Lot 244
Busti (Bernardinus de ) Mariale. Officium et missa Immaculatae Conceptionis, rare at auction, Strasbourg, Martin Flach, 1498.
Hammer Price: £2,200
Description
Busti (Bernardinus de) Mariale. Officium et missa Immaculatae Conceptionis, collation: A8 B6 a-d8 e-h6.8 i-l8 m8 n-p6 q-z8.6 aa-qq8.6 rr6 ss-zz8.6 AA-FF6 GG8, double column, 378 ff., 54 lines and headline, Gothic type, initial spaces with guide-letters, title with marginal repair / strengthening verso and mounted on stub, water-stained, worming to lower margins of last few text ff. and rear pastedown (mostly small holes to text ff.), some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped panelled calf over wooden boards, metal clasps, sympathetically rebacked, loss / wear to original leather of covers, folio (270 x 181mm.), Strasbourg, Martin Flach, 15 August, 1498.
⁂ Rare at auction, with the last copy we can trace being in 2009. Bernardino de' Bustis (c.1450-1513) was a Franciscan friar at Legnano, near Milan. He was an early advocate of the Monti di Pietà, a pawnshop which offered small loans at much more favourable terms than the open market.
Literature: BMC I, 155; Goff B-1335; HC(Add) *4162; GW 5806; BSB-Ink B-1017; ISTC ib01335000.
Description
Busti (Bernardinus de) Mariale. Officium et missa Immaculatae Conceptionis, collation: A8 B6 a-d8 e-h6.8 i-l8 m8 n-p6 q-z8.6 aa-qq8.6 rr6 ss-zz8.6 AA-FF6 GG8, double column, 378 ff., 54 lines and headline, Gothic type, initial spaces with guide-letters, title with marginal repair / strengthening verso and mounted on stub, water-stained, worming to lower margins of last few text ff. and rear pastedown (mostly small holes to text ff.), some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped panelled calf over wooden boards, metal clasps, sympathetically rebacked, loss / wear to original leather of covers, folio (270 x 181mm.), Strasbourg, Martin Flach, 15 August, 1498.
⁂ Rare at auction, with the last copy we can trace being in 2009. Bernardino de' Bustis (c.1450-1513) was a Franciscan friar at Legnano, near Milan. He was an early advocate of the Monti di Pietà, a pawnshop which offered small loans at much more favourable terms than the open market.
Literature: BMC I, 155; Goff B-1335; HC(Add) *4162; GW 5806; BSB-Ink B-1017; ISTC ib01335000.
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