Mantua? Francesco Bruschi? c1518.
Only edition of this celebration of the life and deeds of the mystic and Dominicana Osanna Andreasi of Mantua. Composed by the pro-feminist writer, Mario Equicola, on the occasion of the announcement by papal bull in 1515 of Osanna's feast day, Equicola recounts the well-known episodes.....
Krakow: Matthias Scharffenberg, 1536.
A most unusual Neo-Latin poem, written in 1536 as a kind of lament in the voice of the lands of Podolia and Pokuttya in what is now southwestern Ukraine. Composed by the Polish humanist Georgius Ticinus (Jerzy of Tyczyn), the poem is actually a Polish lament.....
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Netherlands or Flanders: c1819.
A fascinating manuscript visual aid to confession for deaf children, very likely copied from a lost archetype produced by an institution for hearing-impaired youth, perhaps located in the Low Countries. Throughout the days of the early church and into the Middle Ages, the Deaf and hearing.....
Cologne: Peter Quentell, 1528.
A fine, compact edition of Johannes Liechtenberger's Pronosticatio latino, and the first to feature Anton Woensam von Worms's lively integral woodcuts. Liechtenberger's reputation as an astrologer and seer has always been suspect (even when he was alive), but his book's renown as a publishing phenomenon is.....
Basel: Oporinus, 1550.
In the 1549 first edition of the Initia doctrinæ physicæ—essentially the first scientific textbook of the Reformation—Philipp Melanchthon refutes the heliocentrism of Copernicus with a single blow, invoking Ecclesiastes 4:5: “The earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets.” Moreover, he writes, referring to Copernicus.....