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Strong Room books
The Strong Room books collection takes its name from the secure room where these early, often rare and valuable, books were originally kept. The collection is divided into two parts, one for books pri...
Incipit summula confessionis utilissima : in qua agitur quomodo de habere debeat confessor erga penitentem in confessionibus audiendis
Antoninus Saint, Archbishop of Florence (1389-1459); Johann von Köln (1471-1491); Manthen, Johann (1471-1481); Moon, G Washington (1823-1909)
M.cccc.lxxiiij. [1474]
Title from incipit. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on leaf [101]r: reads: Explicit vtilissima [con]fessio[n]is su[m]mula a reuerendissimo in christo patre fratre Antonino Archiep[iscop]o Florenti...
[De conservatione sanitatis]
Benedict Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino; Lignamine, Johannes Philippus de (1420-); Hardwicke, Philip Yorke Earl of (1690-1764)
14 January 1475
Signatures: [a² b-i¹° k⁸ l-p¹°]. With additions by Joannes Philippus de Lignamine. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on [p9r] (leaf [139r]) reads: Rome : in domo nobilis uiri Iohannis Phili...
Platynae De honesta voluptate: et valitudine ad amplissimum ac Doctissimum.D.B. Roverllam.S.Clementis praesbiterum cardinalem liber primus
Platina (1421-1481); Laurentius de Aquila; Umber, Sibylinus
Idibus Iuniis Mcccclxxv. [13 June 1475]
Signatures: [*⁴ a¹⁰ b-l⁸] Imprint from colophon. Colophon on leaf [4v] reads: Viri doctissimi Platynæ opusculum de obsoniis ac honesta voluptate: impressum Venetiis: Labore & diligentia La...
[Homiliae XXI, interprete Petro Balbo]
John Chrysostom, Saint (407); Balbi, Pietro (1399-1479); Firth, James Digby
1479
Signatures: [a-t¹² u¹⁰]. Imprint from ISTC. Colophon in verse on [u10r] reads: Doctor inauratus qui dicitur. omeliarum Viginti vnius nobile finit opus Reddimus vnde deo grates p[er] secula. d...
Regime[n] sanitatis Magnini Mediolane[n]sis medici famosissimi Attrebate[n]si Episcopo directum Feliciter incipit
Mayno de' Mayneri (1368); Gering, Ulrich (1510)
Anno d[omi]ni. M. cccc.lxxxiii. die vero quinta martii. [5 March 1483/84]
Signatures: a-o⁸ p⁴. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on p4v reads: Imp[re]ssu[m] Parisius [Paris] p[er] magistru[m] vdalricu[m] Gering Anno d[omi]ni. M. cccc.lxxxiii. die vero quinta martii. ...
Additiones Pauli e[pisco]pi Burgen[sis] ac replice m[a]g[ist]ri Mathie Dorink
Pablo de Santa Maria Bishop (1435); Döring, Mathias (1400-1469); Renner, Franz (1471-1483)
M.CCCC.LXXXIII. [1483]
Imprint from colophon. Colophon on t6v reads: Additiones pauli e[pisco]pi burgen[sis] ac replice m[a]g[ist]ri mathie dorinck sup[er] biblia[m] finiu[n]t. Imp[re]ssa venetijs p[er] franciscu[m] renne...
Di Platina, d'la ho[n]esta voluptate [et] valitudine: ad lo a[m]plissimo [et] doctissimo signore B. Rouerella di S[an]cto Cleme[n]te. p[re]te cardi[n]ale, libro p[ri]mo
Platina (1421-1481); Ashburner, Walter (1864-1936); Hieronymus de Sanctis
M. cccclxxx.vij. a di. xv. de Decembrio. [15 December 1487]
Signatures: [*]⁴ a-h⁸ i¹⁰. Place and date of printing from colophon. Colophon on i9v reads: Qui finisse Platina di li obsonnij stampata in Venetia nel anno del signore. M. cccclxxx.vij. a d...
[Opera]
Avienus, Rufus Festus; Pisanus, Victor (1549); Dionysius Periegetes; Aratus Solensis; Avienus, Rufus Festus; Serenus Sammonicus, Quintus; Strata, Antonius de (1479-1492); Henryson-Caird, James Alexander (1847-1921); Simon, André Louis (1877-1970); Riviere & Son
Anno salutis.M.cccclxxxviii. octauo calendas nouembres. [25 October 1488]
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-p⁸. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on p6r reads: Hoc opus impressum Venetiis arte & ingenio Antonii de Strata Cremonensis. Anno salutis.M.cccclxxxviii. octauo calendas noue...
Scriptores historiae Augustae
Rosso, Giovanni (1480-1519); Boncristianus, Franciscus
M.cccc.lxxxx.die.xv.Iulii. [15 July 1490]
Signatures: a-c⁸ d-k⁶ A⁸ B-Q⁶ R⁸. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on R8r reads: Habes candide lector Cæsarum uitas paruo ære... Quæ omnia accuratissime Venetiis impressa sunt per Ioan...
[Opera]
Plato; Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499); Cori, Bernardino de'; Luere, Simone da; Torresanus, Andreas de Asula (1451-1529)
13. Augusti.1491. [13 August 1491]
Signatures: [a]⁴ 2a⁸ b-o⁸ p-q¹⁰ r-z⁸ A-D⁸ E-F¹⁰ G-Z⁸ AA-FF⁸ GG-HH¹⁰. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on HH8v reads: Impressum Venetijs per Bernardinu[m] de Choris de Cremona...
De partibus aedium
Grapaldi, Francesco Mario (1465?-1515); Ugoleto, Angelo (1486-1501)
[1494]
Signatures: a-f⁸ g⁶ h-p⁸ q⁶. Printer from colophon. Colophon on q5v reads: Angelus Vgoletus Parmensis impressor. The date of publication is derived from a note by the author in the prefa...