Psalterium. Edited by Bruno (d.1045), Bishop of Würzburg. [Nuremberg:] Anton Koberger, 1494.
Psalterium. Edited by Bruno (d.1045), Bishop of Würzburg. [Nuremberg:] Anton Koberger, 1494.

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Psalterium. Edited by Bruno (d.1045), Bishop of Würzburg. [Nuremberg:] Anton Koberger, 1494.

Median 4° (227 x 172mm). Gothic type, double column, text with commentary surround. Initial spaces with guide-letter, rubricated, yellow capital strokes. (Occasional faint dampstain, small stain at some extreme foremargins.) Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards (rebacked preserving parts of original backstrip, rubbed without clasps). Provenance: some contemporary annotations -- MS date table on rear flyleaves spanning 1502-1524 -- amateurly-drawn armorial at end -- Christian Closner, 1658 (title inscription) -- 18th-century library stamp: M.B.H., college library at ?Auxil. -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer, 2003, no. 35).

Second edition with the commentary of Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg. H *4012; BMC II, 439; BSB-Ink P-836; Bod-inc P-514; Goff P-1050.

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