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HENRICUS DE HERPF (c. 1410-1477). Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 12 March 1481.
Median 2° (313 x 210mm). 326 leaves (collation as BMC). Gothic types 4:160 (headings) and 5:82 (text), double column, 55 lines and headline. FINE ILLUMINATED INITIAL I in mauve and burnished gold, incorporating a monk's head and acanthus-leaf ornament, by a contemporary Nuremberg artist, a few penwork initials in green, pink, red and blue, other initials in red or blue.
BINDING: fine contemporary Nuremberg brown leather (goatskin or calf), decorated in blind to a gothic design of panels containing gryphon stamps, rosettes, Kopfstempel enclosing large thistle stamps, title blind-lettered in top compartment of front cover, quadruple blind fillets forming a saltire in centre panel of back cover, rosettes of different sizes and thistles in compartments of spine, brass centre and corner-pieces and catches, original endpapers, (head of spine chipped, clasps gone). Provenance: Antonio Pillone (purchased the volume ready-bound); Odorico Pillone (edges); Sir Thomas Brooke (bookplate); Berès 24.
VECELLIO FORE-EDGE PAINTING: a dramatic scene of Moses holding up the tablets of the Law, title inscribed vertically. Other edges yellow marbled with red. IN VERY BRIGHT CONDITION.
Second edition of this collection of sermons based on the ten commandments. Herpf was provincial vicar of the Cologne Observants. This unique German Gothic acquisition, ready-bound, by Antonio Pillone curiously prefigures his son Odorico's purchases of Northern books (mostly bound in Bavarian pigskin) about fifty years later. BMC II, 419; Goff H-40; H*8524.
Median 2° (313 x 210mm). 326 leaves (collation as BMC). Gothic types 4:160 (headings) and 5:82 (text), double column, 55 lines and headline. FINE ILLUMINATED INITIAL I in mauve and burnished gold, incorporating a monk's head and acanthus-leaf ornament, by a contemporary Nuremberg artist, a few penwork initials in green, pink, red and blue, other initials in red or blue.
BINDING: fine contemporary Nuremberg brown leather (goatskin or calf), decorated in blind to a gothic design of panels containing gryphon stamps, rosettes, Kopfstempel enclosing large thistle stamps, title blind-lettered in top compartment of front cover, quadruple blind fillets forming a saltire in centre panel of back cover, rosettes of different sizes and thistles in compartments of spine, brass centre and corner-pieces and catches, original endpapers, (head of spine chipped, clasps gone). Provenance: Antonio Pillone (purchased the volume ready-bound); Odorico Pillone (edges); Sir Thomas Brooke (bookplate); Berès 24.
VECELLIO FORE-EDGE PAINTING: a dramatic scene of Moses holding up the tablets of the Law, title inscribed vertically. Other edges yellow marbled with red. IN VERY BRIGHT CONDITION.
Second edition of this collection of sermons based on the ten commandments. Herpf was provincial vicar of the Cologne Observants. This unique German Gothic acquisition, ready-bound, by Antonio Pillone curiously prefigures his son Odorico's purchases of Northern books (mostly bound in Bavarian pigskin) about fifty years later. BMC II, 419; Goff H-40; H