![FRANCIS OF ASSISI, Saint (1182-1226). Hier beghint een seer deuoet boecxken ghenoempt Sinte Franciscus soutere. Antwerp: Hendrick Eckert van Homberch, [1505?]. 8°. Small woodcut of St Francis on title, repeated on title-verso and last page within 2 different floral borders, woodcut on n2v of a pope, ? Sixtus IV, and an acolyte praying at an altar, initials supplied in red (lightly browned). Remains of a contemporary Netherlandish binding of dark calf, lower cover only with 2 panels, the lower one of a hunting scene? (very worn, lacks spine, upper cover replaced by vellum). Provenance: Cloître de Nazareth (19th- or 20th-century library stamp on title). N-K 1912.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/CSK/2007_CSK_05138_0233_000(021632).jpg?w=1)
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FRANCIS OF ASSISI, Saint (1182-1226). Hier beghint een seer deuoet boecxken ghenoempt Sinte Franciscus soutere. Antwerp: Hendrick Eckert van Homberch, [1505?]. 8°. Small woodcut of St Francis on title, repeated on title-verso and last page within 2 different floral borders, woodcut on n2v of a pope, ? Sixtus IV, and an acolyte praying at an altar, initials supplied in red (lightly browned). Remains of a contemporary Netherlandish binding of dark calf, lower cover only with 2 panels, the lower one of a hunting scene? (very worn, lacks spine, upper cover replaced by vellum). Provenance: Cloître de Nazareth (19th- or 20th-century library stamp on title). N-K 1912.
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