EPHREM SYRUS, Saint. Sermones (translated from Greek into Latin by Ambrosius Traversarius). Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, third press, 23 August 1481. Chancery folio, 288 x 209 mm. (11 3/8 x 8 5/16 in.), 18th-century (?)sheep-backed striped paper boards, later morocco lettering-pieces on backstrip, quite worn, upper joint split at head, lacking first leaf blank, library marks in pencil on first page, old repair to lower inner margin of first leaf, first and last 2 leaves fraying slightly, darkening to lower margins of first few leaves, short marginal tear to c1. FIRST EDITION. Collation: 2 a-l8. 89 leaves (of 90, lacking 1 blank), unfoliated. Type 112R. 33 lines. Capital spaces, rubricated: a2v with 6-line illuminated floral and arabesque initial in red, green and blue with white tracery infill on liquid gold ground (chipping slightly), flourished, armorial illumination in lower margin of same page in blue, red, green and brown, the shield showing a woman above a deer, 4-line initials elsewhere in alternating red and blue with contrasting blue or red penwork infill and extenders (the blue ink faded, smudging to initial on g5r). HC 6599*; GW 9331; Pr 6138*; BMC VI, 636; IGI 3679; Polain 1401; Goff E-45.Ephrem's sermons were originally written in Syriac and translated into Greek at an early date. This was the first book printed at Miscomini's newly established press in Florence, in his graceful roman font. A tall copy.Provenance: Ownership inscription below colophon of an Augustinian friar from Bologna, dated 1484, "Hic liber est mei fratris Joannis Antonii de Albinis de bononis ordinis sancti augustini 1484. Capelanus magistrorum dominorum" -- 18th-century foliation in ink.

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EPHREM SYRUS, Saint. Sermones (translated from Greek into Latin by Ambrosius Traversarius). Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, third press, 23 August 1481. Chancery folio, 288 x 209 mm. (11 3/8 x 8 5/16 in.), 18th-century (?)sheep-backed striped paper boards, later morocco lettering-pieces on backstrip, quite worn, upper joint split at head, lacking first leaf blank, library marks in pencil on first page, old repair to lower inner margin of first leaf, first and last 2 leaves fraying slightly, darkening to lower margins of first few leaves, short marginal tear to c1. FIRST EDITION. Collation: 2 a-l8. 89 leaves (of 90, lacking 1 blank), unfoliated. Type 112R. 33 lines. Capital spaces, rubricated: a2v with 6-line illuminated floral and arabesque initial in red, green and blue with white tracery infill on liquid gold ground (chipping slightly), flourished, armorial illumination in lower margin of same page in blue, red, green and brown, the shield showing a woman above a deer, 4-line initials elsewhere in alternating red and blue with contrasting blue or red penwork infill and extenders (the blue ink faded, smudging to initial on g5r). HC 6599*; GW 9331; Pr 6138*; BMC VI, 636; IGI 3679; Polain 1401; Goff E-45. Ephrem's sermons were originally written in Syriac and translated into Greek at an early date. This was the first book printed at Miscomini's newly established press in Florence, in his graceful roman font. A tall copy. Provenance: Ownership inscription below colophon of an Augustinian friar from Bologna, dated 1484, "Hic liber est mei fratris Joannis Antonii de Albinis de bononis ordinis sancti augustini 1484. Capelanus magistrorum dominorum" -- 18th-century foliation in ink.

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EPHREM SYRUS, Saint. Sermones (translated from Greek into Latin by Ambrosius Traversarius). Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, third press, 23 August 1481. Chancery folio, 288 x 209 mm. (11 3/8 x 8 5/16 in.), 18th-century (?)sheep-backed striped paper boards, later morocco lettering-pieces on backstrip, quite worn, upper joint split at head, lacking first leaf blank, library marks in pencil on first page, old repair to lower inner margin of first leaf, first and last 2 leaves fraying slightly, darkening to lower margins of first few leaves, short marginal tear to c1. FIRST EDITION. Collation: ² a-l⁸. 89 leaves (of 90, lacking 1 blank), unfoliated. Type 112R. 33 lines. Capital spaces, rubricated: a2v with 6-line illuminated floral and arabesque initial in red, green and blue with white tracery infill on liquid gold ground (chipping slightly), flourished, armorial illumination in lower margin of same page in blue, red, green and brown, the shield showing a woman above a deer, 4-line initials elsewhere in alternating red and blue with contrasting blue or red penwork infill and extenders (the blue ink faded, smudging to initial on g5r). HC 6599*; GW 9331; Pr 6138*; BMC VI, 636; IGI 3679; Polain 1401; Goff E-45.

Ephrem's sermons were originally written in Syriac and translated into Greek at an early date. This was the first book printed at Miscomini's newly established press in Florence, in his graceful roman font. A tall copy.

Provenance: Ownership inscription below colophon of an Augustinian friar from Bologna, dated 1484, "Hic liber est mei fratris Joannis Antonii de Albinis de bononis ordinis sancti augustini 1484. Capelanus magistrorum dominorum" -- 18th-century foliation in ink.