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JOHANNES DE TAMBACO (1288-1372, O.P.) Consolatio theologiae. Abridged version. [Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, ca 1470-75].
Chancery half-sheet 4o (207 x 134mm). Collation: [1-48 58(8+1) 6-118 1210] (1/1r text, 5/8+1r incipit: amissis liberis amissa uxore, 5/8+1v explicit: psalmista dicit). 99 leaves. Gothic types 6:92, 5:118 (on inserted leaf only). 6-line initial Q in blue with penwork decoration, rubricated with lombard initials, capital strokes and underlines in red. Blind-blocked maroon morocco, gilt edges, by Riviere & Son; quarter-morocco box. Provenance: [Lathrop Harper (cost code)] -- Eric Sexton (bookplates), sold at Christie's New York, 18th April 1981, lot 94 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 1987.
FIRST EDITION of the main work by the first professor of theology at the University of Prague. It is one of several abridged versions that circulated in manuscript in the 14th and 15th centuries. The first complete edition was published at Strassburg several years later (BSB I-524). The text on the inserted leaf had been accidentally omitted; Schoeffer's compositors then set it in larger type in order to fill two pages. The leaf comes from the same paper stock, but unlike the rest of the book shows two pin-holes. LARGE AND CRISP COPY, preserving a number of manuscript signatures and catchwords. H *15235; BMC I, 38; Polain 2316; BSB I-523; Goff J-435.
Chancery half-sheet 4o (207 x 134mm). Collation: [1-48 58(8+1) 6-118 1210] (1/1r text, 5/8+1r incipit: amissis liberis amissa uxore, 5/8+1v explicit: psalmista dicit). 99 leaves. Gothic types 6:92, 5:118 (on inserted leaf only). 6-line initial Q in blue with penwork decoration, rubricated with lombard initials, capital strokes and underlines in red. Blind-blocked maroon morocco, gilt edges, by Riviere & Son; quarter-morocco box. Provenance: [Lathrop Harper (cost code)] -- Eric Sexton (bookplates), sold at Christie's New York, 18th April 1981, lot 94 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 1987.
FIRST EDITION of the main work by the first professor of theology at the University of Prague. It is one of several abridged versions that circulated in manuscript in the 14th and 15th centuries. The first complete edition was published at Strassburg several years later (BSB I-524). The text on the inserted leaf had been accidentally omitted; Schoeffer's compositors then set it in larger type in order to fill two pages. The leaf comes from the same paper stock, but unlike the rest of the book shows two pin-holes. LARGE AND CRISP COPY, preserving a number of manuscript signatures and catchwords. H *15235; BMC I, 38; Polain 2316; BSB I-523; Goff J-435.