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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). Quinquaginta. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, ca. 1 February 1475.
Chancery 2° (250x178mm). Collation: [110 210(9+1) 310 412 5-610 76 810 912(11+1)] (1/1r tabula, 2/1r text, chaps. 1-12, 3/1r chaps. 13-25, 5/1r chaps. 26-40, 8/1r chaps. 41-50, 9/13v colophon). 92 leaves. 38 lines. Type: 1:103G, printed guide-letters. 3- to 8-line initials and capital strokes in red. (Most hinges reinforced, small tears in gutter of first leaf repaired, very light, occasional foxing, some offsetting of rubrication.) Modern binding of printed leaf over pastepaper board. Provenance: [Poor Clares or Franciscans of Brixen] by gift of Johann Obersdorffer (Liber iste ex legatio[n]e uenit d[omi]ni Joh[ann]is obersdorffer), marginal annotations in apparently same hand as inscription.
FIRST EDITION and the FIRST BOOK PRINTED BY SORG. Sorg had undoubtedly been the last master of the printing shop at the Augsburg Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra (see lots ); the second type used there became Sorg's type 1. Printing ceased at the monastery on the death of its abbot, Melchior von Stamhaim, on 30 January 1474, and Sorg set up on his own account, producing the Quinquaginta exactly one year later. This volume formed part of Obersdorffer's gifts to either the Poor Clares of Runcada or their spiritual brothers the Franciscans of Brixen. See lot for another book given by Obersdorffer and lot for another gift to the Poor Clares. H *1987; GW 2916; BMC II, 341 (IB. 5783); Goff A-1298; Pellechet-Polain 1498; IDL 528; IGI 1025; BSB A-901
Chancery 2° (250x178mm). Collation: [110 210(9+1) 310 412 5-610 76 810 912(11+1)] (1/1r tabula, 2/1r text, chaps. 1-12, 3/1r chaps. 13-25, 5/1r chaps. 26-40, 8/1r chaps. 41-50, 9/13v colophon). 92 leaves. 38 lines. Type: 1:103G, printed guide-letters. 3- to 8-line initials and capital strokes in red. (Most hinges reinforced, small tears in gutter of first leaf repaired, very light, occasional foxing, some offsetting of rubrication.) Modern binding of printed leaf over pastepaper board. Provenance: [Poor Clares or Franciscans of Brixen] by gift of Johann Obersdorffer (Liber iste ex legatio[n]e uenit d[omi]ni Joh[ann]is obersdorffer), marginal annotations in apparently same hand as inscription.
FIRST EDITION and the FIRST BOOK PRINTED BY SORG. Sorg had undoubtedly been the last master of the printing shop at the Augsburg Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra (see lots ); the second type used there became Sorg's type 1. Printing ceased at the monastery on the death of its abbot, Melchior von Stamhaim, on 30 January 1474, and Sorg set up on his own account, producing the Quinquaginta exactly one year later. This volume formed part of Obersdorffer's gifts to either the Poor Clares of Runcada or their spiritual brothers the Franciscans of Brixen. See lot for another book given by Obersdorffer and lot for another gift to the Poor Clares. H *1987; GW 2916; BMC II, 341 (IB. 5783); Goff A-1298; Pellechet-Polain 1498; IDL 528; IGI 1025; BSB A-901