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LEONARDUS DE UTINO (d.1470). Sermones de sanctis. Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, with Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1473.
Chancery 2° and half-sheet median 4° (235 x 164mm). Collation: [1-2910 30-3112] (1/1r blank, 1/1v table of contents, 1/2r prologue, 1/3r sermons, 31/12 blank). 313 (of 314, without final blank) leaves. 42 lines, double column. Type: 2:75G. Painted armorial device (slightly rubbed) in lower margin of second leaf, first initial in red with brown decoration, 2- to 4-line initials in red, some with decorative extensions, occasional initials in purple, some spaces left blank, some capital strokes and paragraph marks in red, contemporary MS. foliation in red, occasional contemporary quiring still visible. Outer and inner sheet of each quire with vellum guard laid down. (Small holes in blank margins of first leaf repaired.) Early 17th-century blind-ruled sheep (spine head and foot repaired, later endpapers), blue edges. Provenance: unidentified painted armorial; occasional contemporary and later MS. annotations; Seminary of St. John (bookplate dated 1891).
Possibly the FIRST EDITION. Editions of the Sermones de Sanctis were also printed at Cologne in the same year, and the question of precedence has not been settled. BMC (and more recently, Abrams cat. no. 80, Sotheby's 1989) considered the present Venetian edition to be the first, while BSB (L-106) gives precedence to a Zel edition. HC *16129; BMC V, 192 (IB.19835); Goff L-152; CIBN L-124.
Chancery 2° and half-sheet median 4° (235 x 164mm). Collation: [1-2910 30-3112] (1/1r blank, 1/1v table of contents, 1/2r prologue, 1/3r sermons, 31/12 blank). 313 (of 314, without final blank) leaves. 42 lines, double column. Type: 2:75G. Painted armorial device (slightly rubbed) in lower margin of second leaf, first initial in red with brown decoration, 2- to 4-line initials in red, some with decorative extensions, occasional initials in purple, some spaces left blank, some capital strokes and paragraph marks in red, contemporary MS. foliation in red, occasional contemporary quiring still visible. Outer and inner sheet of each quire with vellum guard laid down. (Small holes in blank margins of first leaf repaired.) Early 17th-century blind-ruled sheep (spine head and foot repaired, later endpapers), blue edges. Provenance: unidentified painted armorial; occasional contemporary and later MS. annotations; Seminary of St. John (bookplate dated 1891).
Possibly the FIRST EDITION. Editions of the Sermones de Sanctis were also printed at Cologne in the same year, and the question of precedence has not been settled. BMC (and more recently, Abrams cat. no. 80, Sotheby's 1989) considered the present Venetian edition to be the first, while BSB (L-106) gives precedence to a Zel edition. HC *16129; BMC V, 192 (IB.19835); Goff L-152; CIBN L-124.