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Auction archive: Lot number 91

Henricus de Odendorff's Repetitio capituli Henricus de Odendorff's Repetitio capituli ALBRECHT KUNNE, 1490

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$10,000
Auction archive: Lot number 91

Henricus de Odendorff's Repetitio capituli Henricus de Odendorff's Repetitio capituli ALBRECHT KUNNE, 1490

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$10,000
Beschreibung:

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.”

Auction archive: Lot number 91
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:

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.”

Auction archive: Lot number 91
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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