Sammelband: A set of disparate texts, separately printed and later gathered in a single binding. The word is taken from the German, “Sammelbände“meaning literally “gathered volume,” it combines the words sammeln meaning “to collect or gather” and band, which means “volume.” As such, a sammelband is better described by “the bringing together of volumes.”and combining books into a sammelband was quite common during the Middle Ages and early modern period. certainly binding each book is more costly than having a few smaller volumes bound together but there is more to it than that. In one sense it can be seen as a small traveling library or s very complete vade mecum I would dare to say that the two quarto volumes #s 1 & 3 were vade mecums for itinerant preacher, or redemptory fathers or brothers. The sammelband is certainly much rarer than when they were first compiled, over time many were separated and bound as such, much like disturbing an archaeology site by just reaping the treasure out of context, many sammelbands have been separated and dispersed obliterating the original context and depriving future scholars of important information. Next week, I will blog about three more sammelbands from my inventory. I hope you enjoy these collections.
In these three volumes we find Nine books and pamphlets , they have much to tell us, about reading practices, and physical use of the books. All are in early bindings and there is very strong evidence that they have been together since first collected in the late fifteenth century and the early sixteenth century .
Sammelband #1 is two books bound together (but once there were three, I didn’t remove it.. some one else did that) It is a paring of two books which make up a coupe corner stones of The Devotion Moderna, the first printed in Köln, by Konrad Winters, de Homborch, about 1482. bound with a book printed in Straßburg, by Martin Flach 10. Mai, 1487.
Sammelband #2 Consists of fvie parts dating from 1499 to 1515 each by different printers, this collection of pre reformation tracts are concerned with the updating of the Canon of the mass and the reform of the liturgy, Like all of the Sammelband offered her today it is bound in an early binding.
Sammelband #3 is a collection of two books the first Koln printed by Quentell about 1495 with a book from Basil printed by Jakob (Wolff) von Pforzheim in 1499. It is easy to speculate that tis book was made for An itinerant preacher. It is full of notes and certainly was used with devotion.
Sammelband # 1
A Sammelband of Devotio moderna.
553Ji. Gérard de Vliederhoven & 553Jii Guido de Monte Rochen.
553Ji. Gérard de Vliederhoven
Cordiale quattuor novissimorum. (Memorare nouissima tua.)
Köln, Konrad Winters, de Homborch, about 1482. Price $9,000
Quarto 22 x15 ½ cm. signatures : a–f⁸g-h⁶ i⁸ [68 leaves Two works bound in one. I. Heavily browned, some old annotations, first leaves somewhat loose. Annotation, monastic ownership inscription and stamp to first blank. II. Browned, slight worming to last leaves. Annotations to first leaf, monastic stamp to title and last leaf. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blindstamped in Koberger style; rubbed, some worming, tear to spine, head of spine repaired, rebacked preserving original spine, lacking clasp.
Gerard Vliederhoven , confessor and curator of the Commandery Teutonic of Utrecht , is an active mystical writer at the turn of XIV and xv th centuries . With his colleague Johann van der Sande, brother cellar , he showed constant loyalty to Commander Gerhard Splinter Uten Enghe, when from 1380 the latter tried to restore discipline within the Order [ 1 ] . We do not know anything about the origins and life of Gérard, although like Denys the Carthusian , he is one of the main representatives of edifying literature.of his century. His treatise Quartet novissima examines the four terms of Christian life, namely Death, Judgment of souls, Hell and Heaven. Very widely distributed from the beginning of the 15th century under the title of Cordiale quattuor novissimorum or, more briefly, the Cordiale , it shows how the attention paid to these four terms allows the faithful to guard against sins.
This work has had a profound influence on the eschatological thought of the followers of the Devotio moderna . Several monasteries instituted the common reading of the Cordiale and we know from the chronicler Jean Busch that it was read at the abbey of Windesheim during meals. Jean Miélottranslated it into French under the title Les quattres things derrenieres .
- Goff C888; [ United States one copy located, Bryn Mawr College] ; Cop. 1772; GW 7478; BMC I, 249; Voulliéme, Köln 452.
Bound with 553Jii Guido de Monte Rochen.
Manipulus curatorum. (Manipulus curatoꝛū. officia ſacerdotu ſcdʾm oꝛdinē ſeptē ſacramētoꝝperbꝛeuiter plectēs.)
Straßburg, Martin Flach 10. Mai, 1487.
Signatures . a–o⁸p¹⁰ 121 leaves, Bound with the above. Guido de Monte Rochen or Guy de Montrocher was a Spanish priest and jurist who was active around 1331. He is best known as the author of Manipulus curatorum (the manual of the curate), this is a handbook for parish priests, probably first written in the first half of the fourteenth century it was often copied, with some 180 complete or partial manuscripts surviving, and later reprinted throughout Europe in the next 200 years.
First printed in 1473, with at least 119 printings, and sales which have been estimated to be three times those of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica.(Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late Medieval and Reformation History …edited by Robert James Bast, Andrew Colin Gow, Heiko Augustinus Oberman) It became obsolete only when the Council of Trent created the Roman Catechism in 1566.
On the Verso of the first blank and verso of the last leaf of the Cordiale(553Ji.) leaf a1 and leaf i8v there are a lot of very nice (and easily visible ) impressions of un inked large capitals used for bearer type.
–II. Goff G593.; Hain-C.-R. 8194; GW 11815; BMC I, 147; Katharine Lualdi & Anne Thayer (2007) Guido de Monte Rochen’s Manipulus Curatorum, Medieval Sermon Studies, 51:1, 80, DOI: 10.1179/136606907X216995
Sammelband #2
Pre Reformation collection on updating the mass.
5 part Sammelband 537Ji-v This volume is Sammelbandof five printed books. Four from the early sixteenth century and one printed in the late fifteenth.
Basel, Mainz, Oppenheim, Speyer, Straßburg, 1499-1515. Price $ 16,000
Five Chancery Quarto volumes, 20 x 15.5 cm These copies are bound together in early {1550} blind stamped pigskin over wooden boards with the remains of clasps.
With the monastic ownership stamp ofThe Fransiscian Klosters of Engelberg
.i)Lochmaier,Parochiale curatorum 1514. ii)Biel,Epitoma expositionis sacri canonismissae.. 1499 iii) Directorium Misse de nouo 1509 iv) Interpretationes et declarationes terminorum .indulgentiarum. 1515 v) MorgensternSermones-mu[n]dip[er]uersum1513
This binding is blindstamped with rolltooling withtools signed by S.S. & dated 1550, and two different central panels stamps with the remains of clasps. Titles of works contained in this volume on spine in an early hand.Thefirst work in this sammelband has a repaired margin ripped out section of the title page, removing some of the decorative border, and a few words from the back of the page.
537Ji.MichaelLochmair; Wilhelm Nesen.
Parochiale curatorum a Michaele Lochmayers Iurisconsulto ac Theologie concinnatumexquisitissimaque diligentia doctioris hominis emaculatum
Basel, M. Furter, 1514.( [Basle] : Gaspar HaflachiusMichaele [sic] Furter Basilee vrbis inquilino [dedit] imprimendū) Gaspar Hastachius … Que[m] ego Michaele Furter Basilee vrbis Inquilino dedi imprimendu[m] … Anno. M.ccccc.xiiij. Mensis Julij] 1514
Chancery quarto: 20 x 14cm. Signatures:π4a6b-l8/4m-t4/8v4x6.This is an early edition of a work on the rights and duties of pastors by Lochmaier, preacher and professor of canon law and theology in Viennaand a canon of the cathedral of Passau.Before Lochmaier’s “Parrochiale curatorum”, parish handbooks were usually written by the individual parish priests for their own use, as no reliable, official or general handbook existed. The “Parrochiale curatorum” describes all that a parish priest needs to know, and as such it is the first work to remedy the greatlack of such a work, which had otherwise occasioned merely individual efforts. Thefirst printing of the work appeared without place and without date, but not earlier than 1493. A reproduction of this edition appeared in Leipzig in 1497 (by Kachelofen), and in 1498 this, the third edition of the work, appeared in Hagenau. In 1499 Lotter produced yet an edition of the work, in Leipzig, and in 1500 Furter produced one in Basle. All these editions are scarce..VD16, L 2231; Adams L 1392; Hieronymus 132. ; GW M18659; Panzer VI, 191, 123
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537ii. Gabriel . Biel, edited by Wendelin Steinbach, Heinrich Bebel, Friedrich Meynberger
Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae.
Hrsg. von W. Steinbach. Mit Beigabe von H. Bebel. Speyer, Konrad Hist, (um 1500). Thüwing[e]n : [Johann Otmar für Friedrich Meynberger], 1499
Quarto 22x __cm Signatures: A-B4 C8 D4 E8 F4 G8 H4 I8 K4 L8. – Bl. L8. Mit 1 Textholzschnitt. 64 nn. Bll. (l.w.).
With a letter to Friedrich Meynberger, Tübingen February 20, 1499, ed. by Wendelin Steinbach. With a poem to the clergy and to Wendelin Steinbach by Heinrich Bebel and with an epitaph to Gabriel Biel.- Second of Biel’s writings posthumously edited by Wendelin Steinbach. “B. wrote the ‘Epitome …’ with regard to the ‘simplicices sacerdotes’, which are ‘scolasticarum sublimatum minus exercitati’. Incidentally, it is not a mere excerpt from the larger work (the ‘Expositio’), but one independent processing “(Steiff, Tübingen 6 for edition 1499).
There are two things that everyone “knows” about Gabriel Biel (d. 1495).1 The first of these things is that Biel was heavily influenced by William of Ockham. Although other scholars appear in the most important of Biel’s scholastic works, his Collectorium circa quattuor libros Sententiarum (written from 1484 on) — we meet time and again Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, Robert Holcot, Adam Wodeham, Gregory of Rimini, and Pierre d’Ailly — Biel tells us explicitly that his purpose is to capture the meaning of Ockham’s Sentences commentary in abbreviated form.2 The second of the things that everyone knows about Biel is that he was read by the young Martin Luther and that Biel acted as something of a conduit through which some later-medieval scholastic thought was channeled to the Reformation and perhaps beyond.- Somewhat stained or finger-stained.
United States of America: Arne Pettersen, Tuckahoe NY Concordia Seminary, Pritzlaff Memorial Library Duke Univ. Library,Library of Congress, Rare Book DivisionLutheran Theological Seminary, Krauth Memorial Library San Marino CA, Huntington Library, The Newberry Library
Oberman, H.A. 1963 The Harvest of Medieval Theology: Gabriel Biel and Late Medieval Nominalism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press (rpt. Durham, North Carolina: The Labyrinth Press, 1983 ).
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46537Jiii. Anonymous
Directorium Misse denovo perspectum & emendatum. Maguntie [… s[e]c[un]d[u]m frequentiorem cursum diocesis Magunitn. …]. Directorium Misse de novo perspectum & emendatum
(Mainz),Friddericu(m).Heumann,1509.
4to . The beautiful title woodcut shows St. Martin on horseback sharing his cloak with two beggars, similar to the canon picture of the Missale Moguntinum by Joh. Schoeffer, 1507. The woodcut is monogrammed “HRA” (Nagler 1429: “Unknown woodcutter, who at the beginning was active in Mainz in the 16th century. “). .VD 16, D 2017.
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47537JivAnonymous
Interpretatio(n) es et declarationes Terminoru(m) indulgentiaru(m) scilicet. Quid sit quadragena, septena, carena, et in quibus differant. De institutione festi Corporis Christi. siue Eucharistie Sacramet̄o. Cūtransumptis Bullarum desuper confectarum .
(Oppenheim, J. Köbel, um 1515). 4to. 6 nn. Bll. –¶ “Köbel graduated in arts and lawfrom Heidelberg University in 1491. He appears to have then studied mathematics at Cracow andis said to have been a fellow student of Copernicus there.He learnt the publishing trade as editor and proofreaderfor Heinrich Knoblochtzerin Heidelberg. In 1494 he married a woman from Oppenheim and settled there as secretary to the city council.”R. M. Gascoigne, A chronology of the history of science 1450-1900, Garland Pub., 1987, p.413.VD 16, I 242.537Jv Georg. Morgenstern.
Sermones co[n]tra omne[m] mu[n]di p[er]uersum statu[m] que[m] de[us] gloriosus et equitas naturalis da[m]nat. Egregij et famosissimi domini Gregorij Morge[n]stern, Decretorum doctoris celeberrimi, Qui iura canonica in gymnasio. Liptzensi q[ua]m fideliter docuit. Ex secunda recognitione.Straßburg, W. Schaffner, 1513
.Quarto Signatures: a-q6, r4 The Final leaf is a very detailed Crucifixion woodcut. With some, isolated water marks. On the Last 2 ll. with traces of ink, woodcut not affected, penultimate sheet with a smaller tear in the edge and stamp on recto. Second printing by Schaffner who is famous for the first printing of the “Hortulus animae” in 1498.This is Georg Morgenstern’s only known published work “Sermones contra omnem mundi perversum statum” (Sermons Against the Whole Perverse State of the World). Little is known about Morgenstern, except that he was a doctor of canon law and taught at the Univeristy of Leipzig. VD 16 M 6350; Muller 54, 13.; BM STC Germany,; p. 628
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537JVGeorg. Morgenstern.
Sermones co[n]tra omne[m] mu[n]di p[er]uersum statu[m] que[m] de[us] gloriosus et equitas naturalis da[m]nat. Egregij et famosissimi domini Gregorij Morge[n]stern, Decretorum doctoris celeberrimi, Qui iura canonica in gymnasio. Liptzensi q[ua]m fideliter docuit. Ex secunda recognitione.
Straßburg, W. Schaffner, 1513.
Quarto Signatures: a-q⁶, r⁴ 93 Final leaf with a very detailed Crucifixion woodcut. Partly browned, isolated water marks. Last 2 ll. with traces of ink, woodcut not affected, penultimate sheet with a smaller tear in the edge and stamp on recto. Second printing by Schaffner who is famous for the first printing of the “Hortulus animae” in 1498. Georg Morgenstern’s only known published work “Sermones contra omnem mundi perversum statum” (Sermons Against the Whole Perverse State of the World). Little is known about Morgenstern, except that he was a doctor of canon law and taught at the Univeristy of Leipzig.
VD 16 M 6350; Muller 54, 13.; BM STC Germany,; p. 628
– Partly browned, isolated water marks. Last 2 ll. with traces of ink, woodcut not affected, penultimate sheet with a smaller tear in the edge and stamp on recto.
Sammelband # 3
Annotated Sammelband incunabula
552Ji Mateusz,; z Krakowa, Cardinal,; approximately 1330-1410.*
(Ars moriendi.) – Speculū artis bene moriēdi de temptatōnibus. penis infernalibus interrogatōibus agonisantium et varijs oratōnibus pro illorum salute faciendis.
(Köln, Heinrich Quentell, about 1495). Price $9,000
Quarto 20 x 5 cm. Signatures: a⁶ b⁴ c⁶ With a nice Accipies woodcut on the title. – There is browning and usage staining, many marginal notes by the rubricator (somewhat truncated), title with ownership notes from the 17th century, upper white edge cut off, short pen note, endpaper with monastic ownership stamp.–Bound with the title below., Two works in one volume each are rubricated, with numerous notes on every page! The upper blank margin of the title cut off, monastic stamp to fly leaf. In the Reginaldetus there is wear and some loss to the headline of last eight leaves. These two works are bound in early if not contemporary limp vellum with green linen ties and green edges.
The Ars moriendi, or The art of dying, was intended to instruct the reader on the proper modes of behavior when facing death. The book was one result of the Church’s effort to educate the laity in the fundamentals of Christianity during the late medieval period. Gerson’s Opus tripartitum is the source of much of the work, with other material being drawn from the Bible, liturgies, and devotional and doctrinal literature of the period.
Ars moriendi is divided into six parts:m a selection of quotations on death from authoritative Christian sources; advice to the dying on how to overcome faithlessness, despair, impatience, pride, worldliness, and other temptations; a series of catechetical questions whose correct answers lead to salvation; instructions and prayers for imitating the dying Christ; practical advice for the dying individual; and, prayers to be said by those attending the dying.
Although the author of Ars moriendi is not known, the book is believed to have been written in Southern Germany at the time of the Council of Constance (1414-1418). * Sometimes attributed to Matthaeus de Cracovia or to Albertus Magnus (and in Italian editions to Dominicus Capranica, Cardinal of Fermo); cf. A. Madre, Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philos. u. Theol. des Mittelalters 40 (1965) p.292-295), and D. Mertens, Iacobus Carthusiensis (Göttingen, 1976) p.181
https://data.cerl.org/istc/ia01098000
Goff A1098; HC 14911*; Voull(K) 305; Schr 3671; Schramm VIII p.23; Pell 1339; CIBN A-598; Buffévent 45; Polain(B) 972; IDL 425; IBP 562; SI 372; Sallander 2046; Madsen 352; Šimáková-Vrchotka 171; Günt(L) 781; Voull(B) 1011; Voull(Trier) 697; Ohly-Sack 274; Sack(Freiburg) 306; Döring-Fuchs A-354; Bod-inc A-449; Sheppard 1051; Pr 1425; BMC I 294; BSB-Ink A-766; GW 2610
Bound with
552Jii Petrus, Reginaldetus
Speculu[m] finalis retributio[n]is tam bono[rum] operu[m] q[uam] malo[rum]: egregij sacre theologie doctoris: fratris Petri Reginaldeti: de ordine fratru[m] mino[rum]: In quo speculo diffuse elucidat[ur] co[n]templatio pena[rum] et gaudio[rum] eterna…
Basel, Jackob (Wolff) von Pforzheim, 1499 (price above)
Quarto; 20 x 5 cm . Signatures a-k8. 79 of 80 Leaves lacking the final leaf with the printers mark. Third edition of the only work by this Franciscan Friar. Reginaldette, was from Tours: he was a peritus (an expert (as in theology or canon law) who advises and assists the hierarchy (as in the drafting of schemata) at a Vatican council) at the Council of Basel in 1434 A.D..
The title “Speculum finalis retributionis tam bonorum operum quam malorum” has been added by the translator, but the information is taken from the text which follows. The Totani family is from L’Aquila in Italy, and perhaps it was the memory and example of St. Bernadine of Sienna, who had died there nearly a half century earlier, that prompted Friar Guillermo to preserve this work of Franciscan preaching, which is so characteristic of the reform in the Order of the Friars Minor, which the Saint had promoted.
II. Goff R-91; BMC III, 778. Walsh 1237; Hain 13774; GW M37420; *; GfT 1008; Pell Ms 10037 (9821); CIBN R-52 Günt(L) 427; Voull(B) 552; Pr 7709; BMC III 778; BSB-Ink R-57.
United States:
Houghton Library, Columbia University, Burke, Free Library of Philadelphia, La Casa del Libro, Library of Congress, Huntington Library, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Univ. of Kentucky,
https://data.cerl.org/istc/ir00091000
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