H. C. Schulz
The Gothic Script of the Middle Ages. Together with: an Original Leaf from a Gothic Manuscript Collectar, 1939
San Francisco: Graborn Press
One of 71 copies.
2916
Small quarto. 17pp. Printed for David Magee at the Grabhorn Press. Apropos of its subject matter, Schulz's essay on Medieval culture and Gothic script is printed in an intricate script...
Small quarto. 17pp. Printed for David Magee at the Grabhorn Press. Apropos of its subject matter, Schulz's essay on Medieval culture and Gothic script is printed in an intricate script with a large opening initial in gold. The manuscript leaf features two initials at its recto, one in blue and red and the other illuminated and black; at its recto is another initial in blue and red and the intriguing addition of a gloss. Less standardized than a missal or a psalter, a collectar is a volume containing the collects, or prayers, chapters, and subsidiary matter pertaining to the divine offices of a church. Foxing to margins throughout, some expected offsetting from leaf, dampstain at lower corner of first two flyleaves, corners bumped, spined mildly sunned, else a vg- copy bound in henna-figured silk over boards, with vellum spine label lettered in gold.


