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CARTHUSIANS — Guigo de Castro, compiler. Statuta ordinis cartusiensis. Edited by Gregor Reisch. Basel: Johann Amerbach, Johann Froben and Johann Petri, 1510.
First edition, an attractive copy with contemporary hand-colouring, illuminated initials and painted borders.
6 parts in one volume, folio (315 x 211 mm). Five large woodcuts, four by Urs Graf and one by D.S., and 23 small woodcut illustrations, all coloured in a contemporary hand, the divisional titles of parts 2, 3, 4 and 5 each with an illuminated initial and painted foliate border in the lower margin, rubricated throughout with initials in red and some more elaborate pen-work initials in red and black inks (occasional dampstain in the top margin; some small marginal repairs; small marginal loss in g3; some leaves repaired in the inside margin [e.g. A1, B1, z8 and 2A1]). Five leaves of near-contemporary manuscript [papal bulls etc.] bound in at the end. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin, brass fore-edge catches, front pastedown a fragment from a 13th-century manuscript (worn, spine foot chipped, lacking clasps, rear pastedown removed but the board with traces of early manuscript). Provenance: a 16th-century reader (occasional marginalia).
Most of the finely hand-coloured large woodcuts are by Urs Graf (c. 1485-1528). The first consists of nine smaller cuts illustrating the foundation of the Carthusian order. Another is a genealogical tree with Bruno at the base, showing the descent of the order’s chief figures. The work was printed at the expense of the Carthusian monastery of St John the Baptist in Freiburg im Breisgau. The six parts are: I. Repertorium; II. Statuta; III. Statuta antiqua; IV. Statuta nova; V. Tertia compilatio statutorum; VI. Privilegia. Adams G-1559; VD 16, G-4071.
First edition, an attractive copy with contemporary hand-colouring, illuminated initials and painted borders.
6 parts in one volume, folio (315 x 211 mm). Five large woodcuts, four by Urs Graf and one by D.S., and 23 small woodcut illustrations, all coloured in a contemporary hand, the divisional titles of parts 2, 3, 4 and 5 each with an illuminated initial and painted foliate border in the lower margin, rubricated throughout with initials in red and some more elaborate pen-work initials in red and black inks (occasional dampstain in the top margin; some small marginal repairs; small marginal loss in g3; some leaves repaired in the inside margin [e.g. A1, B1, z8 and 2A1]). Five leaves of near-contemporary manuscript [papal bulls etc.] bound in at the end. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin, brass fore-edge catches, front pastedown a fragment from a 13th-century manuscript (worn, spine foot chipped, lacking clasps, rear pastedown removed but the board with traces of early manuscript). Provenance: a 16th-century reader (occasional marginalia).
Most of the finely hand-coloured large woodcuts are by Urs Graf (c. 1485-1528). The first consists of nine smaller cuts illustrating the foundation of the Carthusian order. Another is a genealogical tree with Bruno at the base, showing the descent of the order’s chief figures. The work was printed at the expense of the Carthusian monastery of St John the Baptist in Freiburg im Breisgau. The six parts are: I. Repertorium; II. Statuta; III. Statuta antiqua; IV. Statuta nova; V. Tertia compilatio statutorum; VI. Privilegia. Adams G-1559; VD 16, G-4071.
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