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LEONARDUS DE UTINO (1400-1470). Sermones quadragesimales de legibus. [Cologne: Conrad Winters de Homborch, ca 1475].
2o (395 x 292 mm). Collation: [1-210 38 4-1210 13-148 156 16-1810 19-218 22-2610 27-286 29-3310 346]. 311 leaves (of 312; lacks blank 34/6). 60 lines, double column. Gothic type. 2- to 6-line initical spaces, rubricated in red, opening initial in red with reserved decoration on black penwork ground with penwork infill and marginal extention, other initials in red with Lombard initial, capital strokes, paragraph marks, underlines and a few marginal drolleries. (A few minor marginal tears with old repairs.) Contemporary blind ruled calf, upper cover with title label under horn with brass framing strips (rebacked, repairs to corners and sides, brass furnishing and clasps vanished); half morocco folding case. Provenance: Louvain, Jesuit College, 1643 (ownership inscription on first page of text) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 1 September 1942) -- donated to SMS 1942.
A tall copy of the first book to be printed by Winters, known to have preceded his earliest dated book (1476) by virtue of the dated rubricator's note (1475) in the Munich copy. Leonardus Matthaei de Utino became professor of theology and rector of the Dominican school at Bologna in 1428. He was highly acclaimed as a preacher and spoke from the pulpit in Venice, Milan and Rome. Later he became prior of the convent of St. Dominic at Bologna, and afterwards provincial of all Lombardy. Leonardus was a devoted follower of Thomas Aquinas whose theological precepts he followed and drew upon for his own work. He showed in his sermons a freedom and forcefulness unusual for his age. BSB-Ink. L-121; H *16116; Pr 1179; Voulliéme 744; Goff L-144.
2o (395 x 292 mm). Collation: [1-210 38 4-1210 13-148 156 16-1810 19-218 22-2610 27-286 29-3310 346]. 311 leaves (of 312; lacks blank 34/6). 60 lines, double column. Gothic type. 2- to 6-line initical spaces, rubricated in red, opening initial in red with reserved decoration on black penwork ground with penwork infill and marginal extention, other initials in red with Lombard initial, capital strokes, paragraph marks, underlines and a few marginal drolleries. (A few minor marginal tears with old repairs.) Contemporary blind ruled calf, upper cover with title label under horn with brass framing strips (rebacked, repairs to corners and sides, brass furnishing and clasps vanished); half morocco folding case. Provenance: Louvain, Jesuit College, 1643 (ownership inscription on first page of text) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 1 September 1942) -- donated to SMS 1942.
A tall copy of the first book to be printed by Winters, known to have preceded his earliest dated book (1476) by virtue of the dated rubricator's note (1475) in the Munich copy. Leonardus Matthaei de Utino became professor of theology and rector of the Dominican school at Bologna in 1428. He was highly acclaimed as a preacher and spoke from the pulpit in Venice, Milan and Rome. Later he became prior of the convent of St. Dominic at Bologna, and afterwards provincial of all Lombardy. Leonardus was a devoted follower of Thomas Aquinas whose theological precepts he followed and drew upon for his own work. He showed in his sermons a freedom and forcefulness unusual for his age. BSB-Ink. L-121; H *16116; Pr 1179; Voulliéme 744; Goff L-144.