![GUILLERMUS ALVERNUS (ca 1180-1249, Bishop of Paris 1228-1249). Rhetorica divina [with the poem Cum suadere doces]. [Freiburg im Breisgau, Kilianus Piscator (Kilian Fischer), not after 1491.]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYR/2001_NYR_09880_0094_000(040343).jpg?w=1)
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GUILLERMUS ALVERNUS (ca 1180-1249, Bishop of Paris 1228-1249). Rhetorica divina [with the poem Cum suadere doces]. [Freiburg im Breisgau, Kilianus Piscator (Kilian Fischer), not after 1491.]
2o (305 x 221mm). Collation: π8 a b6 c4 d-f6 g4 h i6. 58 leaves. 52 lines, head-line and marginal letters, double column. Gothic type 2:83 (text), 1:180 (title, head-lines, first lines). Capital spaces with printed guide-letters. Three- and four-line spaces for capitals, with guide-letters. Lombard initials, paragraphs marks and capitals strokes in red. (Small paper flaw in margin of b6.)
Second edition of this work on the subject of prayer by William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris.
A fine, very fresh copy. BMC III, 693 (IB.14201); BSB-Ink G-476; H *8302 (=HC *8303); Oates 1339; Polain 1808; Pr 7623; Goff G-714.
[Bound before:]
EPHREM SYRUS (Saint, ca 306-373). Sermones: De compunctione cordis. De judiciodei et resurrectione. De beatitudine anime. De penitentia. De luctamine spirituali. De dei iudicii. [Freiburg im Breisgau: Kilianus Piscator (Kilian Fischer), not after 1491.]
2o. Collation: A6 B4 C10. 19 leaves (of 20; without final blank). 52 lines and head-line, double column. Gothic types 2:83 (text), 1:180 (title, head-lines, incipits of chapters). 2- to 4-line spaces for initial capitals, with guide-letters. Lombard initials, paragraph marks and capitals strokes in red.
FIRST EDITION of this collection of sermons, translated from a Greek version of an original Syrian text of the fouth century. It and Guillelmus Alvernus which is often bound with it constitute the first books from the press of the first printer in Freiburg im Breisgau. Because the gothic text type in both volumes appears to be so fresh, BMC placed the two at the head of Fischer's output of some dozen books, all but a few of which are undated. A copy of the Ephriam at Tübingen has a rubricator's date of 1491; as BMC points out, both books have almost identical type-page measurements, and Fischer printed both works at about the same date. They may in fact have been issued together, as Goff notes. The Guillelmus Alvernus had been printed in 1483 by Arend de Keysere at Ghent. Froben's 1492 reprint of the Guillelmus (Goff G-715) included the Ephraem De compunctione cordis as well.
BMC III, 693 (IB.14201a); BSB-Ink E-70; GKW 9334; HC *6597 (=H 6598); Pell 4580; Polain 1400; Goff E-44.
[Bound after:]
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. Expositio in evangelium secundum Johannem. [Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1491].
2o. Collation: π10 a-z aa-dd 8.6.8 ee ff 8. 206 leaves, including last blank. 53 lines, head-lines and marginalia, double column. Gothic types 11:82B (text), 1:180 (head-lines, first lines), 5:106 (table, Gospel texts), 14:285 (title). Capital spaces. Large initials supplied in red (occasionally with penwork flourishes), paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. (A few very insignificant stains at lower edges, two small tears at top edge of title, clean tear to margin of y2 (from paper flaw?).
Binding: Bound at the Monastery of Rebdorf in contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, upper cover with a central panel divided into eight compartments outlined by impressions of a foliate roll (Schwenke, acorn roll 88), the compartments filled with impressions of Kopfstempel (Schwenke, Kopfstempel 27a) and a six-petaled rosette tool (Schwenke, rosette 71a), later gilt-lettered spine label (rubbed, center- and cornerpieces and one clasp removed). Provenance: Monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Rebdorf, in the Diocese of Eichstatt (inscription and table of contents in ink in a contemporary hand on the titlepage of the Augustinus) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, June 1943) -- donated to SMS 1943.
FIRST EDITION of Augustinus' exposition of the Gospel of St. John, in an interesting monastic binding from an Augustinian house. BSN-Ink A-889; BMC III, 753 (IB.37461); GW 2912; HC 1982*; Pell 1495; Polain 384; Pr 7630; Goff A-1275.
2o (305 x 221mm). Collation: π8 a b6 c4 d-f6 g4 h i6. 58 leaves. 52 lines, head-line and marginal letters, double column. Gothic type 2:83 (text), 1:180 (title, head-lines, first lines). Capital spaces with printed guide-letters. Three- and four-line spaces for capitals, with guide-letters. Lombard initials, paragraphs marks and capitals strokes in red. (Small paper flaw in margin of b6.)
Second edition of this work on the subject of prayer by William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris.
A fine, very fresh copy. BMC III, 693 (IB.14201); BSB-Ink G-476; H *8302 (=HC *8303); Oates 1339; Polain 1808; Pr 7623; Goff G-714.
[Bound before:]
EPHREM SYRUS (Saint, ca 306-373). Sermones: De compunctione cordis. De judiciodei et resurrectione. De beatitudine anime. De penitentia. De luctamine spirituali. De dei iudicii. [Freiburg im Breisgau: Kilianus Piscator (Kilian Fischer), not after 1491.]
2o. Collation: A6 B4 C10. 19 leaves (of 20; without final blank). 52 lines and head-line, double column. Gothic types 2:83 (text), 1:180 (title, head-lines, incipits of chapters). 2- to 4-line spaces for initial capitals, with guide-letters. Lombard initials, paragraph marks and capitals strokes in red.
FIRST EDITION of this collection of sermons, translated from a Greek version of an original Syrian text of the fouth century. It and Guillelmus Alvernus which is often bound with it constitute the first books from the press of the first printer in Freiburg im Breisgau. Because the gothic text type in both volumes appears to be so fresh, BMC placed the two at the head of Fischer's output of some dozen books, all but a few of which are undated. A copy of the Ephriam at Tübingen has a rubricator's date of 1491; as BMC points out, both books have almost identical type-page measurements, and Fischer printed both works at about the same date. They may in fact have been issued together, as Goff notes. The Guillelmus Alvernus had been printed in 1483 by Arend de Keysere at Ghent. Froben's 1492 reprint of the Guillelmus (Goff G-715) included the Ephraem De compunctione cordis as well.
BMC III, 693 (IB.14201a); BSB-Ink E-70; GKW 9334; HC *6597 (=H 6598); Pell 4580; Polain 1400; Goff E-44.
[Bound after:]
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. Expositio in evangelium secundum Johannem. [Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1491].
2o. Collation: π10 a-z aa-dd 8.6.8 ee ff 8. 206 leaves, including last blank. 53 lines, head-lines and marginalia, double column. Gothic types 11:82B (text), 1:180 (head-lines, first lines), 5:106 (table, Gospel texts), 14:285 (title). Capital spaces. Large initials supplied in red (occasionally with penwork flourishes), paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. (A few very insignificant stains at lower edges, two small tears at top edge of title, clean tear to margin of y2 (from paper flaw?).
Binding: Bound at the Monastery of Rebdorf in contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, upper cover with a central panel divided into eight compartments outlined by impressions of a foliate roll (Schwenke, acorn roll 88), the compartments filled with impressions of Kopfstempel (Schwenke, Kopfstempel 27a) and a six-petaled rosette tool (Schwenke, rosette 71a), later gilt-lettered spine label (rubbed, center- and cornerpieces and one clasp removed). Provenance: Monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Rebdorf, in the Diocese of Eichstatt (inscription and table of contents in ink in a contemporary hand on the titlepage of the Augustinus) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, June 1943) -- donated to SMS 1943.
FIRST EDITION of Augustinus' exposition of the Gospel of St. John, in an interesting monastic binding from an Augustinian house. BSN-Ink A-889; BMC III, 753 (IB.37461); GW 2912; HC 1982*; Pell 1495; Polain 384; Pr 7630; Goff A-1275.