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The Italian Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association has published a list of books stolen from the Library of the Abbey of Montecassino. The library’s director, Dott. Francesco Rosa, has kindly given permission to inform all ILAB booksellers about this recent theft in detail. The monastery was founded by Benedict of Nursia in 529. There he wrote the Benedictine Rule which became the founding principle for Western monasticism.The list of stolen books comprises incunables and early printed books, many of them printed by Aldus Manutius in Venice, for example the works of Aristotle (1495) and Gaza’s “Introductionae grammatices libri quatuor” (1495), as well as Copernicus outstanding work "De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium" (1566), Aliaco’s “Concordantia astronomiae”, printed in Augsburg (Germany) in 1490, and Hartmann Schedel’s “Liber chronicarum” (Nuremberg 1493), from which woodcuts were stolen.If you have any information about the books, please contact ALAI President Fabrizio Govi.INCUNABLESAliaco, Petrus de Concordantia astronomiae cum theologia... Augustae vindelicorum, Herardus Ratdolt, 1490Aristoteles Opera Venetiis, per Aldi Manucii, 1495Gaza, Theodorus Introductionae grammatices libri quator Eiusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequam pulcrtum Apollonii grammatici de constructione libri quator Herodianus de numeris Venetiis, Aldus Manutius, 1495Lucretius Titus Carus De Rerum Natura. Studio Hieronymi Avancii Venetiis, apud Aldum, 1500Regimontanus, Johannes Astronomicon epitoma Venetiis, M. Romanurum, 1496Regimontanus, Johannes Kalendarium magistri Joannis de Monteregio Augustae Vindelicorum, E. Ratdolt, 148916th CENTURYPlatone Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera (Venetiis, in aedib. Aldi, et Andreae soceri , mense Septembri 1513)Alberti, Leon Battista Leonis Baptistae Alberti, viri doctissimi, de equo animante: ad Leonellum Ferrariensem principem libellus: Michaelis Martini Stellae cura ac studio inuentus, &#38; nunc demum per eundem in lucem editus Basilea , 1556Copernico, Niccolò Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri 6 Basileae, ex officina Henricpetrina, (1566 mense Septembri)Finè Oronce Quadratura circuli, tandem inventa et clarissime demonstarata Lutetiae Parisiorum, apud S. Coliseum, 1544.Finè Oronce Aritmetica pratica, libris quator absolluta, omnibus qui mathematicas ipsas tractare volunt, perutilias, admodunque necessaria... Parisiis, ex off. S. Colineai, 1542.17th CENTURYFontana, Francesco Novae coelestium terrestriumque rerum observationes et fotasse hactenus non vulgatae a F. Fontana Neapoli, apud Gassarum, 1646Galilei, Galileo Dialogo di G. Galilei dove si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico e copernicano. Fiorenza, per Gio. Battista Landini, 1632Galilei, Galileo Le Operazioni del compasso geometrico, et militare. Di Galileo Galilei nobil fiorentino lettor delle matematiche nello studio di Padoua. Dedicato al sereniss. principe di Toscana d. Cosimo Medici In Padova, in casa dell'autore, per Pietro Marinelli, 1606WOODCUTS TAKEN FROM THE FOLLOWING INCUNABLESchedel, Hartmann Liber chronicarum Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493 Carte (leaves) XII - XIII http://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation/989-recent_book_thefts_in_the_library_of_the_abbey_of_montecassino.html&#160;Thanks to Falk Eisermann. (http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/233326553/)