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Augsburg, Anton Sorg, An der mitwochen vor Mathie des zwelffboten (23. 2.) 1480. With total 301 sheets: 1 unpaginated Leaves, 138 numbered. Leaves, 162 numbered. Leaves. The unpaginated first sheet with  woodcut (crucifixion scene) recto, 56 text woodcuts (each 8 x 8 cm) and 55 large mayflower initials. Consistent text, woodcuts and initials in red. The unnumbered  sheet on the back with red printed text. Manuscript from the 16th century. Size of the sheet 24.9 x 17.3 cm.

GW M34102; Goff E78; Schramm IV illustrations 328?335. 337?375; Ce³ E-78; VB 115.5; Sack: Freiburg 2918; ISTC ie00078000 (shows 3 complete copies of: Prague, Seitenstetten, Freiburg im Breisgau and 2 fragments in Berlin and Stuttgart; GW also calls a complete copy in Berlin). - Second edition of the plenary, which appeared at the prolific Augsburg printer Sorg between 1478 and 1483; Plenaries are precursors of the postils, which in a vernacular represent the complete periscopes of the church year. - Without the ties. The first sheet with the woodcut in the fold and at the bottom corner with old repair, recto browned and stained. Leaves LXXII-LXXVII in the second part slight wormholes at the upper white edge. Leaf LXXV with repaired spot at the fld and approx 5 cm crack. Only occasionally a little blotchy, usually quite clean. Some of the few marginalia have been easily pruned  during the new bind in probably 18th century. Overall, quite a good copy of the not frequent and beautifully illustrated incunabulum!

Incunabula & early printing - Quantity: 1

Incunable - Plenarium, deutsch - 1480

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