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Oct. 77
$15 UCLABookFair
-Dawsons
(Hanson Nyder)
Johannes Nidu (c.1380 - 1440 c.1395-1438)
[inserted] 18 editions before 1500 [end inserted] Pracceptorium divinae legis, sive Expositio dicalogi
Augsburg: Anton Sorg, cuciter 24 May 1475.
Ref: Goff N199 BMC II 342 Hain 11789 IGI 6892
Cop: HEHL U Cal Bakeley. (278 x 200 mm)
-The 2nd book to be printed form Sorg's own press.
Folio 305 leaves 37 lines + headline (precept +
chapter numbers) 191 (201) x 136 mm
Type 103 (large test type used up to the end of 1477-
2 forms of N+R.) Preceptum quartuom
Capital spaces to guide letters Capitulum sextum
Rubricated in red : initials underlining
The 1st date connected to Sorgis that of Augustinians:
quinquagiunta printed circiter Kal. Februarij, 1493
He continued printing cataimly until 27 Sept. 1493.
Sorg was connected at the begining of his carreer to
the press of SSUlrich + Afna, q.v., at the end of it
to Schobsser. (Monastery) -friars- Augustinian
Presumably Sorg acquired the type from here.

First Augusburd edition of Nidu's most frequent reprinted
theological work in the 15th C, an exposition of the Ten
Commandments that serves as a popular hand book for
confessors + preachers. The author was an important
German theologian and refromer from Swabia who
succeded in pacifying the Hussites + adhered to the
principals of St. Thomas; he died in Colman in 1438.

The gothic type of the monastery of St. Ulrich + Afna to which
presumably printing was begun in 1473 was later on in
the possession of A Sorg + one may suppose that it was
Sorg who printed the books that came from the monastery.
-The type is very remarkable indeed - as all the capitals
look like ornamental Uncials [crossed out] as at a lat [ end crossed out] they almost
seem to be a kind of small Lombards as at a letter
Haeblea