KANNEMAN, JOHANNES. Passio Jesu Christi necnon alius tractatus de Christi passione una cum legenda S. Catherine. [Nuremberg: Peter Wagner, not after 1491]. 4to, 175 x 135mm. (6 7/8 x 5 1/4in.). 88 leaves with signatures. Type: 1:87 (Schwabacher type). 33 lines. The first tract double column. Spaces for initials. Woodcut of clergymen on title-page. Partially rubricated, most capitals supplied in red. Early nineteenth-century half calf, worn, head of spine chipped, first lines of approximately 13 pages shaved or cropped, with almost total loss of the entire line on b8r and of the last word on K4r, slight browning to 4 leaves in the last quire. Third edition. HC 9759*; Proctor 2258; BMC II, 464; Goff K-8. | Christie's

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KANNEMAN, JOHANNES. Passio Jesu Christi necnon alius tractatus de Christi passione una cum legenda S. Catherine. [Nuremberg: Peter Wagner, not after 1491]. 4to, 175 x 135mm. (6 7/8 x 5 1/4in.). 88 leaves with signatures. Type: 1:87 (Schwabacher type). 33 lines. The first tract double column. Spaces for initials. Woodcut of clergymen on title-page. Partially rubricated, most capitals supplied in red. Early nineteenth-century half calf, worn, head of spine chipped, first lines of approximately 13 pages shaved or cropped, with almost total loss of the entire line on b8r and of the last word on K4r, slight browning to 4 leaves in the last quire. Third edition. HC 9759*; Proctor 2258; BMC II, 464; Goff K-8.

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KANNEMAN, JOHANNES. Passio Jesu Christi necnon alius tractatus de Christi passione una cum legenda S. Catherine. [Nuremberg: Peter Wagner, not after 1491]. 4to, 175 x 135mm. (6 7/8 x 5 1/4in.). 88 leaves with signatures. Type: 1:87 (Schwabacher type). 33 lines. The first tract double column. Spaces for initials. Woodcut of clergymen on title-page. Partially rubricated, most capitals supplied in red. Early nineteenth-century half calf, worn, head of spine chipped, first lines of approximately 13 pages shaved or cropped, with almost total loss of the entire line on b8r and of the last word on K4r, slight browning to 4 leaves in the last quire. Third edition. HC 9759*; Proctor 2258; BMC II, 464; Goff K-8.

Provenance: Nineteenth-century annotation on title-page; J.B. Reed, signature in pencil on front flyleaf; St. Bride Foundation, ink stamp, "Reed Collection 1900" on title and verso of last leaf; offered by Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., collation note on lower pastedown; George Milne.