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MARCHESINUS, Johannes (O.F.M., fl. 14th century). Mammotrectus super Bibliam. Ansbach, Middle Franconia: written by Petrus Burckhard, [ca. 1400]
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MARCHESINUS, Johannes (O.F.M., fl. 14th century). Mammotrectus super Bibliam. Ansbach, Middle Franconia: written by Petrus Burckhard, [ca. 1400]
Royal 2° (410 x 285 mm). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. Collation: 1-2310 2412 (Biblical dictionary, 16/1v-24/12r expositions of the Hebrew calendar, religious festivals, orthography, accents, saints' homilies, etc., 24/12r colophon: Explicit Mamotrectus per manus Petri Burckhardi de Onolspach Nationis G[ermanicae], 24/12v blank); 25-2710 (index, 27/9v-27/10 blank). 272 leaves. Two North-Italian paperstocks: the first (quires 1-9) with watermarks of three hillocks with cross surmount, type of Briquet 11716-7, recorded in Lucca documents of the 1380s and 1390s; the second stock (quires 10-27) with dragon watermarks apparently identical with Briquet 2676, recorded in a Verona document of 1398 (nothing similar recorded by Piccard in royal-size paper). Written in dark-brown ink in a German gothic cursive bookhand. Initials, headlines and chapter-headings in red, other rubrication includes marginal numbering, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlinings. 31-33 lines and headline, index in three columns. (Waterstaining in first quire and in extreme upper margin of some other leaves.)
VERY FINE CONTEMPORARY FRANCONIAN CUIR-CISELÉ BINDING, perhaps by the scribe: dark brown calf over thick oak boards (flush with outer edges of the book block); front cover with the decoration incised on a background of small densely punched roundels, double fillets forming a border containing incised ornament of interlocking heart-shaped leaves, a saltire of fillets and quatrefoils dividing the central compartment into triangular panels containing fabulous beasts (dragons and winged serpents, their mouths and tails spouting the same heart-shaped ornament), original paper label with gothic title in upper compartment; back cover tooled in blind with intersecting fillets, quatrefoils and punched roundels; five raised bands on spine, vellum pastedowns. (Bosses, clasps, catches, and chain removed; joints cracked, slight damage to the leather in places, but IN REMARKABLY FINE CONDITION.)
Provenance: 1. On 27/9r the original owner, who commissioned the book, has written an accounting of his total expense, 9 florins and 1 groschen, calculating the cost per quire (misstated as 23 sexterni) and the prices for paper and binding; he is perhaps identical with
2. Johannes Dietlein or Ditlin, preacher from 1438 to 1448 at the abbey church of St. Gumbert in Ansbach (inscribed on fo. 1r: Mammotrectus Digni domini Johannis predicatoris ecclesie onoldspachi), who bequeathed his books to
3. Monastery of St. Gumbert (see G. Schuhmann, Ansbacher Bibliotheken vom Mittelalter bis 1806)
4. Consistory library at Ansbach 1590 (according to records there; 16th-century manuscript number 288 and label inside front cover with brief description in an 18th-century hand
5. Johann Leichtle of Kempten (1883 bookplate)
6. Hans Leichtle, Kempten (1927 bookplate)
IMPORTANT EARLY CUT-LEATHER BINDINGS ARE OF EXTREME RARITY ON THE MARKET, ESPECIALLY THOSE ON LARGE FOLIOS, ALMOST PRECISELY DATABLE AND IN UNRESTORED CONDITION. This binding was wrongly described in De Libris Compactis Miscellanea (Brussels: 1984, pp. 15-30) by F.A. Schmidt-Künsemüller, who only had access to photographs and had not known of it when he published his Corpus der gotischen Lederschnittbände (1980).
Royal 2° (410 x 285 mm). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. Collation: 1-2310 2412 (Biblical dictionary, 16/1v-24/12r expositions of the Hebrew calendar, religious festivals, orthography, accents, saints' homilies, etc., 24/12r colophon: Explicit Mamotrectus per manus Petri Burckhardi de Onolspach Nationis G[ermanicae], 24/12v blank); 25-2710 (index, 27/9v-27/10 blank). 272 leaves. Two North-Italian paperstocks: the first (quires 1-9) with watermarks of three hillocks with cross surmount, type of Briquet 11716-7, recorded in Lucca documents of the 1380s and 1390s; the second stock (quires 10-27) with dragon watermarks apparently identical with Briquet 2676, recorded in a Verona document of 1398 (nothing similar recorded by Piccard in royal-size paper). Written in dark-brown ink in a German gothic cursive bookhand. Initials, headlines and chapter-headings in red, other rubrication includes marginal numbering, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlinings. 31-33 lines and headline, index in three columns. (Waterstaining in first quire and in extreme upper margin of some other leaves.)
VERY FINE CONTEMPORARY FRANCONIAN CUIR-CISELÉ BINDING, perhaps by the scribe: dark brown calf over thick oak boards (flush with outer edges of the book block); front cover with the decoration incised on a background of small densely punched roundels, double fillets forming a border containing incised ornament of interlocking heart-shaped leaves, a saltire of fillets and quatrefoils dividing the central compartment into triangular panels containing fabulous beasts (dragons and winged serpents, their mouths and tails spouting the same heart-shaped ornament), original paper label with gothic title in upper compartment; back cover tooled in blind with intersecting fillets, quatrefoils and punched roundels; five raised bands on spine, vellum pastedowns. (Bosses, clasps, catches, and chain removed; joints cracked, slight damage to the leather in places, but IN REMARKABLY FINE CONDITION.)
Provenance: 1. On 27/9r the original owner, who commissioned the book, has written an accounting of his total expense, 9 florins and 1 groschen, calculating the cost per quire (misstated as 23 sexterni) and the prices for paper and binding; he is perhaps identical with
2. Johannes Dietlein or Ditlin, preacher from 1438 to 1448 at the abbey church of St. Gumbert in Ansbach (inscribed on fo. 1r: Mammotrectus Digni domini Johannis predicatoris ecclesie onoldspachi), who bequeathed his books to
3. Monastery of St. Gumbert (see G. Schuhmann, Ansbacher Bibliotheken vom Mittelalter bis 1806)
4. Consistory library at Ansbach 1590 (according to records there; 16th-century manuscript number 288 and label inside front cover with brief description in an 18th-century hand
5. Johann Leichtle of Kempten (1883 bookplate)
6. Hans Leichtle, Kempten (1927 bookplate)
IMPORTANT EARLY CUT-LEATHER BINDINGS ARE OF EXTREME RARITY ON THE MARKET, ESPECIALLY THOSE ON LARGE FOLIOS, ALMOST PRECISELY DATABLE AND IN UNRESTORED CONDITION. This binding was wrongly described in De Libris Compactis Miscellanea (Brussels: 1984, pp. 15-30) by F.A. Schmidt-Künsemüller, who only had access to photographs and had not known of it when he published his Corpus der gotischen Lederschnittbände (1980).