BIEL, Gabriel (ca. 1418-1495). Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae . Edited by Wendelin Steinbach. With additions by Heinrich Bebel. Tbingen: [Johan Otmar for Friedrich Meynberger, between 20 February and 29 November 1499]. Chancery 4 o (200 x 140 mm). Collation: A-I 8 K 6 (A1r title, A1v verses by Bebel, dated Tbingen 1499, inc.: Vos qui sacrorum ritus et mystica christi , A2r letter from Steinbach addressed to Meynberger, dated Tbingen, 20 February 1499, A4v verses by Bebel addressed to Steinbach, inc.: Qui modo conaris multo prodesse labore , A5r verse epitaph for Biel, inc.: Quem modo laudarent itali vel grecia alumnum , A5v prologue, A6r blank, A6v text, K5r colophon, K5v errata, K6v blank). 78 leaves. 37 lines and headline. Shoulder notes printed in margins. Types: 7:170(152)G (first line of title, headlines, incipits of chapters, text of Canon), 13:80G (title, text of commentary), woodcut capital T with a snake on C1r, C1v. Title on A1r printed in red. Three-line initial spaces. Unrubricated. (Paper flaw to D8v, A1.8 and K1.6 strengthened at inner margin, old mends to A1r, K5v, K6r, a few small wormholes to first four leaves touching four letters of title.) Modern vellum. Provenance : Buxheim, Carthusians: fifteenth-century inscription on A1r, listing seven works previously bound with this one; armorial library inkstamp on A2r -- Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl: sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 155. FIRST EDITION of the epitome of Gabriel Biel's explication of the Canon of the Mass. A leading exponent of nominalism, Biel was a professor of theology at Tbingen from 1484 and was rector of the university in 1484 and 1489. HC (+Add) 3181*; C 1050; BMC III, 702 (IA. 14821); BSB-Ink. B-506; Harvard/Walsh 1096; Pr 3233; Goff B-654.
BIEL, Gabriel (ca. 1418-1495). Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae . Edited by Wendelin Steinbach. With additions by Heinrich Bebel. Tbingen: [Johan Otmar for Friedrich Meynberger, between 20 February and 29 November 1499]. Chancery 4 o (200 x 140 mm). Collation: A-I 8 K 6 (A1r title, A1v verses by Bebel, dated Tbingen 1499, inc.: Vos qui sacrorum ritus et mystica christi , A2r letter from Steinbach addressed to Meynberger, dated Tbingen, 20 February 1499, A4v verses by Bebel addressed to Steinbach, inc.: Qui modo conaris multo prodesse labore , A5r verse epitaph for Biel, inc.: Quem modo laudarent itali vel grecia alumnum , A5v prologue, A6r blank, A6v text, K5r colophon, K5v errata, K6v blank). 78 leaves. 37 lines and headline. Shoulder notes printed in margins. Types: 7:170(152)G (first line of title, headlines, incipits of chapters, text of Canon), 13:80G (title, text of commentary), woodcut capital T with a snake on C1r, C1v. Title on A1r printed in red. Three-line initial spaces. Unrubricated. (Paper flaw to D8v, A1.8 and K1.6 strengthened at inner margin, old mends to A1r, K5v, K6r, a few small wormholes to first four leaves touching four letters of title.) Modern vellum. Provenance : Buxheim, Carthusians: fifteenth-century inscription on A1r, listing seven works previously bound with this one; armorial library inkstamp on A2r -- Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl: sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 155. FIRST EDITION of the epitome of Gabriel Biel's explication of the Canon of the Mass. A leading exponent of nominalism, Biel was a professor of theology at Tbingen from 1484 and was rector of the university in 1484 and 1489. HC (+Add) 3181*; C 1050; BMC III, 702 (IA. 14821); BSB-Ink. B-506; Harvard/Walsh 1096; Pr 3233; Goff B-654.
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