Fridolin's treasure chest - The richly smoothed work of Late Gothic. Original incunabula from one of the most beautiful and important works of the incunabulum. From Stephan Fridolin's "treasury of the true riches of salvation", first edition, printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg, 1491. In German. The woodcutting artists of the work were Michael Wolgemuth (1434-1519) and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (1460-1494). The size of the woodcut, 33,5 x 23,5 cm In good condition, strong print and firm handmade paper, leaf in the margins slightly tanned and brown spotted, top with corner trimmed outside the representation, verso with a larger ink spot in the margin, in the leaf with 2 root holes.
The devotional book was written "by Fridolin (1482-1498 preacher and confessor at St. Klara) by the sisters of the nunnery of the Clarissary of Constance and their abbess, Caritas Pirckheimer, and printed after Bellm in an edition of about 150 copies".
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