Conradus de Alemania's Concordantiae Bibliorum
Conradus de Alemania's Concordantiae Bibliorum
Johann Mentelin, not after 1474
CONRADUS DE ALEMANIA (fl. 13th century). Concordantiae Bibliorum. [Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1474.]
Kloss copy of the first printed Biblical concordance. This text was one of three concordances to appear in the 13th century, marking that century as an intense period of productivity in writing reference works to the Scriptures. Authorship has been commonly attributed to Conradus de Halberstadt (fl.1321-27), but R.H. and M.H. Rouse have questioned this attribution which appears to stem from an interpolation by Tritheim in compiling his De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis. Whereas incunable editions, as here, name a "Conradus de Alemania," Tritheim changed it to Conradus de Halberstadt. None of the surviving manuscripts names an author, and the text was probably in existence by 1286, thus pre-dating that Conrad. This first edition of the Concordantiae Bibliorum shares its peculiar hand-stamped quiring with two other Mentelin editions printed in December 1473 and c.1474. Mentelin circulated an advertisement for this work, a fragment of which is preserved at Paris. H 5629*; BMC I 58; BSB-Ink C-497; GW 7418; Bod-inc C-428; Goff C-849; ISTC ic00849000. See also R.H. and M.H. Rouse, "The verbal concordance to the Scriptures," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 44 (1974), pp. 5-30.
Royal folio (405 x 282mm). 415 leaves (of 417, without first and last blanks of section a). Red and blue Lombard capitals and paragraph marks (some dampstaining, a few wormholes, more at end; final two text leaves with repaired tears in inner margin, corner of final blank clipped). Contemporary Württemberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 54, EBDB w000040, Leonhardus Mess], remains of paper label on upper board, brass catchplates (lacking bosses, straps, lower corners chipped). Provenance: George Kloss (1787-1854, bibliographer; his sale, Sotheby’s, 7 May 1835, lot 414) – acquired from Maggs Brothers, London, 18 April 1958.
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Conradus de Alemania's Concordantiae Bibliorum
Johann Mentelin, not after 1474
CONRADUS DE ALEMANIA (fl. 13th century). Concordantiae Bibliorum. [Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1474.]
Kloss copy of the first printed Biblical concordance. This text was one of three concordances to appear in the 13th century, marking that century as an intense period of productivity in writing reference works to the Scriptures. Authorship has been commonly attributed to Conradus de Halberstadt (fl.1321-27), but R.H. and M.H. Rouse have questioned this attribution which appears to stem from an interpolation by Tritheim in compiling his De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis. Whereas incunable editions, as here, name a "Conradus de Alemania," Tritheim changed it to Conradus de Halberstadt. None of the surviving manuscripts names an author, and the text was probably in existence by 1286, thus pre-dating that Conrad. This first edition of the Concordantiae Bibliorum shares its peculiar hand-stamped quiring with two other Mentelin editions printed in December 1473 and c.1474. Mentelin circulated an advertisement for this work, a fragment of which is preserved at Paris. H 5629*; BMC I 58; BSB-Ink C-497; GW 7418; Bod-inc C-428; Goff C-849; ISTC ic00849000. See also R.H. and M.H. Rouse, "The verbal concordance to the Scriptures," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 44 (1974), pp. 5-30.
Royal folio (405 x 282mm). 415 leaves (of 417, without first and last blanks of section a). Red and blue Lombard capitals and paragraph marks (some dampstaining, a few wormholes, more at end; final two text leaves with repaired tears in inner margin, corner of final blank clipped). Contemporary Württemberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 54, EBDB w000040, Leonhardus Mess], remains of paper label on upper board, brass catchplates (lacking bosses, straps, lower corners chipped). Provenance: George Kloss (1787-1854, bibliographer; his sale, Sotheby’s, 7 May 1835, lot 414) – acquired from Maggs Brothers, London, 18 April 1958.
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