拍品 130
  • 130

HOLKOT, SUPER SAPIENTIAM SALOMONIS, BASEL, 1489, CONTEMPORARY PIGSKIN OVER WOODEN BOARDS

估價
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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描述

  • Super sapientiam Salomonis. Basel: [Johann Amerbach, and Johann Petri de Langendorff?], 1489
  • Paper
Median folio (320 x 222mm.), 229 leaves (of 230), A8 B6 a–o8.6 p8 q–y8.6 A–B6 C–F8.6 G–H6 I8, double column, 57 lines plus headline, gothic type, 3- to 5-line initial spaces with printed guides, red initial strokes, early annotations, near-contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards with an "Ave Maria" banner stamp, a shield and rosettes (EBDB w002737, Christus frei II, active c. 1509-1514), medieval manuscript fragments in binding, lacking A1 (title-page), a few small marginal tears, a few small wormholes at end and in binding, pastedowns removed

來源

Charterhouse of Buxheim, inscription and ink stamp at foot of first leaf; their library went in 1810 to the Graf von Ostein, and inherited by; Graf von Waldbott-Bassenheim, sale, Munich, Behrens, 20 September 1883

出版

Goff H291; HC 8758; BMC iii 751; BSB-Ink H-313; GW 12886

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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