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[ROSENHEIM, Petrus de (d. 1440?)]. Rationarium Evangelistarum. [Pforzheim:] Thomas Anshelm, 1507.
4o (205 x 138 mm). Collation: a-c6. 18 leaves. Woodcut printer's device at end; 15 full-page mnemonic woodcuts. Old calf (rebacked).
This edition appears to be the fifth, preceded by two from 1502, another printed in 1503, and a 1504 edition. This edition, like that of the 1504 edition, has the single-line border around the cuts (the previous editions have double line borders around the cuts). This edition also includes a new title on a1r, which in previous editions contained the verses that now appear on its recto. Provenance: acquired from Ars Libri, 1980.
The cuts are reduced adaptions from the early block-book Ars Memorandi editions. The prose text is practically the same, but these small quarto editions have the addition of Latin verse in couplets by Petrus Rosenheim, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Melk. Each couplet commences with a different letter in the order of the alphabet (omitting K, X, Y, Z, but including consonant I). These letters correspond to the numbers that appear on the cuts, and together form a method of memorizing the events of the Scripture as told by each of the Evangelists.
Thomas Anshelm was active as a printer circa 1488-1516, and worked at Strassburg (1488), Tubingen (1511), Hagenau (1516) and introduced printing at Pforzheim in 1500.
Adams P-926; Brunet I: 499-500; see Fairfax Murray German 43 (1503 edition).
4o (205 x 138 mm). Collation: a-c6. 18 leaves. Woodcut printer's device at end; 15 full-page mnemonic woodcuts. Old calf (rebacked).
This edition appears to be the fifth, preceded by two from 1502, another printed in 1503, and a 1504 edition. This edition, like that of the 1504 edition, has the single-line border around the cuts (the previous editions have double line borders around the cuts). This edition also includes a new title on a1r, which in previous editions contained the verses that now appear on its recto. Provenance: acquired from Ars Libri, 1980.
The cuts are reduced adaptions from the early block-book Ars Memorandi editions. The prose text is practically the same, but these small quarto editions have the addition of Latin verse in couplets by Petrus Rosenheim, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Melk. Each couplet commences with a different letter in the order of the alphabet (omitting K, X, Y, Z, but including consonant I). These letters correspond to the numbers that appear on the cuts, and together form a method of memorizing the events of the Scripture as told by each of the Evangelists.
Thomas Anshelm was active as a printer circa 1488-1516, and worked at Strassburg (1488), Tubingen (1511), Hagenau (1516) and introduced printing at Pforzheim in 1500.
Adams P-926; Brunet I: 499-500; see Fairfax Murray German 43 (1503 edition).