![LEO I (ca 390-461, Pope from 400). Sermones et epistolae. Edited by Johannes Andreas Bussi (1417-1475). -- Johannes ANDREAS. Symbolum Nicaenum. Testimonia semper verus sit deus et veus homo. [Rome: Johannes Phillippus de Lignamine, after 7th March-before 21st September 1470].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYR/2001_NYR_09880_0098_000(040343).jpg?w=1)
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LEO I (ca 390-461, Pope from 400). Sermones et epistolae. Edited by Johannes Andreas Bussi (1417-1475). -- Johannes ANDREAS. Symbolum Nicaenum. Testimonia semper verus sit deus et veus homo. [Rome: Johannes Phillippus de Lignamine, after 7th March-before 21st September 1470].
Median 2o (330 x 230 mm). Collation: [14; 2-910 11-1510 168 1710]. 160 leaves. 35 lines. Roman type 1:125. Capital spaces. Initials supplied in red, section head-lines on 2/1r and 8/2r supplied in black. Four 6-line illuminated initials by a contemporary artist. (Long marginal tear on 16/2 crossing text, some occasional mostly marginal worming, some dampstaining, heaviest at end.) 18th-century Italian vellum (hinges weak). Provenance: Parma, Monastery (effaced inscription on 1/2) -- Museo Cavaleri (ink stamp on 1/2) -- George Ernest Morrison (1862-1920), Australian-born physician and the first permanent correspondent to "The Times" in Peking (stamp "China" on rear pastedown and notes in another hand at beginning and end noting that the offsetting of Chinese characters on the final blank occured while Morrison was in China) -- Charles Lemuel Nichols (1851-1929), collector and bibliographer (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 31 August 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
The sermons of Leo I were reprinted frequently in the 1470s and 80s. Confusion surrounding the dating of the present edition was resolved by Piero Scapecchi upon analysis of the manuscript notes in the Biblioteca Marucelliana copy at Florence. The traditional sequence of placing this after the edition of Sweynheym and Pannarz (Goff L-129) is here reversed based on this evidence. Scapecchi's analysis places the Lignamine edition as the exemplar for this later edition. The sermon headings are printed for the most part in small capitals, but spaces are left for them in some cases, and they appear in ordinary text-type from 16/8r to the end. See Piero Scapecchi, "An Example of Printer's Copy Used in Rome," The Library, 6th series, 12 (1990), pp.50-52. BMC IV, 29 (IB. 17429); BSB-Ink. L-99; CIBN L-112; HC *10010; Pr 3401; Goff L-131.
Median 2o (330 x 230 mm). Collation: [14; 2-910 11-1510 168 1710]. 160 leaves. 35 lines. Roman type 1:125. Capital spaces. Initials supplied in red, section head-lines on 2/1r and 8/2r supplied in black. Four 6-line illuminated initials by a contemporary artist. (Long marginal tear on 16/2 crossing text, some occasional mostly marginal worming, some dampstaining, heaviest at end.) 18th-century Italian vellum (hinges weak). Provenance: Parma, Monastery (effaced inscription on 1/2) -- Museo Cavaleri (ink stamp on 1/2) -- George Ernest Morrison (1862-1920), Australian-born physician and the first permanent correspondent to "The Times" in Peking (stamp "China" on rear pastedown and notes in another hand at beginning and end noting that the offsetting of Chinese characters on the final blank occured while Morrison was in China) -- Charles Lemuel Nichols (1851-1929), collector and bibliographer (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 31 August 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
The sermons of Leo I were reprinted frequently in the 1470s and 80s. Confusion surrounding the dating of the present edition was resolved by Piero Scapecchi upon analysis of the manuscript notes in the Biblioteca Marucelliana copy at Florence. The traditional sequence of placing this after the edition of Sweynheym and Pannarz (Goff L-129) is here reversed based on this evidence. Scapecchi's analysis places the Lignamine edition as the exemplar for this later edition. The sermon headings are printed for the most part in small capitals, but spaces are left for them in some cases, and they appear in ordinary text-type from 16/8r to the end. See Piero Scapecchi, "An Example of Printer's Copy Used in Rome," The Library, 6th series, 12 (1990), pp.50-52. BMC IV, 29 (IB. 17429); BSB-Ink. L-99; CIBN L-112; HC *10010; Pr 3401; Goff L-131.