Welcome to a new feature from Middle Temple Library: Rare Book of the Month. Each month we will profile a book from our rare books collection, describing its content, history and provenance. All images can be reused under the Creative Commons licence.

2016:

• February: Giovanni Battista Rossi’s Organo de cantori per intendere da se stesso ogni passo difficile che si trova nella musica, et anco per imparare contrapunto, 1618
• March: Leo Africanus De totius Africae description, libri IX, 1526
• April: Knightley D’Anvers, A general abridgment of the common and most useful parts of the statute law, 1705
• May: Gabriel Powel’s De adiaphoris theses theologicæ ac scholasticæ, 1606, and a manuscript leaf from the Tables of Toulouse, dated to the 15th century.
• June: Florián de Ocampo, Los çinco libros primeros dela cronica general de España
• July: Claude Clement’s Musei, siue bibliothecae tam privatae, quàm publicae extructio, instructio, cura, usus, 1635
• August: Joachim of Fiore and Anselmus, Bishop of Marsico, Vaticinia, siue prophetiæ Abbatis Joachimi, & Anselmi episcopi Marsicani, 1589
• September: Bibliotheca illustris Medii Templi Societatis, 1700
• October: Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata, 1610
• November: Don Iñigo Lopez de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Los Proverbios, 1532
• December: Liber assisarum, 1580

2017:

• January: Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England … the fourth edition, 1715
• February: Bukvar' iazyka slavenska, 1618
• March: John Ogilby, Africa, 1670
• April: Costanzo Varoli, Anatomiae, sive de resolution corporis humani ad Caesarem Mediovillanum libri IIII, 1591
• May: Baccio Baldini, Discorso dell'essenza del fato, e delle forze sue sopra le cose del mondo, e particolarmente sopra l'operazioni de gl'huomini, 1578
• June: Lady Eleanor Douglas, Warning to the dragon and all his angels, 1625
• July: Onofrio Panvinio, De primatu Petri et Apostolicae Sedis potestate libri tres … contra Centuriarum auctores, 1591

In August 2017 we decided to move our rare book of the month feature to the Library’s blog, in order to upload more photos and allow comments to be made.

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