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[LITURGIE]

Enchiridion seu breviarium: secundum more insignis ecclesie moguntiñ
(Mainz
Johann Schöffer
1517)
€650 - €800

In-8°, [14], 115, [12], 116-462, [1] ff, text in two columns, in gothic script, rubricated in red. Two small woodcuts on title page and printer's mark on last leaf. Wormholes in the first 2 lvs. Contemporary pigskin binding on wooden boards, later vellum spine with morocco title piece (Breviarium Mognuntinum M.D.XVII.), clasps gone

Scarce.
Ref. VD16 B 8175. Gutenberg understood the value of his invention and believed it would make him a wealthy man, especially after he printed the Bible in 1456, but his chief investor, Johann Fust (l. c. 1400-1466), called in his debt early, seized the press, and turned the operation of it over to his adopted son Peter Schöffer (l. c. 1425 to c. 1503). Taking over the Mainz shop after his father's death, Johannes Schöffer ran a prosperous establishment from 1503 to 1531

Incunabula Catholic devotion