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HENRICUS ARIMINENSIS (fl. early 14th century). De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus. Edited by Thomas Dorniberg (fl. ca. 1472). Strassburg: [Printer of Henricus Ariminensis type 1 (Heinrich Eggestein?), ca. 1473-1474].
Chancery 2o (267 x 197 mm). Collation: [110; 2-178 1810] (1/1r table; 2/1r text, 18/9r colophon, 18/9v-18/10 blank). 137 leaves (of 148, lacking quire 1 and the final blank). 34 lines. Type: 1:120G. Two-line heading on 2/1r printed in red. Two- to six-line initial spaces. The first 34 leaves rubricated with red Lombard initials and capital strokes. (First page darkened and dampstained, occasional dampstains to other leaves, some foxing, occasional smudges, inky fingerprints to 3/6v, ca. 5 leaves reinforced at inner margin, 2/4 torn and repaired without loss of text, 18/9 reinforced on blank verso.) Nineteenth-century half-sheep, paper sides, earlier blue paper wrappers bound in (worn).
Provenance: occasional early annotations -- erased inscription above colophon (Fratris Matthie ... parochi ecclesiae oppidi Cariscampi[?] chara[?] supellex 1562) -- 18th century notes on front blue wrapper -- Gerhard von Zezschwitz (1825-1886), Lutheran theologian: bookplate -- modern oval blue-printed bookplate with the device of a fist grasping five arrows and motto Esto memore conjugere.
Second edition, reprinted from the first edition, Speyer: Gesta Christi Press, after 11 November 1472 (Goff H-20). Goff and BMC mistakenly place the Strassburg edition first, but the error is corrected in ISTC, based on Paul Needham's description of the Schøyen copy (Sotheby's New York, 12 December 1991, lot 26). Needham dates the second edition ca. 1473-1474; GW describes it as "not after 1475", apparently on the basis of the rubrication inscription in one of the Munich copies.
Henricus Ariminensis was prior of the Dominican convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice; his sermons on the four cardinal virtues were addressed to the citizens of Venice. Thomas Dorniberg of Speyer, who edited several works for the Gesta Christi Press, contributed a preface and index to the printed editions of Henricus Ariminensis; the date "after 11 November 1472" for the first edition of the text is based on Dorniberg's colophon recording the completion of his work on that date (printed in both editions at the end of the table on 1/10v but not present in this copy).
Although Kurt Ohly sought to identify the printer of Henricus Ariminensis with Georg Reyser (Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1956, pp. 121-140; 1957, pp. 48-60), the three types attributed to this press have independent histories. Books printed in Ariminensis type 1 are now associated with Heinrich Eggestein. At least three of them have printed registers of quire incipits, as do many of Eggestein's books. An edition of Bartholomaeus de Chaim, Interrogatorium seu confessionale printed in Animinensis type 1 (Goff B-155) has a quire register printed in Eggestein's types 2 and 5, and an Eggestein edition of Ludolph of Saxony (Goff L-337) uses Ariminensis type 1 as a heading type (cf. Doheny I, 19).
The present copy may once have been bound with a copy of Bartholomaeus de Chaim, as the notes on the eighteenth-century wrapper concern the printing of that work and of Henricus Ariminensis.
H 1649*; BMC I, 77 (IB. 852); BSB-Ink. H-47; CIBN H-11; GW 12193; Harvard/Walsh 104; Ohly 5; Pr 310; Goff H-19.
Chancery 2
Provenance: occasional early annotations -- erased inscription above colophon (Fratris Matthie ... parochi ecclesiae oppidi Cariscampi[?] chara[?] supellex 1562) -- 18th century notes on front blue wrapper -- Gerhard von Zezschwitz (1825-1886), Lutheran theologian: bookplate -- modern oval blue-printed bookplate with the device of a fist grasping five arrows and motto Esto memore conjugere.
Second edition, reprinted from the first edition, Speyer: Gesta Christi Press, after 11 November 1472 (Goff H-20). Goff and BMC mistakenly place the Strassburg edition first, but the error is corrected in ISTC, based on Paul Needham's description of the Schøyen copy (Sotheby's New York, 12 December 1991, lot 26). Needham dates the second edition ca. 1473-1474; GW describes it as "not after 1475", apparently on the basis of the rubrication inscription in one of the Munich copies.
Henricus Ariminensis was prior of the Dominican convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice; his sermons on the four cardinal virtues were addressed to the citizens of Venice. Thomas Dorniberg of Speyer, who edited several works for the Gesta Christi Press, contributed a preface and index to the printed editions of Henricus Ariminensis; the date "after 11 November 1472" for the first edition of the text is based on Dorniberg's colophon recording the completion of his work on that date (printed in both editions at the end of the table on 1/10v but not present in this copy).
Although Kurt Ohly sought to identify the printer of Henricus Ariminensis with Georg Reyser (Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1956, pp. 121-140; 1957, pp. 48-60), the three types attributed to this press have independent histories. Books printed in Ariminensis type 1 are now associated with Heinrich Eggestein. At least three of them have printed registers of quire incipits, as do many of Eggestein's books. An edition of Bartholomaeus de Chaim, Interrogatorium seu confessionale printed in Animinensis type 1 (Goff B-155) has a quire register printed in Eggestein's types 2 and 5, and an Eggestein edition of Ludolph of Saxony (Goff L-337) uses Ariminensis type 1 as a heading type (cf. Doheny I, 19).
The present copy may once have been bound with a copy of Bartholomaeus de Chaim, as the notes on the eighteenth-century wrapper concern the printing of that work and of Henricus Ariminensis.
H 1649*; BMC I, 77 (IB. 852); BSB-Ink. H-47; CIBN H-11; GW 12193; Harvard/Walsh 104; Ohly 5; Pr 310; Goff H-19.