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JACOBUS DE THERAMO (1349-1417). Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Belial. [Augsburg:] Johann Schüssler, 2 July 1472.
Super-chancery 2° (293x205mm). Collation: [1-910 108 11-1210] (1/1r text, dedicated to Pope Urban VI, 12/7v colophon, 12/8-10 blank). 115 (of 118, without final three blank) leaves. 33-35 lines. Type: 1:117G, printed guide-letters. 1- to 4-line initials, capital strokes and paragraph marks in red. (Final quire rehinged, few small wormholes affecting a few letters in final 2 quires, first leaf very lightly soiled.) Nineteenth-century brown quarter morocco and marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers. Provenance: inscription erased from fo. 115v, Petrus...A. d [14]99.
FIRST EDITION. Fragments of an early edition printed by Zainer exist, but since they all appear to be proof sheets and no actual copy is known, it seems most likely that Zainer deferred to Schüssler, his fellow Augsburg printer, who had taken over Zainer's type 1 in setting up his shop, to bring out this first edition. The Consolatio peccatorum was an immensely popular text and is known in more than 114 manuscripts and 40 incunable editions. The story, that of a lawsuit brought by the devil, Belial, against Christ over His incursion into Hell to redeem souls, was at least a century old by the time Jacobus de Theramo recorded and rearranged it. Figures from both Judaism and pagan antiquity appear as characters, with Solomon as a judge and Moses as Christ's counsel, and it ultimately demonstrates Christ's power over the devil. (See P.B. Salmon, "Jacobus de Theramo and Belial," London Mediaeval Studies, II, 1951; Ernst Freys, "Makulatur aus der Presse Günther Zainers", Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1944/49, pp.94-6). C 5791; BMC II, 329 (IB. 5632-3); Goff J-64; IDL 2549; BSB I-51.
Super-chancery 2° (293x205mm). Collation: [1-910 108 11-1210] (1/1r text, dedicated to Pope Urban VI, 12/7v colophon, 12/8-10 blank). 115 (of 118, without final three blank) leaves. 33-35 lines. Type: 1:117G, printed guide-letters. 1- to 4-line initials, capital strokes and paragraph marks in red. (Final quire rehinged, few small wormholes affecting a few letters in final 2 quires, first leaf very lightly soiled.) Nineteenth-century brown quarter morocco and marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers. Provenance: inscription erased from fo. 115v, Petrus...A. d [14]99.
FIRST EDITION. Fragments of an early edition printed by Zainer exist, but since they all appear to be proof sheets and no actual copy is known, it seems most likely that Zainer deferred to Schüssler, his fellow Augsburg printer, who had taken over Zainer's type 1 in setting up his shop, to bring out this first edition. The Consolatio peccatorum was an immensely popular text and is known in more than 114 manuscripts and 40 incunable editions. The story, that of a lawsuit brought by the devil, Belial, against Christ over His incursion into Hell to redeem souls, was at least a century old by the time Jacobus de Theramo recorded and rearranged it. Figures from both Judaism and pagan antiquity appear as characters, with Solomon as a judge and Moses as Christ's counsel, and it ultimately demonstrates Christ's power over the devil. (See P.B. Salmon, "Jacobus de Theramo and Belial," London Mediaeval Studies, II, 1951; Ernst Freys, "Makulatur aus der Presse Günther Zainers", Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1944/49, pp.94-6). C 5791; BMC II, 329 (IB. 5632-3); Goff J-64; IDL 2549; BSB I-51.