JOHANNES DE FRANKFORDIA.

Sermones. S.l.n.d. Ulm, Conrad Dinckmut, ca. 1478]. In-folio, cold-stamped sow's skin on ais, wide border decorated with a repeated phylactery bearing the words MARIA, large panel delimited by fillets and a large juxtaposed iron depicting a dragon, the middle decorated with a latticework with small motifs (acorn and flower), chased metal angle, central brooch, chased copper clasps, spine ribbed (Germanic binding of the time). GW, M13582. - HC, 7352. - Goff, J-315 (dates the edition to 1482). VERY RARE PRINCEPS EDITION of the sermons of John Lagenator of Dierburg, known as John of Frankfort († 1440), a German theologian and preacher of Heidelberg. This is the only incunabula edition of this text, and one of the very first books to come off the presses of Conrad Dinckmut, a printer active in Ulm between 1477 and 1496. COPY IN A WELL PRESERVED GERMAN BINDING, STRICTLY CONTEMPORARY WITH THE EDITION AND COMPLETE WITH ITS METAL PARTS. Numerous old annotations in the margins. Manuscript bookplate of a 17th century religious community on the first leaf. From the Roux-Spitz library (1977, n°71). Smudging on a few leaves, some light spotting.