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SIXTUS IV (1414-1484, Pope 1471-1484). De sanguine Christi et De potentia Dei. Edited by Joannes Philippus de Lignamine. Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1474.
Chancery 2o (283 x 205 mm). Collation: [1-810.8.8.8 9-1010 (1/1r blank, 1/1v editor's prologue addressed to Pope Paul II, 1/2v author's dedication to Paul II, 1/3r De sanguine Christi, 10/9v register, 10/10 blank); 1110 (11/1 blank, 11/2r De potentia Dei, 11/10r colophon, register, 11/10v blank). 97 leaves (of 98, blank 11/1 removed). 33 lines. Type: 1:110G. Two 6-line and numerous 3-line spaces for initials. The two large initials supplied in red with penwork decoration, smaller Lombard initials, some flourished, and paragraph marks alternately in blue or red, capital strokes and underlining in red. Two pinholes visible in the outer corners of each leaf. (Occasional slight soiling.) Modern blind-stamped dark brown calf.
Provenance: contemporary marginalia (cropped) and note on first blank page -- Melk, Benedictines (inkstamp on final blank verso).
Second edition, second issue, with colophon dated 1474. This theological work by Francesco della Rovere, dedicated to Pope Paul II shortly before his death, was first published at Rome by its editor and printer Joannes de Lignamine on the eve of the author's elevation to the Papacy. Patron of the arts and of scholarship, blameless in his personal life but guilty of the most serious abuses of power in a period notorious for Papal nepotism, Sixtus IV was "unfortunate in his training and his circumstances. His extravagance arose from his inexperience as a member of a Mendicant Order and from the want of any worthy relatives on whom to exercise his natural generosity" (Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, p. 1508).
Friedrich Creussner began printing in 1470, and first signed an edition in 1472. In spite of Koberger's fierce competition, he managed to produce over 175 editions during the next three decades, primarily Latin works of theology, homiletics, astrology and grammar, but including a few important vernacular editions and numerous broadsides (almanacs, indulgences, etc.)
HC 14798*; BMC II, 446 (IB. 7586-87); CIBN S-296; Pr 2128; Goff S-581.
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Provenance: contemporary marginalia (cropped) and note on first blank page -- Melk, Benedictines (inkstamp on final blank verso).
Second edition, second issue, with colophon dated 1474. This theological work by Francesco della Rovere, dedicated to Pope Paul II shortly before his death, was first published at Rome by its editor and printer Joannes de Lignamine on the eve of the author's elevation to the Papacy. Patron of the arts and of scholarship, blameless in his personal life but guilty of the most serious abuses of power in a period notorious for Papal nepotism, Sixtus IV was "unfortunate in his training and his circumstances. His extravagance arose from his inexperience as a member of a Mendicant Order and from the want of any worthy relatives on whom to exercise his natural generosity" (Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, p. 1508).
Friedrich Creussner began printing in 1470, and first signed an edition in 1472. In spite of Koberger's fierce competition, he managed to produce over 175 editions during the next three decades, primarily Latin works of theology, homiletics, astrology and grammar, but including a few important vernacular editions and numerous broadsides (almanacs, indulgences, etc.)
HC 14798*; BMC II, 446 (IB. 7586-87); CIBN S-296; Pr 2128; Goff S-581.