300 / 416
300
~ 1st edition of Sadoletus’ major work placed under a ban in the Vatican ~
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SADOLETUS, Jacobus
- In Pauli Epistolam ad Romanos commentariorum
l. 3. Lyon, Sebastianus Gryphius, 1535, folio, old limp boards, yellowed edges, kept in mod.
decorative box with marbled paper and gilt titled leather spine, 230-[4] pp. (some browning and
marg. waterstaining towards end, occ. paper flaws (tear in C4-D1) or marg. worming not affecting
text). Good copy with large margins.
Cfr. ill.
€ 500/800
1st edition, 1st issue
of the major theological work of Jacopo Sadoleto (1477-1547), papal secretary
and bishop of Carpentras. In this long commentary on Romans (dedicated to Francis I), “he
undertook to argue from an inherent justice which the believer activates by his “bona voluntas” in
the beginnings of salvation, ostensibly without the foregoing operation of grace. It was disapproved
by the Paris faculty of theology and placed under a ban in the Vatican, pending correction and
revision” (Contemp. Erasmus III 184). Large woodcut mark on title, a smaller one on Ff4v. Old
marg. annotations and underlinings. 19th-c. name Lelièvre on inside front cover.
Ref.
SvGültlingen
(Gryphius) 319 = Baudrier VIII 85. Not in Adams (S-72: 1536 re-issue), Machiels, BL.
1046 [Biblical botany]
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LEMNIUS, Levinus
- Herbarum atque arborum quae in Bibliis passim obviae
sunt, & ex quibus sacri vates similitudines desumunt (...) dilucida explicatio. Antwerp, (H. de Laet
for) W. Simon, 1566, 8vo, mod. boards, [12]-134-[2] ff. (minor soiling, sm. def. in top margin of last
f.). Very good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 280/350
Rare treatise by the Low Countries physician Lemnius (1505-1568) on plants and trees used in
biblical comparisons. The ed. is dedicated to Thomas Tilius, and is also of lexicographical interest
(vernacular plant names). The 1587 English trsl. is titled “An herbal for the Bible”.
Oval woodcut
portrai
t of Lemnius on verso of title. Woodcut mark on title. Old monastic ownership entry.
Ref.
BT 1846. Pettegree NB 18861. Adams L-421. Bibl. Med. Neerl. I:505. Cp. Pritzel 5213. Not in
Durling, Wellcome.
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