Live auction - Lot 1091
[Antwerp imprint]
Dat boecxken vand[er] missen. Ende anderwerf ghecorrigeert [...].
Antwerp, A. van Berghen, 31 May 1517
€ 450 / 600
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Lot description
8vo : [154 (of 168)] ff. (lacking 12 ff. in quires B and H-L; toned, some soiling and staining, sl. thumbed).
Mod. blind-stamped brown morocco over wood, “à l’antique” (rubbed, tanned), bevelled edges, covers with blind-stamped ruled rectangular and lozenge-shaped borders with fleur-de-lis, blind-ruled spine on 3 raised bands, leather ties, 14th-c. vellum manuscript ff. as endpaper.
Rare repr. of the 1507 Van Berghen ed. of a very popular (9th ed.!) devotional work for hearing Mass, 1st publ. Gouda 1506, and compiled by the Dutch Franciscan Gerrit van der Goude (d. 1513). Copy with (still) 56 woodcuts, mostly old coloured. Printed in gothic type, in red and black. Ref. De Troeyer 181.- Nijhoff/Kronenberg 3074.- BCNI 610.- Pettegree NB 13620 (erroneous imprint).- Not in Adams, BnF, STC Dutch (BL).