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JORDANUS DE QUEDLINBURG (1300-1370/80). Sermones Dan de sanctis. [Strasbourg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer?, not after 1479].
First edition. A copy in Munich BSB has a buyer's inscription dated 1479; P. Needham (Sotheby's NY, 17-18 June 1992, lot 24) dates the edition about 1476; and BMC and others date it to not after 1481. Proctor assigned the edition to the Printer of Henricus Ariminensis. Although printed in Knoblochtzer’s type 102, doubt is thrown on the ascription to him because the woodcut capitals, which are among the earliest used in Strasbourg, are unique to this book. Only three holdings recorded in the USA. HC *5919; BMC I 87; BSB-Ink I-611; CIBN J-305; Goff J-478.
Royal folio (393 x 293mm). With blank first leaf and f.188, 6- and 9-line woodcut Maiblumen and other initials filled in or highlighted in red and green, other initials rubricated in red or red and green, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. Second column of f.125v is also blank, the preceding column ending ‘Hic nullus est defectus’. (Worming affecting up to 3 lines on ff.188-220, last few leaves with scattered wormholes, initial on f.91r rubbed with partial loss of colouring, light marginal soiling particularly to final verso.) Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, a Northeim [Lower Saxony] binding [EBDB w000218], covers with cross-hatched compartments filled with multiple small stamps, metal cornerpieces and clasps, plain spine with raised bands (several wormholes, rubbed, front inner hinge slightly split, front pastedown renewed). Provenance: occasional contemporary marginalia — stamp removed from final verso.
First edition. A copy in Munich BSB has a buyer's inscription dated 1479; P. Needham (Sotheby's NY, 17-18 June 1992, lot 24) dates the edition about 1476; and BMC and others date it to not after 1481. Proctor assigned the edition to the Printer of Henricus Ariminensis. Although printed in Knoblochtzer’s type 102, doubt is thrown on the ascription to him because the woodcut capitals, which are among the earliest used in Strasbourg, are unique to this book. Only three holdings recorded in the USA. HC *5919; BMC I 87; BSB-Ink I-611; CIBN J-305; Goff J-478.
Royal folio (393 x 293mm). With blank first leaf and f.188, 6- and 9-line woodcut Maiblumen and other initials filled in or highlighted in red and green, other initials rubricated in red or red and green, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. Second column of f.125v is also blank, the preceding column ending ‘Hic nullus est defectus’. (Worming affecting up to 3 lines on ff.188-220, last few leaves with scattered wormholes, initial on f.91r rubbed with partial loss of colouring, light marginal soiling particularly to final verso.) Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, a Northeim [Lower Saxony] binding [EBDB w000218], covers with cross-hatched compartments filled with multiple small stamps, metal cornerpieces and clasps, plain spine with raised bands (several wormholes, rubbed, front inner hinge slightly split, front pastedown renewed). Provenance: occasional contemporary marginalia — stamp removed from final verso.
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