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HERP, Henricus (ca 1410-1477). Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 12 March 1481.
2o (307 x 205 mm). 326 leaves. Gothic types 4:160 (headings) and 5:82 (text), double column, 55 lines and headline. Large penwork initials in green, pink, red and blue, other initials capital strokes and paragraph marks in red or blue. (Some marginal dampstaining, 12/7 torn.) Contemporary Nurmberg? calf over wooden boards, sides decorated with a three quarter outer border of garland design with floral finals, a border of Laubstab tools, surrounding a diapered central panel of gryphon and fleur-de-lys tools, other tools include rosettes and leafs, spine in four compartments with an all over design made up of small palmette and dog tools, two brass clasps, spine liners and paste-downs from a south German, late 12th-century Gradual with plainchant for Masses from the Sanctoral with text written in brown ink in a protogothic bookhand and music in Old German Neumes in open field, rubrics, text initials and large foliate initials in red (leather of clasps renewed, wear to edges and spine ends, joints cracked). Provenance: Vienna, "Conventus S. Cruci Fratrum Minorum" (early ownership inscription on first printed page). -- Detlef Mauss (embossed stamp on first printed page).
Second edition of this collection of sermons based on the ten commandments. Herp was provincial vicar of the Cologne Observants. BMC II, 419; BSB-Ink. H-219; Goff H-40; H *8524.
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Second edition of this collection of sermons based on the ten commandments. Herp was provincial vicar of the Cologne Observants. BMC II, 419; BSB-Ink. H-219; Goff H-40; H *8524.