Live auction - Lot 844
[France - Strasbourg]
Vocabularius rerum [Latin and German].
[Strasbourg, M. Schott, 1487
€ 1.000 / 1.500
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Lot description
4to: [59] ff., 37 ll. (lacking initial f. 4; 1st ff. and bottom of quire f dampstained).
Mod. boards covered with a rubricated German incunable leaf, flat spine titled in ink, blue edges. Very good copy.
Early ed. (1st 1483) of the "Latin-German dictionary" of the Konstanz Latin teacher and physician Wenzel Brack (d. 1495), intended for students of Latin, but now an important source of German lexicography. Rubricated, with i.a. the original rubricated foliation. Ref. ISTC ib01061000. - GW 4987. - Goff B-1061. - Polain 4091 (this copy). - BSB-Ink B-794. - Not in BMC, CIBN. Prov. [Georges Petit].