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Jacobus de Gruytrode

Lyptzck [Leipzig] : Gregor Böttiger, [Werman] 1495.   $12,000

Quarto  12 x 9 cm. Signatures: a8 b-p6 q8.[Errors in foliation: lxxxviiii-xcviii foliated xc-xcviiii, with xc as cxi, xciiii as cxv] Blank initial spaces. Bound in half leather of the 19th century, with quite a bit contemporary marginalia.

This “Soap of the Conscience” is filled with morally instructive stories intended to keep priests faithful to their vows and safe from worldly temptations, lest they suffer the “harshest punishments” of hell. In this work he tries in numerous moral and instructive stories to prove the nullity of worldly joys.  Born in Gruitrode ca. 1400-10, Jacobus van Eertwach was a Carthusian monk who served as an abbot of the prior of the Liege from 1440 until his death in 1475, during which time he produced numerous works of spiritual guidance for both clergy and laypersons. 

“Lavacrum” was first printed by Anton Sorg in 1489.  

This treatise against immorality, especially the priests, which was first published in Nuremberg around 1488 and was attributed to Charterhouse, who died in 1482, with short stories and some German proverbs (e.g. on page XIIIv On women vnd on wein mag nyemant frolich gesein “)

Gregor Böttiger, [Werman]

Although today the work is generally attributed to the Carthusian monk of German origin, Jacob von Gruytrode.    According to Theodor Petreius, Bibliotheca Cartusiana (Cologne, 1609), the actual author is Johannes Meskirchius  (Messkirch, d. 1511), a monk at the charterhouse of Güterstein near Stuttgart (for Messkirch see R. Deigendesch, ‘Bücher und ihre Schenker – Die Bücherlisten der Kartause Güterstein in Württemberg’, in S. Lorenz, ed., Bücher, Bibliotheken und Schriftkultur der Kartäuser. Festgabe zum 65. Geburtstag von Edward Potkowski, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 93-115.

BMC assigns authorship to Jacobus de Gruytrode

ISTC il00099000

Goff L99; IBP 3382; Madsen 2157; Voull(B) 1383; Günt(L) 1205;Hubay(Würzburg) 1187; Pad-Ink 375; Wilhelmi 387; BSB-Ink L-71.050; GW 13880.

Not in Hain, BMC, STC et c.

Günther, estampes de berceau d. Collection de Leipzig 1205. 

https://data.cerl.org/istc/il00099000

Copies; United States of America  

   1) Library of Congress

   2) Univ. of California, Law Library.

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30).  318J Stella clericorum (Authorship un-attributed)

Stella clericorum cuilibet clerico summe necessaria.

Lyptzck [Leipzig] : [Conrad Kachelofen], before 1492.   $5,500.  

 Quarto 20 X 13 cm. A8,B6 (lacking final blank leaf B6)


¶ Goff S 775. ISTC is00774800/ (listing Huntington & Newberry only )IBP 5110. H 15065; BSB-Ink S-578; IG 2522;H 15065*; IBP 5109; Sajó-Soltész 3142; Coll(S) 999; Voull(Bonn) 1091; Günt(L) 1348; Hubay(Würzburg) 1954; Ohly-Sack 2590; Borm 2522; [The copy in München BSB has an owner’s inscription with the date 1492] ¶ Kachelofen (d. 1528/9) was likely the second printer of Leipzig, and appears to be the first major publisher to set up printing.