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LEONARDUS DE UTINO (c.1400-1470). Sermones de sanctis. [Cologne: Ulrich Zell] 1473.
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LEONARDUS DE UTINO (c.1400-1470). Sermones de sanctis. [Cologne: Ulrich Zell] 1473.
Leonardus de Utino’s sermons—“a fine specimen of regular and skillful printing” (Dibdin), the second part only. In the same year, several editions of the Sermones de sanctis were printed at both Venice and Cologne (with Zell producing two separate issues in the latter city). The question of precedence has not been settled; BSB and CIBN give precedence to Cologne, while BMC considers the Venetian edition to be the first. This is the Zell issue with the inserted leaf containing 23 lines of text; it collates identically with the copy at Liège. As with some other copies of this book, the date has been erased from the colophon, and the composition date of 1446 mistaken for the year of publication on the binding. BSB-Ink L-107; Goff L150; GW M17887; il00150000. See Dibdin Spenceriana 1162.
Part two only, folio (272 x 193mm). 244 leaves (of 270, lacking final blank and 26 leaves of index). Manuscript foliation ff. 1-244, unsigned, no catchwords. Two large decorated red and blue initials, many smaller red initials with cutout designs, rubricated (a few small marginal repaired tears, final leaf strengthened). 18th-century red morocco gilt (light shelfwear). Provenance: early marginalia (occasionally cropped) – Koninklijke Bibliotheek (deaccession stamp) – Jean Patrice August Madden (1808-1889, bibliographer; bookplate).
Leonardus de Utino’s sermons—“a fine specimen of regular and skillful printing” (Dibdin), the second part only. In the same year, several editions of the Sermones de sanctis were printed at both Venice and Cologne (with Zell producing two separate issues in the latter city). The question of precedence has not been settled; BSB and CIBN give precedence to Cologne, while BMC considers the Venetian edition to be the first. This is the Zell issue with the inserted leaf containing 23 lines of text; it collates identically with the copy at Liège. As with some other copies of this book, the date has been erased from the colophon, and the composition date of 1446 mistaken for the year of publication on the binding. BSB-Ink L-107; Goff L150; GW M17887; il00150000. See Dibdin Spenceriana 1162.
Part two only, folio (272 x 193mm). 244 leaves (of 270, lacking final blank and 26 leaves of index). Manuscript foliation ff. 1-244, unsigned, no catchwords. Two large decorated red and blue initials, many smaller red initials with cutout designs, rubricated (a few small marginal repaired tears, final leaf strengthened). 18th-century red morocco gilt (light shelfwear). Provenance: early marginalia (occasionally cropped) – Koninklijke Bibliotheek (deaccession stamp) – Jean Patrice August Madden (1808-1889, bibliographer; bookplate).