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Breviarium Numburgense.

Lost Art-ID

616238

Printer

Erhard Ratdolt

Editor

Dietrich v. Schauemburg, Bischof von Naumburg

Title

Breviarium Numburgense.

Place of release

Augsburg

Date of publication

1490 (ca)

Object type

Early print

Group of reported objects

Library objects

Signature

Schlosser, Inkunabel-Katalog Nr. 27a, Schirmer-Katalog Nr. VII [a] 82

Description

8°, damaged late Gothic calfskin binding on wooden panel with single embossing stamps. "Printed work with woodcut" according to Karl Schottenloher (1927), contains portrait of the bishop with his coat of arms according to Karl Schottenloher, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 46 (May 1929), p. 215

Provenance

Historical town library of Bad Windsheim, part of the book collection of the former Augustinian hermit monastery (founded in 1291, abandoned in 1525). The object was relocated to Hoheneck Castle at the end of the war in 1945 and has been considered lost since it was looted.

Literature / Source

S. | Cf.: Michael Schlosser: Die Inkunabeln der Stadtbibliothek Bad Windsheim. Inkunabeln und Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts der Augustiner-Eremiten in Windhseim. Würzburg 1997, S. 27

Zu den Verlustumständen vgl. | For the circumstances of the loss, cf.

Erich Stahleder: Die Handschriften der Augustiner-Eremiten und Weltgeistlichen in der ehemaligen Reichsstadt Windsheim. Würzburg 1963 S. 6f.

Ulrich Herz: Stätten des Nationalsozialismus in und um Bad Windhseim, Gunzenhausen2023, S. 34, FN 96-99 und Michael Schlosser: Die Inkunabeln der Stadtbibliothek Bad Windsheim, S. 2ff.

Published since

22.11.2023