Epistola de morte Hieronymi. Together with: Pseudo-Aurelius Augustinus: Epistola de vita Hieronymi & Pseudo-Cyrillus: Epistola de miraculis Hiero

Epistola de morte Hieronymi. Together with: Pseudo-Aurelius Augustinus: Epistola de vita Hieronymi & Pseudo-Cyrillus: Epistola de miraculis Hieronymi.
Early Blaubeuren Incunable
Author	Pseudo Eusebius Cremonensis
Publisher	(Blaubeuren) : (Konrad Mancz) , (ca 1475)
Edition
Weight	750 gram
CF	Hain 6718; GW 09447; Proctor 2653; IDL 1746 (only 1 copy - Utrecht); Goff H-239; Polain 3977; Pellechet 11685; BMC II 564; Saj� (hung.) 1283; IGI (Italia) 3727; Sallander (Uppsala) I 2196; Walsh (Harvard) 954.
Keywords	Incunable, Blaubeuren, St Jerome, Hieronymus, Schwaben, Th�ringen, Ulm, Strasbourg, St Aurelius Augustinus, Augustinus Hipponensis, St Cyrillus, Jerusalem, miracles, mirakelen, hagiografie, biografie, biography, Wiegendruck
Booknumber	21050
Category's	Old & Rare (15th Century) Mental Sciences (Theology & Religion) Books on Books (15th Century) Books on Books (Manuscripts & Early Printed Books)
In-2� (20,4 x 27,4 cm). 65 leaves, without final blank. Later vellum (old material). Gothic type; 31 lines; Hain- type 1:120G; throughout rubricated in red; 2-to-4-line penwork initials in red. Collation (complete): a � g8 h9 (no final blank leaf). No catchwords, no signatures. The first tract (Pseudo-Eusebius) begins on leaf 1: Jncipit epistola beati Euseby ad damasiu[m] por//tunense[m] ep[iscopu]m & ad Theodomu[m] senatorem roma//nu[m] de morte gloriosi hieronymi doctoris eximy. Leaf 9 (quire b) starts with: iudicastis vos meti[cul]os & estis iudices cogitationum vestra//rum. The other 2 tracts: a. The 2nd tract (Pseudo-Augustinus) starts on leaf 31 r, lines 5-8: Incipit epistola beati augustini ep[iscop]i ad cirillu vene//rabilem archiep[iscopu]m hierosolimitanum de vita obitu & // miraculis beatissimi hieronimi prespiteri & doctoris // eximy. b. The 3d tract (Pseudo-Cyrillus) starts on leaf 37 r, lines 10 � 13: Incipit ep[isto]la cirilli archiep[iscop]i ad b[ea]t[u]m Augustinu[m] ep[iscopu]m // de mirac[u]lis gl[ori]osi hieronimi necnon & de morte b[ea]ti // Euseby discipuli sancti hieronimi. The work ends on leaf 65, lines 28-29 with: mei augustine carissime in tuis orationib[us] memor // est AMEN. These 3 letters on the life, death and miracles of St. Jerome of Stridon (c. 347 � 420) were ascribed to St. Eusebius of Cremona (died 423), a friend of St. Jerome who served a time as abbot in Bethlehem, St. Augustine of Hippo (354 � 430) and St. Cyril of Jerusalem (ca 315 � 386). But most probably, they have been authored in the early 14th century in southern France, or even more likely in northern Italy, within the Dominican world (Cf: Cavallera, Saint J�r�me I,2, Leuven, 1922). This collection of 3 letters has been printed several times during the 15th century; the first time by Ulrich Zell from K�ln, ca 1470, and this present work was the 2nd edition of this collection. Konrad Mancz (Mantz, Manntz), probably both born and deceased at Ulm (ca 1445/50 �after 24-11-1505), the first printing office of Blaubeuren. Blaubeuren belongs - with Ulm, Esslingen and Reutlingen � to the early cities with printing offices in southwestern Germany. In Blaubeuren, there was only one office during the 15th century. This office has produced, in all, only 16 works (at least ascribed with certainty to Mancz), all between 1475 and 1478. Hence the utter rarity of all Blaubeuren imprints. Most of these works are in Latin and on religious subjects, but 5 of them are in German and not on religion (a.o. Bekanntmachung betr. die Er�ffnung der Universit�t T�bingen of 1477). The present work is one of the 2 imprints published by Mancz in 1475. In view of the similarity of Mancz�s nice, large, rounded types with those of the early works from Strasbourg, it is supposed that Mancz did learn his profession there, like so many other craftsmen from southwestern Germany. However, Mancz was never a Strasbourg citizen. It was probably the Abbot Heinrich Fabri of the Benedictine convent there who persuaded Mancz to settle down at Blaubeuren. But around 1480 he must already have left Blaubeuren to establish himself in nearby Ulm. The first time as a bookbinder, maybe at the office of Konrad Dinckmut, but since 1490, and until 1505, as a bookseller (Cf ADB 20 (1884), 164-5; NDB 16 (1990), 8-9; Amelung, Fr�hdruck dtsch. S�dwesten I, XVII; Voulli�me, Dtsch. Drucker 15. Jh, (1922), 38; Geldner, Dtsch. Inkunabeldrucker (1968) I, 222). Text complete, without the last blank. Thick-paper copy with wide margins. Slightly waterstained throughout right margins, small hole in right margin of leaf 65 and tears of inner margins of leaves 33 and 56 skilfully repared, paper washed and therefore rubricized initials somewhat bleached. But a fine, well-bound copy of a scarce Blaubeuren-incunable.
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Epistola de morte Hieronymi. Together with: Pseudo-Aurelius Augustinus: Epistola de vita Hieronymi & Pseudo-Cyrillus: Epistola de miraculis Hieronymi.

Pseudo Eusebius Cremonensis