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Hieronymus, Vitae sanctorum patrum, Strassburg, 7 March 1483, later pigskin with arms of Breslau

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June 15, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Hieronymus


Vitae sactorum patrum, sive Vitas patrum. De laude et effectu virtutum. Pseudo-Macarius: Epistola ad monachos. [Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 "Vitas patrum"], 7 March 1483


Chancery folio (286 x 200mm.), 259 leaves (of 260, without final blank), [*10 a-z8 A-D8 E10 F-H8], double column, 46 lines plus foliation, gothic type, a1 with illuminated initial in green on a pink and gold ground with leafy marginal extensions terminating with a green and blue bird, red initial-strokes and paraphs, smaller initials in red or blue, a few early annotations, some deckle edges, fos 137-144 misbound after f.216, seventeenth-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with the arms of Breslau (Wroclaw), two clasps, blue edges, modern slipcase, some staining in centre of volume


LITERATURE:

ISTC ih00204000


PROVENANCE:

notes on initial blank signed by Hermann Friedrich Braunss (1678-1756), [presumably copied] "from the library of Urban Gottfried Siber", inscription on flyleaf; V.D. Gavelentz-Poschwitz, bookplate

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