COMPOST

Compost et kalendrier des bergères

COMPOST.

Compost et kalendrier des bergères. Printer: Guy Marchant. Paris, August 17th 1499. Size: Folio. 68 leaves (136 pages). 70 woodcut prints.

This incunabulum from Paris, of which the only copy in Spain is the one reproduced in this facsimile, was the sixth discovered in the world (of which only three, together with this one, are intact).

This incunabulum portrays King Preste Juan on its title page and closes with a title and a print more reminiscent of a title page than an end page. Of the numerous editions of the "Calendar of the Shepherds", this "Shepherdesses" edition is apparently the only dating from the first century of the printing press. This miscellany includes literary texts, moral or devout texts, and scientific texts.

This incunabulum includes individual representations and illustrative cycles such as the one which illustrates the calendar (obviously inspired by those in the illuminated Books of Hours), that of the Treatise of the Sphere (which originated in the editions by Johannes de Sacrobosco) and in particular that of the Dance of Death (whose woodcut prints come from the Dance Macabre, printed in the same works in 1491-2). A total of seventy prints making this volume a surprising and incredible journey through a curious land in which literature, science and morals converge.

-Our edition: Valencia, 1999. Coedited with the Library of the Faculty of Medicine at Complutense University, Madrid.
-An edition of 3,000 copies, numbered and signed by public notary, and personally signed by the printer-editor.
-Binding: Parchment upon wooden board.
-Fabric-covered presentation case with gold tooled leather spine containing the facsimile and study book in Spanish.
-Specially manufactured laid paper.
-Study in Spanish written by Manuel Sánchez Mariana (Head of the Historical Collection at the Complutense University, Madrid). Included in Bibliofilia Antigua VI.

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