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[NUREMBERG] – Reformation der Kayserlichen Stat Nuremberg. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Höltzel, 2 June 1503.
A large, fresh copy, illustrated with a fine hand-coloured woodcut of the Nuremberg city and Imperial arms. The laws and statutes of Nuremberg were the first of any city to be printed, in 1484, and it was ‘the most important and most influential’ such collection of its era (Stobbe, Geschichte der Deutschen Rechtsquellen II:297). The final chapter transcribes in its entirety the form of Jewish oath used in the medieval Nuremberg court. The fine woodcut by an anonymous Nuremberg artist is based on that of the first edition attributed to Michael Wolgemuth. VD-16 N 2026.
Folio (308 x 208mm). Full-page woodcut by an anonymous artist of the arms of the city of Nuremberg surmounted by the imperial arms and flanked by saints Sebald and Lawrence finely coloured by a contemporary hand, large woodcut initial opening the text (slight margin stain at edges of first and final leaves from binding turn-ins, 2 leaves faintly browned, light dampstain at gutter of fo. 102). Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards (restored, later metal corner- and centrepiece, clasps renewed). Provenance: a few early annotations -- ?stamp removed from second leaf.
A large, fresh copy, illustrated with a fine hand-coloured woodcut of the Nuremberg city and Imperial arms. The laws and statutes of Nuremberg were the first of any city to be printed, in 1484, and it was ‘the most important and most influential’ such collection of its era (Stobbe, Geschichte der Deutschen Rechtsquellen II:297). The final chapter transcribes in its entirety the form of Jewish oath used in the medieval Nuremberg court. The fine woodcut by an anonymous Nuremberg artist is based on that of the first edition attributed to Michael Wolgemuth. VD-16 N 2026.
Folio (308 x 208mm). Full-page woodcut by an anonymous artist of the arms of the city of Nuremberg surmounted by the imperial arms and flanked by saints Sebald and Lawrence finely coloured by a contemporary hand, large woodcut initial opening the text (slight margin stain at edges of first and final leaves from binding turn-ins, 2 leaves faintly browned, light dampstain at gutter of fo. 102). Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards (restored, later metal corner- and centrepiece, clasps renewed). Provenance: a few early annotations -- ?stamp removed from second leaf.
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