BERTHOLDUS, O.P. (fl. 1350). Horologium devotionis. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, ca 1488].
BERTHOLDUS, O.P. (fl. 1350). Horologium devotionis. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, ca 1488]. Median 16 o (110 x 82 mm). Collation: [a] 8 b-o 8 p 1 0 (a1r title with Nativity metalcut, a1v blank, a2r text, p5v blank, p10r explicit, p10v blank). 122 leaves. 22 lines. Types: 2:115G (title and headings); 4:67G (text). 24 full-page woodcuts printed from 19 blocks and 13 metalcuts with foliate borders printed from 12 plates (woodcuts e8v=g7v, i4v=i5v, k8v=l5r, m2v=m5v, metalcut a1r=b3v); COLORED BY AN EARLY HAND. One 5-line and numerous 2- and 3-line initial spaces. Flourished Lombard initials in alternating blue and red, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, opening initial with penwork decoration. (Some light browing, m2 with minor marginal repair.) 19th-century German boards (rubbed); cloth slipcase. Provenance : Vladimir Koreneff (inkstamp); purchased by an American collector in Shanghai from a German or Austrian refugee bookseller there, probably Kurt Scharz or Heinz Heinemann (a catalogue description pasted to endpapers); purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal (his catalogue description laid in), 1986. FIRST EDITION of Bertholdus' own Latin translation of his Zeitglöcklein des Lebens und Leiden Christi nach den 24 Stunden nachgeteilt, a popular devotional work in which the prayers are divided into 24 parts, each corresponding to an hour of the day, and each concerned with an event in the life of Christ, commencing with the Annunciation and concluding with the Last Judgement. A Paris edition has been recently assigned to the printer Jean Du Pré and tentatively dated ca. 1484 (see ISTC). Of the 31 illustrations of scenes from the life of Christ the woodcuts are apparently unique to this edition; most of the metalcuts, based on the popular and often copied cycle of the Life of Christ by the Master of the Berlin Passion, were later acquired by the Cologne printer Johann Landen and reused in his edition of ca. 1498 (Goff B-507). They are among a handful of metalcut or "dotted print" illustrations in printed books of the fifteenth century (see Hind, History of Woodcut I, p. 194). This copy has the variant setting of the innermost sheet of quire p, without the metalcut of the Last Judgement on p5v, as described in GW Anm. BMC I, 199 (IA. 3081); BSB-Ink. B-395; Goff B-503; GW 4172; HC 2995(I)=H 8931(I); Muther 119; Schreiber 3444; Schramm VIII, pp. 4, 17.
BERTHOLDUS, O.P. (fl. 1350). Horologium devotionis. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, ca 1488].
BERTHOLDUS, O.P. (fl. 1350). Horologium devotionis. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, ca 1488]. Median 16 o (110 x 82 mm). Collation: [a] 8 b-o 8 p 1 0 (a1r title with Nativity metalcut, a1v blank, a2r text, p5v blank, p10r explicit, p10v blank). 122 leaves. 22 lines. Types: 2:115G (title and headings); 4:67G (text). 24 full-page woodcuts printed from 19 blocks and 13 metalcuts with foliate borders printed from 12 plates (woodcuts e8v=g7v, i4v=i5v, k8v=l5r, m2v=m5v, metalcut a1r=b3v); COLORED BY AN EARLY HAND. One 5-line and numerous 2- and 3-line initial spaces. Flourished Lombard initials in alternating blue and red, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, opening initial with penwork decoration. (Some light browing, m2 with minor marginal repair.) 19th-century German boards (rubbed); cloth slipcase. Provenance : Vladimir Koreneff (inkstamp); purchased by an American collector in Shanghai from a German or Austrian refugee bookseller there, probably Kurt Scharz or Heinz Heinemann (a catalogue description pasted to endpapers); purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal (his catalogue description laid in), 1986. FIRST EDITION of Bertholdus' own Latin translation of his Zeitglöcklein des Lebens und Leiden Christi nach den 24 Stunden nachgeteilt, a popular devotional work in which the prayers are divided into 24 parts, each corresponding to an hour of the day, and each concerned with an event in the life of Christ, commencing with the Annunciation and concluding with the Last Judgement. A Paris edition has been recently assigned to the printer Jean Du Pré and tentatively dated ca. 1484 (see ISTC). Of the 31 illustrations of scenes from the life of Christ the woodcuts are apparently unique to this edition; most of the metalcuts, based on the popular and often copied cycle of the Life of Christ by the Master of the Berlin Passion, were later acquired by the Cologne printer Johann Landen and reused in his edition of ca. 1498 (Goff B-507). They are among a handful of metalcut or "dotted print" illustrations in printed books of the fifteenth century (see Hind, History of Woodcut I, p. 194). This copy has the variant setting of the innermost sheet of quire p, without the metalcut of the Last Judgement on p5v, as described in GW Anm. BMC I, 199 (IA. 3081); BSB-Ink. B-395; Goff B-503; GW 4172; HC 2995(I)=H 8931(I); Muther 119; Schreiber 3444; Schramm VIII, pp. 4, 17.
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