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PRATO FLORIDO, Hugo de
Fees include commission and taxes.
PRATO FLORIDO, Hugo de
(Strasbourg), (1479: latest date).
Large 4to. (445) folios including the table of contents (ff. 1–9), printed on heavily watermarked laid paper.
Contemporary calfskin on wooden boards, cold-stamped with motifs (chequered patterns and fleurons) on the covers, 5 large metal rivets on each cover, metal fastenings, leather straps at the back, 2 reused vellum endpapers (one strap broken, edges slightly soiled, browning at the top of the page (without affecting the text) on a quarter of the ff. with minor modern repairs (ff. 151–229), slight worm damage without affecting the text, a few scattered stains and light pinholes, ff. 420 printed across the page (but complete), a minor tear at the side of ff. 272, water damage at the side).
Pen-and-ink bookplate ‘Bibliotheca Limbourgensis 1714’ at the top of the text.
Engraved bookplate ‘Biblyothek Oberherrlingen 1839 E. M.’, belonging to Eugen von Maucler, politician and bibliophile from Württemberg (1783–1859).
Engraved 19th-century bookplate: Georgius Klok, M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum (Frankfurt am Main).
Ritter, 241. Hain, 8996.
Third incunabulum edition by Georg Husner of the CXV sermons of Prato, comprising 445 unnumbered and unsigned folios.
A fine edition printed in a single column of 42 lines with red headings, including some very carefully executed initials with decorative motifs and marginalia (a face painted within a capital A, ff.132).
A copy that has remained in fairly fresh condition with wide margins, preserved in its original (restored) binding.
The reused vellum is part of a religious manuscript, probably from the 14th–15th centuries, with initials in red.
2 ff. handwritten in the 16th century (ff. 424–425) replacing part of the missing text (end of sermon CVIII and sermon CIX) in fine, difficult-to-read brown ink, on approximately 50–60 lines per page, i.e. three and a half pages.