![BIEL, Gabriel (1425-1495). Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae. Edited by Wendelin Steinbach and with additions by Heinrich Bebel. Tübingen: [Johann Otmar, for Friedrich Meynberger, between 20 February and 29 November 1499].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14299_0105_001(biel_gabriel_epitoma_expositionis_sacri_canonis_missae_edited_by_wende052338).jpg?w=1)
![BIEL, Gabriel (1425-1495). Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae. Edited by Wendelin Steinbach and with additions by Heinrich Bebel. Tübingen: [Johann Otmar, for Friedrich Meynberger, between 20 February and 29 November 1499].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14299_0105_000(biel_gabriel_epitoma_expositionis_sacri_canonis_missae_edited_by_wende052338).jpg?w=1)
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BIEL, Gabriel (1425-1495). Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae. Edited by Wendelin Steinbach and with additions by Heinrich Bebel. Tübingen: [Johann Otmar, for Friedrich Meynberger, between 20 February and 29 November 1499].
First edition, in a Wittenberg binding by Georg Hegel, of an abridgement of Biel’s Sacri canonis missae expositio. Haebler read the name on the binding roll as 'bablus' and Kyriss named the shop 'Bablus-Rolle I'; subsequent research identifies the shop as that of Hegel (cf. EBDB w000416). Johann Otmar had published the original version at Reutlingen, 15 November 1488. The woodcut T with a snake in his Epitoma was probably suggested by that preceding the Canon of the Mass in Kollicker’s Constance Missal, 1485. From 1498 to 1501, Otmar was printer for Tubingen University which Gabriel Biel had founded in co-operation with Count Erberhard of Wurtemberg, becoming its first professor of theology in 1484. HC(+Add) *3181; GW 4334; BMC III 702; BSB-Ink B-506; Goff B654.
Chancery quarto (212 x 146mm). Title printed in red, major initials in red and/or blue, capital strokes in red or blue, C1 recto and verso with woodcut T with a snake, coloured in red (light worming affecting text up to D3, K3 slightly soiled at bottom margin). Contemporary German quarter calf over wooden boards, both sides with blind roll of scrolling foliage, blossoms and a bird bordered by fillets incorporating 'basilus' (Weale R. 642), spine in compartments filled with multiple fillets, remains of fore-edge clasp (a few wormholes, spine restored at head, bands rubbed). Provenance: '6 l[ibrae] arg[ent] 13 Februa. 1529‘ (purchase note on front pastedown) – extensive annotations in a late 16th-/early 17th-century hand.
First edition, in a Wittenberg binding by Georg Hegel, of an abridgement of Biel’s Sacri canonis missae expositio. Haebler read the name on the binding roll as 'bablus' and Kyriss named the shop 'Bablus-Rolle I'; subsequent research identifies the shop as that of Hegel (cf. EBDB w000416). Johann Otmar had published the original version at Reutlingen, 15 November 1488. The woodcut T with a snake in his Epitoma was probably suggested by that preceding the Canon of the Mass in Kollicker’s Constance Missal, 1485. From 1498 to 1501, Otmar was printer for Tubingen University which Gabriel Biel had founded in co-operation with Count Erberhard of Wurtemberg, becoming its first professor of theology in 1484. HC(+Add) *3181; GW 4334; BMC III 702; BSB-Ink B-506; Goff B654.
Chancery quarto (212 x 146mm). Title printed in red, major initials in red and/or blue, capital strokes in red or blue, C1 recto and verso with woodcut T with a snake, coloured in red (light worming affecting text up to D3, K3 slightly soiled at bottom margin). Contemporary German quarter calf over wooden boards, both sides with blind roll of scrolling foliage, blossoms and a bird bordered by fillets incorporating 'basilus' (Weale R. 642), spine in compartments filled with multiple fillets, remains of fore-edge clasp (a few wormholes, spine restored at head, bands rubbed). Provenance: '6 l[ibrae] arg[ent] 13 Februa. 1529‘ (purchase note on front pastedown) – extensive annotations in a late 16th-/early 17th-century hand.
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