Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/88
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AEB. T3. BARTHOLOMEW OF SAN coNncorpbiIo _ [Bartholomaeus Pisanus], Canonist (died 1347). Summa de casibus conscientiae alias Pisana. Roman Letter, 37 long lines to a full page. Initial spaces. First initial painted in red and blue with pen-drawn ornamenta- tions. Other initials and paragraph-marks supplied in red and blue alternately. Without printed signatures, foliation, or catch-words. { Albi, Printer of the Aeneas Silvius, not after 1475. | Thick small folio. Calf. £585 Not in Hain. Copinger 885. Pellechet 1889. Gesamtkatalog 3454. Woolley Photographs, plate 378. British Museum, IB. 43013 (the Museum copy is imperfect), Cat. d’ Albi, No, 71. A most rare production of the anonymous first printer at Albi. While a copy in the Verdun Library bears the rubricator’s date of 1478, according to Dr. Haebler’s most recent article on the Printers of Albi in Beitréige zur Forschung, Studien aus dem Antiquariat Jacques Rosenthal, II, a copy has been discovered in Germany, bearing the contemporary date of 1475, in a purchaser’s note, signed by a Frenchman named Dufayet. As the book was bought in the market at Toulouse, it is even possible that it was printed before 1475. Albi is therefore the third town in France to inaugurate printing, following after Paris and Lyons. It is printed in an irregular roman character, very similar to the first roman used at Paris. Of the three known books in this type, one, an Aeneas Sylvius, De remedio amoris, has a colophon recording that it was printed in Albi. The work is a famous medieval dictionary of cases of conscience arranged alphabetically, and comprising many most curious dissertations. A copy in sound condition and nicely rubricated. No copy is known in U.S.A. (according to Census). [31]
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