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LUDOLPHUS OF SAXONY (c.1295-1378). Vita Christi. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1478.
An early incunable edition of one of the most popular devotional works of the later Middle Ages, bound with fragments of a 12th-century liturgical chant manuscript. 'The most successful product of German mysticism,' the Vita Christi owed its tremendous success to its elegant distillation of 'almost the entire relevant patristic, early medieval, and contemporary literature' (Verfasserlexikon). It enjoyed great popularity among diverse proponents of reform in the 15th and 16th centuries. The first edition was printed in Strasbourg in 1474. BMC II 417; Goff L-339; Hain 10292; IGI 5872; see Verfasserlexikon 5:973.
Two parts in one, folio (470 x 320mm). Collation: [a–m8 n6 o–z8 *6; A–B8, O7 (O8 torn away), P-Z8]. Large initial letter F on the first leaf drawn in red and blue with ornamental penwork, 2 other large initials in red and blue, lombard initials and paragraph marks in red and blue throughout (lacking leaf O8; occasional mostly marginal staining, some worming with repaired wormhole affecting text of H8). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, vellum manuscript scraps used as binding waste (lacking pastedowns, bosses, and clasps, wear to boards). Provenance: contemporary annotations on inner boards – Fraternitas Sacerdotum Gamundiae (a religious house in Althornbach; inscription) – bookplate removed from front board.
An early incunable edition of one of the most popular devotional works of the later Middle Ages, bound with fragments of a 12th-century liturgical chant manuscript. 'The most successful product of German mysticism,' the Vita Christi owed its tremendous success to its elegant distillation of 'almost the entire relevant patristic, early medieval, and contemporary literature' (Verfasserlexikon). It enjoyed great popularity among diverse proponents of reform in the 15th and 16th centuries. The first edition was printed in Strasbourg in 1474. BMC II 417; Goff L-339; Hain 10292; IGI 5872; see Verfasserlexikon 5:973.
Two parts in one, folio (470 x 320mm). Collation: [a–m8 n6 o–z8 *6; A–B8, O7 (O8 torn away), P-Z8]. Large initial letter F on the first leaf drawn in red and blue with ornamental penwork, 2 other large initials in red and blue, lombard initials and paragraph marks in red and blue throughout (lacking leaf O8; occasional mostly marginal staining, some worming with repaired wormhole affecting text of H8). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, vellum manuscript scraps used as binding waste (lacking pastedowns, bosses, and clasps, wear to boards). Provenance: contemporary annotations on inner boards – Fraternitas Sacerdotum Gamundiae (a religious house in Althornbach; inscription) – bookplate removed from front board.
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