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N and N Paulov
DobbaFerry, NY
Los Angeles Book Fair
Feb '88 $47.50
(-10%)
Alliaco, Petrus de (Pierre d'Ailly, b. 1250 - d. 1420)
Tractus et sermones
Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg
(Georg Huaner) 1490. f0 Chancery
Ref: Goff A-488 HC 848 BMC I 141 ICI396
Cop: HEHL, PML New L leaf e2 (285x200 mm)
1989
1750
a-f8.6 g-z AB6C8
164 leaves, the last blank. 2 col., with printed headlines.
3a 52 lines, 208x131mm.
Types: 160, title, headlines, and C.; 80 Text.
Spaces left for capitals, with guide letters.
(283x198mm.)
80 smaller text type used from the later months of
1488 onwards. The open U (versus U) is found
unmixed with any other form from 1488 to 1490.
160 title and headline types. Used throughout.

2nd ed. of substenial theological study by the great
medieval thinker and scientist, professor and chancellor of the
Sorbonne, later bishop of Camrai and cardinal. Pierre d'Ailly
was one of the great universalists of the later Middle Ages.

The Printer of Jordanus de Quedlinburg, who produced about 100
ed. from 1483 or earlier to 1502 was the most active anonymous printer
of the 15th C. E. Voullieme attempted to identify him as the Strassburg
printer Georg Husner; V. Scholduer has argued persuasively that
although Husner may have had some connection with the shop, he is not
likely to have been its master (50 Essays p.240-3). From 1485 onwards,
virtually all The Jordanus Press books have precise completion
date reckoned by saints' days.

Benzig - G. Husner 1473-1505