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IVO, Episcopus Carnotensis (1040-1115). Edited by Sebastian Brant (1458-1521). Liber decretorum, sive Panormia. [Basel]: Michael Furter, 6 and 7 March 1499.
First and only incunable edition of an important work of canon law by St Ivo, Bishop of Chartres. RBH/ABPC record just one copy at auction: the present copy is the first to appear in a contemporary binding. HC *9328; GW M15936; BMC III 785; Bod-inc I-050; BSB-Ink I-698; ISTC ii00223000; Goff I-223.
Chancery quarto (214 x 153mm). 182 leaves, full-page woodcut on title verso, woodcut initials, woodcut printer’s device on last leaf (some worming and mostly marginal waterstaining). Contemporary quarter blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, manuscript title on spine and upper cover, binder’s waste from an early German printed work on astronomy (lacking clasp, some worming, front hinge and first quire strengthened). Provenance: Berchtold Zimmerman (contemporary ownership inscription) – Michael Dornwoyl (?) (inscription on title recording the gift of the book by Berchtold Zimmerman, the parish priest of St Eberhard's, 20 October 1552) – Augsburg, Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra (later inscription).
First and only incunable edition of an important work of canon law by St Ivo, Bishop of Chartres. RBH/ABPC record just one copy at auction: the present copy is the first to appear in a contemporary binding. HC *9328; GW M15936; BMC III 785; Bod-inc I-050; BSB-Ink I-698; ISTC ii00223000; Goff I-223.
Chancery quarto (214 x 153mm). 182 leaves, full-page woodcut on title verso, woodcut initials, woodcut printer’s device on last leaf (some worming and mostly marginal waterstaining). Contemporary quarter blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, manuscript title on spine and upper cover, binder’s waste from an early German printed work on astronomy (lacking clasp, some worming, front hinge and first quire strengthened). Provenance: Berchtold Zimmerman (contemporary ownership inscription) – Michael Dornwoyl (?) (inscription on title recording the gift of the book by Berchtold Zimmerman, the parish priest of St Eberhard's, 20 October 1552) – Augsburg, Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra (later inscription).
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