DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIENSIS – (Jacobus de GRUYTRODE). Specula omnis status vitae humanae. Ed: Petrus Danhauser. Nuremberg: Peter Wagner, 28 January 1495.
Only incunable edition of a treatise on religious duty, now widely ascribed to Jacobus de Gruytrode. HC *6246; GW 8419; BMC II 465; BSB-Ink I-19; Goff D248.
Chancery quarto (210 x 153mm). With the final blank, initials in red and blue, capital strokes in red (some light marginal waterstaining, h7 and k3 torn into text, the latter repaired, occasional minor worming). Contemporary quarter calf over wooden boards (spine skewed and partially split, some worming, corners chipped, without clasp). Provenance: Annotation in Latin in an early 16th-century German hand (on fly leaf) -- Ramsau, Augustian Convent (inscription on title) -- 'Sum Balthasaris Curty' (inscription on title).
DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIENSIS – (Jacobus de GRUYTRODE). Specula omnis status vitae humanae. Ed: Petrus Danhauser. Nuremberg: Peter Wagner, 28 January 1495.
Only incunable edition of a treatise on religious duty, now widely ascribed to Jacobus de Gruytrode. HC *6246; GW 8419; BMC II 465; BSB-Ink I-19; Goff D248.
Chancery quarto (210 x 153mm). With the final blank, initials in red and blue, capital strokes in red (some light marginal waterstaining, h7 and k3 torn into text, the latter repaired, occasional minor worming). Contemporary quarter calf over wooden boards (spine skewed and partially split, some worming, corners chipped, without clasp). Provenance: Annotation in Latin in an early 16th-century German hand (on fly leaf) -- Ramsau, Augustian Convent (inscription on title) -- 'Sum Balthasaris Curty' (inscription on title).
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