Gross, Erhart: Doctrinale für die Laien [German].
[Strassburg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, ca. 1477-80].
Fol. [110 2-58 6-76]. [54] leaves (the first blank).
Make-up of last three gatherings follows Walsh, not GW.
Woodcut.
ISTC ig00510000; Goff G510; Walsh 130; GW 11563.
“Übertragung eines mittelniederländischen Werkes von Jan de Clerk ins Deutsche” - Sack (Freiburg) 1678.
Assigned to Knoblochtzer by GW and Sack. Goff, following O. Günther ('Die Wiegendrucke der Leipziger Sammlung und der Herzoglichen Bibliothek in Altenburg', no. 2641), assigned this book to the Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), ca. 1476.
| Accession number: |
163761 |
| Note: |
Bifolium 3/4.5 misbound as outer leaves of gathering 3. |
| Provenance: |
James Morison (1816-1893), United Secession minister and a founder of the Evangelical Union: source unknown.
Mitchell Library, Glasgow: purchased Morison’s theological library in 1894. |
| Binding: |
20th-century; quarter calf, marbled paper-covered pasteboards; modern endpapers (originals not preserved); earlier sprinkled red-edging retained; watermark of double-headed eagle on early front flyleaf. Size: 265 x 195 mm. |
| Leaf size: |
257 x 190 mm. |
| Annotations: |
None. |
| Decoration: |
Five-line initial “H” on 1/2r supplied in black ink. |
| Imperfections: |
Wanting the first blank leaf and leaf 1/9. |
