Sermones vademecum
Johann Prüss
(German, 1447–1510)
About 1487–93
Place of PublicationStrassburg
Medium/TechniquePrinted book, unillustrated, with hand-colored woodcut bookplate
DimensionsOverall: 21 x 15.2 x 6 cm (8 1/4 x 6 x 2 3/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam A. Sargent Fund
Accession number52.613
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[Strassburg: Johann Prüss 1487-93]
ProvenanceHilprand Brandenburg of Bibrach (d. 1514; woodcut bookplate, hand-colored); manuscript presentation on front free endpaper to Carthusian convent of Buxheim; convent dissolved in 1803; library conveyed to Graf von Ostein; in 1810 to Graf von Waldbott-Bassenheim, whose heirs sold it at auction at Carl Förster, Munich, 20 Sept. 1883; Kurt Wolff (Baer auction. 6, 5 Oct. 1926, lot 278); Maggs Bros., London, cat. 656 (1938), no. 310; Sotheby's London, 14 Mar. 1949, lot 184; Heinrich Eisemann, London, from whom purchased by MFA, June 12, 1952.
Unidentified artist, German, 15th century
Unidentified German, 15th century
Unidentified German, 15th century
Unidentified German, 15th century
Unidentified artist, Netherlandish, 15th century
About 1471–73
