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[Dorlandus (Petrus): Dialogus de Hominis Natura seu Viola Animae], [colophon: Cologne, (Retro Minores), impensis Henrici Quentell, 1499], 4to, first edition, 100 of 104 leaves, Gothic type, 36 lines to the page, rubricated, one initial in blue, woodcut illustration of the nativity on recto of final leaf (this wormed with slight loss, worming also slightly affecting text of last three leaves, lacking the preliminary epigram and tabula before A1 and also Q5-6, library stamps of Koninklyke Bibliotheek at foot of A1, intermittent browning, some marginal dampstains), old vellum (rebacked). [Goff D360; GW9046; Polain (B) 1349; BMC I 290; Hain 14070; Proctor 1356]

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[Dorlandus (Petrus): Dialogus de Hominis Natura seu Viola Animae], [colophon: Cologne, (Retro Minores), impensis Henrici Quentell, 1499], 4to, first edition, 100 of 104 leaves, Gothic type, 36 lines to the page, rubricated, one initial in blue, woodcut illustration of the nativity on recto of final leaf (this wormed with slight loss, worming also slightly affecting text of last three leaves, lacking the preliminary epigram and tabula before A1 and also Q5-6, library stamps of Koninklyke Bibliotheek at foot of A1, intermittent browning, some marginal dampstains), old vellum (rebacked). [Goff D360; GW9046; Polain (B) 1349; BMC I 290; Hain 14070; Proctor 1356]

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Peter Dorland (1454-1507) was a Carthusian prior in Zeelham in the diocese of Liège. He based six of his seven dialogues on the Theologia Naturalis of Raymond de Sebonde; the seventh dialogue is called 'Dialogus de Mysteriis Passionis Christi'.

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