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BALBUS, Johannes (d.1298). Catholicon. [Strassburg: The R-printer type 2 (Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch), ca. 1475].
Imperial 2° (476x333mm). Collation: [1-310 48 510 6-76 88 9-2110 226 23-2810 298 30-3110 328 336 34-3810 39-408] (1/1 blank, 1/2r summary preface, text, 40/8 blank). 369 (of 372, without first and final blanks, fo. 1/2 supplied in facsimile with painted initials) leaves. 67 lines, double column. Type: 2:100G, some printed guide-letters. 1- to 8-line initials supplied in red, paragraph marks in red. (Some light marginal foxing in a few leaves, some browning in quire 21, light dampstain in extreme upper margin, marginal extremities of 1/3 worn with marginal tears repaired.) Contemporary calf over bevelled wooden boards, blindstamped, two brass catches (without clasps), paper spine labels, title written on lower and fore-edge (worn at extremities, spine repaired), bound at Augsburg, Kyriss shop 92, stamps 1-3, 5, 7. Provenance: Bolzano, Franciscan convent, 17th-century inscription.
Fourth edition, the second printed by the R-printer and one of the earliest uses of that press's second type. The masters of this press may be established, since a letter of 1478 names Johann Mentelin, the first printer at Strassburg, and his son-in-law Adolf Rusch as the printers of another book in this type, Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum doctrinale. A LARGE COPY, BOUND AT WHAT KYRISS STATES TO BE ONE OF THE OLDEST AUGSBURG BINDERIES. HC *2251; GW 3185; BMC I, 65 (IC. 660-661); Goff B-23; Pellechet 1699; BSB B-11.
Imperial 2° (476x333mm). Collation: [1-310 48 510 6-76 88 9-2110 226 23-2810 298 30-3110 328 336 34-3810 39-408] (1/1 blank, 1/2r summary preface, text, 40/8 blank). 369 (of 372, without first and final blanks, fo. 1/2 supplied in facsimile with painted initials) leaves. 67 lines, double column. Type: 2:100G, some printed guide-letters. 1- to 8-line initials supplied in red, paragraph marks in red. (Some light marginal foxing in a few leaves, some browning in quire 21, light dampstain in extreme upper margin, marginal extremities of 1/3 worn with marginal tears repaired.) Contemporary calf over bevelled wooden boards, blindstamped, two brass catches (without clasps), paper spine labels, title written on lower and fore-edge (worn at extremities, spine repaired), bound at Augsburg, Kyriss shop 92, stamps 1-3, 5, 7. Provenance: Bolzano, Franciscan convent, 17th-century inscription.
Fourth edition, the second printed by the R-printer and one of the earliest uses of that press's second type. The masters of this press may be established, since a letter of 1478 names Johann Mentelin, the first printer at Strassburg, and his son-in-law Adolf Rusch as the printers of another book in this type, Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum doctrinale. A LARGE COPY, BOUND AT WHAT KYRISS STATES TO BE ONE OF THE OLDEST AUGSBURG BINDERIES. HC *2251; GW 3185; BMC I, 65 (IC. 660-661); Goff B-23; Pellechet 1699; BSB B-11.