Sales catalogue 402: Maggs Bros

Date:
1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 402: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    France—Strassburg. 45 46 PRINTED NOT AFTER 1463. THE SECOND BOOK PRINTED BY MENTELIN. THOMAS DE AQUINAS. Summa, Secunda secundae Partis. Black Letter, DOUBLE COLUMN, 59 LINES TO A FULL PAGE. SPACES FOR CAPITALS. CAPITALS AND PARAGRAPH MARKS AND PAGE-HEADINGS IN RED AND BLUE. MANY INITIALS WITH PEN ORNAMENTATION. Folio. Calf binding over wooden boards (19th Century). Strassburg, Johann Mentelin, not after 1463. £200 Epitio PRINCEPS AND ALSO THE SECOND BOOK PRINTED BY MENTELIN. “His Biblia latina is printed not after 1461, while the Thomas Aquinas is printed not after 1463.” AccORDING TO A MANUSCRIPT NOTE IN THE COPY WHICH IS IN THE LIBRARY AT SCHELESTADT IN ALSACE, THE BOOK WAS BOUGHT FROM MENTELIN HIMSELF IN THE YEAR 1463 (sun PeLiecaer 1045). No other impressions of Mentelin can be dated before 1466. Our copy has fine broad margins. EN MAGNIFICENT CONDITION. “This is the first edition of this book and earliest appearance of any part’ of the Summa.’ Mentelin is said tc have been printing in 1458, but the earliest date (rubricated) in one of his books in 1460. Only four of his books have a printed date (1473, 1476 and 1477). He died 12 December 1478. His business was continued by his son-in-law Adolf Rusch (the ‘“ R-printer’’). Another son-in-law of Mentelin was Martin Schott also a Strassburg printer.” This is the only copy of this early book which contains one leaf printed on one side only, leaving the other side blank, proving that in the earliest days of typography each side of the leaf was printed singly. Hain-Copinger *1454. Proctor 199. Pellechat 1045. British Museum Catalogue, Vol. J., p. sk Oxty 1 Copy 1n U.S.A. (AccORDING To CENsUs). IN MAGNIFICENT CONDITION. HIERONYMUS (Saint). Epistolae. Black Letter, DOUBLE COLUMNS, 50 LINES TO A FULL PAGE. ‘CAPITAL SPACES. INITIAL LETTERS SUPPLIED IN RED AND BLUE. Folio. Original fifteenth century binding of wooden boards covered with deerskin. (Strassburg, Johann Mentelin, not after 1469.) £175 From the Monastery at Weingarten. : Hain *8549. Proctor. 203. British Museum Catalogue, Vol. I., p. 53. Our copy contains the original blank leaf at end (which is absent in the British Museum copy). An interesting fact dating this book is the existence of a copy in the Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, which was bound in 1469 by Johann Reichenbach of Geislingen. ONLY 4 CoPIus OF THIS MAGNIFICENT BOOK IN U.S.A. (accorpDING To CENsUS).
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