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HUMBERTUS DE ROMANIS (1200-1277). Auslegung uber Sankt Augustins Regel. [Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut, c. 1488]
First and only incunable edition. Dinckmut printed it almost certainly at the behest of the Ulm Dominicans as part of their reform movement. A large copy. HC *9090; GW 13649; BMC II 536; BSB-Ink-H-440; Amelung, Frühdruck I 119; ISTC ih00550000; Goff H-550.
Chancery folio (265 x 190 mm). 206 leaves (light dampstaining first and final few leaves, marginal paper flaw in leaf /8). Contemporary Augsburg blindstamped calf over wooden boards [Kyriss 81, EBDB w002144], title tooled on upper cover, author’s name inscribed on fore-edge, early printed leaf as rear pastedown (a little worn, a few wormholes, some leather missing from spine, traces of clasps). Provenance: Wolfgang Seydel (1492-1562; inscription dated 9 January 1544, early annotation on p3; library label on front cover).
First and only incunable edition. Dinckmut printed it almost certainly at the behest of the Ulm Dominicans as part of their reform movement. A large copy. HC *9090; GW 13649; BMC II 536; BSB-Ink-H-440; Amelung, Frühdruck I 119; ISTC ih00550000; Goff H-550.
Chancery folio (265 x 190 mm). 206 leaves (light dampstaining first and final few leaves, marginal paper flaw in leaf /8). Contemporary Augsburg blindstamped calf over wooden boards [Kyriss 81, EBDB w002144], title tooled on upper cover, author’s name inscribed on fore-edge, early printed leaf as rear pastedown (a little worn, a few wormholes, some leather missing from spine, traces of clasps). Provenance: Wolfgang Seydel (1492-1562; inscription dated 9 January 1544, early annotation on p3; library label on front cover).
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