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TRITHEIM, Johann (1462-1516). De triplici regione claustralium et spirituali exercitio monachorum. -Compendium quotidiani spiritualis exercitii. Mainz: Peter von Friedberg, 6 Aug. 1498.
First and only incunable edition of a spiritual work by the important 15th-century author, bibliographer and monastic reformer Johann Tritheim. The present copy was bound at the Benedictine abbey at Würzburg just before or while Tritheim was abbot (from 1506) of the Scottish monastery of St James in the same city. HC *15618; BMC I, 4; BSB-Ink T-463; Bod-inc. T-251; Goff T-456.
Chancery quarto (201 x 142mm). Title printed in red. 7 illuminated initials, most with foliate extensions, rubricated (without blank N6, first initial lightly smudged, one leaf loose, light ink stains affecting a few leaves). Contemporary Würzburg binding [Kyriss 37], bound at the Benedictine monastery of St Stephen: blindstamped red-dyed deerskin over wooden boards, fore-edge clasp, manuscript leaf from a c.1400 German Lectionary as rear pastedown (worn with loss, particularly to spine). Provenance: contemporary inscription on front pastedown.
First and only incunable edition of a spiritual work by the important 15th-century author, bibliographer and monastic reformer Johann Tritheim. The present copy was bound at the Benedictine abbey at Würzburg just before or while Tritheim was abbot (from 1506) of the Scottish monastery of St James in the same city. HC *15618; BMC I, 4; BSB-Ink T-463; Bod-inc. T-251; Goff T-456.
Chancery quarto (201 x 142mm). Title printed in red. 7 illuminated initials, most with foliate extensions, rubricated (without blank N6, first initial lightly smudged, one leaf loose, light ink stains affecting a few leaves). Contemporary Würzburg binding [Kyriss 37], bound at the Benedictine monastery of St Stephen: blindstamped red-dyed deerskin over wooden boards, fore-edge clasp, manuscript leaf from a c.1400 German Lectionary as rear pastedown (worn with loss, particularly to spine). Provenance: contemporary inscription on front pastedown.
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