ID 1450491
Lot 67 | Petrus von ROSENHEIM (1380?-1433)
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
[Memorabiles Evangelistarum figurae.] Hexastichon Sebastiani Brant in memorabiles evangelistarum figuras. [Pforzheim:] Thomas Anshelm, 1503.
Third edition of the Memorabiles Evangelistarum, a visual mnemonic for memorising the Scripture as given by the Evangelists. The cuts are reduced adaptions from the early block-book editions of Ars Memorandi; the text is practically the same, but for the addition of Latin verse in couplets by Petrus Rosenheim, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Melk. Each distich commences with a different letter, in alphabetical order, to correspond with numbers given in the cuts depicting allegorical representations of the Evangelists. The emblems incorporated include musical instruments, a mirror, a pulpit, a grain measure, leper’s clappers, a plough, and money changers’ dishes.
This edition appears to be the third, having been preceded by two issues with the date 1502. Other editions followed from 1504 to 1522 and all seem to have been issued by Thomas Anshelm, who introduced printing at Pforzheim in 1500. BMC German 687; Fairfax Murray German 43; VD16 P 1906.
Quarto (194 x 126mm). 17 leaves, without final blank. 15 full-page woodcuts (a few discreet marginal repairs, including a tear to the gutter of a5 just extending into the cut, small marginal splits or losses to three leaves, a small portion of the cut on a6 strengthened where worn through devotional use). 20th-century antique-style blindstamped calf. Provenance: some of the cuts annotated in a ?16th-century German hand and some occasionally heightened in pale tones – W. Senn-Dürck, Basel-Riehen (1904-2001; booklabel, annotated ‘16.45’); by descent.
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
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Auction house category: | Books and manuscripts, Printed books |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
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Auction house category: | Books and manuscripts, Printed books |
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