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CASSIANUS, Johannes (ca 360-435). De institutis coenobiorum. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1497.
4o (190 x 137 mm). 220 leaves. 2 columns. 49 lines and headlines. Gothic types 26:148 (title, headlines, numbers and titles of books); 11:77 (headings, colophon); 19:62 (text); Greek type: 75 (occasional marginalia). Capital spaces, with guide letters. (First few leaves frayed along margins, not affecting text, some worming to text, light dampstaining.) 19th-century limp vellum (joints cracked). Provenance: early ink marginalia.
Third edition of Cassianus first large work. The first four books of the institutis treat monastic life, "...the eight remaining books are devoted to the eight principal obstacles to perfection encountered by monks: gluttony, impurity, covetousness, anger, dejection, accidia (ennui), vainglory, and pride" (The Catholic Encyclopedia). BMC III, 758 (IA. 37401); BSB-Ink. C-167; Goff C-235; GW 6162; H 4564; IGI 2547.
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Third edition of Cassianus first large work. The first four books of the institutis treat monastic life, "...the eight remaining books are devoted to the eight principal obstacles to perfection encountered by monks: gluttony, impurity, covetousness, anger, dejection, accidia (ennui), vainglory, and pride" (The Catholic Encyclopedia). BMC III, 758 (IA. 37401); BSB-Ink. C-167; Goff C-235; GW 6162; H 4564; IGI 2547.