Guillermus Parisiensis (14th century) - photo 1
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Guillermus Parisiensis (14th century) - photo 1

Guillermus Parisiensis (14th century)

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30.07.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 123 | Guillermus Parisiensis (14th century)
[GUILLERMUS Parisiensis (editor, 14th-century) and Johannes HEROLT (d.1468)]. Postilla super epistolas et evangelia. [Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, c. 1506].

Rare post-incunable edition: only 6 other complete copies are recorded; no copy in the USA or UK. The Postilla provide commentary on the Gospels to be read each Sunday and festival. It was hugely popular, printed in over 100 editions in the 15th century and surviving in numerous early manuscripts. Its authorship remains uncertain, but current consensus recognises much of the base as Johann Herolt’s work, edited and augmented by Guillermus, a Dominican friar of Paris. The present edition is dated to c. 1506 on the basis of the woodcut on the title-page. The 52 woodcuts illustrating the Gospels were first used by Kesler in his edition of 1492. H *8234; BSB-Ink H-182; VD-16 E-4364; Schreiber 4156; GW X, col. 504; ISTC ig00664700.

Chancery quarto (210 x 148mm). Collation: A-L8 M4; Aa-GG8 Hh6, with blank Hh6. Large woodcut on title-page of each part, 52 woodcuts in part one, the majority touched with colour (very occasional small stain, Cc7,8 with light dampstain at extreme margin). Bound at the Benedictine monastery at Hirsau (K 14, EBDB w00062, active 1478-1516) in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over thick wooden boards, binding fragments from a German, 13th-century manuscript (neat splits at spine, modern endpapers). Provenance: Johannes Wohlkratz (contemporary ownership inscription at end; contemporary annotations on flyleaves, including music notation on staves, a list in German) – F. Fasting, Rio de Janeiro (20th-century stamp).
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