MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. *$ 



ORATIONALE, Sivt. 



107 INCUNABULA HIERONIMUS DE VILLA VITIS. PANIS QUOTIDIANUS DE SANCTIS, 

 hie liber ideo hoc Nomine appellatur quia quotidie per totum annum Singuiarem 

 orationem vel Meditationem de Sancto cuiuslibet diei continet, sine no/a Sed 

 Hagenau, Heinrich, Grain, circa 1500, EDITIO PRINCEPS, thick sm. 410, (JOtbtC 

 ICttCt, headlines in larger type, long lines, title printed in red, Prohemium and 

 Calendar in rtd and black, fine large ornamental initial, white on black, names 

 written on ti'le, 3 tiny wormholes through first few leaves and small rust holes in 

 margin oj last leaf, VERY FINE LARGE COPY WITH ALL THE BLANK LEAVES, ORIGINAL 

 WOODEN BOARDS COVERED WITH STAMPED LEATHER, tooled in compartments, with a 

 central panel divided by diagonal lines, the interior spaces filled with vine ornament, 

 hack blind tooled in compartments, joints skilfully repaired, VERY RARE, \ IDS 



Hain * 8658. Printed in Gran's types 4, 8, and 12. Reprinted on 19 June, 1509, for Rinmann. 

 (though the first quire of that edition is in the types f J. Knoblouch of Strassburg), H. Gran 

 was the first and only printer at Hagenan in the XVth Century. He started his press in 1480 

 and continued printing there till 1527. The present example is not only very rare, the sale of a 

 copy not being recorded for many years, but is a fine example of his printing, and in a wonderful 

 state of preservation. 



1 08 INCUNABULA ISIDORUS DE ISOLANIS. INEXPLICABILIS MYSTERII GESTA BEAT*; 

 VERONICA VIRGINIS, Monasterii Sanctas Marthae urbis Mediolani, Medtolani, apud 

 Gotardum Ponticum, 1518, sm. 4to, printed in roman letter, long lines, WITH A 



VERY FINE FULL-PAGE WOODCUT, 8 OTHER ELEGANT WOODCUTS OF SMALLER SIZK, 

 AND A LARGE NUMBER OF LARGE AND HIGHLY ORNAMENTAL INITIALS, Wants OO, 



6 /eaves, and (wo leaves in signature b, otherwise a very fine large clean copy in old 

 Italian limp vellum, back loose, ^,4 los 



A VERY RARE WOODCUT BOOK FROM THE PRESS OF GOTARDO DE PONTK AT MlLAN. Remark- 

 able for its highly finished woodcuts, and the very numerous and varied series of fine ornamental 

 initials. The designs are purely Italian in character, and of superior order although executed 

 with great simplicity. Many of the initials are historiated, others are in pure outline, and the 

 remainder ornamental white on black. 



RARE XVITH CENTURY MS. WITH 30 MINIATURES AND ORIGINAL NATIVE BINDING. 



109 ILLUMINATED TURKISH MANUSCRIPT TAMI OR DJAMI (the famous Persian 

 Poet}, YUSUF WA ZALIKHA, or the celebrated romantic history of Joseph and 

 Zuleikha, TRANSLATED INTO TURKISH VERSE BY THE GREAT TURKISH POET, 

 HAMDI, sm. 8vo, exquisitely written in double columns on 177 leaves of native 

 paper, 6 by jjj-in., headings in red, text divided by fine narrow gold and black 

 lines, EXECUTED TOWARDS THE END OF THE XVITH CENTURY, a finely designed 

 anwan in gold and colours at the head of the first page, FURTHER DECORATED WITH 



30 FINE HIGHLY FINISHED FULL OR HALF-PAGE MINIATURES IN GOLD AND COLOURS, 

 BY A NATIVE ARTIST OF GREAT MERIT, ILLUSTRATING SCENES IN THE STORY, the 



miniatures are more or less rubbed but still retain much of their original beauty, 3 of 

 them are torn, one right across, one has a piece torn out of the side, and 2 others have 

 trifling defects, ^ leaves of text have their margins frayed or torn, i has a piece torn 

 off, and 6 others are loose, first leaf is backed, and with the second, has a few small 

 wormholes, smudge on two pages, OTHERWISE IN GOOD CONDITION WITH WIDE 



MARGINS, IN THE ORIGINAL DARK BROWN NATIVE LEATHER BINDING, Sides tooled 



with a broad ornamental sunk border of floral work on a gold ground, divided into 



compartments by curved raised bands, a large and 2 small sunk shaped panels (with 



similar ornamentation to the border), ouupy the centres, DOUBL WITH RED LEATHER, 



painted gold line borders and corner ornaments, with centre oval sunk panels, similar 



to the middle one on the outer sides, but the design in gold on a dark green ground, 



worn and back broken, jC 6s Infino Stec. XVI. 



EARLY MANUSCRIPTS LIKE THE PRESENT EXAMPLE OF THIS CELEBRATED POETICAL ROMANCE ARE 



OF GREAT RARITY. In spite of the defects pointed out above both writing and illuminatrd 



work are of unusual excellence, and it is a desirable example of XVIth Century Turkish 



caligraphy, illumination, and binding. Djami who died in 1492 is one of the greatest names in 



Persian poetical literature, This excellent translation by the Poet Hamdi, of equal fame in the 



annals of Turkish poetry, who died in 1518, brings into conjunction two of the most famous 



poets in old Oriental literature. 



