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JACOBUS DE THERAMO (1349-1417). Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Belial [German:] Das Buch Bellial. Strassburg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, 1 September 1478.
Chancery 2° (239x177mm). Collation: [1-88 96] (1/1r text, 9/6r colophon, 9/6v blank). 65 (of 70, fos. 1/1.8, 1/7 and 7/4.5 supplied in facsimile) leaves. 37-40 lines. Type: 2:102G. 55 woodcuts (including five here in facsimile) from 32 blocks, coloured in green, red and ochre bt a contemporary hand, plus woodcut foliage border and capital I (here in facsimile), 4-line initial spaces. (Small tears into text or woodcut on fos. 1/2, 5/5 and 9/6 and a few other marginal tears repaired, some staining, final leaf rehinged.) Eighteenth-century vellum over pastepaper boards, Jesuit stamp at centre of both covers with initials C P S I and dated 1718 (back cover), red edges. Provenance: unlocated Jesuit College (Passau?); stamp washed from front flyleaf.
A RARE EDITION, the second printed by Knoblochtzer. ONLY THREE COPIES RECORDED, Schorbach and Spirgatis located two, at Colmar and Darmstadt, and one is in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam.
The recension in German of Belial differs from the Latin primarily in that it was tailored into more of a legal textbook, with scenes added to illustrate specific legal points. The text also appears to have been censured. The prophecies of Daniel (see lot ), with their overtones of the occult and because of their association with the Hussite heresy, were removed. The woodcuts by the Strassburg Monogrammist b were first used by Eggestein around 1475 (C 5804) before being taken over by Knoblochtzer for his three editions of the Belial. They are a series independent of the more usual Augsburg Zainer-Bämler series. C 5809; Schorbach and Spirgatis 9; Ford, BPH 125
Chancery 2° (239x177mm). Collation: [1-88 96] (1/1r text, 9/6r colophon, 9/6v blank). 65 (of 70, fos. 1/1.8, 1/7 and 7/4.5 supplied in facsimile) leaves. 37-40 lines. Type: 2:102G. 55 woodcuts (including five here in facsimile) from 32 blocks, coloured in green, red and ochre bt a contemporary hand, plus woodcut foliage border and capital I (here in facsimile), 4-line initial spaces. (Small tears into text or woodcut on fos. 1/2, 5/5 and 9/6 and a few other marginal tears repaired, some staining, final leaf rehinged.) Eighteenth-century vellum over pastepaper boards, Jesuit stamp at centre of both covers with initials C P S I and dated 1718 (back cover), red edges. Provenance: unlocated Jesuit College (Passau?); stamp washed from front flyleaf.
A RARE EDITION, the second printed by Knoblochtzer. ONLY THREE COPIES RECORDED, Schorbach and Spirgatis located two, at Colmar and Darmstadt, and one is in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam.
The recension in German of Belial differs from the Latin primarily in that it was tailored into more of a legal textbook, with scenes added to illustrate specific legal points. The text also appears to have been censured. The prophecies of Daniel (see lot ), with their overtones of the occult and because of their association with the Hussite heresy, were removed. The woodcuts by the Strassburg Monogrammist b were first used by Eggestein around 1475 (C 5804) before being taken over by Knoblochtzer for his three editions of the Belial. They are a series independent of the more usual Augsburg Zainer-Bämler series. C 5809; Schorbach and Spirgatis 9; Ford, BPH 125