Prof. Dane's Junior Honors Seminar class will visit the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library to view materials from USC's Rare Books & Manuscripts. The following books will be discussed and examined. They are grouped by manuscript and printed books, and alphabetically by author within each section. Questions regarding items listed on this page may be referred to Melinda Hayes, Librarian in Special Collections, USC.
Manuscripts
Aegidius Romanus.
Liber sententiarum. [1300s]
Manuscript on vellum; leaves written on both sides. Many illuminated initials; five finely illuminated floral borders..
Location: 091.C719L 13--Boethius, d. 524.
[De consolatione philosophiae] Carmina qui quonda[m] studio flore[n]te pe[re]gi. [ca. 1400]
62 leaves ; 20 cm.
Location: Z105.5.B64 14--Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
[De officiis]. [1400s]
124 leaves (24 lines) ; 18 cm
Location: Z105.5.C53 14--Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.
Commentaria in Posteriora Aristotelis. Gualterii Burlei scriptum super Posteriora. Tractatus varii astronomi & c. Venice: Otinus de LUna, Papiersis, March 22, 1497..
72 leaves : ill. ; 23 cm.
Location: Z105.5.G76 14--
Early Books
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
[Selections. 1483].
Meditationes [et alia opuscula] diui Autustini Episcopi Hippolensis. Venetiis : P[er] Octauianu[m] Scotu[m] Modoesiense[m], q[ui]nto Kalendas iunius [28 May] 1483.
[276] leaves (the first and last blank) ; 21 cm. (4to)
Contents: Meditationes -- Soliloquia -- Manuale -- Enchiridion -- De triplici habitaculo -- Scala paradisi -- De duodecim abusionum gradibus -- De vita beata -- De assumptione Virginis Marie -- De diuinatione demonum -- De fuga mulierum -- De cura pro mortuis gerenda -- De vera et falsa penitentia -- De cordis contritione -- De contemptu mundi -- De conuenientia x preceptoru[m] -- De cognitione vere vite -- Confessionum -- De doctrina christiana -- De fide ad Petrum -- De vita & moribus clericorum sermo -- De vera religione.
Location: 093.A92Boethius, d. 524.
[Works. 1491]
Opera. Venice (Venetijs) Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, I) 18 Aug. 1492; II) 26 Mar. 1491.
2 v. in 1 ([256], [96] leaves) woodcuts: diagrs., printer's device. 32 cm.
Location: 093.B673Bonaventura, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274.
Commentarius in secundus librum Petri Lombardi. [Thomas Penketh, ed.] Venice, Reynaldus de Novimagio with Theodorus de Reynsburch, 1477.
336 *., the first blank. 29 cm.
Black letter edition; 2 columns, 50 lines.
Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red.
Capital S in blue, following incipit on 2a.
Location: 093.B69Burley, Walter.
Aristoteles. Super artem veterem Porphirii et Aristotelis. 1497.
Location: B485.B8 1497Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
[Tusculanae disputationes].
Marci Tvllii Ciceronis Tvscvlanarvm qvaestionvm liber prim Us-qui[n]tus. [Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis de Forlivio, [1482]
140 p. 30 cm. (fol.)
Colophon: Marci Tulii ciceronis tusculana q¯onum finis: Impressa Venetiis opa & ¯ipensa Ioannis de forliuio socioruq[ue] ei.Impante serenissimo pr¯icipe dño Ioãne Mocenico ¯iclito duce uenetia anno.M.cccc.lxxxii. mensis augusti. die. ix.
Caption-title.
Rubrication in red and blue.
Text surrounded by commentary. Manuscript notations.
Gift of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger.
Location: PA6303.T6 1482Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.
[Historia destructionis Troiae]
Hystoria Troiana Guidonis. [Strassburg, Georg Husner, 1489]
t.-p., [175] p. 27 cm.
Colophon: Historia destructionis Troie co[m]posita p iudicem Guidonem de Columna. Messanen[n] finit feliciter. In ciuitate Arge[n]tina imp[re]ssa nouissime anno d[ismi]ni. Mcccc.lxxxix. circe festu[m] sancti vrbani.
Spaces left for ornamental initials.
Original manuscript composed in 1287.
Based on the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-More.
Gift of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger.
Location: PA8310.C6H5 1489Estienne, Robert, 1503?-1559.
Hebraea, Chaldaea, Graeca et Latina nomina virorum mulierum, populorum, idolorum, vrbium, fluuiorum, montium, caeterorum*que locorum: quae in Bibliis leguntur, restituta, cum Latina interpretatione. Locorum descriptio ex cosmographis. Index praeterea rerum & sententiarum quae in iisdem Bibliis continentur. Parisiis : Ex officina Roberti Stephani, M. D. XXXVII. [i.e. 1537]
t.-p., [2], 5-542, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Signatures: a-z, A-L*.
Printer's device on the title page: device with the man standing by the tree.
Gift of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger.
Location: BS443.E88 1537Hierocles, of Alexandria, fl. 430.
[Commentarius in Aurea Pythagoreorum carmina. Latin]
Hieroclis philosophi stoici et sanctissimi In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum. Patavii : Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho, 1474 17 Apr.
[184] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Title from incipit at foot of p. [4]; imprint from colophon, p. [182].
Location: 093.H559Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298.
[Legenda aurea]
Incipit prologus in legendas sanctoru[m] / quas collegit in vnu[m] frater Jacobus ianuensis de ordine predicatorum. Nurenberge : A. Koburger, 1481]
[1] p., clxxxiij *. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Colophon: Finit lombardica historia p ma*data Anthonij koburger Nurenberge impressa Anno salutis mc.lxxxj.ydus no Aprilis tercio.
Imprint supplied from colophon, leaf clxxxiii.
USC copy bound in boards, with stamped leather spine. Clasps missing.
Some rubrication in first 10 pages and underlining of contents in red. Spaces left for further initials.
Leaves 173 & 176 lacking.
Gift of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger.
Location: BX4654.J31 1481Juvenal.
[Satyrae XVI. Mediolani, A. Minutianus, 1514]
8 p.l., cxxvi numb. l. 11 woodcut illus. 32 cm.
Gift of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger
Location: PA6446.A2 1514
Created: 1/25/2002; Last updated: October 31, 2008