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Bertholdus, O.P.
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description
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Horologium devotionis. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, c. 1488]
Chancery 16mo (4 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.; 108 x 80 mm), types 115G (title and headings), 67G (text), 22 lines, collation: a7, b-o8, p10=[121] leaves; lacking title leaf with one woodcut, 23 full-page woodcuts printed from 18 blocks and 13 metalcuts with foliate borders printed from 12 plates (including 5 repeats), flourished Lombard initials in red, paragraph marks in red; a few faces rubbed out in woodcuts, dampstain in lower margin of a few leaves, marginal note in leaf i1. 19th-century morocco, edges gilt, by Thomas Fazakerley of Liverpool; joints broken.
Chancery 16mo (4 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.; 108 x 80 mm), types 115G (title and headings), 67G (text), 22 lines, collation: a7, b-o8, p10=[121] leaves; lacking title leaf with one woodcut, 23 full-page woodcuts printed from 18 blocks and 13 metalcuts with foliate borders printed from 12 plates (including 5 repeats), flourished Lombard initials in red, paragraph marks in red; a few faces rubbed out in woodcuts, dampstain in lower margin of a few leaves, marginal note in leaf i1. 19th-century morocco, edges gilt, by Thomas Fazakerley of Liverpool; joints broken.
Provenance
Florence Foerderer Tonner (bookplate)
Literature
HC 2995 (I) = H 8931 (I); Goff B503 (8 copies in US); BMC I, 199; BSB-Ink B-395; GW 4172; Schreiber 3444; Schramm VIII, pp. 4, 17
Condition
lacking title leaf with one woodcut
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
First edition and a true miniature incunable of the author's own translation of his Zeitglöcklien des Lebens und Leiden Christi, a popular devotional work in which the prayers are divided into 24 parts according to the hours of the day. Each is concerned with an event in the life of Christ. The woodcuts seem to be unique to this edition; most of the metalcuts, based on the Life of Christ by the Master of the Berlin Passion, appeared later in Johann Landen's edition of 1498, one of only a few sets of "dotted print" illustrations in printed books of the incunable period. This copy has the metalcut of the Last Judgement on p5v.