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Pelbartus de Themeswar No US Copy (not in Goff) No copies in the UK.

Beside being quite rare, it has extensive and mostly complete provenance, a contemporary binding with a blind stamped title, rubrication. 

305J Pelbartus de Themeswar   (1430-1504)

Sermones Pomerii fratris Pelbarti de Themeswar diui ordinis sancti Francisci de Sanctis: Jncipiunt feliciter.

Hagenau(Augsburg): Heinrich Gran, for Johannes Rynman, 30 September, 1501. [imp[re]ssi … p[er] industriu[m] Henricu[m] Gran i[n] imp[eri]ali oppido Hagenaw: expe[n]sis ac su[m]ptib[us] p[ro]uidi Joha[n]nis Rynman Finiu[n]t feliciter: Anno … millesimoq[ui]nge[n]tesimoprimo. vltimo die Septe[m]bris]     Price $7,000

Folio 27 x 20 cm.  Probably about the fourth edition. ( the listings for this book are all pretty sloppy  despite Gran’s placing the exact dates in the colophon: 20 feb 1499, 10 November 1499, 8 June 1500,

COLLATION: Completely unpaginated throughout, Signatures: π⁶ [chi]⁶ a-b⁸ c⁶ d-e⁸ f⁶ g-h⁸ i⁶ k-l⁸ m⁶ n-o⁸ p⁶ q-s⁸ t⁶ v-x⁸ y⁶ z⁸ A⁸ B⁶ C-D⁸ E⁶ F-G⁸H⁶ I-K⁸ L⁶ M-N⁸ O⁶ P-Q⁸ R⁶ S-T⁸ U⁶ X-Y⁸ Z⁶ [&]⁸  leaves 12 and 358 blank . (13, 357  ff. ) two columns, 58 lines per page plus headline, gothic letter, with guide letters and spaces for numerous four and six line ornamental capitals, contemporaneously hand rubricated in red ink throughout.

This copy is bound  contemporary blind-stamped leather over wooden boards from an Augsburg workshop operating between 1482 and 1532 (Kyriss 79). Front board panelled with two blind rolls, one formed of arches, the other of  birds and flowers, panel filled with further use of bird and flower blind roll and surmounted by blind-lettered title “POMERIUS*S”. 

Rear board panelled with same bird and flower blind roll, panel infilled with diagonally crossing blind fillets.

There is  Early monastic ink title to fore-edge and ink inscription to front free endpaper, nineteenth century ink inscription to front pastedown, wormholes to opening and closing leaves, a couple of unobtrusive wormholes extending into first few quires touching a few letters, corners of two leaves torn well clear of text, leaf A8 soiled at edges and possibly supplied from another copy, occasional very light paper browning otherwise internally clean. Binding worn with minor chips and losses, rebacked, upper edge of rear board damaged exposing wood beneath (not affecting blind rolls), remains of hasps and clasps, light marks to centre of each board where central brass bosses were once affixed.

The Bavarian binding and inscription to its front free endpaper indicate very early acquisition by the medieval (1) Benedictine Monastery of the Abbey of Irsee, Bavaria. Upon the dissolution of Bavarian monasteries in 1803 the volume was acquired by (2) Munich Court Library; a nineteenth century ink inscription to the front pastedown notes the copy to have been a duplicate and it was doubtless sold between 1815 and 1859 when the library instigated a series of large auctions to dispose of surplus items. Sometime after 1880 it was acquired by the (3) Benedictine monastery of Erdington Abbey, Birmingham, England, established for monks expelled in Bismarck’s kultur-kampf from Beuron, Prussia. In 1922 the Erdington monastery was dissolved following return of its monks to Beuron after World War I, and its library appears to have been subsequently disbursed.

. ISTC ip00252500, citing holdings at 15 locations globally with none in the US or UK; Hain 12557 (describing an imperfect copy). An attractive copy of this rare early work in entirely original state with substantial provenance.

Fourth or so  edition of this collection of sermons by Pelbartus de Themesvar, Hungarian Franciscan at the St. John Monastery in Buda. The popular text was first published in 1499 He was born in 1430 in Temesvár, Hungary (now Timişoara, Romania). In 1458 he went to the University of Kraków. In 1463 he was licensed in Theology. Possibly in 1471 he left Kraków as a doctor, then in 1483 he is mentioned in the Franciscan Community Annales of St. John Monastery in Buda, the Hungarian Capital city. After 1483 his writings began to be published in print. The first printed edition of his Sermons dates from 1498. In 1503 a printed version of his lecture notes was published. Pelbartus died on 9 January 1504 in Buda, as a highly distinguished author and professor. Hungarian versions of his writings in manuscript date from 1510.

ISTC No.ip00252500; Hain 12557*; VD16 P1165; Sajó-Soltész p. 767; Günt(L) p.65; Wilhelmi 479a; GW M30525.   https://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/M30525.htm

https://data.cerl.org/istc/ip00252500

Holdings

Austria Graz, FranziskanerZB (imperfect)Scheibbs, Kapuziner
Schwaz, Franziskaner (Ink U1/1-02) EstoniaTallinn Arch      GermanyBerlin, Staatsbibliothek (3)
Gotha ForschLB
Greifswald GeistlMin
Leipzig UB
Mainz GM/StB (2, Ink.1107,2553)
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
München MetropolitanKap (I117/1a)
München UB
Rostock UB
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek                      HungaryBudapest Bibl national library 

Number of holding institutions 15

Last edit. 2024-05-03 12:00:00.00

Provenance:

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868J. .  Gaius Iulius Caesar100? B.C.-44 B.C [Giovanni Giocondo]

        Commentariorvm Caesaris Elenchvs : De bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello ciuili Po[m]peiano libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africano liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber. Pictura totius Galliae, diuisæ in parteis treis secundum C. Cæsaris commantarios. Pictura Pontis in Rheno. Item Auaria. Alexiæ. Vxelloduni. Maßiliæ. Adhæc, totius quoque Hispaniæ. Nomina locorum urbiumq[ue], et populorum Galliae, ut olim diceba[n]tur latine, et nu[n]c dicuntur gallice, secundu[m] ordine[m] alphabeti.

Colophon: Basileae, pridie calendas Ianuarias. Anno M D. XXI. Excudebat Thomas Vuolff.

                                                                                                                    Price $6,500

Octavo 16×10.5 cm. Signatures: A-B⁸ a-z⁸ aa-pp⁸ qq⁶. Hors signature, the pastedowns at both ends made from recycled manuscript leaves. The front  pastedown in a tiny and highly abbreviated script, probably from the thirteenth century: probably a  scholastic legal or theological treatise, headings include “De conclusione . . .“and “Sed contranconclusione . .  .” 

Tironian et is crossed; ascenders with triangular or even forked tops, occasional  tallish round-topped a; v, not u, initially.  Perhaps France.

The rear endleaf is quite different, perhaps  fourteenth or fifteenth century, with some cursive loops most often (but not consistently) on d.  Usually a is single-compartment, and it is notable that examples of uu appear here as w, which  Derolez associates with “German-, Dutch-, Danish-, and Swedish-speaking countries” (94). Tironian  et is crossed. The text on this rear endpage includes a section headed “DE ORNATU CORPORIS” for  which I can trace a parallel only in Fr. Koehler, Ehstländische Klosterlectüre (Reval, 1892), although  that parallel is quite close, with only a few small variations in word-order, for the most part. Still, this  may prove to be an especially scarce text, for which the present fragment may be a useful witness;  the section immediately preceding “De ornatu corporis,” 

In addition to these pastedown, there are end leaves filled (3 pages of four) with contemporary or earlier text the first leaf is in two columns, the page at the rear of the book is a single column. 

There are eight woodcuts, two are two page folding maps, 5 full page military machines and one full page engraving of the printer, VVolf. 

This edition with contrabutions by  Marlianus, Raimundus <1420-1475>  Manuzio, Aldo Pio <1450-1515> Giocondo <Fra, 1433-1515>  is the first After Aldus’ edition of 1513 and then the 1518 edition. (Open Library OL7635605A) 

Bound in full contemporary  panel-stamped calf over thin wooden boards archtypically Flemish (Ghent?).  It is decorated in blind with vines roundels inhabited by imaginary birds, framed by Gothic text: “o[mn]ia si perdas / fama[m] seruare memento qua semel  amissa nulla reuisio erit” ; ( “If you lose everything, remember to keep your honor, because once lost, it cannot be regained.”)  and  “De profundis / clamaui ad  te domine / domine / exaudi vocem meam.”    (“Out of the depths I have cried to you, Lord, Lord, hear my voice”. This is the opening line of Psalm 130 (129 in the Vulgate).  

VD16 C 31; (Permalink: https://gateway-bayern.de/VD16+C+31) Panzer XVII, 229, 414; not in Adams, nor in Michiels, Soltesz, Dibdin, Brunet, Graesse.

There are similar multi panel stamped bindings in Fogelmark , Flemish and related panel-stamped bindings BSA 1990) NM.6 and NM.10. Also Goldschmidt, Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings describes no.’s 117 and 118 which are similarly made up of two end panels and a center panel of Dragons surrounded by text. 190, as “Panels with animals’ which is also similar. This volume has the same parchment endleaves and red and blue paragraphs, which Goldschmidt states are characteristic of Ghent bindings; it had leather lace ties originally, the stubs of which are still visible.

Fogelmark (p. 33) calls panel-stamps with gothic animals in foliage “the Flemish panel stamp par préférence”. We have not found an exact match in the literature. The impressions of the panels are very crisp and clear, especially that on the lower half of the front board.

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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 $8,000

Quarto  22 x15 ½ cm. signatures : a–f⁸g-h⁶ i⁸  [68 leaves]  Two works bound  in one. I) Heavily browned, some old annotations. 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, was an active mystical writer at the turn of XIV and XVth  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 . 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 Miélot translated it into French under the title Les quattres things derrenieres .

1. Goff C888; [ United States one copy located, Bryn Mawr College] ; Cop. 1772; GW 7478; BMC I, 249;  Voulliéme, Köln 452. 

https://data.cerl.org/istc/ic00888000

  Bound with           553Jii Guido de Monte Rochen.

 Manipulus curatorum. (Manipulus curatoꝛū. officia ſacerdotu ſcdʾm oꝛdinē ſeptē ſacramētoꝝ perbꝛeuiter ?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

https://data.cerl.org/istc/ig00593000

United States of America. 

San Francisco CA, California State Library, Sutro Library
San Marino CA, Huntington Library
Stanford CA, Stanford University, Green Library
University Park PA, Pennsylvania State University, Eberly FamilyLibrary
Williamstown MA, Williams College, Chapin Library