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Item Details
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| Author: |
Albertus Magnus |
| Title: |
Suma prelucidissima de mirabili eucaristie sacramto disputabilis & pdicabilis deuotissimi fratris alberti magni de ordinis frat[rum] predicato[rum] pfessione incipit |
| Place: |
Ulm |
| Publisher: |
Johann Zainer |
| Date: |
1474 |
| Item # : |
206292 |
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| Sale Number |
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429 |
| Lot Number |
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3 |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Library of Kent Johnson (with additions) |
| Sale Date |
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05/27/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 12000 |
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| Description: |
| 182 (of 183) leaves). [8], ii-lix , [1], lx-Clxxiiii leaves (final leaf Clxxv supplied in facsimile). Collation: a4, b-g10, h10 (h2+1), i-r10, s8, t10 (-t10). 35 lines and headline (foliation). Type: 1:117G. Two-sided woodcut foliate border opening text, woodcut outline initials. (folio) 29.8x20.6 cm. (11¾x8¼"), 19th century full blind-ruled vellum over boards, modern spine label. First Edition. |
| Rare first edition of this important liturgical text by Albertus Magnus (1193?-1280), the most learned scholar of his age, printed at the first press in Ulm. Written towards the end of his life, the work explains the nature of the Sacrament of the Mass, the meaning of the symbolism and language used, and the disposition necessary in the participants, while the whole is filled with the spirit of adoration and mystical devotion. This is one of relatively few fully-dated and signed Zainer imprints, and one of the earliest books to print foliation. The inserted leaf in the 8th quire was printed to make good a compositorial error in the third leaf, where a page of text was omitted between the recto and the verso; the inserted leaf was printed on the verso only. OCLC WorldCat lists only six copies of this printing. Goff A-335; Hain-Copinger 456*. Provenance: bookplate of Dr. S. E. Lawton on rear pastedown; bookplate of John Gartner (the eminent Australian printer, founder of Hawthorn Press, Melbourne) on front pastedown. |
| Condition: |
| Some discoloration to vellum; ink inscription to top margin of first leaf dated 1656, marginal staining & a few chips to that leaf; a few tiny wormholes to earlier leaves, some light marginal dampstaining, last several leaves with light staining and a few chips; the final leaf is lacking but supplied in excellent lithographic facsimile on early paper (probably using the rear flyleaf of the original binding); overall very good or better, a nice, wide-margined exemplar. |
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