GULIELMUS DURANDUS. Speculum iudiciale . Strassburg: Georg Husner and Johann Beckenhub, 22 November 1473 (GW 9148). Opening leaf on paper with illuminated initial with author portrait and a full-page border including birds, a stag and doe, wild men and a coat-of-arms. [southern Germany, c.1475] 418 x 285mm (leaf); 85 x 89mm (miniature). Historiated initial R with a portrait of the author dressed in a red robe and cap and seated in a canopied chair behind a reading desk against a burnished gold ground, the initial in dark blue and white against a burnished silver ground within a square frame; the border of scrolling acanthus incorporating a coat-of-arms, several fanciful flowers, two deer, four birds, and two wild men, one climbing and one shooting with a bow at a rabbit whose head just appears at the lower right. The printed text rubricated with a simple red Lombard initial, paragraph signs and capital strokes; a few contemporary marginalia in a German cursive hand (the silver oxidised, some flaking of pigment, cropped touching border at lower right, damp stain in lower right margin, blank upper margin unobtrusively mended). Framed.
GULIELMUS DURANDUS. Speculum iudiciale . Strassburg: Georg Husner and Johann Beckenhub, 22 November 1473 (GW 9148). Opening leaf on paper with illuminated initial with author portrait and a full-page border including birds, a stag and doe, wild men and a coat-of-arms. [southern Germany, c.1475] 418 x 285mm (leaf); 85 x 89mm (miniature). Historiated initial R with a portrait of the author dressed in a red robe and cap and seated in a canopied chair behind a reading desk against a burnished gold ground, the initial in dark blue and white against a burnished silver ground within a square frame; the border of scrolling acanthus incorporating a coat-of-arms, several fanciful flowers, two deer, four birds, and two wild men, one climbing and one shooting with a bow at a rabbit whose head just appears at the lower right. The printed text rubricated with a simple red Lombard initial, paragraph signs and capital strokes; a few contemporary marginalia in a German cursive hand (the silver oxidised, some flaking of pigment, cropped touching border at lower right, damp stain in lower right margin, blank upper margin unobtrusively mended). Framed.
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