Early Printing & Manuscripts

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Sileni Alcibiadis. Cum scholiis in calce libri adiectis.
(Colophon:) Cologne, Servas Kruffter, May 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page, and a decorated woodcut initial. 19th-century marbled boards. [18] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases in epistolas Pauli, ad Timotheum duas, ad Titum unam, et ad Philemonem unam ... recens ab illo conscriptae, et nunc primum typis excusae...
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520.
With: (2) IDEM. Paraphrases in Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios, Philippenses, et Colossenses, et in duas ad Thessalonicenses, cum epistola nuncupatoria ad ...
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520.
(3) IDEM. Modus orandi deum.
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Johann Knobloch, March 1525.
(4) IDEM. Consilium in caussa evangelica.
[Leipzig, Michael Blum], 1526. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page of each work, a woodcut printer's device at the end of the first 2 works, 9 decorative woodcut borders in the text, 16 decorative woodcut initials, and 4 woodcut headpieces. Later blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, each board in a panel design with a lozenge-shaped ornament and cornerpieces in the central panel, surrounded by a decorative border, 2 metal clasps and catches, the manuscript title at the head edge, a blank paper label on the spine, and 4 pigskin tabs. 141, [3]; 167, [1]; [91], [1 blank]; [14], [2 blank] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases in epistolas Pauli apostoli ad Rhomanos, Corinthios & Galatas, quae co[m]mentarii vice esse possunt.
Basel, Hieronymus Froben, January 1520. Small 8vo (10.1 x 15.3 cm). With 5 woodcut frames (on the title page, and at the start of each text (Corinthians in two parts)), 10 woodcut decorated initials, 3 woodcut ornaments, and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device above the colophon on the last page. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, sewn on three supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, author and title lettered on a separated paper label at the head of the spine, and with remnants of four pairs of red closing ties. "465" [= 495], [1] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Responsio ad annotationes Eduardi Lei ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Michael Hillenius Hoochstratanus, April 1520.
With: (2) IDEM. Liber tertius Erasmi Roterodami quo respo[n]det reliquis annotationibus Eduardi Lei.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Michael Hillenius Hoochstratanus, May 1520.
(3) IDEM. Apologia ... (de) In principio erat sermo.
[Antwerp, Michael Hillenius van Hoochstraten], (colophon:) 1520.
(4) IDEM. Apologia ... ad ... Iacobum Fabrum Stapulensem.
[Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, 1518].
(5) IDEM. Encomium matrimonii ... Encomium artis medicae.
[Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, 1518].
(6) IDEM. Apologia pro declamatione de laude matrimonii.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, May 1519.6 works in 1 volume. 4to. The titles of ads 1,2, 4-6 are set within an elaborate woodcut border, ads 4 and 6 with a woodcut printer's device at the end, 8 decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold- and blind tooled mottled calf. [72]; [72]; [16]; [64]; [22]; [8] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius Enchiridion oder handbüchlin eins Christenliche[n] und ritterlichen lebens, in latin beschriben durch doctor Erasmu[s] von Roterda[m]. und ... newlich durch Joannem Adelphu[m] doctor und statartzet zu Schaffhusen ... vertütschet.
(Colophon) Basel, Adam Petri, 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut border by Hans Franck on the title page, 5 half-page woodcut illustrations (including 1 repeat) in the text, Petris device by Urs Graf below the colophon, and several large decorated woodcut initials. The text is rubricated throughout. Modern overlapping vellum, grey endpapers. [10], CXIII ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Epistolae ad diversos, & aliquot aliorum ad illum, per amicos eruditos, Ex ingentibus fasciculis schedarum collectae.
Basel, Johann Froben, 31 Aug. 1521. Folio. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page by Urs Graf, 2 decorative woodcut borders in the text by Ambrosius Holbein, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Modern blind-tooled red morocco. 12, "668" [=618], [6] pp Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commentarii duo.
(Colophon): Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, August 1521.
With: (2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Parabolae sive similia.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johannes Froben, July 1521. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with the title in woodcut architectural border with 3 coats of arms, the Isenburg(?) bars and Mainz wagon wheel above left and right, and Schoeffer's device at the foot under his IS-monogram; 6 large, beautiful woodcut initials. Both works set throughout in italic types. With 1 initial coloured by hand. Ad 2: with the title in an elaborate woodcut border, dated "MDXX" at the head, first page of the dedicatory letter by Erasmus to Petrus Aegidius on back of the title page with a border made of woodcut strips, Froben's large woodcut device on the last page, and 2 decorative woodcut initials. German contemporary blind-tooled calf sewn on 3 double cords, in a panel design. Titles in ink written on the spine (partly upside down) and the fore-edge; later paper spine label; 2 holes near the fore-edge of each board from fastenings now lost. [16], 247, [1 blank]; 191, [1] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum ...
Including: IDEM. Paraclesis, id est, adhortatio ad sanctissimum, ac saluberrimum Christianae philosophiae studium ...
[Paris], Gilles de Gourmont, [after 1518 (and before 1522?)]. 8vo (10.3x16.2). With both titles set within an identical woodcut architectural frame and several woodcut decorated initials. Modern half vellum. [106], [10] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius In evangelium Lucae paraphrasis Erasmi Roterodami nunc primum & nata & aedita.
Basel, Johann Froben, September 1523. Small 8vo (10.7 x 15.2 cm). With 2 small woodcut illustrations incorporating Frobens device on the title page and the verso of the final leaf, a woodcut headpiece above the dedication, and two woodcut decorated initials. Modern blind-tooled marbled calf. [275] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De contemptu mu[n]di epistola.
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoogstraten, 1523. 8vo. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Later vellum. [32] ll. Full description