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MARCHESINUS, Johannes (b. c.1300). Mammotrectus super Bibliam. [Strasbourg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis type 1 (Heinrich Eggestein), c. 1474].
Third edition of a guide to understanding the text of the Bible, explaining difficult words, festivals, and legends of saints. Goff M-234.
Median folio (380 x 295mm). With last blank leaf and without the first two blank leaves as usual, red initials, rubricated (small wormholes touching some letters in first 5 leaves). Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, evidence of fore-edge clasps and of chain-staple in rear board with resulting small marginal holes in last 4 leaves, fragments of a German 12th-century New Testament manuscript on vellum at hinges and as quire guards (somewhat worn, rebacked).
The Mammotrectus was a popular reference work for preachers in the later Middle Ages. It explained difficult words, both etymologically and grammatically, and provided explanations of the festivals of the Church year, the legends of the saints, and various liturgical texts. It also contains two tracts on orthography and accents. The printer of this anonymous press has been posited as Georg Reyser but the 3 types associated with it have independent histories and books printed with Ariminensis Type 1 are now associated with Heinrich Eggestein. The edition is printed on Galliziani Seal paper and therefore dates to not after 1474 (see Nakles sale, Christie's New York, 17 April 2000 lot 10 and Donaueschingen sale, Sotheby's London, 1 July 1994, lot 205). BMC collated the first quire as in 2 leaves but in fact the quire consisted of 4 leaves, the first two blank and rarely found. HC *10552; BMC I 78; CIBN M-119; BSB-Ink M-155; Goff M-234.
Third edition of a guide to understanding the text of the Bible, explaining difficult words, festivals, and legends of saints. Goff M-234.
Median folio (380 x 295mm). With last blank leaf and without the first two blank leaves as usual, red initials, rubricated (small wormholes touching some letters in first 5 leaves). Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, evidence of fore-edge clasps and of chain-staple in rear board with resulting small marginal holes in last 4 leaves, fragments of a German 12th-century New Testament manuscript on vellum at hinges and as quire guards (somewhat worn, rebacked).
The Mammotrectus was a popular reference work for preachers in the later Middle Ages. It explained difficult words, both etymologically and grammatically, and provided explanations of the festivals of the Church year, the legends of the saints, and various liturgical texts. It also contains two tracts on orthography and accents. The printer of this anonymous press has been posited as Georg Reyser but the 3 types associated with it have independent histories and books printed with Ariminensis Type 1 are now associated with Heinrich Eggestein. The edition is printed on Galliziani Seal paper and therefore dates to not after 1474 (see Nakles sale, Christie's New York, 17 April 2000 lot 10 and Donaueschingen sale, Sotheby's London, 1 July 1994, lot 205). BMC collated the first quire as in 2 leaves but in fact the quire consisted of 4 leaves, the first two blank and rarely found. HC *10552; BMC I 78; CIBN M-119; BSB-Ink M-155; Goff M-234.
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