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TRITHEIM, Johann (1462-1516). Catalogus illustrium virorum. Edited by Jacob Wimpheling (1450-1528). [Mainz: Peter von Friedberg, after 14 August, 1495].
Chancery 4° (208 x 135mm). Collation: \kp\k6 A-M6 N4 O6 (\kp\k1r title, \kp\k1v preface by Mattheus Herbenus, \kp\k2v tabula, followed by two epigrams, A1r letter to Wimpheling from Tritheim, A2v text, N4r dedication to Wimpheling, N4v blank, O1r letter to Tritheim from Wimpheling, O6v blank). 88 leaves, quire O misbound between F and G. 35 lines. Types: 3:149G (headlines and first 2 lines of title), 1:81G (text). 3- to 6-line initials and capital strokes in red. (Occasional minor worming, light dampstaining to upper hinge of two quires, a few leaves lightly browned.) 19th-century German speckled paper boards, paper label on spine, one paper index tab (extremities rubbed). Provenance: a few 16th-century annotations in black ink.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GERMAN AUTHORS. Tritheim, successively abbot of the Benedictine Abbey at Sponheim and of St. James in Würzburg, compiled this bibliography from his catalogue of Christian authors, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis (1494). In the present work Tritheim lists 2000 works by 300 German authors, including himself. He wrote the work in response to a request from fellow humanist Jacob Wimpheling, to whom he adds a dedication, dated 1491. Both Tritheim and Wimpheling studied at the University of Heidelberg, and both were members of the Rhenish literary sodality formed by Conrad Celtis. H *15615; BMC I, 47 (IA.389); Polain (B) 3807; IDL 4470; IGI 9711; Goff T-433.
Chancery 4° (208 x 135mm). Collation: \kp\k
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GERMAN AUTHORS. Tritheim, successively abbot of the Benedictine Abbey at Sponheim and of St. James in Würzburg, compiled this bibliography from his catalogue of Christian authors, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis (1494). In the present work Tritheim lists 2000 works by 300 German authors, including himself. He wrote the work in response to a request from fellow humanist Jacob Wimpheling, to whom he adds a dedication, dated 1491. Both Tritheim and Wimpheling studied at the University of Heidelberg, and both were members of the Rhenish literary sodality formed by Conrad Celtis. H *15615; BMC I, 47 (IA.389); Polain (B) 3807; IDL 4470; IGI 9711; Goff T-433.
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