Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Franciscus, de Retza, approximately 1343-1427
2. Ysenhut, Lienhart, -1507
3. New York Public Library. bnd

Description

1. [60] p. : ill. (woodcuts); 21 cm (4to)

Alternative title

1. Defensorium inviolate perpetueque virginitatis castissime Dei genitricis Marie
2. Defensorium inviolatae perpetuaeque virginitatis castissimae Dei genitricis Mariae
3. Defensoriu inuiolate perpetueq virginitatis castissime Dei genitricis Marie
4. Defensorium inviolatae virginitatis Mariae
5. Hanc plena gracia salutare mente serena ...

Subject

1. Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Virginity
2. Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Poetry
3. Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Art
4. Virgin birth -- Early works to 1800
5. Marvelous, The, in art -- Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

1. Incunabula – Switzerland – Basel.
2. Woodcuts – Switzerland – 15th century.

Call number

1. Spencer Coll. Swiss 1490

Note

1. Title from title page, leaf a1.
2. Uniform title from Goff and BM 15th cent. Earlier Strasbourg and Speyer editions lack t.p.; text begins: Hanc plenam gracia salutare mente serena; Hanc plena[m] gratia[m] salutare me[n]te serena.
3. Attributed to Franciscus de Retza in Goff, ISTC, BSB-Ink, BM 15th cent. and most other sources; attribution disputed by GW (accessed May 11, 2011): "Die Autorschaft des Franciscus de Retza, lediglich im Blockbuch von 1471 (Copinger 1943. Schreiber IV 374-380) angegeben, ist unwahrscheinlich; der Dominikaner starb 1427, während die Ausbildung der Symbolreihe des Defensorium erst um 1460 beginnt."
4. This ed. belongs to "Redaktion C" in GW's classification.
5. Place of printing and name of printer from ISTC and other cited sources.
6. Dated about 1487-1488 by Sack, on paper evidence, and in ISTC. Dated about 1489-1500 in GW.
7. Illustrations: 53 woodcuts (2 with xylographic captions), comprising 2 full-page and 51 ca. half-page cuts within single-line borders (border often broken and sometimes entirely broken away). Depict various natural and supernatural phenomena, with accompanying verses comparing them to the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The cuts are copied, some in reverse, from 2 earlier editions, by Printer of the Breviarium Ratisponense (Georgius de Spira?), Strasbourg (formerly assigned to Georgius de Spira, Speyer), ca. 1479-1482, and Johann and Conrad Hist, Speyer, ca. 1484. Cf. BM 15th century; ISTC.
8. Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁶. Last page blank.
9. Leaf a1 may be a cancel; Fairfax Murray copy begins with a blank leaf apparently conjugate with leaf a8 and having set-off from leaf a2 on verso. Cf. GW, note 2.

Indexed in (note)

1. Goff
2. ISTC (WWW)
3. GW (WWW)
4. BSB-Ink (WWW
5. Hain-Copinger
6. BM 15 cent.
7. Murray, C.F. German books
8. Sack, V. Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek, Freiburg im Breisgau

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available online (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy; Universitätsbibliothek Basel copy, with hand-colored ill.).

Language (note)

1. Verses in German and Latin; explanatory text in Latin.

Binding (note)

1. Dark red morocco, blind-stamped; gilt spine lettering. Stamped "Bindery: The New York Public Library" on foot of back turn-in.

Title

1. Defensoriu[m] inuiolate perpetueq[ue] virginitatis castissime Dei genitricis Marie : inquo adducuntur xlvi naturalia et mirabilia exempla, claroru[m] scriptoru[m] auctoritate roborata, et experie[n]tia rerum conprobata ...

Imprint

1. [Basel : Lienhart Ysenhut, ca. 1489-1500]

Indexed in:

1. Goff R-153
2. ISTC (WWW) ir00153000 http://data.cerl.org/istc/ir00153000
3. GW (WWW) 10275 http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/GW10275.htm
4. BSB-Ink (WWW F-253 http://inkunabeln.digitale-sammlungen.de/Ausgabe_F-253.html
5. Hain-Copinger 6086*
6. BM 15 cent., III, p. 780 (IA. 37865)
7. Murray, C.F. German books, 360
8. Sack, V. Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1479

Language

1. Verses in German and Latin; explanatory text in Latin.

Additional formats

1. Also available online (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy; Universitätsbibliothek Basel copy, with hand-colored ill.).

Binding

1. Dark red morocco, blind-stamped; gilt spine lettering. Stamped "Bindery: The New York Public Library" on foot of back turn-in. NN

Local note

1. Spencer Coll. copy: On verso of last leaf is a pen-and-ink tracing of the full-page woodcut on the recto; inscribed "Maria" in an early hand.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Place of publication

1. Switzerland Basel.

Added author

1. Franciscus, de Retza, approximately 1343-1427. Attributed name
2. Ysenhut, Lienhart, -1507. Printer
3. New York Public Library. Binder

LCCN

1. 2007582648

Research call number

1. Spencer Coll. Swiss 1490