![HENRICUS ARIMINENSIS (fl. early 14th century). De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus, edited by Thomas Dorniberg (fl. c. 1472). Speyer: [Printer of the 'Gesta Christi', after 11 November 1472-not after 1473].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2004/CSK/2004_CSK_05509_0091_000(091245).jpg?w=1)
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HENRICUS ARIMINENSIS (fl. early 14th century). De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus, edited by Thomas Dorniberg (fl. c. 1472). Speyer: [Printer of the 'Gesta Christi', after 11 November 1472-not after 1473].
Chancery 2° (288 x 201mm). Roman type, initials in red and green, rubricated, manuscript headlines in brown ink, two pinholes per page often visible. (Lacking last page of text, a few sheets browned, puncture in quire 18 affecting some letters but without loss.) Contemporary blindtooled pigskin over unbevelled boards, brand of a five-petal flower on bookblock, early paper title labels on front cover and spine, two clasps, three early endleaves preserved, quire guards from a ?14th-century liturgical manuscript on vellum with German neumes, yellow edges (endpapers renewed, slight wear at head of spine). Provenance: Georg Kloss (1787-1854, booklabel) -- Cary W. Bok (1905-1970, signature dated March 1928) -- [Swann Galleries, 4 May 1978, lot 128, to Lathrop Harper] -- Helmut N. Friedlaender (sale Christie's New York, 23 April 2001, lot 55).
FRESH COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of these sermons on the four cardinal virtues addressed to the citizens of Venice by the Prior of the Dominican convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo there. It is one of only a handful of books printed by this short-lived anonymous press, the second at Speyer. Hain and Goff gave precedence to an undated edition printed at Strassburg c. 1473-1474 (Goff H-19), but that edition is a page-for-page reprint of the present Speyer edition (cf. GW 12193). Oates describes a variant setting of the table; the present copy agrees with Polain, but this copy has the table bound in at the end. HC *1650; BSB-Ink H-48; Oates 1106; Polain(B) 1854; Goff H-20.
Chancery 2° (288 x 201mm). Roman type, initials in red and green, rubricated, manuscript headlines in brown ink, two pinholes per page often visible. (Lacking last page of text, a few sheets browned, puncture in quire 18 affecting some letters but without loss.) Contemporary blindtooled pigskin over unbevelled boards, brand of a five-petal flower on bookblock, early paper title labels on front cover and spine, two clasps, three early endleaves preserved, quire guards from a ?14th-century liturgical manuscript on vellum with German neumes, yellow edges (endpapers renewed, slight wear at head of spine). Provenance: Georg Kloss (1787-1854, booklabel) -- Cary W. Bok (1905-1970, signature dated March 1928) -- [Swann Galleries, 4 May 1978, lot 128, to Lathrop Harper] -- Helmut N. Friedlaender (sale Christie's New York, 23 April 2001, lot 55).
FRESH COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of these sermons on the four cardinal virtues addressed to the citizens of Venice by the Prior of the Dominican convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo there. It is one of only a handful of books printed by this short-lived anonymous press, the second at Speyer. Hain and Goff gave precedence to an undated edition printed at Strassburg c. 1473-1474 (Goff H-19), but that edition is a page-for-page reprint of the present Speyer edition (cf. GW 12193). Oates describes a variant setting of the table; the present copy agrees with Polain, but this copy has the table bound in at the end. HC *1650; BSB-Ink H-48; Oates 1106; Polain(B) 1854; Goff H-20.
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