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NICOLAUS DE AUSMO (d. 1453). Supplementum Summae Pisanellae. - ASTESANUS DE AST (fl. first half of 14th century). Canones poenitentiales. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 27 June 1478.
Royal 2o (410 x 289 mm). Collation: [1-810 98 1010 11-128 13-1610 176 188 196 20-2110 226 238 246 25-2910 30-376.8.6.10] blank, 1/2r Supplementum, 37/4r table, 37/7r Canones,r colophon,v blank). 324 leaves. 52 lines, double column. Types: 3:110aG, 4:160G. 1- to 14-line initial spaces. Opening page illuminated by a contemporary German artist in pink, green, blue and grey-blue, acanthus initial in ochre, yellow and mosaic gold modelling, scrolling floral infill, starbursts at each corner, three-sided foliate border; first initial of each section with green penwork decoration, remaining initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and some underlining in red. Evidence of early manuscipt quiring. (Small stain on a few leaves.)
Binding: contemporary blind-tooled calf over unbevelled wooden boards, the sides differently tooled with fleur-de-lys quadrangle, leafy tools, rosettes, radiating wavy fillets, double-headed eagles, lion and other tools; the spine extensively tooled with Maria scrolls, Kopfstempel, rosettes, fleur-de-lys, etc., the tools apparently not in Kyriss or Schwenke-Sammlung; vellum title label on upper cover, 2 decorated brass clasps with blind-tooled leather straps (one detached), vellum quire guards from two manuscripts, one 14th-century theological, the other early 9th-century, yellow edges (lightly restored, some leather missing, without the 10 center- and cornerpiece bosses).
Provenance: [Munich, Hartung & Hartung, 4 May 1999, lot 162]
Nicolaus de Ausmo revised and augmented the 14th-century Summa of Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio, Pisanus, in 1444. A digest of canon law, arranged alphabetically, this popular handbook was printed in more than twenty editions during the 15th century.
A large copy, preserving many deckle edges. HC 2157*; BMC II, 416 (IC. 7172); CIBN N-37; Harvard/Walsh 677; Goff N-63.
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Binding: contemporary blind-tooled calf over unbevelled wooden boards, the sides differently tooled with fleur-de-lys quadrangle, leafy tools, rosettes, radiating wavy fillets, double-headed eagles, lion and other tools; the spine extensively tooled with Maria scrolls, Kopfstempel, rosettes, fleur-de-lys, etc., the tools apparently not in Kyriss or Schwenke-Sammlung; vellum title label on upper cover, 2 decorated brass clasps with blind-tooled leather straps (one detached), vellum quire guards from two manuscripts, one 14th-century theological, the other early 9th-century, yellow edges (lightly restored, some leather missing, without the 10 center- and cornerpiece bosses).
Provenance: [Munich, Hartung & Hartung, 4 May 1999, lot 162]
Nicolaus de Ausmo revised and augmented the 14th-century Summa of Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio, Pisanus, in 1444. A digest of canon law, arranged alphabetically, this popular handbook was printed in more than twenty editions during the 15th century.
A large copy, preserving many deckle edges. HC 2157*; BMC II, 416 (IC. 7172); CIBN N-37; Harvard/Walsh 677; Goff N-63.