Bonhams 1793 : VOCABULARIUS EX QUO. Ex quo vocabularii varii autentici videlicet idelicet huguitio katholicon. [Strasbourg: printed by Georg Husner, not after 1483.]

Ex quo vocabularii varii autentici videlicet idelicet huguitio katholicon. [Strasbourg: printed by Georg Husner, not after 1483.]
4to (212 x 147 mm). 166 leaves (of 170). 32 lines. Gothic type. Rubricated throughout with capital strokes and 4- or 5-line initials. Manuscript headlines. Half calf over marbled boards. Lacking leaves 1, 8, 169, and 170 [169 is supplied in manuscript, 1 & 170 possibly blank], f.2 with top margin repaired, scattered soiling, some marginal chips, f.159 with gutter margin repaired, slight worming at beginning.
Provenance: manuscript notes in various Gothic hands; Sir Thomas Phillips (pressmark); Lionel Robinson (his sale, Sotheby's, Jun 26, 1986, lot 143).

VERY RARE. Not in Goff. The copy in the British Library also lacks the first and last leaves. BMC I, 131; GW M51113; Proctor 634A.

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