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Subject Terms World history -- Early works to 1800.

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1. Supplementum chronicharum.

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Creator:
Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434–1520
Date:
anno a natiuitate D[omi]ni Mcccclxxxxij. die decimoquinto Februarij [1493]
Physical Description:
[2], 256, [12] leaves : illustrations; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Speculum historiale.

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Creator:
Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264
Date:
4 Dec., 1473
Physical Description:
4 volumes ; 47 x 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. [Rudime[n]tum nouicioru[m]].

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Date:
MCCCLXXV [1475]
Physical Description:
[912] pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 38 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Fasciculus temporum.

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Creator:
Rolevinck, Werner, 1425–1502
Date:
[1481]
Physical Description:
[192] pages : illustrations, diagrams (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Fasciculus tempo[rum]: omnes antiquoru[m] cronicas complectens: Incipit feliciter.

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Creator:
Rolevinck, Werner, 1425–1502
Date:
[24 November, 1480]
Physical Description:
[8], 68 leaves : illustrations, diagrams (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Speculum historiale.

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Creator:
Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264
Date:
1474
Physical Description:
3 pts. (1041 p.) ; 37-40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. La mer des hystoires.

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Date:
[July 1488-Feb. 1489]
Physical Description:
2 v. (270, the last leaf blank; 310 leaves, leaf 274 blank) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 42 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A briefe description of the whole worlde : Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same: newly augmented and enlarged; with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning.

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Creator:
Abbot, George, 1562–1633
Date:
1605
Physical Description:
[164] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Chronecken der Sassen.

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Date:
In deme iare na Cristi gebort. Dusent vierhundert .lxxxxij. vppe den Sesten dach des Mertzen. [March 6, 1492]
Physical Description:
[568] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (Folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Das buch Der Croniken vnnd geschichten mit figuren vnd pildnussen von Anbeginn der welt biss auff dise vnsere Zeÿt.

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Creator:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440–1514
Date:
18 September 1496
Physical Description:
CCCxxii [that is, 317], [15] leaves : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Register des Buchs der Croniken vnd Geschichten : mit Figure[n] vnd Pildnüssen von Anbegi[n]n der Welt bis auf dise v[n]nsere Zeit.

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Creator:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440–1514
Date:
Volbracht a[m]m. xxiij. Tag des Monats Decembris nach der Gepurt Cristi vnssers Haylands M.cccc.xciij. [1493] Iar
Physical Description:
[10], CCLXXXVI, [2] leaves (last leaf blank) : ill., coats of arms, maps, ports. ; 43 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Incipit prologus Fratris Vincēncij [sic] de burgundia ordinis predicatorum in libru[m] qui dicitur Speculum hystoriale.

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Creator:
Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264
Date:
M.cccc.lxxiiij. [1474]
Physical Description:
3 volumes ([676], [662], [744] pages) ; 40-42 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. An historicall description of the most famous kingdomes and common-weales in the worlde : relating their scituations, manners, customes, ciuill gouernment, and other memorable matters / translated into English, and enlarged, with an addition of the relation of the states of Saxony, Geneua, Hungary, and Spaine; in no language euer before imprinted.

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Creator:
Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:
1603
Physical Description:
[4], 268 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Grete thankynges, lawde, & honoure we merytoryously ben bounde to yelde and offre vnto wryters of hystoryes, whiche gretely haue prouffyted oure mortal lyf, that shewe vnto the reders and herers by the ensamples of thynges passyd, what thynge is to be desyred.

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Creator:
Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Date:
[after 2 July, 1482]
Physical Description:
[20], CCCCxxviij, [1] leaves ; 28 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Fasciculus t[em]p[oru]m o[mn]es antiquo[rum] cronicas [com]plectens incipit feliciter.

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Creator:
Rolevinck, Werner, 1425–1502
Date:
Sub anno d[omi]ni Millesimo quadrigentesimoseptuagesimo sexto feria sexta ante Martini ep[isco]pi [8 November 1476]
Physical Description:
[152] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 38 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu[m] figuris et ÿmagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di.

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Creator:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440–1514
Date:
duodecima mensis Iulij anno salutis n[ost]r[a]e. 1493
Physical Description:
[20], CCXCIX, [9] leaves : 1809 illustrations, 2 maps (woodcuts) ; 50 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Policronicon.

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Creator:
Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Date:
ended the thyrtenth daye of Apryll the tenth yere of the regne of kyng Harry the seuenth. And of the incarnacyon of our lord: MCCCC lxxxxv [13 April 1495]
Physical Description:
[50], CCCxxxvi, CCCxxxvi-CCCxlvi, [1] leaves : illustrations, music ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts