Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA): 15th century - Incunabula
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Blad uit Lectura super secundo Decretalium, deel 3. (Maculatuur).
Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, 1477. 32 x 20 cm. One incomplete leaf, that apparently had been used as filling for a book cover. On both sides a column of text plus a half column lengthwise. Not rubricated and without notes. No page numbers (these were only invented later), but two leaves have a section indication: q 3 and q 4. A few wormholes and spots. We have about ten leaves with the same typographic design, which were probably close together in the book. Some have a visible watermark: a crowned chalice with three fleur-de-lis symbols against each other, and a stylized Gothic letter 't' below it. There are a few headings, with guide letters where capitals should have been drawn: Sepe stingit, Sollicit, Constitutis and Constitutus. The text concerns commentary on decretals, often by Pope Innocent III: ecclesiastical laws, which however also often regulated daily life. The text is in Latin and is full of abbreviations, which however can be easily overcome with some practice: 'Inno' = Innocentius for example. The ISTC number of this incunabulum is ip00059000. (The page is too large for the scanner).
-- Boeknummer: 282910
€ 25.00
Catalogus: 15th century - Incunabula
De cognitione castitatis et de pollutionibus diurnis. Forma absolutionis sacramentalis.
[Cologne, Printer of Dares (Johannes Solidi (Schilling)), about 1472]. Recently bound in an original handwritten vellum leaf dating from the earlier fifteenth century (containing a fragment of the commentary by the Venerable Beda on the Gospel of St. Luke, chapter XIX, with some lines of music). 16 leaves (complete). Latin text. Full of ligatures and abbreviations. Rubricated and with some decorative initials with simple extensions. Several marginal reader's remarks plus a drawing of a cross, some underlinings. Eleven editions were published between 1467 and 1490. The first was issued in Cologne (1467); this is the fourth, printed anonymously by Johann Schilling - whose name was latinized as Solidi. Excellent condition. 26 copies of this edition in public institutions, none in Belgium or the Netherlands. Goff G197. ISTC ig00197000. 'On the knowledge of chastity and pollutions in the daytime. The form of sacramental absolution'. A short essay, written about 1412, about chastity and involuntary discharge of semen during the day (as opposed to pollutions in sleep, about which Gerson wrote another essay). In Gerson's eyes, both men and women can produce body fluids ('humores') when they are sexually stimulated, even without wanting to. Among other things, it concerns the question of whether a priest is unclean after a pollution and whether he may then still perform sacred acts. A priest who goes to a parishioner on horseback may become excited by the ride and thus come to emission. According to Gerson, this is not a mortal sin, as long as he does not focus on sexual pleasure. He warns against intimate friendships that can lead to sensuality. This in turn may evolve in ‘mollicies’, literally softness in Latin, but understood as self-pleasure or masturbation. On the other hand, in Gerson’s eyes a certain satisfaction about a successful pollution is permitted, because it brings relief. One may pray for physical release while acting as if one did not desire for sexual satisfaction. Gerson has a remarkably light attitude to sexual feelings: don't worry too much and direct your thoughts on other things! Say to yourself: "phy - phy de vobis cogitationes vilissime procul hinc abite in malam horam veneritis sum aliis occupatus" (p. 21). Go away, away, filthiest thoughts, you have come in a bad hour, but I am busy with other things. Wear a cross on your chest or your forehead, it will help. (And one of the early readers of this book has drawn a large cross in the margin to stress the point). Keep yourself from thinking about sex and trust in God. Maybe hypocritical, but a rather practical solution. Thus, a remarkable text, written about 1412 and preserved in several manuscripts as well as eleven printed editions. Johann Schilling’s has been identified as one of the workshops where William Caxton first observed the printing process. A rare and early incunable and a highly interesting text very interesting text about medieval man and the functions of his body, of great historical significance.
Boeknummer: 283875
€ 11500.00
Catalogus: 15th century - Incunabula
Opera. De divinis institutionibus libri septem; De Ira dei; et Opificio hominis cum Epithomon eiusdem.
Venice, Vincentius Benalius, dated in the colophon March 22, 1493. 30 x 21 cm. Early 19th century vellum with old marks of the University of Leiden. 139 leaves (first blank missing). Capital spaces with guide letters. Roman type with some sprinklings of Greek. At the beginning a handwritten register of words for this Lactantius. At the end part of a written register extracted from Cassius Dio. On the first text page a stamp of Leiden University signifies that the book was sold, signed by W.N. du Rieu, Leyden Librarian 1880-1897. Marginal notes in old hands (mainly in one hand, the same as the author of the registers). Some old page numbers partly cut off, in the beginning some stains. Austerely elegant incunable, discarded in the 19th century from Leiden University, with alphabetical registers and learned manuscript notes probably from the 16th century. 135 complete copies in ISTC. Goff L-11.
Boeknummer: 268885
€ 4500.00
Catalogus: 15th century - Incunabula
'Sodom et Gomorra'. From the Liber chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle), folium XXI.
[Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493]. One folded leaf (4 p.), numbered Folium XXI and XXII. 42 x 30 cm. With 8 larger and smaller handcoloured woodcuts, of which one references the destruction of Sodom and the escape of Lot with his family, led by an angel. This woodcut measures 22 x 12,5 cm. The bifolium is a a bit worn and creased, the fold has been restored (outside the text). The colouring has paled a little. The Sodom woodcut is on the first page of the folded leaf. On the verso is a picture of Abraham meeting Melchisedech followed by an embellished woodcut family tree. Page 3 shows a large depiction of 'Memphis vel Chayrum', Memphis or Cairo, in the form of a strongly walled city; and page 4 the sacrifice by Abraham of his son Isaac: an angel staying Abraham's hand, while a ram is almost charging against his back. All the eight woodcuts are beautifully constructed and brillantly executed. The light colouring makes all the details stand out perfectly. The Liber Chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle (Goff S307; is00307000) is an encyclopaedia of world and Bible history, written by a Nuremberg medical doctor based on his own huge personal library. The 645 woodcuts in this amazing book were made by (the workshop of) Michael Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Albrecht Dürer (only 18 years old) was then a pupil of Wolgemut and working in his atelier. Schedel’s text below the woodcut offers a basic Sodom story: in the 99th year of Abraham’s life, his kinsman Lot lived there. God sent two angels to test that proud and hedonistic city. Lot invited them under his roof. Then the people of Sodom gathered to his gate, intending to abuse the two angels who were visiting him. Lot declined and offered them his virgin daughters instead, but the Sodomites refused to listen. The angels struck the people of Sodom with blindness, leaving them unable to find the door of Lot’s house. Then God decided to destroy the cities of the plain. He rained fire and brimstone and overthrew Sodom, Gomorrah and the other places in the area. The land became salty and sterile, the lake died. Lot, his wife and his daughters were led away to save themselves on the mountain, and they were not allowed to look back at the destruction. But Lot’s wife disobeyed the command and was transformed into a pillar of salt. On the mountain, Lot’s two daughters got him drunk and mingled with him. The eldest had a son by him, named Moab, and the younger also had a son named Ammon. They became the ancestors of the Moabites and the Ammonites, the peoples who lived there in the ‘Syrian’ valley: the valley east of the Jordan River. This is shown in the large woodcut above the text: to the left, a walled city is being destroyed, some cathedral-like buildings being overturned by a storm of rays and large objects. To the right in the foreground a small group is walking out: an old man, looking annoyed, is being led away by a smiling angel, followed by two finely dressed young women. A statue-like woman stands in the centre, gazing out at the disintegrating metropolis.
Boeknummer: 283910
€ 950.00
Catalogus: 15th century - Incunabula
Handbuch der Inkunabelkunde.
Stuttgart, Anton Hiersemann, 1966. OLn mit OU. (8), 192 S. 2. Auflage (unveränderter Abdruck der EA). Umschlag etwas berieben, sonst sehr schön. Unentbehrliches Standardwerk.
Boeknummer: 272482
€ 25.00
Catalogus: 15th century - Incunabula
Canticum Canticorum.
(Antwerpen, Standaard-Boekhandel, 1949). 29 x 22 cm. 3 delen in kartonnen overslagdoos. (24); (2), 22; (2), 14 p. Gedrukt in een oplage van 430 exemplaren. Doos op de rug beschadigd, verder mooi. Facsimile-uitgave van het vijftiende eeuwse blokboek Canticum canticorum, met twee afzonderlijk uitgegeven toelichtingen: Dr. M. Meertens C.S.U., Het blokboek Canticum Canticorum als godsdienstig kunstwerk en A.J.J. Delen, Het blokboek Canticum Canticorum als graphisch kunstwerk. Eén van de 300 exemplaren op handgeschept Hollandsch papier van Van Gelder.
Boeknummer: 2968
€ 35.00
Catalogus: 15th century - Incunabula
Catalogul incunabulelor.
Cluj-Napoca, Editura Dacia, 1979. Gilt cloth with dust jacket. 124 p. Illustrated. In Rumanian. Excellent condition. Detailed and illustrated descriptions of 84 incunables in the Central University Library of Cluj in Romania and 5 others from the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest, in alphabetical order. = Inkunabel-Katalog Rumänien.
Boeknummer: 257652
€ 25.00
Catalogus: 15th century - Incunabula
Regulae cancellariae apostolicae. Lectae 3 Apr. 1487.
[Rome, Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 21 Feb. 1488]. Decorated boards covered with a rubricated incunable leaf (recent binding). Title neatly written on spine. (48) p. Text rubricated. With one handwritten marginal note. Several lightly inked bearer slugs visible in the margins. Some paper faults outside the text, otherwise fine. Laws of the papal chancery. Attractive little incunable printed on rough paper. The modern cover is decorated with a leaf taken from the German Bible issued by Koberger in 1483 (Goff B632), page 335v (from 'Das Buch der geystlichen Zucht', i.e. the Book of Sirach). Ex collection of Georges Petit with his date of acquisition 'mars 1930'. This book was bought at the Menno Hertzberger auction of March 12, 1930 (lot 81). Goff suppl. I151. Only 6 copies in ISTC, nr. ii00151000.
Boeknummer: 283813
€ 2850.00
Catalogus: 15th century - Incunabula
Die legende van Sinte Willebroert. Gereproduceerd uit het passionael winterstuc gedrukt door Gheraert Leeu ter Goude 31 juli 1478. Verklarende tekst van kanunnik E. Lagerwey. Aanhangsel (...) door pater dr. B. Kruitwagen, o.f.m.
Maastricht, Leiter-Nypels, 1940. Folio (32 x 26 cm). Perkalinekarton. (2), 62 p. Gedrukt in rood, blauw en zwart in een oplage van 500 genummerde exemplaren. Voorplat wat gevlekt, inscripties vorige eigenaars op schutblad. Met fraaie fotografische reproduktie van de incunabel en aan het eind een vermakelijke verantwoording in middeleeuws Nederlands. Prachtige uitgave met wijde marges!
Boeknummer: 253835
€ 30.00
Catalogus: 15th century - Incunabula
The Nuremberg Chronicle Designs. An account of the new discovery of the earliest known layouts for a printed book: the Exemplars for the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493 with pages from the Latin exemplar reproduced for the first time.
San Francisco-Los Angeles, The Roxburghe Club-The Zamorano Club, 1969. 35 x 22 cm. Original wrappers. 44 pp. Printed in red and black by Adrian Wilson on his private press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco, with the assistance of Clifford Burke, in 350 copies. 1st edition. Cover partly browned. Reproduction of the oldest known layout notes with the pages as they were executed in the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel from 1493. Majestic private edition, printed by the author (1923-1988), who wrote The Design of Books (1967). From the collection of Huib van Krimpen.
Boeknummer: 277899
€ 30.00
Catalogus: 15th century - Incunabula
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