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mei/00204262 Auct. 4Q 5.71.
[00204262]
Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: Auct. 4Q 5.71.
ISTC No.ii00076000
TitleTractatus brevis et utilis pro infirmis visitandis
ImprintPassau : Benedictus Mayr and Johann Alakraw, 14 Nov. 1482
Provenance nameMunich, Royal Library (now Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)many Munich duplicates contained in Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Choice, Rare, & Curious Books, Consigned from Germany (London: S. Leigh Sotheby, 27 Aug. 1841); in 1850 320 volumes of incunabula were acquired from the Royal Library in Munich for £113. 19. 6, as stated in the manuscript accounts of the year (Library Records b. 3); these were not included in Books Purchased; many Munich duplicates here stated to have been `acquired between 1847 and c.1892' would have been acquisitions of 1850; many of these books appear to have been shelfmarked from `Auct. 5Q 1. 1' to `Auct. 5Q 6.100', although several books in this range were acquired earlier or later than 1850; see also Butsch, Fidelis, Haugg, Carpar, and Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine; see also Lebendiges Büchererbe. Säkularisation, Mediatisierung und die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich, 2003), esp. at 9-53, for the acquisition of books from dissolved German monastic houses, and their removal to the Royal Library in Munich.
noteProvenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich, no. 15681.
Provenance
1801 -
1900
Time period1801 - 1900
Provenance nameButsch, Fidelis (1805-1879), 1805 - 1879 bookseller, Augsburg; see Catalog einer kostbaren Sammlung von Holztafeldrucken, Pergamentdrucken und anderen typographischen Seltenheiten, welche nebst einer namhaften Anzahl auserlesener Bücher aus allen Fächern am Montag den 3. Mai 1858 und folgenden Tage bei Fidelis Butsch in Augsburg öffenlich versteigert werden; with Preisliste; Erich Carlsohn, `Fidelis Butsch & Sohn. Die Antiquare von Augsburg', Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, 15 (1959), 1938-40; Erich Carlsohn, `Das Schicksal aufgehobener Klosterbibliotheken', Aus dem Antiquariat, Beilage zum Börsenblatt der deutschen Buchhandel, Ausgabe Frankfurt am Main (1983), 5, A172-7; LGB (2nd edn), II 40.
Provenance nameMunich, Royal Library (now Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)many Munich duplicates contained in Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Choice, Rare, & Curious Books, Consigned from Germany (London: S. Leigh Sotheby, 27 Aug. 1841); in 1850 320 volumes of incunabula were acquired from the Royal Library in Munich for £113. 19. 6, as stated in the manuscript accounts of the year (Library Records b. 3); these were not included in Books Purchased; many Munich duplicates here stated to have been `acquired between 1847 and c.1892' would have been acquisitions of 1850; many of these books appear to have been shelfmarked from `Auct. 5Q 1. 1' to `Auct. 5Q 6.100', although several books in this range were acquired earlier or later than 1850; see also Butsch, Fidelis, Haugg, Carpar, and Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine; see also Lebendiges Büchererbe. Säkularisation, Mediatisierung und die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich, 2003), esp. at 9-53, for the acquisition of books from dissolved German monastic houses, and their removal to the Royal Library in Munich.
NoteProvenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich, no. 15681.
Provenance
1801 -
1900
Time period1801 - 1900
Provenance nameButsch, Fidelis (1805-1879), 1805 - 1879 bookseller, Augsburg; see Catalog einer kostbaren Sammlung von Holztafeldrucken, Pergamentdrucken und anderen typographischen Seltenheiten, welche nebst einer namhaften Anzahl auserlesener Bücher aus allen Fächern am Montag den 3. Mai 1858 und folgenden Tage bei Fidelis Butsch in Augsburg öffenlich versteigert werden; with Preisliste; Erich Carlsohn, `Fidelis Butsch & Sohn. Die Antiquare von Augsburg', Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, 15 (1959), 1938-40; Erich Carlsohn, `Das Schicksal aufgehobener Klosterbibliotheken', Aus dem Antiquariat, Beilage zum Börsenblatt der deutschen Buchhandel, Ausgabe Frankfurt am Main (1983), 5, A172-7; LGB (2nd edn), II 40.