Browse Items (76 total)

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Vellum covers (wormed) with fragments of manuscripts at front. Blind stamped with painted red I on front cover. Brass clasps gone.

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Calf covers detached. Spine title reads: Corpus Juris

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Rebacked; wooden boards with ornate stamped covers. One brass clasp remaining. Small fragment of spine label present.

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Green morocco with gilt lozenge in middle of both covers. Gilt tooling around the edge of covers. One portion of front cover damaged. Spine title reads: C.Plini/ II/ Epistoi
Bound with: Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius, the younger. [Epistolae].…

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Covers detached; spine cracked and broken.
Spine title reads: Barth Angl/ de/ Proprietat-/ rerum.

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Wooden boards covered in blind stamped calf, executed by the English Rood and Hunt binder. For further details, see Isabelle Pingree, 'A Catalogue of the Bindings of the Fifteenth Century Bookbinder called the Rood and Hunt Binder', in The Library,…

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Vellum covers, severely marked. Inner front detached from text block. Spine title reads: Boccaco/ Genealo/ Deor. Gen/ et de/ Montibus/ &c/ 1497.

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Half-bound calf over buckram boards which are detached. Spine broken, with spine cover partially disintegrated. Spine title reads: 'Bonave'.

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Faded brown boards. Spine cover detached. Spine title reads: De Busti/ Mariae/ 1493. Additional spine label (partially disintegrated) reads: Ecclesiastical His [tory] Series. No. [848].

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Half-bound calf over marbled boards. Covers detached.

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Rebacked paper boards with mottled covers. Spine cracking near front cover. Bookplate or label removed.

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Vellum over thick paper boards. Spine ripped and reads: Pomp. Mela/ De situ orbis/ 1530/ &/ Eusebii/ Hist. Ecclesia/ Mcccclxix/ 1479.
Bound with: P. Mela, De orbis situ. Paris 1530.

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Brown calf over paper boards. Split away from boards near spine, which is broken, with spine cords exposed.
Some gatherings loose.

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Half bound leather over buckram. Boards detached. Spine cracked. Spine title reads: Roberti/ Holkot/ Quaestione/ Lugduni/ 1497.

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Oak boards covered with calf; wormed and ripped. Manuscript fragments in gutters. Three clasp joins remain. Raised bands exposed. Spine title reads: Leonhardi/De Huno/Sermones/1478.

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Vellum over boards. Spine title reads: Annaei Lucani/ Pharsaliae/ Ediz. Venezia/ 1486.

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Brown paper boards; scuffed. Bound with: Jason de Mayno's Epithalamion in nuptiis Maximiliani et Blancae Mariae (No.19) and Oratio in funere Hieronymi Torti habita (No.20).

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Brown paper boards. Bound with: Jason de Mayno, Oratio apud Alexandrum VI habita pro Mediolanensium principe (No.18) and Oratio in funere Hieronymi Torti habita. (No.20).

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Brown paper boards.
Bound with: Jason de Mayno, Oratio apud Alexandrum VI habita pro Mediolanensium principe (no.18) and Epithalamion in nuptiis Maximiliani et Blancae Mariae (No.19).

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Modern rebacked quarter bound calf over wooden boards. Ornamental brass stars on both covers. Clasp joints remain. Spine title reads: Mammo/ trectus/ Venice/ 1476.

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Vellum boards; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.

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Stamped pigskin covers (wormed). Tabs present. Clasp joints not present. Spine title reads: Joanis Messue/ Opera/ Omnia &C/ 1484.

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Grubby white paper over paper wrappers. Unknown dealer's catalogue entry pasted in front endpaper.

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Vellum covers; manuscript notes at front with printed pasted down endpaper. Some leaves loose.
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