36. Turrecremata, Johannes de

Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis

Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 28 September 1481

Description

Paper. [194] leaves; 290 x 200 mm (fol.). Gothic type. Double columns. Contains Nicolaus de Byard's Flos theologiae sive Summa de abstinentia [Dictionarius pauperum] bound at front, with preliminaries of that work up to and including C5 wanting. C6a (f.18a?) starts: 'tenebut quasi parturietes dolebunt (?)...' Ends: 'Explicit Tabula materie applicabilis siue floris theologie...' Turrecremata's work begins: f.2a: 'Incipit tabula qstionu' 147 leaves present; F.8 and leaves including p10 onwards (including colophon) wanting. F.9a: Questiones euagelioruz tam de tempore qb de sancti collecte per .R. D Iohanne de turre cremate epm Sabinen. Sancte Rhomane ecclesieCardinalem sancti Sixti. Incipiut feliciter. Rubricated throughout.

Binding

Oak boards covered in calf. Blind stamped lozenge design on covers. Boards detached; spine badly ripped with exposed gatherings. Clasp joints remain. Contains a loose unidentified medieval manuscript portion.

Printer

Johann Amerbach (c. 1430 1513) was born at Reutlingen in Germany. He studied at the Sorbonne under Johann Heynlin before working in Nuremberg as a press corrector for Anton Koberger. He established a press at Basel about 1481 (1478 has also been suggested), and became its leading printer, issuing some seventy works. He was the first Basel printer to use roman type. At various times, Amerbach was in partnership with Jacob von Pforzheim, Johann Petri, and Johann Froben, and he had continued his association with Anton Koberger at Nuremberg, who acted as his publisher, and with Rusch at Strassburg, to whom he appears to have lent type.

Provenance

1. Canon William Ardene Shoults 2. Selwyn College; Otago University Library

Reference

HC 15714*; BMC III 747; Goff T553; ISTC it00553000

Illustrations

First page of text in DU copy, rubricated 'A', front cover binding, front inside cover, detail of gatherings on spine.