REICHENTHAL ULRICH VON Das Concilium so zu Constanz gehalten

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REICHENTHAL, ULRICH VON. Das Concilium, so zu Constanz gehalten ist worden, des Jars do man zalt von der Geburdt Vnsers Erlösers MCCCCXIII Jar. Profusion of uncolored woodcut illustrations, including 40 full-page and over 1100 coats-of-arms. 215 leaves; lacks final blank. Folio, 18th-century brown straight-grain morocco gilt; contents toned, scattered foxing and stains, soiling on title and elsewhere, repaired clean tear on K5 slightly affecting illustration on recto, lower outer corner of Y4 torn and restored with portion of illustrations in hand-drawn ink facsimile, lacks front free endpaper. Augsburg: Heinrich Steyner, 1536

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Second edition of the 1483 chronicle of the 1414-18 Council of Constance, considered the first printed armorial for including the heraldic insignia of the attendees; the other illustrations show scenes from the Council proceedings, including the burning at the stake of the Bohemian reformer Jan Hus. Fairfax Murray/German 353 (original edition); Lipperheide (1963) 444 (this edition).