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Lot 190

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CARTHUSIENSIS, Johannes. Nosce te. Add: Corona senum; De immensa caritate Dei; De humilitate interiori et patientia vera; Flos vitae. Heidelberg: [Heinrich Knoblochtzer, after 6 July 1489].


Chancery 4to. Collation: A-B⁸ C-D⁶ E-M⁸⋅⁶ N-O⁸. 99 leaves (of 100, lacking final blank), 39 lines. Gothic type. Capital spaces with printed guide letters, capitals and paragraph marks in red. (Gnawed at upper margin and corners throughout, the first quire restored, the rest with loss of heading and occasional loss of text to first line, some soiling and dampstaining.) Contemporary blind-tooled pig over wooden boards, metal clasp, manuscript title on upper cover (heavily restored). Provenance: Note in a contemporary hand on title leaf, some early marginalia.

Second edition, preceded by an edition printed in Venice in 1480, and one of the earliest Heidelberg imprints.  The use of Greek letters in "Gnothi see auton" in the title and colophon are among the earliest uses of Greek letters in German printing. Goff J-275; HC 9389*; Pell Ms 6593 (6558); BMC III, 670; BSB-Ink I-339; GW M13471 ISTC ij00275000.

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