![Themata dominicalia totius anni. [Esslingen: Conrad Fyner, c.1475]. [With:] BONAVENTURA, Saint (1221-74). Diaeta salutis. [Esslingen: Conrad Fyner, c.1475].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16019_0107_001(themata_dominicalia_totius_anni_esslingen_conrad_fyner_c1475_with_bona054954).jpg?w=1)
![Themata dominicalia totius anni. [Esslingen: Conrad Fyner, c.1475]. [With:] BONAVENTURA, Saint (1221-74). Diaeta salutis. [Esslingen: Conrad Fyner, c.1475].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16019_0107_000(themata_dominicalia_totius_anni_esslingen_conrad_fyner_c1475_with_bona073331).jpg?w=1)
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Themata dominicalia totius anni. [Esslingen: Conrad Fyner, c.1475]. [With:] BONAVENTURA, Saint (1221-74). Diaeta salutis. [Esslingen: Conrad Fyner, c.1475].
A rare survival: no auction records of this edition (ABPC/RBH); ISTC only gives 14 copies of the Themata in institutions, In this copy featuring many deckle edges, the last quire (i.e. the Themata) is bound in first.
First work: H *15462; GW 4721 (II); BSB-Ink G-496; ISTC it00128000; Goff T-128. Neither in BMC nor in BOD-inc. Second work: H *3526; GW 4721 (I) (Pseudo-Bonaventura); BMC II 515; Bod-inc B-438; BSB-Ink G-496; ISTC ib00875000; Goff B-875.
Chancery folio (297 x 210mm). 86 leaves (of 86). Woodcut decorative opening initial H with dragon in green, woodcut initials in red, green and pink, rubricated, c.1100 vellum fragment from a manuscript choir book bifolium including part of a white vine initial reused as quire guards, early foliation (top margin of first leaf trimmed but not touching headline, light worming touching a few letters, occasional minor staining). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin-backed wooden boards, manuscript title label on upper board, clasp (traces of monastic white paint on spine, one corner at foot of spine defective). Provenance: Germany, ?Derneburg monastery (early inscription).
A rare survival: no auction records of this edition (ABPC/RBH); ISTC only gives 14 copies of the Themata in institutions, In this copy featuring many deckle edges, the last quire (i.e. the Themata) is bound in first.
First work: H *15462; GW 4721 (II); BSB-Ink G-496; ISTC it00128000; Goff T-128. Neither in BMC nor in BOD-inc. Second work: H *3526; GW 4721 (I) (Pseudo-Bonaventura); BMC II 515; Bod-inc B-438; BSB-Ink G-496; ISTC ib00875000; Goff B-875.
Chancery folio (297 x 210mm). 86 leaves (of 86). Woodcut decorative opening initial H with dragon in green, woodcut initials in red, green and pink, rubricated, c.1100 vellum fragment from a manuscript choir book bifolium including part of a white vine initial reused as quire guards, early foliation (top margin of first leaf trimmed but not touching headline, light worming touching a few letters, occasional minor staining). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin-backed wooden boards, manuscript title label on upper board, clasp (traces of monastic white paint on spine, one corner at foot of spine defective). Provenance: Germany, ?Derneburg monastery (early inscription).
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