Henricus de Vrimaria, Opus sermonum de sanctis, Haguenau, 1513, contemporary Cambridge binding

HENRICUS DE VRIMARIA

Opus sermonum exactissimorum de sanctis. (Haguenau: Heinrich Gran for Johann Rynmann, 4 November 1513)

4to (211 x 150mm.), contemporary Cambridge blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, roll-tooled border with initials HC (Oldham AN.h(2) 566) and half stamp in the central panel (Oldham HS(2) 1002), two clasps, lacking title-page, lacking both straps, joints cracked, spine repaired at head; together with a copy of the 1972 Sotheby's sale catalogue

The binding, with the HC stamp, could perhaps be tentatively assigned to Henry Cransho, who was active in Cambridge in the mid sixteenth century (H.P. Stokes, Cambridge Stationers, Printers and Bookbinders etc., Cambridge, 1919); he appears in the accounts of Queen's College, Cambridge, in reference to a land holding, in 1560-1561, where his name appears as "Henrici Cransho (bibliotiste) Londini". Oldham records the roll-tool being used with the half stamp in 1513, and indicates that the roll-tool was in use from 1496 to 1515.

LITERATURE:

USTC 679777; VD16 H 2107

PROVENANCE:

Cathedral Library, Ely, bookplate, with sold stamp; sale, Sotheby's, 9 March 1972, lot 296; And. Persson, Västerås, booklabel on inside front cover

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