Department of Printed Books: Acquisitions from the ... - British Library

early type specimens and related material, and various other libraries have profited by Mr.
Ehrman's generosity.
The rest of the Broxbourne Library, so named after the little town of Broxbourne in
Hertfordshire where the Ehrmans lived when they started to collect books, was sold at
Sotheby's in two sales on 14, 15 November 1977 and 8, 9 May 1978. Several important
purchases were made by the British Library.
In what follows. Miss Jean Archibald, Dr. Lotte Hellinga, Mr. D. L. Paisey, Dr. D. E.
Rhodes, and Miss A. E. C. Simoni have described the books from the Broxbourne Gift
(marked with an asterisk) as well as the most notable purchases made before and at the two
sales.
INCUNABULA
The incunabula are arranged in ^.'VfC-order. The copies are identified by the number in Albert
Ehrman's own record of his collection. These consist of a figure preceded by AE.R. The figures
correspond to the ledger kept by the collector showing date and source of acquisition. This ledger is
now in the Bodleian Library.
GERMANY, POLAND, and
cerning elementary instruction in Latin, were
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
considered as one until they were recently
dissected. It was then established that the
REGULE CONGRUITATUM, constructiones et
volume was made up of copies of three distinct
regimina cum locali ordinatione constructibilium.
Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1493.
editions, two of which were unrecorded.
4°: 12 leaves, [ab^.]
AE.R.375. IA.7700.
Bound before IA.7699 and IA.7700.
Hain 13833.
AE.R.375. IA.7698.
DoNATUS MINOR. Nuremberg: Friedrich
Creussner, 1493. 4*^: 16 leaves, [ab^.] Leaves i,
8 wanting.
Unrecorded edition similar to Cesamtkatalog
8911. Bound between IA.7698 and IA.7700.
AE-R-375- IA.7699.
REGULA DOMINUS quae pars. Nuremberg:
Friedrich Creussner, [c. 1493.] 4°: 4 leaves, [a**.]
Bound after IA.7698 and IA.7699.
These three Nuremberg books, all con-
NEGLIGENTIE et defectus in missa contingentes.
Erfurt: [Printer of Hundorn, i.e.
Heulericus and Marx Ayrer], 1494. 4":
4 leaves, [a"".]
The subject matter of this little treatise destined
for officiants at Mass is graphically depicted in
the title-woodcut.
AE.R.1806. IA.12636.
VoCABULARius optimus Gemma vocabulorum
dictus. Magdeburg: Mauritius Brandis,
21 August 1497. 4"^: 240 leaves, the last blank.
a-z 7 A-Q^.
Moritz Brandis was quick off the mark to
reprint an edition of the Cemma vocabulorum in