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The first illustrated French book in French language, fourth edition. It is illustrated with 257 woodcuts, “identical to Richel’s edition (Goff, S-664) but with one addition (fo. 99v) and two substitutions (a new woodcut on fo. 95v and a repeat on 151r)” (Bibl. Philosophica et Hermetica).<\/span><\/p>\n This is the second edition printed by Mathias Huss. Mathias’s relative, Martin Huss, had established the second press at Lyons with Johannes Siber, and in 1478 issued the first edition of the Speculum <\/i>in French adorned with woodcuts; that edition was the first illustrated French book. He issued a second edition in 1479.<\/p>\n Martin had procured the woodcuts for both editions from Bernard Richel who had used them in the German edition at Basel two years earlier. They are the same woodcuts used by Mathias in this edition as well. The four or five editions of the Speculum<\/i> printed between 1478 and 1483 made Lyons a center of the French illustrated book. Based as it is on the Richel edition, this French translation of Julien Macho includes the Epistles and Gospels for Sundays and holy days taken from the Plenarium<\/i>.<\/p>\n The joining of these two works highlights the Plenarium<\/i> as a didactic work and the Speculum<\/i> as a liturgical substitute. Not only are these additional Biblical passages, arranged according to the ecclesiastical calendar, a further aid to the lesser clergy looking for inspiration for sermons, but they lend a practical order to the Speculum<\/i>, making it more suited to the regularity in meditation and devotion recommended for a heightened spirituality.<\/p>\n Mathias Huss apparently printed two editions of the Speculum<\/i> in French dated 1483, both of which are usually assigned in the Copinger reference HC 14298. Copinger took his description from the Lyons Public Library copy which matches that in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica<\/i>. These two copies represent an edition distinct from the only American copies listed in Goff (Rosenwald 383, PML check list, 1569).<\/p>\n Although the page shows a different type-setting, and the colophon of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica \/ Lyons copies give the year only, while that in the Rosenwald \/ PML copies give the day and the month (3 March as well). (See Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, no. 175, this copy).<\/p>\n Due to the constant use these devotional books are usually quite worn. This copy has the first leaf in facsimile, all outer margins restored, occasionally touching some letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/i>Folio (332 x 246 mm) 204 leaves (of 206, first and last blank removed at an earlier stage) of which first 3 nn.ll, then num. I-CCI. Collation: *4<\/sup>-1 a-z \u00e78<\/sup> \u00b510-1<\/sup>. Modern white calf decorated in blind by Louis Bescond dated 2016, additional decoration in red and gilt, flat spine decorated in blind, endpapers with gold leaf, fly-leaves in reversed calf, matching chemise and slipcase. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":83043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[1237,600,1267,1261],"class_list":{"0":"post-83058","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-15th-century-illustrations","8":"product_tag-15th-century-literature","9":"product_tag-binding","10":"product_tag-incunabula","11":"pa_auteur-anonyme-4","12":"pa_type-de-livre-incunabula","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"[ANONYME]","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Lyon, Matthias Huss, 1483","book_type":"Incunabula","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n