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MARTINUS POLONUS. Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (= Georg Husner?)], 1484.
Super-chancery folio (303 x 206 mm). Collation: [18(2+1) 2-156.8 16-198 20-316.8 3210 338 346 358] (1/1r title, 1/1v blank, 1/2r Tabula, 1/4r text, 35/7v colophon, 35/8 blank). 255 leaves. 46 lines plus headline, double column (the table in 4 columns). Types: 1:160 (title and headlines), 2:91a (text), 3:91b (smaller headings). Initial spaces. Guide letters supplied in manuscript, three large divided red and blue Lombard initials, smaller initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining in red. Early manuscript catchwords and quiring. (Small hole to fol. 3/2 affecting 2 letters, hole to 10/5 from acidic inkstain affecting 4 words, rubbed area obscuring a few letters on 29/7r, occasional browning, a very few leaves with small marginal tears or holes, marginal repair to 33/1.) Contemporary Austrian binding from the workshop of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter in Salzburg, blind-stamped pink-stained alum-tawed ?goatskin over wooden boards, upper cover with outer border of an abstract design in relief formed by repeated Kopfstempel tools, repeated "O maria" scroll tool at bottom, inner panel with intersecting blind fillets forming lozenges decorated with 11 different tools, 19th-century medallion blind-stamp of the Monastery of St. Erentrude, "Numberg", at center of cover, lower cover with overall saltire design filled with assorted tools, including two not used on upper cover, spine with four double raised bands, the five compartments ruled in blind, contemporary vellum title label on upper cover engrossed in a large gothic hand, brass corner edge-pieces, cross-shaped metal centerpieces removed, original leather and chased brass clasps and catches (one stud on lower cover replaced), edges plain, no pastedown endleaves, one leather index tab (of 2), sewing guards from 2 or more 13th-century manuscripts (small abraded area to upper cover, a few insignificant small scrapes and nicks, old repairs along joints, top headcap gone, lower cover rubbed effacing stamps, leather of clasps worn).
Provenance: Salzburg, Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter (binding); Salzburg, Nonnberg, Benedictine sister convent of St. Erentrude (binding stamp, 18th- or 19th-century inscription on title, inkstamp on second leaf, paper shelfmark label on front turn-in, 19th-century blindstamp on binding); Bundesdenkmalamt (inkstamp inside front cover).
FIRST EDITION. Most of the tools on the well-preserved binding are reproduced by Peter Wind, Die verzierten Einbnde der Handschriften der Erzabtei St. Peter zu Salzburg bis 1600 (Vienna 1982): they include Kopfstempel 14, Lilienstempel 118, Rosette 170, Spruchband 252, Rundstempel 356, schildfrmiges Stempel 402, and rautenfrmige Stempel 313, 317, 322, 327, 331 and 339, all employed by the monastery's Workshop II, active from ca. 1474 to 1523. Tool 327 was acquired from the shop of the Salzburg binder Ulrich Schreier II. The imaginative and attractive disposition of the tools on the present binding appears to be out of the ordinary, the more typical design from this shop being an arrangement of Kopfstempel and Laubstab tools forming a naturalistic leafy design (cf. Wind, p. 126, and Schaefer/von Arnim Einbandkunst 18).
H *10854; BMC I, 132 (IB 1818); CIBN M-184; Harvard/Walsh 221; IGI 6245; Saj-Soltesz 2206; Goff M-329.
Super-chancery folio (303 x 206 mm). Collation: [1
Provenance: Salzburg, Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter (binding); Salzburg, Nonnberg, Benedictine sister convent of St. Erentrude (binding stamp, 18th- or 19th-century inscription on title, inkstamp on second leaf, paper shelfmark label on front turn-in, 19th-century blindstamp on binding); Bundesdenkmalamt (inkstamp inside front cover).
FIRST EDITION. Most of the tools on the well-preserved binding are reproduced by Peter Wind, Die verzierten Einbnde der Handschriften der Erzabtei St. Peter zu Salzburg bis 1600 (Vienna 1982): they include Kopfstempel 14, Lilienstempel 118, Rosette 170, Spruchband 252, Rundstempel 356, schildfrmiges Stempel 402, and rautenfrmige Stempel 313, 317, 322, 327, 331 and 339, all employed by the monastery's Workshop II, active from ca. 1474 to 1523. Tool 327 was acquired from the shop of the Salzburg binder Ulrich Schreier II. The imaginative and attractive disposition of the tools on the present binding appears to be out of the ordinary, the more typical design from this shop being an arrangement of Kopfstempel and Laubstab tools forming a naturalistic leafy design (cf. Wind, p. 126, and Schaefer/von Arnim Einbandkunst 18).
H *10854; BMC I, 132 (IB 1818); CIBN M-184; Harvard/Walsh 221; IGI 6245; Saj-Soltesz 2206; Goff M-329.