May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Antoninus Florentinus (1389-1459)
Summa Theologica, [Parts I-II].

Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1496.

Folio, two parts bound together; I: 173 of 174 leaves (lacking the first leaf); II: 225 of 226 leaves (lacking the final blank); printed in gothic types in two columns throughout, initials added by hand in red and blue, some large woodcut initials also in use; bound in full contemporary tanned leather over wooden boards, decorated with blind stamps including roses, smaller flower tools, and a distinctive tool featuring Saint Catherine, this grouping of tools also used on a Venetian imprint of Boniface's Decretals from 1496 held at the University Library in Augsburg and a 1498 Cologne Missal at Darmstadt; lacking hardware, rebacked and repaired, new pastedowns and endleaves, some worming, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.

ISTC ia00878000; Goff A-878; BMC I 109; BSB-Ink A-601; GW 2192. Binding tools: s019461 (Saint Catherine) through s019467 (for more see the EBDB Einbanddatenbank: https://www.hist-einband.de/koddetails.html?entityID=k007939)