BARTHOLOMAEUS DE CHAIMIS (d.1496). Confessionale sive Interrogatorium. - Interrogationes faciende infirmo morienti. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1491.
First Augsburg edition of a tract on confession, sin, and the Ten Commandments. It also provides insight into contemporary society by treating of various trades and professions and the potential sins inherent in them: doctors, shoemakers, goldsmiths, actors, etc., and it gives an early description of gambling: card and dice games forbidden to priests. H *2489; GW 6551; BMC II 385; BSB-Ink C-254; Goff B-164.
Chancery quarto (209 x 145mm). 9 woodcut initials, large woodcut printer’s device printed in red and black (some mostly marginal waterstaining, heaviest in first 2 leaves). Contemporary German quarter blindstamped calf over wooden boards, manuscript title on upper cover (spine ends defective, a few small wormholes, clasp renewed). Provenance: occasional early annotations.
BARTHOLOMAEUS DE CHAIMIS (d.1496). Confessionale sive Interrogatorium. - Interrogationes faciende infirmo morienti. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1491.
First Augsburg edition of a tract on confession, sin, and the Ten Commandments. It also provides insight into contemporary society by treating of various trades and professions and the potential sins inherent in them: doctors, shoemakers, goldsmiths, actors, etc., and it gives an early description of gambling: card and dice games forbidden to priests. H *2489; GW 6551; BMC II 385; BSB-Ink C-254; Goff B-164.
Chancery quarto (209 x 145mm). 9 woodcut initials, large woodcut printer’s device printed in red and black (some mostly marginal waterstaining, heaviest in first 2 leaves). Contemporary German quarter blindstamped calf over wooden boards, manuscript title on upper cover (spine ends defective, a few small wormholes, clasp renewed). Provenance: occasional early annotations.
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