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The second volume is a companion text to explain the importance of the manuscript with an introduction by Wolfgang Irtenkauf.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMB339\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mobilis Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43454817075392,"sku":"","price":625.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0548\/8273\/0176\/products\/31070032461_2.jpg?v=1676141253"},{"product_id":"celebrating-after-pentecost-liturgical-bifolium-from-germany-late-15th-c","title":"Celebrating after Pentecost: Liturgical Bifolium from Germany (late 15th c.)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGermany, late 15\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e century. (150 x 110 mm; 220mm ). Latin. 34 lines in two columns. Eighteen 2-line illuminated initials in alternating red and blue decoration with shell gold; Blue and gold alternating single line initials. Ruled in pink. Rubricated running heads with titles of the celebrations. Rubrication guiding liturgical pattern. Early modern foliation, with modern correction (erased).\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThese four pages, or two folia comprising a bifolium give a peek into the liturgical celebrations of the fifth and sixth feasts after Pentecost and the Sunday vigil of the Trinity. 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La manera de descrivir y situar los Lugares, con el uso del Anillo Astronomico, del mismo Auctor Gemma Frisio. El sitio y descripcion de las Indias y Mundo Nuevo, sacada de la Historia de Francisco Lopez de Gomara, y de la cosmographia de Ieronymo Girava Tarragonez.\u003c\/i\u003e En Anvers. Por Juan Bellero al Aguila de Oro. Con privilegio de su M. D.LXXV. [1575].\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eSecond Spanish edition. (235 x 170) ff\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e[2], 68, [14] . Contemporary or near contemporary limp vellum binding with manuscript title and date on spine. Some ca. 17\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e c. binding waste from \u003c\/span\u003eLa vita di Maria Vergine imperatrice by Lucrezia Marinelli. Early owner’s notation in front and back of binding. Two lead clasps and string fasteners original to binding. Embellished with XX woodcuts and 5 volvelles (4 with moveable parts) to verso of folios 8, 11, 53 and recto of 30 (lacks moveable part, but moveable part not present in digital comperables). String constitutes moveable part on fol. 9v. Historiated and inhabited initials throughout. Globe woodcut on title page. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSignature: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA-I⁴ L-Y⁴ \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLacks double-paged map (K signature). As noted above, possibly one volvelle lacks moving parts (though this may be the native condition of this edition). Cracking of vellum on spine. Browning on final several pages. Minor spotting throughout expected with age. Binding held loosely by end band sewing stations (acts more as a wrapper).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePalau 13809; Sabin 1756; Alden 575\/2; Peeters-Fontainas 62; Shirley 96; LeClerc Bibliotheca Americana 39; Van Ortroy 55.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\"\u003eThe important second Spanish edition of the \u003ci\u003eCosmographia \u003c\/i\u003eby Petrus Apianus (1495-1552)— handbook to (armchair) explorers and textbook to Renaissance scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\"\u003eThe German Peter Bienewitz, better known by his Latinized name Peterus Apianus, supplied the European audience, thirsty for knowledge about the New World and the methods of navigation propelling the Age of Exploration, with what they wanted. The work became so popular it was translated, originally, into three vernacular languages (Spanish, French, and Dutch) and later into a total of 14 languages with 45 editions produced. Why was the work so popular? A powerful combination of details about the New World and the ability to put the tools of exploration into the hands of the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\"\u003eOriginally published in 1524 (and in the scientific language of Latin), Apianus’ first masterwork, “Cosmographicus Liber,” provided readers with an understanding of cosmography (that which concerns the heavens) and geography (that which concerns the earth). The work provides theoretical explanations of longitude, latitude, the Zodiac, the movement of planets and stars, and time. It also provides the means to practically solve these problems by way of calculations and use of the moving paper instruments based on Ptolemaic principals— the famous volvelles, also called Apian Wheels. While Ptolemy’s works had been used since the Medieval period by way of Arabic translation and preservation of the text during a time when Greek literacy was uncommon in the West (see \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilisbooks.com\/products\/and-let-us-say-that-when-the-point-of-the-sphere-of-the-earth-is-at-the-point-of-the-sphere-of-the-sky-john-of-seville-s-translation-of-alfraganus-s-translation-additions-to-ptolemy-s-astronomical-works?_pos=1\u0026amp;_psq=al+fa\u0026amp;_ss=e\u0026amp;_v=1.0\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e for an example of 13\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e century Ptolemy text), Peter Apian’s wheels made the theoretical practical. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\"\u003eThis copy is the second edition (1575) of only two Spanish editions. The first edition (1574) lacks the excerpts from Francisco Lopez de Gomara and Jeronimo Girava, as well as the description of Iceland. The editor, Gemma Frisius, was Apian’s student and he built upon geographical techniques, proposingg topographical triangulation, a new method of locating and mapping places which was only replaced in the 1980s by Global Positioning Systems (GPS)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\"\u003eThe work begins with a defence of translating it into Spanish which to some, the preface notes, will seem useless and a vain curiosity; they will pretend that the science is diminished by pouring it into a vulgar language and making it public to all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\"\u003ePart One, which includes three volvelles, explains theoretical aspects of measurement, astronomy, and cosmography, as well as giving the reader the technical instruments to solve these problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\"\u003ePart Two shifts to geography, describing Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Here, the reader is told that America “tomo nombre de Americo Vespucio inventor della, y casi se podia llamar isla, por que la mar la rodea casi por todas partes” [took its name from Americo Vespucci, the one who found it, and it could almost be called an island because the sea surrounds it almost on all sides]. Additional details from the works of Doctor Francisco Lopez de Gomara and Señor Ieronymo Girava Tarragonez situate and describe “Las Indias o Mundo nuevo”, including the Yucatan,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eFlorida,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ePeru, and Cuba. Famous expeditions, such as that of Christopher Columbus in 1492, Ferdinand Magellan, Ponce de Leon, and Hernando Cortes are described in varying detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\"\u003eThe marks of provenance on this book speak to its circulation within Europe. The booklife begins in Antwerp in 1575. Examination of the moving parts of the volvelles reveals they are reenforced with printer’s waste— the ca. 1550s Dutch translation of \u003ci\u003ePraxis rerum criminalium (\u003c\/i\u003eDe practijke of gebruyk zoo van civile als criminele zaken) by Joos de Damhouder (1507-1581). This work found particular importance in the contemporary witch trials. One of the sections which appears on the back of the volvelle on 8v states that “crimes, then, are to be punished so that the punishment of one may be the fear of many.” A chilling statement of civil law. The book’s life takes it to two more language spheres. Although there is very little marginal annotation, what is present is in Spanish, noting “los tropicos cancros y capricorno”, coupled with the notes on the terminal fly leaf with the legible “Los Hombres Notales”, followed by six lines of\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e16\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e century script, and the curious inscription of “Almoradux,” the transliterated arabic word for the spice marjoram. 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Lund. Batav. [Leiden]: Ex officina Elzeviriana [Abraham Elzevir], 1629. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecond Edition. (110 x mm) pp. 520 [6] (collated and complete). Engraved title page, woodcut initials throughout, with ornamental head and tail pieces. 18\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e century full green roan, tan gilt-lettered spine label. Leather slightly scuffed along margins, two small worm holes at spine crown, later private library to front pastedown. Overall Very Good. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWillems 313; Palau 129562 (First edition as Sabin 38560)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eWritten by Joannes de Leit, the director of the Dutch West India Company nine years after his appointment, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHispania sive de regis Hispaniae Regnis et opibus Commentarius\u003c\/i\u003e (1629) offers a detailed examination of the Spanish monarchy’s territorial holdings, economic resources, and political influence during the early 17th century, with particular attention to its vast territorial empire—including its holdings in the New World. Printed by the important Elzevir press in Leiden, the work reflects contemporary European perspectives on Spain’s role as a dominant global power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mobilis Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46179103637696,"sku":"","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0548\/8273\/0176\/files\/IMG_8265.jpg?v=1742503248"},{"product_id":"single-leaf-from-psalter-15th-century-likely-germanic-low-countries","title":"Single leaf from Psalter. 15th century, likely Germanic Low Countries.","description":"\u003cp\u003eSingle leaf from Psalter. 15th century, likely Germanic Low Countries. (11 x 8.5 cm) Single leaf on vellum, two columns in Latin executed in Gothic cursiva with 4 two-line initials in alternating blue and red, with alternating blue and red single-line initials. Single line filler. Guide letters visible. Ruled in graphite. Very fine parchment. Small pin prick hole. Pencil foliated 32 a in top margin. Overall VERY GOOD condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiscatalogued by previous seller as 18th century indenture. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mobilis Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48497674420416,"sku":"1955","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0548\/8273\/0176\/files\/1955_1.jpg?v=1782424694"},{"product_id":"rare-survival-of-capuchin-library-book-outside-of-institutional-holdings-wrapped-in-three-layers-of-non-chronological-binding-waste-related-to-text-of-printed-book","title":"❧ Rare survival of Capuchin library book outside of institutional holdings wrapped in three layers of non-chronological binding waste related to text of printed book. ❧","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorichius, Jodocus. \u003ci\u003eTriumphus B. Mariae Virginis, Matris Dei Ac Domini Nostri Jesu Christi : In Quo Eius Laudes, Vita, Gloriosa Privilegia \u0026amp; Epitheta, aliaque multa (ex Indice capitum cognoscenda) brevitate perspicua \u0026amp; iucunda declarantur ; Ex optimis quibusque autoribus adornatus \/ Opera Rever. Et Cl. Viri Dn. Iodoci Lorichii SS. Theologiae Doct. \u0026amp; Professoris in Academia Friburgensi Brisgoiae\u003c\/i\u003e. Friburgi Brisgoiae : Apud Ioannem Strasserum, M. D C X. [1610].\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003epp. 430. A-Z8, AaDd8 (final p blank). Signature Z2 rendered as Y2. Each page double ruled, with printed marginal commentary and catchwords between rulings. Sections begin with ornamented headpeice and end with ornamented tailpeice. Occational handwritten X-symbol marginalia within first 50 pages. p. 147 has tear (weakness of paper) in corner not effecting the text. Blue rubber stamp of library on both title pages of the Capuchin library of Oltae (Halle, Belgium). \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: DE;\"\u003eSee: Geert van Reyn, Documentatie betreffende de Kapucijnen in de Nederlanden, 2014. \u003c\/span\u003eHandwritten ownership mark to final flyleaf verso. Capuchin ownership further evidenced by handwritten ownership inscription on bicolored title page reading\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e? Capuceinorum. Bound in layers of printers waste, with top layer a partial folio from 14th century German manuscript, beneath that a ca. 17th or 18th c. manuscript visible, beneath that an early print (likely post-incunable) leaf visible. About the Manuscript: Missal. Mid- to Late- 14th century, or early 15th century, Germany or German-influenced Low Countries. Two columns of Latin on parchment.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eRubricated initials (2-line and 1-line) with typical German features such as bulging bowls and thorny ascenders. Overall VERY GOOD condition. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eVD17 23:240134E (variant of VD17 824:715153H, in which date is expressed M.D.C.X.)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn 1525, Friar Matteo da Bascio reformed the Franciscan Order, founded by St Francis of Assisi in 1209. The emergent Order of Friars Minor Capuchin followed a stricter version of the Franciscan rule and restored the original brown hood (called a cappuccino, and where we get our term for the frothy coffee). During the course of the 16th and 18th century, the Capuchins expanded across Europe, caring for plague victims, preaching in rural areas, and supporting the counter-Reformation. The Order was know for its extreme austerity, with monasteries owning nothing-- making survivals of books from the very limited Capuchin library collections extremely rare, especially outside of institutional holdings. This 1610 work of Marian devotion is one of these few examples, baring both handwritten ownership marks tying it to the Capuchins as well as rubber stamps from the Capuchin library of Halle Belgium. The Capuchins likely owned this book due to their noted devotion to the Virgin, stemming from their Franciscan roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe book itself is bound in three layers of historical manuscripts which are significantly not in chronological order. The top layer, a 14th or early 15th century liturgical manuscript, wraps as the book like a full calf binding. Underneath this medieval manuscript, a 17th or 18th century manuscript peaks out, and below this, a bit of early print (likely post-incunable, almost certainly 16th century). The layering of these materials suggests intentionality of using the medieval manuscript as the decorative binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe manuscript is a leaf from a Missal, containing the liturgy for the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Sundays after Pentecost (Luke 10:34-39, the Oratio super oblata (Secret), Wisdom 16:20 and Ps. 83:10) . 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Con una descrittione di tutti gli accidenti occorsi di giorno in giorno à’ Naviganti, Et in particolare di alcuni combattimenti con Orsi Marini, e dell’ eccesivo freddo di quei paesi, essendo nell’ultima Navigatione restata la Nave nel ghiaccio, onde li Marinari passorono infinite difficoltà, per lo spatio di diece mesi, e furono forzati alla fine di passare con li Batelli trecento miglia di Mare pericolosissimo. Descritte in Latino da Gerardo di Vera, e Nuovamente da Giovan Giunio Parisio Tradotte nella lingua Italiana\u003c\/em\u003e. In Venetia, Presso Ieronimo Porro, \u0026amp; Compagni, 1599. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e() fol. 79 (wants fol. 25-28, 76-77). Signatures:  [1], A-F4 (wants G) H-S4,  wantsT4, V1, V2-V3. Bound in 19th century board with leather spine and 19th century flyleaves. Historic stablization has provided marginal restoration. Some historic (17th c.) underlining throughout and signifcant ink staining. Contemporary hand has written autore by Gherardo di Vera's name on final page listing crew. 29 of 31 illustrations (listed in full below). Defective but GOOD condition. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo issues printed in the same year, this one by Girolamo Porro and another by G.B. Ciotti. Previously, a French and Latin edition were published in 1598, all using the Dutch original text as the translation source. The plates used for this edition had been newly re-engraved in a smaller format, resulting in particularly dark and crisp illustrations. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe text follows the first-hand account of the ships carpenter, Gerrit de Veer (Gherardo di Vera in the Italian version), on board the two final expeditions by Willem Barentsz, as he searched for a northeastern passage to Asia through Russia. Barentsz's three artic expeditions took place on 1594, 1595, and 1596-97, during which time he and his crew explored Norway Novaya Zemlya (marked on the maps in the book as Nouva Zemba), the Vaygach Straight, and Svalbard (which they believed was Greenland). The Barents Sea between Norway and Russia is named after Barentsz. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe third voyage was particularly disasterous as the crew was trapped in ice and harried by bears constantly. They were able to build a wooden shelter and survive off of bear, seal, and fox meat. Only 11 of the crew surived, including Gerrit; Barentsz perished. Gerrit kept a diary of this voyage and it was published in Latin in 1598. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eDescriptive List of Extant Prints: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrontispiece\u003cbr\u003eMap of Nova Zembla (fol. 4r)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of a bear ruining the comany (fol. 5v)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of seal hunt (fol. 8v)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of rough sea voyage (fol. 11v) \u003cbr\u003eMap of Russia and Moscovia (fol. 17r) \u003cbr\u003eIllustration of Samiuti people (fol. 18r)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of bear attack (fol. 20r)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of ships navigating (fol 24r)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of bears on ice (fol 30v)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of ship navigating ice (fol 31v)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of ship run aground on ice, and bears (fol. 32v) \u003cbr\u003eIllustration of fighting bears with pikes (fol. 34v)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of reparing the ship (fol. 36) \u003cbr\u003eIllustration of building a shelter in the Northern way (fol. 38 r)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of fending off bears (fol. 39r)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of building fox traps (fol. 41r)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of bear attack (fol 48r) \u003cbr\u003eIllustration of trying to free the boats from ice to return home (fol. 54r)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of renewed effort to free the boats (fol. 55r)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of the road they carved into the ice, and a bear attack (fol. 56r) \u003cbr\u003eIllustration of dragging the boats to the water (fol. 58v) \u003cbr\u003eIllustration of the boats on ice (fol. 60r) \u003cbr\u003eMap of Nova Zembla (fol. 61v) \u003cbr\u003eIllustration of hauling the boats through ice, bothered by bears (fol. 64r) \u003cbr\u003eIllustration of walking over the ice (fol. 65v)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of hauling the boat some more near the Ilse of Croce (fol. 68r)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of finally meeting Russian ships and men (fol 69v)\u003cbr\u003eIllustration of how they arrived to a Russian ship and recieved food (fol. 72v)\u003cbr\u003eMap of Lappia (fol. 75 r) \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mobilis Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48899228500160,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0548\/8273\/0176\/files\/2148_1.jpg?v=1787786840"},{"product_id":"lopez-epitome-sanctorum-patrum-1605","title":"López -  Epitome Sanctorum Patrum (1605)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIoanne Lopez [Juan López Caparroso, Bishop of Monopoli]. \u003cem\u003eEpitome Sanctorum Patrum, per locos communes,  qui virtutum et vitorum tractationem et ad Fidei nostrae mysteriorum expositionem pertinent, ad sacras conciones\u003c\/em\u003e. Ex typographia Euangelistae Deuchini ; Sumptibus Io. Bapt. Ciott. bibliopolae, Taruisij, Venetiis [Venice], 1605 (1604). \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e(31 x 21 cm ) pp. [5] 1- 452; [2]1-383 [2 blanks]. †6, A-Z8, Aa-Dd8, Ee10; pi2, AaZ8, Aa8, +2. C\u0026amp;C. Title page in red and black with printer's device. Two books, bound in one. Text continues across twelve further book divisions, which are divided further into chapters. Text printed in two columns with printed marginal concordence and annotations.  Text primarily in Latin with section in Spanish. Each sub-book is decorated with an ornamental headpeice. Minor marginal pen work p. 211 Book 2; underline p. 329 book 2. Heavily wormed throughout, particularly towards front and rear. Water staining throughout. Bound in contemporary vellum binding with 15th century manuscript on paper used as pastedowns (front) and fly leaf (rear). Limited institutional holdings, primarily in Italy. Overall GOOD condition for age. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Printed Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJuan López de Caparroso (1524–1632), also known as the Pinciano or Monopolitano, was a Spanish Dominican friar, theologian, historian, writer, and Catholic bishop appointed to two bishoprics. Born in Borja in the province of Zaragoza, he entered the Dominican Order around the age of sixteen and spent his early years at the convent of San Pablo in Valladolid, studying Scripture and the lives of the popes. From 1579 onward, he served as prior and preacher at a succession of Dominican convents. In 1595, he was appointed bishop of Crotone, in southern Italy, where he pursued reforms of local religious and educational life, reorganized the city's parishes, and supported charitable initiatives, including the establishment of a monte de piedad (a charitable pawnshop). In 1598, he became bishop of Monopoli in Apulia, where he continued similar reforms. He resigned his bishopric in 1608, hoping to return to the convent in Valladolid where he had been formed as a Dominican, although he remained in Italy for several more years as spiritual adviser to the viceroy of Naples. He eventually retired to the convent of San Pablo in Valladolid, where he died on January 18, 1632, at the very ripe age of 108. He was also a prolific author, publishing works on the Virgin Mary, the saints, the Church Fathers, and the history of the Dominican Order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis \u003cem\u003eEpitome Sanctorum Patrum\u003c\/em\u003e was composed and printed while Juan Lopez was Bishop of Monopoli. It contains excerpts from Church Fathers, arranged by topic (loci communes), sort of like a printed commonplace book, used for composing sermons and general theological study. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Manuscript Binding Waste: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe limp vellum binding of the book uses at least three folios to compose the front pastedown and one visible folio with a possible second obscured folio as the rear fly leaf. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three pastedown and visible flyleaf appear to have been harvested from the same 15th century Italian legal manuscript on paper. The script is in a fairly clear Italian Gothic rotunda with a reasonable amount of abbreviations (one of the most common is \u003cem\u003eglo\u003c\/em\u003e for glossa), and alternating red and blue pilcrows (paragraph marks) beginning statements such as \"Ego in hoc dubio dicrem quod...\" [I, in this doubt, would say that..] (flyleaf, line 9 from bottom, Column A)  and \"Ego dicerem quod tum in duobus casibus non currat\" [I would say that it does not work in both cases] (flyleaf, line 15 from bottom, Column B). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly one side of the rear flyleaf is visible as it has been glued to a blank sheet to create a stronger leaf. From the worm holes, another manuscript is visible, between the 15th century legal leaf and the blank. This leaf appears to also be 15th century, though the hand is in a less formal style. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile it has not been possible to identify the exact text of the manuscript, text uses legal language, seemingly \"ut contra adversarium dolosum fiat restitutio\" [so that restitution may be made against a deceitful adversary] (Flyleaf, line 11 from bottom, Column A). Restitution is mentioned several times throughout the two columns with aspects such as \u003cem\u003enegotio \u003c\/em\u003e[business] suggesting that this text deals with the legal administration of the new mercantile class in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front pastedown has suffered some damage, with approximately half of the text having been excised, but this allows us to see the layers of the other leaves from the same manuscript used to back the pastedown. The same types of legalistic jargon are employed, in the legible section we see a numbered list from primus, \"qui fuit appellarum post sentenciam et tunc non prosecutione in no manet rata sententia...\" [The first who was the one to appeal after the sentence and then not prosecuted in no case remains the sentence...] (pastedown, lines 10-8 from bottom, Column A) to  secundus, \"qui fuit appellatum ex iudicium a gravamine ut ni vero a gravamine quo casu licet non fuit appellanus post terminum...\" [which was that the appeal was made from a judgment of grievance, as if not from a grievance, in which case, although the appellant was not present after the deadline...] (pastedown, lines 7-4 from bottom, column A). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mobilis Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48901007081664,"sku":null,"price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0548\/8273\/0176\/files\/2146_9.jpg?v=1787787507"},{"product_id":"onomasticon-theologicum-1557-bound-with-in-genesin-enarratio-1557","title":"Onomasticon Theologicum (1557) [bound with] In Genesin Enarratio (1557)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOnomasticon Theologicum in quo, praeter nomina propria, quae in Biblijs extant, omnium Sactorum, qui Calendario inscribuntur, Item Martyrum, Doctorum Ecclesiae, Haereticorum, Synodorum, \u0026amp;c., Nomina \u0026amp; Historiae breviter annotatae sunt a Theophilo Lebeo\u003c\/em\u003e. VVttenbergae Anno M.D.LVII [1557]. [Wittenberg: Krafft, Johann ; Wittenberg: Rühel, Konrad d.Ä., 1557]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eand \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Genesin Enarratio, Tradita Rostochii, ut ad lectionem Textus Bibliorum auditores inuitarentur a David Chytraeo.\u003c\/em\u003e Vitebergae Exudebat Iohannes Crato Anno M.D.LVII. [Wittenberg: Krafft, Johann ; Wittenberg: Rühel, Konrad d.Ä., 1557]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnpaginated; [14], 1-503. Signatures: A-T8,V4; A-Z8, a-i8. C\u0026amp;C. Text in single column format (pp. 437-439 in ruled table format) with foldout table between Q3 and Q4 of unpaginated first book. Text primarily in Latin with insertions in Hebrew and Greek.  Signature R3 duplicated in first book. First book clean of annotations, contemporary or otherwise. Second book has minor contemporary underlining and one marginal annotation (p. 170). Printers devices and ornamental head and endbands. Bound in decorated alumn tawed pig skin with one of two original metal clasps; furniture for both clasps remains on binding. Leather worn through at corners exposing board beneath. Historic (16th c.) library shelf marking on foredge. Top foldovers have shrunken (?) and stick up above the border. Binding is very tight. Limited ownership markings on front flyleaf. One effaced in dark pen possibly dated 1559. The other in browner pen in Hebrew, with Psal. 55 in Latin alphabet beside. Overall VERY GOOD condition.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVD16 C 2658 and VD16 C 2623\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mobilis Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48901853642944,"sku":null,"price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0548\/8273\/0176\/files\/2147_1.jpg?v=1787786230"},{"product_id":"aesop-fabulae-graece-et-latine-1547","title":"Aesop - Fabulae Graece et Latine (1547)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAesopi Phrygis. \u003cem\u003eFabulae Graece et Latine, cum aliis quibusdam opusculis\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Basileae apud Nicol. Bryling. Anno M. D. XLVII.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e(11 x 7.5 cm) pp. 1-440, [441-445]. Title page with Brylinger's three-lion printer's device, detached but present. Signatures: a-z8, A-E8 C\u0026amp;C. pp. 1-289 in double column latin and greek; pp. 290-373 in single column facing page greek and latin; pp. 374-425 in double column latin and greek; pp. 425-440 in single column, text in greek only; pp. [441-444] index in latin; p. [445], blank with manuscript annotations in greek and latin.  p. 298 wants about 1\/8th of the page, with text loss; 311, 313 lacks corners, with text loss.  Bound in contemporary vellum. Ownership inscriptions from 1585 and 1913, with third ownership inscription somewhat effaced. 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