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[Incunabula] AUSMO, Nicolaus. de Supplementum summae Pisanellae.[followed:] Astesanus, Canones poenitentiales. Venezia, Franz Renner e Nikolaus de Frankfordia, 1474
Estimation :
Start Price 6 000 €
Description
folio, mm. 265x180; German binding of the XVII th century, ful calf, rich blind tooling decorations of frames, spine with 4 ribs painted in black with Title in white letters, blue sprayed edges, signs of two metal clasps; leaves 336 not numbered, first and last bl. Gothic type, text on two columns 47 lines. Large Initial letter adorned in red, initial rubricated. Handwritten inscription on the first page, partly erased: "Ad usum F. ... Mariae". Two ex-libris pasted to the first end paper.
RARE INCUNABULA WITH INITIAL LETTER FINELY DECORATED WITH ARABESQUES AND INITIAL RUBRICATED. This is the SECOND ÉDITION with 47 lines, different from the first 41 lines printed the same year by the same printers. The famous work of Canon Law, organized in alphabetical order, of Nicholas of Osimo is followed by 47 penitential canons of the theologian, moralist and Franciscan jurist Astesanus de Ast. The issue is particularly valuable for the cure of the press and for the presence of a type that had never been used before.
BMC: “The occurrence in this book only of alternative M and Q with type 130G (see notes of each article) suggests that is the first book in wich the type was used: hence in position here.”
Provenience: manuscripted note on the firt leaf “Ad usum F. :.. Mariae”. Inside cover: Ex libris Maurice Burrus; Ex libris di Maxime Le Bègue de Germiny, 1871-1945, tagliando di catalogo d’asta, vendita del 5 maggio 1939, lot 8.
Condition Report: Very nice copy. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
RARE INCUNABULA WITH INITIAL LETTER FINELY DECORATED WITH ARABESQUES AND INITIAL RUBRICATED. This is the SECOND ÉDITION with 47 lines, different from the first 41 lines printed the same year by the same printers. The famous work of Canon Law, organized in alphabetical order, of Nicholas of Osimo is followed by 47 penitential canons of the theologian, moralist and Franciscan jurist Astesanus de Ast. The issue is particularly valuable for the cure of the press and for the presence of a type that had never been used before.
BMC: “The occurrence in this book only of alternative M and Q with type 130G (see notes of each article) suggests that is the first book in wich the type was used: hence in position here.”
Provenience: manuscripted note on the firt leaf “Ad usum F. :.. Mariae”. Inside cover: Ex libris Maurice Burrus; Ex libris di Maxime Le Bègue de Germiny, 1871-1945, tagliando di catalogo d’asta, vendita del 5 maggio 1939, lot 8.
Condition Report: Very nice copy. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
