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SIBYLLA, Bartholomaeus. Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum. Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 19 August 1499.
Chancery 4° (202x140mm). Collation: A6 B4 C-Z8 AA-GG8 HH6 II-LL8 (A1 title with woodcut, A2r tabula, C1 dedicatory letter by Sibylla to Alfonso d'Aragonia, c2r text, LL7v colophon, LL8 blank). 263 (of 264, without final blank) leaves. 32 lines and headline. Type: 15:64aG (title bands), 17:145G (headings and headlines), 19:280G (title), 22:89R (text). One woodcut (122x113mm), woodcut ornamental capital I, 3-6-line initial spaces with guide-letters left blank. (Small wormholes in first few quires and last few leaves affecting an occasional letter.) Modern binding of printed paper leaf over pastepaper boards.
SECOND EDITON. Among the questions posed here are ones concerning good angels and bad, fate vs. human will, the efficacy of invocations to call up devils, etc. Sibylla also discusses herbs, charms and written words as symbols, and authors he cites are Hermes Trismegistus, Apuleius, Ptolomy, Seneca and Aulus Gellius. In his prefatory dedication to Alfonso of Aragon, he makes particular reference to the magnificent library of Alfonso's father, Ferdinand. HC *14720; GW 3460; BMC I, 113 (IA. 1486); Polain(B) 3530; Klebs 917.2; IDL 689; IGI 8962
Chancery 4° (202x140mm). Collation: A6 B4 C-Z8 AA-GG8 HH6 II-LL8 (A1 title with woodcut, A2r tabula, C1 dedicatory letter by Sibylla to Alfonso d'Aragonia, c2r text, LL7v colophon, LL8 blank). 263 (of 264, without final blank) leaves. 32 lines and headline. Type: 15:64aG (title bands), 17:145G (headings and headlines), 19:280G (title), 22:89R (text). One woodcut (122x113mm), woodcut ornamental capital I, 3-6-line initial spaces with guide-letters left blank. (Small wormholes in first few quires and last few leaves affecting an occasional letter.) Modern binding of printed paper leaf over pastepaper boards.
SECOND EDITON. Among the questions posed here are ones concerning good angels and bad, fate vs. human will, the efficacy of invocations to call up devils, etc. Sibylla also discusses herbs, charms and written words as symbols, and authors he cites are Hermes Trismegistus, Apuleius, Ptolomy, Seneca and Aulus Gellius. In his prefatory dedication to Alfonso of Aragon, he makes particular reference to the magnificent library of Alfonso's father, Ferdinand. HC *14720; GW 3460; BMC I, 113 (IA. 1486); Polain(B) 3530; Klebs 917.2; IDL 689; IGI 8962