Henricus de Odendorff's Repetitio capituli Albrecht Kunne 1490 HENRICUS DE ODENDORFF (d. c.1399). Repetitio capituli "Omnis utriusque sexus" de poenitentiis et remissionibus. Memmingen: Albrecht Kunne 1490. First edition of a work on canon law by the rector of the University of Vienna, in a contemporary binding. Printed in a distinctive and handsome gothic type by Albrecht Kunne this book also contains one of the earliest known examples of a printed manicule. H 11957*; GW 12255; BMC II 605; BSB-Ink H-83; Bod-inc H-030; Goff O-23; ISTC io00023000. See also Paul McPharlin, Roman Numerals, Typographic Leaves and Pointing Hands, pp. 49-50. Chancery quarto (200 x 133mm). 132 leaves. Red and blue initials, one woodcut initial (some light staining, gathering l bound out of order). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps, printed waste as pastedowns, with fragments of a 15th-century manuscript, likely a psalter, reinforcing the hinges (restored). Provenance: gift inscription dated 1577 to “Christoph Ki?melori” from “Doctor Joannis Telkl.”
Henricus de Odendorff's Repetitio capituli Albrecht Kunne 1490 HENRICUS DE ODENDORFF (d. c.1399). Repetitio capituli "Omnis utriusque sexus" de poenitentiis et remissionibus. Memmingen: Albrecht Kunne 1490. First edition of a work on canon law by the rector of the University of Vienna, in a contemporary binding. Printed in a distinctive and handsome gothic type by Albrecht Kunne this book also contains one of the earliest known examples of a printed manicule. H 11957*; GW 12255; BMC II 605; BSB-Ink H-83; Bod-inc H-030; Goff O-23; ISTC io00023000. See also Paul McPharlin, Roman Numerals, Typographic Leaves and Pointing Hands, pp. 49-50. Chancery quarto (200 x 133mm). 132 leaves. Red and blue initials, one woodcut initial (some light staining, gathering l bound out of order). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps, printed waste as pastedowns, with fragments of a 15th-century manuscript, likely a psalter, reinforcing the hinges (restored). Provenance: gift inscription dated 1577 to “Christoph Ki?melori” from “Doctor Joannis Telkl.”
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