phylosophers/late translated and drawen out of frenshe into our Englisshe tonge by my forseide lord Therle of Ryuers and lord Skales ... [Westminster, London, England: William Caxton], ... fynisshed the xviij day of the moneth of Nouembre, and the seuenteth yere of the regne of kyng Edward the fourth [18 Nov. 1477, i.e. ca. 1480]. [156] p. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
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Bound with Rosenwald 559, Rosenwald 562 and Rosenwald 563.

Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute.

Rosenwald 562
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute. [Westminster, London, England]: ... Enprynted by me symple persone William Caxton ..., ... the xij day of August the yere of our lord MCCCClxxxj [12 Aug. 1481] [240] p.; 30 cm. (fol.)
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Bound with Rosenwald 559, Rosenwald 560 and Rosenwald 563.

Rosenwald 563
Here begynneth the table of the rubrices of this presente volume named the Mirrour of the World or thymage of the same. [Westminster, London, England: William Caxton, 1481]
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Bound with Rosenwald 559, Rosenwald 560 and Rosenwald 562.
Livre des faits d’armes et de chevalerie. English. Boke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye. Rosenwald 570
Christine, de Pisan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431. Livre des faits d’armes et de chevalerie. English. Boke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye. [Westminster], William Caxton, 14 July 1489 (4th year of the reign of Henry VII) [144] leaves (the last blank, wanting). 27.2 cm. (fol.)
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Thesoro dela Passion sacratissima de Nuestro Redemptor. Rosenwald 582
Li, Andreacute;s de, Thesoro dela Passion sacratissima de Nuestro Redemptor. Saragossa, Paul Hurus, 2 Oct. 1494.
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