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BRANT, Sebastian (1457-1521). Varia carmina. With additions by Johann Bergmann de Olpe (d. 1532). Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 May-1 September 1498.
Median 4° (210 x 140mm). Collation: A-D8 E-H4.8 I-K4 a8 bc4 d-h8 i4 k-l8 m4 n4 [o]4 (A1r title with 3 woodcuts, A1v address by Bergmann to Wymmar von Erckelenz, A2v text, m1r Brant's prose De anticipatione horologii Basiliensium and verse De diluvio aquarum, n1r Turcorum terror et potentia, and address to the reader, o1r colophon and printer's device, o1v register to quires A-K, o3r register to quires a-m, o4v blank). 148 leaves. 30 lines, printed shoulder notes. Types: 1:109R (title and Latin text), 3:77R (marginalia), 4:220G (title and headings), 5:109G (German text). 7 woodcuts from 6 blocks, of which one is full-page depicting Emperor Maximilian before Jerusalem, woodcut printer's device, woodcut Lombard initials. (Fore-edge darkened on first and last leaf, some small wormholes, marginal paper flaw in one leaf.) 19th-century binding preserving contemporary German blindtooled calf sides over probably original bevelled wooden boards, red sprinkled edges. Provenance: early ?English cypher on title, and price “xii d”, ms. pagination in first quires.
THIRD, MOST COMPLETE, ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, with two additional quires containing supplementary verses by Brant. The latter addition contains Brant's poem on the Turkish threat, illustrated by a woodcut of a Turk on horseback pursued by Christians, which apparently also circulated independently. Brant’s other subjects include poems in praise of Petrarch and the invention of printing, and on the 10th-century German poetess, Roswitha. Grüninger published a pirated edition of the Varia carmina on 1 August 1498, in response to which Brant replaced an exhortation at the end with a verse appeal to the reader to buy only the Bergmann edition, corrected by himself. HC 3731*; GW 5068; BMC III, 796 (IA. 37949-50); BSB-Ink B-808; CIBN B-757; Schreiber 3543 and 3580; Goff B-1099.
Median 4° (210 x 140mm). Collation: A-D8 E-H4.8 I-K4 a8 bc4 d-h8 i4 k-l8 m4 n4 [o]4 (A1r title with 3 woodcuts, A1v address by Bergmann to Wymmar von Erckelenz, A2v text, m1r Brant's prose De anticipatione horologii Basiliensium and verse De diluvio aquarum, n1r Turcorum terror et potentia, and address to the reader, o1r colophon and printer's device, o1v register to quires A-K, o3r register to quires a-m, o4v blank). 148 leaves. 30 lines, printed shoulder notes. Types: 1:109R (title and Latin text), 3:77R (marginalia), 4:220G (title and headings), 5:109G (German text). 7 woodcuts from 6 blocks, of which one is full-page depicting Emperor Maximilian before Jerusalem, woodcut printer's device, woodcut Lombard initials. (Fore-edge darkened on first and last leaf, some small wormholes, marginal paper flaw in one leaf.) 19th-century binding preserving contemporary German blindtooled calf sides over probably original bevelled wooden boards, red sprinkled edges. Provenance: early ?English cypher on title, and price “xii d”, ms. pagination in first quires.
THIRD, MOST COMPLETE, ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, with two additional quires containing supplementary verses by Brant. The latter addition contains Brant's poem on the Turkish threat, illustrated by a woodcut of a Turk on horseback pursued by Christians, which apparently also circulated independently. Brant’s other subjects include poems in praise of Petrarch and the invention of printing, and on the 10th-century German poetess, Roswitha. Grüninger published a pirated edition of the Varia carmina on 1 August 1498, in response to which Brant replaced an exhortation at the end with a verse appeal to the reader to buy only the Bergmann edition, corrected by himself. HC 3731*; GW 5068; BMC III, 796 (IA. 37949-50); BSB-Ink B-808; CIBN B-757; Schreiber 3543 and 3580; Goff B-1099.
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