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INNOCENTIUS VIII (1432-1492, Pope). Bulla canonizationis Sancti Leopoldi. [Vienna: Printer of the 1482 Vocabulista (Stephen Koblinger?), after 6 January 1485].
Chancery 4° in half sheets (229 x 159mm). Gothic type, xylographic initial opening work. (Spot on 1.3v partially obscuring four letters.) Unbound, in folding cloth case. Provenance: Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl -- [sale Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 187] -- Ned J. Nakles (sale Christie's New York, 17 April 2000, lot 178).
BMC identifies this as the work of the first printer in Vienna, the printer of the Vocabolista (Vienna: 1482). He produced at least seven books in 1482, all listing Vienna as the place of printing and, while no other date is associated with his work, his type was still in use after 6 January 1485. Its similarity to a Vicenzan type suggests that the printer in question was Stephan Koblinger of Vienna who printed at Vicenza 1479-1480. Proctor's identification of the printer, as Johannes Cassis, is disputed by BMC on the basis that Cassis was a publisher only. Two states of each half sheet are known; some have a guide-letter in place of the printed initial found here, and there are minor variations in setting. The subject of the bull was the canonization of Duke Leopold of Austria. A BRIGHT, CRISP COPY, UNBOUND AS ISSUED. BMC III, 809; Harvard/Walsh 1272; Pr 9471; Goff I-102.
Chancery 4° in half sheets (229 x 159mm). Gothic type, xylographic initial opening work. (Spot on 1.3v partially obscuring four letters.) Unbound, in folding cloth case. Provenance: Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl -- [sale Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 187] -- Ned J. Nakles (sale Christie's New York, 17 April 2000, lot 178).
BMC identifies this as the work of the first printer in Vienna, the printer of the Vocabolista (Vienna: 1482). He produced at least seven books in 1482, all listing Vienna as the place of printing and, while no other date is associated with his work, his type was still in use after 6 January 1485. Its similarity to a Vicenzan type suggests that the printer in question was Stephan Koblinger of Vienna who printed at Vicenza 1479-1480. Proctor's identification of the printer, as Johannes Cassis, is disputed by BMC on the basis that Cassis was a publisher only. Two states of each half sheet are known; some have a guide-letter in place of the printed initial found here, and there are minor variations in setting. The subject of the bull was the canonization of Duke Leopold of Austria. A BRIGHT, CRISP COPY, UNBOUND AS ISSUED. BMC III, 809; Harvard/Walsh 1272; Pr 9471; Goff I-102.
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