First edition of the “Quadrivium Ecclesiae”, the “first textbook of German constitutional law” and three other rare writings on canon and constitutional law combined in an exceptionally preserved anthology.
Description: Bound in contemporary pigskin, decorated with roll-tooled borders; 2 brass clasps and catch-plates; spine with 3 raised bands, spine lettered in manuscripts. Quarto: 27 × 20 cm (sheet size); 60ll. (out of 62, with the “Protestatio” at the end of the book missing – as usual). With large title woodcut and printer’s mark.
Ref.: Adams H 147; VD16 H 5804
Bound with: [i] Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo: Speculum vite humane. J. Prüss, Strasbourg, 1507. [14], 91ll., [1 blank] [ii] Berchorius, Petrus: Morale reductorium super tota[m] Bibliam. Adam Petri for Johann Koberger, Nuremberg, 1517. [12], 195ll., [1 blank] (leaves 79–89 are missing. They have been replaced by appropriately marked leaves from the edition of Petri, 1515.) [iii] Fabri, Johann: Declamationes divine de humane vite miseria. Johannes Miller, Augsburg, 1520. [93]ll. ¶
Provenance: All four books signed by Wendelin Fabri (1465–1532), Dominican friar, spiritual director of Zoffingen Abbey (1508–1527); the title page of the ‘Quadrivium Ecclesiae’ also by Frater Johannes Biecheler in Salem, dated 1570. Enclosed is an invoice from the Weiss-Hesse antiquarian bookshop in Olten (Switzerland) from 1954. ¶
Condition: Boards slightly stained and rubbed. Inner front hinge starting but firm. Pages slightly toned and sporadically somewhat stained; 4 old fore-edge tabs bound in.
Offered by Georg Schneebeli
$6750
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