
Live auction - Lot 801
[France - Strasbourg]
Manuale parochiale sacerdotum.
[Strasbourg, Printer of the 1483 "Vitas Patrum", c. 1485]
€ 800 / 1.200
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Lot description
4to: [17 (of 18)] ff., 31 ll. (lacking final blank; sl. toned, single wormholes throughout with loss of a few letters in f. 2).
19th-c. quarter cloth, green paper boards (tanned). Good copy.
2nd or 3rd of 12 incunable editions (1st Augsburg 1484) of a popular short textbook for parish priests. Printed in gothic type. Rubricated in red or blue, a few initials with penwork extending into the margin; on f. 2r a 4-line initial in red and blue penwork. Ref. ISTC im00217000. - Goff M-217. - Polain 2599 (this copy). - BMC I:100. - BSB-Ink M-136. - Not in CIBN. Prov. Bibliothek des Stiftes Melk (libr. ticket). - Libr. stamp. - [Georges Petit].