Version HTML de base
heav. dampstaining, minor staining, lower corner of p. 127 repaired and lacking text in ms.).
Otherwise good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 800/1000
Nice Giunta ed. of this publication of the liturgy for rituals performed by a bishop (ordination of priests,
consecration of churches and altars, etc.).
Woodcut ills
: 1 on title, 1 full-page,
159 in text
and num. initials.
Title and text in 2 cols, printed in red and black within double ruled border. With some musical notation.
Large mark on title and at end. Sl. different from the copy described by Mortimer : without paper slip on leaf
2D3r, leaves D4-5 belonging to the original quire, but with the blank line as well. Ownership entry on title
"congregationis Basonij (?) S. Philipi Spalaronsi 1696".
Ref.
Edit16 11860. Adams L-1241. Mortimer
(Harvard Italian) 383.
880
GRANADA, Luis de, O.P. -
Vita Christi. Ex diversis ipsius opusculis spiritualibus collecta (...)
et ex italico in latinum sermonem translata per Michael ab Isselt Amorfortium. Cologne, G. von
Kempen, 1586, 12mo, cont. blindstamped pigskin on wooden boards (somewhat rubbed, some
stains), spine on 4 raised bands, 1 orig. clasp preserved, [20]-709 (= 699)-[1 bl.] pp. (sl. spotting
and dampstaining). Good copy.
€ 150/200
Latin trsl. by M. van Isselt of the life of Christ by the Spanish spiritual writer Luis de Granada (1505-1588).
Ill. with
20 woodcut ills
in the text. Mark on title. Ownership entry on title.
Ref.
VD-16 L-3210. Not in
Adams.
881
[Hagiography] - DE NATALIBUS, Petrus -
Catalogus sanctorum, vitas, passiones & miracula
commodissime annectens (...). Lyon, G. & J. Huguetan, 1542, folio, late 17th- begin. 18th-c. calf
(some scratches, corners repaired), gilt orn. spine on 6 raised bands (joints sl. rubbed, head & tail
repaired), [3]-clxxx ff. (sm. tear in title and last f., wormhole in sm. hole last ff., some ff.
dampstaining, esp. margins of f. cxxiiii), slipcase. Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 1400/1800
Medieval encyclopedia of saints composed 1369-1372 by Petrus de Natalibus (fl. 1369-1400), and 1st printed
Vicenza 1493. Woodcuts :
329 ills in text
(mostly saints, 1 large one showing the adoration of the Child by
Hans Springinklee
). Title in red & black, within historiated woodcut border. Mark on title. 19th-c. ms. notes
on endpaper, some others in margins of last ff. Old ownership entry on title. Copy from the Virtue and Cahill
Library, Portsmouth.
Ref.
Pettegree FB 82634. SvGültlingen (Huguetan) 19 = Baudrier XI:325. Adams N-
51. Not in Mortimer (Harvard French).
882
[Ingolstadt imprint] - LEIB, Kilianus -
Resolutio quaestionis de S. Paulo Apostolo, an
coniugatus fuerit nec ne (…) [ed. J. Cochlaeus]. Ingolstadt, Alexander Weyssenhorn, 1545, 4to,
18th-c. polished calf, richly gilt spine, red edges, red silk marker, [8] ff. (title sl. soiled). Exc.
copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 250/350
Only ed.
of a study of
celibacy
(in casu of St Paul), by the Augustinian K. Leib (1471-1553), a defender of
monastic vows. It is written in the form of a letter (from his convent in Rebdorf, 4 Dec. 1544) to the Catholic
apologetic controversialist Johannes Cochlaeus (1479-1552). Cochlaeus published the letter with an
additional dedication to the bishop of Speyer (5 Dec. 1544). The text contains some references to Erasmus'
views. Large woodcut ill. on title. In italics. Ownership entry of the Malines collector "Gaspard-Joseph de
Servais" (1737-1807). Mod. heraldic bookpl. of an archbishop of Bourges.
Ref.
VD-16 L-999. Stalla
"Ingolstadt" 191. Spahn "Cochlaeus" 158. STCGerman (BL London) 962. Not in Adams, Machiels.
883
[Jerusalem] - Noticia quod populus christianoru(m) diuiditur in decem nationes.
[Paris ?,
s.n., c. 1510-1520], 16mo, mod. blindruled calf "à l'antique", spine on 3 raised bands, [4] ff.
(incl. final blank). Nice copy.
€ 600/800
Apparently
unrecorded
(?) early 16th-c. ed. of the "Divisiones decem nationum totius christianitatis", known
in several incunable editions (GW 8566-8588), 1st Rome 1493. "Verzeichnis der christlichen Kirchen und
Riten, die Anteil ander Grabeskirche in Jerusalem hatten, mit Angaben über Gebiete, Kultsprache,
Gebräuche und dogmatische Lehrgegensätze gegen Rom" (GW). Gothic type. Decorative woodcut initials.
Ref.
Not in USTC, Pettegree FB, Adams, BL London, BN Paris etc.
884
JUSTINUS Historicus -
Iustin vray hystoriographe, sur les hystoires de Troge Pompee :
contena(n)t .xliiii. livres, traduictz de Latin en Francoys, & nouvellement imprimez à Paris.
Paris, (D. Janot for l'Angelier), 1540, 8vo, 17th-c. blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (sl.
rubbed), spine on 3 raised bands, [16]-271-[1] ff. (sm. hole in f. 38, tear in lower margin of f.
114, minor spotting). Otherwise good copy.
€ 1500/2000
2nd French trsl. (1st 1538 folio) by Guillaume Michel of a popular late Roman historical work. Ill. with +/-
150 woodcuts in text and num. initials
. "With three exceptions, the illustrations represent Janot's general
stock, blocks of a considerable range in style but a uniform size. There are, in addition two conventional
blocks of court subjects, heavily shaded... Janot's close affinity with Geoffroy Tory may be seen in his
continuance of Tory's experiments in the italianate woodcuts. The style was particularly well suited to the