Live auction - Lot 906
[Postincunable - Cologne imprint]
Stichologia gaudensis. Enchiridion poetarum. Homeomata eorundem. Naumachia ecclesiastica cu[m] carminibus diuersis.
Cologne, Heirs of H. Quentel, 3 February 1503
€ 750 / 1.000
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Lot description
4to: [52] ff. (minor dampstaining in blank top margin of a few ff.).
Mod. blue boards, red edges. Nice copy.
First edition (enl. 1506) of a treatise on Latin versification by Jacobus Magdalius from Gouda (1468-1520). Large decorative woodcut initials. J. Magdalius probably studied in the Stein convent near Gouda and afterwards entered the Dominican Order in Haarlem. As a Dominican theologian and Latin poet he went to Cologne, where he was active until his death in 1520. Ref. VD-16 J-133. - STC German (BL). - Not in Adams.