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GUILLERMUS ALVERNUS, Bishop of Paris (1180-1249). De fide et legibus. Augsburg: Günther Zainer, [not after 1476].
Chancery 2o (288 x 202 mm). Collation: [1-1410]. 140 leaves (including first blank). 43 lines and head-line (number of part and chapter). Gothic type 2:118 (heading on 1/2r), Roman type 4:95 (text). 3- and 5-line initial spaces, some capital strokes and paragraph marks in red. (Some worming and dampstaining.) Modern half pigskin and contemporary wooden boards with original labels on upper cover and upper pastedown, remnants of clasp on lower cover. Provenance: early ink marginalia -- Nuremberg, City Library (early armorial bookplate on 1/2r) -- Goettingen, Bibliotheca Acad. Georgiae Augustae (library and duplicate stamp in 1/2r) -- W.S. Thorpe, 1871 (ink inscription on 1/2r) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London) -- donated to SMS 9 December 1947.
FIRST EDITION of a medieval work on Church Law. The author William of Auvergne is traditionally known as Guillermus Episcopus Parisiensis. BMC II, 323 (IB.5512); BSB-Ink. G-471; GW 11863; H *8317; Pr 1556; Goff G-711.
Chancery 2o (288 x 202 mm). Collation: [1-1410]. 140 leaves (including first blank). 43 lines and head-line (number of part and chapter). Gothic type 2:118 (heading on 1/2r), Roman type 4:95 (text). 3- and 5-line initial spaces, some capital strokes and paragraph marks in red. (Some worming and dampstaining.) Modern half pigskin and contemporary wooden boards with original labels on upper cover and upper pastedown, remnants of clasp on lower cover. Provenance: early ink marginalia -- Nuremberg, City Library (early armorial bookplate on 1/2r) -- Goettingen, Bibliotheca Acad. Georgiae Augustae (library and duplicate stamp in 1/2r) -- W.S. Thorpe, 1871 (ink inscription on 1/2r) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London) -- donated to SMS 9 December 1947.
FIRST EDITION of a medieval work on Church Law. The author William of Auvergne is traditionally known as Guillermus Episcopus Parisiensis. BMC II, 323 (IB.5512); BSB-Ink. G-471; GW 11863; H *8317; Pr 1556; Goff G-711.