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166
Sept. 1983
Dr Eichenberger
Bien wil am See
Gift
Sealen - Wuzgarten (Garden of the Soul)
*Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut, 26 July 1483. folio.
Ref: C5345 Goff S364 BMC II 533 Schr 5229 Pr 2561
COp: PML, LC(R), BMaw CL (no rubrication or coloring)

242 leaves, 32 lines + headline 191(202)x117mm Type 120.
Cpaitals (4,5) with 17 woodcuts, serving as 134 by frequent
repition Headlines: Cer Erst (-Vierd) Tayl
(A-Z Aa-Ee8 Ff6-Gg8) leaf D6 17/133 cuts.

Ulm: Conrad Dickmut, 4 Oct. 1483. folio
Ref: HC14584 Goff S365 BMC II 533. Schr 5230 Pr 2562
Cop: BPulL, HEHL(-)

174 leaves, the last blank. 32 lines + headline
192(202)x118mm Type 120. Capitals (4,5) With 19
woodcuts serving as 30 by repition. (*4)(A-V8X10)
Headlines: Der Erst (-Vierd) Tayl; this last word
is spelt Teyl' in the headlines to quines A, D-F, L-O,
T+V + 'Tayl' in the headlines to quines B, C, G-K, P-S +X
The saving of 68 leaves is due to the fact that the woodcuts are only occasionally respected + that the text could therefore be closer printed as well.
Type 120 - German text type used in 1483.
Conrad Dinckmut - 1482 - still printing in 1496 - he left
Ulm in 1499.
Hind - "The Sealen wurzgarten book, with its 19 blocks repeated so as to offer
134 illustrations, is an egregious example of an economy of illustrative
material frequently practiced by the printers of the time."
The Sealen - Wurzgarten is an anonymous devotional tract filled
with many exempla. Several earlier ed. were printed, but
Dinckmut's was the 1st with illustrations.