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ADRIANUS CARTUSIENSIS (d.1411). De remediis utriusque fortunae. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, c.1470].
Chancery 4° in half sheets (197 x 136mm). Gothic type, first initial in blue with red penwork. (Outermost bifolium of each quire reinforced at inner margin, a few wormholes in first quire, small neat marginal repair on one leaf, some smudges.) Modern vellum by Douglas Cockerell and Son, title in gilt on spine, red speckled edges. Provenance: shelfmark in ink -- Cologne, Gymnasial Library (stamp) -- Paul Hirsch (Cockerell binding for him) -- Walter Hirst (bookplate) -- George Adams (booklabel; sale Sotheby's London 16 November 1989, lot 2) -- Ned J. Nakles (sale Christie's New York, 17 April 2000, lot 28).
FIRST EDITION of four published in the fifteenth century; the work was also printed twice in the early sixteenth century. Adrian, whose secular name was Monet, was a Carthusian at the Charterhouse of St. Gertruydenberg near Hertogenbosch or Bois-le-Duc, and at Liège. This work is the only one of his writings which has survived. Borrowing its title from Petrarch, it takes the form of a dialogue between a cultor virtutis and a tyro vanitatis, who differ in their responses to good and bad fortune. Zel set the letters "c" and "t" to mark the divisions of the text, and the rubricator used them as guide-letters for supplying one-line initials. H *93; BMC I, 188; GW 227; Voull (K) 5; Goff A-54.
Chancery 4° in half sheets (197 x 136mm). Gothic type, first initial in blue with red penwork. (Outermost bifolium of each quire reinforced at inner margin, a few wormholes in first quire, small neat marginal repair on one leaf, some smudges.) Modern vellum by Douglas Cockerell and Son, title in gilt on spine, red speckled edges. Provenance: shelfmark in ink -- Cologne, Gymnasial Library (stamp) -- Paul Hirsch (Cockerell binding for him) -- Walter Hirst (bookplate) -- George Adams (booklabel; sale Sotheby's London 16 November 1989, lot 2) -- Ned J. Nakles (sale Christie's New York, 17 April 2000, lot 28).
FIRST EDITION of four published in the fifteenth century; the work was also printed twice in the early sixteenth century. Adrian, whose secular name was Monet, was a Carthusian at the Charterhouse of St. Gertruydenberg near Hertogenbosch or Bois-le-Duc, and at Liège. This work is the only one of his writings which has survived. Borrowing its title from Petrarch, it takes the form of a dialogue between a cultor virtutis and a tyro vanitatis, who differ in their responses to good and bad fortune. Zel set the letters "c" and "t" to mark the divisions of the text, and the rubricator used them as guide-letters for supplying one-line initials. H *93; BMC I, 188; GW 227; Voull (K) 5; Goff A-54.
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