Stage II
“The White men had some spell or magic”

Or, Translatio studii et imperii (Transfer of Learning and Power) as Scripturalization

Summary: Fourth German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, a world chronicle with extensive geographic descriptions and detailed illustrations. It includes two maps of the world, as well as maps of Europs, Africa, Asia, India and various European countries as well as numerous cityscapes.Imprint: from colophon.Illustrative and Decorative Content: Title within woodcut border. Printer's mark on verso of last leaf.Binding: Blind tooled, pigskin binding.Additional Details: Pagination is incorrect and should be MCCCXXXVII instead of MCCXXXIII (Pages 951-962, 1191-1193, erroneously numbered 947-956 and 1153-1154). Includes index.

Seated to right, seen on profile, Flavio Amalfitano at his desk measuring a compass while reading a book; a globe and an hourglass also seen on his desk and a dog at his feet; opposite him, floating on air, a sailing ship and below another desk with books and an astrolabe globe; a large recipient filled with liquid and a stone at entre seen in the foreground, to left.Inscription content: Plated numbered 2. Lettered in margin, below image, with the title and two sentences in Latin: 'Lapis reclusit iste Flavio abditum' and 'Poli suum hunc amorem, at ipse navitae'. On image, bottom right: 'Ion.Stradanus Invent.' and 'Phls. Galle excud.'.

A description of the customs of indigenous peoples of the Americas as recorded by colonizing forces.

Summary: A collection of works on astronomy, including works by Pierre Gassendi, Galileo Galilei, and Johannes Kepler.Illustrative and Decorative Content: Contains a number of diagrams and star charts. Title in red and black.Additional Details: Institutio astronomica, which includes Oratio inauguralis a Petro Gassendo, has also special t.-p. Sidereus nuncius by Galileo, and Dioprice by Kepler, each with special t.-p. are paged continuously.

A photographic reproduction of a drawing by Johannes Woudanus of the library at Leiden University, showing the organization of materials by topic.

Summary: A family Bible which includes the Apocrypha, an introduction, tables, and a list of scubscribers.Signatures: [pi]2a-k2A-8A2A-T2A-3X2*2X4.Illustrative and Decorative Content: The New Testament has special t.-p. and separate signatures. Plates engraved for this American edition.Additional Details: In double columns.

Summary: This work on restitution usury and excommunication by Franciscus de Platea, an Italian Franciscan, was printed nine times in the 15th century, this edition being the second.Signatures: [aa-cc, a-g¹⁰, h¹², i-t¹⁰, v⁴] First and last leaves blank and wanting.Imprint: (from colophon) Quem legis impressus dum stabit in aere caracter Dum non longa dies vel sera sata prement. Candida perpetuae non deerit fama Cremonae. Phidiacum hinc superat Bartholomeus ebur. Cedite chalcographi millesima uestra figura est Archetypas fingit solus at iste notus. M.CCCC.LXXII. Nicolao trvno dvce Venetiarum regnant impressum fvit hoc opus foeliciter.Illustrative and Decorative Content: Three large illuminated initials, extended to half frame full page; initials supplied in red; paragraphs marked in red.Binding: Bound in recent vellum, black spine label with title in gilt.Additional Details: Annotated in a neat, contemporary hand with vertical lines marking paragraphs - limited to first 40 leaves of text.. Occasional nos. at corners suggesting pagination, but infrequent and not consistent. On verso of last blank ownership mark [?] in old ink ["Kemoressa?]. Leaf [2a]: Incipit tabvla restitvtiomvm [sic] vsvrarvm et excomvnicationvm [sic] edita per venerabilem dominvm fratrem Franciscvm de Platea ordinis minorvm.