Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
(BIBLE IN LATIN. PSALMS.) Psalterium beati Brunonis episcopi herbipolensis. [171] (of [172]) leaves; lacks one (of 2) blanks at end. Gothic type. 4to, 195x138 mm, modern pigskin preserving 16th-century blind-tooled pigskin covers with panel stamps of Emperor Maximilian II on front and arms of the Holy Roman Empire on rear; small institutional stamp on first text page. [Nuremberg]: (Anton Koberger, 1497)

Additional Details

Second edition of the commentary on the Psalter by St. Bruno of Würzburg (circa 1005-1045), which was first published in 1485. ISTC ip01057000; BMC II, 444; Goff P1057; Meyer-Baer, page 43.