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Artistic Marks from the Medieval World

Folio 5r, opening page with historiated intitial from Valerius Maximus (fl. 1st c. AD ). Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX (Memorable Deeds and Sayings). Parchment. Italy 15th c. 
Folio 2r from Valerius Maximus (fl. 1st c. AD ). Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX (Memorable Deeds and Sayings). Parchment. Italy 15th c.
Folio 4r from Valerius Maximus (fl. 1st c. AD ). Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX (Memorable Deeds and Sayings). Parchment. Italy 15th c.
Woodcut of T-O map on folio 71r from Isidorus Hispalensis (ca. 560-636).  Etymologiae. Paris: Georg Wolf and Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit at Paris, and Jean Alexandre and Charles Debougne at Angers, 25 May 1499.
T-O map on Folio 68r from Werner Rolewinck (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum (Venice: Erhard Ratdolt. 24 Nov. 1480).

Marks of Correction: How to fix a Manuscript Line

Folio 178r from John Chrysostom's Homilies on Genesis.  Parchment. Greek. St Nicholas of Anapausas, 11th c.
Folio 178r from John Chrysostom's Homilies on Genesis.  Parchment. Greek. St Nicholas of Anapausas, 11th c.
Folio 16r from Horace (65-8 BC). Ars Poetica & Epistulae. Parchment. Italy. 15th c.
Folio 17r from Horace (65-8 BC). Ars Poetica & Epistulae. Parchment. Italy. 15th c.

Searching for Printers' Errors

Detail of page 277 of vol. 2 from Anne-Charles Lorry (1726-1783). De praecipuis morborum mutationibus et conversionibus, tentamen medicum, authore A.C. Lorry D. M. P. ; editionem post authoris fata curante J. N. Halle D. M. P. 2 vols in 1. (Naples: J. P. Merande, 1788).
Folio 32r from Paulus de Sancta Maria (ca. 1351-1435). Scrutinium scripturarum [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, ca. 1474]
Folio 32v from Paulus de Sancta Maria (ca. 1351-1435). Scrutinium scripturarum [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, ca. 1474]
Folio 112r from Aelianus Tacticus (fl. 2ndc. AD). De instruendis aciebus. Tr: Theodorus Gaza. Ed: Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus (Rome: Eucharius Silber, 15 Feb. 1487). Part of the four-treatise collection, Scriptores rei militaris, sive Scriptores veteres de rei militari.
Folio 112v from Aelianus Tacticus (fl. 2ndc. AD). De instruendis aciebus. Tr: Theodorus Gaza. Ed: Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus (Rome: Eucharius Silber, 15 Feb. 1487). Part of the four-treatise collection, Scriptores rei militaris, sive Scriptores veteres de rei militari.
Folio 58v from Flavius Renatus Vegetius (fl. 4th AD). De re militari. Ed. Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus (Rome: Eucharius Silber, 29 Jan. 1487). Part of the four-treatise collection, Scriptores rei militaris, sive Scriptores veteres de rei militari.
Folio 5r from Flavius Renatus Vegetius (fl. 4th AD). De re militari. Ed. Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus (Rome: Eucharius Silber, 29 Jan. 1487). Part of the four-treatise collection, Scriptores rei militaris, sive Scriptores veteres de rei militari.
Appianus (fl. 2nd c. AD). Historia Romana (Pars I). Tr: Petrus Candidus Decembrius. (Venice: Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477).
Appianus (fl. 2nd c. AD). Historia Romana (Pars I). Tr: Petrus Candidus Decembrius. (Venice: Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477).

Marks from an Anxious Corrector: Fernando de Herrera

Title-page of Obras de Garcilasso de la Vega con anotaciones de Fernando de Herrera (Sevilla: Alonso de la Barrera, 1580)
Approval from Obras de Garcilasso de la Vega con anotaciones de Fernando de Herrera (Sevilla: Alonso de la Barrera, 1580)
Dedication from Obras de Garcilasso de la Vega con anotaciones de Fernando de Herrera (Sevilla: Alonso de la Barrera, 1580)
First errata list from Obras de Garcilasso de la Vega con anotaciones de Fernando de Herrera (Sevilla: Alonso de la Barrera, 1580)
Page 47 from Obras de Garcilasso de la Vega con anotaciones de Fernando de Herrera (Sevilla: Alonso de la Barrera, 1580)
Page 171 from Obras de Garcilasso de la Vega con anotaciones de Fernando de Herrera (Sevilla: Alonso de la Barrera, 1580)
Page 359 from Obras de Garcilasso de la Vega con anotaciones de Fernando de Herrera (Sevilla: Alonso de la Barrera, 1580)
Page 376 from Obras de Garcilasso de la Vega con anotaciones de Fernando de Herrera (Sevilla: Alonso de la Barrera, 1580)

A Question of Provenance: Marks from Isaac Newton's Library

Title-page of Raymundi Lullii tractatus brevis et eruditus, De conservatione vitae; Liber secretorum seu quinta essentiae (Augsburg: Lazarus Zetznerus, 1616)
Huggins Bookplate on Raymundi Lullii tractatus brevis et eruditus, De conservatione vitae; Liber secretorum seu quinta essentiae (Augsburg: Lazarus Zetznerus, 1616)
Shelf-mark from Raymundi Lullii tractatus brevis et eruditus, De conservatione vitae; Liber secretorum seu quinta essentiae (Augsburg: Lazarus Zetznerus, 1616)
Musgrave Bookplate on Raymundi Lullii tractatus brevis et eruditus, De conservatione vitae; Liber secretorum seu quinta essentiae (Augsburg: Lazarus Zetznerus, 1616)
Title-page of Arthur Dee, Fasciculus chemicus, abstrusae hermetica scientiae ([Paris]: 1631)
Two shelf-marks on verso of front end-paper of Arthur Dee, Fasciculus chemicus, abstrusae hermeticae scientiae, ingressum, progressum, coronidem, verbis apertissimis explicans (Paris: Nicolas de La Vigne, 1631)
Verso of front fly-leaf of Arthur Dee, Fasciculus chemicus, abstrusae hermeticae scientiae, ingressum, progressum, coronidem, verbis apertissimis explicans (Paris: Nicolas de La Vigne, 1631)
Dog-ear marked page in Raymundi Lullii tractatus brevis et eruditus, De conservatione vitae; Liber secretorum seu quinta essentiae (Augsburg: Lazarus Zetznerus, 1616)
Dog-ear mark in Arthur Dee, Fasciculus chemicus, abstrusae hermeticae scientiae, ingressum, progressum, coronidem, verbis apertissimis explicans (Paris: Nicolas de La Vigne, 1631)

On the Footsteps of Owners: From Monastery to Monastery

Spine of Sammelband: Martinus Polonus, Margarita decreti seu Tabula Martiana [Venice]: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis [and Dionysius Bertochus, about 1485]; Johannes Chrysostomus, Sermones de patientia in Job. Ed and tr: Lilius Tifernas (Castellanus). Add. De poenitentia in David; De virginitate. Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 13 May 1487; Johannes Johannis,  Concordiae Bibliae et Canonum cum Titulis Decretalium Totiusque Iuriscivilis. Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 22 June 1487; 12 July 1487; and Johannes Koelner de Vanckel. Usus feudorum [Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, after 21 Feb. 1486].   
Front cover:  Martinus Polonus, Margarita decreti seu Tabula Martiana [Venice]: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis [and Dionysius Bertochus, about 1485]; Johannes Chrysostomus, Sermones de patientia in Job. Ed and tr: Lilius Tifernas (Castellanus). Add. De poenitentia in David; De virginitate. Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 13 May 1487; Johannes Johannis,  Concordiae Bibliae et Canonum cum Titulis Decretalium Totiusque Iuriscivilis. Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 22 June 1487; 12 July 1487; and Johannes Koelner de Vanckel. Usus feudorum [Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, after 21 Feb. 1486].     
Front paste-down paper: Martinus Polonus, Margarita decreti seu Tabula Martiana [Venice]: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis [and Dionysius Bertochus, about 1485]; Johannes Chrysostomus, Sermones de patientia in Job. Ed and tr: Lilius Tifernas (Castellanus). Add. De poenitentia in David; De virginitate. Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 13 May 1487; Johannes Johannis,  Concordiae Bibliae et Canonum cum Titulis Decretalium Totiusque Iuriscivilis. Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 22 June 1487; 12 July 1487; and Johannes Koelner de Vanckel. Usus feudorum [Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, after 21 Feb. 1486].   
First page of Martinus Polonus, Margarita decreti seu Tabula Martiana [Venice]: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis [and Dionysius Bertochus, about 1485]

Readers on the Margins

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 -8 BC.). Opera. Ed. and comm: Christophorus Landinus. Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 5 Aug. 1482.
Folio 121v from Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Nicolai Copernici Torinensis de revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Libri VI (Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1543).
Folio 123v from Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Nicolai Copernici Torinensis de revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Libri VI (Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1543).
Folio 129r from Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Nicolai Copernici Torinensis de revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Libri VI (Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1543).
Verso of blank leaf with annotations from Aurelius Augustinus (354-430). Opuscula. Venice: Dionysius Bertochus, 26 March 1491.
Table of contents from Aurelius Augustinus (354-430). Opuscula. Venice: Dionysius Bertochus, 26 March 1491.
Folio 14r from Johannes de Sacro Bosco (ca. 1195-ca. 1256). Sphaera mundi. Comm: Wenceslaus Faber, de Budweis (Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1499).
Folio 38v from Bernhard Perger (d. ca. 1502). Grammatices, institutiones novae Magistri Bernardi Pergerii (Vienna: Hieronymus Philovallis & Joannes Singrenius, 1513).

Bring Out Your Bindings!

Spine and front cover of Gulielmus Durandus (ca. 1230-1296) et alii. [Tractatus varii] Paper. Germany 15th c.  
Front cover of Rainerius de Pisis (d. 1351). Pantheologia, sive Summa universae theologiae. II. Ed. Jacobus Florentinus [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, 3 Aug. 1474.
Spine and front cover of tooled vellum binding over paper boards of Ascanio Centorio (fl. 16th c.). Il primo [secundo, terzo, quarto] discorso di messer Ascanio Centorio, sopra l’ufficio d’un capitano generale di essercito (Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557-1559.
Spine and front cover of Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims (806-882). Hincmari Rhemensis Archiepiscopi, ante annos L. supra DCC. In Galliis celeberrimi epistolae (Mainz: Johann Albini, 1602).
Spine and front cover of Nathaniel Torporley (1564-1632). Diclides coelometricae, seu valvae astronomicae universales (London: Felix Kingston, 1602).