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HIERONYMUS (?340-420). Vitae sanctorum patrum, sive Vitas patrum [in German]: Leben der heiligen Altväter. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 25 September 1482.
Chancery 2° (287 x 200mm). Collation: [16 2-1910 208 21-3910 408] (1/1r blank, 1/1v full-page woodcut, 1/2r register, 2/1 Vitae, 20/8 blank, 21/1r Exempla et Dicta, 40/8 blank). 389 (of 391 leaves (lacking 1/5 and final blank leaf; several leaves [2/1, 37/1, 38/1, 39/7,10, 40/1, and a few others] supplied from another copy). 35 lines and headline. Type: 3:140G, 2:120G. Full-page woodcut, 274 smaller woodcuts from 204 blocks, woodcut Maiblumen and lombard initials, ALL WOODCUTS AND LARGE INITIALS COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY GERMAN HAND. (Occasional staining and pentrials, a few repaired tears into text without loss, a few leaves rehinged, 40/1 window-mounted.) 19th-century calf (rebacked preserving most of gilt backstrip, corners repaired). Provenance: Augsburg, Fugger library (stamp on a supplied leaf).
FIRST OR SECOND EDITION IN GERMAN, and first use of this extensive woodcut cycle. It may be preceded by a Strassburg edition printed at an anonymous press and less richly illustrated, which is variously dated c.1482 or c.1478-80 (CIBN). A Low-German edition was printed at the same press at the same time. The Sorg woodcuts appeared again in 1492, in an edition printed by Schobsser, also at Augsburg. Of the 21 institutional copies recorded in ISTC, 10 are imperfect. The Vitas patrum was a popular collection of the lives of the Desert Fathers, ascribed in the middle ages to St. Jerome. H *8605; BMC II, 350 (IB. 5946); Schreiber 4217; BSB-Ink. V-259; Goff H-217.
Chancery 2° (287 x 200mm). Collation: [1
FIRST OR SECOND EDITION IN GERMAN, and first use of this extensive woodcut cycle. It may be preceded by a Strassburg edition printed at an anonymous press and less richly illustrated, which is variously dated c.1482 or c.1478-80 (CIBN). A Low-German edition was printed at the same press at the same time. The Sorg woodcuts appeared again in 1492, in an edition printed by Schobsser, also at Augsburg. Of the 21 institutional copies recorded in ISTC, 10 are imperfect. The Vitas patrum was a popular collection of the lives of the Desert Fathers, ascribed in the middle ages to St. Jerome. H *8605; BMC II, 350 (IB. 5946); Schreiber 4217; BSB-Ink. V-259; Goff H-217.
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