INKUNABELS

INKUNABELS
-Fridolin
, Stephan.

Treasure keeper. With 96 (including 5 repeated) full-page text woodcuts by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. With 3 painted initials by old hand (8-, 9- and 11-line) with gold heightening and rich floral border in gold, blue, red and green as well as a 6-line initials in blue and red and numerous other initials in blue and red, some leaves

rubbed

red

.

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 18 November 1491. folio (33.5 x 24.5 cm). [352] Bll. (without the two white ones). Two columns. 40-43 lines. Got. guy. Type area: 26.0 x 16.0 cm. Sheet size: 33.0 x 22.5 cm. Blind embossed leather binding of the 19th century in the style of the present day over wooden covers with watermark ornaments and scroll ornamentation (little rubbed, front joint neatly restored

).
GW 10329 - Grove/C. 14507 - Goff S-306 - Proctor 2070 - Pellechet 10350 - Polain 1521 - BMC II, 434 - BSB-Ink F-263 - Schramm XVII, Figs. 315-406 - Schäfer 134 - Madsen 3786 - Oates 1018 - Ohly-Sack 1162 - Muther 423 - Fairfax-Murray 392 - Coll. Schäfer 134th - First and only edition of one of the most beautiful and important works of the incunabulum period. - The early New High German sermon cycle is dedicated to the life and suffering of Jesus Christ and is illustrated by 96 woodcuts from the Wolgemut-Pleydenwurff workshop. In addition to scenes from the Old and New Testament, allegorical interpretations can also be found in the picture programme. The representations owe their special status not least to their richness of detail in costumes, weapons, interior and landscape. - The devotional and edification book was "at the instigation of the sisters of the Nuremberg Poor Clares Monastery and their abbess, Caritas Pirckheimer, written by Fridolin (1482-1498 preacher and confessor at St. Clare's) and printed after Bellm in an edition of about 150 copies" (Schäfer). - Copies in private ownership are very rare. - Sheet g2, t1 and t6 probably added from another copy. The first and last sheets reinforced in the course of the new binding in the bows, a few sheets with restored margin defects, sheet P in the inner upper corner with expertly restored flaw (slight loss of text), P6-Q5 with slight wormholes in the lower white margin, slightly browned in the margins, front and back slightly damp-edged (occasionally stronger and in the bows), somewhat foxed and finger-stained in places. But all in all, a clean copy. - The first sheet with marginalia from old hand. - Provenance: Michael Balehus (notice of ownership on a2r). - Edgar S. Oppenheimer (pencil note on mirror). - Walter Schatzki, New York. - There 1961 acquired by Arthur and Charlotte Vershbouw. - Christie's 2706 (New York 2013) Lot 181 - Since then privately owned in Switzerland.
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