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VERSEHUNG VON LEIB, SEELE, EHRE UND GUT. Augsburg: Johann Schobsser, 1490.
Chancery 4° (182x125mm). Collation: a-y8 (a1r title, a1v woodcut, a2r prologue, a4r text, x6r colophon, x6v blank, x7r register, x8v subject register, y7v second colophon, y8 blank). 175 (of 176, without final blank) leaves. 25 lines and headline giving foliation. Type: 1:109(106)G. One full-page woodcut with slight red colouring and one woodcut initial (4a). (Bifolia a1.8, 2.7 rehinged, y1 mounted on stub, small marginal tears in a few leaves repaired, that in y7 affecting a few letters, tiny wormhole in first two quires affecting a few letters, some very light marginal dampstaining.) Early 20th-century polished sheep, blindstamped, paper spine-label, two brass fore-edge clasps. Provenance: title inscribed Sum Iacobus ernii An[n]o domini 1549; some annotations in German in an early hand; James I. Kaiser, with his name stamp.
SECOND EDITION of this health manual, one of the most important and widely used in the fifteenth century. It covers all areas of popular medicine so that, in addition to giving practical instruction in healing the sick, it is also a herbal and guide to astrology. Care for the soul features as well, including a section of prayers to say over the dying. The woodcut of a dying man first appeared in the Büchlein von dem sterbenden Menschen, attributed to H. Münzinger, which Sorg printed about 1481; it is the earliest cut to be modelled directly on the blockbook Ars moriendi. HC *16020; BMC II, 378 (IA. 6630); Goff V-236; Klebs 1028.2; Schreiber 5424; Oates 954; IGI 10248
Chancery 4° (182x125mm). Collation: a-y8 (a1r title, a1v woodcut, a2r prologue, a4r text, x6r colophon, x6v blank, x7r register, x8v subject register, y7v second colophon, y8 blank). 175 (of 176, without final blank) leaves. 25 lines and headline giving foliation. Type: 1:109(106)G. One full-page woodcut with slight red colouring and one woodcut initial (4a). (Bifolia a1.8, 2.7 rehinged, y1 mounted on stub, small marginal tears in a few leaves repaired, that in y7 affecting a few letters, tiny wormhole in first two quires affecting a few letters, some very light marginal dampstaining.) Early 20th-century polished sheep, blindstamped, paper spine-label, two brass fore-edge clasps. Provenance: title inscribed Sum Iacobus ernii An[n]o domini 1549; some annotations in German in an early hand; James I. Kaiser, with his name stamp.
SECOND EDITION of this health manual, one of the most important and widely used in the fifteenth century. It covers all areas of popular medicine so that, in addition to giving practical instruction in healing the sick, it is also a herbal and guide to astrology. Care for the soul features as well, including a section of prayers to say over the dying. The woodcut of a dying man first appeared in the Büchlein von dem sterbenden Menschen, attributed to H. Münzinger, which Sorg printed about 1481; it is the earliest cut to be modelled directly on the blockbook Ars moriendi. HC *16020; BMC II, 378 (IA. 6630); Goff V-236; Klebs 1028.2; Schreiber 5424; Oates 954; IGI 10248