Speculum animae peccatricis. [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, ca. 1494].

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Speculum animae peccatricis. [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, ca. 1494].

Chancery 4o (201 x 133 mm). Collation: a-d6 (a1r title page, a1v blank, a2r text, d6v blank). 24 leaves. 36 lines. Types: 7:80G (text and titles), 3:180G (title). Six- and three-line capital spaces. Accipies woodcut A (partly colored by rubricator) on a1r. Rubricated with red Lombard initials, capital strokes, paragraph marks, and underlines. (One small wormhole through all leaves touching one or two letters on each page.)

HC 14901*; IGI 5006-A; Schreiber 3828; Schramm VIII, p. 22; Goff S-647.
[Bound with:]

ALBERTUS MAGNUS (pseudo-). Paradisus animae, sive Tractatus de virtutibus. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 20 July 1498.

Chancery 4o. Collation: A8 B4 C-D6 E4 [F]6 (A1r title, A1v table, B1r text, F6r colophon, F6v blank). F1-4 signed with numbers only. 34 leaves. 35 lines and headline. Types: 7:80G (title and text), 10:155G (title, headlines, first line of ch. 1), 9:280G (title). Black-printed Lombard initials, one five-line and several three- and two-line initial spaces, some with printed guide-letters. Rubricated with red Lombard initials and a few underlines. Two lines of blind impressions from bearer type visible in blank lower portion of F6. (Blank lower half of A1 cut away, one small wormhole through all leaves touching one or two letters on each page.)

H 482*; BMC I, 288 (IA. 4667); BSB-Ink. A-193; CIBN A-184; GW 707; Goff A-294.

[Bound with:]

ANSELMUS (pseudo-). Dialogus beatae Mariae et Anselmi de passione domini. [Passau: Johann Petri, ca. 1485-86].

Chancery 4o: [18] title, blank, 1/2r text). 1/3 signed b. 8 leaves. 31 lines. Types: 1:92G (text), 2:150G (title). 4-line capital space on 1/2r with printed guide-letter. Rubricated with red Lombard initial, capital strokes and underlines. Blind impressions from two blocks of bearer type in blank areas of Contemporary manuscript notes on. (One small wormhole through all leaves touching one or two letters on each page.)

H 1141*; BMC II, 616 (IA. 11330); BSB-Ink. D-104; GW 2040; Goff A-764.
[Bound with:]

CONRADUS DE ZABERNIA (d. before 1484). De modo concludendi omnem collectam. [Speier: Conrad Hist, ca. 1495].

Chancery 4o: a6 (a1r title, a1v text, a6v blank). 6 leaves. 34 lines. Types: 3:80G (text), 2:93G (body of title), 1:180G (first line of title). One three-line initial space. Rubricated with red Lombard initial, capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlines. (Slightly browned, one small wormhole through all leaves touching one or two letters on each page.)

H 5482*; BMC II, 507 (IA. 8822); BSB-Ink. C-524; GW 7429; Goff C-858.

[Bound with:]

HENRICUS DE LANGENSTEIN DE HASSIA (ca. 1360-1427). Secreta sacerdotum. Edited by Michael Lochmaier. Augsburg: Johann Froschauer, 1498.

Chancery 4o: a-b6 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r text, b5v colophon, b6 blank). 12 leaves, double column. 38 lines. Types: 5:74G (text), 3:92G (title, headings, colophon), 4:130G (title, heading on a2r). Black-printed Lombard initials (woodcut capitals 2). Rubricated with red capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlines. Blind impressions of bearer type visible in blank areas of a1 and on blank b6. Deckle edges preserved at bottom of leaves. (One small wormhole through first 5 leaves touching one or two letters on each page.)

HC 8386*; BMC II, 396 (IA. 6519); BSB-Ink. H-77; not in Goff.

[Bound with:]

Ars moriendi (inc. Cum de praesentiis exilii miseria mortis transitus...). [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, ca. 1495].

Chancery 4o: a6 b4 c6 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r text, c6v blank). 16 leaves. 36 lines. Types: 7:80G (title and text), 10:155G (title). Six-, three- and two-line initial spaces. Rubricated with red Lombard initials, capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlines. Accipies woodcut A (partially colored by the rubricator) on a1r. Blind impression of bearer type visible in blank area of c6. (Slight foxing to margins of last quire.)

HC 14911*; BMC I 294 (IA. 4902); BSB-Ink. A-766; CIBN A-598; GW 2610; Schramm VIII, p. 23; Schreiber 3671; Goff A-1098.

[Bound with:]

THOMAS A KEMPIS (ca. 1380-1471). Imitatio Christi. - JOHANNES GERSON (1363-1429). De meditatione cordis. Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1487.

Chancery 4o: a4 b-k8 l10 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r table, b1r De imitatione Christi, l5r De meditatione cordis, l9r colophon, l9v-l10 blank). 86 leaves. 34-36 lines and headline. Types: 5:80G (text), 1:175G (title and headlines). Seven- to two-line initial spaces with printed guide letters. Rubricated with red Lombard initials, capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlines. Blind impressions of bearer type in blank areas of a1 and l10. c1.8 and c2.7 supplied in contemporary manuscript. (Small notch in blank area of a1 where index tab was torn out, blank l10 torn with some loss, faint dampstain in outer margin of ca. 10 leaves.)

HC (+Add) 9092*; BMC I, 147 (IA. 2109); Harvard/Walsh 270; Goff I-14.

Binding: contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, the front cover divided by double fillets into a rectangular central panel stamped with rosettes and a frame with repeated impressions of a lozenge-shaped double-eagle stamp, the back cover divided into four triangles, each with a single double-eagle stamp, the tools not in Kyriss or Schwenke-Sammlung; one brass clasp, tawed leather index tabs, 15th-century manuscript label on front cover, pastedowns and spine linings cut from a 12th-century liturgical manuscript with added oratorical neumes, sewing guards from a manuscript in Gothic script (manuscript pastedowns removed leaving traces of offset, spine labels removed leaving traces of paper).

Provenance: deleted inscription on title page -- shelfmark H.2.93 inked on board inside front cover -- shelfmark I.A.23 on paper label inside front cover -- [Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc.: Goff Suppl.] -- [Swann Galleries, 5 December 1985, lot 121]

A FINE EXAMPLE OF A LATE MEDIEVAL SAMMELBAND containing seven popular meditational texts.