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PETRUS COMESTOR (d. ca 1179). Historia scholastica. Strassburg: [Georg Husner], 15 July 1500.
2o (281 x 202 mm). 208 leaves. 51 lines and headline, double-column. Gothic types 5:156 leaded to 190 (title and headlines), 6:80 (text). Initials supplied alternately in red and blue. (First leaf with a few old repairs on verso, lower corner of K4 torn away with some loss of text, few small marginal repairs.) Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards by Leipzig Buchführer K 102/103, covers panelled with rosette and grape roll (Schwenke-Sammlung Ranke 181) around a central panel with Rautengerank compartments filled with floral tools (Schwenke-Sammlung Blattwerk 464), title stamped at head of front cover, small paper cover label, brass catches and clasps, manuscript on vellum end tabs (few small holes on lower cover). Provenance: Northeym, Monastery (inscription on a1) -- Hildesheim, Monastery (inscription on a2).
A fine edition of this popular medieval school text, in a contemporary Leipzig binding. No other copies of this edition appear in American Book Prices Current for at least the last quarter century. BMC I 163; BSB-Ink P-307; CIBN P-228; H *5538; IGI 7628; IDL 3598; IBP 4322; Pr 749; Goff P-466.
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A fine edition of this popular medieval school text, in a contemporary Leipzig binding. No other copies of this edition appear in American Book Prices Current for at least the last quarter century. BMC I 163; BSB-Ink P-307; CIBN P-228; H *5538; IGI 7628; IDL 3598; IBP 4322; Pr 749; Goff P-466.