[Das Buch genannt Seuse].

Accession number:

PML 149

Author:

Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366.

Published:

Augsburg : Anton Sorg, 19 April 1482.

Description:

[5], vi-Cviii, [2], iii-Cxlvi leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from ISTC. Incipit (leaf [1]/6r): Das ist der prologus, das ist die vorrede des büchlins das da heisset der Seüsse.
Colophon (leaf [26]/8r): Gedruckt und vollendet ist dicz büch (des geleich, noch bessers de[n] laien nit kund ist sein leben zebessern, genant der Seüsse) von Anthonio sorg, in der keyserlichen stat Augspurg, an dem nächsten freitag vor sant Jörgen tag do man zalt nach Cristi gepurt, tausentvierhundertzwainundachzig iar.
Printed in Sorg's types 2:118G and 3:140G.
Collation: [1-10¹⁰ 11⁸; 12-24¹⁰ 25-26⁸]: 254 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
paper format: Chancery folio
20 woodcuts (full- and partial-page), and historiated and lombard woodcut initials.
Bearer type on leaves [3]/10v, [8]/4v, and [9]/1r.
Includes Seuse's Vita, Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit (Horologium sapientiae), and Briefbüchlein. With: Rulman Merswin, Neunfelsenbuch, which includes Henricus de Herpf, Spiegel der Vollkommenheit (Chap. 60), edited by Felix Fabri.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.1 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Binding:

Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (30.5 x 19.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by the Fünfblatt-Blüte frei workshop in Augsburg (EBDB w002482), active circa 1470-1485. Modern plain blue paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands. 2 clasps, wanting.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Woodcuts hand colored. Annotations: Misplaced/printed top line from leaf Cxlii verso (= [26]/4v) added in manuscript at bottom of leaf Cxliii recto (= [26]/5r). Minimal 17th-/18th-century notes in graphite. Contemporary leather tabs for text/book divisions.

Provenance:

[Bernard Quaritch?, collation note by Jennings, June 1886 (rear pastedown)]; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code ol/-/- +com (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Woodcuts

Hand coloring

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books