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THOMAS AQUINAS (1225-1274). Catena aurea super quattuor evangelistas. [Esslingen: Conrad Fyner, c.1475].
A large crisp copy of this stately book from the press of Esslingen's first printer. The unusual initials include an outline E showing a tree, a D and I with acorns, an L with a dog, an R and foliated S. It is thought that Fyner served his apprenticeship at Strasbourg in the printing office of Heinrich Eggestein, and his first type is undoubtedly modelled on Eggestein's Type 3. HC *1329; BMC II 515; Bod-inc T-133; BSB-Ink T-199; Goff T-228.
2 volumes, royal folio (390 x 280mm). The books of Mark and Matthew are inverted in binding, 6 large woodcut outline initials, 4 of them with animal or plant decoration, some coloured in red or blue, intermittently rubricated, German and Hebrew manuscript strips reused as quire guards (faint marginal dampstains on a few leaves in vol. 1). Contemporary deerskin over wooden boards, vol. 2 ruled in blind and with manuscript vellum title label on upper cover, both with manuscript spine labels and shelf marks, contemporary ?German liturgical manuscript leaves as pastedowns, rear covers with chain holes, catches (without clasps, leather worn with loss). Provenance: Weingarten, Benedictine abbey (obscured inscription dated 1630 in both vols, and later bookplates) – occasional early marginalia.
A large crisp copy of this stately book from the press of Esslingen's first printer. The unusual initials include an outline E showing a tree, a D and I with acorns, an L with a dog, an R and foliated S. It is thought that Fyner served his apprenticeship at Strasbourg in the printing office of Heinrich Eggestein, and his first type is undoubtedly modelled on Eggestein's Type 3. HC *1329; BMC II 515; Bod-inc T-133; BSB-Ink T-199; Goff T-228.
2 volumes, royal folio (390 x 280mm). The books of Mark and Matthew are inverted in binding, 6 large woodcut outline initials, 4 of them with animal or plant decoration, some coloured in red or blue, intermittently rubricated, German and Hebrew manuscript strips reused as quire guards (faint marginal dampstains on a few leaves in vol. 1). Contemporary deerskin over wooden boards, vol. 2 ruled in blind and with manuscript vellum title label on upper cover, both with manuscript spine labels and shelf marks, contemporary ?German liturgical manuscript leaves as pastedowns, rear covers with chain holes, catches (without clasps, leather worn with loss). Provenance: Weingarten, Benedictine abbey (obscured inscription dated 1630 in both vols, and later bookplates) – occasional early marginalia.
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