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GERSON, Johannes (1363-1429). Super Cantica Canticorum. Nuremberg: [Johann Sensenschmidt], 1470. Collation:[1-410] (1r de Spiritualibus Nupciis. [I]ncipit opusculum ... [A]mo te facer ordo carthusiensis, 4/9v colophon, 4/10 blank). 40 leaves. H *7715; GW 10727; BMC II, 403 (IB. 7005); Goff G-272; Pell 5232; IDL 1978. -- GERSON. De Parvulis ad Christum trahendis. Nuremberg: [Johann Sensenschmidt, ca. 1470]. Collation: [110] (1r Incipit ... [S]inite parvulos venire ad me, 10r colophon, 10v blank). 10 leaves. H *7710; GW 10797; BMC II, 404 (IB. 7049); Goff G-274; Pell 5237; IDL 1979. -- GERSON. De Arte audiendi Confessiones; De Remediis contra recidivum peccandi. [Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt, ca. 1470]. Collation: [18] (1r Incipit. Tractatus de arte audiendi ... [E]tsi virtus quam assuefactio gignit, 4v Sequitur. Tractatus eiusdem de remediis, incipit: [H]abet hoc proprium ars quaelibet, 6v Explicit, 7-8 cancelled). 6 leaves. (Fos. 7 and 8 containing on their rectos a corrected setting of fos. 1v and 2v are preserved in some copies, but have been cancelled here.) HC *7659; GW 10722; BMC II, 404 (IB. 7039); Goff G-191; Pell 5132.
3 works bound in one volume, all sharing the same paper stock. Chancery 2° (285 x 200 mm.). Type 1:114G. 37 lines. Uniformly rubricated: initials, paragraph marks, underlining, line fillers, capital strokes. Early 19th-century English red morocco gilt, edges gilt, glazed yellow endpapers. Provenance: these three books, belonging to editions printed at about the same time, have been together since they were originally sold in the 15th century; they share the same ruling and manuscript corrections and marginalia (some now slightly cropped); George Hibbert (1829 sale, lot 3346); Richard Heber (purchase inscription, stamp).
FIRST EDITIONS of all three works by the Doctor Christianissimus and Chancellor of the University of Paris, Jean Charlier de Gerson. They were printed in 1470 and belong to THE EARLIEST GROUP OF TYPOGRAPHICAL PRODUCTIONS FROM NUREMBERG, all devotional texts and sharing format, paper stock, type, number of lines, etc. Apart from two very small repairs, IN FINE CONDITION.
3 works bound in one volume, all sharing the same paper stock. Chancery 2° (285 x 200 mm.). Type 1:114G. 37 lines. Uniformly rubricated: initials, paragraph marks, underlining, line fillers, capital strokes. Early 19th-century English red morocco gilt, edges gilt, glazed yellow endpapers. Provenance: these three books, belonging to editions printed at about the same time, have been together since they were originally sold in the 15th century; they share the same ruling and manuscript corrections and marginalia (some now slightly cropped); George Hibbert (1829 sale, lot 3346); Richard Heber (purchase inscription, stamp).
FIRST EDITIONS of all three works by the Doctor Christianissimus and Chancellor of the University of Paris, Jean Charlier de Gerson. They were printed in 1470 and belong to THE EARLIEST GROUP OF TYPOGRAPHICAL PRODUCTIONS FROM NUREMBERG, all devotional texts and sharing format, paper stock, type, number of lines, etc. Apart from two very small repairs, IN FINE CONDITION.