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1985 first and limited edition (1 of 159 copies), leaf book, Kenneth Karmiole (Los Angeles, Calif.), 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches tall blue cloth hardbound, paper label printed in red and black to spine, grey endpapers, original 7 x 10 1/4 inches tall incunabula leaf from Zainer's 'Theologiae Veritatis' in a folder bound between the introduction and main text, ix, 22, [4] pp. Covers slightly rubbed, with mild staining to front cover. The Zainer leaf has a half-dozen pinhole-sized wormholes, and one narrow 1/2-inch wormhole which only catches the first letter of one line; otherwise, apart from slight marginal staining, a very good leaf. The book is, in all other respects, in very good to near fine condition. Reference: de Hamel and Silver, Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered (Caxton Club 2005), No. 183. ~SP12~ This work traces the work of Ulm, Germany's first printer, Johannes Zainer, who printed a tract on the plague in 1473, some five years after his older brother Gunther had introduced the art of printing in Augsburg. Author Peter Amelung traces Zainer's work through 20 years of printing, and that of Zainer's son from 1496 until at least 1519, together producing some 170 to 180 books in the fifteenth century alone. The leaf is from the elder Zainer's printing of Hugo Ripelin's Compendium Theologiae Veritatis, circa 1478-81. Hugh (or Hugo) Ripelin of Strasburg (circa 1205-1270) was a Dominican theologian from Alsace. On account of its scope and style, as well as its practical arrangement, his 'Theologiae Veritatis' was for 400 years used as a text-book. It may have been the most widely read theological work of the later Middle Ages, in western Europe. By reason of its extensive use and wide circulation it was often copied and later more often printed and reprinted. The work consists of seven books which treat of the Creation, the Fall, the Incarnation, Grace, the Sacraments, and the Last Four Things. In the entire medieval literature there is probably no work whose composition has in the past been attributed to so many different authors. It is now dated to 1268, and Ripelin's authorship considered most probable, if not certain. Seller Inventory # SP12-0941-1518
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