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Johannes Busch (1399/1400-after 1475)

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09.12.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 152 | Johannes Busch (1399/1400-after 1475)
Johannes Busch (1399/1400-after 1475)

Speculum exemplorum. 1481

Speculum exemplorum. Deventer: Richardus Pafraet, 2 May 1481.



First edition of moralising tales compiled from various sources, including the Vitae Patrum of St. Jerome and Dialogues of Pope Gregory. Section 10 is of especial importance as containing tales known to the compiler only from oral sources. The localisation of this oral tradition to northern Netherlands supports the identification of the compiler as Johannes Busch (1399/1400-after 1475) instead of the earlier attribution to Aegidius Aurifaber. Busch was a proponent of the Devotio Moderna and member of the house at Windesheim, the centre of the movement. The work opens with praise of the invention of printing and the dissemination of books throughout the world. HC 14915; BMC IX, 43; Camp-Kron 1568; ILC 2005; Brussels exhib.1973, cat. 141; CIBN S-344; Bod-inc S-264; Goff S-651; ISTC is00651000; not in BSB.



Chancery folio (281 x 205mm). 502 (of 503 leaves, without first blank). 6-line illuminated initial on a2 on a blue ground with pink floriated infill and pink penwork extensions, rubricated in red and blue (occasional small stain at extreme margin, upper blank corner of p1 replaced, marginal flax or repair in 3 leaves, light smudge on kk 5-6). Modern tan pigskin, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, early index tabs, by Dubois d’Enghien, Brussels (pencil attribution). Provenance: Bethlehem [Herent] near Louvain, monastery of Augustinian canons (contemporary inscriptions below colophon, 17th-century inscription on first leaf).

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