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TAULER, Johannes (c.1300-1361). Sermonen, in German. - Rulmann MERSWIN (1307-82). Historia, in German. Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, 17 March 1498.
Chancery 4° (205 x 145mm). Collation: \\h8 A-Z6 Aa-Zz \\m\\m2 (\\h1r title, verso blank, \\h2r table of contents, A1r text, \\m\\m2r colophon, verso blank). 290 leaves. 36 lines and headline, double column. Type: 11:340G, 8:168G, 7:97G, 12:88G. 7-line initial space opening text, 3-line initial spaces with guide-letter. (Title washed, with marginal replacement, and rehinged, light stain in final quires.) Contemporary Augsburg calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind with rolls, including Schunke-Schwenke Ranke 186 (Augsburg Blattwerk-Ornament), title tooled at head of front cover, spine painted russet, remains of two fore-edge clasps (somewhat worn). Provenance: "Diss Buch gehört in die gemain Teütsch Libereii zu [--] (16th-century inscription, location deleted).
FIRST EDITION of both texts, and including four sermons by Meister Eckhart (c.1260-1327), the first works by Eckhart in print. Tauler was "considered the most gifted preacher of the German mystics" (Ford, BPH, 180) and his sermons are his sole surviving writings. He preached constant striving for knowledge of the divine, attainable in this world through perfection. Luther praised him and he was even known as a "reformer before the Reformation". The history of "Tauler's Conversion" is an abridgement of Merswin's Meisterbuch of the Basel Gottesfreunde, of which Tauler had been a central figure. HC *15346; BMC III, 628 (IA. 12345); Goff T-48.
Chancery 4° (205 x 145mm). Collation: \\h
FIRST EDITION of both texts, and including four sermons by Meister Eckhart (c.1260-1327), the first works by Eckhart in print. Tauler was "considered the most gifted preacher of the German mystics" (Ford, BPH, 180) and his sermons are his sole surviving writings. He preached constant striving for knowledge of the divine, attainable in this world through perfection. Luther praised him and he was even known as a "reformer before the Reformation". The history of "Tauler's Conversion" is an abridgement of Merswin's Meisterbuch of the Basel Gottesfreunde, of which Tauler had been a central figure. HC *15346; BMC III, 628 (IA. 12345); Goff T-48.
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