LAPIDE, Johannes (Heynlin) de.

Resolutiorum dubiorum circa celeb(r)ationem missarum occurrentium.

      In Breslau binding Cologne, Joh. Landen, 1506. 8vo. Original blindstamped calf, spines ribbed, front side decorated with roll cuts representing the Resurrection and the Crucifixion in centre, surrounded by the four Evangelists, the title #Resolutorium XLIII## blindstamped on top and bottom, rear side . Woodcut of the virgin on recto and verso last leaf. (44) lvs. AUGUSTINUS OF LEONISSA. Sermones pulcherrimi super dominicam orationem Pater noster et angelicam salutationem Ave maria... Cologne, Henricus Quentel, 1505. 8vo. With fine woodcut initials. (92) lvs. Two rare early sixteenth century Cologne imprints in fine sixteenth-century blind-stamped binding by the Breslau binder HB, dated 1540. The first work is a popular manual on the rites of the Roman Catholic mass by Johannes (Heynlin) de Lapide, who was the centre of a famous circle of learned men, one of whom was Sebastian Brandt. The work is divided into ten chapters, together treating 43 articles. The second work contains sermons by Augustinus of Leonissa, from the order of St. Augustinus, in two parts, with fifty and twenty-eight sermons respectively. Of special interest is the binding by a Breslau binder known by his monogram HB only. He worked from 1524 to 1540 and made bindings for Johann Hess, the reformer and first evangelical pastor of Breslau, and also for Heinrich Ribisch, syndic of the city of Breslau. For the present binding, two roll tools are used, one with the three images of Christ - Crucifixion, Resurrection and Christ carrying the instruments of his torture - the other with the four Evangelists. Both roll tools carry the initials HB, at the top of the Crucifixion, and above the head of St. Matthew. The date is marked in the tool with the four Evangelists only, at the top of the image of St. Marc. The present book previously belonged to the collection of the church of the cathedral of Breslau, according to the erased manuscript entry on the title of the first work: "Eccle. Cathedralis Wratislaviensis". Good copy, with old ms. name on paste-down and ms. annotations in the margins of the second work.- (Brass corners rear side lacking; lower half of the title cut off; one corner dam.). Ad binding: cf. Europäische Einbandkunst aus sechs Jahrhunderten. Beispiele aus der Bibliothek Otto Schäfer. Schweinfurt, 1992, no. 25; ad 1: VD 16, H 3454 (1 copy); STC German p. 484; Proctor 10484; not in Adams ad 2: VD 16, A 4321 (1 copy); not in STC German, nor in Adams.