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LEANDER VAN ESS'S LISTS OF THE INCUNABULA AND MANUSCRIPTS IN THE COLLECTION OF BOOKS SOLD TO THE LIBRARY OF THE NEW-YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (now NEW YORK, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES THE BURKE LIBRARY AT UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY) IN 1838 edited by Milton McC. Gatch The Burke Library Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York 1995 Published online 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 CATALOGUS B: INCUNABULA 5 ADDITIONS: HUYSBURG COLLECTION 75 OTHER INCUNABULA NOT IN VAN ESS CATALOGUE 80 INCUNABULA IN THE A-CATALOGUE 81 INCUNABULA IN C-CATALOGUE 98 CATALOGUS C: MANUSCRIPTA — AND ADDITIONS 100 INDEXES AUTHORS AND TITLES OF INCUNABULA 113 AUTHORS AND TITLES OF MANUSCRIPTS 130 PROVENANCE 133 INTRODUCTION The following is a transcription from Leander van Ess's autograph copies of the catalogue of the early printed books and manuscripts he sold in 1838 to the New-York Theological Seminary, now Union Theological Seminary. These are, respectively parts B and C of a tri-partite manuscript catalogue, two copies of which are preserved in the Burke Library. This edition is based on the fair copy (called volume 1 by the library on the spine of the photoreproduction kept in the rare-book reading room) with corrections, where necessary, based on the second, working copy (volume 2). Only where differences between the fair and the working copies are substantial are they noted. Ess arranged his B-catalogue so that the Panzer-numbers always appeared on the outside of the leaf (i.e., they were to the right of the narrative desription on recto pages and to the left on versos). Here the Panzer- numbers are all presented in the right column. The first section of this catalogue is the second section or Catalog. B of Ess's list, the category for incunabula proper. To this list are appended entries for a number of volumes not in Ess’s list that on the basis of internal evidence almost certainly came to New York from him. At the end of B, Ess notes that there were also a number of incunabula in his Catalogus A (or general list). The entries for the latter 'incunabula' are gathered after the B list. Ess, incidentally, followed the contemporary, more expansive dating for the period of incunabula, as did his major reference authority, Georg Wolfgang Panzer, listing as incunabula books printed in the first four decades of the sixteenth century. Numerous sixteenth-century books are included in the B-list, and almost all of the books listed as incunabulum in the A-list are from after 1500. A few such books in the A-list that Ess failed to note are listed at the end. Between the entries by Leander van Ess (and right-justified below Ess's description of the book) there are very brief notes that record important information about the books and their provenance. • In a first line are notes concerning the binding or condition of the book. The presence of manuscript or incunabular printing in the binding is often noted. Rebinding, repairs or disbinding will often mean that the New-York Theological Seminary bookplate and other signs of provenance have been removed. • Thereafter come notes about provenance: • Monastic provenances are given in brief form, and where I have not been able to decipher an ex-libris note (or have chosen not to because it is a personal ex libris rather than institutional) it is so noted. The effort in this list has been to identify libraries to which the books once belonged, ignoring for the most part individual owners’ and book-dealers’ marks. • E followed by a number indicates that a tag is found on the book that correlates with Ess's catalogue numbering. (Other spine tags and labels are ignored.) • ESchw indicates the presence of Ess's printed bookplate when he was "Pfarrer und ex- Benediktiner" in Schwallenberg, 1803-1812. 3 • Dpl (or dpl in or dpl mit) followed by a number (usually five figures) indicates a book that was acquired from surplus books from monastic libraries that were disposed of by the University Library at Freiburg in Breisgau. Numbers correspond to those assigned books of the same imprint in the old catalogue of the university library. • NYTS denotes the presence of the New-York Theological Seminary bookplate inside the front board. (The name used only briefly, and is therefore a good indication that the copy is indeed one obtained from Ess, even absent other signs of provenance.) [NYTS] indicates that the plate has been removed but there are clear signs that it was once present. • RB [rare book] indicates the book is kept with a former (and often uncatalogued) rare book collection on the fifteenth deck of the Brown Tower stacks at the Burke Library, without classmark. Otherwise the last note in the entry is usually the "Union classification" mark. Very occasionally a book has been reclassified, in which case a number preceded by Tower is given. (If such a number is followed by RB, the book is shelved among the RB incunabula.) Since this catalogue was prepared, the uncatalogued rare materials in the Burke library have been added to CLIO, the electronic catalogue of the Columbia University Libraries. Ref. Pam. indicates one of several incunabular brochures that have been placed with a separate collection of Reformation (and Luther) pamphlets—a collection that also came to New York from Ess but was not included in the Catalogue. (See Milton McC. Gatch, The Library of Leander van Ess and the First American Collectionsof Reformation Pamphlets [New York, 2007], for a reconstruction of van Ess’s lost Catalogus D of Reformation pamphlets.) After the lists of early printed books, the Catalog C, Leander van Ess’s list of manuscripts, is edited in similar format. To it are added numerous manuscripts that also came to New York from Ess. Some are listed in the A-list; others are not to be found in van Ess’s list. Most of the medieval (and some of the modern) manuscripts in the C-group are also listed in di Ricci’s Census of American-owned manuscripts. The catalogue is followed by three indexes: the incunabula and manuscripts are separatly indexed by authors' names (in the form used by Goff for incunabula) or (in the case of anonymous works) by title. Entries are indexed to the Ess catalogue (with A, B or C to indicate the sections of Esss catalogue). The index to the early printed books also gives Goff's numbers for the same volume. If a volume is not retistered in Goff, either the Goff-number or the imprint date is given in square brackets. The final index is to the provenance of the books, usually monastic but occasionally personal. One cannot do this kind of work unaided. Anders Winroth transcribed the B-catalogue and much of the A-catalogue. Paul Needham and William Stoneman, among others, have been very 4 helpful in solving difficulties; and my colleagues at the Burke Library have been helpful and resourceful. Errors there will inevitably be—and they are mine. Catalogus B. Incunabula. Catalogus B: incunabula 1. S. Bonaventurae Quæstiones Super primo libro Sententiarum I. 389. 13. Eustadii. Sine nota anni. 1 in folio. Ecclesia Colleg: BVM Glog:mai: NYTS. RB: 87A 2. Deutsche Bibel, gedrukt durch Anton Koburger zu Nürnberg vide Panzers 1483, und zwar nur der 1te Theil bis zu Ende des Psalters, mit Annalen der vielen säuberer Holzschnitten. 1 in fol. (Panzer beschreibt sie als älteren sehr merkwürdig.) deutschen Literatur pag:133 N. 166. 3. Guidonis de Baiiso Rosarium Super decreto. Argentorati, typis I. 72. 401. Joan: Mentelii sine indicio anni. 1 in fol. max: (mit handschriftlichen Anmerkungen.) Huysburg. NYTS. UB46/B36/1472 4. Vincentii Bellovacensis Speculi moralis libri tres. In fine sequitur I. 19. 10. folium unicum de virginitate inscriptum. (Argentorati Joh: Mentelii 1473). 2 fol. maj. Huysburg. NYTS. RB 5. Ludolphi de Saxonia pars II vitae Christi. (Parisiis per VIII. 37. 916. Bertholdum Rembolt. 1517.) 1 fol. maj. XI. 486. 916. canceled ex lib on t.p.; Soc. Antonii... Terranoua. FS51/L94/1516 6. Raynerii de Pisis Summae theologiae seu Pantheologiae pars II. 176. 36. secunda. Norimbergae per Ant: Coburger. 1477. (Das Register ist auf Pergament geschrieben) 1 fol. maj. vols. 1 (A-C) & 3 (L-O) only. See also B10, B401 5 Catalogus B: incunabula vol. 1: no vellum. Huysburgh (ex lib & binding stamps). NYTS. RB: 91A vol. 3: Huysburgh stamps on binding. E6. NYTS. RB: 91A 7. a) Innocentii Papae IV. apparatus Super V. libros Decretal: I. 21. 25. Argentorati per Henr: Eggestein 1478 b) In fronte libri hujus Baldi de Perusio repertorium super IV. 220. 25b Innocentio ibidem. eodem. 1 fol. maj. Ptd. Plate with seal (Insignia Pauli ab Oberstein Carni...Praepositi Vienneñ...). NYTS. UB46/I58/1478 8. Leonardi de Utino Sermones quadragesimales de legibus etiam III. 533. 18. dominicales, cum tabula alphabetica. Ulmae per Joh: Zainer 1478. 1 fol. maj. (mit einigen handschriftlichen Anmerkungen). ex dono Math. Hammer, 1494. Eccl. Colleg. Glogau. E8. NYTS. RB 92A 9. Idem liber. Impress: Spirae per Petrum Drach. 1479. 1 fol. maj. III. 19. 9 ptd. plate: OAug Breslau (canceled). NYTS. RB: 92D 10. Raynerii de Pisis Summae theologiae, seu Pantheologiae pars I. II. 176. 36. Norimbergae per Ant: Coburger. 1477. 1 fol. maj. recte [Basel: Berthold Ruppel, about 1477] OAug Erfurt. E10. RB:92A 11. Biblia Latina cum Summariis et concordantiis Menardi monachi. III. 534. 22. Sequitur Menardi epistola ad Jacobum de Isenaco cum canonibus Evangelistarum. Tandem incipiunt interpretationes hebraicorum nominum. Ulmae per Joan: Zainer. 1480. 1 fol. maj. back board missing. manuscript pastedowns on front board CB62/1480z 12.