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BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS (1090-1153, Saint). Epistolae. [Strassburg: Heinrich Eggestein, not after 1474.]
Median 2o (348 x 243mm). Collation: [12+1 2-510 68 7-810 98 1010] (1/1r text, 10/7v colophon, 10/8r table). 89 leaves. 61 lines, double column. Gothic type 5:93. Initial spaces, Lombard intials and capital strokes supplied in red, some with marginal flourishes. (Old marginal repair on 10/6, a few occasional small stains, a few of the long flourishes shaved, generally fine and crisp.) 18th-century calf, blind-roll tool border on covers, gilt spine. Provenance: Giorgio Di Viroli (bookplate) -- Francis Kettaneh (morocco bookplate) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 10 June 1983.
FIRST EDITION. The works of St. Bernard, one of the most accomplished preachers and influential religious figures of the twelfth century, enjoyed a new popularity in the fifteenth century, in Germany as elsewhere in Europe. Bernard's works were particularly popular with preachers and were recommended to young clerics. This edition of the Epistolae was the first printed in the fifteenth century and one of about 200 incunable editions of works attributed to Bernard. H *2870; BMC I, 71 (IC 777); GW 3923; Pr 285; Goff B-383.
Median 2o (348 x 243mm). Collation: [12+1 2-510 68 7-810 98 1010] (1/1r text, 10/7v colophon, 10/8r table). 89 leaves. 61 lines, double column. Gothic type 5:93. Initial spaces, Lombard intials and capital strokes supplied in red, some with marginal flourishes. (Old marginal repair on 10/6, a few occasional small stains, a few of the long flourishes shaved, generally fine and crisp.) 18th-century calf, blind-roll tool border on covers, gilt spine. Provenance: Giorgio Di Viroli (bookplate) -- Francis Kettaneh (morocco bookplate) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 10 June 1983.
FIRST EDITION. The works of St. Bernard, one of the most accomplished preachers and influential religious figures of the twelfth century, enjoyed a new popularity in the fifteenth century, in Germany as elsewhere in Europe. Bernard's works were particularly popular with preachers and were recommended to young clerics. This edition of the Epistolae was the first printed in the fifteenth century and one of about 200 incunable editions of works attributed to Bernard. H *2870; BMC I, 71 (IC 777); GW 3923; Pr 285; Goff B-383.