Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429, Prima[-tertia] pars operum Johannis Gerson, [1488]
- Title(s):
- Prima[-tertia] pars operum Johannis Gerson.
- Additional Title(s):
Prima pars operum Johannis Gerson
Goff title: Opera
Works. 1488- Published/Created:
- [Strasbourg] : [Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, partly with the types of Johann Prüss and Martin Flach], [1488]
- Physical Description:
- 3 v. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 32 cm. (fol.)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0535Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1305297
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BEIN Zi +450.3: Bookplate (v. 1 only) of Fundatio Baldaufica of Waldauf. Bookplate (manuscript, with arms in colors: v. 1 only) of Wolfgang Crener. General index (50 ff.) lacks fol. 1 (t.p.). For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
Edited by Peter Schott and Johann Geiler von Kayserberg. Cf. GW.
Title from title page of vol. 1.
Imprint from ISTC. Vol. 1 dated 10 Sept. 1488; vol. 2 dated 3 July 1488; vol. 3 dated 6 Sept. 1488.
Vols. 1-3 have special title pages only. The "Inventarium" is frequently bound with one of the three vols. and has special t.p. which reads: Inuentariu[m] eoru[m] que in operibus Gersonis continentur.
Frequently found with a fourth part printed by Martin Flach, the younger, in 1502.
Colophon of vol. 2 (leaf SS5) reads: Secu[n]da pars operum domini Johannis Gerson doctoris christianissimi continens precipue opuscula ad mores acco[m]modata. Explicit feliciter. anno nostre salutis. Mcccclxxxviij Nonas vero Julij mensis quinto.
Vol. 1: [228] leaves (last leaf blank); vol. 2: [286] leaves (last leaf blank); vol. 3: [360] leaves (last leaf blank); "Inventarium": [50] leaves.
Vol. 1 signatures: a-o⁸⁶̇ p-y⁶⁸̇ aa-ii⁶⁸̇⁶̇ kk-ll⁸ (ll8 blank).
Vol. 2 signatures: A¹⁰ B⁸ C-O⁸⁶̇ P⁶ Q-T⁸⁶̇ U⁶ X⁸ Y⁶ Z⁶ AA-QQ⁸⁶̇ RR-SS⁶ (SS6 blank).
Vol. 3 signatures: aa-mm⁸⁶̇ nn⁸ oo-rr⁸⁶̇ ss-tt⁸ vv-xx⁶ yy-zz⁸ Aa-Zz⁸ ab-af⁸ (af8 blank).
"Inventarium" signatures: A⁸ B-G⁶⁸̇.
Chancery folio, printed in double columns. 53 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 212 (228) x 134 (142) mm.; col. width: 63 mm. Printed marginalia. Initial spaces with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords.
The works are divided into a hundred sections with printed numbers on upper corner, and these again into subsections, marked alphabetically for indexing.
Full-page woodcut in all three vols. on t.p. verso depicting Gerson as a pilgrim, walking to the right followed by his dog, and carrying a staff in his left hand and a shield (showing the seven planets and with a winged heart on which is inscribed a tau) slung over his right arm. In the background, a castle is to Gerson's left and a tree to his right. Cf. Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois, no. 4101.
BSB-Ink. G-183
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 164, 165
Incunabula short title catalogue, ig00186000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-186
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 7622*
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 10714
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 170 (IB. 1633-1635)
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4101
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0535: Imperfect: two leaves only, including the title leaf "Prima pars" and the title leaf to the "Inventoriu[m]". From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink. - Subject Terms:
- Crener, Wolfgang -- Bookplate.Incunabula in Yale Library.Theology -- Early works to 1800.Waldauf (Walluf, Hesse?). Fundatio Baldaufica -- Bookplate.Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
- Form/Genre:
- Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
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