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1496 INCUNABULA (Pseudo-) Bonaventura SERMONS antique INCUNABLE
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  • Title: 1496 INCUNABULA (Pseudo-) Bonaventura SERMONS antique INCUNABLE
  • Description: (Pseudo-)Bonaventura.
    Sermones mediocres de tempore.
    (On the last leaf:) Strassburg, [printer of 1483 Jordanus von Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)]
    12. III.1496.
    Size 5 by 7
    Gothic type,
    34 lines and header; printed in two columns.
    8 unnumbered leaves (the last white),
    178 Roman foliated leaves, 1 white leaf (layer numbering: [8], a-c8, d4, e-f8, g4, h-i8, k4, l-m8, n4, o-p8, q4, r-s8, t4, v-x8, y4, z8, A-B8, C1-7).
    Original cardboard cover (cracked hinges)
    ISTC No. ib00942000 GKW 4801. BMC I, 145 (IA.2069). Goff B-942.
    Very rare edition in the trade, printed on thick paper, without rubrication and painted initials.
    Georg Husner edited an edition of Bonaventura's Opuscula in the same year.
    The Franciscan Giovanni di Fidenza (1221-1274), who called himself Bonaventura, is considered one of the most influential thinkers of scholasticism.
    However, the present collection of sermons, arranged according to the church year, is not considered to have been written by him.
    Numerous period marginalia by one hand in brown ink.
    Various ownership entries from the 16th to 19th centuries on the inside cover and the first leaf.
    Small worm mark in the fold in the 17 leaves.
    text in Latin


    Reserve: $2,380.00

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    1496 INCUNABULA (Pseudo-) Bonaventura SERMONS antique INCUNABLE

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