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WERNHERUS, Abbot of St Blasien (d.1178). Deflorationes partum. Basel: [Michael Furter?], 1494.
First and only edition of a collection of sermons attributed to Werner II of Küssaberg, Abbot of St Blasien. The large woodcut depicts the Holy Trinity and the Virgin, the Evangelists, and Abbots Georg and Wernher of St Blasien. A tall copy. HC *16158; GW 8247; BMC III 788; Bod-inc W-011; BSB-Ink W-25; ISTC iw00012000; Goff W-12.
Super-chancery folio (310 x 215mm). 160 leaves, with the two blanks, full-page woodcut of the Holy Trinity touched in red, rubricated (some worming and occasional faint staining at extreme upper margin). Contemporary Augsburg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 87, EBDB w002080], manuscript title on spine, contemporary shelfmark on upper cover and along lower edge, binder’s waste from a German 15th-century manuscript on vellum (worming, lacking clasps). Provenance: ‘per 3 ort’ (contemporary purchase note on first leaf) – Augsburg, Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra (later inscription on first leaf) – Munich, Royal Library (‘Duplum’).
First and only edition of a collection of sermons attributed to Werner II of Küssaberg, Abbot of St Blasien. The large woodcut depicts the Holy Trinity and the Virgin, the Evangelists, and Abbots Georg and Wernher of St Blasien. A tall copy. HC *16158; GW 8247; BMC III 788; Bod-inc W-011; BSB-Ink W-25; ISTC iw00012000; Goff W-12.
Super-chancery folio (310 x 215mm). 160 leaves, with the two blanks, full-page woodcut of the Holy Trinity touched in red, rubricated (some worming and occasional faint staining at extreme upper margin). Contemporary Augsburg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 87, EBDB w002080], manuscript title on spine, contemporary shelfmark on upper cover and along lower edge, binder’s waste from a German 15th-century manuscript on vellum (worming, lacking clasps). Provenance: ‘per 3 ort’ (contemporary purchase note on first leaf) – Augsburg, Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra (later inscription on first leaf) – Munich, Royal Library (‘Duplum’).
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