Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
GUNTHER of Pairis, attributed to. Ligurinus, seu Opus De Rebus gestis Imp. Caesaris Fridericii, I. Aug. lib. X. absolutum. Title within woodcut historiated border. 246, [10]; 353, [17] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, old vellum, rebacked with vellum at an early date, front hinge split; contents browned with occasional marginal dampstaining, front free endpaper lacking. (Strassburg: Johann Schott), 1531

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Epic on the 1152-60 campaign of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in Lombardy, ascribed to a monk (circa 1150-1220) at the Cistercian monastery of Pairis in Alsace and first published in 1507.