Period: 16th century / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Classification: Books

1. A booke of secrets: shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours ... and to graue with strong water in steele and iron ... Tr. out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, Instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine ... Written first in Italian, and now newly tr. into English, by W.P.

A booke of secrets: shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours ... and to graue with strong water in steele and iron ... Tr. out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, Instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine ... Written first in Italian, and now newly tr. into English, by W.P.

Date:: 1596
Physical Description:: [40] p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. De agricultura vulgare / Piero Crescentio.

Creator:: Crescenzi, Pietro de', approximately 1233–approximately 1320
Date:: die nono mẽsis Iulii anno dñi M.D.XIX [9 July 1519]
Physical Description:: 235 (i.e. 234), [6] leaves : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The pathwaie to martiall discipline : now newly imprinted, and devided into three bookes ...

Creator:: Styward, Thomas
Date:: [1582]
Physical Description:: [2], 166, [2] pages ; [4], 20 leaves, [8] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The fower chiefest offices belonging to horsemanshippe : that is to say, the office of the breeder, of the rider, of the keeper, and of the ferrer. In the first parte wherof is declared the order of breeding of horses. In the seconde howe to breake them, and to make them horses of seruice. Conteyninge the whole art of ryding latelye set foorth, and nowe newelye corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrst printing, as well touchyng the byttes as otherwyse. Thirdely, howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste as when they traueyle by the way. Fourthly, to what diseases they be subiecte togither with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same. which bookes are not onely painefully collected out of a number of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vse of thys oure countrey / By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norff.

Creator:: Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:: [1570?]
Physical Description:: [5], 23, [2], 24-25, [4], 58, [29], 24, [5], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies : deuided into foure Bookes.

Creator:: Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563–1611
Date:: [1598]
Physical Description:: [10], 197, [4], 198-259 [i.e. 295], [3], 307-462 p., [23] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Idea del tempio della pittura di Gio. Paolo Lomazzo pittore. Nella quale egli discorre dell'origine, & fondamento delle cose contenute nel suo trattato dell'arte della pittura ...

Creator:: Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538–1600
Date:: [1590]
Physical Description:: 16 p.., 168 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Dialogo della pittvra di m. Lodovico Dolce, intitolato L'Aretino. Nel quale si ragiona della dignita di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconuengono: con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle uirtù e delle opere del diuin Titiano ...

Creator:: Dolce, Lodovico, 1508–1568
Date:: 1557
Physical Description:: 60 numb. leaves. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Emanuels van Meteren historie der Neder-landscher ende haerder na-buren oorlogen ende geschiedenissen, tot den iare M.VI.c XII : nu de laestemael bij hem voor sijne doodt merckelijck verbetert en[de] in, XXXII, boecken voltrocken, is mede' hier by gevoegt des autheurs leven ...

Creator:: Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535–1612
Date:: 1614
Physical Description:: [10], 302, 304-671, [15] leaves : ill., map, ports. ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Stultifera nauis.

Creator:: Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521
Date:: 1509 (14 Dec.)]
Physical Description:: [4], CCLXXIIII [i.e. CCLXXIX] leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Pr[a]eterita verborum : Gra[m]maticae prima pars Roberti Whitintoni L.L. nuperrime recensita. Liber quintus, de verboru[m] pr[a]eteritis & supinis cu[m] co[m]mento necnon interliniari dictionum interpretatione. Authoris tetrastichon. Aucti[us] exit op[us], facit hoc mihi Zoil[us] acer arbiter. is credit nil sine teste mihi. Imprude[n]s p[er]agit quod nolit, na[m]q[ue] nocendo prosit. quod cupio conciliatq[ue] mihi. Humiliabit calumniatorem.

Creator:: Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560
Date:: xxiiij. supra sesquimillesimu[m] nostr[a]e redemptionis anno [1524]
Physical Description:: [40] pages ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. [Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysse the golden legende].

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: 16 Feb. 1503 [i.e. 1504]
Physical Description:: 296 leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio : ne'quali, dopo un breve trattato de'cinque ordini, & di quelli avertimenti, che sono piu necessarij nel fabricare : si tratta delle case private, delle vie, de i ponti, delle piazze, de i xisti, et de'tempij : con privilegi / di Andrea Palladio.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: 1570
Physical Description:: 4 pts. in 1 v. (67, [1], 66 [i.e. 78], [2], 46, [2], 128, [6] p.) : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Speculi Britaniæ pars : the description of Hartfordshire / by John Norden.

Creator:: Norden, John, 1548–1625?
Date:: 1598
Physical Description:: [6], 31 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Eyne predigt auff den achten Sutag nach de Pfingstag uber das Evangelion Mattei am VII : sehet euch fur / von den falschen Trapheten Bruder Heinrich Kettenbach in MDXXV.

Creator:: Kettenbach, Heinrich von, fl. 1522
Date:: 1525
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Praeterita verbo[rum] : Gra[m]matic[ae] prima pars Roberti Whitintoni. L.L. nuperrime rece[n]sita. Liber quintus, de verboru[m] pr[ae]teritis & supinis cu[m] co[m]me[n]to necno[n] interliniari dictionu[m] interpretatione. Eiusdem Roberti Whitin. tetrastichon. Aucti[us] exit opus. facit hoc mihi Zoilus acer. Arbiter. is credit nil sine teste mihi. Imprudens peragit quod nolit. nanq[ue] nocendo prosit. quod cupio co[n]ciliatq[ue] mihi. Humiliabit calumniatorem.

Creator:: Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560
Date:: xxi. supra ses[qui]millesimu[m] nostr[ae] redemptionis anno [1521]
Physical Description:: [40] pages ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Chronica, tytboeck en gheschiet bibel : van aenbegin der werelt tot den jare MDXXXVJ. verlengt : waer in beyde Godt ende des werelts loop handel aert woort werck doen ende laten ghesien ende begrepen wort : van alle Roomsche keysers pausen concilien : ketters orden en secten beyde der Joden en Christanen ... : mitsgaders hier by ghevoecht den spieghel ende beeltenisse des gheheelen aertbodems in vier deelen af ghedeylt ghenaemt het Werelt-boeck ... / door Sebastianum Franck van Word voortijts in duytscher sprake noyt ghehoort noch ghelesen ; met een register ende inhout deser gheheelder chronijcken op een yeghelijck deel ...

Creator:: Franck, Sebastian, 1499–1542
Date:: 1595
Physical Description:: lxxxi, [3], lxxxiii, [3], clv, [5], cxxxiiii, [4] leaves ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus.

Creator:: Molitor, Ulrich, active 1470–1501
Date:: [approximately 1500]
Physical Description:: [2], tercium-xxij leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Von Kayserlichem Kriegssrechten Malefitz vnd Schuldhändlen Ordnung vnd Regiment : sampt derselbigen vnd andern hoch oder niderigen Befelch, Bestallung, Staht vnd ämpter zu Rossz vn[d] Fuss, an Geschütz vnd Munition, in Zug vnd Schlachtordnung, zu Feld, Berg, Thal, Wasser vnd Land, vor oder in Besatzungen, gegen oder von Feinden fürzunemmen, welcher art, sitten, herkom[m]en vnd gebrauch vnder vnd bey regierung dess Allerdurchleuchtigsten, Grossmächtigsten, vnüberwindlichsten, vnd Kriegsserfahrnen berühmptisten Römischen Keysers Caroli dess fünfften, hochlöblichster vn[d] seligster gedechtniss, geübt vn[d] gebraucht ; In zehen Bücher abgetheilt, dergleichen nie gesehen worden / von neuwem beschrieben vnd an tag geben durch Leonhart Fronsperger ; mit schönen neuwen Figuren vnd einem ordenlichen Register.

Creator:: Fronsperger, Leonhardt, 1520–1575
Date:: MDLXVI [1566]
Physical Description:: [4], CCLVI [i.e. 257], [6] leaves, [12] leaves of folded plates ; illustrations ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Discorsi delle fortificationi / del. Sig. Carlo Tetti. Oue diffusamente si dimostra, quali debbano essere i siti delle fortezze, le forme, i recinti, fossi, baloardi, castelli, & altre cose à loro appartenenti, con le figure di esse. Hora di nuouo da lui medisimo ricorretti, & ampliati del secondo libro. Con gli elenchi di tutti i Capitoli; & Tauola di tutte le materie, che in essi si trattano. Con priuilegio.

Creator:: Theti, Carlo, 1529–1589
Date:: MDLXXV [1575]
Physical Description:: [8], 119, [9] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts, according to the positions of the regions whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth / by Richard Hakluyt ...

Date:: 1589
Physical Description:: [16], 242, [2], 243-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer vnderstanding of the whole matter.

Creator:: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:: 1582
Physical Description:: [124] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Descrittione di M. Lodovico Gvicciardini patritio fiorentino, di tvtti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti 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.

Creator:: Guicciardini, Lodovico, 1521–1589
Date:: 1581
Physical Description:: [24], 558, [18] pages : illustrations (maps, portrait, coats of arms) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Historia Herrn Georgen Vnnd Herrn Casparn von Frundsberg : Vatters vnd Sons beyder Herrn zu Muendelheym &c. Keyserlicher Oberster Feldtherrn Ritterlicher vnd Loeblicher Kriegssthaten.

Creator:: Reissner, Adam, 1500–1572
Date:: MDLXVIII [1568]
Physical Description:: [4], 180, 24, [8] leaves : illustrations ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. De viribus herbarum carmen.

Creator:: Macer, Floridus
Date:: [1501-1606?]
Physical Description:: 1 volume : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Aeliani De militaribus ordinibus instituendis more Graecorum / liber à Francisco Robertello Vtinensi in Latinum sermonem versus, & ab eodem picturis quamplurimis illustratus.

Creator:: Aelianus, Tacticus, active 2nd century
Date:: MDLII [1552]
Physical Description:: [8], 65, [3], 73-77, [27] p. : ill. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Thoukudidou tou Olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto = Thucydidis Olori filii De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Iidem Latinè / ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita.

Creator:: Thucydides
Date:: anno MDLXIIII [1564]
Physical Description:: [16], 297, [3], 216, [8] p. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Das vntrew Spiel : Welcher ein schöen Weyb Bülen wil : der musz auch von jhr leyden vil : Das sie der vntrew mit ihm spil / Hans Sachs.

Creator:: Sachs, Hans, 1494–1576
Date:: [ca. 1553]
Physical Description:: [8] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Noua statuta.

Creator:: England
Date:: [1500 or 1501]
Physical Description:: [602] pages ; 36 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Proteo militare di Bartolomeo Romano. Diuso in tre libri. Nel primo si descrive la fabrica di detto proteo, & in esso nuovo instrumento, tutti gli altri instrumenti, di matematica che imaginar si possano. Nel secondo, e terzo si tratta dell'vso di detto instrumento, nelquale si formano tutte le figure di geometria, e diuersi instrumenti di prospettiua, pittura, scoltura, & architettura. S'insegna ancora l'arte del navigare, e puella del guerreggiare con nuouo, e facilissimo modo, come più distintamente nella tauola si potra redere.

Creator:: Crescentio Romano, Bartolomeo
Date:: 1595
Physical Description:: 8 p.l., 192 p. illus., tables, diagrs. (1 fold.) 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. La cosmographie vniverselle / d'André Thevet cosmographe du roy ; illustree de diverses figures des choses plus remarquables veuës par l'auteur, & incogneuës de noz anciens & modernes ...

Creator:: Thevet, André, 1502–1590
Date:: 1575
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A newe booke containing the arte of ryding, and breaking greate horses : together with the shapes and figures, of many and diuers kyndes of byttes, mete to serue diuers mouthes. Very necessary for all gentlemen, souldyours, seruingmen, and for any man that delighteth in a horse.

Creator:: Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:: [not before 1566]
Physical Description:: [356] p. : ill. ; 17 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Marco Polo Venetiano : in cui si tratta le merauigliose cose del mondo per lui uedute, del costume di uarij paesi, della stranio uiuere di quelli ; della descrittione de diuersi animali, e del trouar dell'oro dell'argenteo, e delle pietre preciose, cosa non men utile, che bella.

Creator:: Polo, Marco, 1254–1323?
Date:: 1555
Physical Description:: [112] pages ; 15 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Il viaggio fatto da gli Spagniuoli a torno a'l mondo : Con gratia per Anni. XIIII.

Creator:: Maximilian, of Transylvania, active 1522
Date:: MDXXXVI [1536]
Physical Description:: [52] leaves ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Erschröckliche Zeytung, von zweyen Mödern, mit Namen Martin Farkas, unnd Paul Wasansky : welche in die hundert und vier und zweintzig Mörd gethan : unnd in disem 1570 : Jar, den ersten Martij sind gericht worden : zu Eybetschitz im Lande zu Märhern : zwo Meil Wegs von Brünn gelegen.

Date:: [1570]
Physical Description:: [8] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Della fortificatione delle citta / di Girolamo Maggi, e del capitan Iacomo Castriotto ... Discorso del medesimo Maggi sopra la fortificatione de gli alloggiamenti de gli esserciti ; Discorso del capitan Francesco Montemellino sopra la fortificatione del Borgo di Roma ; Trattato dell'ordinanze, ouero battaglie del capitan Giovacchino da Coniano ; Ragionamento del sudetto Castriotto sopra le fortezze della Francia.

Creator:: Maggi, Girolamo, -1572
Date:: MDLXXXIII [1583]
Physical Description:: [4], 136 [i.e. 138] leaves : illustrations, maps, plans ; 37 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschaft Stetten, Landen und Völckern chronicwürdiger Thaaten beschreibung : hierinn wirt auch die Gelegenheit der gantzen Europe, item ein kurtzuergriffne Chronica Germanie oder Teütschlands, insonders aber ein fleyssige History und ordenliche Beschreybung Galliæ oder Franckreychs fürgestellt, darauff denn obgedachte der Eydgnoschafft Beschreybung volget ... : jetz neüwlich zum anderen Mal in den Truck gäben an vilen Orten gebesseret, gemeeret, mit einer angehenckten Chronologey kurtzuer zeichneter Geschichten vom 1548, Jar biss auff diss Gegenwirtig 1586 / Jar durch Johan Rudolph Stumpffen ...

Creator:: Stumpf, Johannes, 1500–1576?
Date:: 1586
Physical Description:: [9], DCCXXXII, [22] leaves : ill., coats of arms, ports, maps ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Flauij Vegetij Renati, Vier bücher der Ritterschafft : mit manicherleyen gerüsten, bolwercken vn[d] gebewen, Als Büchsen, Katzen, Antriben, Uberwerffenden prucken, Wasserzeügen, Steyglaitern, Ziechtürnen, Schiffen vnd anders, zů Kryegsleuffen gehoerig, mit jren mustern vnnd fyguren darneben verzaychnet : zum anderen mal vbersehen, vnnd mit etlichen figuren gemeret vnd gebesseret

Creator:: Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Date:: Vollendet am xvij.tag Nouembris, Jm[m] Jar M.D.XXXIIII [1534]
Physical Description:: [4], XXX, [66] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Syntaxis : Roberti W.L. in florentissima Oxoniensi academia laureati Opusculum de Syntaxi, siue co[n]structione recensitu[m]. xxi. supra sesquimillesimu[m] n[ost]rae salutis anno. Idi. Februa. ...

Creator:: Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560
Date:: Christi ab incarnatione, anno. xxi. supra sesquimillesimu[m] Men. Noue[m] [1521]
Physical Description:: [68] pages ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Itinerarium prouinciarum omniu[m] Antonini Augusti : cum Fragmento eiusdem necnon indice haudquaq[ue] asperna[n]do : cvm privilegio, ne quis temere hoc ab hinc duos annos imprimet.

Date:: [1512]
Physical Description:: [8], 92, [60] leaves ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A short pathwaye to the ryghte and true vnderstanding of the holye & sacred scriptures / set fourth by that moste famous clerke, Huldrich Zwinglius and now translated out of Laten into Englysshe by Ihon Veron ...

Creator:: Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484–1531
Date:: 1550
Physical Description:: [208] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Precetti della militia moderna, tanto per mare, quanto per terra / trattati da diuersi nobilissimi ingegni & raccolti con molta diligenza dal signor Girolamo Ruscelli ; ne' quali si contiene tutta l'arte del bombardiero & mostra l'ordine che ha da tenere il maestro di campo, quando vuole accampare il suo essercito ; opera ... molto necessaria a' principi & a tutti coloro che desiderano di apprendere compitamente la disciplina militare.

Creator:: Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565
Date:: 1568
Physical Description:: [4], 59, [1] leaves (the last leaf blank) : ill., diagrams ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima : priùs quidem per Episcopum Bartholomæum Casaum, natione Hispanum Hispanicè conscripta, & Anno 1551. Hispali, Hispanicè, Anno verò hoc 1598.

Creator:: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:: Anno M.D.XCVIII [1598]
Physical Description:: [8], 141, [3] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Syntaxis : Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldiensis in florentissima oxoniensi academia laureati Opusculu[m] de syntaxi, siue constructione recensitu[m] .xxi. supra sesquimillesimu[m] n[ost]re salutis anno. Idi. Februa ... Humiliabit calumnitorem.

Creator:: Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560
Date:: anno .xx. supra sesquimillesimu[m] Ibib[us] [sic] Marcij [15 March 1520, i.e. 1521]
Physical Description:: [68] pages ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The art of riding : set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent, horssemen: wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the author of this present work hath put the same into practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the order of riding is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the chaine or cauezzan, the trench, and the martingale / written by a gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said art.

Creator:: Astley, John, d. 1595
Date:: 1584
Physical Description:: [8], 79, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Intrationu[m] excellentissimus liber : perq[uam] necessaries o[mn]ibus leg[um] hominib[us]: fere in se continens o[mn]em medullam diuersar[um] materiar[um] ... Necno[n] multorum breuium tam executionu[m] q[uam] aliorum valde vtilium illis hunc librum inspecturis aut inscrutandis. Que quide[m] supradicta facilit[ate] possunt inueniri p[er] indice[m] alphabeticu[m] p[er]uigila[n]ti studio co[n]fectu[m] [et] p[er] ordine[m] l[ite]raru[m] redactu[m] ...

Date:: anno n[ost]re redemptionis, MCCCCCx, die vero vltima mensis Februarii [1510 February 28]
Physical Description:: [10], l, lii-liij, lv-clxxxv, [1] leaves ; 34 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Marco Polo Venetiano : in cui si tratta le merauigliose cose del mondo per lui uedute, del costume di uarij paesi, della stranio uiuere di quelli ; della descrittione de diuersi animali, e del trouar dell'oro dell'argenteo, e delle pietre preciose, cosa non men utile, che bella.

Creator:: Polo, Marco, 1254–1323?
Date:: [1555]
Physical Description:: [112] pages ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Cosmographiae uniuersalis : lib. VI. in quibus iuxta certioris fidei scriptorum traditionem describuntur, omnium habitabilis orbis partium situs, propriæq[ue] dotes : regionum topographicæ effigies : terræ ingenia, quibus fit ut tam differentes & uarias specieres, & animatas, & inanimatas, ferat : animalium peregrinorum naturæ & picturæ : nobiliorum ciuitatum icones & descriptiones : regnorum initia, incrementa & translationes : regum & principum genealogiæ : item omnium gentium mores, leges, religio, mutationes : atq[ue] memorabilium in hunc usque annum 1559 : gestarum rerum historia / autore Sebast. Munstero.

Creator:: Münster, Sebastian, 1489–1552
Date:: [1559]
Physical Description:: [24], 1162 [i.e. 1178], [2] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., maps. ports, plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. [The legende named in latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in englysshe the golden legende].

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: 15 Feb. 1512
Physical Description:: 406 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke. Also a treatise of the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the forrest, as the puralley. Collected and gathered together, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient aucthors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster / by Iohn Manwood.

Creator:: Manwood, John, -1610
Date:: 1598
Physical Description:: [8], 167, [7] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Il ballarino di M. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta : diuiso in due trattati : nel primo de' quali si dimostra la diuersità de i nomi, che si danno à gli atti, & mouimenti, che interuengono ne i balli: & con molte regole si dichiara con quali creanze, & in che modo debbano farsi : nel secondo s'insegnano diuerse sorti di balli, & balletti sì all'uso d'Italia, come à quello di Francia, & Spagna : ornato di molte figure, et con l'intauolatura di liuto, & il soprano della musica nella sonata di ciascun ballo : opera nuouamente mandata in luce ...

Creator:: Caroso, Fabritio
Date:: MDLXXXI [1581]
Physical Description:: [8], 16; 184, [4] leaves : ill., port., music ; 25 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. De antiquitate Cantabrigiensis academiæ libri duo. In quorum secundo de Oxoniensis quoq́[ue] gymnasij antiquitate disseritur, & Cantabrigiense longè eo antiquius esse definitur. Londinensi authore. Adiunximus Assertionem antiquitatis Oxoniensis academiæ ab Oxoniensi quodam annis iam elapsis duobus ad reginam conscriptam in qua docere conatur, Oxoniense gymnasium Cantabrigiensi antiquius esse ...

Creator:: Caius, John, 1510–1573
Date:: 1568
Physical Description:: 360, [62] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Descriptio publicae gratulationis, spectaculorum et ludorum, in aduentu Sereniss. Principis Ernesti Archiducis Austriae ... Belgicis provincijs a Regia Ma[iesta]te Cathol. praefecti, : an. MDXCIIII. XVIII. Kal. Iulias, alijsque diebus Antuerpiae editorum. Cui est praefixa, De Belgij principatu a Romano in ea prouincia imperio ad nostra usq[ue] tempora breuis narratio. : Ad Principem Sereniss. et S.R.E. Cardinalem, Archiepiscopum Toletanum Albertum Archiducem Austriae, Ducem Burgundiae, &c. Cum carmine panegyrico in eiusdem Principis Ernesti, suscepto a Regia Ma[iesta]te Catholica Belgicarum ditionum imperio, in easdem prouincias aduentum. Accessit denique oratio funebris, in Archiducis Ernesti obitum ijsdem prouincijs luctuosissimum. / Omnia a Ioanne Bochio S.P.Q.A. a secretis conscripta.

Creator:: Bochius, Joannes, 1555–1609
Date:: MDXCV [1595]
Physical Description:: 174 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, music ; 41 cm (folio in 6s and 4s)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Grammatices primae partis liber primus Roberti W. L.L. nuperrime recognitus. De nominum generibus. : Ad flore[n]tissimu[m] inuictissimu[m]q[ue] principem Henricu[m] octauu[m] rege[m] Angli[a]e &c. Rober. Whitintoni supplicatio. Sanguine troiugenum claro de stemmate princeps He[n]rice: angelici gloria prima soli. Ecce tua[m] infestat pubem fera dira britannam, gra[m]maticen vatis dilaceratq[ue] tui. Co[n]sule diue pio studio, rex magne Iabori. Edgarus vt fias ora retunde lyci. Humiliabit caluminiatorem.

Creator:: Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560
Date:: vicesimo primo verbi Incarnati supra sesquimillessimum anno. Idibus Iunij [1521]
Physical Description:: [28] pages ; 18 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Der furnembsten, notwendigsten, der gantzen Architectur angehörigen mathematischen vnd mechanischen Künst, eygentlicher Bericht, vnd vast klare, verstendliche Vnterrichtung : zu rechtem Verstandt der Lehr Vitruuij, in drey furneme Bücher abgetheilet ... : allen künstlichen Handtwerckern, Werckmeistern, Steinmetzen ... zu sonderlichem Nutz und vilfeltigem Vortheil in Truck verordnet / durch Gualtherum H. Riuium Medi. & Math. ...

Creator:: Ryff, Walther Hermann, -1548
Date:: Anno 1547
Physical Description:: [6], XLII, LII, XLVII, [1], LII, XLVII, [5], XLVII, [1], IX, [4], XIX, XII leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Tabula libri assisaru[m] & pl[ac]itorum corone.

Date:: [1514?]
Physical Description:: [512] pages ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Ortus vocabuloru[m] : alphabetico ordine fere omnia que in catholico breviloquo : cornucopia, gemma vocabulo atque medulla gra[m]matice ponu[n]tur, cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens.

Date:: 1528
Physical Description:: 384 p. ; 19 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Remedies for diseases in horses / approued and allowed by diuers verie auncient learned mareschalles.

Date:: 1583
Physical Description:: [28] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Whittintoni editio secunda. : Opusculum affabre recognitum et ad vnguem elimatum. De no[m]i[nu]m generibus. De verborum preteritis et supinis. De formatione preteritoru[m] et supinoru[m] verborum passiuoru[m], deponentiu[m], [et] communiu[m]. De verbis defectiuis. De verbis que in prima p[er]sona sunt co[n]fusa. De iis que confusum habent preteritu[m]. De verbis sincopa[m] admittentibus. De crementis verborum [et] medie sillabe quantitate in omnibus verbis.

Creator:: Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560
Date:: [1517?]
Physical Description:: [32] pages ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The iust reckenyng, or, Accompt of the whole nomber of the yeares : from the beginnyng of the world vnto this presente yere of 1547 : a certaine and sure declaracion that the world is at an ende : of the last day of judgment ... and have it shal come to passe / translated out of the Germaine tonge into Englishe by Anthony Scoloker ...

Date:: 1547
Physical Description:: [20] p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Nouissime historiaru[m] omniu[m] repercussiones / nouiter a Reuerendissimo patre Iacobophilippo Bergome[n]se ordinis Heremitarum edite ; que Supplementum supplementi cronicaru[m] nuncupantur ; incipiendo ab exordio mundi vsq[ue] in annum salutis nostre Mcccccij.

Creator:: Foresti, Jacobo Filippo, da Bergamo, 1434–1520
Date:: 1503
Physical Description:: 452, [9] leaves : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. FlauI VegetI Ren. v. inl. De re militari libri quatuor : post omnes omnium editiones ope veterum librorum correcti, a Godescalco Stewechio Heusdano. Accesserunt Sex. IulI Frontini Strategematô̂n libri quatuor; in eosdem Francisci Modii notae, & G. StewechI coniectanea : Aelianus De instruendis aciebus; Modestus De vocabulis rei militaris : Castrametatio Rom. ex historiis Polybii, Latinitate donata à Iano Lascari, &c. Accessit seorsum eiusdem G. StewechI in Fl. Vegetium commentarius.

Creator:: Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Date:: M.D.LXXXV [1585]
Physical Description:: [12], 248, [4], 249-276, [16], 376, [2] p., pp. 399-419, [37] p. : ill. fold. table, port. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Stultifera Nauis, : qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis [et] necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, / è Latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. An. Do. 1570. = The ship of fooles, : wherin is shewed the folly of all states, with diuers other workes adioyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. ; Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay Priest.

Creator:: Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521
Date:: [1570]
Physical Description:: [12], 259, [68] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves.

Date:: circa 1450-1598
Physical Description:: approximately 2400 leaves : illustrations
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.

Date:: [1519?]
Physical Description:: [72] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage / Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.

Creator:: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
Date:: 1577
Physical Description:: [10], 466, [6] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Ludouici patritii Romani nouum itinerarium Aethiopiae, Aegipti, utriusque Arabiae, Persidis, Siriae, ac Indiae, intra et extra Gangem.

Creator:: Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century
Date:: [1511]
Physical Description:: [8], LXII leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Roberti Whitintoni L. Secunda grammatic[ae] pars de syllabaru[m] quantitate, acce[n]tu : & varijs metroru[m] generibus. nu[per]rime rece[n]sita, limatius polita, adiectis co[m]plusculis, & no[n]nullis calcographoru[m] elimatis erratis. ...

Creator:: Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560
Date:: vicesimo primo supra sesquimillesimu[m] nostrae salutis anno [1521]
Physical Description:: [152] pages ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. La venerie et fauconnerie / de Iaques du Fouilloux, Iean de Franchieres, & autres diuers autheurs.

Creator:: Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580
Date:: M.D.LXXXV [1585]
Physical Description:: [4], 125, [9], 127, [5] leaves : ill. (incl. music) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

Creator:: Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Ordini di caualcare, et modi di conoscere le nature de caualli, eme[n]dar i vitij loro, & ammaestrargli per l'vso della guerra, & commodità de gli huomini : con le figure di diuerse sorti de morsi, secondo le bocche, & maneggiamenti de caualli / composti dal sig. Federico Grisone Napolitano.

Creator:: Grisone, Federico
Date:: MDLXI [1561]
Physical Description:: 110, [26] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Le vive imagini di tvtti qvasi gl'imperatori, da C. Ivlio Cæsare, insino a Carlo. V. et Ferdinando svo fratello, dalle vechie medaglie con grandissima solertia cavate, et al vero fidelissimamente advmbrate, con le vite, atti, maniere, virtv, et vicii delli medesimi imperatori, secvndo i proprii loro colori, col historico penello de pinte ... Per Hvberto Goltz ...

Creator:: Goltzius, Hubert, 1526–1583
Date:: 1557
Physical Description:: [350] p. col. ill. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way, and lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described / by Richard Hakluyt ...

Date:: 1598 [-1600]
Physical Description:: 3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur : notwythstondyng it treateth of the byrth lyf & actes of the sayd Kynge Arthur: of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table : theyr merveyllous enquestes & adventures, thachyevynge of the sanc-greall and in the ende the dolourous deth: and departynge out of this worlde of them al. : which boke was reduced in to Englysshe / by the well dysposyd knyghte Syr Thomas Malory.

Creator:: Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Fl. Vegetii Renati viri illustris De re militari libri quatuor. Sexti Julii Frontini viri consularis De strategematis libri totidem. Aeliani De instruendis aciebus liber vnus. Modesti De vocabulis rei militaris liber vnus. Item picturae bellicae CXX passim Vegetio adiectae. / Collata sunt omnia ad antiquos codices, maxime Budaei, quod testabitur Aelianus.

Date:: Anno M.D.XXXII. [1532] decimo Kalendas Septembres
Physical Description:: [8], 279, [1] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres, diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... / by Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

Date:: anno 1599-1600
Physical Description:: 3 v. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Theatrum orbis terrarum.

Creator:: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
Date:: [1571]
Physical Description:: 1 volume : 53 maps ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

Creator:: Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598
Date:: 1590[-1630]
Physical Description:: 14 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. De Moluccis insulis : itemq[ue] alijs pluribus mira[n]dis, quae nouissima Castellanorum nauigatio Sereniss. Imperatoris Caroli. V. auspicio suscepta, nuper inuenit / Maximiliani Transyluani ad Reuerendiss. Cardinalem Saltzburgensem epistola lectu perquam iucunda.

Creator:: Maximilian, of Transylvania, active 1522
Date:: Anno uirginei partus. MDXXIII mense Ianuario [1523]
Physical Description:: [32] pages ; 15 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Vom Hosen Teuffel.

Creator:: Musculus, Andreas, 1514–1581
Date:: 1555
Physical Description:: [38] p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Thurnier Buch : warhafftige Beschreibunge aller Kurtzweil vnd Ritterspil so der durchleuchtigst grossmechtigst Fürst vnd Herr Herr Maximilian Künig zu Beheym Ertzhertzog zu Oesterreich Hertzog zu Burgund &c. dem allerdurchleuchtigsten vnüberwindlichsten Fürsten vnd Herrn Herrn Ferdinand erwehlten Römischen Keyser & c ir K.W. Herr Vatter zu gehorsamsten wolgefallen vnd zu frölicher ankunfft dess hochgebornen Fürsten vnd Herrn Herrn Albrecht Hertzogen in Beyern auch jrer K.W. geliebsten Brüdern vnd Schwestern in das fruchtbar Ertzhertzogthumb Oesterreich zu Ehren bey vnd in der weiterümpten Statt Wien zu Rossz vnd Fluss auff Wasser vnd Land mit fonderer Verwanderung vnd frolockung lassen halten.

Creator:: Francolin, Hans von, 1520–1580
Date:: MDLXVI [1566]
Physical Description:: [4], LXXXI leaves, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, coats of arms ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Terzo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio nel quale si contengono le nauigationi al Mondo Nuouo, à gli antichi incognito, fatte da don Christoforo Colombo Genouese, che fu il primo à scoprirlo à i Re Catholici, detto hora l'Indie occidentali, con gl' acquisti fatti da lui, & accresciuti poi da Fernando Cortese, da Francesco Pizzarro, & altri valorosi capitani, in diuerse parti delle dette Indie, in nome di Carlo V Imp. ; con lo scoprire la gran città di Temistitan nel Mexico, doue hora è detto la Nuova Spagna, & la gran prouincia del Perù, il grandissimo fiume Maragnon, et altre città, regni & prouincie ; la nauigationi fatte dipoi alle dette Indie, poste nella parte verso Maestro Tramontana, dette hora la Nuoua Francia, scoperta al Re Christianiss, la prima volta da Bertoni & Normandi, et dipoi da Giouanni da Verrazzano Fiorentino, & dal Capitano Iacques Carthier ; si come si legge nelle diuerse relationi, tradotte dal Ramusio di lingua spagnuola & francese nella nostra, & raccolte in questo volume, con tauole di geographia, che dimostrano il sito di diuerse isole, città, & paesi, et figure diuerse di piante, & altre cose à noi incognite, et con l'indice copiosissimo di tutte le cose piu notabili in esso contenute.

Creator:: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:: l'anno MDLXV [1565]
Physical Description:: [6], 34, 453, 455-456 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Secondo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio Battista Ramusio, et hora in questa nuoua editione accresciuto ; nel quale si contengono l'historia delle cose de Tartari, & diuersi fatti de' loro imperatori, descritta da M. Marco Polo gentilhuomo venetiano, & da Hayton Armeno : varie descrittioni di diversi auttori, dell' Indie Orientali, della Tartaria, della Persia, Armenia, Mengrelia, Zorzania, & altre prouincie : nelle quali si raccontano molte imprese d'Vssuncassan, d'Ismael Soffi, del Soldano di Babilonia, di diuersi imperatori Ottomani, & particolarmente de Selim contro Tomombei, vltimo Soldano de Mamalucchi, & d'altri principi : et il viaggio della Tana ; con la descrittione de' nomi de' popoli, città, fiumi, & porti d'intorno al Mar Maggiore, come si nominauano al tempo dell'Imperator Adriano, & molte altre narrationi, cosi dello stato de Moscouiti, Sciti, & Circassi, come d'altre genti barbare a gli antichi incognite, et il naufragio di M. Pietro Quirino gentilhuomo venetiano, portato per fortuna settanta gradi sotto la Tramontana ; con l'indice diligentemente ordinato, delle cose piu notabili.

Creator:: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:: l'anno MDLXXIIII [1574]
Physical Description:: 5, [1], 9-30, 17, 20-22, 25-36, 39-42, 45-65, 58-248 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Here begynneth a ryght frutefull mater and hath to name the boke of surueyeng and improume[n]tes.

Creator:: Fitzherbert, John, d. 1531
Date:: 1523
Physical Description:: 124 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Kriegssbuch. Dritter Theyl, Von Schantzen vnnd Befestunngen vmb die Feldt Läger auffzuwerffen vnd zu schlagen: Auch vom Ritter vnnd Reutter Rechten sampt derselben Bestallung vnd Feldt Ordnung : ... Jtem der alten Teutschen auch der Mitternächtigen vnnd anderer frembden Völcker Kriegss Ordnung Sitten vnd Gebräuch : ... Alles mit augenscheinlichen schönen Figuren gezieret / Leonhardt Fronsperger.

Creator:: Fronsperger, Leonhardt, 1520–1575
Date:: 1573
Physical Description:: [4], CCCLXII, [8] leaves, [18] leaves of plates: illustrations ; 34 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Le proprietaire des choses : tres utile et prouffitable aux corps humains, avec aucunes additions nouvellement adioustees ; cestassavoir Les vertus [et] pprietez des eaues artificielles et des herbes, Les nativitez des hõmes [et] des fẽmes selon les xii signes ; Et plusieurs receptes cōtre aicūes maladies, item ung remede tres utile contre fievre pestilentieuse [et] autre maniere depidimye approuve [par] plusieurs docteurs en medicine.

Creator:: Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century
Physical Description:: 236 leaves ; 29 x 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Quae intus continentur. : Syria, ad Ptolomaici operis rationem. Praeterea Strabone, Plinio, & Antonio auctoribus locupletata. : Palestina, iisdem auctoribus. Praeterea historia sacra, & Iosepho, & diuo Hieronymo locupletata. : Arabia Petraea, siue, Itinera filiorum Israel per desertum, iisdem auctoribus. Aegyptus, iisdem auctoribus. Praeterea Ioanne Leone arabe grammatico, secundum recentiorum locorum situ[m] illustrata. : Schondia, tradita ab auctoribus, qui in eius operis prologo memorantur. Holmiae, ciuitatis regi[ae] Suetiae, deplorabilis excidij per Christiernum Datiae cimbricae regem, historia. Regionum superiorum, singulae tabulae geographicae.

Creator:: Ziegler, Jacob, 1480–1549
Date:: MDXXXII. [1532]
Physical Description:: cvii, ciii-cx, [18] leaves : ill., maps diagrams ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Here begynneth the famous cronycle of the warre which the Romayns had agaynst Iugurth vsurper of the kyngdome of Numidy / whiche cronycle is compyled in Latyn by the renowmed Romayn Salust ; and translated into Englysshe by Syr Alexander Barclay preest, at c[om]maundement of the right hye and mighty prince: Thomas duke of Northfolke.

Creator:: Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
Date:: [1523 or 1524?]
Physical Description:: [8], xCii, [2] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe ... ; and now edited by A.W. Reed.

Creator:: More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: [4], iii-xiii, [1], 137, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Le songe du vergier.

Date:: [1499]
Physical Description:: [144] leaves ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Vocabulary in French and English : a facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480 / with introductions by J.C.T. Oates and L.C. Harmer.

Creator:: Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492
Date:: 1964
Physical Description:: xxxv, 49 p. : facsims. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Corona e palma militare di arteglieria : nellaquale si tratta dell'inuentione di essa, e dell'operare nelle fattioni da terra e mare, fuochi artificiati da giuoco e guerra, & d'un nuouo instrumento per misurare distanze : con vna giunta della fortificatione moderna, e delli errori scoperti nelle fortezze antiche, tutto a proposito per detto essercitio dell'artiglieria, con dissegni apparenti & assai intendenti / nuouamente composta e data in luce dallo strenuo capitano Alessandro Capo Bianco Vicentino delli Bombardieri della città di Crema ...

Creator:: Capo Bianco, Alessandro, -1610
Date:: 1598
Physical Description:: [4], 58 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 36 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. De architectura Iacobi Androuetii du Cerceau, opus : quo descriptae sunt aedificiorum quinquaginta planè dissimilium ichnographiae, in omnium non modò potentiorum, sed etiam mediocrium & tenuiorum gratia[m], quos aedificandi studium oblectat: adiunctâ vsus & commoditatis in habitationibus singulis expositione, vnà cum integra cuisque aedificij dimensione. Hûc accedit breuis explicatio de structurarum, quibus aedifica constant, dimensione per orgyiam, que Gallica est architectorum mensura, sex longa pedes: quâ certè methodo nemo non aedificia quaevis metiri, & futuri in aedificando sumptus rationem secum inire poterit ...

Creator:: Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549–1584
Date:: 1559
Physical Description:: [32] pages, [69] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

Creator:: Saviolo, Vincentio
Date:: 1595
Physical Description:: [6], 17 [i.e. 21] leaves, [250] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. De heteroclitis no[min]ibus. Editio Roberti Whittintoni lichfeldiensis grammatice magistri: et prothouatis anglie i[n] florentissima Oxoniensi achademia laureati: de heteroclitis nominibus et gradibus comparationis. Tetrastichon eiusdem ad lectorem Protheos vt possis varios dinoscere vultus Tyresie sexus ambiguosq[ue] senis. Salmacidos ne vndis coeant heteroclita mixta hoc whittintoni voluito lector opus. Distichon eiusdem in zoilum Cornua rhinoceros, dente[m] ni zoile ponas. Sanguinolenta feret tela hecatebeletes.

Creator:: Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560
Date:: [1515?]
Physical Description:: [20] pages ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. De Houtsneden van Mansion's Ovide moralise, Bruges 1484 / met een toelichting door M.D. Henkel.

Date:: 1922
Physical Description:: xxxiv, 44 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. L'histoire naturelle et generalle des Indes, isles, et terre ferme de la grand mer oceane / traduicte de castillan en francois.

Creator:: Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478–1557
Date:: 1556
Physical Description:: [6], 134 leaves : ill. coats of arms ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The boke of Saint Albans, by Dame Juliana Berners, containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour: printed at Saint Albans by the schoolmaster-printer in 1486, reproduced in facsimile, with an introduction by William Blades ...

Creator:: Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Date:: 1881
Physical Description:: 32 p., facsim.: 90 l., wdcts. (coats of arms) 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio aere exarata / per Thomam Geminum.

Creator:: Geminus, Thomas, -1562
Date:: anno Domini, 1545, mense Octobri
Physical Description:: [90] pages, [41] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The schoole of horsmanship : vvherein is discovered vvhat skill and knowledge is required in a good horseman, practised by perfect experience. And also how to reforme anie restie horse, of what nature and disposition so euer. Briefely touching the knowledge of the breeder, sadler, smith, and the horseleach: with a strange and rare inuention how to make a new kinde of racke, and how to teach a horse to lie vpon his bellie vntill the rider take his backe / By Christ. Clifford, Gent.

Creator:: Clifford, Christopher
Date:: 1585
Physical Description:: [7], 24, 29-99, [1] leaves : ill. (diagrs.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. De agricultura vulgare / Piero Crescentio.

3. The pathwaie to martiall discipline : now newly imprinted, and devided into three bookes ...

5. Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies : deuided into foure Bookes.

6. Idea del tempio della pittura di Gio. Paolo Lomazzo pittore. Nella quale egli discorre dell'origine, & fondamento delle cose contenute nel suo trattato dell'arte della pittura ...

8. Emanuels van Meteren historie der Neder-landscher ende haerder na-buren oorlogen ende geschiedenissen, tot den iare M.VI.c XII : nu de laestemael bij hem voor sijne doodt merckelijck verbetert en[de] in, XXXII, boecken voltrocken, is mede' hier by gevoegt des autheurs leven ...

9. Stultifera nauis.

11. [Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysse the golden legende].

13. Speculi Britaniæ pars : the description of Hartfordshire / by John Norden.

14. Eyne predigt auff den achten Sutag nach de Pfingstag uber das Evangelion Mattei am VII : sehet euch fur / von den falschen Trapheten Bruder Heinrich Kettenbach in MDXXV.

17. De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus.

23. Historia Herrn Georgen Vnnd Herrn Casparn von Frundsberg : Vatters vnd Sons beyder Herrn zu Muendelheym &c. Keyserlicher Oberster Feldtherrn Ritterlicher vnd Loeblicher Kriegssthaten.

24. De viribus herbarum carmen.

25. Aeliani De militaribus ordinibus instituendis more Graecorum / liber à Francisco Robertello Vtinensi in Latinum sermonem versus, & ab eodem picturis quamplurimis illustratus.

26. Thoukudidou tou Olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto = Thucydidis Olori filii De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Iidem Latinè / ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita.

27. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

28. Das vntrew Spiel : Welcher ein schöen Weyb Bülen wil : der musz auch von jhr leyden vil : Das sie der vntrew mit ihm spil / Hans Sachs.

29. Noua statuta.

31. La cosmographie vniverselle / d'André Thevet cosmographe du roy ; illustree de diverses figures des choses plus remarquables veuës par l'auteur, & incogneuës de noz anciens & modernes ...

32. A newe booke containing the arte of ryding, and breaking greate horses : together with the shapes and figures, of many and diuers kyndes of byttes, mete to serue diuers mouthes. Very necessary for all gentlemen, souldyours, seruingmen, and for any man that delighteth in a horse.

33. Marco Polo Venetiano : in cui si tratta le merauigliose cose del mondo per lui uedute, del costume di uarij paesi, della stranio uiuere di quelli ; della descrittione de diuersi animali, e del trouar dell'oro dell'argenteo, e delle pietre preciose, cosa non men utile, che bella.

34. Il viaggio fatto da gli Spagniuoli a torno a'l mondo : Con gratia per Anni. XIIII.

35. Erschröckliche Zeytung, von zweyen Mödern, mit Namen Martin Farkas, unnd Paul Wasansky : welche in die hundert und vier und zweintzig Mörd gethan : unnd in disem 1570 : Jar, den ersten Martij sind gericht worden : zu Eybetschitz im Lande zu Märhern : zwo Meil Wegs von Brünn gelegen.

39. Syntaxis : Roberti W.L. in florentissima Oxoniensi academia laureati Opusculum de Syntaxi, siue co[n]structione recensitu[m]. xxi. supra sesquimillesimu[m] n[ost]rae salutis anno. Idi. Februa. ...

40. Itinerarium prouinciarum omniu[m] Antonini Augusti : cum Fragmento eiusdem necnon indice haudquaq[ue] asperna[n]do : cvm privilegio, ne quis temere hoc ab hinc duos annos imprimet.

41. A short pathwaye to the ryghte and true vnderstanding of the holye & sacred scriptures / set fourth by that moste famous clerke, Huldrich Zwinglius and now translated out of Laten into Englysshe by Ihon Veron ...

43. Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima : priùs quidem per Episcopum Bartholomæum Casaum, natione Hispanum Hispanicè conscripta, & Anno 1551. Hispali, Hispanicè, Anno verò hoc 1598.

44. Syntaxis : Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldiensis in florentissima oxoniensi academia laureati Opusculu[m] de syntaxi, siue constructione recensitu[m] .xxi. supra sesquimillesimu[m] n[ost]re salutis anno. Idi. Februa ... Humiliabit calumnitorem.

47. Marco Polo Venetiano : in cui si tratta le merauigliose cose del mondo per lui uedute, del costume di uarij paesi, della stranio uiuere di quelli ; della descrittione de diuersi animali, e del trouar dell'oro dell'argenteo, e delle pietre preciose, cosa non men utile, che bella.

49. [The legende named in latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in englysshe the golden legende].

56. Tabula libri assisaru[m] & pl[ac]itorum corone.

57. Ortus vocabuloru[m] : alphabetico ordine fere omnia que in catholico breviloquo : cornucopia, gemma vocabulo atque medulla gra[m]matice ponu[n]tur, cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens.

58. Remedies for diseases in horses / approued and allowed by diuers verie auncient learned mareschalles.

61. Nouissime historiaru[m] omniu[m] repercussiones / nouiter a Reuerendissimo patre Iacobophilippo Bergome[n]se ordinis Heremitarum edite ; que Supplementum supplementi cronicaru[m] nuncupantur ; incipiendo ab exordio mundi vsq[ue] in annum salutis nostre Mcccccij.

64. Collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves.

65. Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.

67. Ludouici patritii Romani nouum itinerarium Aethiopiae, Aegipti, utriusque Arabiae, Persidis, Siriae, ac Indiae, intra et extra Gangem.

68. Roberti Whitintoni L. Secunda grammatic[ae] pars de syllabaru[m] quantitate, acce[n]tu : & varijs metroru[m] generibus. nu[per]rime rece[n]sita, limatius polita, adiectis co[m]plusculis, & no[n]nullis calcographoru[m] elimatis erratis. ...

69. La venerie et fauconnerie / de Iaques du Fouilloux, Iean de Franchieres, & autres diuers autheurs.

70. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

71. Ordini di caualcare, et modi di conoscere le nature de caualli, eme[n]dar i vitij loro, & ammaestrargli per l'vso della guerra, & commodità de gli huomini : con le figure di diuerse sorti de morsi, secondo le bocche, & maneggiamenti de caualli / composti dal sig. Federico Grisone Napolitano.

77. Theatrum orbis terrarum.

78. Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

79. De Moluccis insulis : itemq[ue] alijs pluribus mira[n]dis, quae nouissima Castellanorum nauigatio Sereniss. Imperatoris Caroli. V. auspicio suscepta, nuper inuenit / Maximiliani Transyluani ad Reuerendiss. Cardinalem Saltzburgensem epistola lectu perquam iucunda.

80. Vom Hosen Teuffel.

84. Here begynneth a ryght frutefull mater and hath to name the boke of surueyeng and improume[n]tes.

90. Le songe du vergier.

91. Vocabulary in French and English : a facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480 / with introductions by J.C.T. Oates and L.C. Harmer.

94. Vincentio Sauiolo his practise : in two bookes : the first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger : the second, of honor and honorable quarrels.

96. De Houtsneden van Mansion's Ovide moralise, Bruges 1484 / met een toelichting door M.D. Henkel.

97. L'histoire naturelle et generalle des Indes, isles, et terre ferme de la grand mer oceane / traduicte de castillan en francois.

98. The boke of Saint Albans, by Dame Juliana Berners, containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour: printed at Saint Albans by the schoolmaster-printer in 1486, reproduced in facsimile, with an introduction by William Blades ...

99. Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio aere exarata / per Thomam Geminum.