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Spiegel des Sunders

Zainer, Gu˜nther, -1478, printer, Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530, former owner. MB, Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 1585-1646, former owner. MB, Norfolk, Henry Howard, Duke of, 1628-1684, former owner. MB, Peckover, Jonathan, former owner. MB, Peckover, Algerina, former owner. MB, Royal Society (Great Britain), former owner. MB, Bernard Quaritch (Firm), former owner. MB · [Augsburg : Gu˜nther Zainer] · 4 pictures

Spiegel des Sunders is a late fifteenth-century German book of moral instruction printed by Günther Zainer in Augsburg, owned later by Willibald Pirckheimer and English collectors Arundel and Norfolk. Its pages pair dense black-letter text with a large decorated initial, a hand-coloured woodcut of an enthroned figure and a gentleman's engraved armorial bookplate with lions and a motto, offering designers medieval ornament, manuscript-style capitals and heraldic framing.

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