HIERONYMUS (St., c.342-420). Epistolae . Edited by Adrianus Brielis (d.1472). Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 7 September 1470.
HIERONYMUS (St., c.342-420). Epistolae . Edited by Adrianus Brielis (d.1472). Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 7 September 1470. PRINTED ON VELLUM. 2 volumes, imperial 2° (478 x 332mm). Collation: volume I: [1 4 , 2-5 1 0 6 8 (7+1); 7-19 1 0 20 8 21 6 (5+1)] (1/1 introduction and register, 1/4v blank, 2-6 Distinctiones I-II; 7-12 Distinctio III; 13-16 Distinctio IV(i), 16/10v blank; 17-21 Distinctiones IV(ii)-V, 21/6v blank); volume II: [22-24 1 0 25 6 (5+1); 26-28 1 0 29 8 30 6 31 4 (3+1); 32-34 1 0 35 1 0 (4+1, 6+1,2) 36-42 1 0 43 1 0 (9+1)] (22-25 Distinctio VI, 25/6v blank; 26-31 Distinctiones VII-XI, 31/4v blank; 32-39 Distinctio XII(i); 40-43 Distinctio XII(ii)). 408 leaves. 56 lines, double column. Type: 5:118G. Red-printed rubric headings (except on 2/10r, where the heading is in a contemporary hand in red ink), colophon and Fust-Schoeffer device printed in red on final page. CONTEMPORARY MAINZ DECORATION AND ILLUMINATION, ASSOCIATED WITH THE SCHOEFFER PRINTING SHOP: 16-line historiated initial showing St. Jerome in his study with a full decorated border incorporating archers hunting a dragon, 8-line initials on burnished gold ground opening the 12 Distinctiones, with leafy extensions inhabited by monkeys, birds, human and fantastical figures, and gold dots, epistle initials in red, blue or interlocking red and blue with purple penwork decoration (incorporating Schoeffer device on 32/10r and figure of a man elsewhere), Distinctio letter as recto headline (A-M, O) and paragraph marks alternating red or blue; guide-letters for the headline letter in contemporary dry-point, also indicating red; 2, and possibly 3, sets of contemporary collation marks in dry-point or ink. Contemporary binder's note on front pastedown: Hic liber continet 200 folia minus duobus scripta Et 8 non scripta Que summe sunt 20 quinterni et 6 folia ("This volume contains 200 written leaves minus two and 8 unwritten leaves, which makes 20 quinternions and 6 leaves". This is almost correct, if not quite exact. (Large blank section of 30/4 and small section at upper margin of first leaf of each volume cut away without loss of text, a little vertical creasing in last leaves of first volume.) CONTEMPORARY ERFURT BINDING by the Successor to Johann Vogel blindstamped calf over bevelled wooden boards tooled with bird, fleur-de-lis, rosette, large foliate and other stamps (Schwenke, "Lautenspieler", pl. 3 tools 1, 28 and 29; pl. 4, tool 53), chased brass center- and cornerpieces and catches, 2 fore-edge clasps, yellow edges, plain pastedowns, spine liner in vol. I from a large-format 14th-century manuscript of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (clasps renewed, hinges repaired, some spine leather and one cornerpiece renewed); modern burgundy morocco-backed folding box. Provenance : [Erfurt, Carthusian house of Mons Sancti Salvatoris (binding; 15th-century library catalogue, ed. Paul Lehmann Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz , II, Munich: 1928, pp. 444-6, where it is described as in 2 volumes)] -- Leander Van Ess (1772-1847) -- Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872, Catalogus incunabulorum Professoris...Van Ess , no. 4) -- Rosenbach cat. 29 (1937), no. 200, $11,500; cat. 37 (1947), no. 318, $16,500; purchased by: -- Countess Estelle Doheny (1875-1958; acquired in 1949; sale, Christie's NY, 22 October 1987, lot 9). FIRST EDITION OF THE ENLARGED RECENSION of St. Jerome's letters and tractates. The present copy is among the very finest examples from the early Mainz press and has few rivals in the quality and richness of its decoration, in the luxury of its carefully prepared vellum, and in its remarkable, original condition. The edition was conceived as a monumental undertaking. It is one of Schoeffer's largest publications (both in number of leaves and Imperial sheet size), and its red-printed rubrics required each page to go through the press twice, printing first the text in black and second the rubrics in red. Copies were
HIERONYMUS (St., c.342-420). Epistolae . Edited by Adrianus Brielis (d.1472). Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 7 September 1470.
HIERONYMUS (St., c.342-420). Epistolae . Edited by Adrianus Brielis (d.1472). Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 7 September 1470. PRINTED ON VELLUM. 2 volumes, imperial 2° (478 x 332mm). Collation: volume I: [1 4 , 2-5 1 0 6 8 (7+1); 7-19 1 0 20 8 21 6 (5+1)] (1/1 introduction and register, 1/4v blank, 2-6 Distinctiones I-II; 7-12 Distinctio III; 13-16 Distinctio IV(i), 16/10v blank; 17-21 Distinctiones IV(ii)-V, 21/6v blank); volume II: [22-24 1 0 25 6 (5+1); 26-28 1 0 29 8 30 6 31 4 (3+1); 32-34 1 0 35 1 0 (4+1, 6+1,2) 36-42 1 0 43 1 0 (9+1)] (22-25 Distinctio VI, 25/6v blank; 26-31 Distinctiones VII-XI, 31/4v blank; 32-39 Distinctio XII(i); 40-43 Distinctio XII(ii)). 408 leaves. 56 lines, double column. Type: 5:118G. Red-printed rubric headings (except on 2/10r, where the heading is in a contemporary hand in red ink), colophon and Fust-Schoeffer device printed in red on final page. CONTEMPORARY MAINZ DECORATION AND ILLUMINATION, ASSOCIATED WITH THE SCHOEFFER PRINTING SHOP: 16-line historiated initial showing St. Jerome in his study with a full decorated border incorporating archers hunting a dragon, 8-line initials on burnished gold ground opening the 12 Distinctiones, with leafy extensions inhabited by monkeys, birds, human and fantastical figures, and gold dots, epistle initials in red, blue or interlocking red and blue with purple penwork decoration (incorporating Schoeffer device on 32/10r and figure of a man elsewhere), Distinctio letter as recto headline (A-M, O) and paragraph marks alternating red or blue; guide-letters for the headline letter in contemporary dry-point, also indicating red; 2, and possibly 3, sets of contemporary collation marks in dry-point or ink. Contemporary binder's note on front pastedown: Hic liber continet 200 folia minus duobus scripta Et 8 non scripta Que summe sunt 20 quinterni et 6 folia ("This volume contains 200 written leaves minus two and 8 unwritten leaves, which makes 20 quinternions and 6 leaves". This is almost correct, if not quite exact. (Large blank section of 30/4 and small section at upper margin of first leaf of each volume cut away without loss of text, a little vertical creasing in last leaves of first volume.) CONTEMPORARY ERFURT BINDING by the Successor to Johann Vogel blindstamped calf over bevelled wooden boards tooled with bird, fleur-de-lis, rosette, large foliate and other stamps (Schwenke, "Lautenspieler", pl. 3 tools 1, 28 and 29; pl. 4, tool 53), chased brass center- and cornerpieces and catches, 2 fore-edge clasps, yellow edges, plain pastedowns, spine liner in vol. I from a large-format 14th-century manuscript of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (clasps renewed, hinges repaired, some spine leather and one cornerpiece renewed); modern burgundy morocco-backed folding box. Provenance : [Erfurt, Carthusian house of Mons Sancti Salvatoris (binding; 15th-century library catalogue, ed. Paul Lehmann Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz , II, Munich: 1928, pp. 444-6, where it is described as in 2 volumes)] -- Leander Van Ess (1772-1847) -- Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872, Catalogus incunabulorum Professoris...Van Ess , no. 4) -- Rosenbach cat. 29 (1937), no. 200, $11,500; cat. 37 (1947), no. 318, $16,500; purchased by: -- Countess Estelle Doheny (1875-1958; acquired in 1949; sale, Christie's NY, 22 October 1987, lot 9). FIRST EDITION OF THE ENLARGED RECENSION of St. Jerome's letters and tractates. The present copy is among the very finest examples from the early Mainz press and has few rivals in the quality and richness of its decoration, in the luxury of its carefully prepared vellum, and in its remarkable, original condition. The edition was conceived as a monumental undertaking. It is one of Schoeffer's largest publications (both in number of leaves and Imperial sheet size), and its red-printed rubrics required each page to go through the press twice, printing first the text in black and second the rubrics in red. Copies were
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