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PLENARIUM -- Epistolae et Evangelia [German:] Hye hebt sich an das evangeli buch. Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger, 17 March 1498.
Chancery 2° (270x191mm). Collation: a-v w-z8.6 A6 B-C8 D10 (a1r title, a1v full-page woodcut, a2r outline of contents, text, A1r list of lessons on Saints' days, D9v colophon, D10 blank). 200 leaves. 39 lines and headline, double column. Type: 4:150G (title and headlines), 6:105G(text). One full-page woodcut as frontispiece and 58 other woodcuts, all hand-coloured in green, red, yellow, and grey, woodcut Maiblumen capitals in 3 sizes (1a..), black lombards (2) and ornate capitals (4). (Some small marginal tears repaired not affecting text (one letter on D9 disturbed), light marginal dampstaining, tiny wormholes sometimes affecting a few letters.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blindstamped with rolls, two brass fore-edge clasps, title stamped on front cover (spine repaired preserving original leather); an Augsburg binding, Kyriss shop 86.
Sixth Schönsperger edition, OF CONSIDERABLE RARITY. Comprising liturgical readings from the Epistles and Gospels arranged according to the church calendar, the Plenarium presents in essence the New Testament in a vernacular translation. It was a devotional aid for the lay person, and the woodcuts are integral to it, allowing the reader to contemplate privately without verbal expression. Although he had first borrowed several of Zainer's woodcuts from the original edition of the Plenarium to supplement his own, Schönsperger quickly replaced those to complete his full woodcut series illustrating all of his subsequent editions. This is a FINE COPY WITH CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING AND IN ITS CONTEMPORARY AUGSBURG BINDING; only one copy each recorded in America and the British Isles. H 6746; BMC II, 372 (IB. 6385); Goff E-87; Schreiber 4977
Chancery 2° (270x191mm). Collation: a-v w-z8.6 A6 B-C8 D10 (a1r title, a1v full-page woodcut, a2r outline of contents, text, A1r list of lessons on Saints' days, D9v colophon, D10 blank). 200 leaves. 39 lines and headline, double column. Type: 4:150G (title and headlines), 6:105G(text). One full-page woodcut as frontispiece and 58 other woodcuts, all hand-coloured in green, red, yellow, and grey, woodcut Maiblumen capitals in 3 sizes (1a..), black lombards (2) and ornate capitals (4). (Some small marginal tears repaired not affecting text (one letter on D9 disturbed), light marginal dampstaining, tiny wormholes sometimes affecting a few letters.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blindstamped with rolls, two brass fore-edge clasps, title stamped on front cover (spine repaired preserving original leather); an Augsburg binding, Kyriss shop 86.
Sixth Schönsperger edition, OF CONSIDERABLE RARITY. Comprising liturgical readings from the Epistles and Gospels arranged according to the church calendar, the Plenarium presents in essence the New Testament in a vernacular translation. It was a devotional aid for the lay person, and the woodcuts are integral to it, allowing the reader to contemplate privately without verbal expression. Although he had first borrowed several of Zainer's woodcuts from the original edition of the Plenarium to supplement his own, Schönsperger quickly replaced those to complete his full woodcut series illustrating all of his subsequent editions. This is a FINE COPY WITH CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING AND IN ITS CONTEMPORARY AUGSBURG BINDING; only one copy each recorded in America and the British Isles. H 6746; BMC II, 372 (IB. 6385); Goff E-87; Schreiber 4977