BRANT, Sebastian (1457-1521). Varia carmina . With additions by Johann Bergmann de Olpe (d. 1532). Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 May-1 September 1498.
BRANT, Sebastian (1457-1521). Varia carmina . With additions by Johann Bergmann de Olpe (d. 1532). Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 May-1 September 1498. Median 4° (210 x 140mm). Collation: A-D8 E-H4.8 I-K4 a8 bc4 d-h8 i4 k-l8 m4 n4 [o]4 (A1r title with 3 woodcuts, A1v address by Bergmann to Wymmar von Erckelenz, A2v text, m1r Brant's prose De anticipatione horologii Basiliensium and verse De diluvio aquarum , n1r Turcorum terror et potentia , and address to the reader, o1r colophon and printer's device, o1v register to quires A-K, o3r register to quires a-m, o4v blank). 148 leaves. 30 lines, printed shoulder notes. Types: 1:109R (title and Latin text), 3:77R (marginalia), 4:220G (title and headings), 5:109G (German text). 7 woodcuts from 6 blocks, of which one is full-page depicting Emperor Maximilian before Jerusalem, woodcut printer's device, woodcut Lombard initials. (Fore-edge darkened on first and last leaf, some small wormholes, marginal paper flaw in one leaf.) 19th-century binding preserving contemporary German blindtooled calf sides over probably original bevelled wooden boards, red sprinkled edges. Provenance : early ?English cypher on title, and price “xii d”, ms. pagination in first quires. THIRD, MOST COMPLETE, ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION , with two additional quires containing supplementary verses by Brant. The latter addition contains Brant's poem on the Turkish threat, illustrated by a woodcut of a Turk on horseback pursued by Christians, which apparently also circulated independently. Brant’s other subjects include poems in praise of Petrarch and the invention of printing, and on the 10th-century German poetess, Roswitha. Grüninger published a pirated edition of the Varia carmina on 1 August 1498, in response to which Brant replaced an exhortation at the end with a verse appeal to the reader to buy only the Bergmann edition, corrected by himself. HC 3731*; GW 5068; BMC III, 796 (IA. 37949-50); BSB-Ink B-808; CIBN B-757; Schreiber 3543 and 3580; Goff B-1099.
BRANT, Sebastian (1457-1521). Varia carmina . With additions by Johann Bergmann de Olpe (d. 1532). Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 May-1 September 1498.
BRANT, Sebastian (1457-1521). Varia carmina . With additions by Johann Bergmann de Olpe (d. 1532). Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 May-1 September 1498. Median 4° (210 x 140mm). Collation: A-D8 E-H4.8 I-K4 a8 bc4 d-h8 i4 k-l8 m4 n4 [o]4 (A1r title with 3 woodcuts, A1v address by Bergmann to Wymmar von Erckelenz, A2v text, m1r Brant's prose De anticipatione horologii Basiliensium and verse De diluvio aquarum , n1r Turcorum terror et potentia , and address to the reader, o1r colophon and printer's device, o1v register to quires A-K, o3r register to quires a-m, o4v blank). 148 leaves. 30 lines, printed shoulder notes. Types: 1:109R (title and Latin text), 3:77R (marginalia), 4:220G (title and headings), 5:109G (German text). 7 woodcuts from 6 blocks, of which one is full-page depicting Emperor Maximilian before Jerusalem, woodcut printer's device, woodcut Lombard initials. (Fore-edge darkened on first and last leaf, some small wormholes, marginal paper flaw in one leaf.) 19th-century binding preserving contemporary German blindtooled calf sides over probably original bevelled wooden boards, red sprinkled edges. Provenance : early ?English cypher on title, and price “xii d”, ms. pagination in first quires. THIRD, MOST COMPLETE, ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION , with two additional quires containing supplementary verses by Brant. The latter addition contains Brant's poem on the Turkish threat, illustrated by a woodcut of a Turk on horseback pursued by Christians, which apparently also circulated independently. Brant’s other subjects include poems in praise of Petrarch and the invention of printing, and on the 10th-century German poetess, Roswitha. Grüninger published a pirated edition of the Varia carmina on 1 August 1498, in response to which Brant replaced an exhortation at the end with a verse appeal to the reader to buy only the Bergmann edition, corrected by himself. HC 3731*; GW 5068; BMC III, 796 (IA. 37949-50); BSB-Ink B-808; CIBN B-757; Schreiber 3543 and 3580; Goff B-1099.
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