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SIBYLLA, Bartholomaeus. Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum. Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grninger, 19 August 1499.
Chancery 4° (194 x 135mm). Collation: A6 B4 C-Z8 AA-GG8 HH6 II-LL8 (A1 title with woodcut, A2r tabula, C1 dedicatory letter by Sibylla to Alfonso d'Aragonia, c2r text, LL7v colophon, LL8 blank). 264 leaves. 32 lines and headline. Types 15:64aG (title), 17:145G (headings and headlines), 19:280G (title), 22:89R (text). Title woodcut (122x113mm) beneath woodcut band, woodcut ornamental capital I, 3- to 6-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Dampstaining, headline occasionally shaved, press error on B2r preventing impression of a few words, repairs affecting some letters.) Modern tan pigskin over wooden boards preserving part of original south-German calf, the sides blindstamped, title lettered on upper cover. Provenance: a few contemporary marginal annotations.
SECOND EDITION. Among the questions posed here are ones concerning good angels and bad, fate versus human will, the efficacy of invocations to call up devils, etc. Sibylla also discusses herbs, charms and written words as symbols, and authors he cites are Hermes Trismegistus, Apuleius, Ptolemy, Seneca and Aulus Gellius. In his prefatory dedication to Alfonso of Aragon, he makes particular reference to the magnificent library of Alfonso's father, Ferdinand. HC *14720; GW 3460; BMC I, 113 (IA. 1486); Polain(B) 3530; Klebs 917.2; IDL 689; IGI 8962.
Chancery 4° (194 x 135mm). Collation: A6 B4 C-Z8 AA-GG8 HH6 II-LL8 (A1 title with woodcut, A2r tabula, C1 dedicatory letter by Sibylla to Alfonso d'Aragonia, c2r text, LL7v colophon, LL8 blank). 264 leaves. 32 lines and headline. Types 15:64aG (title), 17:145G (headings and headlines), 19:280G (title), 22:89R (text). Title woodcut (122x113mm) beneath woodcut band, woodcut ornamental capital I, 3- to 6-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Dampstaining, headline occasionally shaved, press error on B2r preventing impression of a few words, repairs affecting some letters.) Modern tan pigskin over wooden boards preserving part of original south-German calf, the sides blindstamped, title lettered on upper cover. Provenance: a few contemporary marginal annotations.
SECOND EDITION. Among the questions posed here are ones concerning good angels and bad, fate versus human will, the efficacy of invocations to call up devils, etc. Sibylla also discusses herbs, charms and written words as symbols, and authors he cites are Hermes Trismegistus, Apuleius, Ptolemy, Seneca and Aulus Gellius. In his prefatory dedication to Alfonso of Aragon, he makes particular reference to the magnificent library of Alfonso's father, Ferdinand. HC *14720; GW 3460; BMC I, 113 (IA. 1486); Polain(B) 3530; Klebs 917.2; IDL 689; IGI 8962.