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PINDER, Ulrich. Speculum patientie cum theologycis consolationibus fratris Ioannis de Tambaco. Nuremberg: Friedrich Peypus for the Sodalitas Celtica, 30 August 1509.
4o (202 x 151 mm). Collation: A-F6 G4 H-z, a-g6. With two index leaves at end. Two full-page woodcuts, the first of the temptation of Job of the Dürer school. (Lacking g4 blank, last gathering sprung.) 16th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over pasteboard, stamped with ornamental rolls forming panels which contain figures of the Evangelists surrounding floral tools at the center. Provenance: Martin Eisengrein (d.1578), born in Stuttgart and later of Tübingen who converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1560 and became vice-chancellor of the University of Ingolstadt. According to Leiningen-Westerburg, he used no fewer than fourteen different woodcut bookplates dated between 1560 and 1570 (woodcut bookplate, not dated); acquired from Bernard Breslauer, 1979.
FIRST EDITION, including two woodcuts after Dürer probably by executed his pupil Hans Süss von Kulmbach. The first woodcut of the temptation of Job--used at the end of the fifteenth century to represent the burgeoning problems with syphilis--was presumably designed by Dürer himself, as it appear with his monogram the same year. Campbell Dodgson lists the cut of Job under the Dürer School but ignores the second cut of a Queen and attendants. Ulrich Pinder, physician of the city of Nuremberg since 1493, had already made use of the engravers from Dürer's atelier--Schaüfelein, Grien, Wolf Traut and Hans von Kulmbach--for his Der Beschlossene Gart (1502) and Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi (30 August 1507, see previous lot).
Pindar's text takes the Dominican Johannes de Tombasco's Consolatio theologiae as his starting point, and "transformed this text into a late medieval Trostbuch. However devotional and popular this mirror was intended to be, the author still reveals himself as a physician. The rather medical linguistic usage of the introduction is remarkable. He managed to give a medical turn to his main argument by arguing that the book provided medicines for the body as well as the spirit, therewith supplying the soul with peace, happiness and tranquility" (Catrien Santing, "Through the Looking Glass of Ulrich Pinder," in Medieval and Renaissance Humanism, ed. Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest, 2000, p.215). Not in Fairfax Murray, Huth or Brunschwig. Adams P-1244 (calling for only 4 leaves, and the final blank, in the last gathering); Rosenwald 613 (lacking the two index leaves).
4o (202 x 151 mm). Collation: A-F6 G4 H-z, a-g6. With two index leaves at end. Two full-page woodcuts, the first of the temptation of Job of the Dürer school. (Lacking g4 blank, last gathering sprung.) 16th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over pasteboard, stamped with ornamental rolls forming panels which contain figures of the Evangelists surrounding floral tools at the center. Provenance: Martin Eisengrein (d.1578), born in Stuttgart and later of Tübingen who converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1560 and became vice-chancellor of the University of Ingolstadt. According to Leiningen-Westerburg, he used no fewer than fourteen different woodcut bookplates dated between 1560 and 1570 (woodcut bookplate, not dated); acquired from Bernard Breslauer, 1979.
FIRST EDITION, including two woodcuts after Dürer probably by executed his pupil Hans Süss von Kulmbach. The first woodcut of the temptation of Job--used at the end of the fifteenth century to represent the burgeoning problems with syphilis--was presumably designed by Dürer himself, as it appear with his monogram the same year. Campbell Dodgson lists the cut of Job under the Dürer School but ignores the second cut of a Queen and attendants. Ulrich Pinder, physician of the city of Nuremberg since 1493, had already made use of the engravers from Dürer's atelier--Schaüfelein, Grien, Wolf Traut and Hans von Kulmbach--for his Der Beschlossene Gart (1502) and Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi (30 August 1507, see previous lot).
Pindar's text takes the Dominican Johannes de Tombasco's Consolatio theologiae as his starting point, and "transformed this text into a late medieval Trostbuch. However devotional and popular this mirror was intended to be, the author still reveals himself as a physician. The rather medical linguistic usage of the introduction is remarkable. He managed to give a medical turn to his main argument by arguing that the book provided medicines for the body as well as the spirit, therewith supplying the soul with peace, happiness and tranquility" (Catrien Santing, "Through the Looking Glass of Ulrich Pinder," in Medieval and Renaissance Humanism, ed. Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest, 2000, p.215). Not in Fairfax Murray, Huth or Brunschwig. Adams P-1244 (calling for only 4 leaves, and the final blank, in the last gathering); Rosenwald 613 (lacking the two index leaves).