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LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA (d. 1377). Vita Jesu Christi. Lyon: Stephane Gueynard and Martin Boillon, 1507. 2° (354 x 250mm). With the final blank. Title printed in red and black with woodcut illustration and woodcut border, hand-coloured, woodcut initials, index rubricated. (Title with small loss affecting the border and a tear at fold, some marginal soiling and spotting, occasional marginal dampstain.) Contemporary Swiss binding by Rolet Stos of Fribourg: blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, paneled sided with foliate, IHS, Saints and other tools (EBDB s014729, s014872, s014722, s014723), brass catches, remnants of index tabs (darkened and stained, lacking straps and clasps, spine-caps chipped off, rubbed). Provenance: Peter Falck (1468-1519, humanist; manuscript arms on title and inscriptions on endpapers dated 1513 and 1516, stamp on verso of a8) -- 'Prato Romano' of Freiburg (presentation inscriptions dated 1638 and 1678) -- Dr. Karl Lüthi (author; signature dated Bern 1944).
FROM THE LIBRARY OF PETER FALCK. One of the most popular and influential devotional works of the later middle ages, offering a distillation of patristic, ascetical, and mystical works on the life of Christ, and ending each section with a prayer for contemplation. The Latin original was first printed in Strasbourg in 1474. Peter Falck, Swiss humanist and native of Freiburg, acquired the core of his library in Italy, where he served from 1512 to 1514 under the Duke of Milan and as papal diplomat under Pope Julius II. Many of Falck's books were bound at Fribourg, by Fr. Rolet Stos at the Franciscan convent. Baudrier III, p.63.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF PETER FALCK. One of the most popular and influential devotional works of the later middle ages, offering a distillation of patristic, ascetical, and mystical works on the life of Christ, and ending each section with a prayer for contemplation. The Latin original was first printed in Strasbourg in 1474. Peter Falck, Swiss humanist and native of Freiburg, acquired the core of his library in Italy, where he served from 1512 to 1514 under the Duke of Milan and as papal diplomat under Pope Julius II. Many of Falck's books were bound at Fribourg, by Fr. Rolet Stos at the Franciscan convent. Baudrier III, p.63.