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INCUNABULA.
I. 1 and 139 of the 2nd part, 26 magnificent initials, all painted
in the most different colours and heightened with gold. Many
capitals supplied in red and blue. Original monastic binding, wooden
boards, back covered with blind stamped brown calf, panel adorned
with conventional flowers within double ogee shaped compartments, the
back adorned with ornate bands of cable work, scroll „maria“ and
conventional ornamental stamps (clasps gone'). Frs. 12.000.—
Hain*-Cop. 10131. Proctor 3326. Brit. Mus. Cat. IV, p. 15.
A magnificent specimen of early printing, from the first printers of
Italy. Sweynheym and Pannartz introduced printing into Italy, both probably
workmen from Gutenberg’s original printing press. After working at Subiaco,
they removed to Rome in 1467. They used for all their books a fine and large
Roman text type. 275 was, as a rule, the number of copies printed in an edition.
Their publications were nearly all either classical or patristic.
Besides the great typographical value of this book, this copy is a
brilliant specimen for early book decoration. The beauty and hand-
someness of the border on the first leaf of the text is almost in-
comparable. The very curious masks and figures, the graceful
birds and the very nice floral ornamentations are the work of a
very skilful, inventive and fanciful artist. The chief part of the border
is painted on bottom margin of the page on dark-green background with red,
blue, yellow and violet floral ornamentations heightened with gold, the two
curious masks on the left and the right are painted in green and yellow, between
which are the arms of a former possessor beautifully painted in gold, blue, red,
in biduu ualicudimf caufa:& per omnia fora Conaliabutacj ec
AfptcifiUuftrif lecfbor quicunq? hbellof
Ss cupifarcificam nomina nofledege*
Afpera ndebif cognomina ceatonaiforfan
Miagec arf mufif tnfcta uerba utrum.
Coraduf Suuenbeym: Arnolduf Panart^q? magdlrt
Rome impreflerunc talia mulca fimul«
In dome Petri de MajCimif
.M.CCCCXXXlI.die.
•XVI.Iukh
Colophon from No. 67.
KATALOG Nr. 195 DES BUCH- UND KUNSTANTIQUARIATES
INCUNABULA.
I. 1 and 139 of the 2nd part, 26 magnificent initials, all painted
in the most different colours and heightened with gold. Many
capitals supplied in red and blue. Original monastic binding, wooden
boards, back covered with blind stamped brown calf, panel adorned
with conventional flowers within double ogee shaped compartments, the
back adorned with ornate bands of cable work, scroll „maria“ and
conventional ornamental stamps (clasps gone'). Frs. 12.000.—
Hain*-Cop. 10131. Proctor 3326. Brit. Mus. Cat. IV, p. 15.
A magnificent specimen of early printing, from the first printers of
Italy. Sweynheym and Pannartz introduced printing into Italy, both probably
workmen from Gutenberg’s original printing press. After working at Subiaco,
they removed to Rome in 1467. They used for all their books a fine and large
Roman text type. 275 was, as a rule, the number of copies printed in an edition.
Their publications were nearly all either classical or patristic.
Besides the great typographical value of this book, this copy is a
brilliant specimen for early book decoration. The beauty and hand-
someness of the border on the first leaf of the text is almost in-
comparable. The very curious masks and figures, the graceful
birds and the very nice floral ornamentations are the work of a
very skilful, inventive and fanciful artist. The chief part of the border
is painted on bottom margin of the page on dark-green background with red,
blue, yellow and violet floral ornamentations heightened with gold, the two
curious masks on the left and the right are painted in green and yellow, between
which are the arms of a former possessor beautifully painted in gold, blue, red,
in biduu ualicudimf caufa:& per omnia fora Conaliabutacj ec
AfptcifiUuftrif lecfbor quicunq? hbellof
Ss cupifarcificam nomina nofledege*
Afpera ndebif cognomina ceatonaiforfan
Miagec arf mufif tnfcta uerba utrum.
Coraduf Suuenbeym: Arnolduf Panart^q? magdlrt
Rome impreflerunc talia mulca fimul«
In dome Petri de MajCimif
.M.CCCCXXXlI.die.
•XVI.Iukh
Colophon from No. 67.
KATALOG Nr. 195 DES BUCH- UND KUNSTANTIQUARIATES
