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GERSON, JEAN (1363-1420). De Passionibus animae. [Paris: Étienne Jehannot for Claude Jaumar, c. 1497]. 8vo, 125 x 83mm. (4 15/16 x 3 1/4in.), dark brown janséniste morocco, red doublures within gilt fillet border, vellum endleaves, g.e., matching morocco slipcase, by EMILE MAYLANDER, title-leaf slightly short (supplied?) and with small repair affecting three letters on verso, supplied in ink facsimile, some light foxing, trace of marginal dampstaining.
Collation: [a]-b8 c4. 20 leaves, unfoliated. Types: 2:65G (text), 6:190G (title). 33 lines. Title woodcut of the crucifixion (Claudin II, pp. 242 and 527). Lombard initials, space for opening initial.
One of [five or six] fifteenth-century editions of this short religious tract by the great French scholar and divine, chancellor of the University of Paris, of the greatest rarity. GW cites only two copies of this edition, at the Stadt- und Universitäts-Bibliothek Hamburg and the Bibliothèque Ste.-Geneviève; a third was in the Fairfax Murray collection.
C 2686; Pellechet 5207; Fairfax Murray French 192; GW 10803; not in Goff.
Collation: [a]-b8 c4. 20 leaves, unfoliated. Types: 2:65G (text), 6:190G (title). 33 lines. Title woodcut of the crucifixion (Claudin II, pp. 242 and 527). Lombard initials, space for opening initial.
One of [five or six] fifteenth-century editions of this short religious tract by the great French scholar and divine, chancellor of the University of Paris, of the greatest rarity. GW cites only two copies of this edition, at the Stadt- und Universitäts-Bibliothek Hamburg and the Bibliothèque Ste.-Geneviève; a third was in the Fairfax Murray collection.
C 2686; Pellechet 5207; Fairfax Murray French 192; GW 10803; not in Goff.