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Harvard College Library. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts. Catalogue of books and manuscripts. Compiled by Ruth Mortimer under the supervision of Philip Hofer and William A. Jackson. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964-74. 2 vols. in 4. Contents: pt. 1. French 16th century books (2 v.) -- pt. 2. Italian 16th century books (2 v.).

CITE AS:
Mortimer, R. French 16th cent.
Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.

MANUSCRIPT

Bible. Manuscripts. Latin. N.T.
New Testament in Latin.
Rome, [ca. 1250-60]
78 vellum leaves, 1 blank paper leaf 16 cm.
225.52 B5822n Ms

15TH CENTURY - VENICE

Tortelli, Giovanni, 1400-1466.
Ioannis Tortellii Arretini Commentariorum grammaticorum de orthographia dictionum e Graecis tractarum ...
Venetiis, Nicolaum Ienson, 1471.
[295] l. 44 cm.
471 T699i, folio

[Rolevinck, Werner], 1425-1502.
[Fasciculus temporum]
Venice : Georgius Walch, 1479]
64, [7] l. : ill. ; 26 cm.
909 R745f 1479

Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434-1520.
Supplementum chronicarum
Opus preclarum supplementum chronica [rum] vulgo appattatu : in omnimoda historia nouissime congesta Fratris Jacobi Philippi Bergomensis : religionis heremitaru diui Auguistini decoris : saustissime inchoat.
[Venetiis : Bernardum Rizum, 1490]
[12], 261, [1] leaves (first and last blank) : col. ill ; 31 cm.
909 F718s Oversize

Lascaris, Constantine, 1434-1501
In hoc libro haec continentur. Constantini Lascaris Erotemata cu[m] interpretatione latina.
Venetiis. : Aldi Manucii Romani, M.CCCC.LXXXXV. [1495]
[332] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
888 L341e

15TH CENTURY - ITALY

Apuleius.
Opera.
Rome : In domo Petri de Maximo [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 28 Feb. 1469.
178 leaves (the last blank) ; 34 cm.
871 A4 1469 Oversize

15TH CENTURY - FRANCE

Catholic Church.
Book of hours
Hore presentes ad usum Sarum impresse fuerut Parisius per Philippu pigouchet anno salutis. M.CCCC. xcviii. die vero. xvi. Maii. pro Symone vostre: librario comorante ibide : in vico nuncupato novo beate Marie. in intersignio sancti Johannis evangeliste.
[Paris, Phillipe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, 16 May 1498]
[128] l. : ill. ; 18 cm.
264.02 C3636h 1498

15TH CENTURY - GERMANY

Balbi, Giovanni, d. 1298.
Catholicon : part II.
Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, 1460.
1 l. ; 29x37 cm.
203 B173c Oversize

16TH CENTURY - VENICE

Catholic Church. Missal.
Missale Romanum nouiter impressum ..
. [Venice, Lucantonius de Giunta, 1508]
[16], 263 leaves : ill., music ; 17 cm.
264.025 C363mi 1508

Reference: cf. Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent. 305

Bible. Latin. 1511.
Sanctus Hieronymous interpres Biblie.
Venice, Lucamantonium de Giunta, 1511.
[24], 519, [31] l. woodcuts 22 cm.
220.47 B582 1511

Reference: Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent. 57

Vitruvius Pollio.
M. Vitruvivs per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula ut iam legi et intelligi possit.
[Colophon: Impressum Venetiis ac magis q unquam aliquo alio tempore emendatum: sumptu miraq; diligentia Ioannis de Tridino alias Tacuino, anno Domini. M.D.XI. die .XXII. Maii ...]
4 p. l., 110 numb. l., [18] p. illus., diagrs. 32 cm.
871 V93d Oversize

Reference: Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent. 543

Pliny, the Elder.
C. Plinij. Secundi ... Historiae naturalis libri XXXVLJ. aptissimis figuris exculti ab Alexadro Benedicto ... emendatiores redditi.
Impressus Venetiis, Per Melchiorem Sessam, 1513]
14], ccxix L. illus. 33 cm.
871 P6n1513 Oversize

Reference: cf. Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent. 388

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Opera del Preclaris/simo Poeta misser Francescho Petrarcha.
Venetia : Augustino de Zani, 1515.
[xix], cxiii [i. e. 226], [6] p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
851.1 P493 1515 Oversize

Reference: Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent. 373

Bordone, Benedetto, d. 1539
Libro di Benedetto Bordone
Isolario di Benedetto Bordone nel qual si ragiona di tutte l'isole del mondo, con li lor nomi antichi & moderni, historie, fauole, & modi del loro viuere, & in qual parte del mare stanno, & in qual parallelo & clima giaciono. Con la gionta del Monte del Oro nouamente ritrouato. Con il breve del papa et gratia & priuilegio della illustrissima Signoria di Venetia come in quelli appare.
[Vinegia : Nicolo d'Aristotile, detto Zoppino], MDXXXIIII
10 p.l., lxxiiii numb. l. illus. (maps, part double) 30 cm.
910.9 B729i 1534

Reference: Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent. 82

Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461.
Novae theoricae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii astronomi celeberrim.
Venetiis : Per Melchiorem Sessa, 1534.
[40] l. : ill. ; 15 cm.
521.5 P514

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
All'invittiss. e glorisiss.
Venetia : appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari fratel, 1553.
[x], 310 p., 1 l. : 94 woodcuts ; 21 cm.
871 O8mId 1553

Reference: Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent. 342

Archimedes.
Archimedis opera non nvlla / a Federico Commandino vrbinate nvper in latinvm conversa, in commentariis illustrata : quorum nomina in sequenti pagina leguntur ...
Venetiis : apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi f., 1558.
2 pts. in 1 ([4], 55 numb. ?., [3], 63 numb. ?., [1] ?.) : diagrs. ; 30 cm.
QA31 .A68 1558

Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568.
Dialogo di m. Lodovico Dolce
In Venetia, Appresso Gio. Battista, et Marchio Sessa fratelli, 1562.
4 p.l., 119 numb. l., 1 l. illus. 16 cm.
154.1 D662d

Reference: Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent. 157

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1552.
Libro primo [-quinto, estraordinario] d'architettvra, di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese. Nel quale con facile & breue modo si tratta de primi principij della geometria ...
In Venetia, Appresso Francesco Senese, & Zuane Krugher Alemanno, compagni, 1566.
219, 52 l. illus. 24 cm.
NA2515 .S5 1566

Pavesi, Cesare, 16th cent.
Cento, e cinquanta favole, tratte da diversi autori antichi, e ridotte in versi, e rime / da M. Pietro Targa.
Impression seconda.
In Venetia : Appresso Giovanni Chrigero, 1569.
191, [1] p. : 150 woodcuts ; 14 cm.
398.24 P337c 1569

Reference: Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent. 365

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Le Metamorfosi di Ovidio / ridotte da Gio. Andrea dall'Anguillara in ottava rima ; di nuovo dal proprio auttore rivedute & corrette ; con l'annotationi di M. Giospeppe Horologgi ; con postille & con gli argomenti nel principio di ciascun libro di M. Francesco Turchi.
In Venetia : Appresso gli heredi di Pietro Dehuchino, 1588.
268 p. ; 20 cm.
871 O8m.Io 1588

Durer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
Di Alberto Dvrero pittore, e geometra chiarissimo. Della simmetria dei corpi hvmani, libri quattro.
Venetia : Domenico Nicolini, 1591.
[xi] p.; 143, [1] numb. l. : illus. ; 32 cm.
743.4 D955p 1591 Oversize

Reference: Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent. 69

16TH CENTURY - ENGLAND

Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
A nievve herball; or, Historie of plantes: wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their diuers and sundry kindes ... and that not onely of those which are here growyng in this our cuntrie of Englande but of all others also of forrayne realmes commonly used in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens ... and now first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte.
London, G. Dewes, 1578.
12 p.¢., 779, [25] p. illus. (incl port.) 30 cm.
451.7 D643n Oversize

Bible. English. Great Bible. 1541.
The Byble in Englyshe of the largest and greatest volume : auctorised and apoynted by the commaundement of oure moost redoubted prynce and soueraygne Lorde, Kynge Henrye the .viii., supreme head of this his churche and realme of Englande ... / ouersene and perused ... by Cuthbert bysshop of Duresme, and Nicolas bisshop of Rochester.
[London] : Printed by Edwarde Whitchurch ..., 1541.
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 39 cm. Oversize
220.52 B582 1540

16TH CENTURY - FRANCE

Vegetius Renatus, Flavius.
Fl. Vegetii Renati viri illustris De re militari libri quatuor. Sexti Julii Frontini viri consularis De strategematis libri totidem. Aeliani De instruendis aciebus liber unus. Modesti De vocabulis rei militaris liber unus. Item picturae bellicae CXX passim Vegetio adiectae. Collata sunt omnia ad antiquos codices, maxime Budaei, quod testabitur Aelianus.
Lutetiae, Apud C. Wechelum, 1532.
[8], 279 p. illus., plates. 32 cm.
871 V93d Oversize

Reference: Mortimer, R. French 16th cent. 486

Chasseneuz, Barthelemy de, 1480-1541
Catalogvs gloriae mvndi. D. Bartholomaei Chassanaei Burgundii, apud Aquas Sextias in Senatu decuriae praesidis, Catalogus Gloriae mundi, in duodecim libros diuisus, humanae sortis summam artificiose complectens: Sed ita demum nitidius auctus & locupletatus, vt omnes hactenus aeditiones longe superet.
Lvgdvni, A. Vincentium, M.D.XLVI.
8 p. L., 330 numb. L. illus. (incl. coats of arms) 31 1/2cm.
929.6 C488c Oversize

Reference: cf. Mortimer, R. French 16th cent. 136

Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.
De vita et rebus gestis II vicecomitum mediolani principum.
Vitae dvodecim Vicecomitvm Mediolani principvm.
Lvtetiae, Ex officina R. Stephani, 1549.
199 p. ports. 25 cm.
920.045 G514v

Reference: Mortimer, R. French 16th cent. 248

Rondelet, Guillaume, 1507-1566.
Gvlielmi Rondeletii ... Libri de piscibus marinis, in quibus verae piscium effigies expressae sunt ...
Lugduni, apud Matthiam Bonhomme, 1554-55.
2 v. in 1. illus. 35 cm.
597 R771l Oversize

Bible. N.T. Latin. 1555. Vulgate.
Testmenti novi ...
Editio vulgata.
Lugduni, Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1555.
478, 333, [16] p. illus. 12 cm.
225.47 B582t

Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550.
Francis'ci Sanctii Brocensis. In inclyta Salmaticensi Academia Rhetoricae, Graecaeque linguae professoris, Comment.
Lvgdvni: Apud Gvliel Rovillivm, 1573.
558, [25] p., : 211 illus. ; 17 cm.
769 A352e

Horapollo.
Ori Apollinis Niliaci.
Parisiis : Apud Galeotum a Prato, & Ioannem Ruellium, 1574.
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 15 cm.
493.1 H811o

Reference: Mortimer, R. French 16th cent. 316

16TH CENTURY - GERMANY

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.
Henrici Cornelii Agrippae ab Nettesheym ... De occulta philosophia libri tres ....
[Cologne : Soter], July 1533.
[12], CCCLVIII [i.e. CCCLXII] p. : ill., port. ; 30 cm. (fol. in sixes)
133 A279d

16TH CENTURY - NETHERLANDS

Guicciardini, Lodovico, 1521-1589.
Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi, alytimenti detti Germania Inferiore. Con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & con ritratto naturale di molte terre principali riueduta di nuovo, & ampliata per tutto piu che la meta dal medesimo autore ... Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili. Amversa, Appresso C. Plantino, stampatore regio, 1581.
[24], 558, [17] p. incl. col. front., col. fold. plates, port., maps, col. coats of arms. 33 cm.
DH33 .G9 1581 Oversize

Bound in morooco stamped and tooled in black and gold with armorial device on top board. Rebacked, with "W" and "GL" in roll.

16TH CENTURY - SPAIN

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Opusculu[m] de sphera mu[n]di Ioannis de sacro busto: cu[m] additionib[us] : [et] familiarissimo co[m]me[n]tario Petri Ciruelli Daroce[n]sis: nunc recenter correctis a suo autore : intersertis etia[m] egregijs questionibu[s] d[omi]ni Petri de Aliaco.
[Alcala, Michael de Eguia, 1526]
lxxiii numbered, 1 unnumbered leaves. woodcuts, diagrs. 28 cm.
QB41 .S211 1526

16TH CENTURY - SWITZERLAND

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco, 1470-1533.
Io. Francisci Pici Mirandulae domini, concordiaeqz comitis, physici libri duo ...
[Basileae : Apud Io. Frobenium, 1518]
123, [1] p.
530 P598p 1518

18TH CENTURY - ITALY

Bolland, Johannes, 1596-1665.
Praefationes, tractatus, diatribae et exegeses praeliminares, atque nonnulla venerandae antiquitatis tum sacrae, cum profanae monumenta a Joanne Bollando ... elucubratis in Acta sanctorum voluminibus praefixa, nunc primum conjunctim edita, & in tres tomos distributa.
Venetiis : S. Coleti et J.B. Albrizzi Hieron. fil., 1749-51.
3 v. : ill., facsims, ports. ; 38 cm.
282.03 B691p Oversize
Library holds vol. 1-2 only.

Arnaldi, Enea, conte, b 1716.
Idea di un teatro nelle principali sue parti simile a teatri antichi all' uso moderno accomodato del conte Enea Arnaldi
Vicenza, Appresso A. Veronese, 1762.
2 p.l., xxxii, 82 p., 1 l., 58 p. vi fold. pl. 24 cm.
792 A743i

Albrizzi, Giovanni Battista.
Forestier illuminato intorno le cose piu rare, e curiose, antiche, e moderne della citta di Venezia
Venezia, G. Albrizzi, 1765.
8 p.l., 343, [9] p. 70 pl. (incl. front.) 17 cm.
914.53 A343f 1765

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.
Della architettura, della pittura e della statua, di Leonbatista Alberti. Traduzione di Cosimo Bartoli.
Bologna, Instituto delle scienze, 1782.
xiii, [2], 341 p., 1 l. 69 plates (4 fold.) 39 cm.
720 A334dIb 1782 Oversize

BINDINGS

Virgil.
Works. 1492
Publii Virgilii Maronis opera : cum Servii Mauri Honorati grammatici, Aelii Donati, Christophori Landini, atq[ue] Domitii Calderini Co[m]mentariis.
Nurnberge : Imp[re]ssa impe[n]sis Anthonii Koberger, Anno Chr[ist]i M.ccccxcii [1492].
8, CCCXLV, [1] leaves ; 31 cm. (fol.).
PA6801 .A2 1492 Oversize

Quarter bound in blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards.

Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
Epistolae
Epistolae Marsilii Ficini Florentini.
[Nuremberg] : Per Antonium Koberger impraesse, 1497 24 Februarii.
[10], CCXLIII, [1] leaves ; 22 cm. (4to)
856.2 F466e

Bound in blind tooled calf, rebacked.

Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160.
Petri Lombardi Parrhysiensis ecclesie quondam antistitis : viri diuinaru reru eruditissuni: Sententiarum Testus... Henrici Gorichemii positiones; Egidii de Roma elucibratioes; Henrici de Urimaria additioes: et deni marginales biblie, canonum, auctoru concordantie adamussim alludunt. Tandem nonnulli errores Parrhysius codemnati ...
[Basle : Lodovic Hornken and Adam Petri, 1516]
[xi], 213 numb. leaves, [55] p. : 1 table ; 32 cm.
230.2 P4982s 1516 Oversize

Bound in blind tooled pigskin.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
In hoc volvmine haec continentvr. M. T. Cic. Officiorvm. Lib. III. Cato maior, sive de senectvte. Laelivs, sive de amicitia. Somnivm Scipionis ex VI.
Venetis : in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, mense Febrvario, M.D.XIX.
[8], 158, [2] leaves ; 17 cm.
871 C7.X 1519

Bound in blind tooled morocco.

Court, Benoit de.
Hortorum libri triginta / Autore Benedicto Curtio. In quibus continetur arborum historia, partim ex probatissimis quibusq[ue] autoribus, partim ex ipsius autoris obseruatione collecta.
Lugduni : Excudebat J. Tornaesius, typographus regius, M.D.LX [1560].
Q111 .C681 1560 Oversize

Bound in blind tooled pigskin.

Josephus, Flavius.
Flavii Josephi des hochberuhmten Judischen Geschichtschreibers Historien und Bucher : von alten Judischen Geschichten zwantzig samt einem von seinem Leben ...
Strassburg : Durch Theodosium Rihel, 1574.
DS116 .J814 1574 Oversize

Bound in blind tooled pigskin.

OTHER

Franco, Giacomo, d 1620.
Habiti d'hvomeni et donne venetiane, con la processione della ser.ma signoria et altri particolari cioe trionfi
Venezia, F. Ongania, 1878.
2 pts. in 1 v. front. (port.) xli pl. 43 cm.
391.0945 F825h 1878 Folio

Giacomo Franco engraved the plates for the 1588 Ovid.


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