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Quattuor novissima… Quentell, 1500 by Gerardus de Vliederhoven - 1500 [[Köln] : [Heinrich Quent: Only one copy recordered in USA

by Gerardus de Vliederhoven

Quattuor novissima� Quentell, 1500 by Gerardus de Vliederhoven - 1500 [[Ko�ln] : [Heinrich Quent

Quattuor novissima… Quentell, 1500: Only one copy recordered in USA

by Gerardus de Vliederhoven

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RARE INCUNABLE EDITION of the CORDIALE by Gérard de Vliederhoven

The Quattuor novissima cum multis exemplis pulcherrimis, which appeared without an author's name, is now definitely attributed to Gerard de Vliederhoven (formerly attributed to Henri de Hesse, Thomas de Haselbach, Gerard Groote, Denis the Carthusian or Jean de Vliederhoven).

This devotional treatise was widely distributed with no less than 46 Latin editions (the first in 1471) up to the end of the 16th century, as well as translations in German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Catalan and English.

Gerard de Vliederhoven was a lawyer and curator of the Teutonic Commandery of Utrecht.

He was an active mystical writer at the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and, together with his colleague Johann van der Sande, a fellow cellarer, he showed constant loyalty to the commander Gerhard Splinter Uten Enghe when, from 1380 onwards, the latter tried to restore discipline within the Order.

His origins and life are unknown, although he is one of the leading representatives of the edifying literature of his century. The Quatuor novissima examines the four terms of Christian life: Death, the Judgement of Souls, Hell and Paradise. Widely distributed from the beginning of the 15th century, it is most often referred to more briefly as the Cordiale; it shows how the attention paid to these four terms enables the faithful to guard themselves from sin.

The work had a profound influence on the eschatological thought of the followers of Devotio moderna. Several monasteries instituted the common reading of the Cordiale and it is known from the chronicler John Busch that it was read at Windesheim Abbey during meals. Jean Miélot translated it into French under the title Le Livre des Quatre derrenières choses // qui sont à advenir à ung chacun, printed in Paris in 1482. Other French editions called it Le livre des derniers choses, Les quatre novissimes or le Cordiale.

This edition was edited by the German publisher and printer Heinrich Quentell, based in Cologne. Active from 1478 to 1506, his presses left mainly theological and philosophical texts for university use, but also liturgical texts. He supplied a large number of prints and woodcuts, which were often imitated.

Quentell was one of the first printers to provide a title page almost systematically for his works. He is credited with several xylographic bibles, including the estimated one he printed in 1479.

Several ancient annotations, in Greek and Latin, marginal, on five leaves. Two hands with two inks, sixteenth century. Several underlined passages, also ancient.


Provenance:

Bibliothèque d'étude de la Province de Paris (college not identifiable); with reference label "F.C. 5 4".

Librairie Charles Taranne, after 1860 became the Librairie ecclésiastique Toulouse & Taranne, now. Autograph note in the lower right-hand corner of the title page: "bought on 2 April 1863 from Toulouse rue Cassette 33, Paris".

M. Froger, vicar, in Mamers, Sarthe. This is Louis Froger (1848-1918), canon, abbot and then vicar at Mamers (Sarthe, attached to the diocese of Le Mans). He gave several publications from the 1890s onwards, the majority of them at the beginning of the 20th century. They are rather devoted to liturgical, genealogical or regional parish histories. His first publication, in 1889, was a scientific study on the Gesta domine Aldrici, a well-documented study on the Merovingian dynasty and on Bishop Aldric of Le Mans, a saint of the Catholic Church celebrated on January 7th.

• Two more recent pencil notes: "Col. Agr. Quentell, 1500" and "63820 d*" on the last page. These are probably notes from booksellers in the first half of the 20th century.


Volime complete. Good general condition, wide margins, no leaves trimmed with damage. Leaf G5 torn in the middle by 6 cm (horizontally), with old restoration. Dusty title page; outer and lower margins with old traces of wetness, more pronounced in the middle of the volume. Black ink projection on the first cover, fixed, without any damage. Modest conservation binding, 19th century.

® The ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) lists 28 copies in public libraries (several of which are incomplete): one copy in Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden, Russia (St. Petersburg) and USA (Boston); two in Belgium and Poland, three in UK and thirteen in Germany.

No copy at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.


® Goff, C901; Hain, 5712; Polain (B) 1183; Voullième, 455; Kotvan, 411; Sallander, 2171; Madsen 1689; Wilhelmi 201. Not in BMC (acquisition of 1964).


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RARE EDITION INCUNABLE du CORDIALE de Gérard de Vliederhoven

Paru sans nom d'auteur, le Quattuor novissima cum multis exemplis pulcherrimis est désormais attribué de façon certaine à Gérard de Vliederhoven (autrefois attribué à Henri de Hesse, Thomas de Haselbach, Gérard Groote, Denis le Chartreux ou Jean de Vliederhoven).

Ce traité de dévotion connut une forte diffusion avec pas moins de 46 éditions latines (la première en 1471) jusqu'à la fin du XVIème siècle, ainsi que des traductions et en allemand, néerlandais, français, espagnol, catalan et anglais.

Gérard de Vliederhoven était un avoué et curateur de la commanderie teutonique d'Utrecht.

Ecrivain mystique actif à la charnière des XIVe et XVe siècles, il manifesta avec son collègue Johann van der Sande, frère cellérier, une fidélité constante envers le commandeur Gerhard Splinter Uten Enghe, lorsqu'à partir de 1380 ce dernier tenta de rétablir la discipline au sein de l'Ordre.

On ignore tout de ses origines et de sa vie, bien qu'il soit l'un des principaux représentants de la littérature édifiante de son siècle. Le Quatuor novissima examine les quatre termes de la vie chrétienne, à savoir la Mort, le Jugement des âmes, l'Enfer et le Paradis. Très largement diffusé dès le début du XVe siècle, on le retrouve le plus souvent nommé plus brièvement le Cordiale ; il montre comment l'attention portée à ces quatre termes permet au fidèle de se garder des péchés.

L'ouvrage a exercé une profonde influence sur la pensée eschatologique des adeptes de la Devotio moderna. Plusieurs monastères instituaient la lecture commune du Cordiale et l'on sait par le chroniqueur Jean Busch qu'elle était lue à l'abbaye de Windesheim pendant les repas. Jean Miélot l'a traduit en français sous le titre le livre des Quatre derrenières choses // qui sont à advenir à ung chacun, imprimé à Paris en 1482. D'autres éditions française le nommèrent Le livre des dernières choses, Les quatre novissimes ou le Cordiale.

On doit cette édition à l'éditeur et imprimeur allemand Heinrich Quentell, installé à Cologne. Actif de 1478 à 1506, ses presses ont laissé des textes principalement théologiques et philosophiques à usage universitaire, mais aussi de la liturgie. Il a fourni un nombre élevé d'estampes et de gravures sur bois, qui furent souvent été imitées.

Quentell a été l'un des premiers imprimeurs à fournir une page de titre de manière presque systématique à ses oeuvres. On lui doit plusieurs bibles xylographiques, dont celle, estimée, qu'il imprima en 1479.

Plusieurs annotations anciennes, en grec et en latin, marginales, sur cinq feuillets. Deux mains à deux encres, seizième siècle. Plusieurs passages soulignés, également anciens.


Provenance :

• Bibliothèque d'étude de la Province de Paris (collège non identifiable) ; avec étiquette de référence " F.C. 5 4 ".

• Librairie Charles Taranne, devenue après 1860 la Librairie ecclésiastique Toulouse & Taranne, devenue. Note autographe au coin inférieur droit de la page de titre : " acheté le 2 avril 1863 chez Toulouse rue Cassette 33, Paris ".

• " M. Froger, vicaire, à Mamers, Sarthe ". Il s'agit de Louis Froger (1848-1918), chanoine, abbé puis puis Vicaire à Mamers (Sarthe, rattaché au diocèse du Mans). Il donnera plusieurs publications à partir des années 1890, la majorité au début du XXe siècle. Elle sont plutôt consacrées aux histoires liturgiques, généalogiques ou de paroisses régionales. Sa première publication, en 1889, est une étude scientifique sur le Gesta domine Aldrici, une étude très documentée sur la dynastie mérovingienne et sur l'évêque Aldric du Mans, saint de l'Eglise catholique célébré le 7 janvier.

• Deux notes au crayon, plus récentes : " Col. Agr. Quentell, 1500 " et " 63820 d* ", au dernier feuillet. Ce sont vraisemblablement des notes de libraires, première moitié du XXe siècle.

Bon état général, grandes marges, aucun feuillet rogné avec atteinte. Feuillet G5 déchiré en milieu de feuillet sur 6 cm (horizontalement), avec restauration ancienne. Page de titre poussiéreuse ; marges extérieures et inférieures avec ancienne trace de mouillure, davantage prononcée en milieu de volume. Projection d'encre noire sur le premier plat, fixée, sans atteinte. Reliure modeste de conservation, XIXè.

L'ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) recense 28 exemplaires dans les bibliothèques publiques (dont plusieurs incomplets) : un exemplaire en Autriche, République tchèque, Danemark, Pays-Bas, Slovaquie, Suède, Russie (Saint Petersbourg) et Etats-Unis (Boston) ; deux en Belgique et en Pologne, trois au Royaume-Uni et treize en Allemagne. Pas d'exemplaire à la Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Goff, C901 ; Hain, 5712 ; Polain (B) 1183 ; Voullième, 455 ; Kotvan, 411 ; Sallander, 2171; Madsen 1689 ; Wilhelmi 201. Pas dans BMC (acquisition de 1964).


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  • Publisher Per honestum virum Henricum Quentell
  • Place of Publication Colonie
  • Date Published 1500 [[Köln] : [Heinrich Quent
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[Strassburg: Printer of the "Antichristus" (Heinrich Eggestein?), not after 1482]. First or Second Edition in German. 285 x 200 mm. (11 1/4 x 7 7/8"). Single column, 34 line in gothic type. Attractively matted. WITH A HALF-PAGE WOODCUT (85 x 132 mm.) OF A SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF HILARION. Goff H-216; BMC I, 168; ISTC ih00216000. ◆Faint marginal smudge, but A FINE LEAF, clean, fresh, and bright, with ample margins, of a very rare early issue of the German translation of the "Lives of the Desert Fathers." .
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1400s Handwritten Prayer Manuscript on Vellum French Medieval Calligraphy RARE

An incredibly rare early 15th-century, handwritten manuscript!

This manuscript, written on vellum, is an impressive and highly desirable work. With 17 lines of handwritten text on each page, this sheet is a prime example of medieval handwriting style and calligraphy. This vellum sheet is from a bound book featuring 4 total pages of text. Note the numerous decorative initials.

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LETTERS FROM THE 15TH CENTURY: ON THE ORIGINS OF THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER TYPEFACE. A STUDY, WITH...
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LETTERS FROM THE 15TH CENTURY: ON THE ORIGINS OF THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER TYPEFACE. A STUDY, WITH SPECIMEN LEAVES, OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE EARLY GERMAN PRINTERS ON WILLIAM MORRIS' MASTERPIECE

by (LEAF BOOK - KELMSCOTT PRESS AND PRINTING HISTORY). PIRAGES, PHILLIP J

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McMinnville, Oregon: Phillip J. Pirages, 2019. ONE OF 84 COPIES in floral-patterned cloth from a total edition of 165 COPIES. Text: 244 x 154 mm. (9 1/8 x 6 1/8"); Case: 502 x 372 mm. (19 3/4 x 14 5/8"). ii, 75 pp. Bound in floral-patterned cloth after a Morris design by Amy Borezo, who also constructed the case holding the volume and leaves. The book printed letterpress on Zerkall Book Laid Vellum paper by Arthur Larson at Horton Tank Graphics. Book layout by Jill Mann. EACH COPY WITH FIVE LEAVES: ONE FROM THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER with one or more 10-line initials, multiple six- and/or three-line initials, AND ONE EACH FROM THE PRESSES OF FOUR GERMAN PRINTERS FROM THE 1470s--PETER SCHOEFFER, JOHANN MENTELIN, GÜNTHER ZAINER, AND ANTON KOBERGER. ◆The incunabular leaves consistently excellent, with only minor defects, and the Kelmscott leaves (which were never part of a bound volume) in entirely fine condition. This is a unique leaf book in the way that it combines three elements: a significant… Read More
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PRECORDIALISSIMI ac imp[re] ciabiles de adve[n]tu d[omi]ni Sermones co[m]pleti a Revere[n]do...
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Paris: Jacobeo, sub signo Pellicani ab Engleberto Marnefio, 1522. Second edition. Signatures: a-g8, h6(h5-6 both blank, half of h5 missing and lacking h6) LXII f. Bound in original vellum limp binding with hand lettering on spine "Cleree sermones/aVerdu DNI/1522": name on first page "Thomas Stevenson/Edinburgh/183. very good copy of a rare sermon. John Clérée dominican friar, preacher of the Late Middle Ages, is a little and unjustly forgotten nowadays. He was however very well known in the time of the kings Charles VIII and Louis XII, whose he has been the confessor. This study is based on the Quadragesimale said of Valenciennes. Clérée, using always of the rules of the scolastic Ars Praedicamdi, is nevertheless able to innovate by introducing in his sermons some dramatic dialogues. He is an accurate witness of the difficulties and problems of the french society about 1500 : the increasing inegalities between rich and poor ; the heaviness of the royal fiscality and of all kinds of taxes ; the… Read More
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Lucensium Oratio Luculentissima Pont. Maximo Alexandro Sexto per Nicolaum Tygrinu[m] Lucensem...
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Lucensium Oratio Luculentissima Pont. Maximo Alexandro Sexto per Nicolaum Tygrinu[m] Lucensem Vtriusq]ue] Iuris

by Tygrinus or Nicolaus Tegrinus or Tegrini

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Rome: [Andreas Freitag],15 October 1492, 1492. Later black roan & gray boards, spine letters gilt.Binding slightly worn, first leaf lightly soiled. Ex-libris Walter Goldwater. Oration such as this are usually rare and short this one is both it is a tribute from the City of Lucca to the election of Pope Alexander VI. This is one of three almost simultaneously published prints of this on October 25, 1492 before the newly elected Borgia Pope Alexander VI. held this speech. - "This was the typical 'Oratio' - in the style of the times, both florid and unctous - which extolled the virtues of the Pope, traits which subsequent events failed to confirm!" (Bühler) According to Bühler's study, The Freitag printing was preceded by the editions of Stephan Planck (in Roman type) , whose corrections Freitag employed in his edition." CF Bühler, The Earliest Editions of the "Oratio" (1492) by Nicolaus Tygrinus (in: Gutenberg JB 1975, pp. 97-99)" Goff T563; HC 15751*; Pell Ms 10972; CIBN T-51; Nice 209; IGI… Read More
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Theologia naturalis; sive, Liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura ejus in quantum...
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Theologia naturalis; sive, Liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura ejus in quantum homo: et de his que sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendum seipsum et Deum, et omne debitum ad quod homo tenetur et obligatur tam Deo quam proximo.

by De Sabunde, Raymundus (Raimundus Sabundus, Raymond of Sebonde or Ramon Sibiuda, Catalan scholar, c.1385-1436)

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Strasbourg: Argentinae: Ex officina Martini Flach junioris, 1501. Half leather. Fine. Folio, printed in Strassburg by Martin Flach, 7 February 1501; 161 unnumbered leaves. BINDING: new Gothic hand-sewn oak binding by Arthur Green of Malvern; tawed quarter leather over quarter-sawn oak boards, quires hand-sewn on four double-cords creating four raised spine bands, board leather blind-tooled with period style rosettes and fleurs-de-lys within panel of diagonal blind triple fillets, hand-sewn Gothic double headbands of alternate hand-dyed indigo and undyed linen thread, hand-made brass hasps and clasps ornamented in period style; an exceptionally attractive recreation of a Gothic hand-sewn binding employing medieval techniques contemporaneous with the date the book was printed. COLLATION: [pi]6, a2-8, b-y6, z8, zeta6, antisigma8; leaf a1 excised and subsequent first few lines of a2[recto] redacted in black ink in the sixteenth century by the inquisitor for its heretical content (see below). TEXT: Double… Read More
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Orationi, Militari. Raccolte Per M. Remigio Fiorentino, da Tutti gli Historici. Greci e Latini,...
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Orationi, Militari. Raccolte Per M. Remigio Fiorentino, da Tutti gli Historici. Greci e Latini, Antichi e Moderni con gli Argomenti chi Dichiarono l'Occasioni per le Quali Elle Furono Fatte..

by Nannini, Remigio [1521-1581]

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Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Vellum. Title in gilt on green calf label on spine. [32] 740 p.p. Slightly bumped spine and edges. Some soiling to boards and extremities. Light foxing, some yellow staining to pages. Ex Libris Neathman Mill Library stamp on rear fly leaf. Tight boards, pages otherwise clean and crisp with decorated black and white initials. A near fine copy. A Dominican friar and writer, Remigio Nannini produced religious as well as secular works, and poetry. Nannini published "two collections of orations drawn by historians (the first, Military Orations collected by all the ancient and modern historians, Venice, 1557)" [Cantimori, Delio. Italian Encyclopedia, 1934]. Nannini also went on to publish the works of St. Thomas Aquinas (1570) at the request of Pope Pius the V.
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Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei.

by Antonius de Vercelli

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Antonius de Vercelli. Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei. Illustrated with 2 multi-colored initials. The beginning of the text nicely printed in red, text in gothic type, in two columns, 51 lines to a page. 8vo. Contemporary hard vellum binding, remounted. Venetiis, Johannes et Gregorius de Gregorii de Forlivio, February 16, 1492. First Incunabula Edition. Antonius de Vercelli was, for approximately thirty years, one of the leading and most influential political counsellors of the pre-eminent families in Italy's early Renaissance: the Medici family in Florence and the Sforza family in Milan. This collection of his Sermones (Discourses) has significant importance and the added weight of someone deeply involved in the political turmoil of the late 15th century. The context and political value of these discourses helped Machiavelli define "The Art of the State." Vercelli is also a significant religious figure, having had much influence in Italian theologies. 18th century… Read More
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A COLLECTION OF 36 PRINTED LEAVES FROM BOOKS PRINTED IN AUGSBURG, 33 FROM INCUNABULA
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A COLLECTION OF 36 PRINTED LEAVES FROM BOOKS PRINTED IN AUGSBURG, 33 FROM INCUNABULA

by (INCUNABULAR LEAVES - AUGSBURG). ZAINER, GÜNTHER, JOHANNES BÄMLER, ANTON SORG, and others, Printers

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Augsburg, 1470-1523. All leaves in archival mats, housed in a (slightly scuffed) linen clamshell box measuring 520 x 365 mm. (20 3/8 x 14 1/2"). 13 LEAVES WITH WOODCUTS, THE MAJORITY OF THESE COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND. ◆A couple of leaves a little browned, two others trimmed a bit close, one with loss of headline, trivial marginal stains or smudges, but the leaves generally fine and fresh. The collection includes: DURANTI, GUILLELMUS. RATIONALE DIVINORUM OFFICIORUM. (Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 22 January 1470) 395 x 290 mm. (15 1/2 x 11 1/2"). Rubricated in red, two two-line initials in red. Goff D-404; BMC II, 315; ISTC id00404000. JACOBUS DE VORAGINE. LEGENDA AUREA: LEBEN DER HEILIGEN. (Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1471-72) 325 x 240 mm. (12 7/8 x 9 1/2"). First Edition in German. Goff J-156; BMC II, 317; ISTC ij00156000. NIDER, JOHANNES. DIE VIERUNDZWANZIG GOLDENEN HARFEN. (Augsburg: Johannes Bämler, 18 December 1472) 265 x 185 mm. (10 1/2 x 7 14"). Goff N-223; BMC II, 331; ISTC… Read More
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