MARCUS VON LINDAU (1320/30-1392). Buch der zehn Geboten. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1483.

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MARCUS VON LINDAU (1320/30-1392). Buch der zehn Geboten. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1483.

Super-chancery 2° (314x206mm). Collation: [14 2-48 5-1068 11-126]. 82 leaves (the first blank), ff. 5-82 foliated I-LXXVIII. 47 lines. Type: 5:155G (headings), 7:92G (text), 90R (foliation). Incipit printed in red on fo.5, woodcut initials, capital strokes in red. (Minor worming mostly marginal, but affecting letters in last two leaves, minor dampstaining). Contemporary German wooden boards, blindtooled calf back, spine on 4 raised bands, brass catches (clasp lacking). Provenance: German ownership inscription mostly deleted 'Anthonii (?) der Jünger im 1514'.

FIRST EDITION. Marcus's theology was very much linked to that of the devotio moderna and close to other early German proponents of a mystical theology, such as Heinrich Suso and Johannes Tauler. H *4034; BMC V, 288 (IB. 20529); Goff M-261; Polain(B) 923; IDL 3098

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