Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
MARCHESINUS, JOHANNES. Mammotrectus super Bibliam. [260] leaves, with d6 and d5 bound between d3 and d4. Gothic type. Contemporary manuscript initials sporadically supplied in Legenda sanctorum. 4to, 198x147 mm, old vellum boards with spine title in ink, binding discolored; dampstaining throughout, holes in first leaf restored with text loss, old stamps in lower margin on recto. (Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 23 September 1479)

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Popular biblical and liturgical reference work dating from the later 13th century, first published in 1470 and reprinted over 20 times by the end of the 15th century. HC 10559; BMC V, 180; ISTC im00239000.