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![HEROLT, Johannes (d.1468). Sermones Discipuli de tempore et de sanctis cum promptuario exemplorum et miraculis Beatae Mariae Virginis. [Strasbourg: The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch), not after 1478].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16019_0084_000(herolt_johannes_sermones_discipuli_de_tempore_et_de_sanctis_cum_prompt072724).jpg?w=1)
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HEROLT, Johannes (d.1468). Sermones Discipuli de tempore et de sanctis cum promptuario exemplorum et miraculis Beatae Mariae Virginis. [Strasbourg: The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch), not after 1478].
A popular collection of sermons in a contemporary binding by the workshop at the Dominican Convent in Vienna. Herolt, a colleague of Johannes Nider in Nuremberg, was one of the leading Dominican figures in 15th-century Germany. Typically comprising four separate parts, this copy includes the first part, ‘Sermones de tempore’, only. HC *8473; GW 12343; BMC I 65; BSB-Ink H-189; ISTC ih00101000; Goff H-101.
Royal folio (400 x 297mm). First part only (of 4), 271 leaves (of 272, without one of 2 blanks), initials in red, rubricated throughout (some marginal waterstains, scattered spotting and browning, a few marginal repairs). Contemporary Austrian blindstamped pigskin from the workshop of the Dominican Convent at Vienna, sides decorated with a crown device and the Convent’s ‘W P’ monogram (Wiennenses Praedicatores), the lower board with contemporary leather repair, metal corner- and centrepieces, one metal clasp (lacking a clasp and one cornerpiece, lightly rubbed and soiled). Provenance: Dominican Convent, Vienna (binding) – early marginal notes, including one figure of a girl captioned ‘Gredl von Hocherardt Hoider puel mein 1516’ – inscription on pastedown dated 1588 – ‘Frater Bartho’ (inscription).
A popular collection of sermons in a contemporary binding by the workshop at the Dominican Convent in Vienna. Herolt, a colleague of Johannes Nider in Nuremberg, was one of the leading Dominican figures in 15th-century Germany. Typically comprising four separate parts, this copy includes the first part, ‘Sermones de tempore’, only. HC *8473; GW 12343; BMC I 65; BSB-Ink H-189; ISTC ih00101000; Goff H-101.
Royal folio (400 x 297mm). First part only (of 4), 271 leaves (of 272, without one of 2 blanks), initials in red, rubricated throughout (some marginal waterstains, scattered spotting and browning, a few marginal repairs). Contemporary Austrian blindstamped pigskin from the workshop of the Dominican Convent at Vienna, sides decorated with a crown device and the Convent’s ‘W P’ monogram (Wiennenses Praedicatores), the lower board with contemporary leather repair, metal corner- and centrepieces, one metal clasp (lacking a clasp and one cornerpiece, lightly rubbed and soiled). Provenance: Dominican Convent, Vienna (binding) – early marginal notes, including one figure of a girl captioned ‘Gredl von Hocherardt Hoider puel mein 1516’ – inscription on pastedown dated 1588 – ‘Frater Bartho’ (inscription).
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