BERNARDINUS Senensis (1380-1444). Sermones de festivitatibus Virginis gloriosae. Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1493. 4° (186 x 145mm). Gothic type, 108 leaves including final blank, 34 lines, full-page woodcut attributed to Michael Wolgemut (Burlington Magazine 4, p.251) on title-verso of Bernardinus preaching before a large image of the Virgin and Child, initial spaces, some with guide-letters. (Small wormhole in the text from H2 to the end with minimal loss, lower fore-corners a little browned.) Contemporary South German blindstamped calf-backed wooden boards, remains of clasp, possibly a remboitage (spine of old cloth).
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BERNARDINUS Senensis (1380-1444). Sermones de festivitatibus Virginis gloriosae. Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1493. 4° (186 x 145mm). Gothic type, 108 leaves including final blank, 34 lines, full-page woodcut attributed to Michael Wolgemut (Burlington Magazine 4, p.251) on title-verso of Bernardinus preaching before a large image of the Virgin and Child, initial spaces, some with guide-letters. (Small wormhole in the text from H2 to the end with minimal loss, lower fore-corners a little browned.) Contemporary South German blindstamped calf-backed wooden boards, remains of clasp, possibly a remboitage (spine of old cloth).

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BERNARDINUS Senensis (1380-1444). Sermones de festivitatibus Virginis gloriosae. Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1493. 4° (186 x 145mm). Gothic type, 108 leaves including final blank, 34 lines, full-page woodcut attributed to Michael Wolgemut (Burlington Magazine 4, p.251) on title-verso of Bernardinus preaching before a large image of the Virgin and Child, initial spaces, some with guide-letters. (Small wormhole in the text from H2 to the end with minimal loss, lower fore-corners a little browned.) Contemporary South German blindstamped calf-backed wooden boards, remains of clasp, possibly a remboitage (spine of old cloth).

FIRST EDITION of all eleven sermons on the Virgin Mary, forming a complete Mariology. HC *2832; IGI 1503; BMC II, 454; GW 3888; BSB-Ink B-299; Schreiber 3429; Goff B-351.

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