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FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. (xvi) 116. Gothic letter, charming blue and red rubricated initials throughout, one woodcut initial. Rare minor marginal stains or marks, light waterstain to lower blank margin of a few final gatherings, tiny wormhole to lower outer corner of last two ll, mainly marginal red ink splash to one fol. (not affecting reading). A very good, crisp and clean, well-margined copy in contemporary pigskin, covers double blind ruled to a panel design, upper cover with two borders, roll of foliage to second, flower stamps to corners and in central panel, lower cover featuring a single outer border and a similar decoration with the same floral stamps, spine with blind ruled raised bands. Attractively decorated brass clasps. Two printed pages of Regulae grammaticales antiquorum (Leipzig, Conrad Kachelofen, about 1490-1495) used as pastedowns, stubs from a C15 manuscript psalter with red initials. C20 bookplate APR to front pastedown. HANDSOME CANON LAW Attractive first edition of this encyclopedia of canon law. This incunable was beautifully produced by Albrecht Kunne (b. 1435), the earliest printer of the Upper Swabia region in Germany. Kunne was an expert on printing types he designed and created the lead letters himself and this is the first appearance of his own Schwabacher , a vibrant and decorative gothic type that resembles handwriting. Remarkably, this volume also contains one of the earliest examples of printed manicules. These fine little hands (maniculae), originally used in manuscripts to draw attention to important points in text, were introduced in print by Leonhard Pachel and Ulrich Scinzenzeller in 1479. Kunne was among the first to adopt and reproduce this symbol. The volume is further embellished with calligraphic hand-painted initials in blue and red ink. In 1577, this book was gifted to M. Christophorus Kirmeserus , most likely Magister Christoph Kirmeser (b. 1550), a remarkable scholar born in Schemnitz (Upper Hungary) who graduated at Ingolstadt. He was rector of the pastoral school of Nysa (Poland, 1574-80) and later abbot of the Augustinian Monastery of Glatz (Poland, 1583) and of the Benedictine monastery of St. Lambrecht (Austria, 1596). He wrote a book of sermons published in 1582 at Ingolstadt. The donor of this volume was Johannes Teskl , who defines himself as a Doctor meaning that he obtained a doctoral degree. The name might correspond to the German Johann Teschl or Teschel a man named Johann Teschel was priest of Marienau (Germany, south of Leipzig) in 1598 (K. Stehr, Chronik der ehemaligen Hochritterlichen Maltheser-Ordens-Commende, 1845, p. 179). USTC 747567; ISTC io00023000; GW 12255; Goff O23. A. Kastner, Aus der Geschichte der Neisser Pfarrgymnasiums, p.13. N° de ref. del artículo L3787
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