302 / 444
252
“C” with blue, red and green penwork on f. 1r. A few old marginal manuscript notes. Old ownership
entries and collector’s stamps on title i.a. “Possessio Laurentij Andreae Smalandensis Hafniae 6.
stuferis (?) Ano 1586”. Old heraldic bookpl. on verso of title H. zur Mühlen.
Ref.
ISTC is00307000.
GW M40784. Goff S-307. Polain 3469. IDL 4060. BMC II:437. BnF S-161. BSBMünchen S-195. A.
Wilson, The making of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1976). C. Reske, Die Produktion der Schedelschen
Weltchronik in Nürnberg (2000).
1140
[Venice]
-
MARTINUS POLONUS, O.P.
- Margarita decreti seu Tabula Martiniana. [Venice],
Peregrinus de Pasqualibus Bononiensis [& Dionysius Bertochus, c. 1485], folio, disbound (1st quire
loose), [86] ff. (incl. initial and final blanks, 2 ff. with table bound at end; top margin and bottom
corner heavily dampstained, some top fore-edge corners remargined, worming in blank fore-edge
margin).
Complete
copy.
€ 600/800
Rare Venice ed.
(5th of 12 incunable eds, 1st Cologne 1481) of a popular textbook of canon law
by the 13th-c. Dominican writer and bishop Martinus Polonus (Martin of Opava or Martin von
Troppau, d. 1278). Woodcut mark at the end. Printed in gothic type in 2 cols. Capital spaces with
guide-letters. Cont. manuscript title on a1r.
Ref.
ISTC im00322000. Goff M-322. Polain 2623. IGI
6239. BMC V:391. BN Paris M-181. BSB München M-231.
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S.
1141
[Aldine imprint - Greek]
-
PHILOSTRATUS
- De vita Apollonii Tyanei libri octo [and]
EUSEBIUS
- Contra Hieroclem [Greek text with Latin translations by Alamanno Rinuccini and
Zenobius Acciolus]. Venice, A. Manutius, (cols: March 1501 (I), February 1502 (II)), folio, 19th-c.
red morocco (sl. rubbed), covers with triple gilt ruled border, richly gilt spine on 5 raised bands,
gilt ornamental sides and interior borders, a.e.g., marbl. endpapers, silk marker, 2 pts, [139 (of
140/148)] ff. (lacking prel. ‘Apoll’ quire, dated May 1504, of Pt. 2, and blank h10 of Pt. 1; washed?;
title mounted and sl. soiled, last f. soiled). Nice copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 2000/3000
Editio princeps
of both works. Apollonius of Tyana (b. ca. 170 A.D.) was a Neopythagorean sage at
the beginning of the Christian era, of whose wanderings to India, ascetic teachings and miraculous
powers we only have Philostratus’s account, which has been successively admired and dismissed as
a fraud from the time of its writing. Hierocles of Nicomedia had drawn parallels between Apollonius
and Christ, which provoked this reply from Eusebius. Aldus began publication of this work with his
characteristic enthusiasm, but soon concluded that the work was worthless trash, actually stating
this in the May 1504 preface. This probably accounts for the long two year delay in its production
and the fact that, although dated 1501-1502, the book was only printed in 1504. The ‘Apoll’ quire
with Aldus’ preface is missing in some copies (like the present one), which could indicate that a
number of them was actually released after February 1502 and before May 1504. Woodcut Aldine
device on title and at end. Pt. 1 entirely in Greek. Capital spaces with guide-letters. A few old marg.
notes.
Ref.
Edit16 36113. Renouard 26-27:2. UCLA 82. Kallendorf/Wells 35(a). Adams P-1067.
Hoffmann III:237.
1142
ALMAIN, Jacques
- Moralia et clarissimi Doctoris theologi Magistri Jacobi Almaine cu(m) a
dictionibus eiusdem/ et David Cranston scoti non antehac impressis/ neque in aliis appositis [ed.
Vincent Doesmier]. Paris, Gilles de Gourmont, c. 1519-1520, 8vo, old limp vellum, flat spine, [4]-
cxxv ff. (without last blank, marginal staining, margins of o3-5 strengthened, tear in e8). Good copy.
€ 600/800
Very rare work
by J. Almain (1450-1515), theology professor at the Collège de Navarre (Paris),
with additions by his colleague of Scottish origin
David Cranston
(d. 1526). Large woodcut