Marcus Antonius Muretus - - Unique Humanist Edition - ORATIONES, EPISTOLAE, HYMNIQ, SACRI - Workshop Proof with Misprint! - 1660

Unique 1660 Humanist Edition – Workshop Proof with Misprint

Rare Leipzig edition of Marcus Antonius Muretus’s Orationes, Epistolae,
Hymniq sacri with a red-black title page misprint and contemporary handwritten corrections.
Likely a printer’s workshop copy, never intended for sale.

A true bibliographical Unicum!

Marcus Antonius Muretus (1526–1585)

Prayers, Letters, and Sacred Hymns
Leipzig, Gottfried Gross (printed by Christian Michaelis), 1660.

Rare Leipzig edition of the works of the famous humanist, orator, and philologist Marcus Antonius Muretus.

Unique features

Title page with a misprint in red-black printing (misaligned impression, overlapping types) – a true bibliographical rarity.

Numerous contemporary handwritten corrections, notes, and annotations (approximately 20% of the volume).
These strongly suggest this copy served as a printer’s or workshop proof copy.
Never intended for commercial sale, but rather used in-house to prepare for a revised edition.

Format: approx. 15.7 × 9.7 × 6 cm

Binding: later leather binding, solid, with signs of use.

Condition: age-related wear, foxing and stains throughout, damaged frontispiece mounted.
Numerous marginalia and corrections, but structurally sound and complete.

Weight: about 500 g

A unique workshop copy with a misprinted title page and contemporary editorial interventions.
An exceptional witness to 17th-century printing practice and a true market rarity.

Unique Humanists edition from 1660 – workshop copy with a printing error.

Rare Leipzig edition of Muretus's Orations, Letters, and Sacred Hymns with a misprint on the title page.
and contemporary handwritten corrections.
Probably a printing or proofreading copy, never intended for sale.

A bibliographic unique!

Marcus Antonius Muretus (1526–1585)

Prayers, Letters, and Sacred Hymns
Leipzig, Gottfried Groß (printed by Christian Michaelis), 1660.

Rare Leipzig edition of the works by the famous humanist and rhetorician.

Special feature: Cover page with a printing error in red-black printing (overlap of types) – bibliographic rarity.

Numerous contemporary handwritten corrections and notes (about 20% of the pages).
to conclude from a workshop or correction copy
probably never meant for trade, but used within the printing house itself.
to prepare a new edition

Format: approximately 15.7 × 9.7 × 6 cm

Cover: later leather binding, stable, with signs of wear.

Condition: showing signs of use, stained, frontispiece damaged and mounted.
Block fest, numerous marginal notes and corrections by an old hand.

Weight: approx. 500 g

A unique piece of high book-historical significance – a work certificate from a 17th-century printing workshop.