From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft
Petrus Berchorius
Liber Bibliae moralis. [Cologne]: Bartholomaeus de Unkel, 17 March 1477
Chancery folio (289 x 200mm), 426 leaves, [a–y10 z8 A B10 C12 D–S10 T6 V10], 39 lines, gothic type, initials supplied in red or blue, red manuscript headlines, early seventeenth-century German stamped calf over wooden boards, traces of two pairs of clasps, occasional light damp-staining, rebacked retaining most of original spine
A TALL CRISP COPY of Berchorius's dictionary of Biblical words with his moral observations. This is the first issue, according to the setting of the text on the final leaf.
LITERATURE:ISTC ib00339000
PROVENANCE:Carthusians of Wedderen (Marienburg), inscription at end; Charles Thomas Stanford, armorial bookplate; [A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, sold in 1942 to]; Estelle Doheny, red morocco gilt booklabel, sale, Christie's New York, 14 December 2001, lot 58
From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft
Petrus Berchorius
Liber Bibliae moralis. [Cologne]: Bartholomaeus de Unkel, 17 March 1477
Chancery folio (289 x 200mm), 426 leaves, [a–y10 z8 A B10 C12 D–S10 T6 V10], 39 lines, gothic type, initials supplied in red or blue, red manuscript headlines, early seventeenth-century German stamped calf over wooden boards, traces of two pairs of clasps, occasional light damp-staining, rebacked retaining most of original spine
A TALL CRISP COPY of Berchorius's dictionary of Biblical words with his moral observations. This is the first issue, according to the setting of the text on the final leaf.
LITERATURE:ISTC ib00339000
PROVENANCE:Carthusians of Wedderen (Marienburg), inscription at end; Charles Thomas Stanford, armorial bookplate; [A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, sold in 1942 to]; Estelle Doheny, red morocco gilt booklabel, sale, Christie's New York, 14 December 2001, lot 58
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