Booksellers' catalogues.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Catalogues containing the descriptions and prices of books, manuscripts, maps or other bibliographic material obtained and offered for sale by book dealers. The catalogues are usually issued regularly : monthly; bi-monthly; quarterly, etc. Source: National Library of Scotland.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of “Recherches sur l’origine des théatres, sur l’invention de l’imprimerie, leurs perfections and accroissement. Par Mr Chardin de la Chardiniere. A Paris, 1779”.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.144
Dates:
1779.
`Recherches sur l`origine des théatres, sur l`invention de l’imprimerie, leurs perfections and accroissement. Par Mr Chardin de la Chardiniere. A Paris, 1779`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.13
Scope and Contents
The manuscript appears to be the introduction to a bookseller`s catalogue (not, however, that of Charles Chardin, ‘Catalogue des livres rares et singuliers du cabinet de M. Filhal’, Paris, 1779).
A calligraphic copy, with the colophon: `Exaravit Calamo Franciscus Florentius Fyot. Anno Domini MDCCLXXIX.`
Dates:
1779.
Sale catalogues of books and transcripts of letters of Scottish interest in the Caligula section of the Cotton Library.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.12
Scope and Contents
On folio i is written `No. 14 of Mr. Matthew Crawfurd`s printed Catalogue of Manuscripts. in fol.`, which appears to be intended as a title for the volume, although it does not correspond to the contents. On the same folio the letter `B` and the signature `John Wright` appear twice. All of these are in eighteenth-century hands. Section (iii) is the earliest, and the volume must have been later adapted by the writers of sectitons (i) and (ii).Section (i): Sale-catalogue of books,...
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 18th century.
Theological works of St Bernard of Clairvaux and others, probably from a Cistercian house.
File
Identifier: MS.9153
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) The 'De consideratione' of St Bernard. Printed by J P Migne in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxii, 727-808. (Folio 2 verso).(ii) Four sermons of St Bernard on Luke I, 26-38. Printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxiii, 55-88. (Folio 85).(iii) Hugh of St Victor, 'Soliloquium de arrha animae'. The prologue and 'confessio’ are in a shorter version than that printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxvi, 951-970. (Folio...
Dates:
13th century.