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GREGORIUS I (Saint, c. 540-604, Pope 590-604). Moralia in Job. Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1503.
2o (306 x 207 mm). Xylographic title; woodcut printer's device at end (Weil, p. 40; Davies 8). 55 lines and headline, double column. (Title-page stained with a tear repaired, small areas silked on verso, small wormed area patched on first 12 leaves of index, affecting a few words, a few leaves stained, some minor marginal soiling and dampstaining.) Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, covers with scrolling vine tools, small acorn tools, large rosettes, rhomboid dragon tools and flowering plants, the tools not in Kyriss or Schwenke-Sammlung, one brass fore-edge catch present and remnants of brass catchplates, early manuscript title on fore-edge (upper spine repaired, spine chipped in several places, some wear to joints and corners, lacking clasps).
Provenance: Valentinus Scultetus, the gift of Simon Sutoris, 1565: inscription on front pastedown -- Urban Fost, purchsaed from Laurentius Marquart: inscription on a1r dated 1618 -- Buchan Hepburn: engraved armorial bookplate -- Arthur Kay: etched bookplate -- G.M. & J.H. Farrell: bookplate.
This edition of Gregory's Moralia, his most important work, closely follows Kesler's earlier Basel edition of 1496.
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Provenance: Valentinus Scultetus, the gift of Simon Sutoris, 1565: inscription on front pastedown -- Urban Fost, purchsaed from Laurentius Marquart: inscription on a1r dated 1618 -- Buchan Hepburn: engraved armorial bookplate -- Arthur Kay: etched bookplate -- G.M. & J.H. Farrell: bookplate.
This edition of Gregory's Moralia, his most important work, closely follows Kesler's earlier Basel edition of 1496.