Lot 5
Duranti (Guillelmus) Rationale divinorum officiorum, Basel, Berthold Ruppel and Michael Wenssler, 1477.
Hammer Price: £5,000
Description
Duranti (Guillelmus) Rationale divinorum officiorum, collation: [a12 b10 c d8 e6 f-h8 I10 k-m8 n o10 p-t8 u12 x y10 z12], double column, 205 ff. (of 206, lacking initial blank), 60 lines, Gothic type, initials in red, rubricated throughout, early ink marginalia, a few ff. with short tear to margins, that on f.151 encroaching on text with minor loss, marginal water-staining or damp-staining, occasional spotting and finger-marking, first f. little chipped at head, final f. chipped at head, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, metal clasps, rebacked, spine in compartments and with chipped morocco label, lower corners and spine ends little worn, a few loses of leather from covers, folio (385 x 285mm.), Basel, Berthold Ruppel and Michael Wenssler, [not after 1477].
⁂ A rare edition at auction of this work on the origin and meaning of the Christian ritual, which remains one of the chief authorities on Western medieval liturgy. Copies in München BSB and Bamberg have rubricator's dates of 1477.
Provenance: M.H. Bloxam (ink inscription dated 1842).
Literature: BMC III 716 + 725; Goff D415; GW 9111; HC 6463*; BSB-Ink D-331; ISTC id00415000.
Description
Duranti (Guillelmus) Rationale divinorum officiorum, collation: [a12 b10 c d8 e6 f-h8 I10 k-m8 n o10 p-t8 u12 x y10 z12], double column, 205 ff. (of 206, lacking initial blank), 60 lines, Gothic type, initials in red, rubricated throughout, early ink marginalia, a few ff. with short tear to margins, that on f.151 encroaching on text with minor loss, marginal water-staining or damp-staining, occasional spotting and finger-marking, first f. little chipped at head, final f. chipped at head, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, metal clasps, rebacked, spine in compartments and with chipped morocco label, lower corners and spine ends little worn, a few loses of leather from covers, folio (385 x 285mm.), Basel, Berthold Ruppel and Michael Wenssler, [not after 1477].
⁂ A rare edition at auction of this work on the origin and meaning of the Christian ritual, which remains one of the chief authorities on Western medieval liturgy. Copies in München BSB and Bamberg have rubricator's dates of 1477.
Provenance: M.H. Bloxam (ink inscription dated 1842).
Literature: BMC III 716 + 725; Goff D415; GW 9111; HC 6463*; BSB-Ink D-331; ISTC id00415000.
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