Description
Goldast (Melchior von Haiminsfeld) Paraeneticorvm Vetervm, Friedrich Taubmann's copy with his annotations, 3 full-page engraved illustrations, woodcut printer's device to foot of final recto, lacking blank 2M2, index ff. ink stained, occasional water-staining and spotting, antique style calf, spine with red morocco label, small 4to, Lindau, Johann Ludwig Brem, 1604.
? A rare work with an important provenance. A compendium of early German texts, some published here for the first time, it demonstrates a renaissance in the interest of Middle-High German.
Provenance: Friedrich Taubmann (1565-1613), German philologist and humanist. He split his time between the court of his patron Duke Freidrich Wilhelm of Weimar and the University of Wittemberg, where he was comic poet and Professor of Philology respectively (Ink ownership inscription to foot or title and annotations).
Lot 94
Goldast (Melchior von Haiminsfeld), Paraeneticorum Veterum, Friedrich Taubmann's annotated copy, 1604.
Hammer Price: £3,000
Description
Goldast (Melchior von Haiminsfeld) Paraeneticorvm Vetervm, Friedrich Taubmann's copy with his annotations, 3 full-page engraved illustrations, woodcut printer's device to foot of final recto, lacking blank 2M2, index ff. ink stained, occasional water-staining and spotting, antique style calf, spine with red morocco label, small 4to, Lindau, Johann Ludwig Brem, 1604.
? A rare work with an important provenance. A compendium of early German texts, some published here for the first time, it demonstrates a renaissance in the interest of Middle-High German.
Provenance: Friedrich Taubmann (1565-1613), German philologist and humanist. He split his time between the court of his patron Duke Freidrich Wilhelm of Weimar and the University of Wittemberg, where he was comic poet and Professor of Philology respectively (Ink ownership inscription to foot or title and annotations).
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