Thank you for the compliment! I consider myself as an enthusiastic amateur old paper collector, not as a specialist. These posts are some kind of...
The first page is probably Psalm 122 of a Book of Hours (?), 15th century, Netherlandish (Bruges?). I read: Quia multum repleta est anima nostra...
The manuscript with the number 9 written to it, looks to me like a Vulgate Bible, manufactured in Paris, around 1250 AD.
Funny, I grew up in the village of Breugel. I think you refer to Pieter Breughel the Elder here. His birth place is still up for discussion (could...
The part of the book with the woodcuts is a German hagiography/martyrology (description of Saints or martyrs). It is probably a late incunabula...
The wood cut with Ave Maria is from a book called "Rosario della gloriosa Vergine Maria" by Alberto da Costella 1564 in Venice...
The book of the horse rider is a bit later than I thought. It is Jost Ammand's Wappen- & Stammbuch (1589). Here in facsimile:...
The man on the horse is probably from a German book around 1550 and shows emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire.
The book with the intricate borders is a Book of Hours, printed in Paris in the 1st quarter of the 16th century. Very similar to pages in my...
The woodcut with the ships is a Dutch description of the battle of Las Salinas in 1538. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Las_Salinas
Please do!
I am just happy that someone posts some books here that are in my field of interest! :happy:
@Scott Eidam Just a few tips to help you with your research: If it is hard to read a title sometimes Google Lens works great. I can access that...
The last book is: Opus Merlini Cocaii Poetae Manuanti Macaronicorum Folengo, Teofilo (or Girolamo) Published in Venice: by Jacobum Simbenium.,...
The next book is C. Iulii Caesaris rerum ab se gestarum commentarii... ex uetustiss. scriptis codibus emendatiores; pictura totius Galliae,...
The book with the hand written title page is Moralia by Plutarch / Xylander (W Holzman), printed in Basel in 1570. [ATTACH]
The second book is Italian and printed in 1576 in Venice. The title translates (by Google) as: THE SECOND BOOK OF THE SERMONS OF THE VERY...
A great haul of books, let's try to identify them: The first book is printed in German in Strasburg (now France) in 1562 with the title: Titi...
The place Giethoorn is also called "Venice of the North", but there are a lot of places who claim that name... It can be a little overcrowded...
I can imagine that an outsider ( like a Hindu, Inuit or other religion) looks at the 3 world religions (Christianity (Catholic, Protestant,...
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