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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    Chambery. Antoine Neyret: a.p. 1484-1486. Only printer. I4. PETRUS COMESTOR [PIERRE LE MANGEUR], Chancellor of the Sorbonne (died about 1178). Scholastica historia. Gotuic Letter, double columns of 45 lines. Without printea signatures or foliation. A curious calligraphic woodcut initial I at the commencement of the text, measuring 614 inches; initial spaces, with guide-letters, elsewhere. First initial supplied in red, woodcut initial touched with red. Paragraph-marks in table, and underlines throughout sup- plied in red. Without printed signatures, foliation, or catch- words. Contemporary MS. foliation. [Chambéry, Antoine Neyret, about 1484. | Folio. Calf binding of about 1600. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE III.) £425 Not known to Hain. Copinger 1709. Pellechet 3877. Reichling II, p. 158. Proctor 8762. British Museum Short Title Cat. of Books printed in France, p. 348. A complete Chambéry book in fine condition; and of special interest, being signed and dated (1486) by the rubricator at end. Books printed at Chambéry in the XVth century are met with very rarely, and are seldom complete. The British Museum has four Chambéry books, but three of them are imperfect. The Annmary Brown Memorial Library, so rich in rare printing-places, has nothing to represent Chambéry. The Comestor has, at the commencement of the text, a long and most remark- able calligraphic woodcut initial I (see reproduction, Plate III), which is certainly one of the curiosities of the first Chambéry press. First Latin Edition printed in France of Petrus Comestor’s famous Azs- torta Scholastica. This Biblical history, composed for students, as the title implies, was extensively read during the Middle Ages, when it was to be found in every monastery, alongside the Golden Legend and the Gesta Romanorum. A very desirable large copy. [33]
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