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RODERICUS ZAMORENSIS (1404-1470). Speculum vitae humanae. Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 11th January 1471.
Chancery 2o (300 x 217 mm). Collation: [1-1210 138]. 128 leaves. 35 lines. Gothic type 2:118. Rubricated, two 7-line opening initials in blue and red with red and blue penwork flourishing, 2-line Lombard initials and paragraph marks in red and blue, capital strokes, underlining and chapter headings in red.
Binding: contemporary South-German pink-stained deerskin over wooden boards, sides divided into panels by double and triple fillets, stamps include a rosette, an eagle, a star, a bandrole lettered Maria and an oblong floral tool, front pastedown of printer's waste, two vellum quire liners (some wear, small losses to covers and spine, clasps missing).
Provenance: Johann Nicolas Weislinger (long ink notation dated 1740 on front free endpaper) -- Carl Theodore (1724-99), Electoral Prince of the Palatinate, subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria, Bibliotheca Palatina (armorial bookplate) -- Lord Vernon (1803-1866), 19th-century book collector (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 27 June 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941.
Second edition of this influential moral treatise, in which Rodericus reviews all the social conditions of mankind from king to peasant, showing the advantages of each station in life. Günther Zainer was the first printer of Augsburg. He moved there from Strassburg, where he had probably worked in the shop of Mentelin, in 1468, and after some trouble with the guilds of Augsburg set up his printing establishment. Zainer's second type face, a small Gothic type, which appears here for the first time, is considered one of the finest of the 15th century. A FINE, TALL COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. BMC II, 316 (IB.5419); H *13940; Harvard/Walsh 496; Pr 1525 and 1631; Goff R-215.
Chancery 2o (300 x 217 mm). Collation: [1-1210 138]. 128 leaves. 35 lines. Gothic type 2:118. Rubricated, two 7-line opening initials in blue and red with red and blue penwork flourishing, 2-line Lombard initials and paragraph marks in red and blue, capital strokes, underlining and chapter headings in red.
Binding: contemporary South-German pink-stained deerskin over wooden boards, sides divided into panels by double and triple fillets, stamps include a rosette, an eagle, a star, a bandrole lettered Maria and an oblong floral tool, front pastedown of printer's waste, two vellum quire liners (some wear, small losses to covers and spine, clasps missing).
Provenance: Johann Nicolas Weislinger (long ink notation dated 1740 on front free endpaper) -- Carl Theodore (1724-99), Electoral Prince of the Palatinate, subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria, Bibliotheca Palatina (armorial bookplate) -- Lord Vernon (1803-1866), 19th-century book collector (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 27 June 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941.
Second edition of this influential moral treatise, in which Rodericus reviews all the social conditions of mankind from king to peasant, showing the advantages of each station in life. Günther Zainer was the first printer of Augsburg. He moved there from Strassburg, where he had probably worked in the shop of Mentelin, in 1468, and after some trouble with the guilds of Augsburg set up his printing establishment. Zainer's second type face, a small Gothic type, which appears here for the first time, is considered one of the finest of the 15th century. A FINE, TALL COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. BMC II, 316 (IB.5419); H *13940; Harvard/Walsh 496; Pr 1525 and 1631; Goff R-215.