Books: Incunabula, Manuscripts, Interesting Printed Books
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NOTE: Titles identified as "GRAPHIC" or "PDF" are generally digital fascimiles of the original books.
NOTE: Titles identified as "GRAPHIC" or "PDF" are generally digital fascimiles of the original books.
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Author | Title | Edition | Format | Price | Puborg |
1492: Priviledges & Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus Apr30 | 1492 | Html | Free | YaleU-Law | |
1494: Treaty between Spain & Portugal concluded at Tordesillas; Jun7 | 1494 | Html | Free | YaleU-Law | |
1495: Compact between Spain & Portugal, signed by the Catholic Sovereigns at Madrid May7 | 1495 | Html | Free | YaleU-Law | |
1498: Letters Patents of King Henry VII to John Cabot & Sonnes, for Discouerie of New Lands Mar5 | 1498 | Html | Free | YaleU-Law | |
Collectanea medica] [medical treatises & prescriptions written by an English scribe; urinoscopy, the plague & | 1450 (ca.) | Graphic | Free | Harvard: | |
Collectanea medica] [medical treatises & prescriptions written by an English scribe; urinoscopy, the plague & | 1450 (ca.) | Graphic | Free | Harvard: | |
Generydes, A Romance in seven-line stanzas, ed. from the ms. in Trinity College, Cambg. (ca 1440 AD) (ed. W. Aldis Wright) | 1440?/1878 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | Intnt Archive | |
In q[ue]sto picolo libretto se co[n]tiene le admira[n]de magnifice[n]tie e stupe[n]dissimi aparati de le foeli | 1475 Venice | Graphic | Free | BritishLibrary | |
Ingressus [christ]ianissimi Ludouici francorum regis in ciuitatem suam mediolanens[em]. | 1499> Rome] | Graphic | Free | BritishLibrary | |
La triomphale entrata del serenissimo prence dispagna nell'inclita citta di Melano. Il di. xix. di decembre. M | 1458 Milan | Graphic | Free | BritishLibrary | |
Per le nozze dell'amico carissimo prof. Giuseppe Fumagalli con la gentile signorina Lina Sajni: XVI | 1492/1892Mi | Free | WarburgInstUK | ||
Pestblatt] [plague, pictorial works] | 1473Augsbg | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: | |
Ssuma Ch'ien [Sima Qian] ["one of the greatest historians in all of Chinese history"] | c145-90 BC | Html | Free | SacredTexts | |
Sultan Baybars' Qur'an [fasc., high & low res.; req. Shockwave; "a masterpiece of Islamic calligraphy & illum | 14th c mss. | Graphic Audio | Free | BritishLibrary | |
Tacuinum Sanitatis: Illuminations & text from Medieval Health Handbooks [tr. from Arabic into Latin; Paris, Ro | 14-15th c | Html | Free | GodeCookery | |
The Malleus Maleficarum (tr. & intro Montague Summers) | 1486/1928 | Html | Free | Malleusmalefic | |
Tractatvs singvlaris doctissimi virimarsi...epidemiae morbo, ex Italico in Latinum verfus. | 1495 | Free | WorldHealthOrg | ||
Abraham ben Meier ibn Ezra, 1089-1167 | Liber de nativitatibus] (illus.) | 1485 Venice | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
Abu Ma'shar, 805 or 6-886 | Introductorium in astronomiam Albumasaris Albalachi: octo continens libros partiales | 1489 Venice | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
Abu Ma'shar, 805/6-886 | Introductorium in astronomiam Albumasaris Albalachi: octo continens libros partiales | 1489 Venice | Graphic (Facs) | Free | CMU-Posner |
Ailly, Pierre d' (1350-1420?) | Concordantia astronomiae cum theologia (Johann Engel, 1463-1512) [astronomy, astrology] | 1490 Augsbg | Free | WarburgInstUK | |
Albertus, Magnus (Saint) 1193?-1280 | De intellectu et intelligibili | 1472-73 Ven | Graphic (Facs) | Free | CMU-Posner |
Albertus, Magnus (Saint) 1193?-1280 | De intellectu et intelligibili | 1472-3 Veni | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
Andrewe, Lwrens | Fantastic Fish of the Middle Ages: [tr. The noble lyfe & nature of man, Of bestes, serpentys, fowles & fisshes | 1400-1550? | Html | Free | GodeCookery |
Anon. | A Chymicall Treatise of the Ancient & highly illuminated Philosopher, Devine & Physitian, Arnoldus de Nova Vil | 1415/1611 | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
Anon. | Everyman (ed. by A.C.Cawley) (Middle English) | 1485 | Html | Free | UVaETextL |
Anon. | Lancelot of the Laik (ed. Alan Lupack) [TEAMS] (Middle English) | 1482?/1994 | Html | Free | TEAMS |
Anon. | Morte Arthure [EETS; Thornton ms., ca. 1440; ed. George Gresley Perry] | 1440/1865 L | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | VictoriaU(Can) |
Anon. | Sir Tristrem (ed. Alan Lupack) [TEAMS] (Middle English | 1482?/1994 | Txt | Free | TEAMS |
Anon. | The Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Critical Edition (edited by Valerie Krishna, intro by Russell Hope Robbins) [partial] | 1440/1976 | Graphic | Free | Burt Franklin |
Anon. | The Towneley Plays (ed. by George England) (Middle English) | 1460/1897 | Html | Free | UVaETextL |
Anon. | The York Plays (ed. by Richard Beadle) (Middle English) | 1440/1982 | Html | Free | UVaETextL |
Argentina, Georgius Aurach de (attrib.) | The 'Donum Dei' [Brit. Lib MS Harley 6453; illus.] | 1475?] | Html | Free | AlchemyWeb |
Arnaldus, de Villanova (d. 1311) | Tractatus magistri Arnaldi de Villa Nova de arte cognosce[n]di venena cum quis timet sibi ea ministrari [epid | 1475 Rome | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
Augustine (Saint) | De civitate Dei [The City of God] | 1475 Venice | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UToronto |
Augustus | The Deeds of the Divine Augustus (Tr. Thomas Bushnell) | 14 AD | Html | Free | MIT-InClassics |
Benedetti, Alessandro, ca1450-1512 | De obseruatione in pestilentia [plague] | 1493 Venice | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
Bible | The Gutenberg Bible [2 copies (the King's) on paper; (Grenville's) on vellum] | 1454-5 | graphic | Free | BritishLibrary |
Bible | The Gutenberg Bible [2vols.; National Library of Scotland copy; Johannes Gutenberg] | 1454-5Mainz | Graphic | Free | NatLibScotland |
Bible | The Gutenberg Bible [Gottinger copy] | 1454-5 | Graphic | Free | UGoettingen |
Bible | The Gutenberg Bible [Library of Congress copy; incunabula] | 1454-5 | Graphic | Free | RareBookRoom |
Bible | The Gutenberg Bible [the Keio Univ copy; incunabula] | 1454-5 | Graphic | Free | KeioUniv-Tokyo |
Bible | The Gutenberg Bible [Univ Texas (Ransom Center) copy; w/printing history] | 1454-5 | Graphic | Free | UTexas |
Bury, Richard de, 1287-1345 | Philobiblon, a treatise on the love of books | 1473/1832 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
Bury, Richard de, 1287-1345 | The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury | 1473/1832 | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS |
Capgrave, John | The Life of Saint Katherine (ed. Karen A. Winstead) [TEAMS] | 14??/1999 | Html | Free | TEAMS |
Casas, Bartolome de las, 1474-1566 | 1498: Narrative of the Third Voyage of Columbus as Contained in Las Casas's History [in Olson & Bourne, The N | 1498/1906 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
Caxton ] | The gouernayle of helthe; with The medecyne of ye stomacke, repr. from Caxton's edition (ca. m.cccc.xci). Intro. William Blades | 1491c/1858 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCLA |
Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491 | Dialogues in French & English ... (Adap. from a 14th c Book of Dialogues in French & Flemish) ... ed. from Cax | 1483/1900 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | VictoriaU(Can) |
Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491 (tr.) | The right plesaunt & goodly historie of the foure sonnes of Aymon [EETS; from the French prose romance "Les Q | 1489?/1884- | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | VictoriaU(Can) |
Caxton, William; tr. of Alain Chartier | The Curial (frm The French, of Alain Chartier) | 1484 | PDF Html | Free | UOregon |
Cermisone, Antonio (d. 1441) | Queste sono recepte facte quasi tute da Magistro Antonio cermisono contra la pestilentia [plague - prevention | 1483 Milan | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, ca 1343-1400 | The Canterbury Tales [photo-facs. of Caxton's 1483 ed.; comparable with 1476 edition] | 1483 | graphic | Free | BritishLibrary |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, ca 1343-1400 | The Canterbury Tales [photo-fasc. of Caxton's 1476 ed.; comparable with 1483 edition] | 1476 | graphic | Free | BritishLibrary |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, ca 1343-1400 | The story of Queen Anelida and the false Arcite by Geoffrey Chaucer. Printed at Westminster by William Caxton, ca 1477 | 1477/1905 | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | CornellU |
Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527 | Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ["considered by many bibliophiles as the most beautifully designed book printed"] | 1499 Venice | Graphic (Facs) | Free | CMU-Posner |
Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527 | Hypnerotomachia Poliphili [woodcuts, illus.] | 1499 Venice | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
Columbus, Christoper] Verardi, Carlo, 14 | Historia Baetica ["Columbus's letter to Gabriel Sanchez giving an account of his first voyage to America"] | 1494 Basel | Graphic (Facs) | Free | CMU-Posner |
Columbus, Christopher | 1492: Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal [Aug.-Nov. 1492] | 1492 | Html | Free | MedvSourceBook |
Columbus, Christopher | 1492: Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal [Aug.-Oct. 1492] | 1492 | Html | Free | MedvSourceBook |
Columbus, Christopher | 1492: Journal of the First Voyage of Columbus [in Olson & Bourne, The Northmen] | 1492/1906 | Graphic | Free | WiscHistSoc |
Columbus, Christopher | 1493: Concerning the Islands Recently Discovered in the Indian Sea [Epistola De Insulis Nuper Inventis] | 1493 Basel | Html | Free | USMaine |
Columbus, Christopher | 1494?: Christopher Columbus, letter to the King & Queen of Spain | 1494 | Html | Free | UKansas |
da Vinci, Leonardo | Codex Madrid I: The Madrid Codices: National Library Madrid, Fascimile Edition of Codex Madrid I (ori | 1493/1974 | Graphic | Free | CornellU |
da Vinci, Leonardo | Leonardos Notebook [fasc. in high & low resolution; req. Shockwave; material for treatise on mechanics, birds | 14?? mss. | Graphic Audio | Free | BritishLibrary |
Diedo, Francesco (d. 1484) | Petrus Iudouicus Maldura in vitam Sancti Rochi contra pestem epidimie apud d[omi]n[u]m dignissimi intercessori | 1494 Mainz | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
Euclid | Elementa geometriae [Elementa. Latin. 1482; 1st ed.] | 1482 | Graphic (Facs) | Free | CMU-Posner |
Euclid | Elementa geometriae [Elementa. Latin. 1482] [geometry] | 1482 Venice | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
Falcucci, Niccolo (d. 1411 or 1412) | [Sermones medicinales septem] (4vols.) [medicine, early works] | 1490 Venice | Graphic | Free | Harvard: |
Ficino, Marsilio [Marsilius Ficinus], 1433-1499 | Consilio di Marsilio Ficino fiorentino contro la pestilentia [plague] | 1481Florenc | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
Ganivet, Jean; Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra | Amicus medicorum: Tractatus Coeli enarrant dictus | 1496 | PDF Kindle Epub | Free | ComplutenseUMad |
Gentilis Fulginas (d. 1348) | Gentilis Fulginatis Medici illustris contra pestilentiam consilium feliciter incipit [plague] | 1479 | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard: |
Gilles [Gentilis Fulginas, d. 1348] | Carmina de urina[rum] iudiciis / edita ab excelle[n]tissimo d[omi]no m[a]g[ist]ro Egidio cu[m] co[m]mento eius | 1483 Padua | Graphic | Free | Harvard: |
Gilles, de Corbeil (fl. 1200) | Incipit liber magistri Egidii de pulsibus metrice compositus [pulse, early works] | 1484 | Graphic | Free | Harvard: |
Gower, John, ca1325-1408 | Confessio Amantis, vol. 1 (ed. Russell A Peck) [TEAMS] | 14??/2000 | Html | Free | TEAMS |
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