BALBUS, Johannes (d.1298). Catholicon . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 21 August 1486. Second Koberger edition of the most important Latin dictionary and encyclopedic compendium of the Middle Ages. Universal in scope, the Catholicon draws on sources both ancient and medieval, including Isidore of Seville, Priscian, and Donatus and covers grammar, rhetoric and pronunciation as well as definitions of words; its alphabetical arrangement, now taken for granted for a work of reference, was far from standard at the time of its composition. HC 2258; GW 3192; BMC II, 430; BSB-Ink B-15; CIBN B-20; Goff B-28. Royal folio (407 x 275mm). Without first and final blank leaf, partly rubricated, 6 sheets in 5 quires at the end printed on slightly smaller paper. (Stain at upper hinge, repaired in first leaf with a little text in facsimile, small stain in quire i, neat marginal repair in z6, a few small wormholes at beginning and end.) 16th-century German calf over wooden boards blind-tooled with unicorn double-headed eagle, rosette and other stamps, and hunting and a heart roll (rebacked preserving early backstrip, endpapers renewed, clasps restored). Provenance : Neustadt an der Saale, Carmelite house (early inscription) – Gustav Becker (19th-century inscription and occasional marginalia).
BALBUS, Johannes (d.1298). Catholicon . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 21 August 1486. Second Koberger edition of the most important Latin dictionary and encyclopedic compendium of the Middle Ages. Universal in scope, the Catholicon draws on sources both ancient and medieval, including Isidore of Seville, Priscian, and Donatus and covers grammar, rhetoric and pronunciation as well as definitions of words; its alphabetical arrangement, now taken for granted for a work of reference, was far from standard at the time of its composition. HC 2258; GW 3192; BMC II, 430; BSB-Ink B-15; CIBN B-20; Goff B-28. Royal folio (407 x 275mm). Without first and final blank leaf, partly rubricated, 6 sheets in 5 quires at the end printed on slightly smaller paper. (Stain at upper hinge, repaired in first leaf with a little text in facsimile, small stain in quire i, neat marginal repair in z6, a few small wormholes at beginning and end.) 16th-century German calf over wooden boards blind-tooled with unicorn double-headed eagle, rosette and other stamps, and hunting and a heart roll (rebacked preserving early backstrip, endpapers renewed, clasps restored). Provenance : Neustadt an der Saale, Carmelite house (early inscription) – Gustav Becker (19th-century inscription and occasional marginalia).
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