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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 6631484, member: 14916&quot;]Happy New Year all!</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not post much here on this forum, but sometimes it is nice to add some books that I added to my collection. Here are 5 books acquired last december, that are a great addition to my collection of book bindings with recycled parchment (also called Membra disjecta).</p><p><br /></p><p>When the printing press in western Europe was introduced (around 1455), the old handwritten manuscripts became obsolete. Bookbinders for early modern books started to use the old parchment to strengthen their books. That can be just small strips in the spine or whole covers like these 5 examples. I think all fragments date from the 15th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Book 1-4 originate from Franciscan monastery in Dettelbach (Germany) that was closed in 2017.</p><p><br /></p><p>Book 1,3,4,5 are manuscripts (handwritten), Book 2 is a printed leaf of a so called incunable (book that was printed in the period 1455-1501).</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Book 1</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Title: Politicorum sive civilis doctrinae libri sex, qui ad principatum maximè spectant</p><p>Author: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Lipsius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Lipsius" rel="nofollow">Justus Lipsius</a></p><p>Year: 1604</p><p>Publisher: Conrad Neben</p><p>Place:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich,_Hesse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich,_Hesse" rel="nofollow"> Lich</a> (Germany)</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t identified the manuscript text yet. I seem to me glossed (a commentary around the original text).</p><p>You see the title page seems to have no year of publication on it, but it is hidden in the printers name:&nbsp; IMpensa ConraDI nebenII</p><p>This is a so called chronogram. If you take all the capitalized letters as Roman numerals and add them you get:</p><p><br /></p><p>I+M+C+D+I+I+I = 1+1000+100+500+1+1+1 = 1604</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]420126[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]420128[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Book 2</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Title: Principia Generalia Concordiae Christianae Edivinis Desvmpta Litteris, Et Specialia,...</p><p>Author: A R.P. HENRICO MARCELLIO</p><p>Year: 1648</p><p>Place: Bamberg</p><p>Publisher: Andrea Baals</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the printed one. It is from a book called&nbsp; Missale Benedictinum - Luke 11:14 (Bamberg: Johann Sensenschmidt, 31 July 1481). Funny for me is that the writer of the book was born in a town 20 km from where I live (Someren, the Netherlands).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]420130[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]420129[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Book 3</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Title: Institutiones iuris romano-bavarici electoralis</p><p>Author: <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au=%22Khraisser,%20Sebastian%22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au=%22Khraisser,%20Sebastian%22" rel="nofollow">Sebastian Khraisser</a></p><p>Year:1644</p><p>Place: Augsburg</p><p>Publisher: Johannes Weh</p><p><br /></p><p>The manuscript is Psalm 146, probably from a Missal of Breviary</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]420132[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]420131[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Book 4 </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Title: Praelectiones publicae in D. Justiniani Institutionum Juris Quatuor Libros Compositae.</p><p>Author: <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christoph_Schambogen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christoph_Schambogen" rel="nofollow">Johann Christoph Schambogen</a></p><p>Year: 1705</p><p>Place: Lovain</p><p><br /></p><p>This is obviously a music sheet. It is from the song Alleluia: Domine, in virtute, from a Graduale.</p><p><br /></p><p>You even can hear how the music must have sound:</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]T1drMzbZTEM[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]420133[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]420134[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Book 5</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Title: De vita religiose instituenda, sive de quotidiana virtutum exercitatione libellus</p><p>Author: Jacobo Álvarez de Paz (1560-1620)</p><p>Place: Cologne (Germany)</p><p>Year: 1613</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]420135[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]420136[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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