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[MARCUS VON WEIDA.] Der Spiegel hochloblicher Bruderschafft des Rosenkrantz Marie. Leipzig: Melchior Lotter for Duchess Barbara of Saxony, 1515.
4° in 4s and 6s (195 x 137mm). Collation: A6 B4 C-F6 G-H4 I-N6 O4 P-S6 T4 V-X6 Y4 Z6 Aa-Bb6 Cc4 Dd6. Title printed in red with hand-coloured woodcut of Barbara of Saxony and her attendants worshipping the Virgin and Child (repaired at upper outer corner), 14 full-page woodcuts by the Master HS+ (cf. Dodgson II, p. 193). (Leaves C1 and D2 in facsimile, Dd3 just shaved at upper margin, some marginal spotting.) Contemporary sheep over wooden boards, the covers ruled and tooled in blind with apostle roll border and central stamp showing the Jesuit symbol (front cover) and the Madonna of the Crescent Moon (back cover). (Rebacked, neat repair to front cover, one or two small wormholes, lacking clasps).
A rare work compiled for Barbara, Duchess of Saxony, Landgräfin of Dorringen and Margräfin of Meissen, by the General of the Dominicans at St. Paul's Monastery, Leipzig. The Master HS+, whose monogram appears on the woodcut on the verso of Aa5, was a draughtsman and copyist active in Leipzig and Augsburg from 1513-1530: he has been identified with the Augsburg printer, Heinrich Steyner (cf. Thieme-Becker, XXXIV, 504). Only two copies of this book have been sold at auction in England since records began (at Sotheby's, 22 June 1920, from the library of Henry Huth, ¨31 to Edwards; and at Sotheby's, 29 May 1930, from the library of Arthur Kay, ¨29 to Maggs). We have no record of any copies sold in Germany. Not in BL STC German; Adams; Fairfax-Murray German; or Caillet.
4° in 4s and 6s (195 x 137mm). Collation: A6 B4 C-F6 G-H4 I-N6 O4 P-S6 T4 V-X6 Y4 Z6 Aa-Bb6 Cc4 Dd6. Title printed in red with hand-coloured woodcut of Barbara of Saxony and her attendants worshipping the Virgin and Child (repaired at upper outer corner), 14 full-page woodcuts by the Master HS+ (cf. Dodgson II, p. 193). (Leaves C1 and D2 in facsimile, Dd3 just shaved at upper margin, some marginal spotting.) Contemporary sheep over wooden boards, the covers ruled and tooled in blind with apostle roll border and central stamp showing the Jesuit symbol (front cover) and the Madonna of the Crescent Moon (back cover). (Rebacked, neat repair to front cover, one or two small wormholes, lacking clasps).
A rare work compiled for Barbara, Duchess of Saxony, Landgräfin of Dorringen and Margräfin of Meissen, by the General of the Dominicans at St. Paul's Monastery, Leipzig. The Master HS+, whose monogram appears on the woodcut on the verso of Aa5, was a draughtsman and copyist active in Leipzig and Augsburg from 1513-1530: he has been identified with the Augsburg printer, Heinrich Steyner (cf. Thieme-Becker, XXXIV, 504). Only two copies of this book have been sold at auction in England since records began (at Sotheby's, 22 June 1920, from the library of Henry Huth, ¨31 to Edwards; and at Sotheby's, 29 May 1930, from the library of Arthur Kay, ¨29 to Maggs). We have no record of any copies sold in Germany. Not in BL STC German; Adams; Fairfax-Murray German; or Caillet.