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CONRADUS DE ALEMANIA. Concordantiae bibliorum. [Reutlingen: Michel Greyff, not after 1481].
Royal 2° (408x280mm). Collation: [1-310 48 510 66 7-88 910 108 1110 12-178 18-2010 21-248 2510 26-288 2910 30-338 3410 35-378 38-3910 40-418 4210 43-448 45-4610 478 488(2+1, 6+1)] (1/1 blank, 1/2r text A-H, 18/1 blank, 18/2r I-M, 27/1r N-R, 38/1r S-Z, 48/9v-10 blank). 415 (of 418, without blank 18/1 and lacking 24/2.7) leaves, the final blank leaf is present but attached as rear pastedown. 66 lines, 3 columns. Type: (Otmar P1):87aG, some printed guide-letters. 4- and 9-line initial on 1/2r in red with penwork decoration, other initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, early ms. quiring visible in some leaves. (Slight worming in first 5 leaves and final few quires affecting a few letters.) Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards blindstamped, two brass fore-edge clasps, pastedowns of a printed bifolium in German, (extremities of head of spine slightly worn); an Ulm binding, possibly by Conrad Dinckmut (see Amelung, Frühdruck p.191), Kyriss shop 126, stamps 1, 2 and 3, and Schwenke-Sammlung stamps Lamm 6, Lilie 188. Provenance: Buxheim, Carthusians, inscription and stamp; Paul Schmidt, bookplate.
SECOND EDITION. This is one of three biblical concordances to arise in the 13th century, marking that century as an intense period of productivity in producing reference works to the Scriptures. It is commonly ascribed to Conradus de Halberstadt (fl.1321-27), and it was the version most widely used in the Middle Ages, surviving today in the modern Latin concordance. R.H. and M.H. Rouse have questioned the ascription to Conrad of Halberstadt, which appears to stem from an interpolation by Tritheim in compiling his De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis. Whereas incunable editions, as here, name a "Conradus de Alemania", Tritheim changed it to Conradus de Halberstadt. None of the surviving manuscripts names an author, and the text was probably in existence by 1286, thus pre-dating that Conrad. (See the Rouses' "The verbal concordance to the Scriptures", Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 44, 1974, pp.5-30.) This edition is virtually a line-by-line reprint of the first, which was printed at Strassburg by Mentelin about 1474. The bifolium 24/2.7 must have been missing from an early date, since the manuscript quiring does not note a gap. HC(Add) *5630; GW 7419; BMC II, 577 (IC. 10666); Goff C-850; Pellechet 3932; IDL 1376; IGI 3167; BSB C-498
Royal 2° (408x280mm). Collation: [1-310 48 510 66 7-88 910 108 1110 12-178 18-2010 21-248 2510 26-288 2910 30-338 3410 35-378 38-3910 40-418 4210 43-448 45-4610 478 488(2+1, 6+1)] (1/1 blank, 1/2r text A-H, 18/1 blank, 18/2r I-M, 27/1r N-R, 38/1r S-Z, 48/9v-10 blank). 415 (of 418, without blank 18/1 and lacking 24/2.7) leaves, the final blank leaf is present but attached as rear pastedown. 66 lines, 3 columns. Type: (Otmar P1):87aG, some printed guide-letters. 4- and 9-line initial on 1/2r in red with penwork decoration, other initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, early ms. quiring visible in some leaves. (Slight worming in first 5 leaves and final few quires affecting a few letters.) Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards blindstamped, two brass fore-edge clasps, pastedowns of a printed bifolium in German, (extremities of head of spine slightly worn); an Ulm binding, possibly by Conrad Dinckmut (see Amelung, Frühdruck p.191), Kyriss shop 126, stamps 1, 2 and 3, and Schwenke-Sammlung stamps Lamm 6, Lilie 188. Provenance: Buxheim, Carthusians, inscription and stamp; Paul Schmidt, bookplate.
SECOND EDITION. This is one of three biblical concordances to arise in the 13th century, marking that century as an intense period of productivity in producing reference works to the Scriptures. It is commonly ascribed to Conradus de Halberstadt (fl.1321-27), and it was the version most widely used in the Middle Ages, surviving today in the modern Latin concordance. R.H. and M.H. Rouse have questioned the ascription to Conrad of Halberstadt, which appears to stem from an interpolation by Tritheim in compiling his De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis. Whereas incunable editions, as here, name a "Conradus de Alemania", Tritheim changed it to Conradus de Halberstadt. None of the surviving manuscripts names an author, and the text was probably in existence by 1286, thus pre-dating that Conrad. (See the Rouses' "The verbal concordance to the Scriptures", Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 44, 1974, pp.5-30.) This edition is virtually a line-by-line reprint of the first, which was printed at Strassburg by Mentelin about 1474. The bifolium 24/2.7 must have been missing from an early date, since the manuscript quiring does not note a gap. HC(Add) *5630; GW 7419; BMC II, 577 (IC. 10666); Goff C-850; Pellechet 3932; IDL 1376; IGI 3167; BSB C-498