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MOLITORIS, Johannes (d.1491). Tabula. [Speyer: Peter Drach, 1487-1488].
Hilbrand Brandenburg's copy of Molitoris’s substantive index to Antonius Florentinus’s Summa theologica, with Brandenburg's bookplate, one of the earliest printed bookplates. A student and rector at the university of Basel and a canon of Stuttgart, Brandenburg entered Buxheim as a 'donatus' priest in his old age in 1506, after having made gifts to the monastery for almost 40 years. Of especial interest, given the Memmingen binding on the present volume, is Victor Scholderer's observation that some of the bookplates (not apparently here) are printed on the reverse of printer's waste from the Memmingen printing shop of Albrecht Kunne (cf. Victor Scholderer, 'Hilprand Brandenburg and his books', The Library, 5th ser., 4, 1949, pp.196-201). Molitoris's index was often printed separately or, even when printed as part of a set of the Summa theologica (as here) it circulated independently. HC *1247; GW 2190; BMC II, 495; BSB-Ink A-599; Goff A-876.
Chancery folio (300 x 210mm). Without A4. Rubricated with pearled initials and capital strokes (some waterstaining and worming touching a little text, marginal rustholes in first 3 leaves). Contemporary Memmingen blindstamped pigskin [Kyriss 109], initials 'A.T.' in manuscript on upper cover, with brass clasps with ‘maria hilf’ (rubbed, tiny wormholes). Provenance: Hilbrand Brandenburg of Biberach (1442-1514; hand-coloured woodcut bookplate) -- Buxheim, Carthusians (inscription on flyleaf, stamp, sheflmark C 131 on spine label) -- another label removed.
Hilbrand Brandenburg's copy of Molitoris’s substantive index to Antonius Florentinus’s Summa theologica, with Brandenburg's bookplate, one of the earliest printed bookplates. A student and rector at the university of Basel and a canon of Stuttgart, Brandenburg entered Buxheim as a 'donatus' priest in his old age in 1506, after having made gifts to the monastery for almost 40 years. Of especial interest, given the Memmingen binding on the present volume, is Victor Scholderer's observation that some of the bookplates (not apparently here) are printed on the reverse of printer's waste from the Memmingen printing shop of Albrecht Kunne (cf. Victor Scholderer, 'Hilprand Brandenburg and his books', The Library, 5th ser., 4, 1949, pp.196-201). Molitoris's index was often printed separately or, even when printed as part of a set of the Summa theologica (as here) it circulated independently. HC *1247; GW 2190; BMC II, 495; BSB-Ink A-599; Goff A-876.
Chancery folio (300 x 210mm). Without A4. Rubricated with pearled initials and capital strokes (some waterstaining and worming touching a little text, marginal rustholes in first 3 leaves). Contemporary Memmingen blindstamped pigskin [Kyriss 109], initials 'A.T.' in manuscript on upper cover, with brass clasps with ‘maria hilf’ (rubbed, tiny wormholes). Provenance: Hilbrand Brandenburg of Biberach (1442-1514; hand-coloured woodcut bookplate) -- Buxheim, Carthusians (inscription on flyleaf, stamp, sheflmark C 131 on spine label) -- another label removed.
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