(1477) Deventer.

Richard Paffroet (1477-1500).

36268 SABUNDE_(Raymond de). Fol. 1: amor est pmů donu. & res data est tm signū amoris . . . Fol. 8: Incipit theologia naturalis siue liber creaturar' specialit' de homine & de natura eius inquatum homo . . . oposit' a venerabili viro mgro Raymudo de Sabúde. sm. folio, Gothic letter, 256 leaves (of which the first is a blank), double columns, 39 lines per column; hf. vellum, £2. 10s Explicit liber creaturar' seu nature siue de hoie

Impssus Dauētrie p me Rychardu paffroed. (circ. 1480) The text and colophon end on the obverse of the last leaf. On the reverse nothing is printed but the words Theologia naturalis, as a sort of final intitulation. On the blank first page, in a handwriting contemporary with the book, there is a record of ownership by the monastery of Regular Canons at Aachen, to whom it had been presented by Wilhelm Lentz. 36269 GUILHELMUS DE GOUDA. Title: Officù misse. Fol. 2: Tractatus de expositiõe misse Edit' a fratre guilhelmo de gouda sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 30 leaves (the last a blank and the first containing nothing but the two words of intitulation), 28 lines per page; bound up with the other pieces described below, in contemporary wooden boards covered with stamped leather, £4. 10s

Impressu dauatrie in impressura platee episcopi (Paffroed circa 1485) The following are the titles of the works bound up with the preceding Officium Missæ:-1. Collectura insignis duar' passionum domini nostri Gothic letter 68 leaves (the last blank), S. n.-2. Libellus de regimine rusticor' Gothic letter, 62 leaves (first and last blank), 30 lines per page, Louanii, Iohan. de Westfalia (circ. 1485)-3. Speculum Peccatoris, MS. neatly written about 1485.-The inside leaves of the binding are portions of a lectionary of the eleventh century on vellum.

...

36270 VOCABULARI' OPTIM' GEMMA VOCABULOR' merito dict' Quia duob' milibus optimor' vocabulor' maior ē priori gēmula et multo correctior, sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 237 printed leaves, with signatures, 39 lines per page, fine copy bound in smooth red leather over wooden boards, £6. 10s

Impressa Dauetrie Per me Richardū pafrat.
Anno dni. M.cccc.xcv (1495)

The fly-leaves are from various vellum MSS. and include four pages of a metrical Latin glossary transcribed in the fourteenth century.-On the titlepage of the book are two notes of ownership written by successive nunlibrarians of a Convent of Mary Magdalen, in the sixteenth century. The printed book-plate of the Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg's library (about 1720) is pasted on the back of the title.

Jacob of Breda (1485-1519).

36271 ELEGANTIARỮ VIGINTI PCEPTA incipiunt, sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 16 leaves, 28 lines per page; maroon morocco extra, gilt edges, by Simier, £4. (s. 1.) Per me iacobum de breda (circa 1487) 36272 BOETII viri celeberrimi de consolatione Philosophie liber cũ optimo commento beati thome, sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 157 printed leaves; in the original boards covered with stamped leather, £3. 16s Per me Iacobum de Breda in Dauentria Millesimo quadrigentesimnonigesimo (sic) septimo

(1477) Gouda.

Gheraert Leeu (1477-84).

36273 SEPTEM SAPIENTES. Fol. 2: Incipit historia septem sapientu Rome sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 79 leaves, 27 lines per page; with 4 full-page woodcuts, multiplied by repetition to 18; a few letters torn away on the eighth leaf; blue morocco extra, gilt edges, VERY RARE, £42.

S. n. (Gouda, Gheraert Leeu, 1479-80) No copy is known in the Dutch libraries; it is described in Mr. Campbell's Annales from one in the University library. The book was unknown to Brunet and his continuator.

31274 DIALOGUS CREATURARUM. Fol. 1: (P)refacio i librù qui dicit' dyalog' creaturaru moralizat' omni materie morali iocudo et edificatiuo modo applicabilis Incipit feliciter . . . Fol. 10: Dyalogus creaturaru optime moralizatus sm. folio, First Edition, Gothic letter, 102 leaves, 34 lines per full page, with 124 curious woodcuts, the first page of text decorated with a woodcut border and initial; hf. bd. with the arms and ex libris of the Bunau library on the sides, £20.

36275

36275

Anno domini

Per gerardum leeu in opido goudensi
millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimo . . . G LEEV

(1480)

In this copy four leaves are supplied in a hand contemporaneous with the book and containing neat drawings.

the same, sm. folio, perfect; a little wormed, otherwise a fine large copy in old calf, £40.

1480

The signatures of Thomas Ireland, Nicholas Stokesley, Bartholomew Kirkbye, and Robert Thacker, all written in this volume between 1490 and 1570, attest its early arrival in England. There are a few English glosses in the writing of the earliest owner, Thomas Ireland.

the same, perfect; a very large and fine copy, bound up with the GESTA ROMANORUM of the same printer, 2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, in the original boards covered with leather, £63.

1480

The description of the Gesta is as follows :-Fol. 1: Ex gestis romanorum hystorie notabiles... Colophon: Presens hoc opus ex gestis romanoru qd fertur recollectorium. . . in gouda. per Gerardum leeu.

Anno .

millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimo . . . (1480), with the same woodcut border on the first page, and the same printer's mark on the last page as are found in the Dialogus; 142 leaves, double columns, 37 lines per column (there ought to be 143 leaves, but the last leaf of table is missing).

With an inscription "Pertinet in Steyn prope Goudam" first written early in the sixteenth century, and repested elsewhere at a later date.

36277 DIALOGUS CREATURARUM. Fol. 1 verso: Hier begint dat prologus d3 is voerspraec int boec dz gehietē is dyalog' creaturar'. sm. folio, Gothic letter, without the leaf b8 and having leaf h8 defective; with the same woodcuts as in the Latin edition, all coloured; in the original leather-covered boards, wanting rebacking, £7. 108 ter goude in hollant bi mi gheraert leeu . . MCCCClxxxi (1481)

36278 BOECK VANDEN SEVEN SACRAMENTEN. Fol. 1 verso: (G)od die heer ende vader almachtich. . Fol. 2 verso: Hier beghint die tafel

...

Fol. 5: Hier beghint dat eerste . . sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 85 leaves, double columns, with 7 fine woodcuts (coloured) and two tables of consanguinity; fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, £20. Voleyndet ter goude in hollant by my Gherit leew M.cccc ende. lxxxiiii (1484)

The last book printed by Gerard Leeu in Gouda. He started a new press in Antwerp this very year. The painted initials and the coloured woodcuts, which are of excellent design and finish, give a grand air to this volume.

(1477) Delft.

Jacob Jacobssoen van der Meer (1477-87).

36279 DIE DUYTSCHE SOUTER. Fol. 1: (D) It is vādē loue der salme. daer augustinus sonderlinghe priselic van seit in eenen boec gheheten dat boec vanden gheest ende vander sielen Fol. 7: Inuitatorium Laet ons aenbede. . Beatus vir (S)alich is die ma die niet of ghegaen en is īdē raet Fol. 284: Hier eyndet die duytsche souter . . divided into 2 vols. 12mo. Gothic letter, 284 leaves, 17 lines per page; the last leaf facsimile; old calf neat, £7. 78

te delf in hollat Int iaer ons heeren dusent vier hondert ende tachtich. . (1480)

The colophon is followed by the two shields which the printer Jacob Jacobsson used for his mark. This is the first edition of the Dutch Psalter, that book not having been included in the Bible published by the same printer in 1477. 36280 TURRECREMATA. Fol. 1: Tractatus de venerabili sacramentō (sic) Incipit plog' tractatuli opilati i basilia p frēm iōhēz de turre cremata Ee otra oicātes sub vtraq3 specie

sm. 4to.

Gothic letter, 55 printed leaves, 27 lines per page, hf. bd. good clean copy, £6. Impressus delf in hollandia (circ. 1484) With the shields which this printer used as his mark, at the end. 36281 EPISTELEN ENDE EVANGELIEN. Fol. 1: Hier beghinnē alle die epistole en euangelien mette sermonē van den gheheelen iare.. ghenomen wt. der bibelen volmaectelic en gerechtelic ouer gheset wt den latine in goeden duytsche . . sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 305 leaves (title missing which should make it 306), 27 lines per page, the first page and the 25 curious woodcuts illuminated with gold and colours like a MS.

tot Delff in hollāt

M.CCCC en lxxxvi. (1486) DIE VIER VTERSTE, sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 57 leaves, 27 lines per 5 woodcuts coloured

page,

te delff in hollant

M.CCCC. ende lxxxvi. (1486)

2 vols. in 1, sm. 4to. old calf gilt, £15.

1486

Both these books were printed by Jacob Jacobsson. The second work is a Dutch translation of the well known Quatuor Novissima.

(1479) Zwolle.

Peter van Os (1483-1510).

36282 CANTIPRATENSIS (Thomas). DIT IS DER BIEN BOECK, sm. folio, Gothic letter, woodcuts on the title including an impression from one of the wood-blocks used in the xylographic Biblia Pau

36283

perum; 187 printed leaves, double columns, 36 lines per full column; wooden boards, covered with leather, £10. 10s

.. bi mij Peter van os prenter tot swolle.. Mcccc.lxxxviij (1488) A painted border encircles the title-page. On the reverse, the following inscription appears : "Dit bien boecht hoert tot sante maria in naseret en is een conuent boecht." This was written by some nun soon after the date of the book.

another copy of the same work, sm. folio, brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, £12.

1488 With a slip of paper pasted on the first page of text, and bearing the name of Sust. Magriete vgoes (i.e. Sister Margaret Van Goes, about 1500).

The blockprint on the title has considerable interest as placing beyond discussion the fact that the Biblia Pauperum was a Dutch work. That it was anterior to the Mazarine Bible we may assume without going back so far as Holtrop to about 1410-20. As for Weigel's assumption that its date was not far from 1470, it is invalidated by the peculiar affectation of exact deductions from doubtful premisses, which marks his work.

36284 HORATIUS DE ARTE POETICA, sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 16 leaves, 18 lines per page; with woodcut on the title, apparently intended to represent Horace; several small wormholes through the leaves but the book in sound condition otherwise; calf gilt, from the Sunderland library, £20.

Impensis Petri Os de Breda (circ. 1498) Unique. The type is apparently identical with that which was used by Snellaert at Delft in 1495 and 1497 (Alphab. divini amoris and Sinte Barbara), and also with the type used in the imprint of Aristoteles de Moribus by Peter van Os or his son in 1500; but its clear-cut unworn condition shows that the Horace was anterior to the latter book.

(1482) Antwerp.

Mathias van der Goes (1482-91).

36285 QUATUOR NOVISSIMA. Fol. 1: Incipit cordiale de quatuor nouissimis . . Gothic letter, 72 leaves, the first blank, 24 lines per page, fine copy Antwerpie impressum Per mathia goes Anno. M.CCCC.Lxxxiij (1483) LIBERTUS. Speculum peccatorum plucidissimi venerabilis in cristo patris ac dni Liberti Episcopi Bericēn... Gothic letter, in the same type as the Stella Clericorum, 6 leaves, 31 lines per page S. n. (Mathias van der Goes) STELLA CLERICORUM. Fol. 1: Thesaur' presbiteroru qni et stella clericoru inscribitur Gothic letter, 14 leaves, 31 lines per page S. n. the large woodcut mark of Mathias van der Goes on the last page CONFESSIONALE. Fol. 1: Incipit confessionale, pmo p. questiuculas.. Fol. 156: Sequitur quinq3 orationes gregoriane with 6 small woodcuts S. n. the large woodcut mark of Van der Goes on last page

and 2 other works in 1 vol. sm. 4to. old calf, lettered Manipulus Curatorum Guidonis et opuscula varia, £10.

Gheraert Leeu (1484-93).

1483(-85 circiter)

36286 LIBELLUS DE MODO CONFITENDI ET PENITENDI metrice cum commen

tario, sm. 4to. Gothic letter of three sizes, 28 leaves, with woodcut
on the title; red morocco extra, gilt edges, £7. 10s
oppido antwerpiensi p me Gerardum leeu .
Mcccclxxxv.

.

(1485)

36287 MANDEVILLE (Sir John) Fol. 1: Tabula pñtis libri . . Fol. 3b: Liber pñs cui' auctor fert' iohanes de mădeuille. . Fol. 4: Commendacio breuis t're iherosolimitane . . . Colophon: Explicit itinerarius a terra anglie i ptes ierosolimitanas et in vlteriores transmarinas. . sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 62 leaves (of which the first is blank), 33 lines per page; unbound, £10. 10s

36288

(Antv. G. Leeu, circ. 1485)

This copy belonged to Thomas Aleyne, John Barrett, and John Skelhorne successively between the years 1490 and 1570. A MS. map is rudely drawn on the blank portion of folio 36, probably by John Barrett, about 1520, in the style of the most ancient maps.-The book is marked with signatures A-H printed on the inner part of the lower margins.

another copy, sm. 4to. red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Mackenzie, £8. 88 (Antv. Leeu, circ. 1485)

36289 SUCHEN (Ludolphus de) Fol. 1: Registrum in librum ludolphi de itinere ad t'ram sanctam Fol. 3: Prologus in libr' dñi ludolphi de suchen. de t'ra sacta et itinere iherosolimitano sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 54 leaves (signatures aa-ff in eights and h in six leaves), 33 lines per page; fine copy in blue morocco extra, gilt edges, £8. 8s (Antv. G. Leeu, circ. 1485)

This book and the Mandeville, along with a Marco Polo not in this catalogue, were all printed by the one printer, and intended, as the signatures betray, to form three successive portions of a Collection of Voyages. It is now generally agreed by the standard authors that Leeu printed them at Antwerp, but it is hard to reconcile this assumption with the specific words of the colophon to Mandeville—“ Quod opus ubi inceptu simul et cōpletū sit ipa elementa seu singularu seorsū caracteres Irarum, quibus impressū vides venetica monstrant manifeste." How can Venetian types make manifest that a book is printed anywhere rather than at Venice?

36290 LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA, TBOECK VANDEN LEUEN ONS HEEREN IHESU CHRISTI, sm. folio, Gothic letter, 306 leaves, double columns, 43 lines per page; with 147 large woodcuts, many of them xylographic, and numerous woodcut initials; fine copy in brown morocco extra, gilt edges, £30.

Tantwerpen bij mij Gheraert de leeu.. MCCCClxxxvij.. (1487)

First edition of the Dutch text; and also first edition of the remarkable engravings with which the book is so richly illustrated.-They are wholly uncoloured. The copy in the Royal Library at the Hague must be imperfect, as it is described by Holtrop as having only 304 leaves, and Mr. Campbell again in his Annales has described the book very elaborately as containing 304 leaves (probably having only seen the same copy as Holtrop). The 306 leaves in my copy are all printed on.

Rolant van den Dorp (1494-1500).

36291 DIE. ALDER. EXCELLESTE CRONYKE. VA BRABANT, sm. folio, Gothic letter, double columns, 40 lines per column, numerous large woodcuts; a used copy mended and wanting a sheet (C); boards covered with leather, £10.

geprent bi my Rolant väden Dorp.. Thantwerpe.. M.cccc.xcvij.