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GRITSCH, Johannes (or Conradus). Quadragesimale. [Nuremberg]: Georg Stuchs, 1488.
Median 4° (230 x 165mm). Collation: aa8 bb-cc6 a-d8 e-f6 g-z8 A-M8 (aa1 blank, aa2r table, a1 blank, a2r text, M8 blank). 296 leaves. 47 lines and headline, double column. Type: 3:68G, 4:132G. 2-3-line initial spaces; initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and banderoles around headlines in red in first four quires only. (Light dampstain in a few leaves.) Contemporary Strassburg blindtooled calf over wooden boards, panelled with rolls and stamps, front cover stamped LCV, (minor repairs to head and foot of spine, lacking single fore-edge clasp), paper spine labels, bifolium from a 13th-century theological text as front pastedown, 15th-century document in German as rear pastedown, Kyriss shop 147. Provenance: Villingen, Franciscans (binding "LCV", inscription on first text leaf); Donaueschingen, Hofbibliothek, Inc. 257 (sale, Sotheby's, 1 July 1994, lot 142).
H *8072; BMC II 468 (IB. 8052); Goff G-503.
Median 4° (230 x 165mm). Collation: aa8 bb-cc6 a-d8 e-f6 g-z8 A-M8 (aa1 blank, aa2r table, a1 blank, a2r text, M8 blank). 296 leaves. 47 lines and headline, double column. Type: 3:68G, 4:132G. 2-3-line initial spaces; initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and banderoles around headlines in red in first four quires only. (Light dampstain in a few leaves.) Contemporary Strassburg blindtooled calf over wooden boards, panelled with rolls and stamps, front cover stamped LCV, (minor repairs to head and foot of spine, lacking single fore-edge clasp), paper spine labels, bifolium from a 13th-century theological text as front pastedown, 15th-century document in German as rear pastedown, Kyriss shop 147. Provenance: Villingen, Franciscans (binding "LCV", inscription on first text leaf); Donaueschingen, Hofbibliothek, Inc. 257 (sale, Sotheby's, 1 July 1994, lot 142).
H *8072; BMC II 468 (IB. 8052); Goff G-503.