Lot n° 215
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[ GRUYTRODE, Jacobus de.- Lavacrum co[n]cie[n]tie : omnibus sacerdotibus summe utile, ac necessarium].

Estimation : 1000 / 1200
Adjudication : 1 400 €
Description
( Parisi noviter impressus, pro Claudio Jaumar), [c. 1500]. Small in-8° : [cix]-[2] lvs (incomplete of the title-page, handwritten provenances on the last lf.). 17th century binding : calf, gilt decorated ribbed spine, red edges (spine partly split in the bottom, stamped classification numb. and two small holes on the upper board, lower corner of lower board lacking, stains). RARE INCUNABULUM of this moral work for priesthood under the form of stories and precepts by de Gruytrode (+ 1472), Cartusian prior in Liège, showing the vacuity of the life's pleasures outside the monastic one. Edition printed for Claude Jaumar by Étienne Jehannot according the Gesmatkatalog der Wiegendrucke or by Jean Petit after Machiels.
# Polain 2173 (doesn't mention the mark of Petit unlike what Machiels says); # Machiels J-3; # GW M 10707; # not in Goff, BMC, Stillwell, Hain, Adams, USTC, STC French, Soltész.
BOUND WITH : Sanctus BONAVENTURA.- Dieta salutis, ultimate emendatum [...] noviter impressum. (Parisius, per magistru[m] Petrum Le Dru pro Dyonisio Roce, 1500. Secunda die mensis octobris). cxvi-[36] lvs (handwritten provenances on the title-page -one crossed off-, 8 blank pp. replaced by hand probably due to omission during printing, light dampstains at the end). UNLISTED INCUNABULUM (1st ed. by Le Dru : 1498) of this moral work followed by a treatise on the nativity of the Christ and the resurrection. The Franciscan Bonaventura (1221-1274), known as the "Seraphic Doctor", was the seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor and bishop of Albano. Large printer's device on the title-page partly heigthened, capital letters and paragraph signs coloured in red. # Goff B-881 (ed. 1498); # Polain 770 (id.); # not in STC French (classified in the section "Supposititious works"), BMC, Hain, Machiels, Adams.
Réunion de 2 rares incunables par le prieur cartusien de Liège J. de Gruytrode et par saint Bonaventure. Plein veau marbré du 17e s. (titre du 1er ouvr. manquant, qqs pp. restituées à la main dans le 2e).
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