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CATALOGUE OF A LOAN COLLECTION OF BOOKS.
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T. Zenna: commenced to print, 14—?

36. Novum Beate Marie Virginis Psalterium. !Many cuts and borders. 4to. Cologne, 1492—Mr. Fisher.

John Borchard,

Thomas Borchard: commenced printing, 1491.

37. Laudes Beatæ Virginis Mariæ. Folio. The first book printed at Hamburg, 1491—Messrs. Ellis and Green.

Anthony Koberger: b. cir. 1445, d. 1513; began to print, 1472.

38. Chronicon Nurembergense: auctore Hartmanno Schedel. Woodcuts by Wolgemut and Pleydenwürff. Folio. Nuremberg, 1493—Professor Westmacott, R.A.

39. Another copy, 1493—The Rev. J. Fuller Russell.

40. Cicero de Oratore. Folio. Nuremberg, 1497—Society of Antiquaries.

Johann Schœnsperger: commenced printing, 1493.

41. Chronicon Nurembergense. Woodcuts: first leaf in MS. Folio. Nuremberg, 1497—Sir T. E. Winnington, Bart.

Johann Bergmann, de Olpe: commenced printing, 1494.

42. Brandt's Stultifera Navis. Woodcuts. 4to. Basle, 1497—The Rev. J. Fuller Russell.

The following is probably by the same printer: it is a volume of extraordinary rarity : —

43. Epistola Christoferi Colom: containing the discovery of the Isles of America. 4th edition, and the first which contains cuts. 4to. Basle, 1494—The Rev. J. Fuller Russell.

Erhard Ratdolf, or Ratdolt. This printer is said to have invented a method of using gold ink in printing. He flourished at Augsburg after 1487.

44. Missal; formerly belonging to the monastery at Erfurt. Augsburg, cir. 1500—Mr. Octavius Morgan, M.P.

Printer unknown.

45. Rationarium Evangelistarum . . . prosa versu imaginibusque, que mirifice complectens, &c. Woodcuts. 4to. 1507—Mr. Addington.

For an account of this most curious book see Dibdin, Bibliographical Decameron, vol. i. p. 131. There was an earlier edition, 1502: a later one, 1522, is assigned by Panzer to Thomas Anshelm, of Haguenau. It is not improbable that he was also the printer of this.

Matthew Schültes: began to print, ———?

46. Theur-Danck. Woodcuts. Folio. Augsburg, 1519—Mr. T. Talbot Bury.

This is a second edition of this curious Teutonic romance: sometimes ascribed to Maximilian I., whose nuptials with Mary of Burgundy it celebrates: the emperor figuring under the name of "Ritter Herr Theurdanck." According to Mr. Horne,[1] this book has been supposed to be entirely xylographic.

Conrad Baumgarten: commenced printing, 1504.

47. Hedwigis Legenda. A Lhy hebet sich an dy grosse legēda der

  1. Study of Bibliography, vol. 2, App. xiij.