![ARS MEMORANDI -- Memorabiles evangelistarum figuras. Edited by Georg Simler (1477-1536). With verses by Petrus de Rosenheim (d. c. 1440), and Sebastian Brant (1457-1521). [Pforzheim:] Thomas Anshelm, 1502.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01584_0202_001(ars_memorandi_--_memorabiles_evangelistarum_figuras_edited_by_georg_si022754).jpg?w=1)
![ARS MEMORANDI -- Memorabiles evangelistarum figuras. Edited by Georg Simler (1477-1536). With verses by Petrus de Rosenheim (d. c. 1440), and Sebastian Brant (1457-1521). [Pforzheim:] Thomas Anshelm, 1502.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01584_0202_000(ars_memorandi_--_memorabiles_evangelistarum_figuras_edited_by_georg_si043649).jpg?w=1)
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ARS MEMORANDI -- Memorabiles evangelistarum figuras. Edited by Georg Simler (1477-1536). With verses by Petrus de Rosenheim (d. c. 1440), and Sebastian Brant (1457-1521). [Pforzheim:] Thomas Anshelm, 1502.
Small 4° (185 x 128mm). 17 leaves (of 18, without the final blank as often). 15 full-page woodcuts. (Some soiling, repaired marginal tear in B4.) Early 20th-century brown crushed morocco by Haines, sides with gilt notched border interlaced with a lozenge and centred with a crescent moon and star, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: A.H. Bright (bookplate dated 1912 and binding).
FIRST EDITION. RARE: ABPC and AE record only one copy at auction in the past 50 years. The cuts are reduced adaptations from the early block-book editions of Ars Memorandi. These mnemonic illustrations, together with the couplets by Rosenheim facing them, form a method of memorizing the events of the Scripture as told by each of the Evangelists. Thomas Anshelm, who introduced printing at Pforzheim in 1500, issued two editions of this work in 1502; the first, as here, has the first line of leaf a1 ending 'memorabi-', whereas the second edition has the same line ending 'Sebastiani'. Brunet I: 499-500; Cf. Fairfax Murray German 43 (1503 edition).
Small 4° (185 x 128mm). 17 leaves (of 18, without the final blank as often). 15 full-page woodcuts. (Some soiling, repaired marginal tear in B4.) Early 20th-century brown crushed morocco by Haines, sides with gilt notched border interlaced with a lozenge and centred with a crescent moon and star, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: A.H. Bright (bookplate dated 1912 and binding).
FIRST EDITION. RARE: ABPC and AE record only one copy at auction in the past 50 years. The cuts are reduced adaptations from the early block-book editions of Ars Memorandi. These mnemonic illustrations, together with the couplets by Rosenheim facing them, form a method of memorizing the events of the Scripture as told by each of the Evangelists. Thomas Anshelm, who introduced printing at Pforzheim in 1500, issued two editions of this work in 1502; the first, as here, has the first line of leaf a1 ending 'memorabi-', whereas the second edition has the same line ending 'Sebastiani'. Brunet I: 499-500; Cf. Fairfax Murray German 43 (1503 edition).
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