JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (ca.1230-ca.1298). Sermones de sanctis. Edited by Nicolaus Campanus (1478-1523) and Hieronymus de Cherio. Pavia: Jacobus de Paucis Drapis, 8 January 1500.

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JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (ca.1230-ca.1298). Sermones de sanctis. Edited by Nicolaus Campanus (1478-1523) and Hieronymus de Cherio. Pavia: Jacobus de Paucis Drapis, 8 January 1500.

Median 8° (153x109mm). Collation: A8 2A-Z8 AA-CC8 DD4 (A1r title, woodcut, A1v Nicolaus Campanus to the reader, A2r tabula, 2A1r text, Dd3r colophon, verses to the book and to the reader, printer's device (Husung 90), register, DD3v-4 blank). 219 (of 220, without final blank) leaves; without the Sermones de tempore and Quadragesimales. 51 lines and headline, double column. Type: 1:97G (title, headlines and headings), 2:49G (text). One woodcut, woodcut capitals. (Occasional small stains.) Early goatskin over thin paper boards, 2 brass fore-edge clasps, green edges. Provenance: Bolzano, Franciscans, inscription dated 1651; Ex libris Petris de Petris (?); initials P.A. on title-page.

The FIRST BOOK PRINTED BY THIS PRESS. The three parts which make up this edition, the Sermones de tempore, Sermones de sanctis and the Quadragesimales each have their own title-page and colophon, and they are rarely found together. The Klotz copy comprises the Sermones de sanctis only. C 6526; BMC XII, 73 (IA. 31641); Goff J-201; Polain(B) 2233; IGI 5062; BSB I-115

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