Diss Buch das da Gedicht hat : der erleücht Vater Amandus, genan[n]t Seüss begreift in jm vil güter gaistlicher Leeren, wie der Mensch, so er sich gewendt hat von Got zu der Creatur, ainen Widerker sol tun zu seinem ersten vrsprung, der da got ist, vnd wie er sich haben sol in sein Selbs ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366.

Contributor:

Schäufelein, Hans, approximately 1480-approximately 1539.

Standardized Title:

Horologium sapientiae. German

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Mysticism--Early works to 1800.

Mysticism.

Penn Provenance:

Schmidt, Paul (bookplate)

Physical Description:

223, that is, 183 leaves : illustrations ; 30cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

Gedruckt ... in der Kaiserlichen Stat Augspurg : Durch Maister Hannsen Othmar gesessen bey Sant Vrsulen Closter am Lech durch Verlegung des fürsichtigen Herrn Johann Rynnmann von Öringen ..., in dem Jar do man zalt Tausentfünffhundert vnd Zwölff Jar auff den xx Tag des Monats Junij [that is, June 20, 1512]

Notes:

Translation of: Horologium sapientiae.

Imprint from colophon.

Numerous errors in foliation, including leaves 160-183 numbered 200-223.

Signatures: A⁸ B-Z⁶ 2a-2f⁶ 2g⁸ (-2g8).

Contains woodcut initials and 22 woodcut illustrations: 16 of various sizes (4 of which are reproduced twice) by Schäufelein and 2 full-page, 1 anonymous and 1 by Burgkmair; Schäuflein's woodcuts are adaptations, many in reverse, of the original woodcuts in Sorg's 1482 ed. (cf. Schäuflein and Dodgson's Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts).

Title page and portions of the 1st page of Von den neün Velsen printed in black and red.

Includes Rulman Merswin's Von den neün Velssen: leaves 152v-220v [i.e. 180v].

Local Notes:

An index in ms. on different paper has been added after the last leaf.

Woodcuts are colored by hand.

Imperfect: leaves 140 and 218 [i.e. 177] (leaves Z6 and 2g1) wanting; several leaves, including the title leaf, are mended.

Cited in:

VD-16 S6097

Grässe v. 5, p. 50

BM woodcuts v. 2, p. 11

Schäufelein, H. Das druckgraphische Werk, 420-435

Contains:

Merswin, Rulman, 1307-1382. Neunfelsenbuch.

OCLC:

80644348