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JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (ca.1230-ca.1298). Passionael, of die Gulden Legende. Antwerp: Henrick Eckert, 22 March, 20 May 1505.
2 parts in one volume. 2° (263 x 190mm). 208; 214 leaves, with blank ff8. 41 lines, double column. Xylographic and letterpress title with large woodcut to part I, xylographic title with large woodcut within 4-part border to part II, and 201 woodcuts, comprising 84 (65 column-size, 11 quarter-page either within ¾ border or flanked by 2 architectural cuts, and 8 half-page) woodcuts in part I and 117 (100 column-size, 4 quarter-page with either border or flanking cuts, 13 half-page) woodcuts in part II. (Some staining, light soiling to last page, tiny wormholes in final several quires touching text, tear in ii1 repaired without loss, tear in b1v repaired with a few letters in pen-and-ink facsimile, outer 2 bifolia of first quire, MM1.6 and NN1-4 rehinged.) 2- to 7-line initials in red or blue. Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, tooled with foliate and heads-in-medallion rolls (rubbed, skilful repairs at extremities, new endpapers, fore-edge hinges renewed). Provenance: Sister Anna, abbess of the Convent of St. Agnes, Embrich (?) (contemporary inscription); Liber ... Clepp... pastoris Housdami 1602.
Eckert's second edition, with the influential woodcuts by the second Delft woodcutter. After their first appearance in a 1487 edition of the Passionael, printed at Delft by Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer (IDL 2588), they were used in later Delft editions, and in Eckert's Antwerp editions (Conway, Woodcutters of the Netherlands, p.117). Twenty-eight blocks of the original series were replaced in the 1489 edition, and, with two exceptions, they remained in the series used by Eckert. The title woodcut to part one is a direct copy from Leeu's 1487 Ludolphus (Goff L-353). The second title differs from that reproduced in the Fairfax Murray catalogue in having 2 narrow borders flanking the woodcut. ALL DUTCH EDITIONS ARE RARE ON THE MARKET. Davies Murray German, 436; Nijhoff-Kronenberg 1193; BLSTC Dutch p.115 (4826.f.1).
2 parts in one volume. 2° (263 x 190mm). 208; 214 leaves, with blank ff8. 41 lines, double column. Xylographic and letterpress title with large woodcut to part I, xylographic title with large woodcut within 4-part border to part II, and 201 woodcuts, comprising 84 (65 column-size, 11 quarter-page either within ¾ border or flanked by 2 architectural cuts, and 8 half-page) woodcuts in part I and 117 (100 column-size, 4 quarter-page with either border or flanking cuts, 13 half-page) woodcuts in part II. (Some staining, light soiling to last page, tiny wormholes in final several quires touching text, tear in ii1 repaired without loss, tear in b1v repaired with a few letters in pen-and-ink facsimile, outer 2 bifolia of first quire, MM1.6 and NN1-4 rehinged.) 2- to 7-line initials in red or blue. Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, tooled with foliate and heads-in-medallion rolls (rubbed, skilful repairs at extremities, new endpapers, fore-edge hinges renewed). Provenance: Sister Anna, abbess of the Convent of St. Agnes, Embrich (?) (contemporary inscription); Liber ... Clepp... pastoris Housdami 1602.
Eckert's second edition, with the influential woodcuts by the second Delft woodcutter. After their first appearance in a 1487 edition of the Passionael, printed at Delft by Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer (IDL 2588), they were used in later Delft editions, and in Eckert's Antwerp editions (Conway, Woodcutters of the Netherlands, p.117). Twenty-eight blocks of the original series were replaced in the 1489 edition, and, with two exceptions, they remained in the series used by Eckert. The title woodcut to part one is a direct copy from Leeu's 1487 Ludolphus (Goff L-353). The second title differs from that reproduced in the Fairfax Murray catalogue in having 2 narrow borders flanking the woodcut. ALL DUTCH EDITIONS ARE RARE ON THE MARKET. Davies Murray German, 436; Nijhoff-Kronenberg 1193; BLSTC Dutch p.115 (4826.f.1).