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GREGORIUS I (c. 540-604). Epistolae. [Augsburg: Günther Zainer, not after 1476].
First and only incunable edition of the letters of Pope Gregory the Great. Goff G-415.
Royal folio (395 x 280mm). Incipit and explicit of the register printed in red, woodcut Maiblumen and outline initials (very occasional light dampstain). Contemporary Memmingen blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss shop 111], upper cover with contemporary title inscription and later paper label (a few minor tears, missing one clasp). Provenance: Count Michaud de Beauretour (inscription dated 15 April 1890, Notre Dame de Laghet) – Friedrich von Mülinen (c.1706-1769, historian; bookplate).
The edition was included in Zainer’s broadside list of books for sale, all of which date between 1471 and 1476; a rubricator’s date of 1476 in a Munich copy provides a firm terminus post quem non. The last line of 11/3v, column b, has been supplied by a contemporary hand, correcting its erroneous imposition as the last line of column a. H *7991; GW 11439; BMC II, 322; Bod-inc G-224; BSB-Ink. G-305; Goff G-415.
First and only incunable edition of the letters of Pope Gregory the Great. Goff G-415.
Royal folio (395 x 280mm). Incipit and explicit of the register printed in red, woodcut Maiblumen and outline initials (very occasional light dampstain). Contemporary Memmingen blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss shop 111], upper cover with contemporary title inscription and later paper label (a few minor tears, missing one clasp). Provenance: Count Michaud de Beauretour (inscription dated 15 April 1890, Notre Dame de Laghet) – Friedrich von Mülinen (c.1706-1769, historian; bookplate).
The edition was included in Zainer’s broadside list of books for sale, all of which date between 1471 and 1476; a rubricator’s date of 1476 in a Munich copy provides a firm terminus post quem non. The last line of 11/3v, column b, has been supplied by a contemporary hand, correcting its erroneous imposition as the last line of column a. H *7991; GW 11439; BMC II, 322; Bod-inc G-224; BSB-Ink. G-305; Goff G-415.
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