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Softcover. 340, [1] p.; 18 cm. (Penguin classics ; L42) [Reprint of 1955 edition: Ferguson 268] Good, sewn, in orig. purple wrapper. Pages toned.

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1st Edition. Title page with full page woodcut illustration. First edition. Spine rubbed, with minor wear to corners. Bound in a later half-leather binding, spine with gilt fillets; buckram-covered boards. 4to. a-m8, n10 [= 106 unnumbered leaves]. One of only three incunable editions transmitted under the name of Bede, combining a late medieval scholastic core with a humanist Ciceronian addendum. The Repertorium auctoritatum Aristotelis, traditionally attributed to Bede the Venerable, is an alphabetically arranged florilegium of philosophical auctoritates. It consists of brief excerpts, drawn primarily from Aristotle, each accompanied by a short explanatory or paraphrastic comment. Conceived as a practical tool for reference and instruction, it was well suited to late medieval scholastic teaching and preaching. The attribution to Bede is made explicit on the opening page, which states "a reverendissimo et venerabili Beda presbitero edita", a formulation that contributed to the work's long-standing acceptance under his authorship. The title page is illustrated with a full-page woodcut depicting a scholastic lecture scene, showing a master reading at a lectern before a group of students, visually underscoring the book's pedagogical function. The main scholastic compilation is followed by the appended Auctoritates Ciceronis, introduced separately and preceded by a dedicatory epistle to Sebald Schreyer by Peter Danhauser, and the volume concludes with a short Latin poem, functioning as a conventional closing piece. The Aristotelian material is presented without distinction between authentic and spurious works, a feature characteristic of medieval Aristotelian transmission. Aristotle is treated as a unified authority, without philological discrimination. Alongside him, the compilation draws extensively on other philosophical auctoritates, notably Boethius, Avicenna, Averroes, and Porphyry, with Seneca also cited, particularly in moral contexts. In later manuscript and printed traditions, Senecan material becomes increasingly prominent. The present Nuremberg edition, printed by Peter Wagner, was prepared under the direction of Peter Danhauser of Nuremberg, an editor and organizer of learned texts active in the 1490s and connected with the humanist and scholarly circles of Nuremberg and Vienna, including Hartmann Schedel, Conrad Celtis, and Sebald Schreyer (see Worstbrock). In this edition, Danhauser appended the humanist Auctoritates Ciceronis to the scholastic Repertorium. This Ciceronian section is introduced by the standard preface praising Cicero as studii humanitatis maximus cultor, taken verbatim from Albrecht von Eyb's Margarita poetica, and is preceded by a dedicatory epistle addressed to Sebald Schreyer, church administrator of St. Sebald and a prominent Nuremberg patron. In the dedication, Danhauser presents the Ciceronian excerpts as a moral and pedagogical aid for students and young readers and frames the addition as a humanist offering connected to Schreyer's cultural and bibliophilic activity. The Repertorium was later reissued without the Ciceronian appendix and continued to circulate independently into the sixteenth century. Bede the Venerable (ca. 673-735), an Anglo-Saxon monk of Wearmouth-Jarrow, was among the most influential scholars of the early Middle Ages, best known for the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and numerous biblical and chronological works. Modern scholarship has demonstrated that the attribution of the Repertorium to Bede is untenable: its reliance on Aristotelian texts, Arabic commentators such as Avicenna and Averroes, and later scholastic authorities places its composition firmly in the late Middle Ages. The work is therefore regarded as Pseudo-Bede. This book is one of only three known incunable editions transmitted under the name of Bede the Venerable. According to the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC), these comprise the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and two editions of the Repertorium: the present first edition, which includes the appended Auctoritates Ciceronis, and the later Cologne edition issued by Quentell in 1495. Although the Repertorium is now recognized as a pseudo-Bedan work, it nonetheless belongs to this strictly delimited incunable corpus and occupies a defined position within the earliest printed tradition of works attributed to Bede, offering a clear example of late medieval scholastic compilation with a limited humanist overlay. Scarce. ISTC records 45 surviving copies, of which only four are held in the United Kingdom (Glasgow University Library; British Library; Wellcome Collection, imperfect; Bodleian Library, Oxford) and three in the United States (Southern Methodist University, Bridwell Library; University of Rochester, Rush Rhees Library; Library of Congress). With the exception of the present copy, no other example appears to have been offered for sale according to Rare Book Hub (RBH). References: ISTC ib00294000; Goff B-294; HC 2733* = H 1926; GW 3757; Klebs 164.1; Grabmann, M. (2022). Methoden und Hilfsmittel des Aristotelesstudiums im Mittelalter (Der Text des Neusatzes folgt der Ausgabe »Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften«, Philosophisch-historische Abteilung, Jahrgang 1939, Heft 5, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München 1939). Boer Verlag; Worstbrock, F. J. (2015). Deutscher Humanismus 1480-1520, Verfasserlexikon. Walter de Gruyter, De Gruyter . Bookplate of Joseph Prill (presumably the German theologian and scholar, 1852?1935) on the inner front board. Spine rubbed, with minor wear to corners. First and last leaves reinforced, probably at the time the present binding was made. 19th-century shelf marks and pencil annotations on the pastedown; old collection stamp on the title page and the date ?1490? added in pencil. Occasional early marginal annotations throughout. Some light browning, mostly marginal. Complete and internally sound, overall a very good copy. Bound in. Title page with full page woodcut illustration. 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Numerous fine woodcut initials, diagrams, tables, & maps in the text. Woodcut printer's device at end. 14 p.l., 18 leaves, [6] leaves, 30, xxxi-cxxvi leaves, 4 leaves. Folio, cont. Flemish blindstamped calf binding over wooden boards (rather well rebacked, a few unimportant stains), rolls of medallion heads & foliage forming a double panel, orig. clasps and catches, metal corner guards. Cologne: J. Prael for P. Quentel, 1537. [bound after]: ANSELM, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. In Omnes Pauli Apostili Epistolas enarrationes. Title within fine woodcut border by Anton Woensam of Worms. Some fine large woodcut initials. 8 p.l., 531 pp. Folio. Cologne: E. Cervicornus for G. Hittorp, 1533. A most attractive sammelband of two well-illustrated books in an attractive contemporary blind-stamped binding probably made at the Stavelot monastery in Belgium. I. First collected and illustrated edition of the scientific writings of the Venerable Bede including De Natura Rerum, dealing with cosmology and natural history, and De Temporum Ratione, a work on chronology that still exercises a considerable influence over our daily life today. This edition was edited and commented upon by Joannes Noviomagus, i.e., Jan van Bronchorst of Nijmegen (1494-1570), philosopher and mathematician, then a professor of philosophy at the Collegium Montanum in Cologne. It would appear that he used the manuscript at the Dombibliothek (no. 103) of Cologne to prepare this edition. The De Temporum Ratione is a significant book in several ways. Most notably, "this book helped to establish the custom of counting years from the birth of Christ. When we say that Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926 (not 'in the 16th year of the reign of George V,' or 'in the year 2678 after the foundation of Rome,' or in the '2nd year of the 481st Olympiad'), we are indebted to the Venerable Bede."Printing & the Mind of Man 16n. "Bede's greatest practical effect was on the Western calendar. His decisions (beginning the year, calculation of Easter, names of days and months, calculations of eras, and so forth) in most instances finally determined usage that was only refined, not changed by Gregorian reform."D.S.B., I, p. 565. "The De Ratione Temporum, first published in 1505, is particularly important. It contains a remarkable theory of tides based upon Pliny, but also upon personal observation; first mention of the establishment of a port (i.e., the mean interval between the moon's meridian passage and high water following; this interval is different in different ports)."Sarton, I, p. 511. Pierre Duhem described Bede's establishment of a port as the only original formulation of nature to be made in the West for some eight centuries. Also contained here is the De Natura Rerum (1st printing: 1529), which contains such physical science as was then known. It collects the wisdom of the ancient world on these subjects and has the special merit of referring phenomena to natural causes. It contains a particularly important section the "De Comptu vel Loquela digitorum" which is "our main (almost our only) source for the study of mediaeval finger reckoning or symbolism."Sarton, I, pp. 510-11. See also Smith, History of Mathematics, II, p. 200. The rest of the book contains further treatises by Bede on arithmetic, astronomy, and the calendar and chronology. II. Very rare. PROVENANCE: Early inscription of "Antonius abbatis a Sancto Remaclo" on front flyleaf; Benedictine monastery of Stavelot (Belgium), inscription "Liber Monasterii Stabulensis" on title-page (of Anselm); auction sale of the monastery library, Catalogue d'une belle Collection de Livres et Manuscrits précieux sur vélin du VIIIe et du IXe siècle, Ghent, 26 April 1847, lot 42; Michel Chasles (1793-1880), the mathematician, with bookplate, his sale, Paris, 27 June-18 July 1881, lot 28; Robert B. Honeyman (1897-1987), his sale, Sotheby's, 30 October 1978, lot 265. BINDING: Stavelot had its own bindery at this time, and it is quite likely that this binding was executed there (see Goldschmidt, Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings, no. 90). Fine large copies, preserved in a box. ? I. Adams B448(calling for two additional preliminary leaves but no other collation calls for them). Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p. 159n. Zinner 1657. II. Adams A1174.…

Coloniae Agrippinae (Köln), Sumptibus Anton. Hierati et Ioan. Gymnici, 1612. Folio. Bound in two contemporary, uniform full vellum bindings with remains of silk-ties on boards. Some traces of use to extremities. Some pages evenly browned, some brownspotted. First two volumes richly illustrated with woodcut diagrams, musical notes, earth- and heaven-maps etc. in the text, numerous woodcut initials throughout, engraved title-page. (10) pp, columns 1-168 (84 pp.), pp. 169 - 322, columns 323 - 452 (65 pp.) + (1) f., 238 pp. + (2) ff., columns 1 - 500 (250 pp.) + (2) ff., columns 1 - 916 (458 pp.) + (1) f., columns 1 - 816 (408 pp) + (1) f., columns 1 - 852 (426 pp.) + (2) ff., columns 1 - 485 (243 pp.) + (2) ff., columns 1 - 968 (484 pp.), 55 ff. (Index). Very rare, early, and apparently first complete edition of the seminal works by the "Father of English History", the venrable Bede. Bede?s most famous work, his "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People" (Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum)? begins with the invasion of the British Isles by Roman forces and is considered one of the most important historical records documenting Roman rule, Anglo-Saxon settlement and the evolution of the Church on the island. With its focus on Anglo-Saxon history, the work is considered a key foundational text in the forming of a national English identity. The "Ecclesiastical History" contains stories that serve as the only source documenting the conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon tribes. It tells the story of Britons from Julius Caesar?s invasion, to the time of Bede himself . He tells the story of battles, conversions and miracles performed by monks and bishops, and details Britain?s early history from the Roman invasion. He furthermore describes the organization and establishment of Christianity in the English church and covers the personal history of ?Holy Ethelwald and miracles of growth within the English church, such as the development of the bishopric. "Bede?s works fall into three groups: grammatical and ?scientific,? scriptural commentary, and historical and biographical. His earliest works included treatises on spelling, hymns, figures of speech, verse, and epigrams. His first treatise on chronology, De temporibus (?On Times?), with a brief chronicle attached, was written in 703. In 725 he completed a greatly amplified version, De temporum ratione (?On the Reckoning of Time?), with a much longer chronicle. Both these books were mainly concerned with the reckoning of Easter. His earliest biblical commentary was probably that on the Revelation to John (703??709)" in this and many similar works, his aim was to transmit and explain relevant passages from the Fathers of the Church. Although his interpretations were mainly allegorical, treating much of the biblical text as symbolic of deeper meanings, he used some critical judgment and attempted to rationalize discrepancies. Among his most notable are his verse (705?716) and prose (before 721) lives of St. Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne. These works are uncritical and abound with accounts of miracles a more exclusively historical work is Historia abbatum (c. 725" ?Lives of the Abbots?). In 731/732 Bede completed his Historia ecclesiastica. Divided into five books, it recorded events in Britain from the raids by Julius Caesar (55?54 BCE) to the arrival in Kent (597 CE) of St. Augustine of Canterbury. For his sources, he claimed the authority of ancient letters, the ?traditions of our forefathers,? and his own knowledge of contemporary events. Bede?s Historia ecclesiastica leaves gaps tantalizing to secular historians. Although overloaded with the miraculous, it is the work of a scholar anxious to assess the accuracy of his sources and to record only what he regarded as trustworthy evidence. It remains an indispensable source for some of the facts and much of the feel of early Anglo-Saxon history." (Encycl. Britt). Only three editions of Bede's Opera Omnia are known before Dr. Giles' edition from 1843 - 44. The first was printed in 1563 and the third in 1688. The 1688-edition constitutes the second edition of the present 1612-edition which is "According to Dr. Henry, the only complete edition" (Lowndes I:143). These three editions are also the only ones known to have been printed in folio (though Lowndes mentions the 1688-edition as 4to). The 1612-edition is the rarest. Some of the works contained in this edition are said not to be Bede's own, as some of the many scientific, richly illustrated works on geography, the heavens, the universe, music etc. bear small resemblance to his other works. Lowndes I:143, Brunet 1:731.…

Coloniae Agrippina (Köln) , Sumptibus Joannis Wilhelmi Friesem, 1688, 8 part bound in 4 volumes, in-folio, 39 x 24 cm. Volume I (tomus I and II) ; engraved title with view of Cologne (A. Braun), typographical title printed in red and black + (6)nn pp + 322 pp + 64 pp (numbered columns 323-452) , title + (1) nn pp + 238 pp. Volume II (tomus III and IV) ; title + (3) nn pp + 250 pp (numbered columns 1-500) , title + (3)(2 bl) nn pp + 408 pp (numbered columns 1-916) + (3)(bl) nn pp . Volume III (tomus V and VI) ; title + (1) nn pp + 408 pp (numbered columns 1-816) , title + (1) nn pp + 426 pp (numbered columns 1-852). Volume IV (tomus VII and VIII) ; title + (3)(2 bl) nn pp + 243 pp (numbered columns 1-486) + (1)(bl) , title + (3)(2 bl) nn pp + 484 pp (numbered columns 1- 968) + (108)(index) nn pp + (2)(bl). (Complete). With many woodcut and copper engraved illustrations and diagrams printed in the text, especially in the first two parts. Bound in 4 uniform full contemporary leather bindings, all volumes uniformly rebacked, gilt raised spines with two labels, endpapers renewed, bookblocks untouched, with edges painted red. Some old waterstains at some pages, most pages a bit browned due to paper quality, but never obtrusively. In all a well preserved set in very sound bindings. Ex-library with only 8 stamps , each time on the verso of the title. There are known three European continental folio editions of the collected works (Opera omnia) of Bede (672 - 735) , the Father of English History. The first was published in Basel 1563, the two others at Cologne in 1612 and 1688. According to Charles Plummer ( Enc. Britt. 11th ed.) all these editions contain works which cannot by any possibility be Bede's. Especially the first two volumes contain many scientific treatises ; on cosmology, music, etc. …

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