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Hammer, responsible for the creation of several famous Uncial fonts such as that used here, settled in the US after fleeing the Nazis in 1938 having trained young craftsmen such as Fritz Kredel and Rudolph Koch. He continued to teach in Kentucky and set up the Anvil Press with his second wife Carolyn Reading, herself a printer. 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Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. vi, 309, [4, errata and explanation of a plan], \u003ci\u003eadditional errata\u003c\/i\u003e tipped in, numerous plates after photographs by the author and an Arab physician of the 1880s; folding city map and ground plan; a little rubbing to extremities, fly-leaves toned as usual and one corner of front fly-leaf with tiny flaw to corner, internally very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare first edition in English\u003c\/strong\u003e of the German \u003ci\u003eMekka\u003c\/i\u003e (1888-1889), an important description of Mecca and the Hajj, including much on the prilgrimage from far flung places, such as Borneo or South Africa. \"Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje was a Dutch Orientalist scholar and adviser on ‘Native Affairs’ to the Dutch colonial government. After obtaining his doctorate on the pre-Islamic origins of the Hajj in 1880, Hurgronje travelled to Jedda in 1884 with a view to going to Mecca to observe the Hajj for himself. He brought with him a camera and in the Dutch consulate at Jedda, he used it to photograph pilgrims from Java, Sumatra and the other islands within the Dutch East Indies. Later in 1884 he is said to have converted to Islam and was allowed to go to Mecca. While in Mecca, he made a study of the customs of the Meccans and the Jawa – Southeast Asian pilgrims who had settled in Mecca. Unfortunately, before he was able to witness the Hajj, he was denounced to the Ottoman authorities as an impostor. He had to leave Mecca abruptly leaving his camera behind so that it could be used by Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar, the doctor he had trained\" (British Museum, \u003ci\u003ePhotographers of the Hajj\u003c\/i\u003e, online).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1885 Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) had lived for seven months in Mecca as a student of the Quran, mingled with society, talked with scholars and participated in daily Meccan life. He took photos and made even the first sound recording of a Qu'ran recitation. Whether he converted to Islam is still being debated, wut he was definitely the first Westerner to document life and scenery in the Holy City. The Arab physician who had been trained by and who assisted Snouck Hurgronje as photographer has been identified as Al-Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar. 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A throuroughly researched book on the Parsi (Parsee, Zoroastrian) history, community, culture and of course religion, which is considered the oldest monotheistic faith. With the Islamic conquest the Parsi were driven out of Iran and found exile in India and spread further.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDosabhai Framji Karaka (1829-1902) was a newspaper editior and civil servant in India of Parsi origin. In this work he counters erroneous preconceptions of Zoroastrians as fire-worshippers, and emphasizes the Zorastrians support for female education and progressive 19th-century attitudes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124581\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56867041837433,"sku":"2124581","price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124581.jpg?v=1774028394"},{"product_id":"eusebius-caesariensis-rufinus-aquileiensis-translator-historia-ecclesiastica","title":"EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS ( translator ). 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[171], [1 (blank)]; roman letter, 2- to 6-line capital spaces with guide letters, initials and paraphs supplied in red and blue, running-titles in brown ink; lettering-piece chipped, slight wear to corners, a few small marks; washed (initials in blue faded to light grey, running-titles and annotation faded), occasional light marginal thumb-marks, slight soiling to blank first and final pages and to corners of first few leaves, old repair to f. 6~sup~v~sup~, a few pinhole wormholes to contents and dedication; overall a very good, wide-margined copy; near-contemporary annotation to f. 22~sup~r~sup~, eighteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Amadeo Svajer and eighteenth-century ink shelfmarks to front pastedown, later manuscript quiring in pencil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFourth edition of Eusebius’ (\u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 260–339) important history of the church, the last book printed by the German physician and printer Johannes Schallus at Mantua, our copy from the library of the influential eighteenth-century Venetian merchant and bibliophile Amadeo Svajer, who funded the 1757–8 production of Zatta’s important edition of Dante’s Commedia, the first since 1544 to feature new illustrations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dedication by Schallus – who worked primarily as a physician and printed seven books in Mantua between 1475 and 1479 – to Federico I Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1441–1484), praises Eusebius as ‘shining like a moon amongst small fires’ and hopes that the work will benefit ‘modest and pious minds’ (\u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.). Schallus may have worked with an assistant of Mentelin; Dibdin writes that ‘the volumes which issued from his press are of equal beauty and rarity; and it is seldom that we behold a more elegant specimen of ancient typography than that which is now before us’ (Dibdin, \u003ci\u003eBibliotheca Spenceriana\u003c\/i\u003e, on the present edition of Eusebius).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchallus presents Eusebius’ work not only as a valuable historical resource, but also as a \u003ci\u003especulum principis\u003c\/i\u003e of sorts, in which Federico could ‘read of the excellent deeds of Christian princes’ and ‘marvel at their virtues and emulate their wisdom and piety’, especially as Gonzaga was at this time ‘fighting bravely and courageously for the Tuscans, and through frequent victories acquiring an immortal name for [himself] and [his] nation’: shortly before publication, Gonzaga had been involved in the war that emerged in the aftermath of the Pazzi Conspiracy of April 1478, Mantua having allied itself with the Florentine Republic against Pope Sixtus IV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: From the library of Amadeo Svajer (also Schweyer, 1727–1791), who financed Zatta’s publishing endeavours and influenced the material he published, including ‘Dante, the Church Fathers, and Petrarch’s \u003ci\u003eRime\u003c\/i\u003e, which appear to be amongst Svajer’s interests at the time … Zatta had attempted to move, in 1752, to Rovereto, [Svajer’s] place of residence’ (Mangani, pp. 81-2). Svajer was a renowned bibliophile, and his collection of three thousand books in Latin, five thousand in Italian, twelve hundred in French, and fourteen hundred manuscripts (including the will of Marco Polo) was sold by Jacopo Morelli in 1794, significant portions being purchased by the Manins, the Biblioteca Marciana, the Museo Correr, the Republic of Venice, and the Paduan bookseller Scapin. Svajer’s only known work, a biography of Frederick II of Prussia, was printed by Zatta in 1759. Morelli’s catalogue indicates that Svajer also owned a copy of the 1476 third edition of Eusebius’ \u003ci\u003eHistoria ecclesiastica\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHain 6711; Proctor 6908; GW 9437; Goff E-127; BMC VII 933; BSB-Ink E-112; ISTC ie00127000; USTC 995892; AGAPE 322. For this copy, see Morelli, Catalogo di libreria posta in vendita in Venezia nell’anno MDCCXCIV, (1794), p. 10 (‘exemplar nitidissimum’). 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Nineteenth-century dark brown morocco, borders tooled in blind to a rope design, unidentified Italian arms blocked in blind to boards, blue silk endleaves, housed in a modern custom-made black cloth box; ff. ii, 144, ii; 1–28, 3–810 (f. 31 in 4, apparently in original condition on a stub and with outer edge made-up), 9~sup~8~sup~, 10–15~sup~10~sup~, complete; written in a round gothic bookhand in brown ink for 11 lines to a page, ruled in light brown, early manuscript foliation to upper corners (ff. 98 and 138 numbered twice), written space \u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 60 x 45 mm; rubrics in red, 1-line initials alternately in red and blue, 2-line initials of liquid gold on blue, red, or green grounds with fine penwork, large illuminated 7-line initial ‘S’ (f. 31~sup~v~sup~) enclosing Virgin and Child against a black ground, initial entwined by elaborate foliage, painted in green and blue, heightened in gold, and set against a magenta ground, with accompanying panel border including jewels and pearls, and large 5-line historiated initial ‘D’ (f. 86~sup~r~sup~) painted magenta and green including jewels and pearls, against blue and gold grounds, with matching full-page partial border; extremities of binding very lightly rubbed; a little smudging to page with historiated initial, occasional small stain, but generally very well preserved; title to second front flyleaf and ownership inscription to lifted rear pastedown in an early nineteenth-century hand in black ink, late nineteenth- century bookplate after sixteenth-century design with initials ‘T.N.D.L.’, twentieth-century bookplates to front free endpaper (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn elegant manuscript prayerbook on vellum, produced in Bologna in the 1490s, apparently the result of collaboration between the calligrapher Pierantonio Sallando and an illuminator from the circle of the great painter and jeweller Francesco Marmitta, featuring numerous devotional indulgences with guidance in the vernacular.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIllumination\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eThe Mass of the Virgin (‘Missa Beatae Mariae Virginis’, f. 31~sup~v~sup~) opens with a large illuminated initial ‘S’ depicting a half-length Virgin adoring the Christ Child, and an elaborate full-page border. The colour palette (dark red, blue, green, black and gold) and the use of attenuated architectural forms, jewels and foliage place this manuscript alongside a group of Books of Hours produced for aristocratic patrons in Bologna around 1500 (cf. Medica). Many of these manuscripts resulted from the partnership between illuminators in Bologna – the most influential among them Francesco Marmitta (\u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 1460-1505) – and the prolific calligrapher Pierantonio Sallando (\u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 1460-1540). Together Marmitta and Sallando developed the sophisticated architectural borders, such as those of the present prayerbook, that became a hallmark of Bologna’s finest High Renaissance manuscripts. Their most celebrated and luxurious joint effort is the Offiziolo Durazzo (Genoa, Bib. Civ. Berio, m.r.cf.Arm.I).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur prayerbook was apparently also written by Sallando. The illumination may be ascribed to the same painter who collaborated with Marmitta on the Rangoni-Bentivoglio Hours (Baltimore, WAG, ms W.469) and contributed to other Hours written by Sallando in Oxford (Bodleian Library, ms Canon. Liturg. 260), Bassano del Grappa (Bib. Civ., Esp. 4 ms 1564), and the Hours of Giovanni II Bentivoglio (Morgan Lib. Ms M.53). In the present manuscript, the two large initials and borders on f. 31~sup~v~sup~ and f. 86 share similar forms and colour palette. Stylistically closely related borders are found in one of Sallando’s most famous commissions, the Hours of Bonaparte Ghisilieri illuminated by Amico Aspertini, Perugino and Matteo da Milano (BL, Yates Thompson 29).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContents\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eCalendar (ff. 2~sup~r~sup~–19~sup~v~sup~); Confessio generalis (ff. 20~sup~r~sup~-21~sup~r~sup~); Gospel Extracts (ff. 21~sup~r~sup~-31~sup~r~sup~); Missa Beatae Mariae Virginis (ff. 31~sup~v~sup~-49~sup~r~sup~); Prayer of St Augustine opening ‘Deus propicius esto mihi peccatori’ (ff. 49~sup~v~sup~-51~sup~v~sup~); Fifteen prayers on the Passion as said daily by St Bridget and indulgenced by Boniface VIII, opening ‘O domine iesu christe eterna dulcedo’ (ff. 51~sup~v~sup~–80~sup~r~sup~); Apostles Creed (ff. 80~sup~r~sup~–81~sup~r~sup~); Sequence of prayers (ff. 81~sup~v~sup~-85~sup~r~sup~), to be said daily while kneeling before an image of Christ to keep from the pain of Hell, to gain divine assistance, counsel and favour, and when body or soul are in danger; Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany (ff. 86~sup~r~sup~-116~sup~v~sup~); Prayers and devotions addressed to God, opening with Psalm 68 \u003cstrong\u003eand including two prayers naming the owner, ‘famulo tuo Jacobo’ \u003c\/strong\u003e(ff. 125~sup~v~sup~, 126~sup~v~sup~, and 133~sup~r~sup~), and ending with a prayer to protect when travelling and a prayer to the Guardian Angel (ff. 117–134); Prayers attributed to St Bernard and other indulgenced prayers (ff. 135-143~sup~v~sup~).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom f. 79~sup~v~sup~ (the heading opening the sequence of devotional prayers to be recited before an image of Christ), the subject headings for individual orations appear in the vernacular to more clearly remind our Jacobus of the function of each prayer, even through the prayers themselves are to be recited in Latin.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘In formal books of hours, manuscript or printed, the prayers are almost always in Latin – even if the pardon or promise is in [the vernacular]. This again raises questions about whether the prayers were actually understood, or merely recited as a mechanistic device to procure the pardon’ (Swanson, p. 222). The final prayers deal with indulgences, \u003ci\u003ee.g.\u003c\/i\u003e ‘the following verses are those which we read that the devil appeared to St Bernard. And they bring great virtue and merit to he who reads them every day; he will not die without confession, nor experience the punishments of Hell; and he will know the day of his death’ (f. 136, \u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.); another offers 6666 days’ indulgence for each time a given prayer is recited after the elevation of the Body of Christ (ff. 139~sup~v~sup~–140~sup~r\u003ci\u003e).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe final indulgence accompanies the elevation prayer Domine Iesu Christi qui hanc\u003ci\u003e, written by Pope Boniface VIII ‘for King Philip IV, and for its recitation after true confession 2,000 years’ indulgence were granted. It was so effective a prayer that it was sometimes copied apart from other eucharistic prayers,’ (Rubin, p. 157). The version contained within this prayerbook grants a whopping 10,000 years of purgatorial pardon, ‘as conceded by Pope Boniface VI at the behest of King Philip of France’ (\u003c\/i\u003etrans\u003ci\u003e.). ‘Pardons and promises tied to prayers were part of a highly fluid culture […] Even with print, the pardons were essentially unstable, and in either print or manuscript the same prayer may appear […] with pardons which appear very different […] Papal numbers were confused; days of pardon became years (or vice versa)’ (Swanson, p. 222). The corresponding pardon in Cambridge University Library Dd.6.1, f. 82~sup~v~sup~, conversely, refers to an unspecified Pope Boniface. ‘A papal numeral is not always given. Where it is, the pardon is often ascribed to Boniface VI, or to Boniface VII. In the printed tradition of Paris-produced primers, the pardon became 10,000 years, the pope Boniface VI’ (\u003c\/i\u003eibid\u003ci\u003e., p. 223), as in this manuscript prayerbook.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance\u003ci\u003e:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1.  The Calendar includes the feast of St Petronius, the patron saint of Bologna, in red, indicating that the manuscript was made in or for use in that city. It was written for a man who is named as ‘Jacobus’ in prayers on ff. 125v, 126v, and 133. His coat of arms was presumably painted to the border of f. 31v but has since been overpainted with a golden eagle on a light blue ground and the initials ‘N. M.’ (arms unidentified).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2.  Nineteenth-century manuscript title ‘Missa Beatae Virg. \u0026amp; aliae Orationes’ on the second front flyleaf and ownership inscription, ‘Di Me Gracia Maria Isabella Sofia Comercati’, on the lifted rear pastedown, likely contemporary with the present armorial binding (arms unidentified). She is likely related to Giuseppe Carlo Commercati of Bologna, correspondent of Cardinal Gualterio (BL Add MS 20548-20550, 1719) and the priest and scholar Lodovico Antonio Muratori (1707) – discoverer of the Muratorian Fragment – or to the Prospero Comercati who was involved in the construction of the Tempio della Beata Vergine della Ghiara in Reggio Emilia in the 1620s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3.  Sir Thomas North Dick-Lauder of Fountainhall, 9th Baronet (1846–1919), with his undated bookplate (Hamilton, p. 186, attributed to 1890) bearing the initials T.N.D.L., designed in imitation of the sixteenth-century bookplate of Johannes Clein. Likely sold at his 1891 sale to:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4.  Michael Tomkinson of Franche Hall, near Kidderminster (1841–1921), collector of books and Japanese art, with his bookplate to front free endpaper. At least two other Italian works from Lauder’s library – an eighteenth-century Missal in a velvet binding and the 1476 edition of Bracciolini’s history of Florence – later came into Tomkinson’s possession. Not traced in Tomkinson’s sales, Sotheby’s, April and July 1922.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5.  Pamela and Raymond Lister, with their booklabel to front free endpaper; sold Sotheby’s, 10 July 1967, lot 68, to Maggs. Christie’s London, Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books (4 June 2008), lot 55.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee Medica, ‘La miniatura a Bologna al tempo di Giovanni II Bentivoglio’, in Il Libro d’Ore di Bonaparte Ghislieri (2008), pp. 44–104; Rubin, Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (1991); Swanson, ‘Praying for Pardon’, in Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe (2018).~i~\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2123427\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313428865401,"sku":"2123427","price":20000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2123427b.jpg?v=1779379658"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/collections\/2123680g.jpg?v=1786701146","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/collections\/religion-theology-devotion.oembed","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}