Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Wien); Gilhofer, Buch- und Kunstantiquariat; Gilhofer & Ranschburg: Katalog (Nr. 215): A fine collection of early printed books of the XVth and XVIth century: including the following choice pieces mostly bound in original bindings The canon of Avicenna, Padua 1479, The Eggerstein and the Rusch-Bible, both ab. 1468 ... : illustrated XVIth century books including the first Bible in Greek . (Wien: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1929)

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Woodcut from no. 106.

106 TURRECREMATA, JOANNES DE. De potestate papae et concilii
generalis. K0I11, Heinrich Quentel, I48O.
Fol. Goth, types, 40 lines, 46 unn. leaves, with sign. With
two nice woodcuts. Rubricated copy, with capitals supplied in
red and blue, partly with pen-drawn ornaments. Contemporary
wooden boards, covered with blind stamped pigskin. Frs. 1.800.—
Hain*-Cop. 15729. Proctor 1244. Brit. Mus. Cat. I, p. 262. Voullidme,
Buchdruck Kblns 690. Schreiber 5397-
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Early and nice product of Quentel who began prin-
ting one year ago, 1479. The two nice cuts, the first on the 1st leaf
and the second after the colophon on 1. 46 recto, show the “Salvator mundi”
and Christ crucified. Of some interest are the extraordinary signatures used here.
The sheets being signed a, aa, aaa, aaaa; b, bb, bbb, bbbb &c., instead of the
usual numbers.
Johannes de Turrecremata or Torquemada, Spanish ecclesiastic,
was bom at Valladolid in 1388. Turrecremata joined the Dominican order and
has taught for some time at Paris. After some years he became prior of the Do-
minican house first in Valladolid and then in Toledo.

G1LHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNER GASSE Nr. 2.