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GREGORIUS I (St., Pope, ca. 540-604). Pastorale, sive Regula pastoralis. [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, not after 1470].
Chancery half-sheet 4° (197x135mm). Collation: [1-128 1310] (1/1r text, 13/9v explicit, 13/10 blank). 105 (of 106, without final blank) leaves. 27 lines. Type: 1:96.(108)G. 4-line initial in red with penwork decoration, 2-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. (Some light staining, small tear into text at 12/8, 1/1.8 rehinged, 13/2.9 reattached at hinge, small tears into a few marginal extremitites.) Early 20th-century pastepaper boards covered with vellum late 15th-century antiphonal, speckled edges. Provenance: a few contemporary marginal annotations (partly trimmed), some early quiring still visible possibly in the same hand.
FIRST EDITION of Gregory the Great's Pastorale. Its influence in the Middle Ages was equal among the secular clergy to that of St. Benedict's Rule among monks. In the Pastorale Gregory sets out the duties, offices and concerns necessary to pastoral care. Writing from personal experience, he particularly addressed the balance between the two calls of the religious life, the active and the contemplative. The dating of this book is based on the recorded, but now unlocated, copy with the ownership inscription of Benedictus Füger dated 1470. HC *7981; GW 11440; BMC I, 187 (C.9.a.16); Goff G-436; Pellechet 5386; Voulliéme(K) 509; IDL 2101; BSB G-323
Chancery half-sheet 4° (197x135mm). Collation: [1-128 1310] (1/1r text, 13/9v explicit, 13/10 blank). 105 (of 106, without final blank) leaves. 27 lines. Type: 1:96.(108)G. 4-line initial in red with penwork decoration, 2-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. (Some light staining, small tear into text at 12/8, 1/1.8 rehinged, 13/2.9 reattached at hinge, small tears into a few marginal extremitites.) Early 20th-century pastepaper boards covered with vellum late 15th-century antiphonal, speckled edges. Provenance: a few contemporary marginal annotations (partly trimmed), some early quiring still visible possibly in the same hand.
FIRST EDITION of Gregory the Great's Pastorale. Its influence in the Middle Ages was equal among the secular clergy to that of St. Benedict's Rule among monks. In the Pastorale Gregory sets out the duties, offices and concerns necessary to pastoral care. Writing from personal experience, he particularly addressed the balance between the two calls of the religious life, the active and the contemplative. The dating of this book is based on the recorded, but now unlocated, copy with the ownership inscription of Benedictus Füger dated 1470. HC *7981; GW 11440; BMC I, 187 (C.9.a.16); Goff G-436; Pellechet 5386; Voulliéme(K) 509; IDL 2101; BSB G-323