Lot n° 317

[ JORDAN, Raymond].- Contemplationes idiotae. De amore divino. De Virgine Maria. De vera patientia. De continuo conflictu carnis et animae. De innocentia perdita. De morte.

Estimation : 120 / 150
Adjudication : 150 €
Description
Lugduni [ Lyon], apud Antonium Vincentium (excudebat Theobaldus Paganus), 1542. In-16° : 111-[1] lvs (slightly yellowed, small ink stains in some margins, handwritten notes and label on the title-page, stamp at the back). 19th century binding : half calf, marbled paper boards, flat spine, blue sprinkled edges (upper joint party split, spine partly unstuck, spine et joints rubbed, stamp on the upper pastedown). FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN LYON of this work containing six meditations published under the pseudonym of Idiota for Raymond Jordan, prevost in 1381 of Uzès (South of France). Text edited by the theologian Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1450-1537) like the princeps of Paris, 1519, H. Estienne. Historiated initial letters and mark of Antoine Vincent on the title-page.
# Baudrier IV-226/227; # USTC 157449; 235; # STC French (1st ed.); # Adams M-330; # not in Machiels nor in Soltesz.
BOUND WITH, same condition : [CLICTHOVE, Josse].- De doctrina moriendi opusculum [...]. Parisiis, apud Galeotum a Prato & Joannem Roigny (in officina Oliverii Mallardi), 1538 ([...] decimo quatro. Calend. aprilis), 156-[4] lvs. Reprint of the Parisian edition of 1534 by Simon de Colines, publisher of the princeps of 1520. Clicthove (1472-1543) was a distinguished opponent to Luther who collected and summarised the objections to his doctrine for the Synod of Paris in 1528. Woodcut at the end figuring the Death riding a horse with the caption "Respice finem". # BB I-606; # Adams C-2183; # STC French 117; # USTC 147372 (mentions 14 unnumbered lvs at the end); # not in Machiels nor in Soltész.
Première édition lyonnaise de l'ouvrage de Jordan contenant 6 méditations éditées par Lefèvre d'Étaples. Relié avec un ouvrage de J. Clicthove sur l'art de mourir. Demi-basane du 19e s. (ex. lég. jauni, dos part. décollé, dos et mors frottés).
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