Sales catalogue 470: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/39
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 470: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jrance: Strassburg Johann [Reinhard] Grueninger: A.D. 1483 28 SALICETUS (Nicolaus). Antidotarius Animae. Black Letter, double columns, 33 lines to a full page. Capital spaces. Initia! letters, paragraph-marks and initial-strokes supplied in red. Rio, Old calf, Strassburg, Johann (Reinhard), Griininger, September, 14090. 21 Hain 14159 (without seeing it). No copy in British Museum. In this once very popular little book, the compilation of a pious physician, of which eighteen editions are described by Hain, the author quaintly observes that as there are for the help of the body medicines digestive, such as syrups; laxatives, such as pills, potions, and electuaries; opiates and alteratives; so in this Anthidotarius Animae there are prayers and ‘meditation digestive, prompting sorrow and contrition for sin; prayers purgative, viz., confessions made either to the priest or to God; prayers ‘sedative to our Lord after the reception of the Eucharist, and so on. Indul- gences are scattered broadcast through the volume. To him who devoutly recites a certain prayer (Salve sancta facies, etc.), Pope John XXII grants 3,000 days of indulgences of criminal sins and 20, ,000 days of venial sins. To him who reads or hears read, or carries about with him a certain prayer of St. Augustine (Deus pro- picius esto, etc.), shall not perish on that day, either by fire or water, or by capital punishment or sudden death, nor shall he be harmed by any deadly thing, and what- ever lawful thing he shall ask of God he shall receive, and when his soul leaves the body it shall not depart into Hell. An extraordinary passage occurs in a prayer to the Deity, in which he is conjured ‘“Per hoc nomen sanctissimum, magnum atque fortissimum gloriosum atque inclitum, per quod Adam in tartaro, cum esset in supplicio, in inferni patibulo te reclinavit dominum auctorem suum pium, et habuit propicium per hoc nomen sanctissimum quod est LAVELERE Rarerart. Explicare nequent omnes lingue vitium, nec mens nec sensus hominum nomen quod est Anelzeneton, etc.’’ { No copy in U.S.A. (according to Census). 29 BALDUNG (Hieronymus). Aphorismi compunctionis. Roman Leiter, 30 long lines and head-line to a full page. Capital spaces. With 10 spirited woodcuts (one used four times). 4to. Boards. Strassburg, Johann (Reinhard) Griininger, 6th January, 1407. £63 Hain *2270. Proctor 477. Pellechet 1720. Catalogue of J. P. Morgan Library, Vo. Loop. BEh.
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