Elucidarius scriptuarum by Jerung, Heinrich - 1476

Nürnberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1476. English gilt red morocco (c. 1820) decorated with floral and geometric rolls (rubbed, minor scuffs), spine gilt with rolls of birds, scallops and thistles, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt over red. ONLY EDITION of this imposing posthumously published humanist Bible dictionary, compiled by the mid-15th-century Nürnberg theologian. The roughly 6300 entries give definitions, etymologies and citations to the Bible, and often to Ovid, Juvenal, Virgil and Lucan. I have traced two examples at auction in the past half century. A large copy in fine condition (two pages dusty, short split in one lower margin, four neat blank marginal repairs, fore-edge tabs removed), dozens of uncut margins.
¶ISTC ij00219000; Goff J-219.