Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(INCUNABULA LEAVES.) Group of 67 leaves. Mostly folio, varying dimensions; occasional soiling and dampstaining, mostly marginal. See also lot 57. Vp, 1470-93
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1. Thomas Aquinas. Catena aurea super quattuor evangelistas. Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1470.

2. Titus Livius. Historiae Romanae decades. Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1470.

3. Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Super prima parte Digesti novi. Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1471. Paper corrosion along bottom edge.

4. Nicolaus de Lyra. Postilla super totam Bibliam. Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1471-72. 2 disjunct leaves, one with paper corrosion at top of gutter edge and restoration in blank outer margin.

5. Lanfrancus de Oriano. Repetitiones disputationes necnon tractatus diversorum doctorum. Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

6. Scriptores rei rusticae. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1472. 8-line manuscript initial in gold with penwork decoration in colors.

7. Nicolaus de Lyra. Postilla super totam Bibliam. Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1472.

8. Leonardus de Utino. Sermones de sanctis. Cologne: Ulrich Zel, 1473.

9. Speculum humanae salvationis. Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1473. 2 hand-colored woodcut illustrations.

10. Vincent of Beauvais. Speculum historiale. Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, 1473. 2 disjunct leaves.

11. Diogenes Laertius. Vitae et sententiae philosophorum. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1475.

12. Rudimentum novitiorum. Lübeck: Lucas Brandis, 5 Aug. 1475.

13. Jacobus de Voragine. Legenda aurea sanctorum. Augsburg: Günther Zainer, not after 1475. Woodcut illustration. Tape discoloration along top edge of leaf.

14. Dante Alighieri. La Commedia. Brescia: Boninus de Boninis, 1476. Tipped in a copy of The Brescia Dante, Provo, 1975.

15. Thomas Aquinas. Catena aurea super quattuor evangelistas. Basel: Michael Wenssler, 1476.

16. Johannes de Turrecremata. Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis. Cologne: Petrus in Altis, 1478.

17. Plutarchus. Vitae illustrium virorum. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1478. 2 disjunct leaves.

18. Missale Magdeburgense. Magdeburg: Bartholomaeus Ghoten or Simon Koch, 1480-86?

19. Nicolaus Panormitanus de Tudeschis. Lectura super V libris Decretalium. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1487-88. 2 disjunct leaves.

20. Ludolphus de Saxonia. Tboeck vanden leven Jhesu Christi. Antwerp: Claes Leeu, 1488. Hand-colored woodcut illustration. Remnant of stub in blank gutter on recto.

21. Petrus Berchorius. Repertorium morale. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1489.

22. Petrus de Alliaco. Tractatus et Sermones. Strassburg: Georg Husner, 1490.

23. Hartmann Schedel. Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493. 3 disjunct leaves: one from the index, the other 2 with hand-colored small woodcuts.

24. Hartmann Schedel. Das Buch der Croniken. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493. 3 disjunct leaves with partly hand-colored small woodcuts.

25. Aristotle. Opera. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1495. Bifolium.

26. Publius Terentius Afer. Comoediae. Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1496. Woodcut illustration. Paper toned with small wormholes slightly affecting text.

27. Hartmann Schedel. Liber chronicarum. Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger, 1497. 2 disjunct leaves with hand-colored small woodcuts.

28. Hieronymus. Epistole. Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis, 1497. One column-width woodcut illustration.

29. Angelus Politianus. Opera. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1498. 24 leaves, mostly disjunct.

30. Etymologicum Magnum Graecum. Venice: Zacharias Kallierges, 1499.

31. Julius Firmicus Maternus et al. Mathesis (De nativitatibus libri VIII). Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1499. 2 consecutive leaves. Both lightly dampstained in gutters.

32. Bifolium from an unidentified legal work.