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FACETUS -- Liber Faceti docens mores hominum: praecipue Iuvenum, in supplementum illorum, qui a Cathone erant omissi. Transl. Sebastian Brant. Latin and German text. [Basel:] Johann Bergmann de Olpe, [1496].
Chancery 4° (205 x 145mm.). Collation: a8 b-c4 (a1r title and printer's device C, a1v blank, a2r incipit: Cum nihil utilius humanae credo saluti ... Menschliches heyl, hat bessers nyt, c3v printer's device B, c4r Brant's poem Ad studiosae indolis pueros, incipit: Has cape digne puer normas virtutis amaenas, and colophon, c4v blank). 16 leaves. Roman types 1:109 (title and Latin text) and 3:77 (marginalia), gothic types 5:109 (German text) and 2:180 (title and headings). 30-31 lines. The title device is a very fine, detailed Accipies woodcut, the device at the end is an armorial shield supported by a lion. (Slight marginal worming, marginalia on a7 cropped.) Modern boards.
FIRST EDITION of Sebastian Brant's German rhyming translation of a popular medievel schoolbook, moral verse supplementing the Disticha Catonis, and of his exhortative poem to studious children. EXTREMELY RARE: only ten copies are recorded in libraries. H 6892; GW 9695; BMC III, 795 (IA. 37937); Goff F-40; Schr 3967; Schramm XXII, p. 47.
Chancery 4° (205 x 145mm.). Collation: a8 b-c4 (a1r title and printer's device C, a1v blank, a2r incipit: Cum nihil utilius humanae credo saluti ... Menschliches heyl, hat bessers nyt, c3v printer's device B, c4r Brant's poem Ad studiosae indolis pueros, incipit: Has cape digne puer normas virtutis amaenas, and colophon, c4v blank). 16 leaves. Roman types 1:109 (title and Latin text) and 3:77 (marginalia), gothic types 5:109 (German text) and 2:180 (title and headings). 30-31 lines. The title device is a very fine, detailed Accipies woodcut, the device at the end is an armorial shield supported by a lion. (Slight marginal worming, marginalia on a7 cropped.) Modern boards.
FIRST EDITION of Sebastian Brant's German rhyming translation of a popular medievel schoolbook, moral verse supplementing the Disticha Catonis, and of his exhortative poem to studious children. EXTREMELY RARE: only ten copies are recorded in libraries. H 6892; GW 9695; BMC III, 795 (IA. 37937); Goff F-40; Schr 3967; Schramm XXII, p. 47.