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JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (c.1230-c.1298). Sermones de sanctis. Augsburg: Hermann Kästlin, 10 April 1484. [Bound second with:] GRITSCH, Johannes. Quadragesimale. [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, [14]81.
2 works in one, chancery 2° (302 x 214mm). Gothic type, double column, initial spaces, some rubrication. Quire 23 (of Sermones) bound between quires 9 and 10, with contemporary note at end of quire 9 and 3 blank leaves bound between quires 22 and 24. (Some worming affecting a few letters, small hole in 6.2 with slight loss, marginal tear, occasional staining.) Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (stamps including a pelican feeding her young, not in Kyriss or Schunke, Schwenke-Sammlung), two fore-edge clasps (lacking one thong, slightly worn at spine, small, early leather repairs on back cover). Provenance: Magdeburg. Dominican convent (contemporary inscription) -- Arnold Faber, Dominican at Magdeburg (inscription dated 1519) -- Erxleben (19th-century stamp).
SECOND EDITION of the Sermones de sanctis. The Quadragesimale has also been attributed to Conradus Gritsch. Sermones: C 6550; BMC II, 362; Goff J-188. Quadragesimale: HC *8607; BMC II, 421; Goff G-497.
2 works in one, chancery 2° (302 x 214mm). Gothic type, double column, initial spaces, some rubrication. Quire 23 (of Sermones) bound between quires 9 and 10, with contemporary note at end of quire 9 and 3 blank leaves bound between quires 22 and 24. (Some worming affecting a few letters, small hole in 6.2 with slight loss, marginal tear, occasional staining.) Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (stamps including a pelican feeding her young, not in Kyriss or Schunke, Schwenke-Sammlung), two fore-edge clasps (lacking one thong, slightly worn at spine, small, early leather repairs on back cover). Provenance: Magdeburg. Dominican convent (contemporary inscription) -- Arnold Faber, Dominican at Magdeburg (inscription dated 1519) -- Erxleben (19th-century stamp).
SECOND EDITION of the Sermones de sanctis. The Quadragesimale has also been attributed to Conradus Gritsch. Sermones: C 6550; BMC II, 362; Goff J-188. Quadragesimale: HC *8607; BMC II, 421; Goff G-497.
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