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GRATIANUS Decretum with apparatus by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis and Johannes Teutonicus (Semeca), edited by Sebastian Brant, Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach, 1 July 1500 image 1
GRATIANUS Decretum with apparatus by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis and Johannes Teutonicus (Semeca), edited by Sebastian Brant, Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach, 1 July 1500 image 2
GRATIANUS Decretum with apparatus by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis and Johannes Teutonicus (Semeca), edited by Sebastian Brant, Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach, 1 July 1500 image 3
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GRATIANUS
Decretum with apparatus, Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach, 1 July 1500

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
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GRATIANUS

Decretum with apparatus by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis and Johannes Teutonicus (Semeca), edited by Sebastian Brant, 530 leaves, double column, 67 lines plus headline, gothic type, red and black ink, woodcut of Gratianus in his study on verso of Bb6, early marginal manuscript notation, erased ink inscription on title, printing flaw on K2 with small tear, small wormholes, short tear on external margin of R1-S8 occasionally touching text, near contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with repair to edges, modern spine labels, hinges a litte cracked, light soiling [ISTC ig00391000; H*7918; BMC III, 792; Goff G-391], 4to (219 x 153mm.), Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach, 1 July 1500

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Provenance: Bibliothek Oberherrlingen, with date '1839' and initials 'E.M.' (of Eugen, Freiherr von Maucler) bookplate; MM Froth Libraires Lausanne, bookplate.

Eugen von Maucler (1783-1859) amassed an important library at Oberherrlingen Castle, near Ulm (municipality of Blaustein near Ulm), including numerous incunables he acquired from the Frankfurt physician and bibliophile Georg Kloß (1787-1854).

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