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NIDER, Johannes (c.1380-1438). Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive Expositio decalogi. [Reutlingen: Michael Greyff, not after 1479].
Hilprand Brandenburg’s copy of a popular treatise on moral theology arranged according to the ten commandments. Brandenburg’s first recorded gift to Buxheim was made in 1479, and by the end of his life he had given the monastery a total of 450 books, both manuscript and printed. A crisp, fresh copy. A copy in Munich BSB has a rubricator's inscription dated 1479. HC *11783; GW M26937; BMC II 576; BSB-Ink N-166; ISTC in00204000; Goff N-204.
Chancery folio (290 x 202mm). 262 leaves, with the blank first leaf, rubricated (small rubrication stains on one leaf). Contemporary German pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, metal clasps, manuscript title on spine (lightly scuffed). Provenance: Hilprand Brandenburg of Biberach (1442-1514; contemporary Buxheim inscription recording his donation on the first blank leaf) – Buxheim, Carthusian Monastery Library (stamp on first text leaf).
Hilprand Brandenburg’s copy of a popular treatise on moral theology arranged according to the ten commandments. Brandenburg’s first recorded gift to Buxheim was made in 1479, and by the end of his life he had given the monastery a total of 450 books, both manuscript and printed. A crisp, fresh copy. A copy in Munich BSB has a rubricator's inscription dated 1479. HC *11783; GW M26937; BMC II 576; BSB-Ink N-166; ISTC in00204000; Goff N-204.
Chancery folio (290 x 202mm). 262 leaves, with the blank first leaf, rubricated (small rubrication stains on one leaf). Contemporary German pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, metal clasps, manuscript title on spine (lightly scuffed). Provenance: Hilprand Brandenburg of Biberach (1442-1514; contemporary Buxheim inscription recording his donation on the first blank leaf) – Buxheim, Carthusian Monastery Library (stamp on first text leaf).
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