94 / 178
16
de
eeuwse drukken
the 3 first entirely heightened and partly the 3 following. Text decorated with historiated
initial letters by the same engraver.
# VD16 J-1221 ; # not in Adams, Soltész, USTC, Machiels.
¶ Contient 150 réflexions sur la vie du Christ et sur Marie illustrées de 48 bois à mi-page (3 prem.
entièrement rehaussés). Plein vélin de l'ép. (dernier f. manquant, claires mouill., plus fortes dans la 2e
moitié de l'ex.).
259 – (Religion)
-
Ens. 2 ouvr. en 1 vol. in-4°
-
Pope LEO I.- Sermones q[uam]
diligentissime nuperrime castigati [...].
Parisius [Paris], venumda[n]tur a Joanne Parvo (imp[en]ssus [...] Bertholdu[m]
Re[m]bolt), (2 martii 1515).
Small in-4°: [4]-cviii-[8] lvs (inner margins of 1
st
lvs reinforced, small marginal dampstains, margins cut short
with some loss of marginalia, ancient handwritten annotations, some worming in 1
st
quires, some minor lacks
of paper, some errors in pagination without loss, tear in lf. 35, upper corners of lvs rounded).
Modern binding: calf, ribbed spine, red edges (endleaves renewed).
Est.
:
500/ 600 €
Beautiful copy
with notes in a very small, neat and ancient handwritting. Decorated with a
red and black title-page, a beautiful woodcut and ornamental initials.
# Adams L-454 ; # Machiels L-166 ; # not in STC French.
Bound with
: Leonis pape hoc est pontificis maximi & sanctissimi epistolae catholicae [...].
[Paris], Joanne Parvo & earu[m] impressore Jodoco Badio Ascensio, (1511), cxxiii lvs (last
blank lf. missing, large dampstain, margins of last lvs slightly damaged, inner margin of last
lf. reinforced). Nice copy with the printer’s mark of Jean Petit on the title-page instead of the
one of Badius like the copies mentionned in the bibliographies. # Renouard, Badius, III-7 ;
# Machiels L-165 ; # STC French 262 ; # not in Adams.
● Two nice Parisian post-incunables of the sermons and letters by Pope Leo I (5
th
c.). This
Roman aristocrat was the 1
st
pope who was given the epithet "the Great" and besides
Gregorius I (540-604), the most important pope of Christian antiquity. He was a leading
figure in the centralisation of the organisation of the Roman Catholic Church which is
reflected in this selected works, like for example in the letters to Eutyches and Flavian.
▲ Provenance : Hingerus (handwritten inscription) ; Studiehuis minderbroeders Nijmegen
(stamp, passim).
¶ Belle réunion de deux beaux post-incunables parisiens dont le premier, en caractères gothiques, est
truffé de notes d'une petite écriture très ordonnée. Plein veau moderne.
260 – (Religion)
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MOLANUS, Joannes.- De picturis et imaginibus sacris, liber
unus : tractans de vitandis circa eas abusibus, & de earundem significa-
tionibus [...].
Lovanii, apud Hieronymum Wellaeum, 1570.
In-12°: 183-[22 of which 1 bl.] lvs (underlinings, foxing, dampstains in the second half, large on some lvs).
18
th
Century emblazoned binding: sprinkled sheepskin, boards with gilt coat of arms in the center, ribbed spine
with gilt coat of arms in the last rectangular design, sprinkled edges (slightly rubbed on some edges, upper
joint split on 5 mm, corners very dulled).
Est.
:
300/ 400 €
First edition
of this important sacred iconological work of the theologian and catholic
rector of Leuven University Molanus born Jan Vermeulen or van der Meulen (Lille 1533-
1585 Leuven). Treatise on sacred images expliciting the decrees of the Council of Trent,
written more particularly against the iconoclasts who destroyed from 1566 furniture and
decorations of churches in our provinces. Molanus gives detailed instructions and canons
for artists to figure sacred scenes (Nativity, Dormition of the Virgin, Crucifixion, Holy Family),