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JORDANUS DE QUEDLINBURG (c.1300-c.1370). Postillae de tempore et sermones. Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1483.
First edition; a fresh copy, retaining its contemporary quiring in red written at the centre of the extreme fore-margin. The eponymous press known as the 'Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg', is accepted as that of Georg Husner. Husner signed only 4 books (one in 1473, two in 1476 and one in 1498), but ‘there was enough anonymous printing done at Strassburg to keep several presses busy, and if Husner only signed three books at the beginning and one at the end of his career, he may, during a long period, have been active as a printer without signing any at all.’ (BMC I, 159). Cf. Voullieme, in Zentralblatt fr Bibliothekswesen, 1915, pp. 309-321. HC *9438; BMC I, 131; Bod-inc J-217; BSB-Ink I-610; CIBN J-304; Goff J-477.
2 parts in one volume. Median folio (346 x 245mm). Initials over printed guide-letters and paragraph marks in red and blue, initial strokes in red, vellum quire guards from a 15th-century missal (without 2 blank leaves and only part of the third, few small wormholes touching some letters in first and last few quires). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, vellum title label on upper cover, evidence of clasps, centre- and cornerpieces (lightly wormed and worn). Provenance: date 1544 written on quire 45/1r -- Germany, Fürstenfeld Monastery (title inscription) – Munich, Royal Library duplicate.
First edition; a fresh copy, retaining its contemporary quiring in red written at the centre of the extreme fore-margin. The eponymous press known as the 'Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg', is accepted as that of Georg Husner. Husner signed only 4 books (one in 1473, two in 1476 and one in 1498), but ‘there was enough anonymous printing done at Strassburg to keep several presses busy, and if Husner only signed three books at the beginning and one at the end of his career, he may, during a long period, have been active as a printer without signing any at all.’ (BMC I, 159). Cf. Voullieme, in Zentralblatt fr Bibliothekswesen, 1915, pp. 309-321. HC *9438; BMC I, 131; Bod-inc J-217; BSB-Ink I-610; CIBN J-304; Goff J-477.
2 parts in one volume. Median folio (346 x 245mm). Initials over printed guide-letters and paragraph marks in red and blue, initial strokes in red, vellum quire guards from a 15th-century missal (without 2 blank leaves and only part of the third, few small wormholes touching some letters in first and last few quires). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, vellum title label on upper cover, evidence of clasps, centre- and cornerpieces (lightly wormed and worn). Provenance: date 1544 written on quire 45/1r -- Germany, Fürstenfeld Monastery (title inscription) – Munich, Royal Library duplicate.
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