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[Berlin], 22 February [1895]. Rudolf Diesel's retained copy of his own signed manuscript letter to Samuel Breslauer, following up on previous correspondence concerning the installation of his prototype diesel engine, during the design stage. Text is in German. 4to. Single leaf, 4 lines of text on onion skin paper measuring approximately 30 x 24 cm. Minor age-toning, otherwise in very good condition. Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (1858-1913), needing no introduction, was a German inventor and mechanical engineer who is world-famous for having invented the Diesel engine. At the time of this letter, Diesel was diligently working on altering and perfecting his 1893 engine design. This design would later be known as the diesel engine. The first prototype Motor 150/400, had been completed 12 July 1893. Initial tests proved it to be a successful concept. By October 1895, after the first prototype had been converted into the second prototype Motor 220/400, it had become clear that, a completely new engine had to be designed from scratch. On 20 February 1896, Krupp, Maschinenfabrik Augsburg, and Diesel, decided to start the development of the new engine. The new engine was supposed to be a 250 mm bore engine with a 400 mm stroke. On 5 March 1896, Diesel filed a patent application for supercharging; on 26 March, it was decided to build the new engine with a supercharger. In order to improve the efficiency of the development process, a new design bureau was built directly into Diesel's Augsburg testing laboratory. Several young engineers worked there, including Imanuel Lauster. On 30 April 1896, after Lauster had completed the drawings, the workshop at Augsburg began making parts for the engine. The first successful Diesel engine Motor 250/400, designed by Rudolf Diesel, was officially tested in 1897 by German industrial engineer Moritz Schröter. Schröter concluded, "we are beholding a quite marketable machine that has been thoroughly designed with great attention to every single detail." At this time, several firms bought licences for building legal copies of the Motor 250/400. It is now on display at the German Technical Museum in Munich. The recipient of the correspondent is Samuel Breslauer (1870-1942), a lawyer, journalist and editor, who rose to be head of the Politics department for the Berlin newspaper "Berliner Lokal Anzeiger", a daily newspaper with one of the highest national circulations of its time. Breslauer is remembered as one of the numerous Jews who were captured and deported camp during the holocaust. Surely his public role would have made him an immediate target by the German extremist leader. In August 1942, Breslauer and his wife Bertha were taken to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where they both died, she within four days.
Rudolf Diesel's retained copy of his own signed manuscript letter to Samuel Breslauer, concerning the installation of a gas engine. Text is in German. 4to. Two single leafs, 2 pages of text on onion skin paper measuring approximately 30 x 24 cm. Minor age-toning, otherwise in very good condition. In this correspondence, Diesel describes alterations being made to the design of his first prototype, making comments on the compressor, transmission, and the lighting system (ignition), among other things. The second prototype, described here, would be built by October the same year. The specific plan for this engine model is noted in the upper margin: Plan F.B.930. Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (1858-1913), needing no introduction, was a German inventor and mechanical engineer who is world-famous for having invented the Diesel engine. At the time of this letter, Diesel was diligently working on altering and perfecting his 1893 engine design. This design would later be known as the diesel engine. The first prototype Motor 150/400, had been completed 12 July 1893. Initial tests proved it to be a successful concept. By October 1895, after the first prototype had been converted into the second prototype Motor 220/400. After testing, and always seeking to improve, again it was decided that a completely new engine had to be designed from scratch. On 20 February 1896, Krupp, Maschinenfabrik Augsburg, and Diesel, decided to start the development of the new engine. The new engine was supposed to be a 250 mm bore engine with a 400 mm stroke. On 5 March 1896, Diesel filed a patent application for supercharging; on 26 March, it was decided to build the new engine with a supercharger. In order to improve the efficiency of the development process, a new design bureau was built directly into Diesel's Augsburg testing laboratory. Several young engineers worked there, including Imanuel Lauster. On 30 April 1896, after Lauster had completed the drawings, the workshop at Augsburg began making parts for the engine. The first successful Diesel engine Motor 250/400, designed by Rudolf Diesel, was officially tested in 1897 by German industrial engineer Moritz Schröter. Schröter concluded, "we are beholding a quite marketable machine that has been thoroughly designed with great attention to every single detail." At this time, several firms bought licences for building legal copies of the Motor 250/400. It is now on display at the German Technical Museum in Munich. The recipient of the correspondent is Samuel Breslauer (1870-1942), a lawyer, journalist and editor, who rose to be head of the Politics department for the Berlin newspaper "Berliner Lokal Anzeiger", a daily newspaper with one of the highest national circulations of its time. Breslauer is remembered as one of the numerous Jews who were captured and deported camp during the holocaust. Surely his public role would have made him an immediate target by the German extremist leader. In August 1942, Breslauer and his wife Bertha were taken to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where they both died, she within four days.
Manuscript signed discourse written at the onset of the Panic of 1837, concerning the ethics and obligations of the Mechanics' and Manufacturers' Bank in Trenton which had been established less than three years earlier, by respected Trenton attorney and Whig politician William Halsted (1794-1878) who had recently been elected a Member of the United States Representatives to represent New Jersey, signed and dated in the original by the author. 8vo. 8 pages in manuscript, penned recto and verso, each leaf affixed to the next with two spots of glue to upper margin, measuring approximately 20 x 25 cm, and featuring an embossed cameo of a three-masted barque. Some creasing, otherwise in very good condition. At the request of the Directors of the Mechanics' and Manufacturers' Bank of Trenton, from a legal standpoint, Halsted answers three specific questions regarding the bank's refusal (inability) to redeem paper currency into specie (silver or gold coins). His erudite assessment surely resulted in careful deliberation by the members of the board, while it provides for us now a scarce period perspective of the historic financial crisis. Halsted's discourse is dated 8 June 1837. A financial assessment of the Mechanics' and Manufacturers' Bank in Trenton was reviewed at the Legislature's General Assembly of 24 October 1837. Following the publication of a detailed banking statement, as seen in the volumes of the Legislature, the State Gazette of 22 December 1837 published this remark, "The condition of The Mechanics Bank is now before the Community and it is proved to be worthy of great confidence." William Halstead (1794-1878) was an American Whig Party politician who represented New Jersey at large in the United States House of Representatives from 1837-1839. Halstead was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-Fifth United States Congress (4 March 1837 to 3 March 1839). Manuscript
Signed letter by James Foote Gibb, affluent shipwright and partner of Gibb and Hutchinson firm. 8vo. Single-leaf, his company's printed stationery, The Ben Line of Steam Tugs. Leaf measures approximately 20cm x 25cm. Very good condition. James Foote Gibb, together with business partner Allan Hutchison, carried on business as shipwrights at the Ratcliff Dry Dock in Shadwell, East London until October 1871, at which time the partnership was dissolved, Hutchison entering retirement and Gibb continuing on his own. In December 1882, five months after this letter was written, he entered into partnership with James Glen Williamson. Gibb's office was located in n City Chambers, Railway Place, Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, advertised on his letterhead. Dealing with matters of personal business, the recipient of this letter is identified only as Annie, and appears to be a prodigal staff, perhaps servant/cook, returning and making amends.
17 August 1862. Official certificate of appointment issued by the British Armed Forces to Dr. John Campbell Bow, Esq. as "Surgeon to Our Forces." Document measures approximately 16 x 12 inches, completed in manuscript, signed by an officer of the War Office, witnessed in the hand of a Field Marshall, and bearing the paper seal of Queen Victoria. Filing annotations to verso are dated Bengal, 17 April 1863. Stamped at the War office in London 11.5.1866 together with a ten shilling embossed revenue stamp. Fascinating document, assigning a new surgeon to the Bengal Army subsequent to the Indian Mutiny of 1857, during the British Crown's re-structuring of administration and rule over the Indian subcontinent, and implementation of the British Raj The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of the British Raj within the British Empire. The Sepoy rebellion was a result of various grievances, and ultimately led to the dissolution of the East India Company in 1858. It also led the British to reorganize the army, the financial system and the administration in India. Manuscript
Three (3) original signatures of Hardy Amies, the couturier for Queen Elizabeth for some thirty-nine years, contained in three books from his personal library, and each also containing his bookplate. 8vo. Three volumes each signed and dated by Amies to front endpaper, very slight wear to boards, otherwise in Very Good condition, signed on crisp, clean leafs. Sir Edwin Hardy Amies, KCVO (1909-2003), was a British fashion designer, best known for being the dress designer for HM Queen Elizabeth II for thirty-nine years. In the 1930s Amies rose to become one of Britain's leading couturiers and his salon was one of the few to rival the great dress houses of Paris. After a successful pre-war career as a designer in other people’s fashion houses, Amies opened his own establishment at 14 Savile Row in 1946. In 1950 Amies made several outfits for Elizabeth's royal tour to Canada (then Princess Elizabeth). He received the award of a Royal Warrant as official dressmaker in 1955. One of his best known creations is the gown he designed in 1977 for Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee portrait. Knighted in 1989, Amies held the warrant until 1990, when he gave it up so that younger designers could create for the Queen. He was also the couturier for Lady Alice Egerton, who was appointed as lady-in-waiting to the young Princess Elizabeth in 1949, and who would go on to become Woman of the Bedchamber when Elizabeth became queen in 1953. For three years he travelled and worked in France and Germany; becoming fluent in both countries' languages. Amies worked for a customs agent and then as an English tutor in Antibes, and later in Bendorf, Germany where in 1928 he acquired one of these volumes for his library. Around the same time, another of the volumes was acquired in a village on the Mosel River. He returned to England in 1930. The third volume is signed by him in 1933 and appears to have been gifted to him by famous Austrian writer Karl Heinrich Waggerl. Manuscript
RARE LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION OF 200 COPIES of Sifre (siphrey, Sifrei, also, Sifre debe Rab or Sifre Rabbah) - a Halakhic Midrash on the biblical books of Bamidbar (Numbers) and Devarim (Deuteronomy). 285x215mm. 63 double pages (127 pages). Black cloth Hardcover with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Cover slightly curved. Cover corners slightly bumped. Spine edges and hinges bumped. Pages slightly yellowiung. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare limited facsimile edition of an important Midrash is in good condition.
IN HEBREW. LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION OF 200 COPIES. 285x220mm. 63 double pages (127 pages). Gilt hardcover. Cover slightly curved. Spine edges slightly bumped and slightly worn. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
RARE handsome facsimile edition of Sifre, a canonical legal exegesis on the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy. Originally printed in Venice in the 16th century, the book carries evidence of the high level of craftsmanship reached by the Venetian printers. The book features an illustrated title page, adorned with floral and architectural decorations. The first word of the book is enlarged and surrounded by an elaborate decorative frame. 285x125mm. 126 pages (252 columns). Green cloth Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners slightly worn. Cover and spine yellowing and slightly stained. Spine edges torn/tattered. Binding visible between endpapers and whitepages. Previous owner's name on whitepage. Sidenotes and underlining on few pages - no damage to text. Small tear on pre-title page. Pages yellowing. Pages rough-cut as published. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare facsimile edition of an important halakhic Midrash published in 16th-century Venice is in good condition.
RARE FACSIMILE EDITION OF 200 COPIES of Sifra, a Halakhic Midrash to Leviticus frequently quoted in the Talmud. Like Leviticus itself, the Midrash is occasionally called "Torat Kohanim" (Kid. 33a; Sanh. 103b; Cant.R. vi.8), and in two passages also "Sifra debe Rab". 285x215mm. 59 double pages (119 pages). Black cloth Hardcover wit gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Cover corners and spine edges slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare limited facsimile edition of an important Halakhic Midrash is in good condition.
Folio (ca. 217 x 321 mm). 2 vols. French manuscript on paper (a few passages in English). 65 pp.; 76-106, (3) pp. Includes a total of 75 blank ff.; several pages blank except for pagination. Contemporary blue full cloth. Marbled endpapers. Anonymous journal of the voyage of the steamer "Archimède" to the Far East between 1844 and 1846 as part of a diplomatic mission to Qing-China led by Théodose de Lagrené (1800-62), aiming to reach a contract similar to the 1842 Treaty of Nankin with the British. The mission was a success: the Treaty of Whampoa, which resulted in the opening of five Chinese ports for trade with the West, was signed aboard the "Archimède" on 24 October 1844. The commercial delegation aboard the ship under the command of admiral François-Edmond Pâris were charged with studying local industries and the potential of selling French goods to the East Asian market, a mission that led them to explore much of Indonesia as well as Calcutta in 1846. - The first volume covers the voyage from Macao to Singapore and Penang, then on to Calcutta in January and February 1846. It opens with several specifications of the ship, including loading and machinery, before going on to describe its voyage in Indonesia, mentioning a bay in the Anambas archipelago named after Pâris, who mapped part of the archipelago as an ensign aboard the corvet "Favorite" in 1830: "Dans la matinée du 19 depuis 5h 30' jusqu'à midi on fait des routes diverses pour entrer et sortir de l'archipel des Anambas que le commandant a la complaisance de nous faire visiter. En 1830 enseigne de Vaisseau sur la corvette La Favorite il a dressé la carte d'une partie de cet archipel en il nous mène jusqu'au fond de la bai nommé d'après lui Pâris" (p. 4). The account of Calcutta evinces a great fascination with the place, as the writer clearly admires its transformation from a small village to a centre of commerce and the capital of an Empire: "Quant à la ville de Calcutta elle même, la ville des Palais, City of Palaces, il me serait difficile d'exprimer convenablement l'antipathie, l'aversion qu'elle m'a inspiré. Certes il est difficile de ne pas admirer l'étonnante fortune de cette place qui n'était pas plus qu'un pauvre village il y a un siècle et qu'est aujourd'hui l'une des grandes places de commerce du monde & et la capitale d'un grand Empire" (p. 55f.). The description of Calcutta includes a bird's-eye pencil sketch of the Raj Bhavan, today the residence of the governor of West Bengal, deeming it "completely lacking in style" (p. 58f., transl.). - The second volume comprises notes on Hindu-Chinese countries, Cochinchina and Siam drawn from local periodicals, namely the "Singapore Chronicle" and the "Calcutta Journal". A separate list gives the composition of the population of Bangkok in 1828, indicating that the 800 Christians living there were mostly descendants from the Portuguese. - Bindings slightly rubbed and a little cockled in places; lightly bumped at extremities. In contrast to Pâris's journals of the Archimède campaign in 1844 and 1845, held at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris, the present set reflects the later, lesser-known part of the expedition in early 1846. Barron, "La corvette à vapeur l'Archimède au bout du monde, allegro ma non troppo", in: Chronique d'histoire maritime (Commission française d'histoire maritime; Société française d'histoire maritime, 2016), pp. 67-83.
8vo (ca. 120 x 240 mm). Arabic manuscript on beige paper. 82 leaves, 21 lines. Black ink in Nasta'liq script by two hands, important words underlined in red ink; numerous diagrams in red ink. Bound in brown morocco. Illustrated commentary by Qadizade al-Rumi on Al-Jaghmini's famous astronomical treatise "Mulakhas" ("Summary on the Science of the Authority"), completed in 808 AH. Al-Rumi (1364-1436), known under the name of Salah al-Din Musa Pasha, was one of the principal astronomers at the famous Samarkand observatory. The present treatise is dedicated to his ruler and patron Ulugh Beg. - Signs of wear; dampstaining and some edge tears throughout. Cf. GAL I, 473.
320 x 170 mm. 1 blank, 29 ff., 1 blank, 25 ff., 1 blank, 3 ff., 1 blank f. Hindi manuscript on paper, illustrated with 159 miniatures. Black script with important words and headings in red; borders illuminated in red, green, yellow, blue and purple, leaves ruled in red. Indian blue floral print cotton with flap and binding cord. Magnificently illustrated manuscript of the foundational text of veterinary science in India, with a particular focus on the care and management of horses. Beautifully and prolifically decorated, including a depiction of Lord Ganesh on a lotus with mice and two chauri-bearers, the Goddess Sarasvati on a bird with a chauri-bearer and a priest with an oil lamp, a king attended by a prince, the seven-trunked spotless white elephant Airavata with a keeper, the seven-headed horse Uchchaihshravas with a chariot and enthroned Shiva, a king seeking blessing from a priest, a priest seeking blessing from a king with a chauri-bearer, a king on a horse, and 144 miniatures of thoroughbred horses, each carefully individualized by colour, stature, length of snout, and other features. - Shalihotra was a 3rd century BCE expert on animal rearing and healthcare. The "Shalihotra Samhita" is his most famous work, and extensively documents the treatment of diseases using medicinal plants. This knowledge was so important that it was traditionally believed to have been revealed to Shalihotra by Lord Brahma himself. - The principal subject matter of the Shalihotra Samhita is the care and management of horses. It describes equine and elephant anatomy and physiology alongside a laundry-list of diseases and preventive measures. It also details equine body structures, elaborates on breeds, and contains notes on the auspicious signs to watch for when buying a horse. Though Shalihotra composed other treatises on the care of horses, the Samhita remains the earliest known work on veterinary science in India. Subsequent veterinary works were largely based on the Shalihotra Samhita, which future authors either revised or built upon. - The welfare of animals was always important on the ancient subcontinent, and it was considered the duty of veterinary doctors to prevent infections in animals which might spread to human society. Medicines were administered in the form of powders, decoctions, and ointments. Although herbal plants were the main ingredients in medicines, animal-derived substances and minerals were also used. Several treatments and medicines mentioned by Shalihotra are still used to date, such as for digestive disorders, sprains and sores in cattle, sheep, horses and other domesticated species. - In an appealing, finely preserved Indian cotton binding with fore-edge flap and wrap-around cord. Some professional restoration to interior hinges, but tightly sewn and in excellent condition overall. A beautifully presented manuscript and a key piece of the history of veterinary medicine.
xviii + 494pp.with ills., 25cm., in the series "Mediaevalia Lovaniensia" Series 1 Studia 21, softcover, fine condition, [contributions in Dutch, French, and English], R74610
complete in 2 vols.: x,452 + xviii,494pp.with ills., 25cm., in the series "Mediaevalia Lovaniensia" Series 1 Studia 20-21, softcovers, fine condition, [contributions in Dutch, French, German and English], R74608
Small folio (235 x 314 mm). Latin ms. (gothic book cursive) on paper. 550 pp. (page numbers added in pencil, c. 1900, written on 547 pp.). Leaf size 210 x 295 mm, written area mainly 140 x 190 mm. 2 cols., mainly 30-31 lines (but final gathering: 41-43 lines), partly rubricated with red chapter headings and ends; numerous red Lombardic initials. Contemporary blindstamped Gothic calf binding over wooden boards. Wants the fittings and clasps. Fine late mediaeval manuscript, principally comprising sermons of St Augustine (pp. 1-410), but also containing four shorter treatises of his slightly older contemporary, Gregory of Nazianzus (pp. 411-523); dated "1448" at the end. Bound after this are 12 additional leaves, apparently penned slightly later by a different scribe, with theological writings of the early 15th century, namely two treatises by the French mystic Jean Gerson (pp. 527-540) and the treatise on the vice of dice by the Vienna canon Johann Geuss (pp. 541-550). - Contents: A) St Augustine. 1-121: Sermones de verbis domini secundum Mattheum (with a table of contents, followed by "Evangelium audivimus ... agite penitentiam"); 122-181: Sermones de verbis domini secundum Lucam (inc. "Petite et dabitur"); 182-344: Sermones de verbis domini secundum Johannem (inc. "Capitulum Evangelii quod lectum est"); 345-347: Sermo de verbis domini evangelio secundum Lucam de verbis apostoli, omnes nos manifestari oporte ante tribunal Christi (inc. "Omnium Christianorum spes"); 348-410: Liber de spiritu et anima (inc. "Quoniam dictum est mihi", expl. "quem cernere finis est doloris"). - B) Gregory of Nazianzus. 411-470: De urbana vita [ad Pronianum; tr. Rufinus] (inc. "Proficiscenti mihi ex urbe magnopere iniungebas Aproniane fili"); 470-487: De nativitate domini [oratio XXXVIII] (inc. "Christus nascitur"); 487-506: De luminibus et secundis epiphaniis [oratio XXXIX] (inc. "Iterum Jesus meus et iterum"); 506-523: De pentecoste [oratio XLI] (inc. "De sollemnitate huius diei pauca dicenda sunt"; expl. "et potestas in spiritu sancto in secula seculorum. Amen"); followed by date: "et finitus est liber anno etc. 1448"; 524-526 vacant. C) Johannes Gerson: 527-537: Tractatus de trepidantibus accedere ad celebrationem misse post pollutionem in sompniis habitum (inc. "Dubitandum est aput me"); 537-540: De duplicii stuatu in dei ecclesia, curatorum et privilegiatorum (inc. "Pax quam omnibus"; expl. "inveniri. Deo gratias. Deo gratias"). D) [Johannes Geuss]. 541-550 [Sermo de ludo alearum] (inc. "Confundatur sorcium distributio scribitur Numeri ultimo. Hec verba possunt intellegi de sortilegio lusorum et confusione ipsorum"; expl. "unam libram et sic posset fieri recompensatio" (lacking the final four columns of text). - Occasional addenda and marginalia by a roughly contemporary hand in the wide blank margin throughout. The 12-leaf quire bound at the end (watermark: type Piccard V [libra], section V, no. 294 ["Vienna 1461"]) must originally have been followed by a now-lost final leaf of text. Binding rubbed and bumped; small crack to upper cover; traces of a pasted grey paper wrapper. Occasional slight browning to manuscript; insignificant waterstain near beginning. Slight tear to first 3 ff. (not touching text), loss of corner to first leaf (loss of page number and a 17th century monastic ownership "Conven[tus] C[...]").
Small folio (ca. 235 x 306 mm). Latin manuscript (bastarda in black ink) on paper. (4 blank), 365 numbered, (6 blank) ff. (fol. 37 vacat; contemporary ms. foliation continued 366-370). With 16 pretty four-line initials in colour and gilt and numerous red (and occasional blue) lombardic initials; partly rubricated and with red marginalia. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, signed by the Vienna bookbinder Mathias, preserving 3 of the original 10 brass bosses, 7 of the 8 leading edge fittings, and both catch plates on the upper cover, as well as the original straps, ruled in blind. Crenellated spine-ends. Extensive collection of mostly late sermons by the versatile Austrian theologian Thomas Ebendorfer from Haselbach near Korneuburg, who is best remembered for his "Cronica Austrie" and who long served as professor as well as variously as dean and rector of the University of Vienna. All writings here present are also to be found (in a slightly different order) in the Vienna manuscript Cod. 4041, in the author's own hand. They comprise on the one hand the fairy widely copied "Sermones de confessione" (a series of eight sermons) in Ebendorfer's revised version from 1447, and on the other a set of 25 treatises collected under the title "Poenitentiale", which focuses on penitence and repentance, reparation, debt, usury, pledges, testaments, and related subjects (1456-1461). According to Lhotsky this latter collection does not appear to have been widely disseminated beyond the author's original manuscript: although we have been able to trace individual parts in other codices (Eichstätt University Library, Cod. st 761: Lhotsky 134, 110, 102, 111, 112, 132, 133; Vienna, Schottenstift, Cod. 387: Lhotsky 110, 102, 111), this series was obviously copied very rarely, and the only other known similarly complete transmission remains the autograph in the Austrian National Library. Contains individually: - 1r: Collationes de ieiunio (Lhotsky 134), nine sermons; followed by a poem (36vb) "Gloria, laus et honor ... Apicum hic scriptor quem Haselpach vexit ad ortum ut prece placatus sit deus ipse pius" (Lhotsky 136); the remainder of the column as well as the entire leaf 37 are left blank. - 38r: Tractatus de contritione (Lhotsky 110, inc. "Ait dominus per prophetam", but the painted initial "S" corrupts this to "Sit ..."); interrupted on 42va (with a marginal note "hic non est defectus") and continued on 43ra; an oblong 8vo leaf written on both sides in a different hand, bound before 72r, contains inserted text; expl. 82va "... suo pondere ad aliud trahit. Sic est finis huius primae partis". - 82rb: Collationes de confessione (Lhotsky 102), inc. "Ecce nunc tempus"; expl. 135va "Expliciunt collationes Mgri Thomae d'Haslpach De confessione". - 135vb: De satisfactione (Lhotsky 111), ten sermons; inc. "Reddite ergo omnes debita. Ita hortatur". - 180rb: Tractatus specialis de restitutione que est pars satisfactionis (Lhotsky 112), inc. "Reddite omnibus debita. Ita praecipit". - 185ra: Sermo secundus de restitutione (Lhotsky 113). - 190ra: De restitutione rapine (Lhotsky 114). - 196ra: De contractibus emptionis (Lhotsky 115). - 207rb: De mutuo faciendo (Lhotsky 116). - 212vb: De usura et iudeis (Lhotsky 117). - 218vb: De usura (Lhotsky 118). - 224rb: Collatio tertia de usuris (Lhotsky 119). - 232rb: Collatio de restitutione usuarum (Lhotsky 120). - 238ra: Collatio secunda de restitutione usure (Lhotsky 121). - 243rb: Collatio de restitutio pignorum (Lhotsky 122). - 247rb: Sermo de solutionibus debitorum (Lhotsky 123). - 251va: De restitutione vinctorum (Lhotsky 124). - 255va: De testamentis (Lhotsky 125). - 260va: De locatione et conductione (Lhotsky 126). - 264rb: De comodato (Lhotsky 127). - 266va: De custodiendo et servando deposito (Lhotsky 128). - 271ra: De restitutione dampnificancium in corpore proximum (Lhotsky 129). - 276rb: De restitutione dampnificatorum in bonis anime (Lhotsky 130). - 281va: Collatio de restitutione fame ablate (Lhotsky 131). - 286ra: Collationes de elemosina (Lhotsky 132), seven sermons. - 315ra: Collationes de oratione (Lhotsky 133), eleven sermons; dated "1460" in the margin of 329v; expl. 365rb: "Et sic est finis illarum collationum". - Of the 26 individual chapters, no fewer than 16 are decorated with small, but quite meticulous initials in colours and gilt, while the others have lombardic initials. Bound in an attractive, immediately contemporary Gothic pigskin binding by the Viennese bookbinder Mathias, exhibiting the typical features of his mature work. "Mathias is foremost among Vienna's bookbinders of the Gothic period; his name is known from the scroll stamp he used. He was active from about 1450 to 1474. It was he who created the classic Viennese binding style that was to be much imitated but never replicated [...] Several books bearing Mathias's stamps were bound for Emperor Frederick III [...] His craft reached its first peak around the year 1460" (cf. H. Kühnel, Ausstellung Gotik in Österreich, Krems 1967, p. 265). - Of the original five brass bosses to each of the covers, the present volume wants three on the upper and four on the lower cover, as well as the brass clasps. Insignificant worming to lower and tiny chafe marks to upper cover. Front hinge starting at top. Several additions and insertions in the margins and on extra leaf in a different contemporary hand; numerous manicules. Small traces of worming to the upper corner of fols. 217-229, occasionally just touching foliation. - Provenance: from the library of the Servite Order in Vienna's Rossau suburb with their 18th century engraved bookplate on the front pastedown and a smaller version thereof, as well as a faded stamp, on the first page; handwritten shelfmark "MS 73" (olim: 30); traces of an additional stamp on the front pastedown. A splendid Viennese codex containing writings by one of the great Viennese scholars of the late Middle Ages, in an original binding by the leading Viennese bookbinder of the Gothic period. A. Lhotsky, Thomas Ebendorfer: ein österreichischer Geschichtschreiber, Theologe und Diplomat des 15. Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart 1957), nos. 102, 110-134, 136. - For the binding: Kyriss K 51; Schunke, Schwenke-Slg. II, 283; Einbanddatenbank w000166; Mazal, Europ. Einbandkunst, no. 29.
IN HEBREW. THREE VOLUME SET. [ALL VOLUMES]: 285x220 mm. 1298 pages (pagination: 53+505/506-970/971-1298). Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. [VOL.I]: Rear cover slightly rubbed and stained. Else all volumes in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
THIS VOLUME ONLY. NUMBERED COPY. IN HEBREW. 28.5x22.5cm. 53+505 pages. Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. In good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
THIS VOLUME ONLY. IN HEBREW. 28.5x22.5cm. 460 pages (Pagination: 511-970). Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. Spine slightly faded. Spine edges slightly bumped. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
IN HEBREW. FACSIMILE EDITION. 245x175mm. 8+156 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover yellowing and slightly stained. Cover corners and edges slightly bumped and worn. Inner front cover and few pages slightly stained - NO damage to text. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.i
Escritura de venta en pergamino, firmada en Sevilla ante Alfonso Sánchez, Escribano público el día 19 de febrero de 1427, 26,5 x 47 cm. En letra cortesana. (Algunos leves desgarros que afectan de forma ocasional a algunas letras). (Nicolás Martínez de Medina, o de Sevilla, fue un importante judeo-converso en la administración de Juan II y que tras una brillante carrera en Sevilla y en la corte, llegaría a ser uno de los personajes más influyentes de su época, Veinticuatro de Sevilla, Contador mayor del Reino en 1412 y Tesorero mayor de Andalucía. Según Ortiz de Zúñiga de su sangre se deriva toda la nobleza de Sevilla y gran parte de la andaluza). (Nicolás Martínez fue uno de los dos encargados por el Rey Enrique II de recaudar la altísima multa impuesta a la ciudad de Sevilla por el trágico asalto al barrio judío de la ciudad el año 1391).
(Al fin:) Sevilla, 15 de Diciembre de 1410, pergamino de 39 x 50,5 cm., manuscrito en letra cortesana, con un pequeño desgarro restaurado en la parte superior del documento afectando a varias palabras, se acompaña una transcripción de este documento en 7 hojas de papel y letra manuscrita del siglo XVIII. (Rodrigo de Rivera había muerto el año 1407 durante el cerco de Setenil por las tropas de Fernando I de Aragón siendo regente de Castilla. En este documento su viuda, Teresa de Ayala, demanda al Convento de Santa Clara por ocupación de unos terrenos que lindan con el Guadalquivir).