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£28,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

A fine German liturgical volume with an impressively detailed provenance, perhaps containing a miniature of an actual service in the Sebalduskirche in Nuremberg and showing Emperor Maximilian I in attendance Provenance: Written and illuminated for use in the Chapel of St. Sebald, in an unspecified German church of the same dedication, perhaps the celebrated Sebalduskirche in Nuremberg (he was the patron saint of the city), during the office there of Johannes Viegel: parallel Latin and German inscriptions at head and foot of paper pastedown, both dated 1478. This same year added at end of text as well in Arabic numerals. In the sixteenth century, prayers for the priests and founders of the church were added to previously blank space at the very end of the volume. Smudged early nineteenth-century armorial ink stamp to first endleaf (most probably English). George Dunn (1865-1912), Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead: his bookplate at foot of pastedown and pencil initials and notes on facing page recording he acquired it in January 1903; sold in his sale, Sotheby’s, 11 February 1913, lot 577. Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954), Viennese-born London bookdealer; this from his formidable private collection of fine early bindings: his gilt-tooled leather bookplate in centre of pastedown with “Ex libris E. PH. G.”. On him see the obituary by R.O. Dougan in The Library, 5th series, 9:2 (1954), pp. 75-84. Text: The volume comprises: a contents list, directing the readers to the various mas

• Binding: Hardcover

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