TRITHEMIUS. Liber Lugubris de Statu et Ruina Monastici... Lot n° 8

TRITHEMIUS, Johannes. Liber Lugubris de Statu et Ruina Monastici Ordinis.Mainz, Peter Friedberg, 21. IV. 1493 4to. 19th-century Bradel-style binding. Papers 30 unnumbered, 35 lines. Register: a-e6, last blank paper. 7 and 4 lines for spaces of Initials. Letters rubricated and ornamented with beautiful Initials in red. In title, manuscript ex libris of the Benedictine Abbey of Scheyern, Bavaria. Fine copy. Very rare first edition. This Pre-Reformation work on the decline of his Order was written by Trithemius at the request of the Abbot of Hirsau, Blasius Scheltrup, to whom the dedication preface on folio a2 is also dedicated. The text was immediately printed by Peter von Friedberg, who acted as "house printer" for Trithemius and the Congregation of Bursfeld, of which the Abbot was president of the general chapter: in fact, he printed more than a dozen works by Trithemius himself and, also in 1493, printed a second edition of the Liber lugubris, with a different number of pages. Horn: "Dieses Werk gegen das Jahr 1492 auf Bitten des Abtes Blasius zu Hirschau verfaßt, ist nach seiner eigenen Angabe zu Mainz gedruckt worden [.] Die 1492 in dem Kloster zu St. Peter und Paul in Hirschau versammelten Patres provinciales bestimmten, daß dieses Werk (omnibus religiosis ac devotis viris non minus utilis, quam jucundus) für alle folgende Zeiten an dem Tische der Prälaten bei den Versamlungen vorgelesen werden solleden." [This work, written around 1492 at the request of Abbot Blasius zu Hirschau, was printed according to his own statement in Mainz [.] The Patres provinciales, meeting in 1492 in the monastery of St. Peter and Paul in Hirschau, decreed that this work (omnibus religiosis ac devotis viris non minus utilis, quam jucundus) should be read at the table of the prelates in assemblies for all times to come].Hain *15625; Goff T 453; Proctor 170; M BMC I, 46; Arnold, Trithemius S 46 and S. 229. Philipp Franz Horn: Johannes Trithemius [.] Eine biographische Skizze. Würzburg: Zürn, 1843, S. 43. 4to. Bradel binding of the nineteenth century. Leaves 30 not numbered, the last blank. 35 lines. Collation: A-E6. Gothic letter, seven and four-lines spaces left for capitals, some with guide-letters. Capitals, initial-strokes and paragraphs-mark supplied in red. On the titlepage, ex Libris manuscript of the Benedictine abbey of Scheyern, in Bavaria. Fine copy. Very rare first edition. This pre-reform work on the decline of his order was written by Trithemius at the request of the abbot of Hirsau, Blasius Scheltrup, to whom the preface to the A2 sheet is dedicated. The text was immediately printed by Peter von Friedberg, who operated by "home printed" for Trithemius and the Congregation of Bursfeld, of which the abbot was president of the general chapter: in fact he printed more than a dozen works by Trithemius himself and, also in 1493, he printed a second edition of the Liber Lugubris, with different number of pages. Horn: "Dieses Werk gegen das Jahr 1492 auf Bitten des Abtes Blasius zu Hirschau verfaßt, ist nach seiner eigenen Angabe zu Mainz gedruckt worden [.] Die 1492 in dem Kloster zu St. Peter und Paul in Hirschau versammelten Patres provinciales bestimmten, daß dieses Werk (omnibus religiosis ac devotis viris non minus utilis, quam jucundus) für alle folgende Zeiten an dem Tische der Prälaten bei den Versamlungen vorgelesen werden solleden." [This work, written around 1492 at the request of the abbot Blasius zu hirschau, was printed according to his own declaration in Mainz [.] The Patres Provinciales, gathered in 1492 in the monastery of St. Peter and Paul in Hirschau, established that this 'Opera (Omnibus religiosis ac devotis viris no minus utilis, quam jucdus) was read to the canteen of the prelates in the assemblies for all time to come].