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1499-1513

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 $ 9,500

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. Covers panel-stamped and framed within multiple fillets and ornamental rolls. Front board: Central panel depicting a biblical miracle scene (Christ healing the sick or Resurrection motif), with legend below in Gothic capitals:
FRISCH ERNEV MEIN GOTT. ICH BIN DEIN DOCTOR.
This German motto panel is recorded in the Einbanddatenbank as p002307, attributed to Augsburg workshops c. 1545–1555. Cf. Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel des XVI. Jahrhunderts, Augsburg section, pl. XXX (for similar motto-panels). Back board: Central Crucifixion panel, Christ on the Cross flanked by figures of the Virgin and St. John, within a scrolled border. Rolls: Vertical ornamental roll including a cartouche impressed with the date “1550”, accompanied by foliate and grotesque motifs. Surrounding border rolls of Renaissance ornament, including double-headed eagle medallions. The binding style, panel iconography, and dated roll together point securely to Augsburg around 1550, possibly the circle of Caspar Angstat or a closely allied shop [S.S.]. Titles of works contained in this volume on spine in an early hand. The first 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.

With the monastic ownership stamp ofThe Fransiscian Klosters of Engelberg In October 2021, Reiss & Sohn ran its autumn sales (auctions 205–207) with a tranche of incunabula and early prints from the Engelberg Franciscan monastery (some carrying older Capuchin Engelberg provenance marks). The Franciscan Kloster Engelberg (Großheubach)Founded as a Capuchin house and pilgrimage site in 1630; secularized in 1803. Franciscans took over the site in 1828, continuing the pilgrimage ministry. In 2024, amid shrinking numbers, the Franciscans left; pastoral care is being continued by the Oblates of St. Joseph (OSJ).

i) Lochmaier,Parochiale curatorum 1514.[No US copies located ] ii) Biel,Epitoma expositionis sacri canonismissae.. 1499 [5 Us copies] iii) Directorium Misse de nouo 1509 [One US copy CONCORDIA SEMINARY LIBR] iv) Interpretationes et declarationes terminorum .indulgentiarum. 1515 [No US copies located ]  v) Morgenstern ,Sermones-mu[n]dip[er]uersum 1513.[One North American copy , Toronto.]

_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:π⁴ a⁶ b-l^8/4m-t^4/8v ⁴ x⁶. 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

_537Jii.  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 ).

ISTC https://data.cerl.org/istc/ib00654000.

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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 .    This is a a directorium: instructions for priests how to say the Mass, particularly regarding variants, options, liturgical parts that change. It helps guide use of Mass throughout the liturgical year in that diocese. 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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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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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  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.

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