Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections

Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections

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From the chess collection of Lothar Schmid

Thomas Murner | Prophetia mirabilis ad annu domini Millesimu quingentesimum Credecimu prime futuru, 1512

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Thomas Murner and Johannes Adelphus


Prophetia mirabilis ad annu domini Millesimu quingentesimum Credecimu prime futuru. [Strassburg: Johann Prüß (II), 1512]


4to (189 x 134 mm). Collation: A4, large woodcut to title-page (repeated at end), modern patterned boards, inner margins reinforced, with some splitting along backstrip, light spotting and soiling


An exceedingly rare work by the Alsatian satirist, poet, and translator Thomas Murner (1475–c. 1537): Rare Book Hub records no copies at auction since 1921. The woodcut on the title depicts players at a board game with counters.


PROVENANCE:

Acquired by Lothar Schmid from Helmuth Domizlaff Antiquariat, Munich in 1964: invoice loosely inserted


LITERATURE:

USTC 687695 (no institutional copies recorded); VD16 M 7050

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