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ANTONIUS DE BITONTO (ca 1380 - ca 1459). Sermones dominicales per totum annum. Edited by Philippus de Rotingo. Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 25th January 1496.
Chancery 8o (150 x 106 mm). Collation: A8; A-Q AA-PP8. 256 leaves, the A8 and final leaf blank. Gothic types 11, 15 and 17. 35 lines and head-line, double column. Printed shoulder notes. Large woodcut initial on A1r heightened in red, 3- to 6-line Lombard initials supplied in red, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlinings in red.
Binding: contemporary German blind-tooled brown goatskin over wooden boards, probably from the Kyriss shop 35, Weissenau Prämonstratenser: the covers with fillet and foliate roll borders surrounding large central panel containing and all-over pattern of repeated cross-hatched quatrefoil tools (Schwenke-Sammlung Viereck 307:34), brass clasp (rebacked in pigskin at an early date [probably to maintain uniform pigskin spines at Buxheim Charterhouse], clasp strap renewed in pigskin).
Provenance: title lettered on lower edge -- HILPRAND BRANDENBURG (d.1514; his hand-colored woodcut bookplate, contemporary Buxheim inscription recording his donation: "Liber Cartusiensium in Buchhaim prope Memmingen proveniens a confratre nostro domino Hilprando Brandenburg de Bibraco, donato sacerdote ... Oretur pro eo et pro quibus desideravit") -- Buxheim, Charterhouse (contents note, donation inscription, armorial library stamp on title, shelfmark M.217. on spine label -- Graf von Ostein -- Graf von Waldbott-Bassenheim (sale, Carl Förster, Munich, 1883) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Rosenbach, 5 July 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
The Franciscan Antonio di Bitonto preached all over Italy and taught theology at Ferrara and Bologna. Preaching at Naples in 1453, he had the famous dispute with the humanist Lorenzo Valla on the origin of the Apostles' creed. The following year Pope Nicholas V designated him to preach in favor of a crusade against the Turks. The collection of his "Sunday sermons for the whole year" as the title translates, deals with some of the most important Catholic doctrines, and remained very popular among scholars.
The binding on this volume, by the Kyriss shop K35, shares some of the same distinctive tools as the Strassburg Bonaventura Commentarius (see lot 40), as well as a copy of a pseudo-Bonaventura Sermones (Strassburg, 1496) which was in the Friedlaender Library (see Christie's New York, 23 April 2001, lot 30). For a further discussion of the workshops who bound volumes for Hilprand, namely Kyriss's "Phoenix" shop (or K162) and K35, see Paul Needham, "The Library of Hilprand Brandenburg," Bibliothek und Wissenschaft, vol. 29, 1996, pp. 95-125.
This Strassburg edition was printed by Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger and is VERY RARE: ISTC locates only 2 other copies in American institutions.
A VERY FINE COPY. BSB-Ink. A-623; GW 2212; H *3219; Pr 467; Goff A-892.
Chancery 8o (150 x 106 mm). Collation: A8; A-Q AA-PP8. 256 leaves, the A8 and final leaf blank. Gothic types 11, 15 and 17. 35 lines and head-line, double column. Printed shoulder notes. Large woodcut initial on A1r heightened in red, 3- to 6-line Lombard initials supplied in red, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlinings in red.
Binding: contemporary German blind-tooled brown goatskin over wooden boards, probably from the Kyriss shop 35, Weissenau Prämonstratenser: the covers with fillet and foliate roll borders surrounding large central panel containing and all-over pattern of repeated cross-hatched quatrefoil tools (Schwenke-Sammlung Viereck 307:34), brass clasp (rebacked in pigskin at an early date [probably to maintain uniform pigskin spines at Buxheim Charterhouse], clasp strap renewed in pigskin).
Provenance: title lettered on lower edge -- HILPRAND BRANDENBURG (d.1514; his hand-colored woodcut bookplate, contemporary Buxheim inscription recording his donation: "Liber Cartusiensium in Buchhaim prope Memmingen proveniens a confratre nostro domino Hilprando Brandenburg de Bibraco, donato sacerdote ... Oretur pro eo et pro quibus desideravit") -- Buxheim, Charterhouse (contents note, donation inscription, armorial library stamp on title, shelfmark M.217. on spine label -- Graf von Ostein -- Graf von Waldbott-Bassenheim (sale, Carl Förster, Munich, 1883) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Rosenbach, 5 July 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
The Franciscan Antonio di Bitonto preached all over Italy and taught theology at Ferrara and Bologna. Preaching at Naples in 1453, he had the famous dispute with the humanist Lorenzo Valla on the origin of the Apostles' creed. The following year Pope Nicholas V designated him to preach in favor of a crusade against the Turks. The collection of his "Sunday sermons for the whole year" as the title translates, deals with some of the most important Catholic doctrines, and remained very popular among scholars.
The binding on this volume, by the Kyriss shop K35, shares some of the same distinctive tools as the Strassburg Bonaventura Commentarius (see lot 40), as well as a copy of a pseudo-Bonaventura Sermones (Strassburg, 1496) which was in the Friedlaender Library (see Christie's New York, 23 April 2001, lot 30). For a further discussion of the workshops who bound volumes for Hilprand, namely Kyriss's "Phoenix" shop (or K162) and K35, see Paul Needham, "The Library of Hilprand Brandenburg," Bibliothek und Wissenschaft, vol. 29, 1996, pp. 95-125.
This Strassburg edition was printed by Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger and is VERY RARE: ISTC locates only 2 other copies in American institutions.
A VERY FINE COPY. BSB-Ink. A-623; GW 2212; H *3219; Pr 467; Goff A-892.