Rare incunabula and post-incunabula editions
Olivier Maillard
SERMONES
Sequuntur quattuor sermones comunes per adventum et consequenter dominicales sermones
Paris, Jehan Petit; 1500 - 1515
5 volumes
Rare testimony on the slang language of the end of the Middle Ages.
Size: 4 by 6"
Lacks title page of 1st volume
Otherwise very good condition
Text in Gothic characters on two columns
Typographic mark of the Parisian printer Jean Petit on the titles
18th century brown calfskin
spine with ornate bands, red title and volume numbers, blind fillet framing the covers, marbled edges.
The first volume slightly larger than the others.
Some old hand coloring.
Provenance:
From the library of Charles Henneguier (19th century stamp)
Text in Latin

Olivier Maillard (1430- 1502), Franciscan friar, was one of the greatest Franciscan preachers of the late 15th century and confessor to King Charles VIII. He owes his reputation to the brutality of his sermons where he borrows from those he blames a coarse language, peppered with words taken from the wrong places.




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