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Auction archive: Lot number 87

Conrad Gritsch's Quadragesimale Conrad Gritsch's Quadragesimale ANTON KOBERGER, 1483

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$7,500
Auction archive: Lot number 87

Conrad Gritsch's Quadragesimale Conrad Gritsch's Quadragesimale ANTON KOBERGER, 1483

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$7,500
Beschreibung:

Conrad Gritsch's Quadragesimale Anton Koberger 1483 GRITSCH, [Conradus (not after 1409-before 20 October 1475)]. Quadragesimale. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 7 March 1483. A popular collection of Lenten sermons, the third of three Koberger editions, in a contemporary binding. This work is commonly identified in early printed editions as the work of Johannes Gritsch, a canon of Basel. Since 1940, however, it has been attributed to Johannes' brother, Conradus Gritsch, a Franciscan who studied in Paris and Vienna and served at various churches in Switzerland. HC 8069*; BMC II 425; BSB-Ink G-400; GW 11548; Goff G-499; ISTC ig00499000. Chancery folio (307 x 203mm). 224 leaves (of 226, bifolium y1-8 replaced in contemporary manuscript, with addition of 2 half-sheet slips). One large pen-flourished initial in red and blue; red and blue Lombard capitals and paragraph marks, red capital strokes (some staining, a few closed tears or chips in blank margins, a few small marginal repairs, final leaf remargined at outer edge). Contemporary Nuremberg blindstamped calf over wooden boards, brass bosses, clasps (rebacked preserving portions of original spine and pastedowns). Provenance: marginalia including note of purchase for half a florin – Daniel Cappelius in Kelheim (contemporary inscription) – Andreas Haberfelzer (inscription dated 1547).

Auction archive: Lot number 87
Auction:
Datum:
23 Apr 2021
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
Beschreibung:

Conrad Gritsch's Quadragesimale Anton Koberger 1483 GRITSCH, [Conradus (not after 1409-before 20 October 1475)]. Quadragesimale. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 7 March 1483. A popular collection of Lenten sermons, the third of three Koberger editions, in a contemporary binding. This work is commonly identified in early printed editions as the work of Johannes Gritsch, a canon of Basel. Since 1940, however, it has been attributed to Johannes' brother, Conradus Gritsch, a Franciscan who studied in Paris and Vienna and served at various churches in Switzerland. HC 8069*; BMC II 425; BSB-Ink G-400; GW 11548; Goff G-499; ISTC ig00499000. Chancery folio (307 x 203mm). 224 leaves (of 226, bifolium y1-8 replaced in contemporary manuscript, with addition of 2 half-sheet slips). One large pen-flourished initial in red and blue; red and blue Lombard capitals and paragraph marks, red capital strokes (some staining, a few closed tears or chips in blank margins, a few small marginal repairs, final leaf remargined at outer edge). Contemporary Nuremberg blindstamped calf over wooden boards, brass bosses, clasps (rebacked preserving portions of original spine and pastedowns). Provenance: marginalia including note of purchase for half a florin – Daniel Cappelius in Kelheim (contemporary inscription) – Andreas Haberfelzer (inscription dated 1547).

Auction archive: Lot number 87
Auction:
Datum:
23 Apr 2021
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
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