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MEDER, Johannes (d.1518). Quadragesimale de filio prodigo. Basel: Michael Furter, 1497.
Median 8° (153x104mm). Collation: a-z8 A-F8 (a1r title, a1v verses by Sebastian Brant on the sermons, a2r preface by the author dated 1494, a4v woodcut, a5r text, E8r explicit, device, E8v blank, F1r tabula, F8v-9 blank). 232 leaves. 34 lines and headline, Scripture in one column, table and sermons in double column. Type: 1:83G (Scripture), 3a:180G (title), 4:64G (sermons), 5:93G (headlines), some printed guide-letters. 18 woodcuts from 16 blocks, device (Weil 45), 3-4-line initials alternating in red and blue, red paragraph marks. (Small wormholes affecting a few letters, first leaf worn at hinge, very light browning in v, x, y and E.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blindstamped, 2 brass fore-edge catches (without clasps), contemporary paper label on front cover, apparently once chained with nails remaining in back cover, yellow edges, vellum MS. pastedowns (slight worming in spine).
SECOND EDITION. The Franciscan Meder was at Basel from 1495 to 1502 and was involved in bringing his work into print. His friend Sebastian Brant added verses to it in praise of the work, and the woodcuts were executed at Meder's request. Each sermon contains a parable which is then fully explicated in terms of Christian symbolism. The classical story of Pyramus and Thispe is told anonymously in sermon 34. This edition is a page-for-page reprint of the first, also printed by Furter in 1495. The woodcuts first appeared in the first edition, except the one on f6b (repeated on g6b), which is a reversed copy of the original. They are possibly the work of the Master of Haintz-Narr (Winkler, Narrenschiff, p.92). A VERY FINE COPY. HC 13629; BMC III, 785 (IA. 37800); Goff M-422; IGI 6320; Schreiber 4605; Schramm XXII, p.43; CIBN M-422
Median 8° (153x104mm). Collation: a-z8 A-F8 (a1r title, a1v verses by Sebastian Brant on the sermons, a2r preface by the author dated 1494, a4v woodcut, a5r text, E8r explicit, device, E8v blank, F1r tabula, F8v-9 blank). 232 leaves. 34 lines and headline, Scripture in one column, table and sermons in double column. Type: 1:83G (Scripture), 3a:180G (title), 4:64G (sermons), 5:93G (headlines), some printed guide-letters. 18 woodcuts from 16 blocks, device (Weil 45), 3-4-line initials alternating in red and blue, red paragraph marks. (Small wormholes affecting a few letters, first leaf worn at hinge, very light browning in v, x, y and E.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blindstamped, 2 brass fore-edge catches (without clasps), contemporary paper label on front cover, apparently once chained with nails remaining in back cover, yellow edges, vellum MS. pastedowns (slight worming in spine).
SECOND EDITION. The Franciscan Meder was at Basel from 1495 to 1502 and was involved in bringing his work into print. His friend Sebastian Brant added verses to it in praise of the work, and the woodcuts were executed at Meder's request. Each sermon contains a parable which is then fully explicated in terms of Christian symbolism. The classical story of Pyramus and Thispe is told anonymously in sermon 34. This edition is a page-for-page reprint of the first, also printed by Furter in 1495. The woodcuts first appeared in the first edition, except the one on f6b (repeated on g6b), which is a reversed copy of the original. They are possibly the work of the Master of Haintz-Narr (Winkler, Narrenschiff, p.92). A VERY FINE COPY. HC 13629; BMC III, 785 (IA. 37800); Goff M-422; IGI 6320; Schreiber 4605; Schramm XXII, p.43; CIBN M-422