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Magnencij Rabani Mauri de laudi[bus] Sancte Crucis opus : erudicione versu posa[que] mirificum.

Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856. author.; Wimpheling, Jakob, 1450-1528.; Anshelm, Thomas, printer.
1503
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Title
Magnencij Rabani Mauri de laudi[bus] Sancte Crucis opus : erudicione versu posa[que] mirificum.
Uniform title
In honorem Sanctae Crucis
Created/published
Phorçheim : In aedibus Thom[ae] Anshelmi, Martio mense MDIII [1503]
Description
[10], LIX, [I], XIIII, [2] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856. author.
Wimpheling, Jakob, 1450-1528.
Anshelm, Thomas, printer.
Language Note
Latin with some Greek words.
Note
Edited by Jakob Wimpheling.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: 2A⁶ 2B⁴ a-k⁶ A-B⁶ C⁴.

Last leaf blank.

Illustrations (pattern or figure poems) are in red and black, sometimes complete woodcuts, sometimes woodcut with letterpress. Various poetic texts can be derived from the resulting configurations. Explanatory text and a transcript of the poem compliments each ill.

Text rubricated.

Includes index.
Cited/described in
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), H 5271
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, R3
Murray, C.F. German books, 350
Genre/form
Clasps.
Underscoring.
Place of creation/publication
Germany -- Pforzheim.

Call number
BT453 .H7 1503 copy 2 Cage
Folger-specific note
Copy 2: In half pigskin (blind-tooled) over wooden boards; clasps (one working). Manuscript title on front cover. Bound with: Hrotsvithe. Opera Hrosvite. Impressum Norunbergae : Sub priuilegio Sodalitatis Celticae a Senatu Rhomani Imperii impetrato, 1501.
Folger accession
cs1828
Call number
BT453 .H7 1503 copy 1 Cage
Folger-specific note
Copy 1: In 19th century polished calf; triple fillet; gilt title and tooling on spine.

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