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NUREMBERG -- Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 5 June 1484.
Chancery 2o (304 x 209 mm). Collation: [1-28 310; 4-58 66 7-238 246] (1/1r blank, 1/1v woodcut, 1/2r table of contents, 2/1r blank, 2/1v printer's introduction with colophon, 2/2r text, 24/6 blank). 212 leaves (of 214, without first and last leaves). 34 lines. Types: 11:162G (headings), 10:120G (text). One 9-line and numerous 3-line spaces for initials. Rubricated: fine opening 9-line parti-colored red and blue initial with red penwork infill and marginal extension, initials and paragraph marks supplied alternately in red and blue, capital strokes in red. Headlines, foliation and folio numbers in table supplied in red by the rubricator. Impressions of bearer type (quads and sorts) in several leaves. (Lacking first leaf with woodcut, supplied in photostat facsimile, marginal worming, worming in last 4 leaves affecting a few letters, first leaf soiled and with small rubbed spots affecting 2 letters, dampstaining in first few leaves, occasional marginal dampstaining and spotting elsewhere.) Contemporary Augsburg binding of dark brown calf over wooden boards, covers with border of repeated scrolling vine tools, inner roll border of foliate decoration on a diaper ground, central panel of curved leafy stems forming a saltire pattern, the interstices stamped with large artichoke tools (Kyriss shop 78, tool 4) and another small plant tool (Kyriss shop 78, tool 1), single small flower tool used once (Kyriss shop 80, tool 5), title "Reformation" stamped at top of front cover (rebacked, quite rubbed, lacking pair of fore-edge clasps, large cracks to back cover, later endleaves, preserving a fragment of earlier front pastedown with manuscript notes).
Provenance: early 16th-century notes concerning the text of the edition (on fragment of original pastedown); Lionel H. Pries (bookplates).
FIRST EDITION of the laws and statutes of the city of Nuremberg. These are the FIRST PRINTED CITY STATUTES. A fragment, consisting of the table of contents only, survives from an apparently unfinished edition by Konrad Fyner at Esslingen, dated ca. 1479 (CIBN R-28), the date of the formulation of this Neue Reformation of Nuremberg city laws. The last chapter gives detailed instructions for the swearing in of Jews, with a transliteration of the Hebrew "Do not take the name of the lord in vain...".
The binding is probably from the large and richly stocked Augsburg bindery christened by Kyriss "6-Blatt-Blüte" (shop 78), although one of the small tools seems to correspond to a tool from another 15th-century Augsburg bindery.
HC 13716*; BMC II, 426 (IB.7315-16); BSB-Ink. R-23; CIBN R-27; Harvard/Walsh 699-700; Polain(B) 682; Schäfer/von Arnim 254; Goff R-37.
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Provenance: early 16th-century notes concerning the text of the edition (on fragment of original pastedown); Lionel H. Pries (bookplates).
FIRST EDITION of the laws and statutes of the city of Nuremberg. These are the FIRST PRINTED CITY STATUTES. A fragment, consisting of the table of contents only, survives from an apparently unfinished edition by Konrad Fyner at Esslingen, dated ca. 1479 (CIBN R-28), the date of the formulation of this Neue Reformation of Nuremberg city laws. The last chapter gives detailed instructions for the swearing in of Jews, with a transliteration of the Hebrew "Do not take the name of the lord in vain...".
The binding is probably from the large and richly stocked Augsburg bindery christened by Kyriss "6-Blatt-Blüte" (shop 78), although one of the small tools seems to correspond to a tool from another 15th-century Augsburg bindery.
HC 13716*; BMC II, 426 (IB.7315-16); BSB-Ink. R-23; CIBN R-27; Harvard/Walsh 699-700; Polain(B) 682; Schäfer/von Arnim 254; Goff R-37.