Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/88
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dienna Printer of the 1482 Vocabolista (Stephan Koblinger?): a.p. 1482-1485? First printer. ‘ This printer appears to have started work in 1482, when he produced at least seven books, all mentioning Vienna as the place of printing; no other date can be connected with him, but his type was still in use—presumably at Vienna—after 6 January, 1485. . . . In view of the fact that the type of the Vocadolista closely resembles a Vicenza type, it is noteworthy that one ‘ Steffan Koglinger,’ acquired the citizenship of Vienna in 1481; he is no doubt identical with the Stephan Kob- linger de Vienna who printed at Vicenza in 1479 and 1480, and this printer, there- fore, most probably started the present press at Vienna with type that he had brought with him from Italy.” (British Museum Catalogue of Incunabula, Vol. I, p. 809). No printer’s device was used by this anonymous printer. I. POPE INNOCENT VIII (died 1492). Bulla canonisationis Sancti Leopoldi Marchionis. Gotuic Letter, 34 lines to a full page. With a rude initial at beginning. [Vienna, Printer of the 1482 Vocabolista (Stephan Koblinger?), after 6th January, 1485. | 4 leaves. Small gto. Preserved in lettered buckram port- folio. (SEE ILLUSTRATION OVERLEAF.) £52 10s Not in Hain. Copinger 3267. British Museum Cat. Incun., Vol. III, p. 809. Proctor 9471. Hawkins, Catalogue of Books by the First Printers, No. 506 (this copy has a signature, A, on 1a). Langer, Bzbliographie der Osterreichischen Drucke, No. 9b. ‘“’The Bull narrates how Duke Leopold of Austria greatly favoured priests and men of religion, and was so devoted to the Popes that he was called (Continued over) [r]
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