JOHANNES HEROLT (d. ca. 1468). Sermones discipuli super epistolas dominicales. [Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, ca 1477- 1478].
JOHANNES HEROLT (d. ca. 1468). Sermones discipuli super epistolas dominicales. [Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, ca 1477- 1478].

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JOHANNES HEROLT (d. ca. 1468). Sermones discipuli super epistolas dominicales. [Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, ca 1477- 1478].

Chancery 2o (286 x 213 mm). Collation: [1-210 38 4-510 66 7-810 9-118 126 138] (1/1 blank, 1/2r text, 13/7r colophon, 13/7v blank, 13/8 blank). 112 leaves, complete. 38 lines, double-column. Gothic type 1:99. 3- and 6-line initial spaces. Rubricated: initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, evidence of early manuscript foliation in red. Modern limp vellum. Provenance: [John F. Fleming, New York] -- Alfred B. Perlman (bookplate) -- purchased from Perlman, 25 June 1992.

FIRST EDITION. The Strassburg edition of Georg Husner, previously dated ca 1478, has been re-dated to ca 1479 based on recent watermark researches of E. Ziesche and D. Schnitger. Written under the pseudonym Discipulus, this text by the Dominican Johannes Herolt was very popular in the Middle Ages and was published in over fifty editions during the incunable period. Herolt's sermons offered not only texts but also a number of aids to preachers. C 2936; Polain (Suppl) 4420; Pr 1178; Voullième (Köln) 561; Goff H-124. Not in BMC.

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