Bibliotheca illustris Medii Templi Societatis

Sir Bartholomew Shower

1700

The first printed catalogue of the Library’s holdings. It was commissioned by Sir Bartholomew Shower, Treasurer of the Inn in 1700. 

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Bukvar' iazyka slavenska

1618

The first printed source of the Belarusian language, this is a primer of Church Slavonic produced by a monastery in Ev’e (or Vievis), Lithuania. 

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Carmen nuptiale nobiliis. doctiss. prudentissimoque sponso D. Cornelio vander Milen provincialis Hollandiae senatus praesidis silio

Henricus Nicolaes Mouthaen

1603. 

This is the only recorded copy of this poetical work listed in the Heritage of the Printed Book database. 

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De Adiaphoris

Gabriel Powel

1606

Printed in London by Robert Barker in 1606 and is bound in a manuscript leaf from the Tables of Toulouse, dated to the 15th century.

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          Discours ou est descrit au vray, l'estat du roy d'Espainge

          The only recorded copy of this work, whose author may be Jean de Prantinhac. 

          1590

          It was printed in Montauban by an anonymous printer. 

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Examen de la composicion theriacal de Andromacho

Liano Licenciado

1546

Another unique copy of a work on poisons and antidotes, with evidence of ownership by Robert Ashley

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Flor de Virtudes

1539

Flor de v[ir]tudes nueuamente corregido, Caragoça, 1539. A unique copy of this medieval conduct of life work printed in Zaragoza.

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Marqués de Santillana, Los proverbios

Iñigo López de Mendoza

1532

A book of didactic poems written at the request of Juan II for his son the prince Enrique IV; a unique copy not recorded in other collections

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